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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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SIMPLE

The quality of not having parts, hence undivided and not composite; also not having potency or imperfection. Spirit is simple because it is not divisible into quantitative parts. Angels are simple because they are not composed of body and soul. God is perfectly simple because he has no composition of any kind. (Etym. Latin simplex, simple, absolute, frank, without parts; literally, onefold.)

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Monday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Martin de Porres, Religious

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Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Martin de Porres (1579-1639), who lived a life of fasting, prayer and penance as a Dominican lay brother. He was born in Peru of a Spanish knight and a Negro woman from Panama. Martin inherited the features and dark complexion of his mother, and for…

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