A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce [230]
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(1347-1380); Italian mystic.
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Reference to I Corinthians 6:19.
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Coastal village 9 miles north of Dublin.
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Reference to Psalm 30:23 (Douay version) or the equivalent Psalm 31:22 (King James version).
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The devotional book The Spiritual Exercises (1548) was written by Saint Ignatius Loyola (see note on p. 42).
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Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), eminent medieval Christian theologian.
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Pope from 1198 to 1216.
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Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430), the most important of the early Church fathers, wrote The City of God.
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Prayer beginning: “Oh my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee....”
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From Newman’s “The Glories of Mary.”
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Slovenly.
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Church Street chapel is run by members of the Capuchin order, who wear a brown robe with a cowl.
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Believers who have come to repent of their sins.
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An allusion to Matthew 11:29-30: “And you shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is sweet and my burden light” (Douay version).
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Confession typically begins with these words: “Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.”
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Formal forgiveness of sins.
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Cup or chalice containing the host, the body of Christ, in the Eucharist.
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Participant in the rite of Holy Communion.
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The body of our Lord (Latin).
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The bread (or wafer) representing the body of Christ in the Eucharist.
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In everlasting life (Latin).
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In Christian theology, the three persons of the godhead: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit (Holy Ghost).
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Underground tombs connected by tunnels.
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An abundance, or surplus, of good works.
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A chaplet is one-third of a full rosary of fifteen decades (a decade is ten Hail Marys).
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Derived from Isaias 11:2-3, the gifts are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety (godliness), and fear of the Lord.
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The Holy Spirit.
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Brushing with a broom.
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(1696-1787); he founded a missionary movement, the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (the Redemptorists), and wrote several devotional books.
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The collection of Old Testament love poetry also known as the Song of Songs or the Song of Solomon.
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Mountain, near Lebanon, referred to in the Canticles.
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He shall lie betwixt my breasts (Latin); from Song of Solomon (Canticle of Canticles) 1:12 (Douay version) or 1:13 (King James version).
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Places, such as monasteries or convents, of religious seclusion.
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The skirts (French).
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Dublin suburb on the southern coast, 5½ miles from downtown.
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Failure.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), English historian and man of letters.
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A redundant statement; by definition all mortal sins are deliberate.
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(1802-1885); French romantic writer, author of Les Misérables (1862).
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(1813-1883); French journalist and political activist.
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A calling to the priesthood.
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In Matthew 16:18-19, Jesus gives to Peter, the first priest of the church and first pope, “the keys to the kingdom of heaven.”
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Go, you are dismissed (Latin).
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His sin, now called “simony” after him, involved the selling of spiritual blessings.
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Compare the novel’s opening epigraph from Ovid.
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An allusion to I Corinthians 11:29.
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Reference to Hebrews 7:17-21.
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A nine-day devotion.
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Living quarters of the novices of a religious order.
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Society of Jesus (the Jesuits).
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River on the north side of Dublin.
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Poem by Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852).
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From An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870), by John Henry Cardinal Newman (see endnote 8).
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A pub, licensed for the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
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Community at the far northeastern reaches of Dublin.
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Either North Bull Island, in the mouth of the River Liffey; or the seawall that encloses it; or both.
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From Newman’s The Idea of a University (1873).
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Community northeast of Clontarf.
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A near-quotation from Hugh Miller’s The Testimony of the Rocks; or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed (1857).
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Tapestry.
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Locale in Dublin that was the Scandinavian seat