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<\/a>There\u2019s a wonderful settling-in process that occurs when you convert to the Catholic Church. For example, two years ago, at my first Easter Vigil I sat in the dark, literally and figuratively, wondering what all those long readings were for. Last year, I had a better idea that they were about Salvation History, and I was one of the readers. This year, my daughter will be received into the Catholic Church in North Carolina, and I will be a listener again.
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While I will dearly miss singing my first Gloria in seven weeks alongside my friends in choir<\/a>, I\u2019m sure I will sing with gusto when the lights come on at the Newman Center in Chapel Hill, maybe with tears. And I will listen even closer to the readings.<\/p>\n

All of this came into focus for me this morning as I read the Office and the prescribed scripture reading for today\u2014the single most spectacular scene ever filmed, the parting of the Red Sea!<\/i><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pXyEcMG5bDs<\/a>\n

I\u2019m not sure whether Cecil and Charlton did God a favor with their great film. As EPG has said, and I paraphrase, there\u2019s nothing that looks hokier than something that was contemporary 20 years ago. \u201cThe Ten Commandments\u2019\u2019 was made over 50 years ago, and shows it. But I thought I\u2019d lighten up this post with that trailer.<\/p>\n

Salvation History really is \u201cthe greatest adventure story ever hurled from any book.\u201d And each year it becomes truer for me. You don\u2019t have to believe that the Earth was made in literally seven days, or that the Earth is thousands of years old, not millions, as the Young Earthers do.<\/p>\n

You have to believe two things only: God created the Earth. God sent Jesus Christ to save us. That\u2019s Salvation History in a nutshell. Though you have to admit, that\u2019s a great beard on Charlton Heston.<\/p>\n

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