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- Apr 2020
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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the likely reason why fasting later became associated with the run-up to Easter is that people started holding baptisms at Easter. The three-week long preparation for becoming a Christian through baptism included fasting, and as baptism became more strongly associated with Easter in the fourth century AD, it is possible that fasting in the lead-up became more generalised to include people who were already Christians
Makes a connection between fasting and Easter baptism
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www.poetryfoundation.org www.poetryfoundation.org
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Let mans Soule be a Spheare
Like so many Donne poems, he makes great use here of astronomical imagery. I love this idea of the soul being like a spinning planet in the body, "being by others hurried every day", affected by gravitational pulls of "pleasure or businesse". What is your soul's "first mover"? By what is your soul "whirld"?
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- Oct 2018
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sdccd.blackboard.com sdccd.blackboard.com
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connections
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- May 2015
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digital.ucd.ie digital.ucd.ie
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Selected images from the Desmond FitzGerald Photographs collection in UCD Archives were used to illustrate Conor Mulvagh's video presentation, "The Destruction of Dublin, 1916," issued as part of the UCD Decade of Centenaries web site; it is also available on youtube.
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