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Introduction to the Church (with Jeff Cavins) - 2022

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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The Lance of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles is where we get introduced to some of these people who, I mean, the apostles obviously from that Jesus recruited. Even they went out because Rome was the world power and people need to remember that right before Jesus,. We had Julius Caesar who proclaimed himself to be God and the Caesar was worshipped as God. He had an adopted son by the name of Octavian. Octoberavian defeated Mark Anthony, the battle of Actium, came into Rome with the honorary name of Caesar Augustus. And it was said of Caesar Augustus that nobody before, during or after will every eclipse the glory of CaesarAugustus. That's the atmosphere that the book of Acts takes place in

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