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| | Thomas (Apostle) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The various denominations of modern Saint Thomas Christians ascribe their unwritten tradition to the end of the 2nd century and believe that Thomas landed at Kodungallur in AD 52 and founded the churches popularly known as 'Ezharappallikal', meaning Seven and Half churches. | | | A long public tradition in the church at Edessa honoring Thomas as the Apostle of India resulted in several surviving hymns that are attributed to Ephrem, copied in codices of the 8th and 9th centuries. | | | Thomas is like the synoptic gospels in speaking of Jesus as human, as Origen noticed: "none of them clearly spoke of his divinity, as John does" (Commentary on John 1.6). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_(Apostle)
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| | St. Thomas, the Apostle |
| | Thomas thrusting his fingers into the wounds of the Risen Christ, depicted in a Gospel Lectionary copied in Salah in 1227 for the church of Mor Sobo in Hah. | | | The Church in India also commemorates the Apostle on the New Sunday after Easter, on December 18th when the Apostle is believed to have been speared, and on December 21st when he attained martyrdom. | | | His relics were moved from Edessa later and rediscovered in this century at the Syriac Orthodox Church of Mosul by His Holiness Mor Ignatius Zakka I while he was the Archbishop of Mosul. |
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http://sor.cua.edu/Personage/Qadishe/StThomas.html
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| | St. Thomas the apostle |
| | Thomas is believed to be buried at Edessa and to have been killed with a spear. | | | Thomas, called Didymus, one of the twelve disciples is believed to be the twin brother of Matthew. | | | Thomas of course is most often remembered for his doubting and for having been missing from the Upper Room the time Jesus appeared to the disciples after the Resurrection. |
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| | SAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE PARISH |
| | Thomas the Apostle Parish is well prepared to meet the challenges of ministering to God's People in Extraordinary Variety in the 21st century. | | | Today we are blessed to have such a beautiful church in which to worship. | | | Thomas Church was not built, however, by only those mentioned above. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Thomas Christians |
| | Thomas VI received the mitre from his dying uncle and the imposition of hands of twelve priests. | | | Thomas was a wealthy merchant who had probably come to trade; the King took a liking to this man, and when he expressed a wish to acquire land and make a settlement the King readily acceded to his request and let him purchase land, then unoccupied, at Cranganore. | | | Of their earliest period tradition records that after the death of the Apostle his disciples remained faithful for a long time, the Faith was propagated with great zeal, and the Church increased considerably. |
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| | St. Thomas the Apostle |
| | Thomas is believed to have gone to India to preach the Gospel. | | | Spoken to the Risen Christ, who had just convinced Thomas he was the same Jesus whom he had known before the Crucifixion, it is a statement of faith that a single Person is both man and God. | | | Thomas answered, and said to him: My Lord, and my God. |
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| | Patron Saints Index: Saint Thomas the Apostle |
| | "Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came." He was the only disciple absent; on his return he heard what had happened but refused to believe it. | | | The disbelief of Thomas has done more for our faith than the faith of the other disciples. | | | Touching Christ, he cried out: "'My Lord and my God.' Jesus said to him: 'Because you have seen me, Thomas, you have believed.'" Paul said: "Faith is the guarantee of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen." It is clear, then, that faith is the proof of what cannot be seen. |
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http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintt07.htm
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| | Apostle St. Thomas in India |
| | However, according to the tradition, St. Thomas, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, came to India in 52 A.D., and landed at Kodungallur on the Malabar (presently Kerala) coast. | | | Besides this literary tradition favoring a Thomistic apostolate on the north-west borders of Hindustan, there is another, in favor of his preaching among the Dravidian populations of the south where there is the living presence of a strong body of Christians. | | | According to the Acts of Judas-Thomas, which probably originated in the last quarter of the second century A.D. or the first years of the third, the Apostle St. Thomas preached the Gospel in the land of Gundaphares, a Parthian King, during the second quarter of the first century. |
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| | The Church of Saint Thomas the Apostle |
| | Thomas, the Apostle Catholic Church, 1847-1947 (Saint Mary Parish of Wilmington, NC). | | | The church was finished and dedicated to the service of the Almighty God on July 18, 1847 under the patronage of St. Thomas Apostle by the Rev. J. | | | Catherine Ann McKay Fulton (1821-1898) acted first as a benefactor towards the purchase of the church lot and she is noted often in the St. Thomas registers. |
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| | St. Thomas the Apostle |
| | Therefore, Thomas preached widely in India, until some enemies of the faith arrested him and executed him by stabbing him with spears. | | | St. Thomas, for instance, is said to have carried his mission to the territory between the Caspian Sea and India. | | | "The Twin" (that is the meaning of the name Thomas) is referred to in three passages of the gospel of St. John. |
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http://www.stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/id111.htm
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| | The Gnostic Apostle Thomas |
| | Let none read the gospel according to Thomas, for it is the work, not of one of the twelve apostles, but of one of Mani's three wicked disciples. | | | On one he is Thomas the Wanderer -- evangelist and founder of churches in the East. | | | Jesus appears as an inspired sage imparting spiritual truths to his hearers, not as the Messiah, part of the godhead, presented in Paul's writings and the canonical gospels. |
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| | Caribbean Vacations - apostle st thomas |
| | Thomas the Apostle is a Catholic Church of the Eparchy of Passaic located in Rahway, New Jersey. | | | Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church opens wide its doors in the name of Jesus Christ and says "Welcome!". | | | THE APOSTLE, HOMOSASSA, FL, DIOCESE OF ST PETERSBURG, FL, MASS SCHEDULE, FLORIDA, WEST COAST, catholic churches, fla, st thomas apostle, CATHOLIC CHURCHES... |
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http://www.greatcaribbeanvillas.com/results/apostle_st_thomas.html
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| | Saint Thomas the Apostle Orthodox Church - Home |
| | Thomas the Apostle Orthodox Church is a small but growing parish of the | | | This is an Orthodox Christian Church: the ancient, historic, and original Church of the New Testament, which has neither added to or taken away from the faith experience of the apostles who witnessed the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazerath, the Christ of God. | | | Thomas is the only presence of Orthodoxy in Southern Maryland. The parish recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of its canonical establishment. The parish is now experiencing a period of sustained growth in numbers, and finds itself in urgent need of a larger worship space. |
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http://www.apostlethomas.org
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| | St. Thomas, Apostle |
| | However, there is a body of Christians, the "Christians of St. Thomas," along the Malabar coast in southern India who claim spiritual descent from St. Thomas and have been in India at least since the sixth century. | | | "Thomas" seems not to be a personal name, but rather an epithet meaning "twin." There is a tradition that he was the twin of Jesus, at least in appearance. | | | But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. |
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http://www.churchonthehilltop.org/devotions/20011221.htm
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| | Acts of Thomas |
| | And the apostle went unto the prison rejoicing, and said to the merchant: Fear thou nothing, only believe in the God that is preached by me, and thou shalt indeed be set free from this world, but from the world to come thou shalt receive life. | | | And when the apostle had said these things in the hearing of all the multitude, Mygdonia was the more confirmed in the faith and glory and greatness of Christ. | | | The apostle therefore began to say: Jesu Christ, that art blasphemed by the ignorance of thee in this country; Jesu, the report of whom is strange in this city; Jesu, that receivest all (Syr. |
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http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/noncanon/acts/actthom.htm
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| | Saints of July 3 |
| | There exists a population of Christians along the Malabar Coast who were supposedly originally converted by Thomas, and their tradition holds that he built seven churches, was martyred by spearing on the "Big Hill" near Madras, and was buried in Mylapore. | | | While the king was absent, however, Thomas did no building, and he used the 20 pieces of silver given to him by the king for charitable purposes. | | | Indian Christians, especially in Kerala, often call themselves 'Christians of Saint Thomas,' and an ancient 6th-century cross that speaks of him in an inscription lies in the church of Mylapore. |
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| | Thomas the Apostle |
| | Thomas is mentioned again (John 21) as one of the seven disciples who were fishing on the Sea of Galilee (Sea of Tiberias) when the Risen Lord appeared to them. | | | The tradition among Christians in India is that Thomas was speared to death near Madras, and accordingly he is often pictured holding a spear. | | | He was absent when the Risen Lord appeared to the other apostles on the evening of Easter Day, and refused to believe that Christ had indeed risen until he had seen him for himself, but when he had seen Him, he said to Him, "My Lord and My God." (John 20:19-29) |
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| | St. Thomas the Apostle |
| | Saint Thomas the Apostle who is called Didymus, the twin, said to his fellow disciples when Jesus announced His intention of returning to Judea to visit Lazarus, "Let us also go, that we may die with him". | | | The four canonical gospels and Thomas and other gospels such as the Gospel of Philip (found at Nag Hammadi) were given their names some time in the second century. | | | Their argument is that most of the sayings in Thomas show no signs of having any dependence on, or knowledge of, the Biblical gospels and so Thomas' sayings derive from oral tradition and not from written Biblical texts. |
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| | St. Thomas the Apostle - Home Page |
| | Thomas is an Episcopal Church and as such, we are part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. | | | Learn more about St. Thomas the Apostle by reading Who We Are, a section answering frequently asked questions about the Episcopal-Anglican Church. | | | At the Offertory, the children will be joyfully led into the church and seated in the West Transept for the remainder of the Mass, where they may be joined by their parents for communion. |
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http://www.saintthomashollywood.org/stthomas/page.php?ref=home
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| | Thomas the Apostle Center, Christ Church, Cody Wyoming |
| | Thomas the Apostle Center, Christ Church, Cody Wyoming | | | Bless all those who come to the Thomas the Apostle Center and those who support it with their prayers, giving us all that deeper sense of your mercy and your will for us. | | | Lord God, through the example of your Son, Jesus Christ, you call your people apart from time to time, for prayer, reflections and a deeper relationship to you. |
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http://www.christchurchcody.org/ThomasApostle.htm
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| | Consummation of Thomas the Apostle |
| | AT the command of King Misdeus (2) the blessed Apostle Thomas was cast into prison; and he said: I glorify God, and I shall preach the word to the prisoners, so that all rejoiced at his presence. | | | And those present ran to Thomas, eager to rescue him; but he was led away by the soldiers who were with him. | | | And he said to Juzanes: Son of an earthly king, but servant of Jesus Christ, give what is due to those who are to fulfil the command (6) of Misdeus, in order that I may go apart from them and pray. |
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http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/noncanon/acts/constom.htm
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| | July 3: Did the Apostle Thomas Die in India? |
| | After the Holy Spirit came upon the apostles, Thomas carried the gospel eastward. | | | Today, July 3, is the feast of St Thomas in the Roman Church. | | | And so the writings of Christians who have an ancient church named for Thomas and who can point to a tomb where he was buried, are lost forever. |
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http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2002/07/daily-07-03-2002.shtml
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| | St. Thomas the Apostle - Saint of the Day - American Catholic |
| | He made what is certainly the most explicit statement of faith in the New Testament: “My Lord and My God!” (see John 20:24-28) and, in so expressing his faith, gave Christians a prayer that will be said till the end of time. | | | He also occasioned a compliment from Jesus to all later Christians: & you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed” (John 20:29). | | | On behalf of Christ's Body, which is the Church, they supplied what was wanting in the sufferings of Christ by their own trials and sufferings (see Colossians 1:24)” (Decree on the Church’s Missionary Activity, 5). |
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| | The Doubter |
| | Saint Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church Welcomes You | | | If you have further questions or wish to contact the church, either use our information request form or see the list to the right. | | | We seek to build our common life in Christ through shared worship, service, learning and teaching, and social activities. |
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| | St. Thomas - Catholic Online |
| | At this, St. Thomas became convinced of the truth of the Resurrection and exclaimed: "My Lord and My God," thus making a public Profession of Faith in the Divinity of Jesus. | | | Thomas is also mentioned as being present at another Resurrection appearance of Jesus - at Lake Tiberias when a miraculous catch of fish occurred. | | | Thomas was a Jew, called to be one of the twelve Apostles. |
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| | GENUKI: Exeter St. Thomas, Devon - Genealogy |
| | Photographs of the Parish Church, and of St Andrews, Exwick, provided by Richard A. Derrick. | | | Winsley, T. The Parish Church of St Thomas', Exeter. | | | The LDS has a microfilm Parish Register transcripts, 1554-1837, of original records held at the Exeter Public Library - FHL BRITISH Film 916843 and 916844. |
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| | Holy Apostle St. Thomas |
| | Thomas, called Didymus, is remembered as the apostle who refused to believe in the Resurrection unless he actually touched the wounds of the risen Christ (John 20:25-28). | | | The generally accepted tradition placed it in India, where the Syrian Christians of Malabar claim that they were evangelised by St. Thomas. | | | He was martyred, by spearing, on the 'Big Hill', about 14 km from Madras; and was buried at Mylapore, now a suburb of Madras, in 72 AD. |
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| | Saint Thomas, Apostle Catholic-Pages.com |
| | The Apostle's only reply, full of faith and contrition, was: "My Lord and my god." Christ, thereupon, told him that true faith does not require the evidence of the senses. | | | Our Lord invited him to make the tests of which he had spoken. | | | This tradition holds that St Thomas was martyred, by spearing, near madras in AD 72 and was buried at Mylapore, a suburb of that city. |
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| | When Jesus spoke to His apostles of His forthcoming departure, and told His faithful disciples that they already knew the Way to follow Him, Saint Thomas, in his simplicity, asked: “Lord, we know not whither Thou goest, and how can we know the way?” | | | This happened, according to the Roman Breviary, at Calamine, which is in fact Meliapour, for in the language of the people the word Calurmine means on the rock (mina). | | | At the foot of this cross was a rock where Saint Thomas, while praying fervently, suffered his martyrdom by a blow from the lance of a pagan priest. |
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http://www.infocatholic.com/viewSaint.aspx?SID=768
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| | Saint Thomas The Apostle School - West Hartford, CT |
| | Thomas the Apostle is an elementary school community of many faiths, cultures and ethnic backgrounds committed to educational excellence in the Roman Catholic tradition. | | | Thomas the Apostle is a Christian community where every member can develop a personal relationship with God. | | | Through a Catholic education, we prepare students to understand the words of Jesus and to translate His teachings into responsible actions in their daily lives. |
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| | St Thomas The Apostle Church |
| | We, the People of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, have the loving, reconciling presence of Jesus Christ as the center of our life, especially in the Eucharist. | | | We extend a warm welcome to all who are visiting or are here for the first time. | | | Registration forms are available on the Welcome Table in Commons or you may stop by the office to fill out a form. |
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| | St.Thomas Episcopal Church-Overland Park,Kansas-Home Page |
| | Come, Grow and Serve: Make a Difference describes who we are at St. Thomas when we are doing what God calls us to do. | | | This site is about what we value most, and the dream God is calling us to in the future. | | | It is who we are at our absolute best and it makes other people want to join us. |
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| | Church of St. Thomas the Apostle |
| | © 2003 Church of St. Thomas the Apostle | | | Pastoral Care: Please contact the Parish Center if you would like a pastoral care visit, are hospitalized, or would like Communion brought to your home. |
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| | Redirect |
| | The new address for the Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church is www.saintthomascatholicchurch.org. | | | Please click on the previous link to proceed to the web site. | | | Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames. |
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| | Welcome to St. Thomas the Apostle |
| | Click here for St. Thomas the Apostle Church | | | Click here for St. Thomas the Apostle School |
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| | St. Thomas Apostle Church |
| | In 1828 the Presbyterians raised enough money to build their own church in the Public Square. | | | The first known pastor was Father Thomas Heydon. | | | He was a native of Ireland and was encouraged to enter priesthood by Prince Gallitzin. |
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| | St. Thomas the Apostle - Contents Page |
| | Apart from grant aid the congregation itself raised considerable sums to fund this work and many gave up time to assist with the redecoration. | | | Welcome to the home page of the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Finsbury Park, London. | | | St Thomas’ is an ordinary back street church, with a not particularly distinguished exterior but one that fits in very successfully with the scale of the surrounding housing which was under construction at the same time. |
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| | St. Thomas the Apostle |
| | And yet knowledge without faith and values is like a ship without a rudder. | | | That’s why at St. Thomas, we focus not only on imparting knowledge, but on anchoring our children with well grounded values that help make them become the best they aspire to be. | | | Welcome to St. Thomas the Apostle Parish School |
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| | Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church |
| | We pray that by being involved in our parish, you will grow in your love for Christ and His Church, and, following the lead of our patron, Saint Thomas, declare Jesus, ‘my Lord and my God’. | | | Copyright © 2005 by Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church | | | We hope that this site may be of service to you, but in the event that your questions are not answered, please don’t hesitate to call us at the parish office, 602-954-9089. |
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| | St Thomas, Apostle |
| | A list of links to on-line Bibles and general Bible study resources. | | | Homily Grits, St Thomas Day, the Rev. Grant M. Gallup, Managua, Nicaragua (ECUSA). | | | Commentary, Exegesis & Sermon Preparation (see also listings at individual scripture pages, linked in listings at top of page) |
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| | St. Thomas the Apostle Byzantine Catholic Church: Links |
| | Copyright © 1999-2003, St. Thomas the Apostle Church | | | "St. Thomas the Apostle Byzantine Catholic Church, Rahway, and Byzantine Catholic Awareness Day" is an article published in the Spring 1999 issue of the New Jersey Catholic Records Newsletter, a publication of the New Jersey Catholic Historical Records Commission at Seton Hall University. | | | You can read the Bishop's Statement on Partial Birth Abortion here. |
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| | St. Thomas Apostle Church, Washington, D.C. |
| | Blest are they who have not seen and have believed. | | | Thomas Apostle Church, Washington, D.C. Rev. Mark E. Brennan, Pastor | | | You became a believer because you saw me. |
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| | Amazon.com: Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom: Books: Jack Fruchtman |
| | This biography should be considered the definitive work on Thomas Paine. | | | Thomas Paine is America's most unappreciated Founding Father. | | | Before reading this fine biography, I had not given Thomas Paine much thought beyond being the author of "Common Sense". |
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| | St Thomas the Apostle Parish |
| | Whoever lives in the truth comes into the light, so that their works may be clearly seen as done in God. | | | Thomas parish is once again teaming up with Inner City Christian Federation to build a home for a local family in ned - and we nned your help to make it happen. | | | Each year during the winter months, the members of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish invite our neighbors to join us as we gather monthly to share a meal, fellowship and some light entertainment to help brighten up these cold, dark winter months. |
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http://www.sthomasapostle.catholicweb.com
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| | Thomas the Apostle |
| | I realize scripture does not give us a good look at the personality of Thomas. | | | Thanks for your thoughts, Kelly -- Does your band, performer or choir want to perform a song but the key the recording is in not suit their needs? |
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