The Gathering Darkness (the Connor series) - Dirk B. (Page 6 of 57)

Somewhere along the way, I discovered (and then forgot) that requiem also means funeral Mass (not just music), primarily in the Catholic Church. Seems like a good fit since the old heaven and old earth will pass away in the End Times (Revelation). It's also completely unused on Amazon. It requires a little Catholic knowledge to get someone to click past the title, but so be it. Its one down side is that the reference to Heaven may turn away people who might otherwise stop to click/read the summary for a supernatural thriller. I had the same problem with the word God in the title of my space opera story. That was the original reason I settled on Unholy Lords of the Earth, but that title has its own issues. You put Unholy and Lord together in a title, and Christians will fume and skip right past it. They're my primary target audience (2.2 billion Christians and 1.2 billion Catholics). I have 4-6 years to change my mind another fifty times.

Time for OCD medication.

Well, there's the Pope, his Council of Cardinal Advisors, the Catholic orphanage, "perpetual adoration" in the orphanage chapel, a Mass at St. Peter's Basilica, rosary beads and prayer, a priest as one of the main POV characters, a lengthy trip through the Holy Land retracing the footsteps of Jesus, an exorcism chapter, several healings, dead cardinals and bishops, events from Revelation, the Vatican, visions of ancient events from the Bible, Satan, the Antichrist, the False Prophet, and Jesus Christ himself.

Pretty much a Catholic series, which was my intention from the outset. There is already a series of novels called Left Behind that tells the story of Revelation from a Protestant Dispensationalist POV (a literal interpretation). So many Christians think that's the Catholic POV, too, since there are no comparable Catholic novels.

The books are Connor's journey.

I'm looking forward to it. Nothing wrong with new learning, is there? I find myself entranced with books throwing new light on religions, no matter which religion. The ones I have problems with are ones that have characters with pious dialogue that is reflected in the text. It becomes unrelenting then. But if the story is non-Christian, even in a heavily Catholic environment, I think I would find interesting.

The patriarchal religions have very similar structures, don't they. I'm not so sure of Dao and Buddhism though...

Even shorter: Lord of All

Not until 403 chapter 30

Don’t encourage him

wasn't that the point of Doubting Thomas? That he wouldn't believe Christ was flesh until he put his hand into Christ's side, where the legionnaire had speared him?

Note that Spirit is capitalized and might translate better into Holy Ghost (After checking this I went back and checked. It seems it's likely capitalized in English too). Like being "baptized in the spirit" kind of means "baptized in the name of the Holy Ghost".

No, the Catholic forum states that Christ was taken up body and soul, which is how will return. Ditto for the prophet Elijah. If Christ had been taken up in spirit only, there would have been a dead body to bury, which wasn't the case.

ah, I had always taken the Ascension to mean that he had been taken up body and soul, but his soul was the only bit that would return. But I was brought up CofE, and it is a LONG time ago since I went to Sunday School.