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From: billmc@microsoft.UUCP (Bill MCJOHN)
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Subject: Re: Benjamin Britten's pagan? carol
Message-ID: <Jul.8.00.27.23.1990.6053@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 90 04:27:24 GMT
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In article <Jul.5.04.15.29.1990.1187@athos.rutgers.edu>, st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Timm) writes:
> 
>     ".... if the appil had not taken been
>      then would not Our Lady 'a been hevene Queen
>      Blessed be the day the appil taken was...."
> 
> Do Catholics really believe this?  

Yes.  'O happy fault of Adam, that gained for the world so great
a Redeemer!'  Although the disobedience of Adam and Eve brought
sin and death into the world, it also led to the Incarnation of 
Christ.  And therefore, we sing 'Deo gratias!'