February 26, 2007

• From the Academy:

  Synaxis

  
  Monica Almeida/The New York Times
  Martin Scorsese won the best-director
  Oscar last night for "The Departed."
  From left, Francis Ford Coppola, Scorsese,
  George Lucas and Steven
  Spielberg.

  "Synaxis (synaxis from synago) means gathering, assembly, reunion. It is exactly equivalent to the Latin collecta (from colligere), and corresponds to synagogue (synagoge), the place of reunion."

  -- The Catholic Encyclopedia,
  Volume XIV. Published 1912. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Nihil
  Obstat, July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John
  Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York

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