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This is somewhat -- inspired by pre- and post-Flood thoughts -- related, because my question about possible extant, and your answer about non-existent, Biblical traditions of the Ice Age.

Is there any tradition about how God might destroy a wicked world a second time?

Nothing is on record from the Last Supper about the last rites.

Maternal. He served in the First World War. The Limerick ancestry is on the paternal side, via Dad's mother.

Low quality wheat and barley. The recipients of the wheat were the landlords.

No. All masses are equal.

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John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ considered at least communicating "I'm sorry" to God. His Last Supper developed into the weekly Mass(es).

Might anything that He said between the Last Supper and His death be predictive of Last Rites?

Thank you for your comment March 10, 2023, in answer to my previous-day question March 9, 2023.

Is your Calvinist, Presbyterian grandfather maternal or paternal? Is he the grandfather of World War I service and with Limerick biogeography?

The first subheading, The need for rotation Lessons from Ireland, considers that "The Irish were being made to grow the crops that were needed to pay rent and stay alive. Their corn went to pay rent, and they needed potatoes to sell to the mass English market."

Who constituted the corn-for-rent recipients? Were they mercantile or rich or some other socioeconomic-niched people?

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There can be Friday and Saturday evening Masses. Do they have greater or similar import to morning Masses (typically at 7:30 a.m.)?

There is no set period of mourning, but three days would be considered reasonable.

Sunday mass cannot be substituted for mass on another day, but many Catholics who are unable to attend on Sunday make it up by going on another day.

Unitedstatesian tennis player Arthur Ashe appreciated the English people. The English love for flowers, manners, rituals and traditions particularly enchanted him.

So is there an English tradition for the mourning-period length for a royal member?

Thank you for the VintageFairyTalePics link in the 10th subheading, about artist Jessie Willcox Smith.

The art work by Jessie Marion King (1875-1949) and the second, Beauty-alone image by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) appeal to met.

That blue-dominant choice in both images attracts me.

What is the color symbolism of the respectively blue-surrounded and blue-dressed Beauty?

Thank you for the Top Illustrations by Top Artists link in your 10th subheading, for artist Jessie Willcox Smith.

The first paragraph in that link to Beauty and the Beast in pictures considers that "Let’s start with less known book written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (169?-1755) who wrote the first version of The Beauty and the Beast. This is actually a novella for adults with basically the same plot we are all familiar with but also with many subplots which are today known only to devoted scholars."

What is an example of a subplot "today known only to devoted scholars"?

(Might including those subplots in the basic-known plot confusingly, tediously, unnecessarily complicate and lengthen that fairy-tale plot about second chances for the Beast and for the unsanctioned rose-picker?)

A hypothetical person faces a personal or professional conflict with Sunday Mass attendance.

Is it considered making up for that nonattendance by morning Mass every day and Friday and Saturday evening Masses?