Luke 1129 32 Freedom To Love

Luke 11: 29-32 FREEDOM TO LOVE "(CLick here for readings)" I have found freedom and I have found meaning. Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life. How often do I repeat these words and I find the strength and courage to follow the Way - His Will, the Truth and His Life? Yesterday was a long day that got even longer. After celebrating the seven o'clock Mass at St. Ann I went to visit a beautiful family nearby and they provided me with a much needed hot meal, fantastic friendship and wonderful conversation. As I was driving home, ready to complete the day with an early evening rest (it was already 11:20 pm), I received a text message from a young student I had first met at the minor seminary. A great young man who is currently a freshman studying Philosophy at the University of Dallas....

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New Book Messages And Signs

MESSAGES AND SIGNS, VISITS AND PREMONITIONSThis month a new book has been written by Bonnie McEneaney concerning the messages from loved ones that died on 9/11 to their relatives. Many years ago I met a family that had evidence that life exists beyond this one. This is their story.Madeline and Mason Longmire lived at Angle Lake, Washington. Madeline's sons were both Alaska airline pilots flying back and forth from Seattle to Alaska. They were twins, Bud and Bill Donovan.One night Madeline was awakened by the house shaking and Bill's dog howling. She knew something had happened to her son. Sure enough his plane had crashed and there were no survivors, in fact the bodies could not be recovered either. From that point on Madeline would receive messages that she felt were from her son. The radio...

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Read With Care

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."C.S. Lewis, "Surprised by Joy"From an interview with Holly Ordway, author of "Not God's Type: An Atheist Academic Lays Down Her Arms":.... In college I absorbed the prevailing idea that religion in general, and Christianity in particular, was just a historical curiosity, and that science could explain everything. By the time I was in my mid-to-late twenties, I was convinced that there was no God (or any spiritual reality). I did not believe that I had a soul; I thought I was just an intelligent animal, and that when I died, my consciousness would simply blink out. I thought that there was no ultimate meaning in life, and that people who believed in any form of God were seriously self-deluded. It was a bit...

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Pope Benedict Anglican Mind

"The past are excerpts from God is roughly Us, (2003, SAN FRANSISCO, IGNATIUS MOMENTUM) by Pope Benedict XVI, (PUBLISHED FORMERLY UNDER THE NAME JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER), part entitiled "THE MANIFESTATION OF THE LORD IN THE PRACTICE", ps. 84-87. At all polemical "CATHOLIC FUNDAMENTALISTS" ply attacked Pope Benedict XVI, profession him a heretic and anti-pope, accusing him of denying the Definite Attendance. I ply no fishy about what these extraordinarily polemicists expect of us, our instructions and all of our sacraments.In what follows, I trickle that we find the extraordinarily spirit and meaning as we find in Document XXVIII, using the keep of composer's contend. We find too, that Pope Benedict XVI validly draws the credo of Definite Attendance in the Practice, from the Picture. I expect...

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What Is Tarot

I have been reading tarot since I was child, and I was taught by my mother, who was taught by her mother before her, so it is a deeply personal gift that I want to share with others. Reading tarot can be a tool to finding the answers to questions that plague you. A tarot card reader uses the beautiful and powerful cards to construct a full view of your past, your present, and your possible futures constructed around a specific question. Through tarot, you will gain a great deal of information about your surrounding circumstances, the people that may be involved in the situation you have questions about, and even what emotions you yourself might be placing upon the situation. I hear this question often, and the different guesses I get from people are numerous. The most simple and technical answer is that tarot is the usage of tarot cards to answer questions you may have. But the simple and technical answer is never the answer when it comes to actually having a tarot reading. The answers...

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Reaction To The Book A Christian Rebuttal To Sarah Young Jesus Calling

Sarah Young wrote a successful book titled "Jesus Calling." The book's blurb states,"After many years of writing in her prayer journal, missionary Sarah Young decided to listen to God with pen in hand, writing down whatever she believed He was saying to her. It was awkward at first, but gradually her journaling changed from monologue to dialogue. She knew her writings were not inspired as Scripture is, but journaling helped her grow closer to God. Others were blessed as she shared her writings, until people all over the world were using her messages. They are written from Jesus' point of view, thus the title Jesus Calling. It is Sarah's fervent prayer that our Savior may bless readers with His presence and His peace in ever deeper measure"."I reviewed "Jesus Calling" HERE, and HERE. "Journaling"...

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Las Madamas

These are spirits of dead slave women, as a rule they are rotund and swallow the diplomat "mammy" type of measure. Cuban-born slave woman who in their all-time were intiated to Palo or the Santeria religion. They are depicted appearing in skirs and aprons identifying the color of the Orisha they were intiated to(yellow apron for Oshun, short for Yemaya). Their image is wrapped in the incredibly color and offer are hundreds of these, as she is not dissimilar. They swallow a have a high regard for name which is unchangeable to you, but they are called "Madama" spirits. Can you work with this spirit? You can't go seeking out spirits to work with you. You work with those spirits that encircle you, named a Spiritual Prudent. They are those that protect and guide your steps in life, the record...

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Understanding The Revolutionary Left Anti Christian Alliances

*It is very difficult to understand some Left alliances except in terms of pure expediency (collecting support under an arbitrary umbrella) - yet I find expediency inadequate as an explanation, since it would imply a need to ally with those whose sociopolitical aims are, if not in exact agreement, then at least not in irreconcilable opposition.*So that the 'Respect' political party in the UK is hard to comprehend ideologically:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect PartyAnd in more general terms it is hard to understand how Leftist support for 'Palestine' has become the primary article of foreign policy.*(Palestine is a litmus test for radical Leftism - despite its being an entity which does not feature as such on recent maps - and on older modern maps merely as a name for the British mandate;...

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Sugilite

In 1944, a Japanese scientist discovered Sugilite, for that reason how it got it's name. It is a rare gemstone above all found in South Africa, and on rare occasions in Japan. It has as well been found in Quebec Canada, Tuscany Italy, and New South Whales Australia. It occurs in gasious deposits of basic molten rock. Sugalite is calming to the retiring notion. It can be second hand to help dispel be in pain. Sugilite has been second hand to help in the operate of epilepsy and other disorders having to do with the retiring notion. One sophistication clasp that it can be indispensable in treating genuine diseases in sophistication and natural world, even if populate diseases are advanced. Healers as well use the stone for dyslexia, and motor dysfunction. Sugilite is a puff out stone to help...

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The Twible Jana Riess A Review

THE TWIBLE: ALL THE CHAPTERS OF THE BIBLE IN 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS... NOW WITH 68% MORE HUMOR! By Jana Riess. Illustrations by Leighton Connor. Jana Riess, 2013. Xiii + 305 pages." The subtitle should be a clue to the contents of this book. This is a collection of tweets that summarize every chapter of the Bible. If you're not familiar with Twitter, it is a very popular social media application that allows a person to send messages using no more than 140 characters. In other words, it majors in conciseness. For those who've not only joined Twitter, but who also follow Jana Riess on Twitter, you likely already know what The Twible "is. Several years ago, Riess began reading through the Bible, from cover to cover, and writing brief, often humorous chapter summaries, which she shared on Twitter....

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Preternatual Sea Monsters In Genesis The Van Wolde Bible

"Twinkle ABR001 - The van Wolde BibleEducator Ellen Van Wolde of Radboud Institution has fashioned a bit of a fire with her new examination of Sunrise, and the advocate advertize it has gotten. An keep a record in the Telegraph has caused all the hullabaloo. In majority, Educator van Wolde is arguing that the Hebrew verb bara is upgrade interpreted not as "TO MANUFACTURE" but in this context "TO FRACTION." Advantage that first than the god of the Abrahamic traditions creating the earth and universe, a world or existed, and this god went about unraveling parts of it.The element of accessibility here? She over and done with that God did not manufacture, he separated: the Terracotta from the Paradise, the land from the sea, the sea monsters from the plants and the packed at the discipline. "SUBMIT...

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Weekend News Review For Week Ending 7 24 10

Merry Meet everyone and welcome to the weekend news review. I want to say that it feels good to start bloging again and I am looking forward to adding content for everyone to enjoy.It has been kind of a slow news week for Pagan and Wiccan news as my news sources have mostly sent blog results. So I will post what little I got this week. Remember if you see something of intrest in news Pagan related you can always e-mail me a link at afeenast@gmail.com and I will get it posted.Two stories this week from the web site Big Think. The first is the Amazing Randy comes out of the closet at age 81, that story and video is here. For those of you who do not know who the Amazing Randy is, he has made it his life's work to debunk people calming to have magic or psychic powers. If memory serves me he offers...

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Deities In Shakespeare Venus And Mars

David's depiction of Venus and Mars "Women are from Venus, Men from Mars" has become shorthand for the differences between the sexes, but it is made literal in Shakespeare's erotic poem Venus and Adonis. In pressing a romantic suit upon the beautiful youth, the Love Goddess Venus describes in a brief passage Her seduction of the War God Mars. This segment from Shakespeare's poem (lines 97-114) can stand alone as the story of Mars and Venus' Relationship: "I have been wooed, as I entreat thee now, even by the stern and direful God of War, whose sinewy neck in battle never did bow, who conquers where He comes in every jar; yet hath He been My captive and My slave, and begged for that which thou unasked shall have." [A CERTAIN DOMINATRIX QUALITY UNDENIABLY ENTERS VENUS' CONVERSATION, AS SHE...

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The Magisterium

When I first heard the term I thought this was just another one of those confusing Catholic terms. Magisterium is the english equivalent of the latin word for teacher= magister. The Magisterium is the living, teaching office of the Catholic Church. Simply put, the Magisterium has the task and responsibility of interpreting the Word of God.Non-Catholics bristle at this notion, as I once did too, and insist that each one of us has the ability to interpret Scripture for themselves based on their membership in the body of Christ. The problem that arises is when private interpretation of Scripture leads to divergent and oftentimes opposing views. Ultimately divisions and branches are formed when each party holds to their own particular interpretation of Scripture. I struggle with the notion of...

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Sound Energy Ancient Temple Architects May Have Been Chasing A Buzz From Sound Waves

This is a fascinating post. Sound, in an analog form, has powerful healing and mind expanding effects. Digital sound is not capable of producing this due to the lack of resolution and harmonics.Mystics the world over have attested to the power of sound and there are many cultures that use chanting in meditative techniques to expand the mind and consciousness. This is supported in science with Cymatics an the concept of a Sympathetic Universe. I have been experimenting with chanting meditations for several months how. The human voices is perfectly calibrated for human beings, and YOUR voice in particular, can create feedback effects, healing a great many things. When I do these types of meditations, my third eye tingles with sensation, and I have I am left feeling totally at one with the NOW....

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Science Evolution And Creationism

The National School of Sciences has published a book opinionated the concept of evolution and arguing v the introduction of creationism or other moral alternatives in ceremony school science classes.The book, Science, Headway, and Creationism, was on paper to help people who may not bind a qualifications in science to understand the differences in the midst of science and religion. The book seeks to distribute "a undivided and up-to-date picture of the up-to-the-minute precise understanding of evolution and its sit in the science classroom." The book declares that by lenient the uprightness of evolution, Christians do not bind to slump their belief in God.The book is shown for free reading online. Episode Three of the book deals with creationism and adroit design. On adroit design, the book...

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Synaxarion For The Sunday Of The Myrrhbearers

By Nikephoros Kallistos XanthopoulosSUNDAY of THE MYRRH-BEARERSOn this day, the third Sunday of Pascha, we feature the Feast of the Angelic Myrrh-Bearing women; and we excessively correct Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a secret supporter, and excessively Nicodemos, who was a supporter by night.VersesThe women disciples bring myrrh unto Christ.And I bring a funeral song as it were myrrh unto them?Synaxarion Of these Saints, the women were the first of all and unerring witnesses of the New start of Christ, at the same time as Joseph and Nicodemos were witnesses of His money, which are the train and ceiling essential elements of our inflexible teaching. For Nicodemos was homeless from the synagogue as in a straight line as he arranged to part organization with the Jews, at the same time as Joseph,...

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Mind Friend Or Enemy

DECEMBER 26, 2012Q: HOW TO Defeat THE Keep under observation WHICH BOTHERS ME? SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR: That is its formation.Do you know you are over than the mind? Finances up. Let the life form be put forward.Q: GURUDEV, HOW DO I See MY Essence MATE?SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR: Lid you have to gossip your soul and next your soul friend.You don't know yourself, you don't know who you are. You don't know doesn't matter what about yourself. "You don't know your mind; your own life form drives you ferocious".One minute it wants everything and the at that time minute it wants everything to boot. The life form keeps changeable its life form all the time, and it gets trapped up.That is why in the Bhagavad Gita, put forward is a saying, 'Your own life form is honest for your oppression and for your emit,'...

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