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  • The Real Presence Explained

    Originally posted on Clarifying Catholicism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRS-M0Vpd28 https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ENehIOYzkpr3kHUjzDrqh Catholic students explain the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Thanks to our fantastic panel! -Will Deatherage, The Catholic University of America -Mark Florig, Yale University -Emily Capps, Franciscan University -Nick Jones, Rhode Island University -Zack Maher, University of Alabama

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  • Saints of Africa: January

    Originally posted on Desert Fathers Dispatch: Last year, I challenged myself to look up and post articles listing Orthodox Christian saints from the African continent.  I did this each week in my “Dispatch from the Desert” post.  Some were native Africans and had varied amounts of melanin in their skin.  Some were from the Middle…

  • Will The SNP Shenanigans In Parliament Put Scots Off Voting For Independence? 

  • 2020.

    Originally posted on Yet Not I: Meditations on a life of ordinary suffering: “I’ve come to see that it’s through the deepest suffering that God has taught me the deepest lessons. And if we’ll trust Him for it, we can come through to the unshakable assurance that He’s in charge. He has a loving purpose.…

  • And God Listens

    Originally posted on Thoughts from Mark "Hat" Rackley: You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.? They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.?…

  • Holiday thoughts: Jewish v. Not

    Originally posted on The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱: Chanukah ended, and though I haven’t written a word about it yet, I have been mulling something over quite a bit. Traditionally, there’s a song that Jews sing after reciting the blessings and lighting the candles of the chanukiah 🕎. This song is called Ma’oz Tzur (“Strong Rock”),…

  • New Beginnings

    “But forget all that— it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland…. Yes, I will make rivers in…

  • Soul (2020)

    Originally posted on Luke Atkins: Pixar’s latest masterpiece is now available on Disney+ to stream for free. Soul is cinema at its finest, surpassing Ratatouille as my favorite Pixar film. Do I recommend it to kids? No way. Its themes and messages will go far over their heads, in my personal opinion. And though they’ll…

  • The Gospel of the Second Chance

    Originally posted on StopAndPrayTV: Philippians 3:13-14 New Year’s Eve for me when I was a boy was overcast with solemn thoughts. My officer parents would see that the family attended the Watch Night service, where, after expressions of thankfulness to God for His mercies and exhortation to new resolutions to mend our ways, the crucial…

  • Let Go and Let God Build Your Life and Future!

    Originally posted on Living the Abundant Life: How are you preparing to step into your season of new? Jennifer Mallon of Reliant Family Church in Tampa, Fl. says that part of letting go is laying down those things that no longer serve us in this season so we can grab onto things that are bigger…

  • The Saints of Wuhan: Isolation, Suffering, and the Breath of Faith

    Originally posted on Catholicism Pure & Simple: Detail from print of the Vincentian martyr of Wuchang District in Wuhan, St. Jean-Gabriel Perboyre, CM. Source: Archives of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians), Paris, France. Note: This account of the Catholic martyr saints who died in the Wuchang district of Wuhan, China, was delivered after the Holy…

  • WIN of Life

    Originally posted on Life Hub Inspirations: How has year 2020 been to you? It has been unimaginable for many of us. Who would have thought year 2020 will bring us so many hurdles and life-threatening situation? It felt like we have been trying our best to win survival and thriving through COVID-19 and the problems…

  • You Don’t Need To “Tap Into” Or Be Envious Of Another Man’s Grace: Every Believer Has Got His Own Grace!

    Originally posted on BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY BLOG: (All Bible quotations, unless otherwise stated, are from the New International Version). We frequently hear of believers struggling to “tap” from the grace of successful ministers or other believers. In many Christian circles, people are encouraged to sow “financial seeds” into the lives and ministries of men of God,…

  • Time of Letting Go. Time of Letting God. Time of Welcoming

    Originally posted on A DOSE OF GOD TODAY: December 31, 2020 – 7th Day in the Octave of Christmas and the Last Day of the Year Click here for the readings (https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/123120.cfm) We have reached the last day of the year of 2020. We have been through a lot this year. There are too many…

  • Saint of the Day, December 31st – St. Sylvester, St. Catherine Laboure

    അനുദിന വിശുദ്ധർ (Saint of the Day) December 31st – St. Sylvester, St. Catherine Laboure ** Glory To God ** Glory To God ** Glory To God ** Glory To God ** Glory To God ** അനുദിന വിശുദ്ധർ (Saint of the Day) December 31st – St. Sylvester, St. Catherine Laboure St. Sylvester:When you think of this…

  • അനുദിനവിശുദ്ധർ – ഡിസംബർ 31

    🎄🎄🎄 December 31 🎄🎄🎄വിശുദ്ധ സില്‍വെസ്റ്റര്‍ പാപ്പ 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 314 ജനുവരിയില്‍ മെല്‍ക്കിയാഡ് പാപ്പാ അന്തരിച്ചതോടെയാണ് റോമന്‍ നിവാസിയായിരുന്ന വിശുദ്ധ സില്‍വെസ്റ്ററിനെ സഭയെ നയിക്കുവാന്‍ തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്തത്. തിരുസഭക്ക് അവളുടെ അടിച്ചമര്‍ത്തല്‍ നടത്തുന്നവരുടെ മേല്‍ താല്‍ക്കാലികമായ വിജയം ലഭിച്ച സമയത്താണ് വിശുദ്ധ സില്‍വെസ്റ്റര്‍ പാപ്പാ പദവിയിലെത്തുന്നത്. ഏതാണ്ട് 21 വര്‍ഷത്തോളം അദ്ദേഹം തിരുസഭയെ നയിച്ചു. സഭയില്‍ അച്ചടക്കം കൊണ്ടു വരികയും, നാസ്തികത്വത്തിനെതിരേയുള്ള ചര്‍ച്ചകളില്‍ പങ്കെടുക്കുകയും ചെയ്ത പാപ്പ നിഖ്യാ സമിതിയില്‍ പങ്കെടുക്കുകയും, ആദ്യത്തെ എക്യുമെനിക്കല്‍ സമിതിയില്‍ തന്റെ പ്രതിനിധികളെ…

  • ജോസഫ് നന്ദിയുടെ ഓർമ്മ പുസ്തകം

    ജോസഫ് ചിന്തകൾ 23 ജോസഫ് നന്ദിയുടെ ഓർമ്മ പുസ്തകം   1965 ൽ പുറത്തിറങ്ങിയ തൊമ്മൻ്റെ മക്കൾ എന്ന സിനിമയിൽ വർഗീസ് മാളിയേക്കൽ രചിച്ച് ജോബ് മാഷ് സംഗീതം നൽകി എസ് ജാനകിയുടെ ആലപിച്ച പ്രസിദ്ധമായ ഗാനമാണ് ഞാനുറങ്ങാൻ പോകും മുൻപായ് എന്ന ഗാനം. അതിലെ ആദ്യ നാലു വരികൾ ഇപ്രകാരമാണ്:   ഞാനുറങ്ങാൻ പോകും മുൻപായ് നിനക്കേകുന്നിതാ നന്ദി നന്നായ്, ഇന്നു നീ കാരുണ്യപൂർവം തന്ന നന്മകൾക്കൊക്കെയ്ക്കുമായി.   2020 അവസാന നാളിൽ യൗസേപ്പിതാവു നമ്മോടു…

  • Are you ready to transform?

  • Breaking the rules

    Originally posted on Rahil Najafabadi : One of the most amazing artists I know taught me an incredible but essential element of composition. I’m not going to mention it because it doesn’t apply to this painting, but his teaching made me think about my bubble journey in Fauvism. He told me “now it’s okay if…

  • Today and Tomorrow

  • (Mostly) Wordless Wednesday: Somebody To Watch Over Me

    Originally posted on Across the Oonaverse: … even if it is just a painting.

  • The Birth Of Christ – “Who Told What To Whom?”

    Originally posted on Eternity: https://youtu.be/v1mQT1u_45I Nearer, My God, to Thee – André Rieu (live in Amsterdam) I. Old Testament Prophecy and the Birth of Christ. A. There are quite a few names throughout Scripture spoken about Jesus or given by Jesus himself. One of the most prevalent titles is “Christ” (or the Hebrew equivalent, “Messiah”).…

  • Song Squawk – Bicycle

    Originally posted on Considering the Bible: In the mid nineties, I had a little red Buick and a big ol’ bass box in the trunk, and would listen to “Christian Rock”, cranked to 11. (What did you say?? Huh?? Can? you say that again, I didn’t hear you….) I have gotten away from that genre…