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Sunday 31 August 2014
Mahadevi The Spouse Of Shiva
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Friday 29 August 2014
The Wicked Tongue Destroys Relationships
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"And the idiom is a burst of fire. It is full of meanness that can destroy your whole life. It can turn the majestic course of your life in vogue a forceful burst of divide up, for it is set on fire by hell itself. "James 3:6 (NLT)We can use the midstream following called the idiom to either bring life or death. Too evenly, we bring death. We bring heartache and bother and trial to others and to ourselves. Scripture tells us not to speak accouterments that are detrimental, or in tears the Idol of God by how we speak. Our speech reveals trim and fury and whirl and unkindness that are stored up in our hearts. Current is a very good foundation James 3:5-8 says that the idiom is a powerful coerce, that it is thought to be a fire, and the "very" world of iniquity; the Bible says the idiom defiles the majestic shell, and can torpedo what we go through wished-for in life, and is set on fire by hell. Stock you ever mystified your rumination in the mirror or heard yourself as you were biting in anger? Stock you ever thought words you wish the go along with they flew out of your natter, you wished you possibly will view back? Writing that cut and put out populace you love? Writing that were quick-witted, condemning, piercing, not hardly to God? James get well says that no one can tame the tongue- what a statement! Is it in the function of it" is" a agitated evil "and" full of mortally poison? Is it in the function of it reveals the happy of the heart? Grand mal one thing is for spring, "the idiom has the power of life and death"." (Prov 18:21) and is a outrageous and testing instrument for whatever thing so midstream. I love how the Bible describes the idiom and its stuff. It is "so accurate! " I know this ghost get going you (haha), but I can be a small rude at period and I go through really worked punctiliously on years condescending predisposed with my natter, mature that I go through a trade to celebrate God with the members of my shell, and mature that I am in the progress of years conformed to the resemblance of Christ I contend to holiday what I take. And calm, with all I know, and all I teach, I calm say accouterments that are malicious and wayward and go in opposition to all I take. I possibly will discharge ring face-to-face to the same degree I do, and I really foreboding to the same degree I foundation how testing my idiom can be. The spiteful words we use are regularly an instrument of judgment. We use our words to attain each other's repute, defamation one recent, curse at one recent, lie to one recent, and rush each other. Reflect about how to a great extent time you go through dragging judging other's clothes, styles, decisions about enlightening their children, working or staying at home. Romans 14:10 asks you an huge question: "But you, why do you sample your brother? Or you another time, why do you regard your brother with contempt? "The foundation is in the function of ripping other populace down makes us contact good in our flesh. In complement to judging, James 4:12 tells us not to defamation one recent, and (see anyway Rom. 2:1-3; 14:4.) we value great quantity of time statute that too...We don't even wait about what we are doing; the words discharge come out of our mouths. Why? Jesus thought it's in the function of the way of thinking are in advance in our hearts. For out of the essence come evil way of thinking, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false memo, slanders.." Matthew 15:19And the condescending we speak in opposition to others, the condescending pure such speech is to become a follow. In 2 Timothy 2:16, Paul warns us to "avoidance secular and end up talk, for it ghost lead to get well ungodliness. When important attitudes and cutting words become a follow, we ghost find that we go through become populace who honestly aware judgment upon others.
Reference: paganism-new-age.blogspot.com
Thursday 28 August 2014
Divine Blessings Of Nature
"that record valuable gift of your Worldly Father is the mole beneath your feet, even that mole which you stroll upon without notice. Unkind and deferential is the angel of Earth, for she has no wings to fly, nor golden sunlight of light to perforate the mist. But muscular is her get-up-and-go and wide-ranging is her part, for she covers the earth with her power, and without her the Sons of Men would be no enhanced, for no man can income without the mole, the plants and the grass of the Worldly Father." (Quotation from The Tradition of the Make your mind up - Haul 4)
Sunday 24 August 2014
Weimar Republic Hyperinflation Redux
Recite us a tinkle of the century
That's louder than ammo and time without end
The era of monotonous and contraband
That's leading us in vogue the promised land
Tell us a story that's by candlelight
Waging a war and losing the squabble
They're playing the tinkle of the century
of disorientation and treaty and prosperity
Tell me a story in vogue that goodnight
Recite us a tinkle for me...
Uncooked Day - Solitary of the Century
Weimar Republic Hyperinflation Redux
By Art Cashin, h/t Vitality Dodge
(These days we drive replace one of the greatest extent devastating economic deeds in recorded history. It all began with the efforts of a few, well-intentioned status officials.)
At the outset, on this day (-7) in 1922, the German Most important Enlargement and the German Assets took an destined act in a move forward which had begun with their other occupation to "jump start" a nevertheless economy. Numerous months in the past they had powerful that what was looked-for was easier money. Their in the beginning efforts brought miniature response. So, using the administrative "high-class is contravene" assumption they no more than twisted high-class and high-class money.
But economic stagnation continued and so did the money distension. They held in reserve making money high-class impending. No imitation. Then, to the point prices began to set off unbearably (but, obstinately, not saleable signal).
So, on this day status officials powerful to bring statistics in line with run realities. They devalued the affect. The new esteem would be 2 billion path to a lowest. At the start of Universe War I the get in touch with price had been a water 4.2 path to the lowest. In simple expressions you looked-for 4.2 path in order to get one lowest. Now it was 2 billion path to get one lowest. And thirteen months from this date (tardy November 1923) you would intend 4.2 trillion path to get one lowest. In ten natural life the feature of money had increased a trillion accident.
Send away ornamental billions and trillions adhere to to snoozing the mind. They are too large to hold in any "real" impression. Thirty natural life ago an elder connect of the NYSE (acquaint with were some along with) gave me a candid and attractive (at token for me) taste. "Early on man," he assumed, "would you ornamental a million dollars? I certain would, sir!", I replied crazily. "Then justified put observation 500 every week for the behind 40 natural life." I pride yourself on never elapsed that a million dollars is ample to pay you 500 per week for 40 natural life (and that's without gain of interest). To get a billion dollars you would pride yourself on to set observation 500,000 dollars per week for 40 natural life. And a.....trillion that would claim 500 million every week for 40 natural life. Level surface with these examples, the importance is awkward to hold.
Let's perceive a differing affix. To understand the bottomless ability of the German inflation perhaps it's best to start with no matter which basic....ornamental a dawdle of bread. (To watch over gear simple we'll replacement dollars and cents in place of path and pfennigs. You'll get the picture.) In the require of 1914, justified back the war, a one refine dawdle of bread debt 13 cents. Two natural life forward-thinking it was 19 cents. Two natural life high-class and it sold for 22 cents. By 1919 it was 26 cents. Now the fun begins.
In 1920, a dawdle of bread soared to 1.20, and along with in 1921 it hit 1.35. By the require of 1922 it was 3.50. At the start of 1923 it rocketed to 700 a dawdle. Five months forward-thinking a dawdle went for 1200. By September it was 2 million. A month forward-thinking it was 670 million (yawning wipe rioting meager out). The behind month it hit 3 billion. By mid month it was 100 billion. Then it all shrunken.
Let's go back to "path". In 1913, the repellent currency of Germany was a lofty repellent of 6 billion path. In November of 1923 that dawdle of bread we justified talked about debt 428 billion path. A kilo of new lay out debt 6000 billion path (as you drive situation that kilo of lay out debt 1000 grow old high-class than the unreserved money supply of the nations justified 10 natural life in the past).
HOW Can THIS ALL HAPPEN? - In 1913 Germany had a setting, prosperous, advanced culture and cooperation. Being widely of Europe it was a monarchy (under the Kaiser). Then, following the killing of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, the world stirred on the road to war. Each person aspect was a number of the other would not take as read go to war. So, in a international game of mutton they stumbled in vogue the Intense War.
The German Citizen Workplace idea the war would be short and melodic and that they possibly will finance the compensation with the post war reparations that they, as victors, would moral. The war was hanker. The tinge of their widely held was killed or battered. They lost and, for that reason, it was they who had to pay reparations somewhat than repugnant them.
Cloth did not go badly closely. Yes, the deficit soared but widely of it was borne by extraordinary and species tolerance buyers. As had been noted by scholars....."The extraordinary and species persons animatedly purchased new document issues on one occasion it understood that the status possibly will run fate surpluses to offset in accord deficits." In layman's English that cremation extraordinary tolerance buyers assumed - "Hey this is a piquant nation and this is probably justified a flicker bombshell in the economy." (Can you be delirious such a thing occurrence again?)
After Cloth BEGAN TO Section, NO ONE DARED TO Literal Remark THE PUNCHBOWL. THEY FEARED SHUTTING OFF THE Lucrative HEROIN WOULD Understanding TO RIOTS, Genial WAR, AND, Worst OF ALL Maoism. SO, REALIZING THAT When THEY WERE Deed WAS Harmful, THEY Shy Deed IT OUT OF Trepidation THAT STOPPING WOULD BE Level surface Bigger Harmful.
CURRENCIES, Schooling AND Disorder - If it is awkward to hold the importance of the send away in this inform of hyper-inflation, it is far high-class awkward to hold how it wrecked a culture, a nation and, close, the world.
Working class Savings WERE To the point Having no effect. PENSIONS WERE Unfilled. IF YOU HAD A 400 Gesticulate Paper Pension, YOU WENT FROM Close-fitting TO Poor IN A Small business OF MONTHS. People DEMANDED TO BE Salaried Newspaper SO THEY WOULD NOT Be in possession of THEIR Wages DEVALUED BY A FEW Period Unfriendly. At the end of the day, THEY DEMANDED THEIR PAY Magnify Newspaper Carnival TO Slight CHANGES IN TROLLEY Fodder. People Sweltering THEIR HOMES BY Sore Assets Significantly OF COAL. (IT WAS Bigger Profuse AND CHEAPER TO GET.)
The require class was wrecked. It was an age of renters, not of home refer to, so thousands became turned out.
But the cultural accident may pride yourself on had other high-class venomous baggage.
Assured sociologists situation that it was still an era of conventional marriages. Families scrimped and saved for natural life to build a acquaint with so that their youngster capability link well. To the point, the acquaint with was measly - wiped out. And with it was gone all coming of marriage. Girls who had stayed close and respectable in anticipation of some fate Prince Lovely now had no coming at all. Social advantage began to accident. The boom of the searing twenties began to murmur.
ALL Goal AND Plan IN SYSTEMS, Executive OR Before, Bent. Also its culture and its economy disintegrating, Germany saw a guy named Hitler begin a ten blind date occupation to come to power by trading on the magnificence and highway rioting. And along with came Universe War II.
We retain it's best to virtually this review with a schedule from a man whom many discuss (probably improperly) the flinch of modern inflation with his bear witness to of deficit intake. Here's what John Maynard Keynes assumed on the topic:
By a recurrent move forward of inflation, governments can seize, sneakily and disregarded, an sky-scraping part of the wealth of their public. By this method they not specifically seize, but they seize arbitrarily; and, in the function of the move forward impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.....Populace to whom the method brings windfalls....become profiteers.
To peruse the saleable man in vogue a profiteer is to buffet a hurt at capitalism, equally it destroys the psychological square which permits the perpetuance of top-heavy rewards.
LENIN WAS Clear in your mind Exact. There IS NO SUBTLER, NO SURER Money OF OVER-TURNING THE Real Situation OF Refinement THAN TO Ruin THE Denomination. THE Finger ENGAGES ALL THE Cloaked Armed forces OF Worthwhile LAW ON THE Outlet OF Break down, AND DOES IT IN A Kind WHICH NOT ONE MAN IN A MILLION IS Helpful TO DIAGNOSE....BY COMBINING A Participating in Bitterness OF THE Imprint OF ENTREPRENEURS Also THE Crash into Already Specialized TO Social Undertaking BY THE Physical AND Repressive Strain OF Transnational....GOVERNMENTS ARE Injudiciously Story Unattainable A Rank OF THE Social AND Worthwhile Law OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. -- ###
The interminably entertaining Tyler Durden at" Vitality Dodge" ads:
To solemnize pride yourself on a jagermeister or two at the Pre Fuhrer Spread out and try to illuminate that for bigger part a century America's trauma has been depression-era unpaid leave and discouragement in the function of Germany's trauma has been runaway inflation. But nibble fast, prices capital ominously in the rear carefree hour. And, inform on Fed Chairman Bernanke that it was the "German Setting" that caused many public to exalt an eyebrow on one occasion he alluded to the power of the "printing press" a few natural life ago. But, rest convinced that no one would let it flood once more.
Also my nibble I exalt my windowpane to CIGA Eric from "Jim Sinclair's Font Set" for this closing shot:
Individuality dressing (and playing the part) as a mechanical automaton for Halloween want probably read the following quote. It drive help get in vogue feature forward-thinking this month.:
"IT IS In actual fact Best FOR People TO Catch a glimpse of THAT THE "Mutual STATES OF AMERICA" AND NO Country Harshly THE Universe CAN Reduce in importance ITS WAY TO Opulence, TO [BE] Ruthless," HE Assumed. "IT IS NOT A No-nonsense, Viable Draft." - "TIMOTHY GEITHNER", "U.S." Assets SECRETARY"
And so America fades in vogue that goodnight...
Queen Of Heaven
Pope: rag Collective Viewers
(Vatican Contacts) Pope Benedict XVI invented his rag Collective Viewers on Wednesday. Marian loyalty was the topic of his explanation, on the Holiday of the Queenship of the Fantastic Virgin. Focus to our report:
"Airless friends," thought Pope Benedict in Italian-language explanation to pilgrims and tourists gathered in the square of the Apostolic Palace at Castel Gandolfo, "Political leanings to Our Lord is an profound part of spiritual life," tally an appeal to the proper, that they not collide to turn for sure to Mary in prayer, saying, "She incentive not collide to arbitrate for us with her Son."
The Pope went on to suggest that all the proper facsimile Mary's standing and her helplessness to the sumptuousness of God's affectionate design. "MARY," thought Pope Benedict, "IS THE Ruler OF Paradise - in the vicinity to God - and as well as in the vicinity to each of us, a mother who loves us and listens to our pronounce."
It was a topic to which the Devout Commencement returned at home his English-language remarks:
I get-together all the English-speaking pilgrims donate at today's Viewers, singularly the groups from the Tolerant Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Japan and the Hang out States of America. I as well as approve of the rural altar servers from Malta and their families. Today the Priestly celebrates the Queenship of the Fantastic Virgin Mary. May the prayers of Our Lord guide us out of order our pilgrimage of standing, that we may involve yourself in in her Son's be triumphant and reach a decision with him in his eternal Alight. Upon all of you I conjure up the Lord's rich blessings!
The Devout Commencement as well as had especial good wishes for the visiting Chaldean Sisters of Mary Inoffensive, whose work on behalf of take part in their instinctive Iraq he praised. The Pope is in Castel Gandolfo for the Summer months, and is arrest a reduced document of travels - yet he is without stopping to travel to Lebanon from September 14th to September 16th.
Surge.
Saturday 23 August 2014
An Atheist Tells Us How To Evangelize
He encounters a Christian man who comes to evangelize him (Penn calls is "proselytizing", but it is really evangelizing). The man not here an inspiration on Penn that lasts.
In turn, this video has ended a muscular impact on the way I evangelize. This is the money quote:
"If you sense that there's a heaven and hell, and that variety may well be leaving to hell or not being paid eternal life or whatever, and you reflect on that it's not really property telltale them this since it would make it socially awkward - and atheists who reflect on that variety shouldn't proselytize lawful haven me gone astray, stay on the line your religion to yourself,' - how far-flung do you display to despise public figure to not proselytize?"
"How far-flung do you display to despise public figure to sense that everlasting life is within your capabilities, and not cry them that?"I element this later than I speech about evangelization.
Shield Penn for yourself:
Wicca 102 A M I D S U M M E R Celebration
In calculation to the four great
festivals of the Pagan Celtic go out with,
dowry are four drop holidays as
well: the two solstices, and the two
equinoxes. In folklore, these are
referred to as the four quarter-days
of the go out with, and modern Witches sturdy
them the four Beginner Sabbats, or the
four Low Holidays. The Summer
Solstice is one of them.
Justly, a solstice is an
superior peak and, due to the
instruct to the equinox, the generation
may breadth by a few days depending on
the go out with. The summer solstice occurs
as soon as the sun reaches the Tropic of
Swelling, and we undergo the video
day and the absolute night of the
go out with. Astrologers know this as the
generation on which the sun enters the sign
of Swelling. This go out with it spur be present at
10:57 pm CDT on June 21st.
However, in the role of most European
peasants were not excellent at
reading an ephemeris or did not defer
fiasco sufficient to Salisbury Strict to
trot glossed to Stonehenge and catch sight of down
its pitch network, they famous the
party on a categorically calendar generation, June
24th. The skinny be successful disorder
of the traditional generation is the consequences
of immeasurable calendrical changes
down by the ages. It is
like to the winter solstice
celebration, which is astronomically
on or about December 21st, but is
famous on the traditional generation of
December 25th, Yule, with adopted by
the Christians.
Once more, it must be remembered that
the Celts reckoned their days from
day's end to day's end, so the June 24th
celebrations actually begin on the
first day's end (our June 23rd).
This was Shakespeares Midsummer
Nights Eve. Which brings up dissimilar
point: our modern calendars are totally
beside yourself in telltale that summer
begins on the solstice. According to
the old folk calendar, summer BEGINS
on May Day and ends on Lammas (Admired
1st), with the summer solstice, halfway
between the two, marking MID-summer.
This makes especially logical revere than
telltale that summer begins on the
day as soon as the suns power begins to
damage and the days make for shorter.
Other than our Pagan intimates
maybe selected June 24th (and
incontestably most European folk festivals
today use this generation), the sensibility
of modern Witches seems to aid the
actual solstice peak, beginning the
celebration at sundown. Once more, it
gives modern Pagans a catalog of dates
to emissary from with, hopefully, a
weekend fixed in it. (And this
go out with, the moon is waxing in this area.)
As the Pagan mid-winter
celebration of Yule was adopted by
Christians as Christmas (December
25th), so too the Pagan mid-summer
celebration was adopted by them as the
festival of John the Baptist (June 24th).
Occurring 180 degrees cool on the
rattle of the go out with, the mid-winter
celebration commemorates the genesis of
Jesus, however the mid-summer
celebration commemorates the genesis of
John, the prophet who was instinctive six
months before Jesus in order to
insist his restore.
This be in power fineness is awfully
garish, in that John is the Right
saint in the total Catholic
hagiography whose festival day is a
commemoration of his genesis, rather
than his death. A time ago,
Catholic nuns were loving of explaining
that a saint is commemorated on the
anniversary of his or her death
so it was really a genesis happening
the Disembark of Heaven. But John the
Baptist, the only immunity, is
moral commemorated on the
anniversary of his genesis happening THIS
world. Other than this makes no revere
viewed from a Christian position,
it makes appear expressive revere from the
remain motionless of Pagan symbolism.
In most Pagan cultures, the sun
god is seen as topic between two even
personalities: the god of light and
his magnify, his imitation, his other
self, the god of murk. They are
Gawain and the Green Knight, Gwyn and
Gwythyr, Llew and Goronwy, Lugh and
Balor, Balan and Balin, the Holly Ruler
and the Oak Ruler, etc. On a regular basis they are
depicted as combat drifter battles
for the bear of their goddess/lover,
such as Creiddylad or Blodeuwedd, who
represents Formation.
The god of light is ad infinitum instinctive at
the winter solstice, and his yarn
waxes with the lean-to days, until
the go along with of his primary power, the
summer solstice, the video day.
And, daydream a relate to in a mirror, his
shadow self, the lord of murk,
is instinctive at the summer solstice, and
his yarn waxes with the
lean-to nights until the go along with of
his primary power, the winter
solstice, the video night.
Oblique chronicle taking sides this
mirror-birth pattern is strongest in
the Christianized form of the Pagan
myth. Innumerable writers, from Robert
Graves to Stewart Farrar, be the owner of
evenly sudden out that Jesus was
established with the Holly Ruler, however
John the Baptist was the Oak Ruler.
That is why, of all the vegetation that
are in the wood, the Holly tree bears
the cover. If the genesis of Jesus,
the light of the world, is
famous at mid-winter, Christian
folk tradition insists that John the
Oak Ruler was instinctive (rather than died)
at mid-summer.
It is at this peak that I must
area office from the celebration of Robert
Graves and other writers who be the owner of
followed him. Graves believes that at
midsummer, the Sun Ruler is slain by
his even, the God of Darkness; respectable
as the God of Sinister is, in turn,
slain by the God of Emaciated at
midwinter. And yet, in Christian folk
tradition (derivative from the not getting any younger
Pagan strain), it is births, not
deaths, that are associate with the
solstices. For the festival of John the
Baptist, this is all the especially
garish, as it breaks the system
on all other saints.
So if births are associate with
the solstices, as soon as do the perfunctory
deaths occur? Because does Goronwy slay
Llew and as soon as does Llew, in his turn,
slay Goronwy? Because does murk
undergo light or light undergo
darkness? Overtly (to me, at
least), it must be at the two
equinoxes. At the autumnal equinox,
the hours of light in the day are
eclipsed by the hours of murk. At
the vernal equinox, the track is
upside down. Very, the autumnal equinox,
called Gather Homeland, is or else
associate with price, particularly
that of the spirit of strand or
plants. In this case, the god of
light would be total.
In Welsh mythology in particular,
dowry is a extraordinary account of
the drifter pole of the sun
gods death, the denotation of which
occurred to me in a in mint condition dream, and
which I havent seen worried. Llew
is the Welsh god of light, and his
name utilitarian lion. (The lion is steadily
the symbol of a sun god.) He is
betrayed by his virgin husband
Blodeuwedd, happening standing with one
fall on the rim of a cauldron and the
other on the back of a goat. It is
unattached in this way that Llew can be
killed, and Blodeuwedds enthusiast,
Goronwy, Llews dark self, is loss
near with a twig at the full-grown. But
as Llew is struck with it, he is not
killed. He is relatively renewed
happening an eagle.
Putting this in the form of a
Bardic hitch, it would go something
daydream this: Who can purchase in what
weather conditions the Lion (Llew), betrayed by
the Virgin (Blodeuwedd), floating on the
Yield, is renewed happening an Eagle?
My readers who are astrologers are
maybe or else panting in
awareness. The set is
astrological and in good order: Leo
(lion), Virgo (virgin), Libra
(lean), and Scorpio (for which the
eagle is a recognized alternative
symbol). Very, the throw away icons,
cauldron and goat, possibly will arguably
illustrate Swelling and Capricorn,
on behalf of summer and winter, the
signs beginning with the two solstice
points. So Llew is committed between
cauldron and goat, between summer and
winter, on the lean (Libra) peak
of the autumnal equinox.
This, of course, is the work out to
a together Bardic hitch. Persistently,
the Mabinogion tells us that Llew
must be standing with one fall on the
cauldron and one fall on the goats
back in order to be killed. But
nowhere does it purchase us why. Why is
this particular marker the Right one
in which Llew can be overcome?
Seeing that it represents the equinox
peak. And the equinox is the unattached
time of the total go out with as soon as light
(Llew) can be overcome by murk
(Goronwy).
It prerequisite now come as no shock
that, as soon as it is time for Llew to kill
Goronwy in his turn, Llew insists that
Goronwy stands anywhere he once stood
however he (Llew) casts the twig. This
is no tarn vindictiveness on Llews
part. For, notwithstanding the Mabinogion
does not say so, it prerequisite by now be
apparent that this is the unattached time
as soon as Goronwy can be overcome. Emaciated
can overcome murk unattached at the
equinox -- this time the vernal
equinox.
So Midsummer (to me, at least) is
a celebration of the sun god at his
maximum, a crowned king on his throne.
He is at the alongside of his yarn
and tranquil 1/4 of a go out with in another place from his
ritual death at the hands of his
even. The twig and the cauldron
be the owner of steadily been used as symbols for
this holiday and it prerequisite now be easy
to see why. Sun gods are close
ad infinitum associate with spears (even
Jesus is pierced by one), and the
midsummer cauldron of Swelling is a
symbol of the Idol in her wealth.
It is an bonus beautiful time of
the go out with for an outdoor celebration.
May yours be magical!
Reference: wicca-teachings.blogspot.com
Friday 22 August 2014
Saints Damian The Presbyter And Healer Jeremiah And Matthew Clairvoyants Of The Kiev Caves Near Caves
COMMEMORATED ON OCTOBER 5
Saints Damian the Presbyter and Healer, Jeremiah and Matthew, Clairvoyants of the Kiev Caves, Close to Caves, were described by St Nestor the Reporter (October 27).St Damian (+1071) remembered the Christening of Rus (in day 988). The tough faker of St Theodosius (May 3) was low, diligent and obedient, to the joy of all the brethren. He deceased the sum night at prayer and reading the Blessed Scriptures. St Damian was simple in fasting, and ate zero but cash and water. The Lady compensated him with the gift of treating ailments.
St Jeremiah had the gift of the Lady to see now the superior, and to see now the in shape leave behind of a personality. He died at an old age (+ ca. 1070).
In the Iconographers' Guide it says, "Matthew has the cause of a telepathic Most important, with a black greyish facial hair like Vlas, in black klobuk, a monastic robe, hands encouraged to the mortal."
The broad troparion to these saints is: "Your hearts were sophisticated with the light of Christ's commandments, and you dispelled the fear faintness. Suppose an semi-detached of the Trinity, from whom we haul grace, O Fathers Damian, Jeremiah and Matthew, you heal the on its last legs, and you state formally the superior in the communion with the angels, We pray you to intercede with Christ God to cause to us the communion of the saints."
They are likewise commemorated on September 28 and the blink Sunday of Colossal Lent.
SOURCE:
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Thursday 21 August 2014
The Face Of Reform
I was directly complex with the Legionaries for a aspiration time. I began departure on retreats with them in the 9th score, was leading a segment of their ECYD petty group by the time I was in the 11th score, and previously working as a contract at a summer base put forward, I attended The Highlands Line in Irving, Texas for my upper day. At the Highlands, I was not simply a scholar, but a lessee - the simply one at the time - and I lived in community with the priests, brother, and "co-workers" (full-time volunteers who outlive in Legionary communities) for the life span of the school day.
I was the surpass juvenile man's Regnum Christi alliance boss in the Location States (or so I was told. One never knows what they'll say to build you up.) I did proponent work with them in the Bahamas, Texas, Mexico, New York, Canada, and directly laid the labor for and led the surpass business they did in Miami, Florida. I skilled 7th and 8th score religion at their Pinecrest Academy in Atlanta, seeing that I dead my own time as a "frequent" previously High Line start. I even dead a few days in the institution done one summer, previously the judge's assistant territorial overseer at the time told me he "knew" I had a vocation "the surpass time" he saw me. (Gleefully for me, it didn't raft.) [...]
I knew that guild were creature lied to, maltreatment, slandered, and in the end diluted by their give away with the Militia. I saw good Catholics go frenetic upon deviation from the inner shape of the Militia and Regnum Christi, even lose their possibility. At all classify of debauchery of chaste Catholicism was patent. I was trustworthy that public were ready to conduct they had vocations they didn't clutch. And I knew, past a doubt, that the Legionary proposal to the Trust was Machiavellian and deep. Yet even as I became little by little convinced that no matter which was resiliently moldy at the serious of "the drive" - a rot I became irrefutable had to be traced to the founder - I had never directly seen any draw that things were as repulsively life-threatening as they actually were. I saw the offshoot things, but was all-but-completely innocent of the real investigate cook of the blot. [...]
Altered mail I standard recently revealed that this enormously Legionary priest is commentary RC members in his hole that what is modish with the Vatican moderate now are truly "tweaks" to the Militia.
These reports lack absolute collaboration, and as such should be in a meeting with the impound filament of salt. They are, subdue, true to form not simply as relates to my own experiences, but likewise to information I'm test from guild always complex with the order or the lay drive. Donate is a die-hard serious that seems constitutionally disallowed to conduct that this seminary which is at the very principal of their lives is for the most part soiled, and in that way condition be for the most part new.
Warmly, I've dead too faraway time on the in the field of to conduct a innovation is extremely impending. "Adjustment" during the introductory philosophy and comfort of the drive is perhaps the farthest awareness of any Legionary. Not good enough no matter which extremely substantive to coins the notion, writings, and persona of the founder, I can't meditate put forward life-force be enough to show the order together in the sophisticated.
You really surround to read the whole thing; the excerpts I've posted stylish photo an attention, but minus the whole portion one impose easily drive out what's stylish as the "unpleasant grapes" of someone who not here the Militia a aspiration time ago--and it has been my sip that inhabitants in the Militia are very good at law decent that whenever they join substantive ticking off.
But what Skojec writes is powerful and true. How do you reformation an order when some of its members are even now claiming to be animated a murmur of refrain from that the pope went out of his way to say that their vocations are real and their charism is true (even if it desires to be redefined) and that the wonderful work of the Militia and Regnum Christi and the Current is so very, very deadly to Christ and to His Church and to the Holy Commence that even while their founder has been confirmed to surround lived a life "...devoid of scruples and of precise priestly bend..." the pope has generally safe them that they are to suffer, apart from the real and inside and distasteful sorrowful they are heavy-duty moderate now that everyone (salvage inhabitants jealous dead of Maciel) seems to understand, in that Piquant Strand of the Militia and the Movement?
I presume the Militia is creature identifiable a grotesque, here--that is, that being priests and lay members of the Militia are creature identifiable a grotesque to start an actual priestly order. Since that order life-force be called, what its charism life-force be, or what it life-force even gaze think is very faraway in insecurity at this knowledge. But a new order hopeful out of the old one can simply transpire if inhabitants in the field of the order disown, austerely and minus looking back, not simply Maciel himself, but every aspect of their lives, formation, spirituality and disciplines which came now from him--and that can't transpire so aspiration as the members themselves presume they can remove Maciel by a sea graze, think the removal of an unpleasant and distasteful ingrown toenail, fairly of by never-ending treatments of radiation, think the spiritual scourge he not here unhurried calls for.
Now, as I've thought prohibited, I do presume that the announcement by the Vatican is a very good start: the disorderliness of the speech, the removal of any of the "shameless passageway" superficiality in regard to Maciel, and peak essentially the spelling out of a penury for a redefined charism are all very nifty signs. But the statement's peak deadly aspect is that assignation of a papal illustrative to lead the Militia. We won't know how thriving any attempt at reorganization of the order life-force be until we see how the illustrative profit, and what steps are in a meeting to remove the stigma from the minds of inhabitants who always, while they impose separate from it even to themselves, chase Maciel.
Since would reformation gaze like? That is, what would a extremely improved Militia of Christ (under new spend, and credibly with a out of the ordinary name) gaze like?
I surround a few thinking. Decided, some of these may come across as flippant; but they're not hypothetical to be. Part who knows how persuasive the Militia was of the smallest inventory of seminarians' and priests' lives understands this. So, in no agreed order--reformed Militia priests:
--would interleave men of ordinary achieve from broke families, to a faraway over cut than now (not so visit of what some female Catholics sometimes good-naturedly summon "Commence Whatashame," for instance);
--would be able to part their hair any darned way they wanted to, or not at all;
--would be seen, publicly, eating apples or nuts minus the use of utensils;
--would surround prayerbooks and devotional customs that were not "Militia particular" but that included the spiritual traditions and devotions which all Catholics share;
--would be competent of having a address with lay Catholics, strangely strong ones, minus asking for donations;
--would be competent of having a address with lay Catholics minus bothersome to glug them for Regnum Christi, or to glug any of their children for the Legion;
--would not protest march any egotism, nor use any phrases about how yardstick the order is, how faraway the pope loves the order, or how the Militia is the healthiest priestly order around;
--would protest march grief and contamination during the sins of the founder and during the discomfort of his visit victims;
--would be unfaltering to the cook of plaza regeneration for inhabitants dead, even if that hypothetical closing Militia schools or other apostolates and "downsizing" plentiful works in order to equivalent this commandment of justice;
--would be a short time ago in compliance to diocesan bishops, and would neither enjoy for themselves, nor for the members of Regnum Christi, any description of special believe as creature in some way "elder" than all inhabitants unlimited run-of-the-mill, Vatican II, happy-clappy, guitar-playing/On Eagles' Wings live Catholics;
--would gently have the funds for their help in parishes, and would pursue Regnum Christi members to do the enormously, commentary them not to start "reading" priestly tuition or petty group efforts, but to extend with the existing area structures...
...and that's plaza for starters, and doesn't interleave what I presume require to be a central hole bring in which a moratorium on employment for both the Militia and Regnum Christi require to be unnatural, amid other things.
In the function of Steve Skojec, I can't really fathom any of this coming to obsolete. I presume that on one occasion these sorts of reforms--and I'm entrenched visit best quality life-force be instituted, as well--start to be put in place by whomever the pope appoints as the papal illustrative in charge of the Militia, we life-force see visit, visit Militia priests and lay Regnum Christi members quietly flaw vetoed from the order. Pocket inhabitants things particular to the Militia which Maciel instituted and in which Militia members always air, to me, to undertake an awful measure of egotism, and you surround removed the Militia. That's not to say that a fine priestly order impose not eventually puff up up out of the ruins--in fact, if meekness, thanks on the way to the dead of sexual abuse, and a hope to aid in the business of sticky parishes were to characterize this new order I presume it impose surround a just grotesque of achievement. But how visit of inhabitants in a jiffy in the Militia life-force carry on such a new and out of the ordinary classify of vocation?
Sunday Law Being Embraced In Europe
THE Making FROM BERLIN
'EVEN ATHEISTS Reliance TO Swap OFF ON SUNDAYS'REUTERS
Shoppers progress involving illuminated Christmas streamers in a shopping open space at Berlin's Potsdamer Platz.
GERMANY'S Confirmation Square HAS RULED THAT SUNDAY Necessity BE Cool AS A DAY OF Break AND HAS Wrong way up A BERLIN LAW Let-up Limits ON SUNDAY SHOPPING. Highest GERMAN Force ON WEDNESDAY Pick up THE Resolve, One FOR REASONS OF Theology AND Knowledge, OTHERS OUT OF A Spring FOR WORKERS' Custody.
Multiple companionship to Germany can find themselves standing away from a stopped up arm store, baffled to find that they cannot do a bit of shopping modish their weekend trip. This is a track of Germany's long-held cover to Sunday shopping even in the wall of surfacing consumerism.
Yet copious of Germany's 16 states stow in advance finished some exceptions, allowing stores to open a few Sundays a court. And in Berlin the city government had gone the far away in chipping not permitted at the ban on Sunday trading. In 2006 the German capital gave the green light for retailers to open on 10 Sundays a court, plus the four Arrival Sundays forgotten Christmas.
Other than, Germany's Constitutional Square has now upheld a trouble finished by the country's Catholic and Protestant churches, based on a piece in the German formation that Sunday could do with be a day of rest and "spiritual bank."
The square on Tuesday contracted in alter of the churches, saying that Sunday opening could do with not spurt place four weeks in a row. The declaration determination not disquiet shopping this December, but would come indoors ghoul bordering court. Other than, the declaration did not overturn truthful the theory of constrained Sunday store opening.
The drudgery unions had coupled the churches in their plunge to ring-fence Sunday as a day off for the nation. Other than, their trip was not on defensive the literal to practise religion, but incredible on defensive belabor in the business sharing out from having to work on Sundays, sometimes the absolutely day they rule get to consumption with other members of their policy. The services fusion Verdi greeted Tuesday's declaration with "dispensing and joy," saying this was a set off to shopworkers and their families.
German papers on Wednesday are seriously in alter of the declaration, period their reasons for opinionated the court's decision are noticeably reverse.
The center-right FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG writes:
"The Constitutional Square had to capture the Berlin law.... The judgement was not forward of certain with reality,' as the Berlin Sanctum of Occupational claims, but is actually very the minute in certain with real life. The prevailing picking of working lives brings with it the fact that members of a individualistic policy are forced indoors reverse and sometimes conflicting working hours. If the own does not use some of its dictatorial power to endow with a resolute lingo to at least one free day -- and that is heavenly Sunday -- subsequently the policy faces the pain in the neck of individual pulled into the open diffident."
"If they stow no time with each other and for each other, subsequently the endorsed swanky of belonging together loses kindness. This peril faces copious families in association.... The fact that in the wall of surfacing commercialization and a lesser amount of jobs miniature any pass ever dares to ask for a free Saturday, led the drudgery unions to dose the churches in their plunge -- with evident success."
The conservative DIE Mark writes:
"The churches stow argued satisfactory that staff in the business sharing out are not individual the fate of organizing their Arrival Sundays according to Christian principles: departure to church, individual complicated in the community, in concert and reading aloud. It is part of accounting permit to be helpful to do these matter."
"The jury did not chastely endorse the branch off of time splashed by Christianity, but overly the necessity for this branch off. Nearby is no flimsiness about this thesis lingo. We run as extroverted plants are responsibility bound and properly in separating our time together. It is good to stow free time together, it helps us to deferment as the extroverted beings that we are."
The center-left S"uDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG writes:
"The judgement sounds out of date, maddeningly unmodern and pretty boss. It tells associates to the same extent they are representative to shop, and to the same extent they are not. It makes shopping on a Sunday an discharge. It is a declaration that goes wary the lucrative radical "zeitgeist" and is a declaration wary the round-the-clock commercialization of life."
"Yet, the declaration is benevolently. It is an act in alter of the community spirit.... Family who over and over again go shopping on Sundays today determination stow to work over and over again on Sundays tomorrow."
"It may intense old shaped but it is heavenly correct: Sunday is Sunday in the function of it is several other days. This is not about tradition or religion or a extroverted heritage. Sunday is senior than chastely a day off for community. It that were so, subsequently it wouldn't theme if someone took a day off on Tuesday or Thursday. It is a day to scenery association, that is what makes it so tedious. Lacking Sunday, every day would be a working day and a tricky pinnacle in the week would vanish. Of course in attendance can be exceptions, in attendance stow continually been different professions who work on Sundays. But to the same extent the discharge becomes the absolute, subsequently the commercialization of Sundays determination not end at the arm stores."
"The square has individual a person the literal to a day off on Sundays. You don't stow to spurt it. Each one can do what they for instance with it. But it is good to stow it."
The Efficient Time DEUTSCHLAND writes:
"The declaration by the Constitutional Square has revived the electric debate about opening hours of shops on Sundays. That vanished is blasted. But even senior blasted is that with its strong mass on the mentally based day of rest on Sunday, it is invasive in limitation and lucrative permit."
"Lacking a touch the permit to practise religion is of prevailing kindness. Other than, in an with time worldly association with senior and senior individualized rhythms of living, it seems an anachronism for the country's highest square to use business of all matter to remain the day of rest."
"In the community debate in attendance is too detailed edge of the permit of shop owners to have clientele passing through opening on Sundays, who would previous to order online. And the permit of towns to use Sunday opening hours to attract tourists. Or the permit of clientele to find for themselves if they would incredible consumption Sundays amidst the crowds in the shopping malls or walking in the forest."
"Appreciating these position does not mean throwing not permitted the put in at to the knack god of consumerism. It channel allowing a debate... about what Sunday really channel to us. That includes defensive the position of salespeople, paying them supplement for working on Sundays and not putting guise under impact to work on Sunday."
"If this is achieved, subsequently it is high time that Sunday opening hours are no longer discussed in qualifications of belief but faithfully."
The left-leaning DIE TAGESZEITUNG, which is based in Berlin, writes:
"Sunday as a day off is a prevailing gift. The treadmill is stopped up for 24 hours. The square has individual put, rest and sacred bank rank higher the yen for consequence and the literal to a bargain hunter fix. Other than, it finished it snappish in its declaration that Sunday was not chastely for those who wanted to practise their religion calm. It is overly to fake cards, go for a progress or with the sole purpose to lie around disk-shaped. On one occasion all even the strictest nonconformist wishes the switching off that Sundays allow."
"-- Siobh'an Dowling"
"Source:http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,664754,00.html"
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Wednesday 20 August 2014
Crystal Sphere
THE Gem Diverge
Nearby was past an enchantress, who had three sons who esteemed each other as brothers, but the old beast did not character them, and tinge they delightful to steal her power from her. So she misrepresented the eldest all the rage an eagle, which was obliged to halt briefly in the enormous mountains, and smoothly was seen carried by the wind in stalwart circles in the sky. The twinkle, she misrepresented all the rage a fabrication, which lived in the strong sea, and all that was seen of it was that it sometimes spouted a stalwart jet of water all the rage the air. All of them switch off his possible form for in a minute two hours manuscript. The third son, who was apprehensive she may possibly regulation him all the rage a raging strong beast--a stand perhaps, or a wolf, went in secret on sale. He had heard that a King's kid who was bewitched, was confined in the Fortress of the Yellow Sun, and was waiting to be set free. Persons, allay, who tried to free her risked their lives; three-and- twenty youths had more willingly than died a insufficient death and now in a minute one other may possibly make the come near to, previously which no better-quality necessary come. And as his human being was without mind, he made up his core to crave out the Fortress of the Yellow Sun. He had more willingly than traveled about for a desire time without crux gifted to find it, because he came by optimism all the rage a stalwart forest, and did not know the way out of it. All at past he saw in the freedom two giants, who made a sign to him with their hands, and because he came to them they said, "We are quarreling about a cap, and which of us it is to belong to, and as we are for instance strong, neither of us can get the partisan of the other. The soothing men are cleverer than we are, so we ghost move away the clearance to you.""How can you fight about an old cap?" said the young people.
"You do not know what properties it has! It is a wishing-cap; whosoever puts it on, can wish himself on sale somewhere he likes, and in an period he ghost be submit."
"Present me the cap," said the young people. "I ghost go a instruct freedom off, and because I touchtone phone you, you necessary run a silhouette, and the cap shall belong to the one who gets chief to me." He put it on and went on sale and tinge of the King's kid, forgot the giants, and walked forever onwards. At coil he sighed from the base of his human being, and cried: "Ah, if I were but at the Fortress of the Yellow Sun," and sick had these words passed from his chops than he was standing on a high barrage ahead the get into of the stronghold.
He entered and went through all the rooms, until in the seep he found the King's kid. But how astounded he was because he saw her! She had an ashen-gray lid full of wrinkles, dizzy eyes, and red hair. "Are you the King's kid, whose beauty the whole world praises?" cried he.
"Ah," she answered, "this is not my form; possible eyes can in a minute see me in this perceive of ugliness, but that you may know what I am expensive, exterior in the mirrorit does not let itself be misledit ghost reveal you my image as it is in truth." She gave him the mirror in his hand, and he saw therein the resemblance of the highest first-rate maiden on earth, and saw, too, how the howl were heaving down her cheeks in guilt. Later said he:
"How can you be set free? I mind no care."
She said, "He who gets the crystal enclose, and holds it ahead the enchanter, ghost beat his power with it, and I shall resume my true quadrangle. Ah," she extra, "so heap exert more willingly than gone to fuse death for this, and you are so young; I disconcert that you ought to run into such stalwart care."
"Nonentity can hold me from law it," said he, "but hand over me what I necessary do."
"You shall know everything," said the King's kid. "In the same way as you get out of the barrage on which the stronghold stands, a strong bull ghost stand underneath by a spring and you necessary crusade with it and if you exert the luck to assassinate it, a warmhearted bird ghost spring out of it, which bears in its greater part a scorching egg, and in the egg the crystal area lies as its yolk.
The bird, allay, ghost not let the egg fall until obliged to do so. And if it flow on the opening, it ghost flame up and shine everything that is wrap up, and even the egg itself ghost break up, and with it the crystal area and later all your difficulty ghost exert been in full of yourself."
The young people went down to the spring, everyplace the bull snorted and bellowed at him.
In the rear a desire fight he plunged his sword in the animal's greater part and it crush down.
At present, a warmhearted bird arose from it and was about to fly on sale, but the recyclable man's brother, the eagle, who was fleeting improved between the haze, swooped down, sought after it on sale to the sea, and struck it with its beak until, in its toughness, it let the egg fall. The egg, allay, did not fall all the rage the sea, but on a fisherman's hut which stood on the shoreline.
The hut began at past to gas and was about to break all the rage let off. Later arose in the sea side as high as a legislative body, which streamed once again the hut and peaceful the fire. The other brother, the fabrication, had come swimming to them, and had incited the water up on high. In the same way as the fire was extinguished, the young people sought after for the egg and gladly found it.
It was not yet melted, but the open fire on was broken by crux so abruptly calm with water, and he possibly will receive out the crystal area intact.
In the same way as the young people went to the enchanter and supposed it ahead him, the enchanter said, "My power is devastated, and from this time forth you are the Ruler of the Fortress of the Yellow Sun. In the same way as this you can in the same way give back to your brothers their possible form." Later the young people hastened to the King's kid, and because he entered the room, she was standing submit in the full maintain of her beauty. Joyously they exchanged rings with each other and lived on together in the Fortress of the Yellow Sun for as desire as I can hand over.
Tuesday 19 August 2014
Are Christians Supposed To Judge Others Heres Why Only Fools Dont
I take in prior in black and white on this subject...way back in 2006. In the draw of succinctness, help yourself to time to read Who Are You To Judge? the same as you get a walk off.
Maintain week, we did a ministry outreach at a concert called "The Greeting of the Jugaloes." I am not an virtuous on the Jugaloes. According to the Built-up Word list a jugalo is "an bad-mannered and flexible idiot."
Jugalo is as well the name prearranged to the entourage of the group Insane Con artist Stretch. Absolve me for appearing to be so unfavorable, but my preference has educated me that top figure of the entourage are "lost"-or at minimum non-Christians. This class is based on my own first-hand, eye-witness preference overdue having spent an undivided afternoon appealing in language with host of the "Jugs".
Contented go into with methis option be forlorn and tranquil.
Just the once the weekend was utter, I posted on my Facebook page pictures of some of the "Jugs" I had a language with. Numerous my page and read how host are stern me of focal point "unfavorable" by far being I posted the pictures. The "Jugs" were, in fact, successful of their costumes.
The God-haters take in mechanized us "not to identify," in the role of all they do is identify. The austerely thing that is deliberate phony in America anymore is "judging." Self-described Christians are the critical at stern others of judging, in the role of they themselves identify others for judging. (Are you at the back of my logic here?)
Judging is a good thingdespite what Rachel Maddow saysdespite what your pastor has told youdespite what your Facebook friends deposit with you. Judging posture and get-up is a prune thing.
Hey private, austerely fools don't identify. (Go back and read the getting on fixation I mentioned abovethe one you hadn't hectic the time to open.) Judging can line up you ingenuous. Judging can line up you from making bad decisions. Judging can line up your seek out out of hell.
So at home is a follow up probe for you brain-dead, public-school former students, and for Christians who work for a seeker-sensitive church. This is very simple. Expected yet you maybe don't know somebody who is featured in this probe, it is crucial that you make a desire based austerely upon the information provided.
Ready? Your prejudice is about to be vulnerable. In vogue we go.
If you were looking for someone to babysit your valuable 3 meeting old daughter, who would you choose?
Which characteristic would you working group as your economic adviser?
Which characteristic would you fee to be your spiritual adviser?
Which women would you selected to be your child's school teacher?
Which religion appears to be top figure peaceful?
How did you do? If you picked "A" every time, you discharge good class. If you picked "B", you are a threat to fraternity. Everybody judges, but austerely the in charge astonishment focal point judged.
Isaiah 59:14-15 "And class is turned notwithstanding hind, and legality standeth a lot off: for truth has fallen in the streets and equity cannot crucial. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, "AND IT Disappointed HIM THAT Contemporary WAS NO Difficulty"."
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Top 10 Spiritual Truths We Werent Taught In School
SOURCE - WAKING TIMES
What would our world be like today of these top 10 spiritual truths were taught in our schools, in the mainstream media, and in our history books? How can we change the system to introduce these topics to our future generations? What will the world be like after successfully recognizing these spiritual truths?1. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Before we came down into this physical body, we planned out the point in time that we would begin to awaken to who and what we are. The womb of our mother was the tunnel of forgetting, and we knew the challenge of remembering would be tough. The biggest risk we took was never remembering. We were never disconnected from our source of light, however the connection was stretched very long and thin to reach this part of the universe in density. Our challenge is to strengthen this connection and to grow our pillar of light in remembrance and recognition of who we truly are.
2. Our souls never die- we just change our focus. As a spark of light from Source, we are infinitely connected to the flow of experience. When it is time to disconnect the cord of life from our physical body, our spark rises up and out of the human physical body. We take the experience of our lifetime with us, but our focus is changed to a slightly different level of vibration. We still exist as the person we were in human form as well as the many people we have been before. Every lifetime builds experience and wisdom.
3. Everything is energy vibrating at a certain frequency. All living things on earth have consciousness, even rocks and trees. Every-thing and every-one is connected to a "tree of life" or an infinite energy source. We can connect to the consciousness of trees and rocks and can carry on conversations with them by tuning in to their particular vibrational frequency. Our bodies are 90% water and can be programmed and molded to a certain vibrational frequency via thoughts, sound, color, and love. When we understand vibration, we can understand how alternative and holistic treatments can cure any disease or ailment in the body by changing the water vibration.
4. Our thoughts create our reality. All thoughts are energy which manifest into what we see as reality. Always being aware of your thoughts is one of the first steps in responsible co-creation of your reality. It is a simple concept but takes awareness and work. If every person on earth changed their thoughts towards peace and freedom there would be no war or tyranny. Focusing on negative thoughts will create a lower vibrational frequency and focusing on positive thoughts can raise the vibrational frequency. Our reality is a manifestation of what we create through thought patterns.Read more >>
Crafts For Litha
As a witch, having your own magical herb garden can be a very rewarding experience. The best way to do it, is to choose two or three herbs to grow. Dont overwhelm yourself by choosing many different herbs. Not all herbs will grow wonderfully in every environment. So you also have to do a little research to see what grows well in your part of the world. For example, I love lavender, so naturally, I've tried growing lavender many times. But unfortunately, it just doesn't grow well where I live. So this year, I decided to grow herbs that I know will work! I had to let go of my "home grown lavender" experiment. Although, I'm very excited because I do get to have mugwort, basil and white sage growing in my magical garden now!
Once you've chosen your herbs, make sure you have pots and soil to plant everything. The best way to grow from seed, is to germinate the seeds first. You can do this by wetting some paper towels (make sure they are thoroughly wet) and place the seeds in between the wet paper towels. As soon as they sprout, don't wait to long, plant them in your pots. Now, if you want to add a little magic to your seeds, you can recite a quick incantation while planting them. Like "Goddess, bless these seeds with your powers of creation, and watch over them as they grow into strong and powerful herbs this summer season". Or, you can form your seeds into a
magical symbol in the soil, so that when they grow, so does your wish. For example, you can fancy your seeds in the pot into a rune symbol. The rune Sowilo, which looks like the letter S or a lightning bolt, stands for success, health and achieving your goals. Place your seeds in the soil in the shape of the Sowilo rune, and watch your success grow!
For a list of all the runes, check out: Rune meanings
Now that you have started your very own magical herb garden, you can also make magical herb sachets, or herb dream pillows. Make sure once you harvest your herbs, you dry them first. Then you can grind them with your mortar and pestle, and make all sorts of herbal creations.
To make a dream pillow, check out these instructions: EHow.com, this site also gives you all the magical meanings for all the herbs. You can also add a crystal or some essential oil to your dream pillow for added energy. Make sure that when using your dream pillow, you jot down your dreams as well.
I hope you enjoy making your Litha crafts in preparation for the upcoming Summer Solstice!
Photo courtesy of Morgaine Du Mer"
Tourreview Rogues Pawn By Jeffe Kennedy
Title: Rogue's PawnAuthor: Jeffe KennedySeries: Split of Thorns #1Publisher: Carina PressPublished: July 16th2012
Book Class
This is no fairy fable...
Ethereal by nightmares of a black dog, shoddily to death of my wearying occupational and heart-numbing fianc'e, I impulsively walked out of my life-and fell in vogue Faerie. Dire, fascinated, I lead I embrace a power I can't control: my requirements come true. Once an all-too-real go by the animal from my dreams, I kindle to find individually the jailbird of the seductive and ruthless fae lord Baddie. In return for my recoup, he stress an too expensive price-my firstborn child, which he intends to sire himself...
Amongst no daydream of break out this world, I hardship learn to tie my magic and build a new life despite the consequences the perils-including my own enigmatic and weakening want for Baddie. I assert I decision never cave in to his stress, no significance what erotic badger he subjects me to...
MY Appraisal
With I began this book I was a bit twisted by it. The prime reckon Jennifer/Gwynn seems to be at a loose end level the beginning of the book. She doesn't tinkle to be making her own decisions but is guided by another immerse yourself. With I read further in vogue the story, I started to stick together addition with Gwynn as she had a lot to deal with in the Faerie world. The follow became really boiling and it really sucked me in vogue the foolish world of wealthy faeries!
Jennifer (her name on earth) or Gwynn (the name they use in faerie, which she is when all's said and done unambiguous as) is a Guru, has a boyfriend and was leading a simple life until one night she wandered to Devil's Intensification. She has been drawn to the scope and after staying the night decides to look for sphere-shaped Devil's Intensification, but ends up waking in faerie. This is such as her life decision alter lastingly.
She is rescued from the hot air of the Black Dog and ends up at Member of the aristocracy Rogue's fort, everywhere he tries to help Gwynn. The powers that she possesses are unharnessed so she desires her to learn to be full of them. It is one big entrance way for her to try and arrive some be full of but her way of life depends on it. She has no friends in Faerie and no one that she trusts, so she appears fragile.
All faeries are wealthy and the ones we meet happening are no immunity. They are painstaking such as it comes to bargaining power and depart no stone unturned. So such as consideration start for Gwynn to pay back the faeries for their services to help her, everybody desires a be successful of her, not by yourself Baddie, but the healer and other Faeries too.
From happening the story gets boiling as we travel with Gwynn to start her training that can be described as anguish. I felt fixed to Gwynn from happening as we endured it all with her and I realised I really liked her. She turns out to be one solid fowl and makes me self-satisfied to be human! We aren't as unearthly as we look!
The storyline built addition the longer I read it. It became sensibly powerful and the reckon development was amazing! Gwynn goes from a simple girl to an undo and impelled organism. She has diplomacy to escape faerie and no one decision stand in her way. She has been unrestrained and has to find her own way to get what she desires. Baddie has ever been upfront with Gwynn and what he desires from her but she does her best to go across him. He is so crispy but finds Gwynn a bit of a handful and not as easy as he respect she would be. He is a chubby reckon and keeps the edge to the book what's more with his intensity and the way he can progress clique.
Repellent I found it a bizarre read and can't stop to see how Gwynn and Baddie decision annoy up the land of Faerie, they gobble unavailable on addition than they bargained for!
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From Saint Kosmas To Anastasios Of Albania
Aligned the conference responds to the foothold of the Deacon and they say with one about the "Our Switch on" in Albanian.
To my empathy come the words of the District of Epirus, Alekos Kachrimanis, behind the schedule from Ioannina, Greece to Kolikontasi, Albania anywhere the Monastery with the untreatable of Kosmas the Aitolos is.
In 1991, on one occasion Archbishop Anastasios liturgized for the first time as Patriarchal Exarch in Albania, with the tell of resurrecting the Albanian Priestly from the ashes, many Albanians were sitting cross-legged in the pews smoking and discussion.
Albania under Enver Hoxha was the first say agnostic countryside in the world, that fast mistreated Christians.
An finalize instance grew up deteriorating mature doesn't matter what about the Trite tradition and St. Kosmas, who was pinched in their land behind with his tradition.
Listening to them tell the "Our Switch on" and preceding the "I Belief" helped me be au fait with the prodigy that occurred in Albania by the illumined be seen of Anastasios.
From 1991 until today it has been an up path.
In any case the works of love towards all, regardless of religion or ancestral origin, acquaint with has remained the everlasting excessive unemotional of compatriot circles in Albania.
"DEVILS IN CASSOCKS"
The melody in the close-fitting church is fountain charged passionately, as this time characters the 300th time when the opening of St. Kosmas, who came from mainland Greece to Northern Epirus and Albania to boost the group of enslaved Christians of the Ottoman Empire, but whichever to string them, speaking about the emergency to build schools, to bring about the "fair" [giving out].
The "news" circulating these lead few days is that extreme nationalists request come from Tirana with garland to the Monastery of Saint Kosmas in order to advance, which services the Archbishop to knock all individuals who are in to preserve Albania mysterious in its atheistic earlier.
They even went so far as to release pamphlets with the image of St. Kosmas together with a photo of Archbishop Anastasios worthy "Devils in Cassocks".
They portray St. Kosmas as an anti-Albanian while he exhorted Christians to build Greek schools and to learn the Greek communication.
They deprave the words of the Saint by saying that he supposed "the Priestly is Greek", when the Archbishop explained that in a time on one occasion acquaint with were no Albanian schools, Kosmas urged the steady to learn Greek while "the Priestly is whichever in the Greek".
Furthermore, he even asked the malicious ones to analysis, how right away, on one occasion we give a lift a child who wishes to cooperate with computers to learn English, do we ask them to become American?
At the ride of "Amongst the distress of God" approaching the finalize conference comes advance to be in contact.'
I don't know Albanian, but the documented sounds of Development music to the ear helps me understand what is unusual chanted.
At the time of the irritate for the aim of the skeleton of the Saint around the church, the Archbishop raises a huge wooden incensed to the conference, lack one of individuals Kosmas planted wherever he preached, which he supposed was unchangeable to him by the Capital of Kefallonia.
In the constricted encourage of the restored Monastery the release is done and law-abiding the Archbishop behind with each one excessively begins to chant gleefully "Christ is Risen" in Albanian and Greek.
Next to me were deeply encouraged citizens of Northern Epirus. I asked them, with the period ecclesiastical knowledge I take, why "Christ is Risen" was unusual chanted in the vital of summer? They informed me that on one occasion the Archbishop first stepped improper in Albania he asked how to say "Christ is Risen" in Albanian.
He lit a candle saying "Krishti u gjall", or "Christ is Risen". The few getting on steady responded with cry in their eyes: "V"ertet u gjall" or "Unfeigned He is Risen".
"Christ is Risen" is superficial as a message of giving out for the Priestly and the population from the atheistic schedule.
This is when the time on one occasion he supposed at the religious fervor of the House of worship of the Renaissance in Tirana: "The Renaissance of Christ became the greatest pronounce symbol of our Priestly."
We keep the untreatable of the Saint which is in the close half-ruined church.
On the wall is a fresco of the "Hieromonk" which is a back issue of the pristine that was stuck-up the untreatable.
According to the Dean of the Theological Instruct of the University of Thessaloniki, Michael Tritos, this is the greatest steady emulate of the be seen of the Saint.
ANASTASIOS IS A Ability FROM GOD
At the guest assembly, women take spread out abundant treats for the pilgrims who take come such a want way. In a coming together of the Archbishop with get-together of the Grandeur, among whom was the District of Epirus and Bishops, each one federation about the emergency to end marginalization of compatriot circles in every one countries that malice line in the middle of our peoples.
In the role of unchangeable the fissure I give up them what a blessing it is for Albania to take the untreatable of St. Kosmas, and is up to them to share to the promotion of the pilgrimage to it, so it can become an attraction for pious going to places of interest.
"Belief me", I give up them, "Anastasios is a gift from God to Albania!"
I don't know how a long way away they be au fait with this. Typically we sole see the appreciate of whatever thing on one occasion we lose it.
Moreover, at one time we did not analysis him right to create him as a City of the Priestly of Greece.
Once again, maybe this was in God's set sights on. Ahead of time discarding he addresses the pilgrims from Greece.
He speaks with a indigestible elasticity that distinguishes him about the difficulties the Priestly of Albania faces and he asks us to pray for them.
We return behind the extremely path passing not later than villages with a Greek minority who were tried so a long way away trendy the go of Hoxha.
In any case our tiredness, when we were on our feet from four in the day to be on time for the liturgy whilst a five hour quarrel, we idle in Gjirokastra.
This old town that dominates on a mount is a statue of UNESCO.
This is continental architecture at its best with stone covered mansions generous it a special color.
En plot a course to the Greek-Albanian bounds, in villages anywhere we are prominent as minorities - while finalize regions, such as Korca and Himara, are precise out-of-doors the minority zone - the inscriptions are in Greek.
Our lead flight is in Dervitsani/Dervican, the stronghold of the Greek minority for whom it went sick under the lead schedule.
"Confess" says the sign in Greek to the cheek of the convergence. This is the convergence of the, until towards the end, Groundwork Member of the clergy Spyros Xerra, whom I met this day at liturgy.
We circle around the honest. It has become dark. In the cafes they are thought Greek soccer. They foothold for us to come down to baby us. We were late. They pledge us in mint condition time to baby us.
Spinning towards the bus I delight how many grow old Greece told them in mint condition time... Now the European path of Albania is the safest for the responsibility for of the Greek minority.
It request suffice for Albania to development in a rightful way and deteriorating setbacks.
"Mr. Maximus Harakopoulos is an MP of Larisa for New State, a before minister and writer."
Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
Source: asatru-religion.blogspot.com
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