Posted on 03/22/2008 6:56:04 AM PDT by mkleesma
Happy Resurrection Day, indeed!
No relation to Jeremiah Wright?
yes they do...
I stopped by in the church for a few quiet moments in front of the Tabernacle.
The beauty and quiet of the Triduum is awe inspiring. As I gazed upon the crucifix I couldn't help but pity those who just don't get it.
2000 years later we still have people denying Christ. So sad....
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Oh, no ma'am...it's not the Christian church that will be toast. You've got that dangerously wrong.
In 1922 an estimated 33 million people were in danger of starvation in Soviet Russia. A story is told of Nikolai Bukharin, whom Lenin once called the “darling” of the Bolshevik Party, as head of the Communist International and Editor of the then leading newspaper, Pravda, and later in the 1930s, of Isvestia, at that time the government mouthpiece.
Tradition has it that Bukharin was sent from Moscow to Kiev to address a vast anti-God rally. For an hour he abused and ridiculed the Christian faith until it seemed as if the whole structure of belief was in ruins. Questions were invited.
An elderly priest of the Orthodox Church rose. He faced the people and gave them the ancient Easter greeting, CHRISTOS ANESTÇ EK NEKRÔN, “Christ is risen from the dead”.
Instantly the whole vast assembly rose to its feet, and the reply came back like a crash of breakers against the cliff, “ALITHOS ANESTE” - “He is risen indeed”.
http://www.archbishopofyork.org/258
The name of the website "warmplace" combined with the reference to Buffy the vampire slayer was more than enough to spook me right outta there.
I realize this is Canada, but the article says Christians in England are staying away in larger droves. What's the name of that British clown...Rowan Williams?
Wow. It's hard to believe Tony Blair would want to become a Catholic. Yikes!
It's the end of the world as we know it...I feel fine...
>>There is no hope without the resurrection of Christ.
“By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” 1 Peter 1:3<<
Shhhh, don’t make them uncomfortable with the truth!
Yesterday was Purim as well.
I love to throw people off and wish them Happy Purim. It’s a WWJD moment for me!
The fear is on the phone with customers all over the US. This goes on during Christmas also. I never noticed it with Easter until this year.
I must confess I have never heard of Purim?
Well, when they convince me that that is the way it really is, I’ll become an atheist. At least that’s an honest opinion, and no mealy-mouthed do-gooderism.
10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
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12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
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22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
What is their “core faith”? That is the question. Not faith is Christ, that is obvious.
What? Is she afraid somebody will find out she's a fraud? I would just ignore the sillly creature. Nothing stings an arrogant mind like being treated like wallpaper.
I’ve heard it is a blast! Lots of noisemakers and costumes. I read “The All of a Kind Family” to my girls and it sounds like a really good time.
This is weird...more so because I saw this next movement coming in my thoughts within the past week. I was pondering the Stations of the Cross and Good Friday and the continual erosion of Faith through the Gramscian unraveling of modern theological thought.
As far as I can make out, they don’t even come up to the level of Unitarians.
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