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In Jesus' time the invaders were Romans yet Israelite people were the majority in Judea. The same is true of Arabs in the seventh and later centuries AD. They invaded the majority were Israelite people. Without wholesale genocide the native population remains more or less the same regardless of...
It is indeed a renunciation of the practise of lording it over others. It is not a renunciation of any economic or civil arrangement that eschews the practise of lording it over others.
As a thought that may be unknown to you, brother Arsenios, these words are spoken at every mass and are a part of the canon of the mass - the most ancient and most enduring part of the mass in the Roman Rite:
By the mystery of this water and wine [here the water is added to the wine in the...
Learn to spell by the abbreviations for the elements from the Periodic table.
BaCoN is one word from Barium, Cobalt, and Nitrogen. See what you can come up with.
In a world so rife with consumerism and in which the market place of ideas and philosophies is so filled with choices remember this before you buy into anything: Shopping is better than buying!
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Sirach 1:1-11 1 All wisdom is from the Lord God, and has always been with him, and is before all time. 2 Who has numbered the sand of the sea, and the drops of the rain, and the days of the world? Who has measured the height of heaven, and the breadth of the earth, and the depth of the abyss...
Well as much fun as discussing lemonade is and how nice a little dash of vodka in the lemonade can be we ought to return to the topic. The interface on Android phones is too unfamiliar for my 83+ year old friends who are using smart phones for the first time and it makes me wonder if the people...
Yet Jesus does compare his kingdom to worldly rulers and how worldly people behave. [42] ...“You know that those who seem to be leaders among the Gentiles dominate them, and their leaders exercise authority over them. [43] But it is not to be this way among you. Instead, whoever would become...
Agreed. The locale in which Christ lived, was born, and from which is natural parent (the Blessed Virgin Mary) was born is the middle east and the people of that region are brownish today and were back in Jesus' day when the Romans depicted them as brownish people with dark hair. Some mosaics of...
(John 13:13-15) [13] You call me Teacher and Lord, and you speak well: for so I am. [14] Therefore, if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash the feet of one another. [15] For I have given you an example, so that just as I have done for you, so also should you...
Sometimes an example is best.
(Wisdom 11:22-27) [22] Though many are strong, you alone always overcome. And who will withstand the strength of your arm? [23] For, like a tiny grain on a scale, just so is the world before you, and like a drop dew before dawn, which descends upon the earth...
The holy scriptures warn against the sins that arise from following the desires of the flesh; [19] Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, [20] the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels...
God gives salvation freely without requiring any payment and without any down-payment needed before it is received yet salvation is salvation from the consequences of sin - [19] Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, [20] the...