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4 giorni fa · “There is no joy. We have been robbed of it,” said Malakiya Salman, a 57-year-old displaced woman, now living in a tent in Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.
Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
22 ore fa · May 2024. June 20th, 2024. by Fr. Benjamin Huggins. Dear Beloved in the Lord, I offer to you these words given to us by our Father among the saints, John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople. This is the homily that is read every year in every Church during the Paschal matins service. May God grant us a joyous Paschal season as we celebrate ...
3 giorni fa · Bon-Bon’s is a coward soul. If ever there were a trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere, whose Faith does not shine equal to arm itself from Fear, Bon-Bon is such a trembler. His life has been soft as butter from the day of his birth to this. He toils not, neither does he spin; the greatest exertion life has ever required from him has been to occasionally take a ride in the car.
1 giorno fa · “That which we are, we are,” said Tennyson’s Ulysses. And that’s not nothing, so long as we still have life. We can do this together, deliberately joined in the task. There is joy in those acts, which we will carry inside despite the beast at the gates. I’d rather have that, the ability to act with courage, than live in unwarranted hope.
5 giorni fa · We must open our eyes to see. The parables invite us to learn to look, in order to see and understand God’s ways. St. Paul shares with the Corinthians his own readiness to accept the dictates of providence. He is courageous in the body but also longs to leave the body to be with the Lord. He keeps before his eyes the fact of future judgment.
5 giorni fa · As Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem prepare to celebrate Eid al-Adha, the spirit of the celebration has been significantly muted in the shadow of Israel’s ongoing onslaught against the ...
