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<i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Fr. Larry Richards is possibly the most popular priest on the internet. This uncompromising but funny priest is also the founder of the highly successful</b></span></span></span> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><a href="http://thereasonforourhope.org/" target="_blank">Reason for Our Hope Foundation</a>.</span></span></b> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In this video he highlights in his typical uncompromising way that it is all about surrender to God.</span></span></b></span></i></div>
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biggest stumbling block to Christianity after general disbelief in God.
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Man in his sufferings remains an intangible mystery. </span></b></i><br /><br /><span style="color: #e06666;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Look
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suffering begins, is ‘an intangible mystery’. Pope John Paul II does not
shy away from the difficult point that suffering is something that
humans simply will never understand. This in turn is something that the
culture will not accept because modern society will not tolerate
'mystery' and wants immediate answers. Also the answers that can be
gleaned from suffering involves inward soul searching which often means admitting to difficult realities that many people are not prepared to
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Christ does call us to search for answers as to the 'why?' of
suffering. This is difficult to understand. How can 'love' be the
'ultimate source of the meaning of suffering'? God never causes
suffering, but He sometimes allows us to experience suffering so that we
might overcome the evil that caused us to suffer in the first place. We
may be surprised to hear that this is one of the ways that God shows
His love for us, but God’s genuine version of Love is not the same as
the secularised version that we are used to. God may test us, not to
prove that we love him, but so that we might conquer evil. This is
because God made us so that you might overcome the world.</i> </span></b></span></span></div>
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suffering then we start to move towards our salvation. Satan wants us to
concentrate 'on our actual suffering' rather than the 'source of
suffering' so that he moves us away from our salvation so that we will
end up in hell. Those who search and admit to the deepest problems and
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and illness have always been among the greatest problems that trouble the human
spirit. Christians feel and experience pain as do all other people; yet their
faith helps them to grasp more deeply the mystery of suffering and to bear their
pain with greater courage. . . . Part of the plan laid out by God's providence
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>There, the custom is to let a
blessed candle burn all night before an icon of Our Lady who,
when the world still had forests, was relied upon to keep the wolves away
during these cold nights. Now, our "wolves" tend to be of a different
sort, but the pious burning of a blessed candle tonight, with powerful prayers offered
to Our Lady, still help keep the world at bay.</i></b></span></div>
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today's ceremony has frequently been explained by liturgists, dating from the 7th
century. According to Ivo of Chartres, the wax, which is formed from flowers by
the bee was always been considered as the emblem of virginity, and signifies
the pure nature of the body of the Divine Infant, who is diminished not, either
by His conception or His birth, and was born through the spotless purity of His
Blessed Mother. The same holy bishop would have us see, in the flame of our
Candle, a symbol of Jesus who came to enlighten our darkness. St. Anselm, Archbishop
of Canterbury, asks us to consider three things in the blessed Candle: the wax,
the wick, and the flame. The wax, he says, is the Flesh of our Lord; the wick, is
His Soul within; the flame, which burns on top, is His divinity.</i></b></span><br />
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thenewevangelisationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06307457114065842248noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-924965421478106515.post-71828393874847185832014-12-12T03:37:00.003-08:002016-06-25T04:23:58.069-07:00St. Nicholas Council of Nicea Arius<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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He had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins in the shoes
of those who left them out for him, a practice celebrated on his feast day―St
Nicholas Day (6 December in Western Christianity and 19 December
in Eastern Christianity); and thus became the model for Santa
Claus. His reputation evolved among the faithful, as was
common for early Christian saints. In 1087, part of the relics (about
half of the bones) were moved to </b><b>Bari</b><b>,
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<b><i><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">and refers to His </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">birth within </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">salvation history. </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It means the welcoming and the arrival of a special king for us; it is our </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">King of kings. </span></i></b><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is what the Old Testament prophecies foretold concerning Jesus' Incarnation, the Word made flesh for our hope and Atonement that brought us our deliverance. Advent represents our expectation, anticipation, and preparation for whom Christ is and what He has done for us. He arrived into the world as a human being, being fully God and fully man. He came to identify as one of us, as the Son of Man, as a baby born in a manger. He came for us, He came for you, and He comes into our lives and into our hearts. </span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">He is coming again in great power and glory to bring </span></b></i><br />
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the nations; the Gentiles will hope in him." May the God of hope fill you
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b style="color: #a64d79; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><u>HE IS </u></b><b style="color: #a64d79; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><u>NEARLY HERE!</u></b></i></span></div>
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<u style="color: #a64d79; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-size: large;">OF MARY TO ELIZABETH</span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>There is no white candle on an Advent wreath inside a Catholic Church, </b></span></div>
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