#2August

[nobiramone]

Gedenktag an ermordete Sinti und Roma in Auschwitz

Am 2. August 1944 wurde mehr als 4000 Sinti und Roma in Auschwitz ermordet. Zum 80. Jahrestag gibt es eine Kundgebung vom Förderverein Roma in Frankfurt.

Der Frankfurter Förderverein Roma e.V. veranstaltet eine Kundgebung zum 80. Jahrestag der Ermordung von tausenden Sinti und Roma im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz. Bis heute leiden Angehörige der Sinti und Roma unter Benachteiligungen und Vorurteilen, vor allem von Behörden. Gegen diese Form der Diskriminierung, die oft unter dem Begriff Antiziganismus zusammengefasst wird, möchte der Verein ein Zeichen setzen.

Erst seit 2015 gibt es den Europäischen Holocaust-Gedenktag für Sinti und Roma. Dabei wurden während des Zweiten Weltkriegs 500.000 Angehörige dieser Minderheit europaweit ermordet. Alleine in der Nacht vom 2. auf den 3. August 1944 wurden im Vernichtungslager Auschwitz die letzten 4.300 Sinti und Roma, vor allem Frauen, Kinder und ältere Menschen, von den Nazis in die Gaskammern getrieben.

Das Lager war im Februar 1943 errichtet worden. Die hygienischen Umstände waren katastrophal, es gab kaum Nahrung, viele Krankheiten. Im August wurden die letzten noch lebenden Angehörigen der Minderheit in Auschwitz getötet. Das Leid der Sinti und Roma stand lange im Schatten. http://antifagruppeweidenneustadt.blogspot.com/2024/08/gedenktag-ermordete-sinti-und-roma-in.html

[romanationmovement]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Today, we remember with heavy hearts to honor the Roma and Sinti who perished in the Holocaust. Between 500,000 and 1.5 million lives were brutally taken, leaving behind an irreplaceable void and a sorrow that words cannot fully capture.

As we remember their profound suffering, we confront our enduring struggle for self-determination and the dream of a united Roma nation. This struggle is not confined to the past; it persists today. Recent Romani refugees from Ukraine, escaping the devastation of war, face unrelenting hardships and vulnerabilities.

It is imperative that we create a sanctuary—a place where the horrors of the Holocaust and the conflicts of today can never be repeated. This sanctuary must embody equality and decisively end the deep-rooted discrimination that has plagued our people for centuries. We must not only honor their memory but also strive for a future where every Roma can live free from fear, with dignity and equal rights.

Let us be driven by their legacy to build a world where such atrocities are never repeated and where the Roma nation can flourish in peace, unshackled from the chains of discrimination and inequality.

Thank you.

On behalf of Roma Indian Diaspora

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[common-man]

Letter.

Letter Published in Deccan Herald,Bengaluru India on 2August 23

,Punish the guilty

This is with reference to the incidence of violence in Haryana and the killing of two home guards.The police must probe ,find the culpritsresponsible,and punish them.Communal violencs is unacceptble in a civil society like ours. K.Ragavan,Bengaluru

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Jalsa, Mumbai                Aug 1/2  2023                Tue /Wed 1:14 am

Birthday - EF - Vijaya Lakshmi ..  Anurodh Arun Gupta .. Wednesday, 2 August .. all our good wishes for this day and many more such days .. love from the Ef family  ❤️ 🌹

the works have been long and arduous  .. and then resulting in the timings for the Blog to be put up .. but the desire can never be kept away for long .. and in time I hope I shall be able to set a routine which does not hamper the timings of the .. YKW ..

greetings and  another set of flowers for all the delays and wait ..

Am going on to the next DAY .. 

writings for the DAY from an advanced DAY would be inconsistent behaviour ..

So we move on for today 

My love and wishes 

Amitabh Bachchan

it was felt that many of the Ef wanted a day at the audience stands for KBC .. while that is getting dressed .. some association with the game and the moi is here  :

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[videogeist]

Gedenkabend gestern am Mahnmal Simsonsweg in Berlin 02. Aug 2020 Wir haben den 4.300 Roma und Sinti gedacht, die in der Nacht zwischen dem 2. und 3. August 1944 in den Gaskammern von Auschwitz ermordet wurden. #RomaHolocaustRemembranceDay #RomaGenocide #2August #RomaRemember #videogeist #philippgeist #Berlin #neverforget #stiftungdenkmal (hier: Simsonsweg) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDb9jWklZr8/?igshid=adlgxzbhulic

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Yesterday, my little sisters and bro in-law surprised me with the beautiful and thoughtful birthday setups!! Really didn’t expect it 😂 Thank you my beloved sisters Edah and Baby for the cake, cupcakes, balloons and all that rose golds!!!! 💕💕🥰🥰 #feelingblessed #alhamdulillahforeverything #belovedsisters #iturned34 #2august https://www.instagram.com/p/CDZI1VCBEPwm-JaLhVq7c3Hzr3jNlmsoCWIqd80/?igshid=4310t7bd6uif

[orthodoxydaily]

Saints&Reading: Friday, August, 26, 2022

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SAINT TIKHON OF ZADONSK, BISHOP OF VORONEZH (1783)

Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk, Bishop of Voronezh (in the world Timothy), was born in the year 1724 in the village of Korotsk in the Novgorod diocese, into the family of the cantor Sabellius Kirillov. (A new family name, Sokolov, was given him afterwards by the head of the Novgorod seminary). His father died when Timothy was a young child, leaving the family in such poverty that his mother was barely able to make ends meet. She wanted to give him to be raised by a neighbor, a coachman, since there was nothing with which to feed the family, but his brother Peter would not permit this. Timothy often worked a whole day with the peasants for a single piece of black bread.

As a thirteen-year-old boy, he was sent to a clergy school near the Novgorod archbishop’s home, and earned his keep by working with the vegetable gardeners. In 1740, he was accepted under a state grant set up for the Novgorod seminary. The youth excelled at his studies. Upon finishing seminary in 1754, he became a teacher there, first in Greek, and later in Rhetoric and Philosophy. In the year 1758, he was tonsured with the name Tikhon. In that same year they appointed him to be prefect of the seminary.

In 1759, they transferred him to Tver, elevating him to be archimandrite of the Zheltikov monastery. Later, they appointed him rector of the Tver seminary and, at the same time, head of the Otroch monastery.

His election as bishop was providential. Metropolitan Demetrius, the presiding member of the Holy Synod, had intended to transfer the young archimandrite to the Trinity-Sergiev Lavra. On the day of Pascha, at Peterburg, Archimandrite Tikhon was one of eight candidates being considered for selection as vicar-bishop for Novogorod. The lot fell on him three times.

On the same day, during the Cherubic Hymn, Bishop Athanasius of Tver, without realizing it, commemorated him as a bishop while cutting out particles from the prosphora at the Table of Oblation. On May 13, 1761 he was consecrated Bishop of Keksgolma and Ladoga (i.e., a vicar bishop of the Novgorod diocese).

In 1763, Saint Tikhon was transferred to the See of Voronezh. During the four and a half years that he administered the Voronezh diocese, Saint Tikhon provided constant edification, both by his life and by his numerous pastoral guidances and soul-saving books. He wrote a whole series of works for pastors:

Concerning the Seven Holy Mysteries

A Supplement to the Priestly Office

Concerning the Mystery of Repentance

An Instruction Concerning Marriage

The saint considered it essential that each priest, deacon and monk have a New Testament, and that he should read it daily. In an Encyclical, he called on pastors to perform the Holy Mysteries with reverence, with the fear of God, and love for one’s neighbor. (An Explanation of Christian Duties was often republished in Moscow and Peterburg during the eighteenth century).

At Voronezh the saint eradicated an ancient pagan custom, the celebration in honor of Yarila (a pagan god associated with the fertility of grain and cattle). In the outlying districts where military units of the Don Cossacks were dispersed, he formed a missionary commission to restore sectarians to the Orthodox Church.

In 1765, Saint Tikhon transformed the Voronezh Slavic-Latin school into a seminary. He invited experienced instructors from Kiev and Kharkhov, and planned the courses for it. He exerted much attention and effort to build up both the churches and the school, and to guide pastors to understand the need for education.

The saint was unflagging in his efforts to administer the vast diocese, and he often spent nights without sleep. In 1767, poor health compelled him to give up running the diocese and withdraw for rest to the Tolshevsk monastery, at a distance 40 versts from Voronezh.

In 1769, the saint transferred to the monastery of the Theotokos in the city of Zadonsk. Having settled into this monastery, Saint Tikhon became a great teacher of the Christian life. With deep wisdom he set forth the ideal of true monasticism in his Rule of Monastic Living and his Guidances to Turn from the Vanity of the World, and in his own life he fulfilled this ideal. He kept strictly to the precepts of the Church. Zealously (almost daily) he visited the temple of God, and he often sang and read in the choir. In time, out of humility, he altogether ceased participating and serving, but merely stood in the altar, reverently making the Sign of the Cross over himself. He loved to read the Lives of the Saints and the works of the Holy Fathers. He knew The Psalter by heart, and he usually read or sang the Psalms on his journeys.

The saint underwent much tribulation because he had to leave his flock. When he recovered his health, he thought about returning to the Novgorod diocese, where Metropolitan Gabriel had invited him to head the Ivḗron Vallaisk monastery. But when his cell-attendant mentioned this to the Elder Aaron, he declared: “Are you mad? The Mother of God does not direct him to move away from here.” The cell-attendant conveyed this to His Grace.

“If that is so,” said the saint “I shall not move away from here,” and he tore up the invitation. Sometimes he journeyed to the village of Lipovka, where he celebrated church services at the Bekhteev house. The saint journeyed also to the Tolshev monastery, which he loved for its solitude.

The fruition of all his spiritual life were the books that the saint wrote while in retirement: A SPIRITUAL TREASURY, GATHERED FROM THE WORLD (1770), and ON TRUE CHRISTIANITY (1776).

The saint lived in very simple circumstances: he slept on straw, covered by a sheepskin coat. His humility was so great that he paid no attention to the workers who laughed at him as he walked about the monastery, pretending that he did not hear it. He used to say, “It is pleasing to God that even the monastery workers mock me, and I deserve it because of my sins.” He often said, “Forgiveness is better than revenge.”

Once, a fool named Kamenev struck the saint on the cheek saying, “Don’t be so haughty.” The saint, accepting this with gratitude, gave the fool three kopeks every day for the rest of his life.

All his life the saint “in troubles, and sorrows, and insults... joyfully endured, mindful that there can be no crown without the victory, nor victory without effort, nor effort without struggle, nor struggle without enemies” (Ode 6 of the Canon).

Strict towards himself, the saint was indulgent towards others. On the Friday before Palm Sunday, he entered the cell of his friend the schemamonk Metrophanes, and he saw him at table together with Cosmas Ignatievich, of whom he was also fond. There was fish on the table, and his friends became upset (fish is not permitted during Lent, except for Feast days). The saint said, “Sit down, for I know you. Love is higher than fasting.” To further calm them, he ate some of their fish soup.

He especially loved the common folk, and comforted them in their grievous lot, interceding with the landowners, and moving them to compassion. He gave away his pension, and gifts from admirers, to the poor.

By his deeds of self-denial and love of soul, the saint advanced in contemplation of Heaven and foresaw the future. In 1778, he had a vision in his sleep: the Mother of God stood in the clouds, and near Her were the Apostles Peter and Paul. On bended knees, the saint prayed to the All-Pure Virgin for the peace of the whole world. The Apostle Paul loudly exclaimed: “When they shall say, peace and safety; then sudden destruction will come upon them” (I Thess. 5:3). The saint fell asleep in trembling and in tears. The following year, he again saw the Mother of God in the air and several people near Her. The saint knelt down, and near him four others in white garments also fell to their knees. The saint entreated the All-Pure Virgin for someone, that She would not leave him (the saint did not tell his cell-attendant who the four people were, nor for whom the request was made). She answered, “Let it be as you ask.”

Saint Tikhon prophesied much about the future, particularly the victory of Russia over the French in 1812. More than once they saw the saint in spiritual rapture, with a transformed and luminous face, but he forbade them to speak about this.

For three years before his repose he prayed each day, “Tell me, O Lord, of my end.” And a quiet voice in the morning dawn said, “It will be on a Sunday.” In that same year, he saw in a dream a beautiful meadow with wondrous palaces upon it. He wanted to go inside, but they said to him: “In three years, you may enter. For now, continue your labors.” After this the saint secluded himself in his cell and admitted only a few friends.

Both clothing and a grave were prepared for the time of his death. He often came to weep over his coffin, while standing hidden from people in a closet. A year and three months before his death, in a vivid dream, it seemed to the saint that he was standing in the monastery church. A priest of his acquaintance was carrying the Divine Infant, covered with a veil, out of the altar through the Royal Doors. The saint approached and kissed the Infant on the right cheek, and he felt himself stricken on the left. Awakening, the saint sensed a numbness in his left cheek, his left leg, and a trembling in his left hand. He accepted this illness with joy.

Shortly before his death, the saint saw in a dream a high and twisting ladder and he heard a command to climb it. “At first, I was afraid because of weakness,” he told his friend Cosmas. “But when I started to go climb, the people standing around the ladder lifted me higher and higher, up to the very clouds.”

“The ladder,” said Cosmas, “is the way to the Heavenly Kingdom. Those who helped were those you have helped by your advice, and they remember you.” The saint said with tears, “I thought so, too. I feel that my end is near.” He frequently received the Holy Mysteries during his illness.

Saint Tikhon died, as was revealed to him, on Sunday August 13, 1783, at the age of fifty-nine. The first uncovering of his relics occurred on May 14, 1846.

Saint Tikhon’s glorification took place on Sunday August 13, 1861.

Source: Orthodox Church in America

  VENERABLE RADEGUNDE OF POITIER, NUN (587)

Venantius Fortunatus: Life of St. Radegund

[Venantius Fortunatus (530-609), the author of this text, served as advisor and secretary to Queen Radegund (b. 520-5; d. 587), who had fled her husband, the Frankish King Clothar I (d. 561), founded an abbey at Poitiers and become a nun. Venantius Fortunatus wrote a number of saints’ lives and religious songs and poems; he became Bishop of Poitiers c. 590.]

1. Our Redeemer is so richly and abundantly generous that He wins mighty victories through the female sex and, despite their frail physique, He confers glory and greatness on women through strength of mind. By faith, Christ makes them strong who were born weak so that, when those who appeared to be imbeciles are crowned with their merits by Him who made them, to garner praise for their Creator who hid heavenly treasure in earthen vessels. For Christ the king dwells with his riches in their bowels. Mortifying themselves in the world, despising earthly consort, purified of worldly contamination, trusting not in the transitory, dwelling not in error but seeking to live with God, they are united with the Redeemer’s glory in Paradise. One of that company is she whose earthly life we are attempting to present to the public, though in homely style, so that the glorious memory that she, who lives with Christ, has left us will be celebrated in this world. So ends the Prologue.

Here begins the life.

2. The most blessed Radegund was of the highest earthly rank, born from the seed of the kings of the barbarian nation of Thuringia. Her grandfather was King Bassin, her paternal uncle, Hermanfred and her father, King Bertechar.(1) But she surpassed her lofty origin by even loftier deeds. She had lived with her noble family only a little while when the victorious Franks devastated the region with barbaric turmoil and, like the Israelites, she departed and migrated from her homeland.(2) The royal girl became part of the plunder of these conquerors and they began to quarrel over their captive. If the contest had not ended with an agreement for her disposition, the kings would have taken up arms against one another. Falling to the lot of the illustrious King Clothar(3), she was taken to Athies in Vermandois, a royal villa, and her upbringing was entrusted to guardians.(4) The maiden was taught letters and other things suitable to her sex and she would often converse with other children there about her desire to be a martyr if the chance came in her time.(5) Thus even as an adolescent, she displayed the merits of a mature person. She obtained part of what she sought, for, though the church was flourishing in peace, she endured persecution from her own household. While but a small child, she herself brought the scraps left at table to the gathered children, washing the head of each one, seating them on little chairs and offering water for their hands, and she mingled with the infants herself.(6) She would also carry out what she had planned beforehand with Samuel, a little cleric.(7) Following his lead, carrying a wooden cross they had made, singing psalms, the children would troop into the oratory as somber as adults. Radegund herself would polish the pavement with her dress and, collecting the drifting dust around the altar in a napkin, reverently placed it outside the door rather than sweep it away. When the aforementioned king, having provided the expenses, wished to bring her to Vitry she escaped by night from Athies through Beralcha with a few companions.(8) When he settled with her that she should be made his queen at Soissons, she avoided the trappings of royalty, so she would not grow great in the world but in Him to Whom she was devoted and she remained unchanged by earthly glory.(9)

3. Therefore, though married to a terrestrial prince, she was not separated from the celestial one and, the more secular power was bestowed upon her, the more humbly she bent her will-more than befitted her royal status. Always subject to God following priestly admonitions, she was more Christ’s partner than her husband’s companion. We will only attempt to publicize a few of the many things she did during this period of her life. Fearing she would lose status with God as she advanced in worldly rank at the side of a prince, she gave herself energetically to almsgiving. Whenever she received part of the tribute, she gave away a tithe of all that came to her before accepting any for herself. She dispensed what was left to monasteries, sending the gifts to those she could not reach on foot. There was no hermit who could hide from her munificence.(10) So she paid out what she received lest the burden weigh her down. The voice of the needy was not raised in vain for she never turned a deaf ear. Often she gave clothes, believing that the limbs of Christ concealed themselves under the garments of the poor and that whatever she did not give to paupers was truly lost...continue reading University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of History

MATTHEW 24:27-33, 42-51

27 For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28 For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together. 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 32 Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near-at the doors! 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. 45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. 47 Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. 48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of, 51 and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.2 

Commentaries from the church Fathers

John Chrysostom AD 407 For this intent He tells them not, in order that they may watch, that they may be always ready; therefore He says, When ye look not for it, then He will come, desiring that they should be anxiously waiting, and continually in virtuous action. But His meaning is like this: if the common sort of men knew when they were to die, they would surely strive earnestly at that hour.

Hilary of Poitiers AD 368 To teach us that our ignorance of the date of his return (which his silence has kept hidden from everyone) is not without its usefulness, Christ warns us to keep all his commandments. We should also be occupied with constant prayer in order to guard against the coming of the thief. For the thief is the devil who seeks to invade our bodily homes with the darts of his thoughts and allurements in order to ruin us while we are sleepy and careless. It is good therefore that we be prepared. Our ignorance of the day of Christ’s return should provoke us to be careful as we eagerly await his coming.

2 CORINTHIANS  4:13-18

13And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed and therefore I spoke," we als believe and therefore speak,14 knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you.15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.16Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Commentaries of the Church Fathers

Caesarius of ArlesAD 542: If you seek temporal things, you pray publicly and with your door open. If you ask for eternal things, your prayer is secret because you long to receive not the things which are seen but those which are not seen.

Clement Of Alexandria AD 215: But us the Word enjoins "to look not on the things that are seen, but the things that are not seen; for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal.". With such persecution, if you have worldly wealth, if you have brothers allied by blood and other pledges, abandon the whole wealth of these which leads to evil; procure peace for yourself, free yourself from protracted persecutions; turn from them to the Gospel; choose before all the Saviour and Advocate and Paraclete of your soul, the Prince of life. "For the things which are seen are temporary; but the things which are not seen are eternal."

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[babywitch8]

Day 1/2August 5th/6th

Today is the day I finally took the leap and decided I want to be a witch, well technically yesterday lol but today is the day I am sitting down to write about it.  I have always had a STRONG intuition, I am IN LOVE with the moon, crystals intrigue me, witches in general intrigue me honestly, and the older I have gotten I have had my husband mention to me multiple times that he thinks I am a witch. And not like, god you're being such a witch lol. But the way I move in our daily life and the things I am drawn to, makes him think that. Its hard to articulate exactly how I feel lately but this, researching witches and paganism and all that entails, has felt really right to me lately. So I am going to see where this goes and do as much reading and research everything I can! I am going to keep my own personal journal, as suggested by multiple blogs and books I have read, but I also want to write as much as I can and feel comfortable with on here so that maybe one day another baby witch can find this and hopefully find some solace here. 

Yesterday I sat down and read through a couple different blogs and wrote down all the information that was new to me and that I knew I needed to remember. I saved one ladys blog so that I can reference back to her when I need to. I researched what books I need, I love to read and love to learn from books, I am a very hands on learner too. But what I love about learning from books is that you have it in your hands, well usually, and you can always go back to reference that book and use it time and time again. I did order 3 different books and I am SSOOOOO excited for them to get here. 

Today I tried to use my pendulum for the first time. Nothing happened. I read that it is about you and you need to ‘believe’ essentially for it to work. I really focused and tried but nothing. I am not discouraged tho. I know this is a long process and I will have a lot of fails. BUT! That will make my wins all that much better! Obviously another thing I did today was sit down and write this. I plan on scrolling through Tumblr for awhile to see other witches and hopefully read some more blogs. I also want to go to the store today and find me a journal! 

Something that I am really loving, aside from all the stuff I'm learning lol, is my husbands excitement for me. I have been talking to him and sharing all of the stuff I'm learning with him and he is interested in everything I have to say! I also told him there was some stuff I need to go buy, stuff for my alter and herbs etc., and he told me we can go up to the little mountain town close to us and go get whatever I need. We were there a couple weeks ago and thats when I got my pendulum, I bought it before i decided to become a witch but I saw it and it called to me. This little town is...gorgeous! And has so many cool shops, from clothing to toys to food to crystals and last time we were there i found this little shop and the only way I can describe it is, a little witch shop. They have hug jars of herbs that you can weigh out and buy, different essential oils, potions, wands. Its just beautiful! Anyways lol. He said we can go and get what I need tomorrow! I am stoked and also so spoiled and lucky! I’ll check back in tomorrow! 

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