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wisdomfish · 5 years ago

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Several archaeological discoveries in 2019 provided physical evidence for biblical accounts and granted access to examine Holy Land locations.

6. Archaeologists Unearth 3,000-Year-Old City That Likely Harbored King David From Saul

An ancient refuge that famously hid David from King Saul has itself been hidden for years to scholars—until now.

Researchers have recently found evidence of the biblical city of Ziklag at Khirbet al-Ra’l, an excavation site in the Judean foothills of Israel. Carbon dating and artifacts from the site have prompted scholars to link the site to the 3,200-year-old Philistine town.

5. Evidence of Biblical Story Found in Layers of Jerusalem Ash

The Bible describes King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon laying siege to Jerusalem and specifically burning down the temple, the palace, and “all the great houses” (2 Kings 25:9).

A group of archaeologists believe they’ve found one of those great houses and their discoveries support the biblical account.

4. Archaeological Discovery Points to Obscure Biblical Character

Inside a recently unearthed building seemingly burned down during the Babylonians’ 586 B.C. invasion, archaeologists discovered a seal bearing the name of an official of the biblical king Josiah.

In describing the religious reforms Josiah enacted when he ascended to the throne, 2 Kings 23:11 says, “He did away with the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They had been at the entrance of the Lord’s temple in the precincts by the chamber of Natahn-melech, the eunuch.”

Inscribed on the newly discovered seal are the Hebrew words: LeNathan-Melech Eved HaMelech or “[belonging] to Nathan-Melech, Servant of the King.”

3. Unearthed Ancient Church Confirms Christianity’s Rapid Spread to Africa

Around the same time Constantine legalized Christianity across the Roman Empire in A.D. 313, another ancient empire experienced an explosion of Christian growth.

In a paper published on December 10 in Antiquity, archaeologists revealed the discovery of a Christian church building in sub-Saharan Africa that coincides with the influential Aksumite kingdom.

The structure dates back to the fourth century and confirms local Ethiopian and Christian tradition of Christianity moving into the region at an early date.

2. Archaeologists May Have Discovered Site Associated With Jesus’ Resurrection

In the Gospel of Luke, two disciples stumbled unaware into a meeting with the resurrected Jesus as they walked to Emmaus. Recently, a team of archaeologists announced they may have stumbled into discovering the ancient city by accident.

Excavating at Kiriath Yearim, Tel Aviv University archaeologist Israel Finkelstein and and Thomas Römer, a professor of biblical studies at the College de France uncovered fortifications that are more than 2,000 years old, according to Haaretz.

Piecing together discoveries from the site with historical and biblical evidence led the team at the dig to believe they found the location of Emmaus.

1. Jesus’ Baptism Site Partially Cleared of Landmines

For decades, remnants of the Six-Day War have kept pilgrims from Qasr al-Yahud, the traditional site of John’s baptism of Jesus. But that’s about to change.

De-mining groups have worked with Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian officials, along with representatives from several Christian denominations with historic churches in the area, to begin removing landmines and ammunitions from the area.

~ Aaron Earls

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pamphletstoinspire · 5 years ago

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A Great Catch: The 153 Fish

“I welcome you on the eve of a great battle.” So began General Dwight D. Eisenhower on May 15, 1944, solemnly addressing the admirals and generals and officers of the Allied Expeditionary Force, announcing the proposed strategy for Operation Overlord, codename for the Normandy invasion. Underestimated as an orator, Eisenhower’s speech riveted the attention of all in the tense atmosphere. The location was an unlikely one: a lecture hall of Saint Paul’s School in London. The boys had already been evacuated to Berkshire during the Blitz. The top brass, who had arrived from the advance command post of the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Forces at Southwick House in Hampshire, were seated on school chairs, with two armchairs occupied by King George VI and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. General Bernard Montgomery, the future Field Marshall, brought out his maps to show the British and American positions. The school served as headquarters of the XXI Army Group under Montgomery, and he felt at home there because he was an Old Pauline. Planning took place in the office of his old Headmaster, or High Master, which was the title used from the day of the school’s foundation in 1509 by John Colet.

As a close friend of Erasmus, and an even closer spiritual advisor to Thomas More, Colet was the epitome of a Renaissance humanist, laden with learning he had brought back from France and Italy for lectures in his own university at Oxford. More lured him back to his birthplace of London where his father had been a rich merchant and twice Lord Mayor. As Dean of Saint Paul’s cathedral, Colet put his reforming principles to work with eloquent imprecations against the pride, concupiscence, covetousness, and worldly absorptions that had tainted the priesthood. Archbishop Warham of Canterbury dismissed frivolous charges of heresy brought against Colet by offended clerics. Colet’s combination of charm and audacity engendered the respect even of Henry VIII, despite his bold preaching against the king’s French wars. As a priest with no children of his own, and no nieces or nephews because all twenty-two of his siblings had died in childhood, Colet devoted much of his inherited fortune to founding Saint Paul’s school for teaching 153 boys literature, manners, and, with Renaissance flair, Greek on a par with Latin. Erasmus said that when Colet lectured he thought he was hearing a second Plato. If so, his Platonism was Christian. He wanted a great catch, similar to the 153 fish that the apostles had hauled in at the command of the Risen Christ. The boys would be welcome “from all nations and countries indifferently.”

The catch was great indeed, and since then the school has turned out graduates including, just for starters: John Milton, Samuel Pepys, John Churchill, G.K. Chesterton, three holders of the Victoria Cross, and the astronomer for whom Halley’s comet is named — all rising from the first 153.

Exegetes, sometimes with too much time on their hands, and even earnest saints, have teased 153 and other numbers into signifying possibly more than their meaning. Jerome tried to find some significance in the fact that the second-century Greco-Roman poet Oppian listed 153 species of fish in his 3,500 verses about fishing, the “Halieutica,” dedicated rather sycophantically to the emperor Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus. Of course, Oppian was wrong in his counting; besides, he wrote after the compilation of the Gospel. Augustine found that 153 is the sum if the first seventeen integers, which may reveal nothing more than his skill at arithmetic. In his devotion to the Rosary, Louis de Montfort found something prophetic between the catch of Galilean fish and the sum of fifteen decades of Hail Mary’s plus the first three beads.

There may be no end to such agile mental exercises, and I once wrote a book — Coincidentally — rather whimsically illustrating how it is possible to detect endless matrices if you try hard enough. For example, faddish New Age fascination with the esoteric numerology of Kabbalah cultism can strain minds. It may not have been a helpful influence on the popular singer who gave millions of dollars to a Kabbalah institute and recently was confined to a mental health facility purportedly against her will. Carl Jung wrote at some length about what he termed “synchronicity” and warned that an obsession with “acausal principles” could unbalance reason. Yet even a detached observer might pause at the fact that the Sacred Tetragrammaton appears 153 times in Genesis.

The point here is that there are many levels of meaning in divine revelation that may be clues to the operation of Divine Providence. “For I know the plans that I have for you, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope” (Jer. 29:11). Even our limited mathematics may articulate something of the symmetry by which the pulse of Creation may be taken: “‘To whom then will you compare Me, or who is My equal?’ says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who has created these things, who brings out their host by number” (Is. 40:25). Perception of this saves the saints from madness and inspires them to awe.

Contemplation of the unity of the True God and True Man encounters layers of reality beyond the comprehension of human intelligence. Nonetheless, we can perceive the existence of those dimensions. A “Participatory Anthropic Principle,” first forwarded by John A. Wheeler, suggests that the universe is structured with a set of physical constants or “cosmic coincidences” without which there would be no intelligent life on Earth, and that it is only by participating in that structure by rational perception that the constants or coincidences have their potency. So there may be in those 153 fish the Voice saying: “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now” (John 16:12).

It would be a mistake to suppose that the apostles went back to fishing in disobedience to the Master’s command years before that they drop their nets and follow him. Christ is the Alpha and Omega, meaning that he is able to know everything from start to finish at the same time. Before the Resurrection, Jesus told the apostles that they would meet a man in Jerusalem carrying a pitcher of water, from whom they would rent an Upper Room: “So they went and found it just as Jesus had told them (Luke 22:13).” Thus he was also able to “set up” his men, ordering them to go to the Sea of Tiberius, knowing what he had prepared for them there, in order to instruct them.

In his humanity he did a domestic thing in cooking breakfast. In his divinity he predicted what the apostles would become. Whatever else may be encoded in the number 153, the fact is that this event happened, for had it been an oriental myth there would have been a million fish. This number was a detail never to be forgotten. Even when the youngest of them, the cadet of the Twelve, was the last to survive and his mind was weary with age, he said with a thrill like that of a youth: “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life” (1 John 1:1).

There is one thing we know that prevents miniaturizing Christ as the best of men but only a man: “For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (I Col. 16-17). In him was an urgent appeal to the intellect, which for the Jew was a function of love and not confined to the brain, as is clear in the Resurrection appearance to Cleopas and his companion on the Emmaus road: “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken. Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” (Luke 24:25-26). Here was the culmination of his earlier rabbinical catechesis: “‘Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?’ ‘Twelve,’ they replied. ‘And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?’ They answered, ‘Seven.’ He said to them, ‘Do you still not understand?’” (Mark 8: 18–21).

The unseen calculus that fascinated Oppian when counting fish in coastal Cilicia much more amazed William Blake when describing an imagined “Tyger” which certainly was not rampant in London: “What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” If there is substance to some anthropic principle in the play of numbers, it is found in the fact that after the 153 fish had been dragged to shore, a small fire was burning as Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved him. And Peter wept in remembering that by another small fire in Jerusalem he had said three times that he never knew the Man.

BY: FR. GEORGE W. RUTLER

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kritikarehani · 5 years ago

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Sickle Cell Disease Market | DelveInsight

What is Sickle Cell Disease?

Sickle Cell disease, which is also known as sickle cell anaemia. It includes a group of disorders that affect the red blood cells.Sickle Cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that is distinguished by defective haemoglobin. The changes in which red blood cells behave differently are dehydration, low oxygen levels and elevated temperature, which may cause the red blood cells to block the small blood vessels, restricting blood flow.

How much population is affected by Sickle Cell Disease?

Sickle cell disease is irreversible that affects males and females equally, and is responsible for increased morbidity and mortality in affected persons.

There were approximately 133,385 Sickle Cell Disease prevalent cases in 2017 in the 6MM. As per DelveInsight, the United States reports for the highest Sickle Cell Disease prevalent population due to a large number of immigrants from African countries per year, followed by the EU5. Among the European countries, France has the highest Sickle Cell Disease prevalent population with around 15,000 cases followed by the United Kingdom, which has a Sickle Cell Disease prevalent population around 13,000 in 2017. Spain has the lowest Sickle Cell Disease prevalent population. Also, it was found that there is no Sickle Cell Disease prevalence in Japan since the disease does not occur in the Japanese population.

Which types of drugs are used in Sickle cell disease treatment?

Most of the Sickle Cell Disease treatments are dominated by the off label and off-patent medications (HU; Iron Chelators, Analgesics, Antibiotics, vaccines), to address the complications or for specific Sickle Cell Disease symptoms.

Hydroxyurea was the first-ever drug approved for the Sickle Cell Disease treatment in 1998. However, there is increasing evidence that Hydroxyurea is only prescribed to a fraction of patients who may be benefited from it. The most distressing issue with Hydroxyurea was the lack of FDA approval for infants with Sickle Cell Disease in the United States. However, various trials are undergoing to assess the safety and efficacy of Hydroxyurea in children. At present, it is used off-label for pediatric patients.

Sickle Cell Disease market size was majorly dependent on the use of Hydroxyurea until 2017 when Endari was launched. It was the first drug new drug for sickle cell patients in nearly two decades and was the first FDA- approved Sickle Cell Disease treatment for pediatric as well as adult patients.

The approval of the Emmaus’s Endari for Sickle Cell Disease treatment in the United States in 2017. It had marked a significant advancement in Sickle Cell Disease treatment and is expected to pave the way for the development and approval of additional therapies.

However, the current therapies used to prevent the complications of the disease are limited, vary in their effectiveness and are associated with severe risks and tolerability issues. Besides this, the disease presents with significant unmet medical needs, with no disease-modifying Sickle Cell Disease treatment for an ongoing painful crisis.

Thus, new approaches for Sickle Cell Disease treatment, including new medications, advances in transplantation, and gene therapies are being explored, which are expected to significantly drive the Sickle Cell Disease treatment market during the forecast period.

How many companies are developing drugs for Sickle Cell Disease?

The companies across the globe, such as GBT Therapeutics, Pfizer, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Imara Therapeutics and many others that are involved in developing therapies for Sickle Cell Disease. The expected launch of emerging therapies, such as Voxelotor/ GBT-440 (GBT Therapeutics), Rivipansel (Pfizer), Crizanlizumab (Novartis), IMR-687 (Imara Therapeutics) and other compelling treatments are expected to increase the Sickle Cell Disease market size in upcoming years.

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stevedonnellyfaith-blog · 5 years ago

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The Shrine Trip (Post 98) 7-22-15

Stephen and I made a mini-pilgrimage to a Lourdes Shrine in Cleveland over the weekend. He really liked the one we visited a couple of weeks ago in Emmitsburg, Maryland, but I let him know that I was not driving south for the third weekend in a row so we settled on a commutable sanctuary. I warned him not to expect a well-manicured spiritual venue frequented by scores of nuns in habit, solemn young priests and discalced Franciscan brothers like we saw at Mount St Mary's University. Cleveland similar to many other Rust Belt cities and the majority of Europe has walked away from the Catholic faith.

There certainly are still Catholics in Cleveland, but they are a weak broth compared to the bubbling ethic piety that existed in most immigrant populated Mid-Western cities during the last century. IHM is very lucky to have vibrant and thriving Phil-Am and Guadalupano communities within the parish. In this area of the country there is nobody processing statues of Mary on her feast days, performing live Stations of the Cross in front of throngs of people, or waking up at an intimidatingly early time for Mass during the days of Simbang Gabi. There is plenty of Life Teen activity and Pancake Breakfasts, but gone are all the ethnic Catholic festivities that you would associate with once predominantly Italian, German, Czech and Polish Catholic neighborhoods. The cavernously empty amphitheater seating at the Lourdes Shrine in Euclid, Ohio stands as a testament to a flavor of Catholic spirituality that has been largely lost to my generation, but hopefully will interest younger folks that I think of as the Catholic generation of Chad.

I knew pretty much what to expect at the Euclid Shrine because I had visited there two years ago during a visit to Ohio to drop off Natalie for her summer vacation. It was a peculiar previous pilgrimage, because my father used the occasion to escape the house and dragged my mother along with us. He was and is too challenged with regard to mobility to make the hike from the car to the familiar looking grotto manufactured to mimic its more famous cousin. Dad rode along with the purpose of adding one subsequent stop at Geraci's, his favorite authentic Italian restaurant, and another at Gaelic Imports his repository for bangers and Yorkie bars. I would have tried to impress upon him the irony of a man too hobbled to cane himself into a healing shrine, but Dad is not Catholic and I was pleased to have some private time in prayer bereft of paternal clock-watching.

I don't know how long I spent there or exactly what I thought about in quiet contemplation of my future, Stephen's health and my father's health on that day two years ago. I probably came to the conclusion that it would be a good idea for me to write some stuff. While my particular prayers were a fuzzy blur open to speculative interpretation, I do clearly remember that I visited the gift shop and bought a print of the Our Lady of the Streets for my bedroom. The portrait always reminds me of Pam. I guess someone at IHM likes the image as well.

I also purchased a liter plastic container to fill with the spring water stream that dripped across the authentic rock brought from the original grotto in actual France. I was pleased to buy something from the well-accoutered but mostly unpatronized shop of curios manned by what seemed to be the last VHM sister from the adjoined dormitory that apparently could have housed seventy women or more. A thoroughly lonely experience, I think I stood nearly solo at the altar rail of the outdoor sanctuary that could have provided adequate seating for 9:00 AM Sunday Mass at IHM. That might have been one or two other people praying quietly as the water slowly filled my bottle at the speed of a kitchen spigot almost shut. A white statue of St Bernadette watched me kneeling quietly and reminding me that neither she nor Pam had been physically cured by the wondrous water that healed so many people but not all depending on God's many faceted plan not human whim or desire.

But like a spider sense I felt the hourglass sand of my father's patience slipping from the upper chamber through the neck of the glass and down into the nether portion. I possess a pretty good inclination of how long Dad can quietly read a novel in the car when his mind is considering which type of pasta and sauce he is currently favoring. At any minute I expected my mother to get sent on a scouting mission from the silver Tahoe that lay calmly at anchor in the nearby parking lot. So I booked it with only a partial sacramental fill in the white plastic half jerry can I had previously purchased. Of course he yelled at me when I slipped back into the driver's seat to my mother's silent amusement because I had returned with less than everything that I had purchased, a Donnelly nono, although as a Protestant my Dad doesn't actually consider minor league Lourdes water as any more valuable or beneficial than bottled Dasani product. I explained to him that my beaker was actually half full rather than half empty which brought a guffaw from him. As I remember, he shook his head in disbelief as if I had returned to the car cow-less with a half-handful of magic beans. Dismayed at my lack of sacramental savvy, Dad ordered me to resume my duties as chauffeur so I turned his land yacht in the direction from which the tightly tuned divining rod in his stomach detected marinara sauce.

With my own wheels this go around, I didn't have to worry about my father's impatience to leave - just my disquiet and fatigue. I had worked with the third shift crew for the week so I had only recovery from extreme sleep deprivation planned for both Saturday and Sunday. We drove up to the Euclid shrine on a quiet Saturday afternoon without anything else on the agenda.

Stephen was fully prepared; he had cleaned out the residue of decades old Kool-Aid from a gallon-sized picnic thermos that he had discovered in my parent's basement or garage and planned to put my half-liter water supply to shame. I decided that I would find something else to do in the largely deserted vicinity in case the septuagenarian sister from the gift shop should discover Stephen filling up his unofficial container at the little font. I expect unpurchased containers were allowed, but I don't know that Stephen would have the sense to let someone else break in to fill up one of the little paper cups dispensed nearly the tiny spout of water coming off the rock.

Based on the remembered rate of flow from my previous visit, I figured that I had a half hour at least so I climbed up an asphalt path following a sign in the direction of some Stations of the Cross. The trail was in better shape than I expected and I liked the plaster scenes, but the woods by the path were overgrown and the mini-sheds that protected the statuettes had not been painted recently. It was a little like camp houses at Copperopolis - if you can't picture my reference, sign up for the next Emmaus retreat. In a couple of cases there were Beebe gun holes in the protecting glass for the statues. Greater Cleveland is not really a city that you expect to see hillbilly shenanigans, but maybe there are a few Hill Williams about. The statuettes were all intact, but I was perplexed that anyone would use sacred art for target practice. Several deer did happen by while I walked the path, so maybe it was just kids with really bad aim.

Because the glass and cabinets were sort of dingy, I snapped a few desultory pictures of the scenes and promenaded onward not expecting to burn the full half hour on the walk. Then I stumbled upon stations twelve and fourteen which were full sized statuary not mini-scenes. Unexpectedly resplendent, both of the stations brought tears to my eyes. I realized at that point that I had stumbled into an experience that I was intended to have. I didn't stay as long as I would have had I been alone; it makes me nervous to leave Stephen by himself. I found that my son was fine when I got back to the grotto so I sat down next to Bernadette of white plaster and spend some time asking for some help with the unlikely house purchase that I am about to make.

It was a good afternoon. Stephen asked me about his water jug that contained a good amount of brownish water; I told him that it was very authentic with regard to how Bernadette's spring probably originally flowed. Stephen bought me a book about angels in the gift shop so we contributed to the upkeep of a Shrine that I have come to value. I recommend acts of piety and Traditional Catholic practice of the faith beyond mere Mass attendance to all of the generation of Chad. I run into a lot of people that attend Mass once, twice or nonce a year. I have heard a description of other Catholics that clock-in to their faith with holy water upon entering the sanctuary on Sunday and then clock-out of their faith again as they leave 60 minutes later. There is so much more of God's love available to us.

I have found that living my life has required every inch of the spiritual roots that I have cultivated. In retrospect every hour I ever spent in Eucharistic Adoration seems more necessary than just helpful. A friend of mine spend hours and hours prostrate in Adoration; he tells me that he is still standing because of the practice. I have another friend that I grew up with that is now a math teacher. His mother, who I remember as a very devout Catholic, has now suffered a debilitating stroke. My friend, unfortunately, probably only attended Mass as a kid under threat of corporal consequence. The other day he posted on Facebook that he feels it is unjust that his mother should be rewarded for her faith with calamity. I wanted to respond to him that he ought to formulate an inequality with infinite happiness times infinite eternal time on one side and a finite amount of temporal suffering on the other. I didn't message that to him. He wouldn't have understood. Having never made any effort to gain roots in the faith, my friend is rudderless and may drift into the shoals of functionalism. In the times we live, we all need strong Catholic roots, the sooner and deeper the better.

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leonbloder · 6 years ago

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Notre Dame, Hope & Resurrection

Throughout Holy Week I'll be sharing some prayers from a book I've been using as a prayer guide through Lent: Prayer: Forty Days of Practice. I hope that these prayers and the reflections that accompany them will be meaningful to you as we journey with Jesus through Holy Week.

Prayer for Wednesday of Holy Week:

May I never grow tired of starting over or helping others do the same. My hope is always in renewal and resurrection.

Two days ago, much of the world watched in horror and dismay as a fire raged in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Firefighters were able to save as much of the iconic structure as they could, but the damage was devastating.

Like so many of my friends who have had the fortune of visiting Paris and touring Notre Dame, I had my own memories to draw upon as I watched the story unfold yesterday. I've shared some of those memories before in a devotion:

In 2007, while on an epic trip to London and Paris for our anniversary, Merideth and I found ourselves in the middle of a huge crowd outside the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Hundreds of police officers held the crowd at bay as large limousines pulled up.

"I think that is Jacques Chirac!" I stage-whispered to Merideth as the then President of France emerged from one of the vehicles. "What is going on here?" A lady turned around and said to us in perfect English. "It's the funeral of Abbe Pierre. He was a famous priest, a man beloved by the people for his work with the homeless."

I learned later that Abbe Pierre was born into a wealthy family, but dedicated his life to ministry and service. After World War II the streets of Paris were filled with thousands of displaced and homeless beggars. He mobilized them, gave them purpose, helped them create businesses, and formed an organization called Emmaus, which now has chapters all over the world.

In his book Reaching For The Invisible God, Philip Yancey wrote about how Pierre and his homeless workers from Emmaeus mobilized to build a hospital ward in a leper colony in India. When the workers in India thanked him, Pierre replied, "No, no it is you who have saved us. We must serve or we die."

I've never forgotten that chilly, grey January day as Merideth and I stood outside Notre Dame with thousands of French people--paying homage to a man who dedicated his life to following Jesus' example and caring for the least of these, and who believed he would die if he did not serve.

Yesterday morning I saw a video taken by a first responder who was inside Notre Dame after the fire was controlled. Unbelievably, there were still candles burning in the nave of the church, lit by visitors to the cathedral, who offered prayers there earlier.

It is a sad fact that sometimes it takes a moment of great loss for us to come to grips with what is good, beautiful and true about the world. But in those moments we also have the opportunity to have our eyes opened to the ways that God is still resurrecting what was lost, or left for dead.

My memory of Notre Dame and what I learned there is but one of the millions of stories of the people who have prayed, worshipped and found grace and peace in her dimly lit environs. That is the true legacy of that holy ground.

I have no doubt that Notre Dame cathedral will be restored one day. And I hope that I will get the chance to stand within her once more, light a candle and marvel at the divinely-inspired way we humans fall to our faces only to rise as we begin again, start over and practice resurrection.

May the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you now and always. Amen.

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leyhejuhyunghan · 6 years ago

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Pieter Bruegel The Triumph of Death, Caravaggio, Giovanni Baglione Litigation against Caravaggio, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Henri Edmond Cross, Henri Matisse, Oskar Kokoschka

Pieter Bruegel The Triumph of Death, Caravaggio, Giovanni Baglione Litigation against Caravaggio, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Henri Edmond Cross, Henri #Matisse, Oskar Kokoschka

Pieter Bruegel’s Restored ‘Triumph of Death’ Presented at the Museo del Prado Wednesday, 30 May 2018 https://www.codart.nl/art-works/museo-del-prado-presents-restored-triumph-of-death-by-pieter-bruegel-the-elder/?utm_campaign=pieter-bruegels-restored-triumph-of-death-presented-at-the-museo-del-prado&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), The Triumph of Death, (before restoration) ca. 1562-63 Museo del Prado, Madrid. https://twitter.com/museodelprado/status/1001076263367401473

Museo del Prado‏ @museodelprado "Música en torno a Lorenzo Lotto" a cargo del grupo musical Singer Pur. El jueves 21 de junio a las 19h. Entradas a la venta https://twitter.com/museodelprado/status/1006104065154125824

Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio

Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610), Boy with a Basket of Fruit, 1593–1594, oil on canvas, 67 cm × 53 cm (26 in × 21 in), Galleria Borghese, Rome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#/media/File:Boy_with_a_Basket_of_Fruit-Caravaggio_(1593).jpg

Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610), Bacchus (Italian: Bacco), c.1595, oil on canvas, 95 cm × 85 cm (37 in × 33 in), Uffizi, Florence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchus_(Caravaggio) https://twitter.com/VillaMedicis/status/1001778706883448833

Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610), The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599–1600), Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome. Without recourse to flying angels, parting clouds or other artifice, Caravaggio portrays the instant conversion of St Matthew, the moment on which his destiny will turn, by means of a beam of light and the pointing finger of Jesus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#/media/File:The_Calling_of_Saint_Matthew-Caravaggo_(1599-1600).jpg

Giovanni Baglione (Italian, 1566–1643), The Ecstasy of St Francis, 1601, Art Institute of Chicago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Baglione#/media/File:Giovanni_Baglione_-_The_Ecstasy_of_St_Francis_-_WGA1155.jpg

Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610), Supper at Emmaus, 1601, oil on canvas, 139 cm × 195 cm (55 in × 77 in), National Gallery, London. Caravaggio included himself as the figure at the top left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#/media/File:Caravaggio_-_Cena_in_Emmaus.jpg

Juan Sánchez Cotán (Spanish, 1560–1627), Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber, 1602, San Diego Museum of Art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sánchez_Cotán#/media/File:Fra_Juan_Sánchez_Cotán_001.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sánchez_Cotán

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610), Amor Vincit Omnia, c. 1602. Oil on canvas, 156.5 × 113.3 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Baglione#/media/File:Amor_Vincet_Omnia.jpg

Giovanni Baglione (Italian, 1566–1643), Sacred Love Versus Profane Love (1602–03), by Giovanni Baglione. Intended as an attack on his hated enemy, Caravaggio, it shows a boy (hinting at Caravaggio's alleged homosexuality) on one side, a devil with Caravaggio's face on the other, and between an angel representing pure, meaning non-erotic, love. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#/media/File:Baglione.jpg

Giovanni Baglione (Italian, 1566–1643), Sacred Love and Profane Love (c. 1602–03), Oil on canvas, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Baglione#/media/File:Giovanni_Baglione_-_The_Divine_Eros_Defeats_the_Earthly_Eros_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Giovanni Baglione (Italian, 1566–1643), Sacred Love and Profane Love, 1602. Oil on canvas, 240 × 143 cm. Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Baglione#/media/File:Baglione.jpg

Litigation against Caravaggio Baglione's best known painting, Sacred Love and Profane Love (or The Divine Eros Defeats the Earthly Eros and other variants), was a direct response to Caravaggio's Amor Vincit Omnia (1601–02). Baglione's painting exists in two versions, the earlier in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (c. 1602–03) and the later in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica at Palazzo Barberini in Rome. Both show Sacred Love as an angelic winged figure interrupting a 'meeting' between Cupid (Profane Love), shown as in the Caravaggio as a smaller and naked winged figure, and the Devil. In the later Rome version the devil is portrayed with the caricatured features of Caravaggio, while in Berlin his face is turned away. Both paintings were commissioned by members of the Giustiniani family in Rome: the Caravaggio by the banker and collector Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani, and Baglione's riposte by his brother Cardinal Benedetto Giustiniani. What in the two brothers was probably a good-natured family joke reflected serious rivalry between the artists concerned. Baglione was greatly influenced by the style of Caravaggio during this period of his career, and the younger artist and his circle had claimed, with some justification, that Baglione had plagiarized his style.[12]

In late August 1603 Baglione filed a suit for libel against Caravaggio, Orazio Gentileschi, Ottavio Leoni, and Filipo Trisegni in connection with some unflattering poems circulated around Rome over the preceding summer, which he appears to have been correct in attributing to Caravaggio's circle. Baglione had recently completed his large altarpiece of the Resurrection of Jesusfor Il Gesu, the main church of the Jesuit Order (it was much later replaced), and claimed that Caravaggio was jealous of this important commission. Caravaggio's testimony during the trial as recorded in court documents is one of the few documented records of his thoughts about art and his contemporaries. It included statements that: "I don't know any painter who thinks Giovanni Baglione is a good painter", the Resurrection altarpiece was "clumsy [goffa]" and "it's the worst he's done, and I haven't heard a single painter praise the said painting." Caravaggio was found guilty and held in the Tor di Nona prison for two weeks after the trial, but far from clearing his reputation, Caravaggio's damaging remarks have dominated the critical assessment of Baglione ever since, although Gentileschi's evidence conceded that he was a "first-class painter". Years after Caravaggio's early death in 1610, Baglione was his first biographer, and though he gave him much praise for his early works, his dislike is evident, concentrated on the younger artist's life and character and his later paintings; this verdict, especially as regards the man, has also remained highly influential. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Baglione

Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610), The Denial of Saint Peter (1610), Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#/media/File:The_Denial_of_Saint_Peter-Caravaggio_(1610).jpg https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437986

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Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610), The Denial of Saint Peter (1610), Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio#/media/File:The_Denial_of_Saint_Peter-Caravaggio_(1610).jpg

Giovanni Baglione (Italian, 1566–1643), Hercules at the crossroads, 1640-1642, National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Baglione#/media/File:Giovanni_Baglione_-_Hercules_at_the_Crossroads_-_WGA01156.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Luxe, Calme et Volupté, 1904, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Matisse-Luxe.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Woman with a Hat, 1905. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), The Dance, 1910, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Matissedance.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Open Window, Collioure, 1905, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Matisse-Open-Window.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Le bonheur de vivre, 1905–6, Barnes Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Bonheur_Matisse.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Le Luxe II, 1907–08, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Henri_Matisse,_Le_Luxe_II,_1907–8,_Distemper_on_canvas;_82_1-2_x_54_3-4_in._(209.5_x_138_cm),_Statens_Museum_for_Kunst,_Copenhagen.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), The Conversation, c.1911, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Matisse_Conversation.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), The Piano Lesson, Issy-les-Moulineaux, late summer 1916, MoMA. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78908

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Henri Edmond Cross. “Two Women by the Shore, Mediterranean,” 1896, Barnes Foundation‏. Barnes Foundation‏ @the_barnes May 20 HBD to Henri Edmond Cross. Inspired by new optical theories, separate but interwoven touches of paint & a bright palette of contrasting hues were used to achieve greater vibrancy of color in the viewer’s eye. Henri Edmond Cross. “Two Women by the Shore, Mediterranean,” 1896 https://twitter.com/the_barnes/status/998196896324874241

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Luxe, Calme et Volupté, 1904, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Matisse-Luxe.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Woman with a Hat, 1905. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Matisse-Woman-with-a-Hat.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Le bonheur de vivre, 1905–6, Barnes Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Bonheur_Matisse.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), The Dance, 1910, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Matissedance.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Music, 1910, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Matisse_-_Music.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), The Conversation, c.1911, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Matisse_Conversation.jpg

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), The Piano Lesson, Issy-les-Moulineaux, late summer 1916, 8' 1/2" x 6' 11 3/4" (245.1 x 212.7 cm), MoMA. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78908

Belvedere Museum‏ @belvederemuseum May 29 Oskar Kokoschka: Romana Kokoschka, the artist’s mother, 1917 On view at #BeyondKlimt until 26 August: http://bit.ly/2smRPmD #wien #vienna #belvederemuseum #Kokoschka https://www.belvedere.at/Beyond_Klimt https://twitter.com/belvederemuseum/status/1001456687658782720

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Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), The Triumph of Death, (before restoration) ca. 1562-63 Museo del Prado, Madrid. https://www.codart.nl/art-works/museo-del-prado-presents-restored-triumph-of-death-by-pieter-bruegel-the-elder/?utm_campaign=pieter-bruegels-restored-triumph-of-death-presented-at-the-museo-del-prado&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Caravaggio (Italian, 1571–1610), Bacchus (Italian: Bacco), c.1595, oil on canvas, 95 cm × 85 cm (37 in × 33 in), Uffizi, Florence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchus_(Caravaggio)

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Le bonheur de vivre, 1905–6, Barnes Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Bonheur_Matisse.jpg Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), The Dance, 1910, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Matissedance.jpg Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), Music, 1910, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse#/media/File:Matisse_-_Music.jpg Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French, 1869–1954), The Piano Lesson, Issy-les-Moulineaux, late summer 1916, 8' 1/2" x 6' 11 3/4" (245.1 x 212.7 cm), MoMA. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78908

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1) Gorgeous shoes that were sadly too big for me

2) Funny snowball that joined my collection

3) An amazing pin's who got home with me

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #found in a emmaus in france #shoes #tourist shit #france #masks

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Woven Sculpture from Nature. 5 Contemporary Basket Artists by Matt Tommey.

The art of weaving and basketry is ancient in its origins, but many artists have developed traditional techniques to create beautiful, contemporary works of art. Below are some wonderful leading artists in the world of contemporary weaving and basketry. A mixture of materials, colors and textures permits artists to create beautifully unique pieces of fine artwork for homes, museums and public venues. Tommey,M. (2017).

1. Kari Lonning

Based out of Ridgefield, Connecticut, Karli Lonning has been making baskets for now over forty years. She uses commercial textile dyes to color her natural rattan reeds that she uses for her contemporary baskets. With a mixture of textiles and weaving techniques, her artwork is colorful, textural and unique.

You can find her artwork in many places around the country and world. From the White House craft collection and the Smithsonian to the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, Karli's work is in numerous private and public collections. She is even featured in the United States Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand,Tommey,M. (2017).

Image 1, Contemporary basket made by Kari Lonning with her "hairy" basket style.

2. Gina Telocci

Gina's work begins with the selection of her materials. Using earthy and found materials like driftwood, roots, willow and plants, these pieces are beautifully created. Living and working out of New Mexico, Gina Telocci utilizes ancient processes of basketry, sewing and weaving to produce her sculptures.

These beautiful creations are found in homes and collections across the United States, including public and private installations, Tommey, M. (2017).

Image 2, Modern woven sculpture by Gina Telocci.

3. Debora Muhl

From Emmaus, Pennsylvania, Debora Muhl is a basket artist who is a self taught weaver who uses the ornate coiling technique of sweet grass to make beautiful sculptural baskets. These contemporary baskets use traditional technique to create modern and abstract baskets. Though they are often forms of devolved vessels, these pieces have an elegance of intentional disorder.

Debora's artwork can be found in the permanent collections of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston as well as the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, France, Tommey, M. (2017).

Image 3, Coiled sweet grass sculpture by Debora Muhl.

4. Karen Gubitz

Inspired by nature, Karen Gubitz utilizes her self-taught weaving skills to turn natural fibers into beautiful woven pieces of art. She hand-gathers all of her weaving materials from her Harvest Hill Prairie farm in Western Illinois. Having completed her studies at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, Karen has over twenty years of experience.

To see more of Karen's work, visit her in her studio in Oak Park, Illinois. A long term resident of Chicago, she has lived, worked an sold art across the area and is a part of many public and private collections around the country, Tommey, M. (2017).

Image 4, Contemporary Karen Gubitz wall hanging piece.

5. Matt Tommey

Matt Tommey says “Every creation begins with a Walk in the Woods”. Tommey,M. (2017).

Matt has been weaving baskets for over twenty years. When he started weaving in college while at the University of Georgia, he used primarily found objects in the woods and made functional baskets. Over time, he developed his artwork to where it is today. From function to beauty, Matt's employs different weaving materials and techniques to push the boundaries of basketry.

Image 5, Contemporary basket sculpture with kudzu, clay and Mountain Laurel.

Your Bibliography:

Tommey, M. (2017). Contemporary Basket Artists. [online] Matt Tommey. Available at: http://www.matttommey.com/contemporary-basket-artists.html [Accessed 3 Aug. 2017].

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24th June >> Pope Francis' Address to the audience participants in the General Chapter of the Congregation of the Resurrection (Vatican Radio) Pope Francis addressed the participants in the 33rd General Chapter of the Congregation of the Resurrection on Saturday, during a special audience granted them on Saturday morning in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic Palace. Below, please find the full text of the Holy Father's remarks, in their official English translation... **************************** Dear Brothers, I am pleased to receive you on the occasion of your General Chapter. I thank the Superior General for his kind words, and through you, I greet all your confrères present in fifteen countries on four continents. As spiritual sons of Bogdan Janski, the apostle of Polish émigrés in France in the nineteenth century, you were founded in order to testify that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is at the basis of the Christian life, to proclaim the need for personal resurrection, and to support the community in its mission of service to the Kingdom of God. In close connection to the charism of the Institute, you have chosen as the theme of this Chapter: Witnesses of the Presence of the Risen Lord: from Community to the World. I would like to reflect with you on three particular phrases. 1. Witnesses of the Presence of the Risen Lord. In a word, missionaries, apostles of the Living One. In this regard, I would propose to you as an icon Mary Magdalene, the apostle to the apostles. On Easter morn, having encountered the risen Jesus, she proclaimed him to the other disciples. She sought Jesus dead and found him alive. This is the joyful Good News she brought to the others: Christ is alive and he has the power to conquer death and bestow eternal life. This brings us to a first reflection. Nostalgia for a past that was rich in vocations and impressive achievements must not prevent you from seeing the life that the Lord is causing to blossom, today too, in your midst. Do not yield to nostalgia, but be men who, moved by faith in the God of history and of life, proclaim the coming of the dawn amid the darkness of the night (cf. Is 21:11-12). Men of contemplation, who, with the eyes of the heart fixed on the Lord, can see what others, caught up in the concerns of this world, cannot. Men capable of proclaiming, with the boldness born of the Spirit, that Jesus Christ is alive and is Lord. A second reflection is this. Mary Magdalene and the other women who went to the tomb that morning (cf. Lk 24:1-8) were women “on the move”: they abandoned their “nest” and set out; they took a risk. The Spirit is calling you too, Brothers of the Resurrection, to be men who set out, to be an Institute “on the move” towards every human periphery, wherever the light of the Gospel needs to be brought. The Spirit is calling you to be seekers of the face of God wherever it is to be found: not in the tombs – “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” (v. 5) – but where it lives: in the community and in mission. 2. From Community to the World. Like the disciples of Emmaus, allow the Risen One to walk at your side, both as individuals and in community, especially along the path of disappointment and abandonment (cf. Lk 24:11ff.). This encounter will make you run once more, filled with joy and without delay, to the community, and from the community to the entire world, in order to tell others that “The Lord is risen indeed!” (v. 34). Those who believe in the Risen One have the courage to “go forth” and bring to others the Good News of the resurrection, embracing the risks of testimony, even as the Apostles did. How many people are waiting for this joyful proclamation! It is not right for us to deprive them of it. If the resurrection of Christ is our greatest certainty and our most precious treasure, how can we not run to proclaim it to others? A concrete way of showing this is fraternal life in community. It entails accepting the brothers the Lord has given us. As the Apostle Paul tells us, now that Christ has risen from the dead, we can no longer look at others from a human point of view (cf. 2 Cor 5:16). We view them and we accept them as a gift from the Lord. Others are a gift not to be taken for granted or looked down upon, but a gift to be received with respect, because in our brothers, especially if they are weak and frail, Christ comes to meet us. I urge you to be builders of evangelical communities and not merely their “consumers”. I ask you to make fraternal life in community your primary form of evangelization. May communities be open to mission and flee every form of self-absorption, which leads to death. Do not let problems – for problems will always be there – overwhelm you. Instead, cultivate the mysticism of encounter and, together with the brothers the Lord has given you, as you dwell “in the light of the loving relationship of the three divine Persons”, seek ways and means to move forward (cf. Apostolic Letter To All Consecrated People, 21 November 2014, I, 2). In a society that tends to reduce everything to flat uniformity, where injustice gives rise to divisions and hostility, in a world torn and aggressive, ensure that the witness of fraternal life and community will never be lacking! 3. Prophets of joy and of Easter hope. The Risen Lord poured out upon his disciples two forms of consolation: interior joy and the light of the paschal mystery. The joy of recognizing the presence of the Risen Jesus draws you into his Person and his will: for this very reason, it leads to mission. The light of the paschal mystery brings new hope, a “trustworthy hope”, as Pope Benedict XVI has said (Spe Salvi, 2). Risen in order to enable others to rise, set free in order to bring freedom to others, born to new life in order to bring new life to birth in everyone who crosses our path: this is your vocation and mission as Brothers of the Resurrection. “Why do you look for the living among the dead?” (Lk 24:5). May these words continually resound in your hearts. They will help you to overcome moments of sadness and will open before you horizons of joy and hope. They will enable you to shatter tombstones, and give you the strength to proclaim the Good News in this culture so often marked by death. If we have the courage to descend to our personal and community tombs, we will see how Jesus can make us rise from them. This will enable us to rediscover the joy, the happiness and the passion of those moments when we first made of our lives a gift to God and others. Dear brothers, I conclude by repeating something I have often said to consecrated persons, especially during the Year of Consecrated Life: remember the past with gratitude, live the present with passion, and embrace the future with hope. A grateful memory of the past: not archaeology, because charism is always a wellspring of living water, not a bottle of distilled water. A passion for maintaining ever alive and young our first love, who is Jesus. Hope, in the knowledge that Jesus is with us and guides our steps, even as he guided the steps of our founders. May Mary, who in a singular way experienced and continues to experience the mystery of her Son’s Resurrection, watch over your journey with a Mother’s love. I give all of you my blessing. And I ask you, please, not to forget to pray for me.

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Our Lady of La Salette, France - Feast Day: September 19th - Latin Calendar

…we looked for a long time...but the Beautiful Lady had disappeared perhaps it was a great Saint" remarked Melanie.

" If we had known it was a great Saint," said Maximin, " we would have asked her to take us with her."

Faithful to the mission she received on Calvary, Mary never ceases to recall to us the means which have been given to us to return to her Son: for we cannot, without His aid, build our lives and our world. To reject His grace cannot fail to have most serious consequence.

Mary, our Reconciler, came to La Salette to recall this truth to her people. At La Salette, France, on September 19, 1846, the Virgin Mary appeared to two children, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Mathieu, and gave them an explanation of future world events. This was kept secret for a time, then later it was allowed to be revealed to all.

Mélanie and Maximin were tending cows on a mountain about three miles distant from the village of La Salette when both of them beheld in a resplendent light a "beautiful lady" seated and crying.

Even before speaking, Our Lady presents herself to the children and to us. Mary, the mother of Jesus and our mother, radiates the light of the resurrection: she is nothing else but light. The brightness of her face is such that Maximin is unable to bear it and it dazzles Melanie. Her garments, like those of Christ on the mount of the Transfiguration, are likewise resplendent with light: her headdress, robe, long apron and peasant woman’s shawl.

The children described the lady as wearing a long white dress, slippers decorated with gold buckles and roses, and a headdress capped with roses. Speaking alternately in French and in their native dialect, she gave them a message which they were "to deliver to all her people."

On each side of the crucifix She wears are placed the hammer and pincers, the instruments of the Passion. The shoulders of the beautiful lady are weighed down by a large chain, the biblical symbol of sin and the injustices committed by us towards our neighbor.

The Lady continued to weep and warned, "If my people refuse to submit, I will be forced to let go the arm of my Son. It is so strong and so heavy, I can no longer hold it back." She complained of the loss of faith in the area, the desecration of the Sabbath, and the profanation of her Son’s name, saying "This is what makes the arm of my Son so heavy."

The Lady went on to speak of hope of divine mercy if the people amended their lives, and encouraged the children to say their prayers regularly. "You should say them well, at night and in the morning, even if you say only an Our Father and Hail Mary when you can’t do better. When you can do better, say more."

Mary recalls to us that God, "rich in mercy", is present in each of our lives. How could we fail to "take heed" of such tenderness? How could we resist the tears of her who is "compelled to pray without ceasing for us", of Her who is so maternally attentive to every detail and happening in our lives: our struggles and our faults our choices and our daily cares.

Finally, before disappearing she communicated to each of the children a secret.

Mélanie and Maximin told the villagers what they saw, and the story caused quite a sensation. Several investigations, interviews and reports were performed.

Philibert de Bruillard, Bishop of Grenoble, appointed a commission to examine the reports. The commission concluded that the reality of the apparition should be admitted. Soon several miraculous cures took place on the mountain of La Salette, and pilgrimages to the site began.

The miracle, needless to say, was ridiculed by free-thinkers, but it was also questioned among the faithful, and especially by ecclesiastics. There arose against it in the Dioceses of Grenoble and Lyons a violent opposition, aggravated by what is known as the incident of Ars.

In response, Bishop de Bruillard declared the apparition of the Blessed Virgin certain, and authorized the cult of Our Lady of La Salette, on November 16, 1851. On May 1, 1852, the bishop published a decree announcing the construction of the Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette on the mountain and the founding of the religious order Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette.

On August 24, 1852 Pope Pius IX declared the messages and apparition to be worthy of belief and of divine origins.

Reflecting on the Signs

 At La Salette Mary Weeps. Mary wept and her tears flowed down on the crucifix on her breast. They touched her Son’s body, which continues to be unrecognized, rejected and broken by his people, and they were transformed into light. She continues to weep over us sinners.

 At La Salette, Mary was clothed like the women of that locality. She wore a dress that extended to her ankles, a long housewife’s apron, a shawl crossed on her breast, a bonnet that covered the hair and wide-buckle shoes Mary is God’s homemaker, assigned to the well-being of the Church; Mary is a mother serving her children.

 The hammer and pincers below the crossbar of the crucifix, the chains and the roses that outlined the Lady’s shawl, crowned her forehead and ran along the edges of her shoes, drew the children’s attention. They are a challenge for our reflection and send us searching Scripture and traditions for possible meanings.

 While the Lady spoke, Melanie and Maximin stood close to her. "A person could not have passed between her and us," they said. When she walked "we followed close behind her," they said. To be so close, to follow closely means to pursue with her the paths of God.

 In the light of the Resurrection Mary reaches the end of her walk and rises slowly above the ground. She gazes heavenward, then toward the earth and slowly "melts" within her "dwelling-light". "If we had known that it was a great saint, we would have asked her to take us with her!" The children did not recognize who this Beautiful Lady was as at Emmaus before the breaking of bread, where the disciples did not recognize the Lord.

 The last sign of the Apparition did not distract the children from their normal lives, but their tasks took on new meaning for them. "We were very happy and we talked about all that we had seen."

The La Salette Cross is the unique symbol of the La Salette Missionaries.

The hammer of selfishness causes sin within life, resulting in division, domination, and isolation.

The pincers symbolize the La Salette’s work of reconciliation - removing sin from the world by healing people, families, and individuals.

#our lady of la salette

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32 World-Famous Paintings and Where to Find Them

And the day has come for us to honour your requests, our dear readers. So many of you have asked for this article that we could hardly keep track, so we finally decided to create it to satisfy your longing-for-art facets (wink)! We are going to list some of the most renowned canvas-projected masterpieces of the world and then we will simply attach the names of the establishments where they currently reside. If you are on an art-hunting spree, this article should be kept close at heart (even saved, it that is what it takes). So, without further ado, let’s get right into it!

1. Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa – The Louvre (Paris, France)

2. Albrecht Altdorfer: The Battle of Alexander at Issus – Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany)

3. Francis Bacon: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion – Tate Britain (London, England)

4. Giacomo Balla: Abstract Speed + Sound – Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, Italy)

5. Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights – Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain)

6. Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’ �� Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium)

7. Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus – Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy)

8. Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Hunters in the Snow – Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria)

9. Caravaggio: Supper at Emmaus – National Gallery (London, England)

10. Gustave Caillebotte: Parisian Street, Rainy Day – Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, USA)

11. Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Triumph of Death – Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain)

12. Paul Cézanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire – Princeton University Art Museum (New Jersey, USA)

13. Caravaggio: The Lute Player – three versions: Wildenstein Collection; Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia); and Badminton House (Gloucestershire, England)

14. Mary Cassatt: The Child’s Bath – Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, USA)

15. Paul Cézanne: Bathers – Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, USA)

16. Thomas Eakins: Max Schmitt in a Single Scull – Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, USA)

17. Eugène Delacroix: The Massacre at Chios – The Louvre (Paris, France)

18. Salvador Dalí: The Burning Giraffe – Kunstmuseum Basel (Basel, Switzerland)

19. Jan van Eyck: The Madonna of the Chancellor Rolin – The Louvre (Paris, France)

20. Caspar David Friedrich: The Sea of Ice – Kunsthalle Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)

21. Giorgione or Titian: Pastoral Concert – The Louvre (Paris, France)

22. Thomas Gainsborough: Mr and Mrs Andrews – National Gallery (London, England)

23. Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa – The Louvre (Paris, France)

24. Giorgione: Sleeping Venus – Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden, Germany)

25. Vincent van Gogh: Café Terrace at Night – Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, The Netherlands)

26. Francisco Goya: The Colossus – Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain)

27. Vincent van Gogh: Self-portrait – There are many of them but most of them can be found in Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum

28. El Greco: The Burial of the Count of Orgaz – Iglesia de Santo Tomé (Toledo, Spain)

29. Francisco Goya: The Nude Maja – Museo del Prado (Madrid, Spain)

30. El Greco: View of Toledo – Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, USA)

31. William Holman Hunt: The Hireling Shepherd – Manchester Art Gallery (Manchester, England)

32. Edward Hopper: Nighthawks – Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, USA)

Did you enjoy our list?

How many of the aforementioned works of art have you beheld with your own eyes? Make sure you hit the comment section below and tell us all about your travel-endeavours (wink)! Oh, and to spoil it a bit, we will surely return to this subject for there are a lot more exquisite masterpieces to discover.

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shiftythrifting · 5 years ago

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Very recent 'Vote Thatcher' French button and kinda blurry Scott Randall Rhodes buttons, found in my local Emmaus (France)

#submission #thrifting #politics

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shiftythrifting · 7 years ago

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My best thrift find was a Roger Waters 2012 The Wall tour shirt. Mind you, the tour was only in America, and I live in France, so it was pretty incredible ! Probably not exceptional or whatever, but I was soooo happy when I found it, especially since I rarely find band shirts in my local Emmaus (an association that has thrift shops here in France)

#lumeha #ask me thangs

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pamphletstoinspire · 8 years ago

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Our Universal Mother - Part 43

Our Lady of LaSalette - France

…we looked for a long time...but the Beautiful Lady had disappeared perhaps it was a great Saint" remarked Melanie.

" If we had known it was a great Saint," said Maximin, " we would have asked her to take us with her."

Mélanie and Maximin were tending cows on a mountain about three miles distant from the village of La Salette when both of them beheld in a resplendent light a "beautiful lady" seated and crying.

Finally, before disappearing she communicated to each of the children a secret.

Mélanie and Maximin told the villagers what they saw, and the story caused quite a sensation. Several investigations, interviews and reports were performed.

On August 24, 1852 Pope Pius IX declared the messages and apparition to be worthy of belief and of divine origins.

Reflecting on the Signs

 The last sign of the Apparition did not distract the children from their normal lives, but their tasks took on new meaning for them. "We were very happy and we talked about all that we had seen."

The La Salette Cross is the unique symbol of the La Salette Missionaries. (See image below)

The hammer of selfishness causes sin within life, resulting in division, domination, and isolation.

The pincers symbolize the La Salette’s work of reconciliation - removing sin from the world by healing people, families, and individuals.

Image of La Salette Cross

#our universal mother

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