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Embark on a transformative academic journey at LaSalle College, Canada, guided by the expertise of the best overseas education consultants. Their support ensures a seamless application process and personalized assistance, enhancing the experience for international students pursuing excellence in design, arts, business, and technology at this renowned institution.

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Affordable, Accelerated, Accredited fully Online Diploma programs by LaSalle College Vancouver from LCI Education´s global learning community. For skill-builders and career-enhancers. Applied Arts, Design, Creativity, Video games, Fashion, Management.

LCI Education is a prestigious international learning community with 12 high-caliber superior education institutions across 23 campuses present on 5 continents. We count over 20,000 on-campus learners annually; in addition to 10,000 fully online from over 100 countries. Our commitment to excellence has earned us the recognition as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, 2 years in a row. 👇🏻

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#LCIEducation #LaSalleCollege

[seerkin]

Throughout her vampiric life, she has attended countless universities / colleges.

You can view them below the keep reading.

She has studied the following courses:

fashion related

fashion design/studies - master of fine arts / arts in fashion design and society / fashion studies

interior design/architecture - bachelor of fine arts

textile design - master of fine arts

jewellery design - master of fine arts in jewellery and metal-smithing

fashion business/ management - master of professional studies

beauty therapy - diploma of cosmetology

marketing - associate of applied science in fashion marketing and communication

ARTS RELATED

art / fine arts - bachelor of arts / bachelor of fine arts.

history of art - master of arts in art history

visual art - bachelor in visual arts and emerging media management

photography - master of fine arts

painting - master of fine arts

BUSINESS RELATED

lingustics - minor

business management - bachelor of business administration

events management - bachelor

public relations - master of arts in communication with the concentrating in public relations

LAW RELATED

criminology - major

law / business - juris doctor and master in business administration

social science

sociology / psychology - double major

women & gender studies - major

HISTORY RELATED

history - bachelor of arts

scandinavian studies - bachelor degree

vikings studies - minor

AGRICULTURE / LIFE SCIENCE RELATED

wine making - major in viticulture and enology

HOSPITALITY RELATED

hotel management - bachelor degree in hospitality management with hotel/lodging management

hospitality management/event planning - bachelor degree in hospitality management with event planning

The above degrees are her first set of degrees that she had received at USA universities/colleges. Those are of the following:

Kendall College; Cornell University; Washington State University; University of Wisconsin - Madison; University of Richmond; Kendall College National Louis University; Rhode Island School of Design; State College of Beauty Culture; Brown | RSID ; College of Arts and Sciences; The New School Parsons; University of Central Florida; Academy of Art University; Pace University; University of Denver; Tulane University; Louisiana State University; Harvard Law School and Business School

The following universities are international in which she studied anything fashion related are the following:

England - central saint of martins college of art

Italy - istituto marangoni

France - esmod

Australia -��fds

Canada - lasalle college

Norway - oslo national academy of the arts

China - istituto marangoni

India - istituto marangoni

Germany - the fashion design institute

Japan - Bunka Fashion College

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Imam Zulqarnain Abdu-Shahid is a resident of Staten Island, NY and serves as the Islamic

Chaplain for Staten Island University Hospital for over 14 years. One of his many

accomplishments was establishing a prayer room for employees, patients and their

families, conducting and maintaining Friday services for worshippers at the facility.

Alongside his chaplaincy, Imam Abdu -Shahid is the Founder of House of Community, Baitul

Jamaat - whose mission is to provide food security, various activities, programs,

educational series and advocacy support, to the underserved families borough-wide;

starting right here in our base of-Staten Island. To date, over 50,000 families have been

serviced.

Awards and Certifications include: NYC Marriage Officiant; Recognition of Excellence

Award – 2020; Family Development Credential, Cornell University; Community Mediation

Services, Interfaith Center of New York; Pastoral Crisis Intervention, FEMA/Islamic Relief

USA; NYC Dept of Corrections Appreciation Award, 2009;

Imam Abdu Shahid attained both his Master’s Degree in Education and Special Education

from Mercy College,1998; Bachelors of Science in Psychology, Mercy College, 1994 and

Associates in Law, Bronx Community College, 1989.

He is currently a member of the following: Staten Island Clergy Leadership Committee;

Staten Island Interfaith Advisory Group, Office of Faith Based Initiatives; Staten Island

Hunger Task Force and Masjidus Sabur Inc.

One of his many passions is his love for Percussion/ Congas. Imam Abdu-Shahid has

performed both nationally and internationally. Such places include: Canada, Dubai, Abu

Dabi, London, and Australia performing alongside Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens, Native

Deen, Mahir Zain and Zain Bhikha to name a few.

Imam Abdu Shahid is happily married to wife, Jamilah LaSalle, Executive Director of Baitul

Jamaat – House of Community for 14 years. Together they have 3 childre

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Gustave Sauvant Of Justice Dept. Joining DeGaulle," Ottawa Citizen. April 5, 1943. Page 7. ---- Gustave L. Sauvant, acting superintendent of penitentiaries, Department of Justice, has joined the Fighting French forces of General Charles de Gaulle with the rank of lieutenant, The Citizen learned yesterday.

Mr. Sauvant, who has been granted leave of absence by the government, will leave shortly for the Fighting French headquarters in London, England. It is the second time that Mr. Sauvant volunteered to serve under the colors of France, his native country. During the last war, he left Canada to enlist in the French army and had a distinguished military career, serving under Marshal Petain and General de Castelnau, and attaining the rank of lieutenant.

He was the originator of the Free French movement in Ottawa following the fall of France in 1940 and acted for some time as president of the local Free French committee. He resides at 35 Henderson avenue.

Born in France. Born at Bonneval, France, 46 years ago, Lieut. Sauvant came to Canada with his parents in 1903 and spent his boyhood at Masham Mills. He studied at the Bourget College, Rigaud, and is the holder of a Bachelor of Arts degree of the University of Montreal.

At the beginning of the last war, he was a translator with the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery. in Ottawa, when he volunteered to go to France to fight with the French army. He was twice injured on active service, cited for bravery, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre, Verdun medal and other military decorations.

Returning to Canada in 1919, he was engaged in newspaper work and was active in several local organizations. He served as vice-president of the LaSalle and Rialto hockey clubs, and secretary of L'Union Nationale Francaise. In 1924 he became professor of French at the Royal Military College, Kingston.

Mr. Sauvant joined the Department of Justice in 1938 as librarian and professor at the St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary, where he also served as acting warden following his promotion as inspector of penitentiaries. He was made acting superintendent of penitentiaries in July 1938.

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🇮🇩🇨🇦❤️ LOGO COMPETITION! To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Canada-Indonesia bilateral relations in 2022, the Indonesian Embassy in Ottawa and the Canadian Embassy in Jakarta, in partnership with LaSalle College Jakarta (@lasallejakarta), are organizing a logo design competition open to all Indonesian and Canadian nationals! Win CAD500 Gift Cards from the Indonesian Embassy & exclusive souvenirs from the Canadian Embassy! Swipe left to learn more about the rules of the competition. The closing date is December 12, 2021.   Unleash your creativity and submit your idea now 🎨! ----------------------- 🇮🇩🇨🇦 SAYEMBARA LOGO   Dalam rangka memperingati 70 tahun hubungan bilateral Kanada-Indonesia di tahun 2022, Kedutaan Besar Republik Indonesia (KBRI) di Ottawa dan Kedutaan Besar Kanada di Jakarta, bekerja sama dengan LaSalle College Jakarta menyelenggarakan kompetisi desain logo yang terbuka untuk semua warga negara Indonesia dan Kanada!   Menangkan gift card seharga 500 dollar Kanada dari KBRI Ottawa dan kenang-kenangan eksklusif dari Kedubes Kanada! Geser ke kiri untuk mempelajari lebih lanjut tentang aturan sayembara. Sayembara ini ditutup tanggal 12 Desember 2021.   Ayo tunjukkan kreativitasmu dan kirimkan idemu sekarang 🎨!   #StayHealthyStayCreative #logocompetition #designcompetition #lasallejakarta #wearelci #wearelasalleindonesia #designthenewyou #designyourfuture #canadaindonesia #canada🇨🇦 #canada #toronto #ontario #canadapost #lovecanada @canadainindonesia @canadaasean @canada @indonesiaintoronto https://www.instagram.com/p/CWn2yS_J0IJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[fashionfangs]

ALI'S DEGREES & EDUCATION

Ali actually went to colleges/universities throughout her vampiric life.

You can view them below the KEEP READING.

She has studied the following courses:

FASHION RELATED

fashion design/studies - MASTER OF FINE ARTS / ARTS IN FASHION DESIGN AND SOCIETY / FASHION STUDIES

interior design/architecture - BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS

textile design - MASTER OF FINE ARTS

jewellery design - MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN JEWELLERY AND METAL-SMITHING

fashion business/ management - MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

beauty therapy - DIPLOMA OF COSMETOLOGY

marketing - ASSOCIATE OF APPLIED SCIENCE IN FASHION MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION

ARTS RELATED

art / fine arts - BACHELOR OF ARTS / BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS.

history of art - MASTER OF ARTS IN ART HISTORY

visual art - BACHELOR IN VISUAL ARTS AND EMERGING MEDIA MANAGEMENT

photography - MASTER OF FINE ARTS

painting - MASTER OF FINE ARTS

BUSINESS RELATED

lingustics - MINOR

business management - BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

events management - BACHELOR

public relations - MASTER OF ARTS IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE CONCENTRATING IN PUBLIC RELATIONS

LAW RELATED

criminology - MAJOR

law / business - JURIS DOCTOR AND MASTER IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

SOCIAL SCIENCE

sociology / psychology - DOUBLE MAJOR

WOMEN & GENDER STUDIES - MAJOR

HISTORY RELATED

history - BACHELOR OF ARTS

scandinavian studies - BACHELOR DEGREE

vikings studies - MINOR

AGRICULTURE / LIFE SCIENCE RELATED

wine making - MAJOR IN VITICULTURE AND ENOLOGY

HOSPITALITY RELATED

hotel management - BACHELOR DEGREE IN HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT WITH HOTEL/LODGING MANAGEMENT

hospitality management/event planning - BACHELOR DEGREE IN HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT WITH EVENT PLANNING

The above degrees are her first set of degrees that she had received at USA universities/colleges. Those are of the following:

Kendall College; Cornell University; Washington State University; University of Wisconsin - Madison; University of Richmond; Kendall College National Louis University; Rhode Island School of Design; State College of Beauty Culture; Brown | RSID ; College of Arts and Sciences; The New School Parsons; University of Central Florida; Academy of Art University; Pace University; University of Denver; Tulane University; Louisiana State University; Harvard Law School and Business School

The following universities are international in which she studied anything FASHION RELATED are the following:

England - CENTRAL SAINT OF MARTINS COLLEGE OF ART

Italy - ISTITUTO MARANGONI

France - ESMOD

Australia - FDS

Canada - LASALLE COLLEGE

Norway - OSLO NATIONAL ACADEMY OF THE ARTS

China - ISTITUTO MARANGONI

India - ISTITUTO MARANGONI

Germany - THE FASHION DESIGN INSTITUTE

Japan - Bunka Fashion College

[channelguest]

Tourisme Montréal celebrates excellence, pays tribute to Air Canada’s Calin Rovinescu | World News | Travel Wire News

Calin Rovinescu, President and CEO of Air Canada

Leaders from Montréal’s tourism industry were honored yesterday at the Distinction Awards, an annual gala celebrating innovative business strategies. The event, which took place at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, was organized by Tourisme Montréal and presented by Air Canada.

“Tourisme Montréal wishes to commend its industry partners for their outstanding work. Thanks to them, Montréal is considered one of the most attractive urban destinations in North America and is known around the world for being an open, vibrant and creative city,” said Yves Lalumière, President and CEO of Tourisme Montréal.

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The event included a special tribute to Calin Rovinescu, President and CEO of Air Canada. Under his leadership, Canada’s leading air carrier has increased Montréal’s international connections, making it one of the world’s top 50 megahubs.

The 2018 winners are:

Bill Brown Leader of Tomorrow Award: Angèle Vermette, Guidatour Tourism or Hotel Management Student Award: Alexandra-Jade Girard, ITHQ Concierge Award: Yannis Triantafyllou, Hôtel Le St-James Hospitality Award: Hôtel Monville Destination Marketing Award – Under 50 employees: Festival MURAL Destination Marketing Award – Over 50 employees: Festival International de Jazz Innovation Award – Under 50 employees: MU Innovation Award – Over 50 employees: Phi Centre Business Meetings and Conventions Award: Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Synergy Award: MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE and ITHQ Museum Award – Over 50,000 visitors: Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal Archaeology and History Complex Sports Tourism Development Award: Olympic Park Special Tribute: Calin Rovinescu, President and CEO of Air Canada, member of the Order of Canada

The Distinction Awards were made possible thanks to support from the following partners: Air Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Aéroports de Montréal, Le Journal de Montréal, Re Le Traiteur, Colette Grand Café, Restaurant Le XVI XVI, and the students of LaSalle College.

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¡Hola! My name is Alejandro, I was born in Mexico City. My father comes from Guadalajara, where Tequila and Mariachi comes from; My mother, on the other hand, is Spanish, born in Algeciras. I have lived three years in Canada, at the moment I reside in Montreal where I study Arts Literature and Design at LaSalle College. Since the first time I came to Canada, I was fascinated because I like nature very much; I like to do hiking, camping, I am fascinated by animals, I grew up in a place full of them. In Mexico I used to ride horses, I learned at the age of 6 since my dad is a rider and used to compete. My biggest passion is theatre, at the age of 7 I started taking acting, dance and singing classes. Being on stage has always brought out the best in me, I feel full when I do what I love. Another thing that I enjoy doing is drawing even though I’m not the best at it. This will be my blog for the next months, I hope you enjoy reading it. :) ¡Hasta Luego!

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Every year since 2015, we at Twin Cities Geek have organized our Holiday Toy & Book Drive to support the families served by the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center and the individuals served by the Women’s Prison Book Project.

The Twin Cities geek community came together once again to make the holidays brighter for so many Twin Cities families. The 2019 Twin Cities Geek Holiday Toy & Book Drive drive collected 1,497 toys and gifts and 2,805 books, graphic novels, manga, and comics for a combined grand total of:

4,302 donations!

All of these items were supplemented by generous cash donations of $500 from Nelson Cosplay’s Holiday Market and $135 through community donations on Facebook for a total of $635!

This effort was made possible by a team of over 20 volunteers who made deliveries, sorted donations, and helped with content creation over a period of almost two months. This massive project would not be possible without geeks in our community going the extra mile.

Each and every one of you who volunteered, donated, or helped spread the word about this year’s Holiday Toy & Book Drive helped make a difference in someone’s life this holiday season. You all are amazing!

Donated books await new readers

Just one pile of donated toys

Alisha poses in front of donations while volunteering

Mary shows off a donated toy

Donations for Families in Need

The donated toys, gifts, and children’s and young-adult books were distributed to children and their families in the Summit-University neighborhood in St. Paul through Hallie Q. Brown Community Center. As in past years, we especially asked you to donate items that would make good gifts for teens, and you came through again, giving all manner of tabletop games, video games, graphic novels, collectibles, YA books, DVDs, and more. This is important, as toy-drive initiatives like Toys for Tots so often focus on gifts for younger children—tots—but we geeks are well aware how much it can mean as a teenager to receive a great gift that reflects our interests, and the income level of our family does not change that simple fact.

So, on behalf of all the young adults whose lives you have touched, Twin Cities Geek would like to extend another extra thank-you for being awesome!

Books for the Women’s Prison Book Project

Of the total donations, we also collected 483 paperback books to donate to the Women’s Prison Book Project in Minneapolis! We delivered these to Boneshaker Books, who will distribute them to women and gender-diverse people currently serving time in prison.

Donations delivered to the Women’s Prison Book Project.

Again, thank you to everyone who donated paperbacks. You have helped people you will probably never meet but for whom something as simple as a book can mean so much. And that is a feeling a lot of us geeks can relate to, regardless of our circumstances.

Special Thanks to Local Business and Organizations

Of course, the 2019 Twin Cities Geek Holiday Toy & Book Drive would not have been possible without the generous support of local geek-friendly businesses and organizations throughout the metro who agreed to host donation boxes for us. Many of them have been participating for multiple years, and we were so happy to have them back again—and we were also thrilled to have even more new locations joining us this year for the first time! Many stores also donated to the drive themselves in addition to hosting boxes.

This is a special thank-you to all of them, and we would like to encourage the community to check out these wonderful businesses and organizations throughout the year.

Minneapolis

All Systems Go Games and Movies 158 13th Ave. NE Minneapolis, MN 55413 (612) 331-0028 Map Link

Bingley’s Teas 118 E. 26th St., Suite 208 Minneapolis, MN 55404 (612) 845-1707 Map Link

Brickmania 1618 Central Ave., Suite 110 Minneapolis, MN 55413 (612) 584-3627 Map Link

Comic Book College 4632 Nicollet Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55419 (612) 822-2309 Map Link

Dreamers Vault Games 4701 Hiawatha Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55406 (612) 724-4543 Map Link

Electric Fetus 2000 4th Ave. S Minneapolis, MN 55404 (612) 870-9300 Map Link

Fifth Element 2411 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55405 (612) 377-0044 Map Link

Geek Partnership Society 1121 NE Jackson St. #106 Minneapolis, MN 55413 (612) 424-2477 Map Link

GLITCH 1829 Riverside Ave. #200 Minneapolis, MN 55454 (320) 321-9361 Map Link

Heroic Goods and Games 3456 Minnehaha Ave. Minneapolis MN 55406 (612) 200-9354 Map Link

Knit & Bolt 2833 Johnson St. NE Minneapolis, MN 55418 (612) 788-1180 Map Link

Level Up Games (Mead Hall) 1425 LaSalle Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55403 (612) 315-3945 Map Link

Moon Palace Books and Geek Love Cafe 3032 Minnehaha Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55406 (612) 454-0455 Map Link

Steamship Coffee & Games 711 W Lake St. Minneapolis, MN 55408 (612) 844-1011 Map Link

Tower Games 3920 Nicollet Ave. #150 Minneapolis, MN 55409 (612) 823-4477 Map Link

St. Paul

The Gaming Goat 1326 Grand Ave. St. Paul, MN 55105 (651) 690-4628 Map Link

Mischief Toy Store 818 Grand Ave. St. Paul, MN 55105 (651) 493-3307 Map Link

Source Comics and Games 2057 Snelling Ave. N Roseville, MN 55113 (651) 645-0386 Map Link

Wet Paint 1684 Grand Ave. St. Paul, MN 55105 (651) 698-6431 Map Link

North Metro

Blue Sun Soda Shop 1625 County Hwy. 10, Suite D Spring Lake Park, MN 55432 (763) 432-0704 Map Link

Dreamers Vault Games 11591 Theatre Dr. N Champlin, MN 55316 (763) 506-0303 Map Link

Fantasy Flight Games Center 1975 County Rd. B2 W Roseville, MN 55113 (651) 379-3801 Map Link

The Gamers Den 140 Buchanan St. N #142 Cambridge, MN 55008 (763) 689-5370 Map Link

Games by James 327 Rosedale Center #652 Roseville, MN 55113 (651) 636-0701 Map Link

Games N Go 1595 Hwy. 36 W #190 Roseville, MN 55113 (651) 636-6099 Map Link

Hub Hobby 82 Minnesota Ave. Little Canada, MN 55117 (651) 490-1675 Map Link

Punch-Out Gaming 828 Lake St. S Forest Lake, MN 55025 (651) 464-9820 Map Link

South Metro

Dreamers Vault Games 14332 Burnhaven Dr. Burnsville, MN 55306 (952) 895-1989 Map Link

Gamerheadz 10 Southdale Center Edina, MN 55435 (952) 926-3155 Map Link

Games by James 1032 Burnsville Center Burnsville, MN 55306 (952) 892-1004 Map Link

Games by James Mall of America 358 East Broadway Bloomington, MN 55425 (952) 854-4747 Map Link

Games by James 2510 Southdale Center Edina, MN 55435 (952) 925-9656 Map Link

The Gaming Goat 1095 Diffley Rd., Suite F Eagan, MN 55123 (651) 797-2670 Map Link

Hot Comics & Collectibles 224 Broadway St. S Jordan, MN 55352 (952) 492-7870 Map Link

Hot Comics & Collectibles 26 West 66th St. Richfield, MN 55423 (612) 798-3936 Map Link

Hub Hobby 6410 Penn Ave. S Richfield, MN 55423 (612) 866-9575 Map Link

Issues Needed Comics 15465 Cedar Ave. S #160 Apple Valley, MN 55124 (952) 683-9339 Map Link

Mind’s Eye Comics 200 E Travelers Trail, Suite 105 Burnsville, MN 55337 (952) 492-9350 Map Link

Tomodachi Mall of America 384 North Garden Bloomington, MN 55425 (952) 582-1739 Map Link

East Metro

Level Up Games 120 2nd St. E Hastings, MN 55033 (651) 346-1631 Map Link

West Metro

Dreamers Vault Games 3015 Utah Ave. S St. Louis Park, MN 55426 (952) 938-8163 Map Link

Games by James Ridgedale Center 12529 Wayzata Blvd. Minnetonka, MN 55305 (952) 545-6616 Map Link

Hot Comics & Collectibles 3524 Winnetka Ave. N New Hope, MN 55427 (763) 593-1223 Map Link

Lodestone Coffee and Games 10982 Cedar Lake Rd. Minnetonka, MN 55305 (952) 657-5226 Map Link

Finally, we would also like to acknowledge RFA Engineering in Eden Prairie, which organized an impressive employee donation effort this year, and Wild Rumpus Books in Minneapolis, which donated several boxes of children’s and YA books.

In closing, one more enormous thank-you to our toy-drive volunteers and everyone in the Twin Cities geek community who participated in the drive this holiday season!

Our fifth annual #GiveTCG Twin Cities Geek Holiday Toy & Book Drive closed out 2019 with geeks helping those in need once again! Every year since 2015, we at Twin Cities Geek have organized our Holiday Toy & Book Drive to support the families served by the…

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19th January >> Fr. Martin’s Gospel Reflections / Homilies on John 1:29-34 for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A: ‘Look. there is the Lamb of God’.

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

Gospel (Europe, Africa, New Zealand, Australia & Canada)

John 1:29-34

'Look: there is the Lamb of God'

Seeing Jesus coming towards him, John said, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. This is the one I spoke of when I said: A man is coming after me who ranks before me because he existed before me. I did not know him myself, and yet it was to reveal him to Israel that I came baptising with water.’ John also declared, ‘I saw the Spirit coming down on him from heaven like a dove and resting on him. I did not know him myself, but he who sent me to baptise with water had said to me, “The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and rest is the one who is going to baptise with the Holy Spirit.” Yes, I have seen and I am the witness that he is the Chosen One of God.’

Gospel (USA)

John 1:29–34

Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. He is the one of whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.’ I did not know him, but the reason why I came baptizing with water was that he might be made known to Israel.” John testified further, saying, “I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from heaven and remain upon him. I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God.”

Reflections / Homilies (5)

(i) Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

We are still very much at the beginning of a new year. Just under three weeks into 2020 we still find ourselves looking ahead to the year that opens up before us. In this beginning time, our gospel reading is towards the beginning of John’s gospel, from its opening chapter. The gospel reading also refers to a beginning, the beginning of John the Baptist’s relationship with Jesus. John the Baptist says in that reading, ‘I did not know him myself’. He then says that, at some point in his life, God revealed to him that the one on whom he saw the Holy Spirit come down was the Chosen One of God. John saw this happening when Jesus was baptized. At that moment, he began to know Jesus, and, as a result, from that time on he began to make Jesus known to others. That is what we find John the Baptist doing in today’s gospel reading. He is making Jesus known to others as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, as the one on whom the Spirit came down and rested, and as the Chosen One of God. From not knowing Jesus, he becomes the powerful witness to Jesus. The gospel reading gives us access to the beginning of John the Baptist’s relationship with Jesus.

This gospel reading might prompt us to reflect on the beginnings of our relationship with Jesus, as we begin this New Year. How did we first come to know Jesus and how has our relationship with Jesus been sustained? To ask this question is to reflect on our spiritual autobiography, our faith journey, which will be very personal to each one of us. I don’t find the question, ‘How did I first come to know Jesus?’ an easy one to answer. John the Baptist could point to that moment when the saw the Holy Spirit come down upon Jesus. He immediately understood that Jesus would have a unique place in his life. I would find it hard to point to one such moment in my own life when Jesus suddenly became significant for me. That may be true of many of us. In a very real sense, our relationship with Jesus began at our baptism. It was then that we were incorporated into the Lord’s body, that his Spirit was poured into our lives and that he became our brother. However, most of us were too young to remember that day. Yet, we might remember experiences that brought to life for us what had taken place at the time of our baptism.

Certainly, my parent’s quiet but deep faith nurtured my relationship with the Lord and helped the seed sown at baptism to grow. I became an altar server at a very young age in Christ the King church, Cabra, and the church’s liturgy and my involvement in it helped to bring the Lord alive for me and brought home to me the significance of his body, the church. I became a member of the church choir in Phibsborough, while I was a pupil at Saint Peter’s National School, just beside the church. Looking back, that experience was hugely influential in nurturing my faith. Saint Augustine said whoever sings prays twice. The four part male choir of pupils and past pupils of the school sang the most beautiful four part harmony church music, so there was a lot of praying going on there. We had the most wonderful teacher who conductor the choir, Mr Paddy Sommerville. Another experience that really nurtured my faith in the Lord was at Secondary School. I went to Beneavin College in Finglas, run by the De LaSalle brothers. One of the brothers brought us through the gospel of Luke in religion class. Lesson by lesson, he was opening up for us the story of Jesus as told by Luke. It gave me a sense of the person and life of Jesus I hadn’t had before.

There were other many experiences which led me to the person of Jesus and helped to sustain that relationship, but those ones stand out for me. Looking back, I can now see that these experiences were all ‘John the Baptist moments’ in my life, when God was saying to me through others, ‘Look, there is the Lamb of God, there is the Chosen One of God’. I am sure that everyone in the church could list their own ‘John the Baptist moments’, the people, events, experiences, through which God was pointing you in the direction of his Son. That is the way that God draws us to his Son, in and through each other. None of us comes to the Lord on our own. We need the community of faith to come to the Lord. We bring each other to the Lord. The journey of faith is always a shared journey. It is also a continuous journey, because we never come to know the Lord fully in this life. There is always a sense in which we can say with John the Baptist in today’s gospel, ‘I did not know him myself’, ‘I do not know him myself’. We continually need John the Baptist figures to lead us more fully to the Lord, and, sometimes, the Lord can even be asking any of us to become such a figure for others.

And/Or

(ii) Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

 When I was a child, if either I or one of my brothers pointed at something, my mother would always say, ‘Don’t point’. Pointing was considered bad manners, at least for children. I suspect that has ceased to be an issue for most parents today; they probably have more serious things to worry about. There are times, of course, when pointing was always considered appropriate. If I am giving someone directions, it can be helpful to point, in order to make clear what I am trying to communicate. If you have been searching the sky for the comet in recent weeks, you would no doubt have pointed it out to others if you had spotted it. You would certainly point to identify a source of danger to yourself and others.

 In today’s gospel reading, John the Baptist points to Jesus so as to direct people to him. Seeing Jesus coming towards him, John declared: ‘Look, there is the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world’. We can imagine John pointing with his hand as he spoke. Those words of John have become part of our Eucharist. As the celebrant holds up the consecrated host before Communion, he repeats the words of John the Baptist. John’s action of physically pointing to Jesus and identifying him as the Lamb of God sums up the meaning of John’s life. You could say that John’s whole life pointed to Jesus. The purpose of his life was to lead people to Jesus, to help them recognize Jesus as the ‘Chosen One of God’, in the words of today’s gospel reading. Indeed, John even pointed his own followers in the direction of Jesus. He wanted his followers to become followers of Jesus. With reference to Jesus, he said simply, ‘He must increase, but I must decrease’. Great as John was, he had the humility to point to someone greater than himself, to make way for someone greater. Pointing to one greater than himself and leading others to this person was the purpose of his life and mission.

 Most of us can probably think of people who, in the course of our lives, pointed us in the right direction. These were people who could see just that little bit more clearly than we could at the time. They pointed us towards what they saw - just as John the Baptist pointed people towards someone he saw clearly. We all need good guides from time to time; we need people who can point the way for us, people who, in the words of St. Paul, can direct us towards, ‘whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable’. It is true that we can react negatively to people who come across as knowing what is best for us and who take it upon themselves to tell us what to do. However, the art of pointing others in the right direction is more subtle than that. John the Baptist did not say to his disciples, ‘Become disciples of Jesus’; he simply said, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God’. Those who point us in the right direction are sharing with us something of their experience and insight. Their sharing serves as a kind of invitation rather than as a command. Such sharing will not always be responded to. Not everyone that John pointed in the direction of Jesus went on to become a disciple of Jesus. The art of pointing others in the right direction needs to be accompanied by a profound respect for human freedom. Today we give thanks for all those John the Baptist figures we have encountered in the course of our lives. We thank God for all those who were concerned enough about us to share something of their vision with us, and who remained loyal to us even when we failed to take the path they pointed out to us.

 In thanking God for such people in our lives, we also acknowledge that the Lord calls each of us to become a John the Baptist for others. Our baptism calls on us to live lives that help to point others in the direction that God wants them to take. This is what John the Baptist was doing. He was pointing out the way that God wanted people to take, the way that leads to Jesus. We cannot become all that God wants us to be on our own; we need each other. God guides us through others, and guides others through us. We are dependant on each other if we are to take the path God is calling us to take, the path that leads to God’s Son. We can help each other take this path. We can also of course hinder each other from taking it. Jesus reserved some of his harshest words for those who led others astray, those who, in his own words, ‘put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me’. Those who lead others astray are at the opposite end of the spectrum to the likes of John the Baptist.

 If we are to become a John the Baptist for others, if we are to point others in the direction of Jesus, we ourselves need to be pointing towards Jesus. John could only say, ‘Look, there is the Lamb of God’ because he himself knew the Lamb of God.  John admits in today’s gospel reading that he only knew Jesus because God had revealed Jesus to him. We too need God to reveal Jesus to us. We depend on God to bring us into a deeper relationship with Jesus. This is not something we can do for ourselves. We each need to pray, ‘Lord God, help me to know your Son’. Only then can we go on to become a John the Baptist for others.

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(iii) Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

 I have a print of a painting by Caravaggio in my house that I like very much. The painting depicts the call of Matthew and the original is to be found in a church in Rome called St Luigi in Francese, the French National church in Rome. In the painting Caravaggio depicts Jesus pointing towards Matthew the tax collector who is seated at the table around which several of his colleagues are seated, and there is money on the table that is being gambled for. As Jesus points towards Matthew, so Matthew is depicted as pointing towards himself, while looking at Jesus, as if he is saying to Jesus, ‘Is it me you are pointing to?’ The painting captures the moment just before Matthew stood up from the table and left his taxation business to follow Jesus and to share in his mission. It is the pointing of Jesus towards Matthew that initiates that whole transformation in Matthew’s life. The human action of pointing to someone else can mean many different things. It can have a quite neutral meaning; it can simply be a way of identifying someone in a crowd. It could also have a threatening meaning; the finger that points can be an accusing finger, a finger that condemns. In the case of Caravaggio’s Jesus, pointing carried the meaning of call, invitation, opportunity, promise.

 In this morning’s gospel reading, we can easily imagine John the Baptist pointing to Jesus as he says, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world’. The pointing of John the Baptist in that passage carries the meaning of witness. John is bearing witness to Jesus; he is making known to others what he himself has come to know about Jesus, as John says at the end of the gospel reading, ‘I am the witness that he is the Chosen One of God’. In that short gospel reading John witnesses to Jesus as the Lamb of God, the one on whom the Spirit has come down and remained, the one who is to baptise with the Holy Spirit, and the Chosen One of God. John bears a very full witness to Jesus, and he does so with a view to leading others to Jesus. Immediately after the passage we have just heard, we read that when John’s disciples heard John’s witness to Jesus, they left John and they began to follow Jesus. John the Baptist’s witness to Jesus proved to be very effective. John’s pointing towards Jesus sums up the whole of his life. The purpose of his life was to witness to Jesus. As he goes on to say later in the same gospel, ‘He must increase but I must decrease’.

 Caravaggio’s depiction of Jesus pointing towards Matthew and the fourth evangelist’s depiction of John the Baptist pointing towards Jesus present in a very graphic way the two movements that are at the heart of our lives as Christians. The Lord is constantly pointing towards each of us as he pointed towards Matthew, not in an accusing way but in an inviting way, calling us to become his disciples and to go on living as his disciples. Living as the Lord’s disciple involves bearing witness to him, pointing him out, after the example of John the Baptist in today’s gospel reading. As the Lord points towards us, he wants us in turn to point towards him, to live lives that make him known, that reveal him to others, that allow others to meet him through us. Those two movements are closely interlinked. If we are to live lives that point towards the Lord, we need to become aware of the Lord pointing towards us. We need to hear the Lord’s call to us, as Matthew did, if we, in turn, are to call others to the Lord, as John the Baptist did. We have to first become a Matthew before we can become a John the Baptist. The Lord’s pointing towards us is always going to be prior to our pointing towards him. We need to give ourselves time and space to hear the Lord call our name. Only then will we be ready to speak the Lord’s name to others by our way of life.

 The Lord needs us to speak his name to others, to point towards him, to witness to him. He needs many John the Baptist type figures. Otherwise, how will others come to know him? If we ourselves have a relationship with the Lord today, and our presence here at this Mass is evidence that we do, it is only because we have met John the Baptist figures in the course of our lives, people who, in one way or another, pointed out the Lord to us. I know that in my own case my parents were certainly John the Baptist figures for me, even though they gave expression to their own relationship with the Lord in a very low key way. They would never have seen themselves as John the Baptist figures. Yet, their role in my life was very similar to the role of John the Baptist in the lives of his disciples; they pointed me in the direction of Christ. For all his courageous witness, there were many people who did not go where John was pointing. All John the Baptist figures will have a similar experience. However, the Lord asks us to keep pointing towards him even though our witness may appear to be bearing little fruit.

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(iv) Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

 We live in something of a celebrity age. If I were asked to define what a celebrity is, I think I would struggle a bit. It is probably accurate enough to say that a celebrity is someone who is good at what he or she does and, as a result, lives in a constant glare of publicity. Cameras gravitate towards them like nails to a magnet and they keep appearing on our television screens and in our glossy magazines. Publicity is the life blood of celebrities. If they are to retain their status as celebrities they need to remain in the limelight. In a sense, they need to keep saying, in so many words, ‘Look at me’.

 John the Baptist has been featuring in our liturgy for some weeks now. He is there again in our gospel reading this evening. John the Baptist is about as far from a celebrity as you can get. He has an aversion to saying, ‘Look at me’. He was very clear that his calling from God was to make a very different statement, ‘Look at him’, ‘Look at Jesus’. He declares in this morning’s gospel reading, ‘It was to reveal him to Israel that I came baptizing with water’. John was a very impressive figure. Many people went out to him in the wilderness and looked to him. He had his own followers. Yet, he consistently deflected people’s vision away from himself towards the one who, as he states in our gospel reading, ‘ranks before me because he existed before me’. His opening words in that reading are ‘Look, there is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world’. ‘Look at him’, he is saying, ‘Go to him and follow him’.

 Even though in our culture many people are saying in a very forceful way, ‘Look at me’, and, by implication, ‘Be like me’, the voice of John the Baptist continues to sound forth calling upon us to look at Jesus, to go to him and become like him. The words of John the Baptist, ‘Look, there is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world’, have made their way into our Eucharist. Just before Holy Communion the celebrant lifts up the consecrated bread and says, ‘This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world’. At that moment we are invited to look upon the Lord in faith. Then, at the time of Holy Communion, we are invited to come forward, to come to the Lord. Having come to the Lord we then make our own personal confession of faith in the Lord, with that little word, ‘Amen’, our response to the Eucharistic minister’s declaration, ‘The Body of Christ’. Having come to the Lord and made our confession of faith, we are then invited to receive the Lord, to receive into ourselves the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. The Eucharist is a unique opportunity to do all that John the Baptist asks, to look upon the Lord, to come to him, to recognize him and to receive him.

 Having looked upon the Lord and come to him and received him, John the Baptist would be very clear that there is a further step we need to take and that is the step of witnessing to the one upon whom we have looked, to whom we have come and whom we have received into our lives. John the Baptist was one of the great witnesses to Jesus. In the last line of our gospel reading this morning he declares, ‘I have seen and I am the witness that he is the Chosen One of God’. He was such a powerful witness because he himself had seen so clearly and having seen Jesus in all his rich identity had gone to him and had received him. Having seen, having gone and having received, he was very clear that there was an onus on him to witness. Witnessing was the necessary next step for him, and, indeed, for all of us. At the Eucharist we are invited to see the Lord, to come to him, to receive him into ourselves, and then we are sent out from the Eucharist to bear witness to the Lord in our day to day lives. In one way or another our whole lives are to make the same statement that the life of John the Baptist made, not ‘Look at me’ but ‘Look at him, look at the Lord’. We are called to live lives that in some way or other point to the Lord, lives that witness to the values that he lived and died for, the values of God’s kingdom. We can only do that, we can only be effective witnesses, if, like John the Baptist, we keep looking towards the Lord, keep coming to him, keep renewing our faith in him, and keep receiving him into our lives. The Sunday Eucharist is an opportunity for us to do all of that in a very focused way. In many ways John the Baptist exemplifies for us the whole Christian journey and all the crucial steps that are at the heart of that journey. John the Baptist is patron of our parish, but he is also worth taking on as our own personal patron on our faith journey.

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(v) Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

It is said of the recently canonized Padre Pio that after morning Mass he used to go up to the gallery of the church to pray for several hours. However, people could see him from the church below. When they started pointing up to him and making various requests of him, he used to get very agitated. He would point towards the Tabernacle and withdraw from their line of vision. He was clearly uncomfortable with people becoming too focused on himself. He saw his role as pointing people to Jesus.

This was also how John the Baptist saw himself. This morning’s gospel reading portrays him as pointing away from himself towards Jesus. When he saw Jesus coming towards him, he publicly declared, ‘Look, there is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world’. John the Baptist was clearly a very impressive figure. People flocked to him from all over and submitted to his rite of baptism. He quickly gathered disciples about himself. However, once Jesus appeared on the scene, he saw his role as directing people away from himself towards the one whom he describes in the gospel reading as ranking before him. He even directed his own disciples towards Jesus, encouraging them to become disciples of Jesus instead. As John the Baptist went on to declare to his disciples, ‘he must increase, but I must decrease’.

Even though John the Baptist was not a member of the church, having been executed before the church was born, he shows clearly by his whole demeanour what the church is really all about, and by the church I mean not just the hierarch or the clergy but all of us who have been baptized into Christ. The church, the community of believers, is called to point away from itself towards the Lord, as John the Baptist did. It does not exist for itself; it is there to lead people to the Lord and to reveal the Lord to people. If, as a church, we become too self-absorbed in internal church affairs, then we have lost our way. As a church, we need to be always outward looking, constantly proclaiming before all, ‘There is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world’. The church exists to witness publicly to the Lord who came that we may have life and have it to the full.

That is the calling of each one of us who make up the church. We are all called to witness to the Lord, his values and attitudes, by the way we live. Faith in the Lord, always involves this element of public witness to the Lord and all he stands for. Although our faith may be personal to each one of us, it is not meant to be a purely private matter, something to be confined to the purely private sphere. Genuine faith always has a public face. This is what Jesus meant when he said to his disciples on one occasion, ‘Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven’. This is an echo of what we find in today’s first reading. The prophet Isaiah originally saw his mission as directed to the people of Israel only. However, at a certain moment in his life, he had a sense of God saying to him, ‘This is not enough for you. I have greater plans for you than this. I will make you the light of the nations so that my salvation may reach the ends of the earth’. Isaiah’s horizon was Israel; God’s horizon was the nations of the world.

The Lord’s vision for our lives is often more expansive, more daring, than our own vision for ourselves. He often prompts us to be more generous, more courageous, in witnessing to the values which flow from our faith in him. He wants us to be confident about the potential of our faith to enrich the lives of others. Our faith in the Lord gives us a whole outlook on life, a purpose for living, that is worth passing on to others. It is a treasure in the field, a pearl of great price that we are invited to share with others. This is what we find John the Baptist doing in today’s gospel reading. He has made an exciting discovery that he wants to share with others. He is very much aware that this discovery was not down to his own efforts; it was ultimately a gift from God. He said of Jesus, ‘I did not know him myself’. How then did he come to know Jesus in all his rich identity? John acknowledges that it was the one who sent him, God, who enabled him to come to know Jesus, ‘he who sent me said to me, “the man on whom you see the Spirit come down and rest is the one who is going to baptize with the Holy Spirit”’. Our faith in Jesus, our coming to know him, is ultimately a gift from God too. It is God the Father who has drawn us to his Son. It is a gift to be grateful for, to value, and, to bear witness to with confidence before others.

Fr. Martin Hogan, Saint John the Baptist Parish, Clontarf, Dublin, D03 AO62, Ireland.

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Who couldn’t have seen Avengers: Endgame’s success coming? A journey of blockbuster quality films with hit after hit spanning over a decade, culminating in one final, enormous production. The quality of personnel needed to produce such a monolith is huge, and VFS graduates are always up to the task.

Take VFS graduate Denny Ertanto, born in Indonesia, living in New Zealand and working for the famous studio at WETA Digital. His compositing and visual effects contributions to Endgame’s visual effects can’t go understated, as the team at WETA did an excellent job throughout.

Denny’s path hasn’t been limited to only Endgame or Infinity War. His journey so far has taken him across numerous well known films and nations.

“The 30-year old’s interest in art and design flourished at a young age. After graduating from senior high school in Indonesia, he studied at Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore and continued to Vancouver Film School in Canada for one year. He has also worked in Batam and Shanghai before moving to New Zealand in 2016.

As of now, Denny's visual effects portfolio includes Avengers: Infinity War, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and The Revenant.”

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Marco Januar

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Marco Januar. Agnostic Theism. Jakarta—  July 13th, 1999. Indonesian. Blood type: AB. 185cm/70kg.

Education:

Jakarta Montessori Preschool

Elementary NZ School Jakarta

Junior years SPH Jakarta

Senior years SPH Jakarta

LASALLE College of arts Singapore — Music Department

Muse:

Mark Lee, known professionally as Mark, is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, and dancer of Korean descent. He is a member of the South Korean boy band NCT and its fixed sub-units NCT 127 and NCT Dream, as well as the South Korean supergroup SuperM.

Born: August 2, 1999 (age 22 years), Toronto, Canada

Height: 1.75 m

Other names: Lee Min-hyung

Education: School of Performing Arts Seoul

Music groups: NCT (Since 2016), NCT Dream, NCT 127 (Since 2016), SuperM (Since 2019)

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ALI’S DEGREES & EDUCATION

Throughout her vampiric life, Ali attended  countless colleges and universities.

You can read more about it, by clicking the keep reading. 

She has studied the following courses:

FASHION RELATED

fashion design/studies - master of fine arts / arts in fashion design and society / fashion studies

interior design/architecture - bachelor of fine arts

textile design - master of fine arts

jewellery design - master of fine arts in jewellery and metal-smithing

fashion business/ management - master of professional studies

beauty therapy - diploma of cosmetology

marketing - associate of applied science in fashion marketing and communication

ARTS RELATED

art / fine arts - bachelor of arts / bachelor of fine arts.

history of art - master of arts in art history

visual art - bachelor in visual arts and emerging media management

photography - master of fine arts

painting - master of fine arts

BUSINESS RELATED

lingustics - minor

business management - bachelor of business administration

events management - bachelor

public relations - master of arts in communication with the concentrating in public relations

LAW RELATED

criminology - major

law / business - juris doctor and master in business administration

social science

sociology / psychology - double major

women & gender studies - major

HISTORY RELATED

history - bachelor of arts

scandinavian studies - bachelor degree

vikings studies - minor

AGRICULTURE / LIFE SCIENCE RELATED

wine making - major in viticulture and enology

HOSPITALITY RELATED

hotel management - bachelor degree in hospitality management with hotel/lodging management

hospitality management/event planning - bachelor degree in hospitality management with event planning

The above degrees are her first set of degrees that she had received at USA universities/colleges. Those are of the following:

Kendall College; Cornell University; Washington State University; University of Wisconsin - Madison; University of Richmond; Kendall College National Louis University; Rhode Island School of Design; State College of Beauty Culture; Brown | RSID ; College of Arts and Sciences; The New School Parsons; University of Central Florida; Academy of Art University; Pace University; University of Denver; Tulane University; Louisiana State University; Harvard Law School and Business School

The following universities are international in which she studied anything fashion related are the following:

England - central saint of martins college of art

Italy - istituto marangoni

France - esmod

Australia - fds

Canada - lasalle college

Norway - oslo national academy of the arts

China - istituto marangoni

India - istituto marangoni

Germany - the fashion design institute

Japan - Bunka Fashion College