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5 days ago · St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Irenaeus suffered greatly in their lives and were deeply “acquainted with grief.”. Instead of leading to despair, suffering made them fully alive to the beauty of the world and to the gift of God’s grace. Suzanne M. Wolfe | June 28, 2024. By all accounts, Saint Irenaeus of Lyons, a bishop of the early ...
2 days ago · The name Gabriel ( Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל, Gaḇrīʾēl) is composed of the first person singular possessive form of the Hebrew noun gever (גֶּבֶר), meaning "man", and ʾĒl, meaning "God". This would make the translation of the archangel's name "man of God" [9] [10] [11] or "power of God". In Arabic, Jibrīl (جبريل), means ...
3 days ago · Ah, but he doesn’t have the hand of God working for him, what in theology is called “ providence.” Saul is on the verge of catching David and his men when, suddenly, a messenger comes with urgent news of a Philistine attack. David can see the hand of God in Saul being taken away by his duties and so names the place “the Rock of Escape.”
4 days ago · Icons of the Virgin of the Passion usually represent the Mother of God holding her Son Jesus and to the sides, the angels carrying the instruments of the Passion of Christ. The other title that it bears comes from the devotion that surrounds it: "our Mother [or Lady] of Perpetual Help." Each part of the icon expresses profound theological meaning.
4 days ago · Covenants are viewed as the most sacred and binding of deals – an oath that's never to be broken. America's earliest settlers made a covenant with God to serve and proclaim Him throughout the earth. These days, however, Americans appear to have forgotten this covenant and that can have dire consequences. Christian leader Dutch Sheets explained to CBN News how God's relationship with us is ...
3 days ago · Judaism - Lurianic Kabbala, Mysticism, Mysticism: After the establishment of the Zoharic corpus, no major changes took place in Jewish esoterism until the middle of the 16th century, when a religious centre of extreme importance for Judaism, mainly inspired by teachers coming from families expelled from Spain, was established in Safed (in Upper Galilee, Palestine; present-day Ẕefat, Israel).
2 days ago · The clockwise or right hand icon is called swastika, while the counterclockwise or left hand icon is called sauwastika or sauvastika. The clockwise swastika is a solar symbol ( Surya ), suggesting the motion of the Sun in India (the northern hemisphere), where it appears to enter from the east, then ascend to the south at midday, exiting to the ...
