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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. - Alice Walker
[...] Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility [...]
Nikon D70, Tokina 12-24 f/4 - 13mm - f/14 - 1/8s - HDR 3xp +2/-2EV - Cokin Grad dark Tobacco filter
Ponzano Romano, Italy (January, 2010)
Purple Sunbird (female)
" Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. "
Saint Augustine.
Girl in praying posture.
This is the last of the seven photos in my blog entry:
≅ river 2003 ≅ featuring there under the title "humility".
Location: Chalares canyon, Ikaria island.
September 2003.
devotees go barefoot as a sign of humility
The "Feast of the Black Nazarene" attended by tens of thousands of Filipino Catholics, is an annual celebration of faith which takes place every 9th of January. It is the single largest festival in the Philippines. Highlight of the festivity is a procession which commemorates the first procession to transfer the Black Nazarene from a church in Intramuros to the Minor Basilica in Quiapo on Jan. 9, 1767.
The devotion to the image of Jesus Christ is a practice that was sanctioned by two Catholic popes 200 years ago by granting indulgence to those who piously pray before the image of the Black Nazarene of Quiapo.
The Black Nazarene, enshrined in the minor basilica in Quiapo, Manila, is a life-sized, dark-skinned statue of Jesus Christ, brought from Mexico to the Philippines in the year 1606. The image is believe by thousands of Filipino catholics to have magical and miraculous powers.
The Philippines is the only country in Asia with a Catholic majority.
Feast of the Black Nazarene
Quiapo, Manila
Philippines
A Good Gesture....This Is How Our Elders Taught Us To Do!!
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Acknowledging The Applause Of Audience And In Appreciation Of Their Visit ,,,,,
This Is How Our Children Are Taught And Expected To Show Their Respect To God...
Parents And Gurus And Elders.....With Utmost Humility And Total Submission With Whole Heart , Body And Soul And Seek Their Blessings.....
We Do Follow It..Sincerely ,,May Not Be Every Day..But Surely On Family Funcitons, Festivals And On Auspicious Days ......Our Children Do It Even Before Appearing For School Examination.....Or Before Taking Up A New Job Or Undertake Travel.....
..Whether The Future Generation Will Follow It Or Not....Is A Question Mark?
Zanobi Strozzi (1412-1468) - The Madonna of Humility with Two Musician Angels
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Theophilus continued to trace Luke's account to understand the man, Jesus of Nazareth. He understood Jesus to be the Messiah, and needed to know more. This was not the Messiah they had been expecting. This was not the Redeemer that had been spoken of in their culture for so long. Jesus had come in humility. Born in the manger. Baptized to fulfill the Law and prophecies. Obedient to His own word in the worst of temptations. And then calling others to follow Him.
Not only those closest disciples, but everyone. Jesus had traveled from place to place exhorting all to repent and believe, that He was the promised Redeemer, that He would save them from the judgment that was due for their sin. That was good news indeed to a heart under conviction, like Theophilus.
As Theophilus spent the days following the path of Jesus' ministry, he spoke with those who had seen Him. Those who had witnessed the events. Jesus had preached, He had healed and fed. He had freed men and women from demonic possession. He had performed many miracles.
All the while, calling. Calling.
If God will save even a sinner such as me, thought Theophilus, I will do this as well. I will tell others.
But first Theophilus must understand what happened next.
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Soon afterward He was traveling from one town and village to another, preaching and telling the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with Him Luke 8:1
The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to Him, and unrolling the scroll, He found the place where it was written:
The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent Me to proclaim freedom to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind,
to set free the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. Luke 4:17-19
"When the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to Him. As He laid His hands on each one of them, He would heal them. Also, demons were coming out of many, shouting and saying, “You are the Son of God!” But He rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Messiah.
When it was day, He went out and made His way to a deserted place. But the crowds were searching for Him. They came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving them. But He said to them, “I must proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this purpose.” And He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee." Luke 4:40-44
"Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”" Mark 1:14-15
"Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Matthew 11:28-30
An act of love...
Seven Heavenly Virtues
Confession: I didn't actually cut my hair off. I have donated to Locks of Love before, but my hair doesn't meet the length requirements yet. I will donate again, though...I always go from long to short, so why waste the hair?? :)
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"Will Tahu find the humility and patience to earn deeper knowledge of fire and learn that not everything can be taken by force?"
Fourth creature of the series to make the G2 creatures into large and powerful elemental masters. Ikir came to completion in one day after I began tinkering with his head design. It's a good feeling when a moc comes together straightforwardly.
As usual, I recycled the head, but gave the creature different eyes from the rest. Boat studs made for great bird eyes in this case.
With Ikir, I thought that Tahu's challenge is basically the fact that he can't reach the flying bird. Assuming Tahu is fairly hot tempered, his trial is to learn that he can't simply force and take everything he wants. Instead, with Ikir, he must learn to earn, wait, give and compromise until he finds the connection he needs with Ikir.
To be real on this path you must be humble--
If you look down at others you'll get pushed down the stairs.
If your heart goes around on high, you fly far from this path.
There's no use hiding it--
What's inside always leaks outside.
(yunus emre)
Noobdiddy preparing to enter the ceremony where he will obviously be showered with numerous accolades. Only his deep humility will prevent a vulgar display of his trophies after the ceremony, but rest assured, he will win many.
When young we feel almost indestructible believing we can conquer the world. With Age come knowledge, humility and understanding that we cannot wrap the world around our arms. We are just a small part of something incredible, not the center of it.
Macro Monday project – 06/20/11
"Humility"
Gentleness and self-control.
Gentleness is rooted in an attitude of humility before God. In experiencing God's gentleness to us, we desire to demonstrate the same to others.
"24 And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth," 2 Timothy 2:24-25
This leads to self-control because gentleness is meekness, not weakness.
Meekness is power under control. Every person is powerful. We can speak words that influence others; we can act in ways that help or hurt; and we can choose what influences will inform our words and actions. So, gentleness leads to self-control, which constrains and channels that power in our desire to be like the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our objectives and goals become increasing less about ourselves and more about the glory of our God. His will and His thoughts control and inform what we do.
"He must increase, but I must decrease." John 3:30
This Thanksgiving we can thank God for all of these wonderful fruits of the Spirit, freely given to everyone who will repent and believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ!
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." Galatians 5:22-23
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
"Jesus spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being virtuous and despised everyone else: ‘Two men went up to the Temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood there and said this prayer to himself, “I thank you, God, that I am not grasping, unjust, adulterous like the rest of mankind, and particularly that I am not like this tax collector here. I fast twice a week; I pay tithes on all I get.” The tax collector stood some distance away, not daring even to raise his eyes to heaven; but he beat his breast and said, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner.” This man, I tell you, went home again at rights with God; the other did not. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the man who humbles himself will be exalted.’"
- Luke 18:9-14, which is today's Gospel at Mass (30th Sun in Ordinary Time)
Stained glass window from Most Holy Redeemer church in Detroit.
You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty their heart. - Thich Nhat Hanh
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Original photo credit: Andrew Martin
True Wisdom Comes from God
If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying. For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.
But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere. And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness.
[James 3:13-18 NLT]
5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
1. Like it or not, we are ALL sinners: As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.” (Romans 3:10-12 NLT)
2. The punishment for sin is death: When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. (Romans 5:12 NLT)
3. Jesus is our only hope: But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8 NLT) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NLT)
4. SALVATION is by GRACE through FAITH in JESUS: God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)
5. Accept Jesus and receive eternal life: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9 NLT) But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12 NLT) And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12 NLT)
Read the Bible for yourself. Allow the Lord to speak to you through his Word. YOUR ETERNITY IS AT STAKE!
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13
Psalm 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
Matthew 5:1-12a
A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:
With this Fourth Sunday, we're up to our necks in "ordinary time"—living the Christian life in the messiness of everyday life.
We're into the boring grind of "just living." Perhaps it's not so boring if we have the right equipment . . . like tough faith, tough love, and lots of humility! We're talking here about the Beatitudes. If you think the Ten Commandments are demanding, try the Beatitudes on for size! They make the Decalogue look like a piece of cake!
With even more authority than Moses, Jesus is pictured in the Gospel as sitting down, the traditional posture for delivering solemn edicts. He turns middle-class values upside down. Have you ever had your picture taken while standing on your head? You'd look pretty foolish, wouldn't you? Well, that's the way the Beatitudes make a comfortable, easy-going Christian look—just plain foolish!
So we protest: "Do you mean that I have to sit down on the street and cry with a homeless person, or a poor woman just evicted from her apartment? Or . . . ?" Perhaps nothing so dramatic. Let's try a different approach.
Have you ever in your life written to your congressman about unjust legislation? Currently, in New York State, there's the Governor's Program Bill #16 (S.5829). It's called the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act. It would allow abortions into the third trimester at an outpatient clinic that could be performed by any health care practitioner. For more information, go to www.nyscatholic.org or ask your parish secretary to give you the address of the New York State Catholic Conference. Then sit down and write! This is how an ordinary Catholic can live the Beatitudes.
Or have you ever taken the time to visit a home for the elderly, or volunteered your time as an auxiliary at your local hospital? Have you ever asked your pastor for the names of some shut-ins who need a phone call, or a note, or a sick person who could use a bowl of soup, or someone to bring them Holy Communion?
It's a question of attitude, looking at those less fortunate from the conviction that you yourself have been incredibly blest by the Lord, and hoping to give just a little bit back in thanksgiving.
And what are the rewards? Zephaniah says the faithful remnant will live a life of peacefulness, and Jesus says such a person is "blessed," and they will have unimaginable rewards in the Kingdom.
It would be impossible to assess the influence of the Sermon on the Mount on the history of Christianity. Those who have taken seriously the "option for the poor" have suffered great loss economically, politically, and personally. Jesus told us to expect that treatment. After all, He is the prime example for the martyrdom that results when Truth confronts Power. Only God's grace can give us the courage to imitate the Lord in whatever ways our circumstances will suggest. Then, we need not wait very long to experience the solace, the peace, and the joy of heart flowing into our souls from defending the poor and the powerless of this world.
- Msgr. Paul Whitmore | email: pwhitmore29@)yahoo.com
EXPLORE # 216 on initial list on Sunday, February 3, 2008; # 368 & # 454 on 02-04-2008.
Humility. The more you learn, the more you realize there's still so much more to learn. This tends to make you humble. Arrogance and egotism come from ignorance -- knowing a little bit and assuming you know a lot. - Lao Tsu
Someone said that I am Arrogant.
It would really bothered me if it was true.
I am still in the middle of my journey, wondering if I need to change course.
[...] There is no respect for others without humility in one's self [...]
- Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel
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Rome, Italy (June, 2013)
Homeless in Paris. Bronica SQA, tri-x .
I'm very touched of the look he offered me.
Texture from Dyrk Wyst, one of my talented contacts.
The Sage is always willing to radio in a little Divine Intervention, but it is up to the Omnissiah to decide if teal should die.
Verdict: KILL!
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For Contest: Kill Teal (Volume 2) at the New Elementary.
Mat on Rollei Digibase 200 iso. A remarkable film, I've tried it for the first time. Very different from any other film I know.
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HUMILITY (mosaic tile motivational art at Alexander Muir/Gladstone Ave Junior and Senior Public School)
Her image is my daily inspiration of humility and a constant reminder of how little things contribute to the greater kingdom of God. A friend texted me the following lines: The great thing a little lamp can do which the big sun can't is to give light at night. It shows no one is superior by size but by purpose. If we can't do great things, we can do small things in a great way. Little things make a big difference.
Thanks Loida for this message. A very "Theresean" doctrine i would say. For my friends who asks where this statue can be found, she is at my residence. You are always welcome to visit.
National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine - Pyrogiv. Kyiv.
Греческим крестом называют крест, у которого линии имеют равную длину, перпендикулярны друг другу и пересекаются в середине — символ смирения, где человеческая воля во Христе (горизонтальная линия) пересекается Божественной (вертикальная линия).