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La arquitectura es el testigo incorruptible de la historia.
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L’architecture est le témoin incorruptible de l’histoire.
Octavio Paz (Mex., 1914-1998)
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Photo: Toit à l’ancienne dans le hameau de « Pereda de Ancares » au nord de la Castille-Leon (Espagne).
Foto. Pereda de Ancares contaba con 47 habitantes en 2012…
Στην καρδιά της ερήμου της ιουδαίας βρίσκεται η Λαύρα του Αγίου Σάββα του Ηγιασμένου. Το Μοναστήρι αυτό, λειτουργεί αδιάκοπα εδώ και 1500 περίπου χρόνια και αποτελεί φαινόµενο µοναδικό στην εκκλησιαστική ιστορία χάρη στην συµβολή της στην διαµόρφωση της ορθοδόξου λατρείας, της µοναχικής τάξεως και της υµνογραφίας, στην παρουσίαν πλήθους Αγίων, αυστηρών αναχωρητών ακόμη και στον σπουδαίο ρόλο τον οποίο διαδραμάτισε στην καταπολέµηση όσων αιρέσεων εμφανίστηκαν στην Αγία Γη µετα την ίδρυσή της. Επίσης εδώ φυλάσσεται ως ιερό θησαύρισμα το άφθαρτο σκήνωμα του Οσίου ιδρυτού της το οποίο μεταφέρθηκε από την Ιταλία το 1965.
In the heart of the Judean desert is the Lavra of Saint Sava the Sanctified. This Monastery has been operating uninterruptedly for about 1500 years and is a phenomenon unique in ecclesiastical history thanks to its contribution to the formation of Orthodox worship, the Donacian order and painting, in the presence of a large number of Saints, strict departures and even the great role in the fight against all sects that appeared in the Holy Land after its founding. Also kept here as a sacred treasure is the incorruptible relic of its Holy Founder which was transported from Italy in 1965.
""Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." 1 Corinthians 15: 51,52
1 Peter 1:22-23
American Standard Version
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: 23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.
"...but let it be the secret person of the heart in the incorruptible adornment of the quiet and mild spirit,+ which is of great value in the eyes of God".
1 Peter 3:4
"Indestructible
Determination that is incorruptible
From the other side
A terror to behold
Annihilation will be unavoidable
Every broken enemy will know
That their opponent had to be invincible
Take a last look around while you're alive
I'm an indestructible master of war".
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"Indestructible
Determinación incorruptible
Desde el otro lado
Un terror para contemplar
La aniquilación será inevitable
Todo enemigo roto sabrá
Que su oponente tenía que ser invencible
Echa un último vistazo mientras estás vivo
Soy un maestro indestructible de la guerra".
P. Divine
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Serra da Estrela dog is a breed of large dogs, born in Portugal, from the mountainous region with the same name. It is a most famous national breed of dog to protect herds against predators (including the Iberian Wolf), and incorruptible guardian of properties.
He has all the qualities required in this rugged region, he is intelligent, loyal and brave. It is estimated to be one of the oldest dog breeds in the Iberian Peninsula.
The beauty of this dog, his intelligence and robustness, are characteristics that allow him to be more than an excellent guard: he is also a good family dog and very tolerant of children.
Langar (Persian: لنگر) is an institution among Sufi Muslims in South Asia whereby food and drink are given to the needy regardless of social or religious background. Its origins in Sufism are tied to the Chishti Order.
Langar is originally a Persian word, and later came into Urdu and Punjabi from it.
Langar, the practice and institution, was first started by Baba Farid, a Muslim of the Chishti Sufi order. The institution of the langar was already popular in the 12th and 13th century among Sufis of the Indian subcontinent. The practice grew and is documented in the Jawahir al-Faridi compiled in 1623 CE. It was later, both the institution and term, adopted by Sikhs.
The food is served out of a massive pot called a deg in the precincts of a dargah (Sufi shrine).
Serving food to the needy has been a rich tradition among Sufis, especially of the Chishti Order.
There is extensive use of free food imagery and metaphor in Sufi writings. Sugar and other sweet foods represent the sweetness of piety and community with God, while salt symbolizes purity and incorruptibility. The transformation of the raw wheat to finished bread is used as an analogy for Sufi spiritual development.
Sufi ritual observances (dhikr) are concerned with remembrance of God through exaltation and praise. Singing, dancing, and drumming are commonly part of such rituals, as is sharing of food. The tradition of langar was also adopted by the Sikh community, where it goes by the same name.
1 Peter 1:23 King James Version (KJV)
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
According to a Persian legend, it was the first tree to grow in Paradise. Because of the evergreen leaves, wood was considered incorruptible and became the plant image of immortality.
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“Praise to the Jewel in the Lotus.”
Om = the vibration or sound of the universe; represents divine energy and generosity and purifies the ego
Ma = represents ethics and purifies jealousy
Ni = represents patience and purifies want or desire
Pad = represents diligence and purifies ignorance and judgment
Me = represents concentration and purifies attachment
Hum = the unity of all; represents wisdom and purifies hatred
The peacock brings a powerful spiritual meaning .
The peacock is a possessor of some of the most admired human characteristics, and is a symbol of integrity and the beauty we can achieve when we endeavor to show our true colors.
In history, myth, legend and lore, the peacock symbolism carries portents of: Nobility, Holiness, Guidance, Protection and Watchfulness.
Its symbolism also represents these qualities :
Glory
Vision
Royalty
Spirituality
Awakening
Immortality
Refinement
Incorruptibility
The site of today's basilica was a theater in the 18th century. This theater, named Hetz-Theater, was a place where animal fights were hosted. One of the wealthy citizens (János Zitterbarth) of the newly formed district built a temporary church there. In the late 1810s, about a thousand people formed the Lipótváros Parish. Then they began the fundraising and the believers started to make plans for the future church.
The church is named after Saint Stephen I of Hungary, the first King of Hungary (c. 975–1038), whose incorruptible right hand is housed in the reliquary.
This is the most important church building in Hungary, one of the most significant tourist attractions and the third highest church in Hungary.
The anticipatory stance claims that our minds’ exceptional capacity for thought is not due either to a blind reshuffling of primeval atoms nor to their belonging to a timeless nonmaterial world but to the arrival of meaning, goodness, and truth from up ahead.
… The anticipatory stance locates the phenomenon of thought at the forward edge of a temporal universe that over the long haul has been awakening—not without the drama caused by chance, setbacks, and long periods of silence—to fuller being and deeper meaning up ahead in the sphere of the not-yet…
… Thought, from one point of view, is the outcome of a causally continuous physical process, but from another—equally legitimate—point of view it is part of the universe’s dramatic awakening to incorruptible meaning, truth, goodness, and beauty.
-God after Einstein What’s Really Going On in the Universe? John F. Haught
The church is named after Saint Stephen I of Hungary, the first King of Hungary (c. 975–1038), whose "incorruptible" right hand is said to be housed in the reliquary.
This is the most important church building in Hungary, one of the most significant tourist attractions and the third highest church in Hungary
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Ceiling mosaic.
A giant figure of Christ and, beneath the feet of the Christ, the dead rising from their graves - The Last Judgment, when the Ascended Lord will summon the living and the dead alike to report their actions.
On the right hand of Christ are the incorruptible souls in the breast of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Patriarchs of ancient Israel.
To His left is hell.
In the remaining five sectors of the dome, horizontal rows of decorated mosaic illustrate the stories of Saint John the Baptist, Christ, the Patriarch Joseph and the origin of human life (Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and his family). In the highest row, near the light, are the angel choirs.
The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and We shall be changed. Handel: Messiah
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Discovery
Green-muscled ocean
Idol of many arms like an octopus
Convulsive incorruptible chaos
Ordered tumult
Contorted dancer
Surrounding the taut ships
We traversed row on row of horses
Shaking their manes in the trade winds
The sea turned suddenly very young and very old
Revealing beaches
And a people
Of just-created men still the colour of clay
Still naked still in awe
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Descobrimento
Um oceano de músculos verdes
Um ídolo de muitos braços como um polvo
Caos incorruptível que irrompe
E tumulto ordenado
Bailarino contorcido
Em redor dos navios esticados
Atravessamos fileiras de cavalos
Que sacudiam as crinas nos alísios
O mar tornou-se de repente muito novo e muito antigo
Para mostrar as praias
E um povo
De homens recém-criados ainda cor de barro
Ainda nus ainda deslumbrados
© 1991, Sophia de Mello Breyner
From: Obra Poética III
Publisher: Caminho, Lisboa
© Translation: 2004, Richard Zenith
Bl. Maria Vittoria Fornari Strata, Foundress - Memorial: December 15th
Born in 1562, this wife, mother and widow was happily married until illness claimed her beloved husband. As a single parent, she raised five pious children, and through the direct intervention of the Blessed Virgin, founded a religious congregation in honor of the Annunciation - the "Blue Annonciades". She lived an austere penitential life and was favored with extraordinary heavenly gifts, including Visions and Ecstasies. She died in 1617 and was Beatified in 1828. Her remains are reportedly incorrupt. Please pray for her speedy Canonization.
Photo: Prayer leaflet w/a piece of fabric from her original habit, "...abiti originale".
En face du Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, le perré, cette bande de pierres destinée à protéger la rive face aux forces de la mer, comprend maintenant plusieurs minéraux hybrides. À la fois pierres précieuses et météorites dorées, ces roches s’éclairent de lumières changeantes, suivant le cours du temps ; elles reflètent les rayons du soleil en journée, rougeoient au moment de son coucher, scintillent sous le clair de lune.
Gold Coast survient en contraste avec la clarté du béton poli, avec les bleus et les gris du paysage minéral et maritime, conférant une esthétique nouvelle à cette esplanade. L’enrochement se couvre d’or comme le serait l’architecture d’un patrimoine précieux.
L’œuvre évoque par ailleurs la dimension économique du commerce portuaire mondiale. Matériau inaltérable et incorruptible, synonyme d'éternité, l'or est une valeur sûre lorsque l'économie est volatile. Ces pépites d'or géantes et éblouissantes, font l'illusion d'une richesse inépuisable, incroyable. La Gold Coast est clin d'œil à l'utopie d'un eldorado maritime.
Il s’agit d’une création du duo HeHe, constitué d’Helen Evans et Heiko Hansen, tous deux artistes et enseignant à l’Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen (ESADHaR) où ils dirigent la section Art, Media et Environnement. Leur travail évoque l’industrialisation des paysages dans toutes ses problématiques sociales ou environnementales, à travers des installations parfois poétiques ou humoristiques.
Opposite the André Malraux Museum of Modern Art, the perré, this strip of stones intended to protect the shore against the forces of the sea, now includes several hybrid minerals. Both precious stones and golden meteorites, these rocks light up with changing lights, following the course of time; they reflect the rays of the sun during the day, glow when it sets, sparkle in the moonlight.
Gold Coast arises in contrast with the clarity of the polished concrete, with the blues and grays of the mineral and maritime landscape, conferring a new aesthetic on this esplanade. The riprap is covered in gold like the architecture of a precious heritage.
The work also evokes the economic dimension of world port trade. An unalterable and incorruptible material, synonymous with eternity, gold is a safe bet when the economy is volatile. These giant and dazzling gold nuggets create the illusion of inexhaustible, incredible wealth. The Gold Coast is a nod to the utopia of a maritime El Dorado.
It is a creation of the HeHe duo, made up of Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen, both artists and teachers at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen (ESADHaR) where they direct the Art section, Media and Environment. Their work evokes the industrialization of landscapes in all its social or environmental issues, through sometimes poetic or humorous installations.
Nothing special... just show a full moon. Powerful, majestic, and mystical.
The full moon used to be a sign of upheaval. Today, it's merely a backdrop for a world that never rests anyway.
People can't sleep, not because the moon keeps them awake, but because their thoughts are too loud. Pressure to perform, existential anxiety, the endless flood of information. A society that doesn't switch off even at night doesn't need a moon to be restless.
And yet, the full moon has something incorruptible about it. It reveals itself in all its truth, without masks, without filters. Perhaps that's why we fear it. For in its light, there's no hiding—not from it and not from ourselves.
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Nichts besonderes ... zeig einfach einen Vollmond. Gewaltig, majestätisch und mystisch
Früher war der Vollmond ein Zeichen für Umbruch. Heute ist er nur noch Kulisse für eine Welt, die ohnehin nie zur Ruhe kommt.
Die Menschen schlafen nicht, nicht weil der Mond sie wach hält, sondern weil ihre Gedanken zu laut sind. Leistungsdruck, Existenzangst, die endlose Flut an Informationen. Eine Gesellschaft, die selbst bei Nacht nicht abschaltet, braucht keinen Mond, um ruhelos zu sein.
Und doch hat der Vollmond etwas Unbestechliches. Er zeigt sich in voller Wahrheit, ohne Masken, ohne Filter. Vielleicht ist das der Grund, warum wir ihn fürchten. Denn in seinem Licht gibt es kein Verstecken – nicht vor ihm und nicht vor uns selbst.
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Il mio cane Tulip
JR Ackerley
"Questa cagna entrò nella mia vita a metà degli anni Quaranta e la trasformò completamente", scrive Ackerley in un altro suo libro, "Mio padre e io", dove indaga sulla vita segreta del padre, scoperta postuma, e sulla sua propria vita sentimentale. "Mi offrì quello che nella mia vita sessuale non avevo mai trovato, una dedizione costante, sincera, incorruttibile, acritica, che è propria della natura dei cani. Mi si sottomise completamente. Dal momento in cui si insediò nel mio cuore e nella mia casa, la mia ossessione sessuale sparì nel nulla. I pub, in cui avevo passato tanto del mio tempo, non li visitai mai più, il mio unico desiderio era di ritornare da lei - al suo amore in attesa e al suo inesauribile benvenuto." Completa il libro la bella postfazione di Giona Tuccini, "Tulip nella quotidiana invenzione dei sentimenti".
"This bitch came into my life in the mid-1940s and completely transformed it," Ackerley writes in another book, "My Father and I," where he investigates his father's secret life, discovered posthumously, and his own love life . "He offered me what I had never found in my sexual life, a constant, sincere, incorruptible, uncritical dedication, which is typical of the nature of dogs. He submitted to me completely. From the moment he settled in my heart and in my home , my sexual obsession disappeared into thin air. The pubs, in which I had spent so much of my time, I never visited again, my only desire was to return to her - to her waiting love and her inexhaustible welcome." The book is completed by Giona Tuccini's beautiful afterword, "Tulip in the daily invention of feelings
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‘And blessedness goes where the wind goes,
‘And when it is gone we are dead; 30
‘I see the blessedest soul in the world
‘And he nods a drunken head.
‘O blessedness comes in the night and the day
‘And whither the wise heart knows;
‘And one has seen in the redness of wine 35
‘The Incorruptible Rose,
‘That drowsily drops faint leaves on him
‘And the sweetness of desire,
‘While time and the world are ebbing away
‘In twilights of dew and of fire.’ 40
William Butler Yeats, "The Blessed" (l. 29-40)
"The Wind Among the Reeds". 1899.
"If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason--its fluidity, mobility, changeability that makes it a necessity and metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things." Rebecca Solnit
Above the entrance is a mosaic image of the Volodymyr the Great. Kyiv prince St. Volodymyr.
On the arch above the central entrance to the Cathedral of St. Vladimir are words from the prayer of the Great Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, which he said at the baptism of the people of Kyiv: “Great God, who created heaven and earth, look upon Thy new people; grant them, Lord, to bring to You the true God, and establish in them a faith that is right and incorruptible.”
Над входом — мозаїчне зображення Володимира Великого, київського князя Святого Володимира.
На арці над центральним входом до собору Святого Володимира слова з молитви Великого рівноапостольного князя Володимира, яку він промовив при хрещенні киян: «Боже великий, сотворив небо і землю, побачи нові люди Своя; дай їм, Господи, віждеті Тебе, істинного Бога, і утверди в них віру праву й незворотню».
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Holy Relic from her Blanket (Ex Linteis); Widow, Mystic, Visionary, and Foundress of the Sisters of Our Lady of Refuge in Mount Calvary (Brignolines).
Memorial: December 15
Saint Virginia Centurione Bracelli was born on 2 April 1587 in Genoa, Italy. Daughter of Giorgio Centurione, an imposing and controlling individual who became the Doge of Genoa, and Lelia Spinola. Raised in a pious family, she felt drawn to religious life as a child. However, due to family position she agree to an arranged marriage to Gasparo Grimaldi Bracelli on 10 December 1602. He was a drinker, a gambler, and though the couple had two daughters, Lelia and Isabella, he was little of a father or husband. Virginia was widowed on 13 June 1607 after five years of marriage, aged 20, and with two small children.
Virginia moved in with her in-laws, cared for her children, and dedicated her free time to prayer and charity. When her daughters were grown and married, Virginia devoted herself entirely to caring for the sick, aged, and abandoned children. In late 1624 and early 1625 war in the region led to many orphans, some whom Virginia took in and cared for, and she worked with refugees in the town. When her mother-in-law died in August 1625, Virginia poured herself into the work, turning her house into a refuge and founding the Centro Signore della Misericordia Protettrici dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo
Her house was overrun with the needy during a plague and famine in 1629-1630. To house them all Virginia rented the vacant convent of Monte Calvario and moved her charges there in 1631. Due to crowding, extra housing was built in 1634, Virginia was soon caring for 300 patients, and in 1635 she received official government recognition for her hospital. Virginia worked closely with the young women in her houses, teaching them religion and ways to earn a living.
The expenses of Monte Calvario were excessive, so Virginia bought two villas and started construction of a church dedicated to Our Lady of Refuge. It became the mother church of the Institution, whose Rule was written between 1644 and 1650 and which was divided into two congregations: Suore di Nostra Signora del Rifugio di Monte Calvario (Sisters of Our Lady of Refuge in Mount Calvary) and Figlie di Nostra Signora al Monte Calvario (Daughters of Our Lady on Mount Calvary). When the group of Protectors, the superiors and governors of the Institute was selected in 1641, Virginia retired from administration, working as the humblest sister, doing chores on the grounds and begging for alms for the Institute.
Sadly, though the Institute was a success, healing the sick, educating children, training adults, and helping the dissolute return to productive lives, assistance, personal and financial, began to decline. Without the chance to work with Virginia, many of the middle and upper class did not participate, fearing the poor and rough residents. Though her health was failing, Virginia returned to active administrative duties. She worked for general spiritual development throughout the region, working for the choice of the Blessed Virgin Mary as patron of the republic of Genoa in 1637, for the institution of the Forty Hours' Devotion in 1642, and the revival of home missions in 1643. She acted as peacemaker between noble houses, and aided in the reconciliation of Church and Republic authorities in 1647, ending a dispute caused by the government abandoning support of the Institute. Virginia continued working up to the end of her days, and in later years received the gifts of visions and interior locutions.
Virginia died on 15 December 1651 in Genoa, Italy of natural causes. She was Canonized on 18 May 2003 by Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica.
PRAYER
O God,
You call to reign with You
those who serve You faithfully:
in her earthly life
you have given Saint Virginia
the gift of serving the church and the World
generously,
give us the strength to imitate her
in the joyful search of Your Will
and in the charity towards the poor and needy
brothers.
For Christ Our Lord.
Amen
2022-08-27, Day 1
A strip of bright, green meadow rises in the middle-distance toward Elysium Pass, Victoria Cross Range, Jasper National Park, Alberta. Beyond the pass lies the trail-less wilderness and a hoped-for route past Monarch Mountain (9,111 ft; 2,777 m) and through Monarch Meadows, toward passes and forested valleys not yet comprehensible in their particulars at this point in the journey.
The Ancient Greeks developed the concept of Elysium, or the Elysium Fields. In earlier periods, the river Styx formed a barrier to Elysium past which only gods or heroes could pass. Later, the ticket for admission to Elysium was also bestowed upon the righteous. In Elysium, the blessed would remain after death, experiencing the enjoyment of what they most treasured in life. The word 'Elysium' derives from the Greek, "to be deeply stirred with joy," and may also be related to another word meaning "incorruptible". It is no wonder that Beethoven associated this word with his famous 9th Symphony.
We planned to camp at Elysium Pass at the end of the first day, and we read that a trail used to thread its way up and through the forest to the pass via a relatively broad and lush meadow. This trail hasn’t been maintained for many years, but it is still regularly if infrequently traveled by intrepid through-hikers on the Great Divide Trail who are seeking a bit more solitude and route-finding than the average person. As a result of some decades of no maintenance, the route has accumulated an ever-growing number of downed logs, which makes for interesting uphill travel when the pack is heaviest on the first day. Because the old route is no longer on the maps we could find, we assumed the way would ascend directly to the pass with the least amount of elevation gain required. We were surprised to discover this view, taken from somewhat higher up on the shoulder of Emigrant Mountain than we had thought the right-of-way would go. Indeed, we found that we climbed up to this vantage somewhat gratuitously before dropping back down to the pass and then bidding adieu to any sort of trail for the next four days to come. The trail disappeared as the forest gave way to the meadow, and both were wet from a weather system that continued to spit occasional rain throughout the afternoon and early evening. The vegetation was particularly adept at keeping the feet quite soaked.
Dinner consisted of split pea soup thickened with whole-grain rye crackers and paired with wild Sockeye that I brined and smoked some weeks previously, followed by chocolate and copious cups of herbal tea. I wanted to be sure that we did not carry the delicious fish oils any further than the first day, as I presume a grizzly bear would not be able to resist the utterly smoky, fatty goodness. Immediately after dinner, I made sure to incinerate the wax paper in which I had wrapped these morsels so that I would not have to worry about carrying any of the scent with me any further. As night fell, I reveled once more in the beauty of dry sleeping socks and a warm, down sleeping bag. It occurred to me before I fell asleep that should I have to pee before I woke up (from one of those cups of tea), I would have to put the cold, wet socks and shoes back on should I not want to make a barefoot egress and sortie. This was one of many details that did not occur to me during the planning stage. I am sure I must have experienced this problem at other times in my life, but apparently my solution to these experiences is to banish them from thought.
Mile Sur Mera Tumhara, To Sur Bane Hamara
forever entwined softness in our hearts
newly present in your care, i find myself
returning to our daily minds with richer access
she greets us on a dance into thought and nuance.
tending away from twisted realm - the restless one
beyond the lip of patter, glide of threading the seams.
cup to lips minus confounding of intracranial abstractions.
boundless delta of every thought, never emptied of all d' nuances
eyes alighted upon soft landings. placed so gently,
pressed into basement of her eyelids; truest note.
incorruptible living in the exact shape of your words
one who find your words, you shall be beloved.
my heart finds a greater repose, restful to my eye
heartlight revealing itself to the receptive eye;
eyework - an extension of her rhythm with the world.
as it does not exhaust the determined roots,
cultivated practice of collecting windfall joy;
of being wholly herself - eyelids returning with wonder -
endless, eternal, immense, infinite breaths
imbued with bead of freshness. fulfilled.
your intuitive care captures small revelatory moments
love in all its manifestations, a beautiful unfolding
big-hearted gesture of your touch, i glow with gratitude
how much warmth, enveloping. i open my heart a little more
interacting presences - emanations of Tenderness 🌸
to a million dreams my mind hosted, bestowed one Heart
how to explain this wholeness? ever expansive sense of kinship
not an easy work at all, still an effortless one:
Eterna, i am pleased to tell You, 因你，有我。 - oski -
fully present to wonder of you. Thank you. Mil gracias.
Après avoir vu la photo de Cyril, j'ai pas pu m'empêcher de poster ma photo de cette chouette Docoche !
Place de la Concorde, Paris (75), France, Juillet 2008
Jesus is Our Vision
Here's the thing. If our eyes are fixed on anything that is earthly
we will dramatically lose hope and feel like failures when things start
to go wrong. We may even idolise our ministries to the detriment of the
Kingdom of God. When our finances go awry, or someone gets hurt or our
leaders fall apart on us we had better know what we believe and who we
are following.
So what about all those visions out there? What about the vision to
see 1000 000 people reached with the gospel by the year 2000 or what
about the vision of Jesus coming back in 1984 or perhaps the vision to
minister to the poor and needy in India?
Are we really meant to follow a vision? Are we meant to put our heart
and soul into building an orphanage or planting a church or preaching
and teaching? These are all good things but are we meant to follow
them?
We have heard hundreds of men and women casting there vision to the
masses and many have caught the vision and said yes I will give part
of my life to these things. But is that right? Should people begin to
measure there lives success by the fulfilment of a task?
When we are on our death beds and about to meet Jesus. Will we feel
like we are ready if we have completed lots of tasks?
In collosians it says 1:18 And He is the head of the body the church,
who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead. That in all things
he may have the pre-eminence.
We are commanded in the Bible to set our eyes on incorruptible things,
Jesus Himself endured the task of the cross for the hope set before
Him. We take hope in that we will one day be gathered together with
Christ in heaven, this is the joy set before us. Not the the cross of
setting up a ministry or teaching and preparing the body of Christ for
the great day of the Lord. Paul the apostle writes to live is Christ
to die is gain he knew that his whole life was consumed by the person
of Jesus Christ. If our vision is earthly we will measure everything by
earthly standards. We will compete with each other over territory and
possessions like children fighting over a toy. We will worry and bicker
over money and speak badly of each other to protect what we think is
ours. If our vision is earthly we will probably have one specific
outcome. We will be primarily focused on task.
If the Kingdom of God is in our hearts and we are to extend the Kingdom
our task focuses on the hearts of men and women. If the hearts of
man are to be converted by our witness we must have our eyes filled
with passion for Jesus and his Kingdom not digital design or feeding
the hungry. These things will be the product of our Vision of Jesus but
should never BE the vision.
I woke up with the idea for this ad in my head this morning, made the pose...got distracted, then finished the ad at 3.30am...ouch
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...I was just wiki'ing St Anthony while writing up the slx ad for this and this quote caught my eye...
"When he died, it is said that the children cried in the streets and that all the bells of the churches rang of their own accord, rung by angels come to earth to honour the death of the saint. He is buried in a chapel, and to this day his tongue is in a reliquary, and is incorrupt although he is not an incorruptible. The tongue glistens and looks as if it is still alive and moist."
*considers adding some faux relics to his curiosity line*
Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
Henry Fielding
UNFORTUNATELY I LOOK AND SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD AROUND ME, AND SEE NOT EVERYONE HAS A CONSCIENCE....BECAUSE IF THEY DID,,,,WOULD WE BE WHERE WE ARE NOW?
One city, one church visit is mandatory. The inside of St Stephens is over the top opulance.
The church is named after Saint Stephen I of Hungary, the first King of Hungary (c. 975–1038), whose "incorruptible" right hand is said to be housed in the reliquary.
This is the most important church building in Hungary, one of the most significant tourist attractions and the third highest building in Hungary.
Equal in height with the Hungarian Parliament Building, it is one of the two tallest buildings in Budapest at 96 metres (315 ft) - this equation symbolises that worldly and spiritual thinking have the same importance. According to current regulations there cannot be taller buildings in Budapest than 96 metres (315 ft).
It was completed in 1905 after 54 years of construction, according to the plans of Miklós Ybl, and was built by József Kauser. Much of the delay can be attributed to the collapse of the dome in 1868 which required complete demolition of the completed works and rebuilding from the ground up.
The architectural style is Neo-Classical; it has a Greek cross ground plan. The façade is anchored by two large bell towers. In the southern tower is Hungary's biggest bell, weighing over 9 tonnes (8.9 long tons; 9.9 short tons). Its predecessor had a weight of almost 8 tonnes (7.9 long tons; 8.8 short tons), but it was used for military purposes during World War II. Visitors may access the dome by elevators or by climbing 364 stairs for a 360° view overlooking Budapest.
St. Stephen's Basilica, Budapest, Hungary The site of today's basilica was a theater in the 18th century. This theater, named Hetz-Theater, was a place where animal fights were hosted. One of the wealthy citizens (János Zitterbarth) of the newly formed district built a temporary church there. In the late 1810s, about a thousand people formed the Lipótváros Parish. Then they began the fundraising and the believers started to make plans for the future church.[1]
The church is named after Saint Stephen I of Hungary, the first King of Hungary (c. 975–1038), whose "incorruptible" right hand is said to be housed in the reliquary.
This is the most important church building in Hungary, one of the most significant tourist attractions and the third highest church in Hungary.
Equal with the Hungarian Parliament Building, it is one of the two tallest buildings in Budapest at 96 metres (315 ft) - this equation symbolises that worldly and spiritual thinking have the same importance. Current regulations prohibit the construction of any building taller than 96 metres (315 ft) in Budapest.[2] It has a width of 55 metres (180 ft), and length of 87.4 metres (287 ft). It was completed in 1905 after 54 years of construction, according to the plans of Miklós Ybl, and was completed by József Kauser. Much of this delay can be attributed to the collapse of the dome in 1868 which required complete demolition of the completed works and rebuilding from the ground up.
The architectural style is Neo-Classical; it has a Greek cross ground plan. The façade is anchored by two large bell towers. In the southern tower is Hungary's biggest bell, weighing over 9 tonnes (8.9 long tons; 9.9 short tons). Its predecessor had a weight of almost 8 tonnes (7.9 long tons; 8.8 short tons), but it was used for military purposes during World War II. Visitors may access the dome by elevators or by climbing 364 stairs for a 360° view overlooking Budapest.
At first, the building was supposed to be named after Saint Leopold, the patron saint of Austria, but the plan was changed in the very last minute, so it became St. Stephen's Basilica.
The Basilica is rich in fine arts. In the lobby of the main entrance you can see the Saint Stephen's reliefs of The Basilica is rich in fine arts. In the lobby of the main entrance you can see the Saint Stephen's relief of Károly Senyei, and mosaics by Bertalan Székely and Mór Than. The dome above the sanctuary shows the representation of the Lord God, and the tambourine shows Christ as well as the prophets and evangelists (built by Károly Lotz). The sanctuary vault features allegories of the Holy Mass on mosaics by Gyula Benczúr and highlights the important stages of St. Stephen's life in the bronze relief series by Ede Mayer. The canopy altarpiece designed by József Kauser is decorated with the statue of St. Stephen by Alajos Stróbl.
The pulpit is also work of József Kauser. The glass painting works were made by Miksa Róth, and the pipe organ of the church is the product of the factory of Pécs and József Angster recognized in the era. He carried out the painting and, in particular, the gilding of the interior decoration.
*Seraphim © Serafines* are described as brilliant, powerful and incorruptible.
They are the angels who are closest to God and have direct communication with God are so radiant that not even the cherubim can look at them head on. If humans were in his presence would be incinerated.
They control the sky. Its essence is love, so they are called Angels of Love They are around God's throne, continuously singing "Trisagion" ("Glory, Glory, Glory, The Lord God, the Almighty, that is, will, will and will ") (Revelation 4:8).
In the book of Enoch (26: 9-12) are said to be four Seraphim corresponding to the 4 winds of the world.
They have 6 huge wings for the 6 days of creation. The name Seraphim is a combination of the Hebrew word "Rapha" which means "Healer" and "Being" which means Creature Alta.
The leader of the seraphim is Seraphiel.
Brigadier General Smedley D Butler
United States Marine Corps
Director of Public Saftey Philadelphia
January 7, 1924
December 23, 1925
He enforced the law impartially
He defended it courageously
He proved incorruptible
Located at City Hall.
In 1914 Butler won the Medal of Honor for outstanding gallantry in action while fighting against the Spanish at Veracruz, Mexico. Major Butler returned his medal arguing that he had not done enough to deserve it. It was sent back to Butler with orders that not only would he keep it, but that he would wear it as well. Butler won his second Medal of Honor in Haiti on 17th November, 1915.
Promoted to the rank of brigadier general at the age of 37 he was placed in command of Camp Pontanezen at Brest, France, during the First World War. This resulted in him being awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and the French Order of the Black Star.
Following the war, Butler transformed the wartime training camp at Quantico, Virginia into a permanent Marine post. In 1923 the newly elected mayor of Philadelphia, W. Freeland Kendrick, asked Butler to leave the Marines to become Director of Public Safety. Butler refused but eventually accepted the appointment in January 1924 when President Calvin Coolidge requested him to carry out the task.
Butler immediately ordered raids on more than 900 speakeasies in Philadelphia. He also ordered the arrests of corrupt police officers. Butler upset some very powerful people in his crusade against corruption and in December 1925 Kendrick sacked Butler. He later commented "cleaning up Philadelphia was worse than any battle I was ever in."
Butler returned to the US Marines and in 1927 was appointed the commander of the Marine Expeditionary Force in China. Over the next two years he did what he could to protect American people living in the country.
You can get up close and personal with squirrels with the help of peanuts. Incorruptible is something else ...
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Mit Hilfe von Erdnüssen kann man mit Eichhörnchen auf Tuchfühlung gehen. Unbestechlich ist was anderes ...
To believe, with certain 'neo-yogists', that 'evolution' will produce a superman 'who will differ from man as much as man differs from the animal or the animal from the vegetable' is a case of not knowing what man is.
Here is one more example of a pseudo-wisdom which deems itself vastly superior to 'those separatist religions', but which in point of fact shows itself more ignorant than the most elementary of catechisms. For the most elementary catechism does know what man is: it knows that by his qualities and as an autonomous world he can be opposed to the other kingdoms of nature taken together; it knows that in one particular respect - that of spiritual possibilities, not that of animal nature - the difference between a monkey and a man is infinitely greater than that between a fly and
a monkey.
For man alone is able to come forth from the world; man alone is able to return to God; and that is the reason why he cannot in any way be surpassed by a new earthly being. Among the beings of this earth man is the central being; this is an absolute position; there cannot be a center more central than the center, if definitions have any meaning.
This neo-yogism, like other similar movements, pretends that it can add an essential value to the wisdom of our ancestors; it believes that the religions are partial truths which it is called upon to stick together, after hundreds or thousands of years of waiting, and to crown with its own naive little system.
It is far better to believe that the earth is a disk supported by a tortoise and flanked by four elephants than to believe, in the name of 'evolution', in the coming of some 'superhuman' monster.
A literal interpretation of cosmological symbols is, if not positively useful, at any rate harmless, whereas the scientific error - such as evolutionism - is neither literally nor symbolically true; the repercussions of its falsity are beyond calculation.
The intellectual poverty of the neo-yogist movements provides an incontestable proof that there is no spirituality without orthodoxy.
It is assuredly not by chance that all these movements are as if in league against the intelligence; intelligence is replaced by a thinking that is feeble and vague instead of being logical, and 'dynamic' instead of being contemplative. All these movements are characterized by the detachment they pretend to feel in regard to pure doctrine.
They hate its incorruptibility, for in their eyes this purity is 'dogmatism'; they fail to understand that Truth does not deny forms from the outside, but transcends them from within.
Orthodoxy includes and guarantees incalculable values which man could not possibly draw out of himself...
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Frithjof Schuon
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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
Strictly speaking doctrinal knowledge is independent of the individual. But its actualization is not independent of the human capacity to act as a vehicle for it. He who possesses truth must none the less merit it although it is a free gift. Truth is immutable in itself, but in us it lives, because we live.
If we want truth to live in us we must live in it.
Knowledge only saves us on condition that it enlists all that we are, only when it is a way and when it works and transforms and wounds our nature even as the plough wounds the soil.
To say this is to say that intelligence and metaphysical certainty alone do not save; of themselves they do not prevent titans from falling. This is what explains the psychological and other precautions with which every tradition surrounds the gift of the doctrine.
When metaphysical knowledge is effective it produces love and destroys presumption. It produces love, that is to say the spontaneous directing of the will towards God and the perception of "myself" - and of God - in one's neighbour. It destroys presumption, for knowledge does not allow a man to overestimate himself or to underestimate others. By reducing to ashes all that is not God it orders all things.
All St. Paul says of charity concerns effective knowledge, for the latter is love, and he opposes it to theory inasmuch as theory is human concept. The Apostle desires that truth should be contemplated with our whole being and he calls this totality of contemplation "love".
Metaphysical knowledge is sacred. It is the right of sacred things to require of man all that he is.
Intelligence, since it distinguishes, perceives, as one might put
it, proportions. The spiritual man integrates these proportions into his will, into his soul and into his life.
All defects are defects of proportion; they are errors that are lived. To be spiritual means not denying at any point with one's "being" what one affirms with one's knowledge, that is, what one accepts with the intelligence.
Truth lived: incorruptibility and generosity. Since ignorance is all that we are and not merely our thinking, knowledge will also be all that we are to the extent to which our existential modalities are by their nature able to participate in truth.
Human nature contains dark elements which no intellectual
certainty could, ipso facto, eliminate...
Pure intellectuality is as serene as a summer sky - serene with a serenity that is at once infinitely incorruptible and infinitely generous.
Intellectualism which "dries up the heart" has no connection
with intellectuality.
The incorruptibility - or inviolability - of truth is bound up neither with contempt nor with avarice.
What is man's certainty? On the level of ideas it may be perfect, but on the level of life it but rarely pierces through illusion.
Everything is ephemeral and every man must die. No man is
ignorant of this and no one knows it.
Man does not always accept truth because he understands it; often he believes he understands it because he is anxious to accept it.
People often discuss truths whereas they should limit themselves to discussing tastes and tendencies ...
Acuteness of intelligence is only a blessing when it is compensated by greatness and sweetness of the soul. It should not appear as a rupture of the equilibrium or as an excess which splits man in two. A gift of nature requires complementary qualities which allow of its harmonious manifestation; otherwise there is a risk of the lights becoming mingled with darkness.
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Frithjof Schuon: Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts
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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
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Image: Descent from the Cross, Novgorod school (late 15th c.)
One can meditate or speculate indefinitely on transcendent truths and their applications (that is moreover what the author of this book does, but he has valid reasons for doing it, nor does he do it for himself). One can spend a whole lifetime speculating on the suprasensorial and the transcendent, but all that matters is the "leap into the void" which is the fixation of spirit and soul in an unthinkable dimension of the Real; this leap, which cuts short-and completes in itself the endless chain of formulations, depends on a direct understanding and on a grace, not on having reached a certain phase in the unfolding of the doctrine, for this unfolding, we repeat, has logically no end.
This "leap into the void" we can call "faith"; it is the negation of this reality that is the source of all philosophy of the type that may be described as "art for art's sake", and of all thought that believes it can attain to an absolute contact with Reality by means of analyses, syntheses, arrangements, filtrations, and polishings - thought that is mundane by the very fact of this ignorance and because it is a vicious circle which not merely provides no escape from illusion, but even reinforces it through the lure of a progressive knowledge which in fact is inexistent.
In view of the harm that the prejudices and tendencies of ordinary piety can sometimes do to metaphysical speculations, we might be tempted to conclude that piety should be abandoned on the threshold of pure knowledge, but this would be a false and highly pernicious conclusion; in reality, piety, or faith, must never be absent from the soul, but it is only too clear that it must be on a level with the truths that it accompanies, which implies that such an extension is perfectly in its nature, as is proved by the Vedantic hymns, to take just one particularly conclusive example ...
The sense of the sacred: this word felicitously expresses a dimension which should never be absent either in metaphysical thought or in everyday life; it is this which gives birth to the liturgies, and without it there is no faith. The sense of the sacred, with its concomitances of dignity, incorruptibility, patience, and generosity is the key to integral faith and to the supernatural virtues which are inherent in it.
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From Stations of Wisdom by Frithjof Schuon