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The Japanese art of Furoshiki is an easy and environmentally way to wrap.
Alphabet Challenge 'gift wrapped' theme. 7/52
123 pictures in 2023 (121) wrapped
maybe death
isn't darkness, after all,
but so much light
wrapping itself around us--
[Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays]
another reason why I love my neighbourhood,
Glasgow Street, Guelph, Ontario
Parcel boxes and wrapping paper always provide new entertainment for all cats.
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: CULT : Krisskringelmass
Group gift
Unrigged men, woman and child
Below are at Nocturne Noel Event
SMART DEVICE RADIO V1
[UO] Christmas Tree - Solemn Night
BONAIRE - Christmas 2025 Fireplace
Macro Mondays Redux 2016 - My Favorite Theme of the Year
Vibrant minimalism
ODC - Negative Space
Elastic gold cord on purple wrapping paper
Parcel boxes and wrapping paper always provide new entertainment for all cats.
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A close-up of the packaged Hermes. I have used this plaster cast copy of the head of the Olympian Hermes for many years as my photographic punching ball. Before that, and for decades, students of drawing have used (and abused) this sculpture. I am in all likelihood continuing the abuse. I have wrapped the image of God. Keeping him warm and alive under a protective aluminium foil? Hiding or even denying his presence? Manipulating, packaging and turning him into a commodity, into a creation of mine? Alternatively, did he die, or even, choose to hide? Coming again like a thief in the night when I won't expect it? Is he closer to me than my jugular? Is the wrapping for my own protection? This is the punching ball, and its reach is not limited to photography.
Parcel boxes and wrapping paper always provide new entertainment for all cats.
Thank you all for visits, favs and comments, it's greatly appreciated!
HomilyChristTheKing112022
Subject: “out there” but also “in here.”
In the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite, a solemnity is a feast day of the highest rank celebrating a mystery such as the Trinity.
What a beautiful Solemnity we celebrate today. “Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.” We may not pay attention to this particular feast day…but I want to change that. Our responsorial Psalm captures the mood of this feast “Let us go rejoicing to the House of the Lord.” Here we are!
The USCCB states that ”Christ is King of the entire universe because “in him were created all things in heaven and on earth. … All things were created through him and for him.” The Church (Pius XI,) instituted this feast day in 1925 to remind an increasingly secular world that only by acknowledging our origin and end in Christ will human individuals and societies find peace, justice, freedom, and happiness.”
Our first, image that may reside in our minds is that of Christ sitting on the thrown in the high heavens, however, the encyclical that introduced this Feast of “Christ the King” “Quas Primas,” mentions in paragraph 33 that:
“He must reign in our minds, which should assent with perfect submission and firm belief to revealed truths and to the doctrines of Christ. He must reign in our wills, which should obey the laws and precepts of God. He must reign in our hearts, which should spurn natural desires and love God above all things, and cleave to him alone. He must reign in our bodies and in our members, which should serve as instruments for the interior sanctification of our souls, or to use the words of the Apostle Paul, as instruments of justice unto God.”
So, Christ the King…not only resides “out there” but also “in here.” We know the path our Jesus took to reside “in here.” It began when God emptied Himself, out of total love for us, and become enfleshed within the Womb of our Mother Mary. The God of the universe become subject to the of the culture, laws and customs of Man and we all know how HE was greeted and treated…the beauty of the his incarnation, and his life, his death and his resurrection was his path. His “way” (the familiar path) to his Kingship led him to die on a Cross…to burst the gates of Hell…to HIS resurrection and ascension…to HIS thrown.
To be aware of this reality has profound consequences! For we, his subjects, are called to follow in “his way.” Ralph C Wood, in his essay The Distinctively Orthodox Character of Solzhenitsyn’s Literary Imagination states it beautifully:
“Refusing to coerce his creatures into an unfree obedience, God grants us a freedom at once wondrous and terrible—namely, the liberty to become either more or less like the image in which we are made. Human existence at its core is not static but in constant movement, either a progression or a regression, an ever greater or lesser conformity to the image in which we are made.”
What are the effects and consequences of Christ residing within us? Jesus Christ is our ultimate guide and compass.He is our rock and our sure foundation and from this vantage point are free to become what we are meant to be- an image of God. This shepherding, which happens most intimately when HIS peace…that is beyond understanding…resides within our hearts…when our peace is disturbed, we know that we have to make adjustments.
A few weeks ago, Fr. Dominic mentioned in his homily, that we all have to make difficult choices in life…sometimes between multiple unappealing choices. The chaos, that followed Jesus in his mortal existence, did not just go away…his journey through life included making difficult choices with dramatic outcomes. Jesus entered into the center of life…and gave us a model and pattern to follow. Our scripture and tradition provides us the detail and the outcome.
We are not left alone! The Kingdom of God has arrived and our Shepherd King is leading us through the difficulties of life. We all share this. It is most visible to us when we gather here to do the “work of the people.” We call this Liturgy! Our gathering to do this…”what we are doing now” helps us realize that we are part of the Kingdom of God unfolding through each of us.. We are accompanied by Jesus Christ our King who comes to meet us now in the Eucharist. We need to be reminded, He who is enthroned up there is also enthroned “in here.”