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Some of your greatest blessings come with patience. -Warren Wiersbe
When I'm worried and I can't sleep
I count my blessings instead of sheep
And I fall asleep counting my blessings
(Irving Berlin)
Quando ho paura, e non riesco a dormire
conto le cose belle che ho, anzichè contar le pecore...
e così, mi addormento...
mentre conto
le mie
cose
belle...
May the blessing of the rain be on you—
the soft sweet rain.
May it fall upon your spirit
so that all the little flowers may spring up,
and shed their sweetness on the air.
May the blessing of the great rains be on you,
may they beat upon your spirit
and wash it fair and clean,
and leave there many a shining pool
where the blue of heaven shines,
and sometimes a star.
Happy St. Patrick's Day to all my friends at flickr!
Women's hand holding a holy shrine of blessed Abbas's hand where Shia used to visit and taking blessing.
Blessing lives in Hopley, a suburb of Harare where the Women Advocacy Project (WAP) works. She left school after Form 3 because her family was unable to pay her school fees. Blessing married at age 20 and has a baby daughter.
Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate is currently over 80%. Like so many in the communities where WAP works, Blessing and her husband are not working. Blessing does piece work when she can and would love to have a job selling firewood. “I hope my daughter can at least be able to go to school, that way she will be able to sustain herself,” Blessing told WAP.
Photo by Alex Kotowski, 2018 Peace Fellow, The Advocacy Project
June 18, 2018 – Hopley, Zimbabwe
Names have been changed
near Angkor Wat.
Siem Reap Province, Cambodia
We asked for (and were granted) permission to photograph before the blessing began.
The Brophy community gathered on January 4, 2017 for the blessing of the newly opened Harry T. "Dutch" Olivier, S.J. Athletic Complex.
I love the rest stops in the U. S. They are plentiful, clean and usually picturesque. This one is at Santiam Oregon which is about eight miles north of Albany. It is almost 11 and we had been on the road for about eight hours. We stopped for breakfast just outside Portland for an hour. The weather has turned beautiful but there is still snow on the ground. In this photo you will see a homeless woman leaning against the wall. When I saw her it really struck me how fortunate I was to be on this holiday. Most people in our crowded world don't get a chance ever to leave the place they are born in. I gave her twenty dollars, wished her a good day and send a silent prayer of thanks. Then I skipped back to the car with a song in my heart!
This lovely doily box contains delicate silverware with porcelain-decorated handles I collected while I lived in Japan some years ago.
They had started to tarnish, so I decided to paint them in soft, grey pastels.
Love it!! Blessings
Model: Blessing de Claryss
MUA: Aisha Haq
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Bronica SQ-A, Zenzanon-PS 80mm f2.8, Kodak Portra 160
The Fu character, which activates the blessing of good fortune. ..Just playing with layering things ...self photo of my ear and the Chinese character Fu ....and a lot playing in Foto Flexer program ...
what if your blessings come through rain drops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise..
Home blessing on Thonet table by Lakber.
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One of the statues depicts a scene where the local hero king Shivaji seeks the blessings from a reverred local saint Tukaram. Notes about the glory of the warrior king Shivaji appear elsewhere in this set. This scene probably depicts teh humility of the great king. (Pune/ Poona, July 2007)
These mythical creatures often take the head of a dragon and the body of either a tiger or a deer, or something else like that. These peaceful creatures appear where wise leaders rule. 4 Qilin present a giant pearl as a symbol of blessings. Thousands of medicine bottles filled with colored liquid make up this lantern.
End of April, way past the best timing for cherry blossom viewing in the middle part of Japan. BUT, fortunately, Bibi still got to "catch" a tiny little bit (a few trees XD) at Nagano. ^^ What a blessing!!!
四月底，早已過了在本州，特別是中部賞櫻的最佳時期～ 但是好幸福，還是被我興奮地”逮到“幾株依然綻放的beauties.... 太開心了！還是一句：幸福，可以好簡單!! ^O^
The Blessing
is the moment of sunsplashed brilliance,
the walking-in by chance at the time
of greatest need. The blessing is swallows
alive from Africa, cavorting in English sky.
The blessing is a surprise, like luminescence
seen from a boat at night, between islands,
and the way it rises on the swell, the shallows
all aglow with it, the tide a woman’s sigh.
The blessing doesn’t choose. Its substance
is just bestowed. We have no right.
The blessing is the rustling of willows
when dawn comes, and mayflies love and die.
We are much in need of blessing. Its essence
will not distil: it evaporates if we try.
It’s lurking in shadows; it skulks in hollows.
It weeps, yet bids us fly.
Poem by Giles Watson, 2013. Filmed at Compton Beauchamp church, Oxfordshire.
Blessing and Curse / Preview.
Pure vector designed with macro scripts for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite written by Chris Angelakis
FINAL MASS TOOK PLACE IN THIS CHURCH ON SUNDAY 7th OCTOBER 2018 AT 11am. THE PIPE ORGAN WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO CAVAN CATHEDRAL.
The Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West is one of Ireland’s largest suburban churches, with the building itself covering approximately one acre. The turning of the first sod to build this church took place in July 1964 and was finally opened on the 8th October 1967 with the blessing of the Archbishop of Dublin, Charles McQuaid. The Parish of Finglas West was formally established in 1962 and the new building replaced an older tin-roofed church (Church of the Incarnation) that was located just in front of the main entrance.
The church is dedicated to the Annunciation of Our Lady which marks the occasion when the Archangel Gabriel informed the Blessed Virgin Mary that she will conceive a child through the Holy Spirit and that his name shall be Jesus. The Feast Day of the Annunciation is held on March 25th.
Additional information about the Church of the Annunciation:
• David Keane & Partners of Dublin were the architects who designed the new church. David Keane 22/9/1929 – 28/9/2007. The firm is still trading as KMD Architecture (Keane, Murphy & Duff partners). David Deane retired from KMD in 1987 but remained on as a consultant to the firm.
• Stephen Walsh designed and completed the stained glass windows, including the massive Annunciation window above the main entrance. He also created the mosaic Stations of the Cross and the large image of Christ Ascending into Heaven seen behind the alter.
• Richard Joseph King (1907-1974) designed the bronze and enamelled tabernacle. Richard is more famously known as a stained glass artist who worked with Harry Clark and went on to become director of the Harry Clarke Studios after Harry’s death in 1931. He was also well-known as an ecclesiastical painter with his own particular style, of which many of these have been illustrated in the Capuchin Annual from 1940 through to its final issue in 1977. Stephen also designed and executed the Connemara marble plaque behind the baptismal font.
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I was anxious to get some photos of the Church of the Annunciation since it’s been confirmed the church will be demolished and replaced. The reasons given have been structural problems, increasing costs of maintenance and heating, as well as falling congregation numbers. The current church can hold up to 3,500 mass-goers, while its replacement will hold up to around 350. The proposed new church has been designed by Coda Architects of Dublin. Some of the land the church is on will be used to build social housing.
At this stage, it is not clear when the church will be demolished and that could be up to two years away. The structural problems are considered too expensive to fix and relate mainly to the roof, which also leaks in places. The roof is partially constructed of cast concrete with reinforcing steel bar and it seems that the thickness of concrete used was insufficient, so rain water ingresses into it and has been corroding away the reinforcing steel bar. It is also unclear what will happen to the stained glass and other fittings that adorns the building, especially the huge and impressive window above the main entrance. There is also a fine large organ whose fate is as yet, undecided. The church is also adorned inside with many statues and the bronze and enamelled tabernacle designed by artist Richard Joseph King.
But one thing is for sure, the Finglas skyline will never be the same without The Church of the Annunciation and its distinctive high spire.
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References:
www.thejournal.ie/finglas-church-closure-3220514-Feb2017/
www.facebook.com/GlasnevinHeritage/photos/a.1826516385521... (Glasnevin Heritage Facebook page – short note about the Church of the Annunciation and the old tin church it replaced).
www.coda.ie/portfolio/church-finglas-dublin (Coda Architects website - includes artist’s impressions of the proposed replacement church).
www.facebook.com/rtearchives/photos/a.1397188113944316.10... (A 1966 photo of the new Annunciation church alongside the old tin church that it replaced. The old tin church was dismantled shortly afterwards and sold off.)
When I count my BLESSINGS, I count you TWICE😇😍😘
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The Blessing of the second rescue boat that has been donated to NSRI with funds raised by the surfski community, Spirit of Surfski 2, took place at Fish Hoek Lifesavers Club at 18h00 on Friday 12 December. The 6,5 metre Sea Rescue boat will be based at Simon’s Town.
Surfski race organiser Billy Harker got the surfski community to join hands and stand behind the NSRI by raising funds for Sea Rescue after paddler Casper Kruger was rescued in False Bay in 2007. Picture NSRI.