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for "devotion" day - ok so it is just a quick snap - they were too busy looking at legos to cooperate. Their devotion to the almighty lego. My devotion to them (this outing consumed 2 1/2 hours)
This is three photos of an adorable little burro Clara and her mom Rosita. I've fallen in love with both of them. Rosita is the best mom ever and Clara is a ball of fire. She races around teasing the rotties and dodging the horses.
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This Book of Hours was produced in the early fourteenth century in Northeast France. The contents of the calendar suggest a use of Saint-Omer which was in the diocese of Therouanne. The presence of a female figure kneeling in prayer accompanying the Pentecost suggests the manuscript was made for a female owner. The calendar contains marginal illumination with the Labors of the Months and the zodiac symbols. There are seven full-page miniatures depicting scenes from the book of Genesis contained within architectural settings. There are twenty-four historiated initials as well as a number of initials decorated with human heads. An abundance of marginal figures makes this manuscript exceptionally charming.
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This spring my two lovelies made a wonderful trip to Paris.
My love put her new Sony Ericsson to best use...
Vijayadashami, also known as Dashahara, Dussehra, Dashain (in Nepal), Navratri or Durgotsav is one of the most important Hindu festivals celebrated in various forms, across India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
The name Dussehra is derived from Sanskrit Dasha-hara literally means remover of ten referring to Lord Rama's victory over the ten-headed demon king Ravana. The day also marks the victory of Goddess Durga over the demons Mahishasur. The name Vijayadashami is also derived from the Sanskrit words "Vijaya-dashmi" literally meaning the victory on the dashmi (Dashmi being the tenth lunar day of the Hindu calendar month).
As the name suggests Vijayadashmi or Dussehra is celebrated on the tenth day of the month of Ashwin according to the Hindu lunisolar calendar which corresponds to September or October of the Gregorian calendar. The first nine days are celebrated as Maha Navratri or Sharada Navratri (the most important Navratri) and culminates on the tenth day as Dasara.
In India, the harvest season begins at this time and so the Mother Goddess is invoked to start the new harvest season and reactivate the vigor and fertility of the soil. This is done through religious performances and rituals which are thought to invoke cosmic forces that rejuvenate the soil. Many people of the Hindu faith observe through social gatherings and food offerings to the gods at home and in temples throughout Nepal and India.
Black and white photography of a young and beautiful woman in black dress praying with devotion to the Virgin at the light of the candles in an old church in Aix-en-Provence (France). © Eliseo Oliveras
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Viveiro is a town and municipality in the province of Lugo, in the northwestern Galician autonomous community of Spain. It borders on the Cantabric Sea, to the west of Xove and to the east of O Vicedo.
Thousands of boys and girls sang the song "A house full of glory goes far beyond all lands (Gotteslob (Praise of God) is the title of the hymnbook authorized by the Catholic dioceses in Germany, Austria, South Tyrol and Liège. The present edition was introduced on 1 December 2013, succeeding the 1975 edition of the same name)," when the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Dr. Theodor Innitzer, moved into St. Stephen's Cathedral to celebrate the Rosary.
The organizers had expected 300 participants, in fact, thousands of enthusiastic young people filled the cathedral to the last place, the estimated 8 to 10,000.
Also cathedral curator Josef Schoiswohl, the later diocesan bishop of Graz-Seckau and titular archbishop of Monteverde was there:
"It was a pure ecclesiastical devotion, there was not dropped a hint in the cathedral against the rulers. Dr. Stur preached. But the cardinal when faced with the presence of so many young people was so moved that he was unable to control his emotionality. He then spoke at the end even though it was not intended. He has moderately requested to confess the faith and to be faithful to it, to have courage. He really only addressed Christian virtues. Even if he did not say so, one could hear in this situation that he was by no means in agreement with the rulers."
The spontaneous address of the Cardinal was written down in shorthand. He said:
"It is a joyous and heartwarming picture you offer me when I see you head to head around me. Thank you for coming to the bishop in the old cathedral, on the one hand to give a confession of faith, a commitment to your old, German fathers faith, and on the other hand, that you have come to force you to stay strong and firm in this great, but also difficult and stern time. "
Wolfgang Müller-Hartburg:
"I can still hear him directly. He said you've been deprived of so much lately, you've been bereaved of your unions, your communities, your schools, your uniforms, your flags. But one thing can not be taken away from you, your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. One is your Lord, Jesus Christ, one is your guide, Jesus Christ is your guide, if you keep faith with him, you will never be lost."
Norbert Ortel:
"Above all, I remember this sentence, 'Christ is your leader', because all of us were with our jaws to the floor, for it was a crime against the German Reich to say anything like that at the time."
Among the young people in the cathedral, as a 22-year-old cleric from the Scottish Abbey, was Fr. Sigismund Pawlowsky, later director of the Schottengymnasium:
"It was a pleasure to see that this was kind of a compensation to this disappointment that in April these giant bills of the bishops suddenly hung on all the advertising pillars. Now we thought we could trust the cardinal, this arose under pressure, and so we thought, maybe that will be fine. "
Before the plebiscite on April 10, 1938, the bishops had, as is generally known, called to affirm the annexation of Austria to the German Reich.
The cardinal himself tried to find excuses for it. In "trusting in the grace of the Holy Spirit," he asked for the trust of young people:
"Perhaps some of you, dear young Catholics, have not understood everything the bishops have done in recent months. You know what it is. But we can be witnesses that it is very important to the bishops to do only what they could do with the best of their knowledge and belief, that they are aware that they have a heavy responsibility before the Lord God. "
Norbert Ortel:
"We were thrilled with his speech, also because he moved away from his previous behavior."
With the song "Glory to the Lord" the Rosary was completed.
"We want to see our bishop!"
All initially left the cathedral quietly.
But National Socialist provocateurs of the GESTAPO control center Vienna had mingled with the adolescents.
Tausende Burschen und Mädchen sangen das Lied „Ein Haus voll Glorie schauet weit über alle Land“, als der Wiener Erzbischof Kardinal Dr. Theodor Innitzer in den Stephansdom einzog, um mit ihnen das Rosenkranzfest zu begehen.
Die Organisatoren hatten mit 300 Teilnehmern gerechnet, tatsächlich füllten tausende begeisterte junge Menschen den Dom bis auf den letzten Platz, den Schätzungen zufolge 8 bis 10.000.
Auch Domkustos Dr. Josef Schoiswohl, der spätere Diözesanbischof von Graz-Seckau und Titular-Erzbischof von Monteverde war dabei:
„Es ist eine rein kirchliche Andacht gewesen, es ist im Dom keine Spitze gegen die Machthaber gefallen. Dr. Stur hat gepredigt. Aber der Kardinal war angesichts so vieler junger Menschen derart bewegt und hat seine Emotionalität nicht beherrschen können. Er hat dann am Schluss auch gesprochen, obwohl es nicht vorgesehen war. Er hat in einer maßvollen Weise aufgefordert, den Glauben zu bekennen und ihm treu zu sein, Mut zu haben. Er hat eigentlich nur christliche Tugenden angesprochen. Auch wenn er es nicht gesagt hat, so konnte man in dieser Situation doch heraushören, dass er mit den Machthabern keineswegs mehr einverstanden gewesen ist.“
Die spontane Ansprache des Kardinals wurde mitstenographiert. Er sagte u.a.:
„Es ist ein herzerquickendes und herzerfreuendes Bild, das ihr mir bietet, wenn ich euch, Kopf an Kopf, so um mich sehe. Habt Dank, dass ihr gekommen seid zum Bischof in die alte Kathedrale, um einerseits ein Glaubensbekenntnis abzulegen, ein Bekenntnis zu eurem alten, deutschen Väterglauben, und andererseits, dass ihr gekommen seid, um euch Kraft zu holen, um fest zu stehen und fest zu bleiben in dieser großen, aber auch schweren und ernsten Zeit.“
Wolfgang Müller-Hartburg:
„Ich höre ihn direkt noch. Er hat gesagt, man hat euch so viel genommen in letzter Zeit, euch hat man eure Vereinigungen, eure Gemeinschaften, eure Schulen, eure Uniformen, eure Fahnen genommen. Aber eines kann man euch nicht nehmen, euren Glauben an unseren Herrn Jesus Christus. Einer ist euer Herr, Jesus Christus, einer ist euer Führer, Jesus Christus ist euer Führer, wenn ihr ihm die Treue haltet, werdet ihr nie verloren gehen.“
Norbert Ortel:
„Mir ist vor allem dieser Satz ‘Christus ist euer Führer’ in Erinnerung, weil uns allen der Kinnladen herunter gefallen ist, es war doch für damalige Verhältnisse ein Reichsverbrechen, so etwas zu sagen.“
Unter den Jugendlichen im Dom war als 22jähriger Kleriker aus dem Schottenstift auch P. Sigismund Pawlowsky, der spätere Direktor des Schottengymnasiums:
„Man hat sich gefreut, dass das sozusagen eine Art Kompensation war zu dieser Enttäuschung, dass im April plötzlich diese Riesenplakate der Bischöfe an allen Litfasssäulen gehangen sind. Jetzt hat man sich gedacht, wir können dem Kardinal durchaus vertrauen, das ist unter Druck entstanden, und so haben wir gedacht, vielleicht geht das noch gut.“
Vor der Volksabstimmung am 10. April 1938 hatten die Bischöfe bekanntlich aufgerufen, den Anschluss Österreichs an das Deutsche Reich zu bejahen.
Der Kardinal versuchte selbst auch, entschuldigende Worte dafür zu finden. Er bat im „Vertrauen auf die Gnade des Heiligen Geistes“ um das Vertrauen der jungen Menschen:
„Vielleicht haben manche von euch, ihr lieben jungen Katholiken, in den letzten Monaten nicht alles verstanden, was die Bischöfe getan haben. Ihr wisst, um was es sich handelt. Aber wir können Zeugen sein, dass es den Bischöfen sehr am Herzen gelegen ist, nur das zu tun, was sie mit bestem Wissen und Gewissen tun konnten, dass sie sich bewusst sind, dass sie eine schwere Verantwortung vor dem Herrgott tragen.“
Norbert Ortel:
„Von seiner Ansprache waren wir total begeistert, auch weil er von seinem früheren Verhalten abgerückt ist.“
Mit dem Lied „Lobt froh den Herrn“ wurde die Rosenkranzandacht abgeschlossen.
„Wir wollen unsern Bischof sehen!“
Alle verließen zunächst still den Dom.
Aber es hatten sich nationalsozialistische Provokateure der GESTAPO-Leitstelle Wien unter die Jugendlichen gemischt.
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This photo says it all. Devotion to god.
The man basically stay still for close to 5 mins saying his prayers to the god on the left side. Devotion is all we need in all the things we do.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o3bBrg3DjU
Here is our teams entry for the film festival, Like I posted yesterday, this was all writen, created, acted, and edited in 48 hours. Hope everyone enjoys watching as much as I enjoyed being part of this awesome challenge
Belgian style Pale Ale
The Lost Abbey
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I spent this past weekend working on a team for the "Guerilla Film Festival" A 48 hour mission to write, create, edit and submit a film., Once you start your 48 hrs, the organization gives you a genre and a line that must be used in the film. Our genre was Classic Sci-Fi, and our line was " I don't want to be part of any Geinea Pigging" We finished the filming last night at 3:30 in the morning, and the producer finished editing and uploading the movie this afternoon with about an hour left in our 48. All of the films have been uploaded to youtube and will be available for viewing in a day or two., Once I have a link, I will share for all to see.
My job was Slate Man, and crew member, Not an actor. Slate man slaps the little board with "scene 1, act 2", and crew member does all of the off camera work in preparing props and spaces for the scenes. I can't wait to share the film,, Look for another pic tomorrow with a link.
This hymnal was completed in Constantinople on August 15, 1678 [AE 1127], by the priest Yakob Pēligratc‘i, having been commissioned by Člav, son of Nawasard, as a dedication to his sons, Astuacatur and Sahak. The structure of the hymns adheres approximately to the standard Armenian hymnal (Շաբակնոց), with minor variations in order and a few substitutions (see Sanjian in the bibliography). The book is illuminated extensively, with 38 full- and half-page polychrome miniatures against gold backgrounds, 8 decorated head-pieces marking the principal divisions of the hymnal, and numerous marginal miniatures marking individual hymns, including biblical figures, saints, bishops, and vignettes. The style of the miniatures is largely in imitation of western European models, though more traditional Armenian and Byzantine influences stand out, such as the vibrant color palette, an iconic frontality for depictions of saints and bishops, and the highly abstracted floral motifs and zoomorphic incipits marking hymn divisions.
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The Waving Girl in Savannah, Georgia. The story behind the statue as told on www.sentinelpublications.com/wavinggirl.htm
The monotony and loneliness of lighthouse life has been depicted in many ways, but the story of Florence Martus of the Elba Island Lights is perhaps the most sensitive portrayal of a woman's devotion to duty.
Elba Island lies at the mouth of the Savannah river, Georgia, and during the closing years of the 19th century its range lights were tended by a disabled Civil War veteran named George M. Martus. Decorated war veterans were often awarded jobs as lighthouse keepers, perhaps as compensation for their physical trauma in defense of their country, although they also might have received the appointment through family connections. This was certainly the case with George Martus. He and his sister, Florence, had grown up sheltered and naive on Cockspur Island, where their widowed father served as keeper of a small government beacon.
Florence Martus made up for the lack of excitement in her childhood by taking an avid interest in local history. After her father died, she went to live with her brother on Elba Island, where he had been assigned as keeper of the two small range beacons that ships used to line their approach to the river channel. It was the first time teenage Florence had traveled any distance from Cockspur Island, and then only a few miles.
Life was pastoral and quiet on Elba Island, except that Fort Pulaski was nearby with its roughneck soldiers and martial activities. Lonely Florence was fascinated with the fort and began giving tours of it to visitors. Everyone was astounded by her long, involved lectures and her extensive knowledge of local history. For young Florence, there was little else to keep her active mind alive and well -- that is until love came into her life.
It was in 1887 when she was 18 and still quite innocent, that a dashing Navy lieutenant visited Elba Island and began romancing her. He was from Cape Cod and had come down from his ship's berth in Savannah to join one of the tours Florence Martus gave at Fort Pulaski. Perhaps he intended to add her to a long list of romantic conquests in various ports around the world. Less likely, he truly fell in love with her but was unable to keep his promise of marriage.
Regardless, after a whirlwind courtship, his ship lifted anchor and he departed Savannah with the assurance that he would return and marry Florence Martus as soon as possible. As a token of his love, he gave her his white Navy neckerchief, which she tearfully waved as his ship passed Elba Island on its way to ports unknown.
After several months and no word from her beau, Florence began to wonder where he was and if he was thinking of her. She thought of him almost constantly and kept the neckerchief close to her heart, anticipating how wonderful it would feel to run down to the riverbank and wave it at his ship as he returned. Every vessel that passed received her earnest scrutiny, even at night, but it was never his ship.
She began waving the neckerchief as if delirious with grief, but soon caught hold of her senses and decided she would wave it at every passing ship in hopes someone who knew her lover would get word to him that she desperately awaited his return. Sailors of all places and nations entering the Savannah River soon were telling each other of the young girl who stood on the riverbank waving her white cloth in greeting. Florence Martus became known as "The Waving Girl of Elba Island." Her obsession then expanded to include swinging a lantern to greet ships at night, often accompanied by her timid collie dog.
Months turned into years, and still no word came from her beloved. By then, the pain of rejection had been replaced by her passion for waving at ships. Newspaper reporters came and went, tourists stared curiously, and cameras flashed. By 1931, when George Martus retired from keeping the lights and gently led away his almost demented sister, Florence had been waving to ships for 44 years!
She remained with her brother until his death, then was placed in a hospital where she died in 1943. Seamen, and the people of Savannah, have never forgotten Florence Martus. A statue on the Savannah waterfront recalls her unselfish devotion -- Frozen in a pose of eternal greeting, the waving figure represents all women who have sacrificed to protect those who brave the sea.
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Newly ordained Fathers Matthew Schuster and David Yallaly celebrated their very first Masses on Sunday, May 19th. Fr. Schuster offered the Ordinary Form Mass in Latin according to the 1970 Roman Missal and Fr. Yallay offered a solemn high Mass in the Extraordinary form according to the 1962 Missale Romanum.
Hundreds came to be at the First Masses of the newest priests of the Canons Regular. Family and friends traveled many miles from all over the country to celebrate this momentous day. Later on, Fathers David and Matthew offered their first blessings.
We give thanks to Almighty God for His bountiful goodness in giving us two new priests. May the Lord of the harvest may send out more workers into His harvest!
One of My friends made this beautiful setup while he dedicated himself to his Almighty . I loved the way of his devotion so much , i could not resist myself framing the lovely environment .
Last night to end the Navarathri celebrations, TFA hosted a beautiful durga procession and bathed the place and everyone in kunkumam - quite an electrifying moment
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Devotion To Thread
May 17- June 14, 2008
Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee WI
Curator, Faythe Levine
Chris Niver, Milwaukee, WI
Diem Chau, Seattle, WA
Emily Eibel, Brooklyn, NY
Jenny Hart, Austin, TX
Kate Bingman-Burt, Mississippi State, MS
Kristin Loffer Theiss, Mount Vernon, WA
Lisa Solomon, Oakland, CA
Melissa Woods, Columbus, OH
Merrliee Challis, Birmingham, AL
Orly Cogan, New York, NY
Pippi Zornoza, Providence, RI
Rebecca Schoenecker, Chicago, IL
Shannon Rankin, Maine
Steve Macdonald, San Francisco, CA
Xander Marro, Providence, RI