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Philippine Good Friday Traditions
A flagellant walks through the hot streets, barefoot and bloodied. When he reaches the neighborhood church, he falls on the street in cruciform and offers his suffering as penance.
After a few minutes, he gets up and continues his self flagellation toward the next church.
This small Book of Hours is especially interesting for its profusion of humorous drolleries. Humans, animals, and hybrids are featured in the margins of each page of the book. The artists rendered in small scenes a variety of actions, like cooking, playing game, climbing, fishing, making music or moving the bodies in a dance. These drolleries amuse the faithful during his prayers, while showing scenes that work as metaphors of the soul fighting the vices. The original female owner seems to have been established in the diocese of Cambrai, judging from the use of the Office of the Dead. Several provenance episodes are evidenced by the book in the signatures on the leaves at the beginning and end of the manuscript. A priest in the sixteenth century wrote a message in code on fol. 1v asking to return to him the book if lost. Members of the ducal house of Savoy owned this book of prayer in the seventeenth century, as evidenced by the gilt armorial shield of Charles Emmanuel II (1634-75), duke of Savoy, stamped on the covers.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
If to pray, then better - in Holy Land! In Jerusalem the prayers most rapidly reach our Lord...
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Russian Orthodox Easter will come tomorrow!
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P.S.
BTW, according Russian Orthodox tradition, the head must be always covered with scarf, when You are entering the church!
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I.
"To frame our mind for even resurrection..."
-Aleksandr Blok
II.
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And all earthly at once will be thrown
In the bottomless gulf of the dark,
And above it will slowly grow
Silence - seven bright hues in the arc.
And the tune, so youthful and sole,
In the silence will gently wake up –
Lulled by life, strings of beautiful soul,
That is strained like a beautiful harp."
-Aleksandr Blok
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PHOTO:
taken in Russian Church of Holy Trinity, Jerusalem, Israel.
Just a repost (and remake) of this Photo
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Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
DEN HAAG -ISKCON , in de volksmond beter bekend als de Hare Krishna
gemeenschap,organiseerde voor de 15e keer Het India Parade Festival. Om
12.00 uur werd het spectaculaire Indiase festival ingeluid met zang en
dans op het. Een reusachtige en kleurrijke kar versierd met bloemen,
voortgetrokken door alle toeschouwers, vertrok om 13.00 uur voor een
parade door de binnenstad van Den Haag. De parade komt om 15.00 uur aan
op het (Wijkpark Transvaal). Hier zal het ontmoetingsfestival
voortgezet worden tot 18.00 uur. Er is een cultureel podiumprogramma
met zang, muziek, moderne en klassieke dans, en presentaties. Verder
zal er aandacht geschonken worden aan het vegetarisme. Er zulle diverse
kraampjes uitgestald zijn met snacks, kleding, sieraden, henna,
Ayurveda, kunst, muziek, boeken en nog veel meer. Verder kan men volop
genieten van een heerlijke vegetarische maaltijd uit de Vedische
keuken. Toegang en maaltijd was gratis.
Took my family to the Kunzang Palyul Choling (KPC) Maryland temple to end the day in beautiful place. I shot some pictures, meditated for a bit, but this shot of total devotion and intention to become enlightened for the sake of all sentient beings caught my eye.
Namaste
This small Book of Hours is especially interesting for its profusion of humorous drolleries. Humans, animals, and hybrids are featured in the margins of each page of the book. The artists rendered in small scenes a variety of actions, like cooking, playing game, climbing, fishing, making music or moving the bodies in a dance. These drolleries amuse the faithful during his prayers, while showing scenes that work as metaphors of the soul fighting the vices. The original female owner seems to have been established in the diocese of Cambrai, judging from the use of the Office of the Dead. Several provenance episodes are evidenced by the book in the signatures on the leaves at the beginning and end of the manuscript. A priest in the sixteenth century wrote a message in code on fol. 1v asking to return to him the book if lost. Members of the ducal house of Savoy owned this book of prayer in the seventeenth century, as evidenced by the gilt armorial shield of Charles Emmanuel II (1634-75), duke of Savoy, stamped on the covers.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
This pocket-sized Flemish Book of Hours was likely created in Bruges ca. 1500. It contains illuminations produced by the Ghent-Bruges school stylistically associated with the Master of the Prayerbooks, who was active at that time. The manuscript still retains the original binding signed by Ludovicus Bloc, a binder documented in Bruges ca. 1484-1529. The miniatures can be compared with those in W.176 in the Walters' collection, as well as with those in a manuscript also bound by Ludovicus Bloc in the Detroit Institute of Arts (Acc. no. 63.146). The overall image cycle is closely related to that of W.427, another Flemish Book of Hours preserved at the Walters Art Museum.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
@ Mahamuni temple, Mandalay - Myanmar - XT10 - 35mm F1.4 - raw processed with Darktable - DSCF0215dm
In my room.
Four RAW images merged in Photomatix and tonemapped in both that and QTPFSGUI. Merged and retouched in the GIMP.
Today’s Devotion: Do You Worship God in Spirit and in Truth ?
By Xianxin
The Lord Jesus said, “When the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23–24). The Lord requires that we worship God in spirit and in truth, for only in that way can we win His approval. But what exactly does worshiping God in spirit and in truth entail? Some brothers and sisters believe that diligently praying and reading the Bible every day is worshiping God, and some people believe that attending meetings on time and going to church every week is worshiping God, there are still others who believe that toiling, working, forsaking, and expending for the Lord is worshiping God, and so on. There are many ways to practice worship of God, but are we worshiping Him in spirit and in truth? Does God praise this kind of practice? Let’s fellowship on this together.
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