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devotional fresco depicting Saint Anthony Abbot - column of the Church of San Francesco, Lodi
Tutte le colonne e le pareti sono decorate da numerosi affreschi risalenti ai secoli compresi tra il Trecento e il Settecento
All columns and walls are decorated with numerous frescoes dating back to the centuries between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Devotional fresco depicting Saint Nicholas - column of the Church of San Francesco, Lodi
Tutte le colonne e le pareti sono decorate da numerosi affreschi risalenti ai secoli compresi tra il Trecento e il Settecento
All columns and walls are decorated with numerous frescoes dating back to the centuries between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Extraordinarily beautiful and intoxicatingly poisonous!
Datura stramonium has been used as a mystical sacrament in North America and South Asia. In Hinduism, Lord Shiva was known to smoke Datura. People still provide the small green fruit of Datura during festivals and special days as offerings in Shiva temples. Although lay devotees smoke marijuana as a devotional practice during religious festivals like Shivaratri (the Night of Shiva), they do not smoke Datura because its effects can be unpredictable and sometimes fatal. Aboriginal Americans in North America, such as the Algonquin and Luiseño have used this plant in sacred ceremonies. The genus name is derived from dhatura, an ancient Hindu word for a plant. Stramonium is originally from Greek, strychnos στρύχνος "nightshade" and maniakos μανιακός "mad".
All parts of this plant are poisonous. Effects from ingestion range from flushed skin, headaches, hallucinations, convulsions and even coma. Datura stramonium, known by the common names jimson weed, devil's trumpet, devil's weed, thorn apple, tolguacha, Jamestown weed, stinkweed, locoweed, datura, pricklyburr, devil's cucumber, hell's bells, moonflower and, in South Africa, malpitte and mad seeds, is a common weed in the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. Parts of the plant, especially the seeds and leaves, are sometimes used as a hallucinogen. Due to the elevated risk of overdose in uninformed users, many hospitalizations and some deaths are reported from this use.
It is an erect annual herb forming a bush up to 3–5 ft tall. The leaves are soft, irregularly undulate, and toothed. The fragrant flowers are trumpet-shaped, white to creamy or violet, and 2.5 to 3.5 in. long. The egg-shaped seed capsule is walnut-sized and either covered with spines or bald. At maturity it splits into four chambers, each with dozens of small black seeds. The seed is carried by birds and spread in their droppings. It can lie dormant underground for years and germinate when the soil is disturbed. People who discover it growing in their gardens and are worried about its toxicity have been advised to dig it up.
In the United States the plant is called Jimson Weed, or more rarely Jamestown Weed, taking this name from Jamestown, Virginia where British soldiers were drugged with it while attempting to suppress Bacon's Rebellion. They spent 11 days generally appearing to have gone insane.
Datura metel
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Merry Christmas !!!
Christmas is the most joyful holiday during the whole year and it’s being globalized. I believe that Santa Claus who is riding his sleigh in the sky with his flying reindeers and carrying a bag full of gifts for children, and laughing in a way sounds like “Ho Ho Ho”— is the most impressive picture of Christmas people are familiar with for everybody in the world. Children are looking forward to opening presents which was put under the fancy, decorated Christmas tree every year, this has been a family tradition and most of the families.. Also, the contemporary Christmas songs like, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”, “Jingle Bells”, “Frosty the Snowman”, “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” and so on are catchy in every corner of the world……
However, as Christian, how should we approach Christmas in a way that is after the Lord’s heart? Let’s ponder about that and read the testimony article “Christmas Reflection: Are You Truly Worshiping the Lord Jesus?” to seek for God’s will together.
Contents:
The Origins of Christmas
The Lord Jesus Was Born Because of God’s Love and God’s Salvation of Mankind
What the Lord Jesus’ Will and Requirements for Us Are
Are We Truly Worshiping the Lord?
How to Conform to God’s Will and Earn His Praise
Recommended: How Do WeWorship God in Spirit and in Truth?
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This picture is taken in suburbs of Simhachalam Temple in Vishakapatnam where i found it pretty much interesting to find people offering both coins as well as fruits/flowers along with their beliefs
GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS
THEME: WOOD
SUBJECT: WOODEN CROSS
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Continued prayers to all who are suffering from hurricane Helene, those who lost everything, those who lost their lives and those who grieve the loss of a loved one.
devotional fresco depicting Saint Catherine of Alexandria - column of the Church of San Francesco, Lodi
La chiesa di San Francesco, risalente alla fine del Duecento, è l'edificio sacro più originale della città di Lodi. La sua peculiarità principale è rappresentata dalle due bifore "a cielo aperto" della facciata, le quali rappresentano il primo esempio di un modello che tra Trecento e Quattrocento si diffuse in tutta l'Italia settentrionale.
La facciata è caratterizzata da un alto protiro ogivale con colonne in cotto su plinti di pietra, da due lesene semi-cilindriche e da un grande rosone in marmo bianco; ai lati, due singolari bifore a sesto acuto si aprono al cielo donando leggerezza alla struttura frontale.
L'ampio spazio interno della chiesa è diviso in tre navate di quattro campate ciascuna, con cappelle laterali e pianta a croce latina; grosse colonne in laterizio reggono archi ogivali e volte a crociera.
Le colonne e le pareti sono decorate da numerosi affreschi risalenti ai secoli compresi tra il Trecento ed il Settecento; in particolare, tra i moltissimi affreschi del XIV secolo.
San Francesco is a church in Lodi, Lombardy, northern Italy, dating to the late 13th century. Its main peculiarity are the two "open sky" double mullioned windows in the façade, which are the first example of a model often repeated in northern Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries.
The church has an unfinished façade in cream-color brickwork, charactersized by a tall ogival cusped portico, also in brickwork. This is flanked by two blind columns and surmounted by a large rose window in white marble, in turn sided by two double ogival mullioned windows.
The wide interior is on the Latin cross plan, divided into a nave and two aisles with four spans each; there are also side chapels. The nave and the aisles are cross-vaulted, separated by ogival arches supported by large brickwork columns. Walls and columns are decorated by numerous frescoes dating from the 14th to the 18th century
devotional fresco depicting Madonna and Child - column of the Church of San Francesco, Lodi
La chiesa di San Francesco, risalente alla fine del Duecento, è l'edificio sacro più originale della città di Lodi. La sua peculiarità principale è rappresentata dalle due bifore "a cielo aperto" della facciata, le quali rappresentano il primo esempio di un modello che tra Trecento e Quattrocento si diffuse in tutta l'Italia settentrionale.
La facciata è caratterizzata da un alto protiro ogivale con colonne in cotto su plinti di pietra, da due lesene semi-cilindriche e da un grande rosone in marmo bianco; ai lati, due singolari bifore a sesto acuto si aprono al cielo donando leggerezza alla struttura frontale.
L'ampio spazio interno della chiesa è diviso in tre navate di quattro campate ciascuna, con cappelle laterali e pianta a croce latina; grosse colonne in laterizio reggono archi ogivali e volte a crociera.
Le colonne e le pareti sono decorate da numerosi affreschi risalenti ai secoli compresi tra il Trecento ed il Settecento; in particolare, tra i moltissimi affreschi del XIV secolo.
San Francesco is a church in Lodi, Lombardy, northern Italy, dating to the late 13th century. Its main peculiarity are the two "open sky" double mullioned windows in the façade, which are the first example of a model often repeated in northern Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries.
The church has an unfinished façade in cream-color brickwork, charactersized by a tall ogival cusped portico, also in brickwork. This is flanked by two blind columns and surmounted by a large rose window in white marble, in turn sided by two double ogival mullioned windows.
The wide interior is on the Latin cross plan, divided into a nave and two aisles with four spans each; there are also side chapels. The nave and the aisles are cross-vaulted, separated by ogival arches supported by large brickwork columns. Walls and columns are decorated by numerous frescoes dating from the 14th to the 18th century
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Father Joseph-Arthur Laporte was born in Saint-Paul de Joliette on August 15, 1857, the feast of the Assumption. He entered the community of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur on August 25, 1879. The members of this community have a great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and it is through their contact that Father Laporte developed this devotion.
He left the community of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur on July 28, 1886 and requested his incardination to the Bishop of Sherbrooke. He was admitted to the number of priests of the diocese by Bishop Antoine Racine, and appointed pastor of the parish of Sainte-Praxède de Bromptonville (1891-1902) from where he discovered the “mountain” that he would later call “Beauvoir”.
Eight kilometers north of Sherbrooke, a small mountain of one hundred and fifteen meters, still unnamed, had long attracted the attention of this great lover of nature. After many approaches to Mr. Émile Lessard, a farmer, he bought two hectares of land from him in 1915. He gave the name “Beauvoir” (beautiful to see) to this corner of paradise whose panoramic view enchanted him. He decided to build a small cottage, a house of six meters on a side surrounded by a gallery. In 1916 and 1917, he bought more land to enlarge his small domain.
And in 1920, he founded the Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Beauvoir.
For years, Father Laporte has been fascinated by the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He speaks of it tirelessly. So it is not surprising that the only decoration on the bare walls of his cottage is a lithograph, without much artistic pretension, of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre.
In 1916, Father Laporte still dreamed of making Beauvoir a place where people would come to pray and celebrate the Sacred Heart of Jesus, whose devotion was spreading more and more throughout the country. He therefore decided to erect, not far from his cottage, a statue of the Sacred Heart. Measuring two meters in height, this statue, with its arms wide open, stands on a pedestal of field stones that farmers have faithfully transported on their carts.
The parish priest now invites his parishioners to come and taste the happiness that is his at the Sacred Heart…
As early as 1918, pilgrims began “the ascent of the Rosary”, a devotional practice that would have its heyday in the 1930s. On Sunday afternoons, pilgrims, starting from the main road, climbed to Beauvoir while reciting the rosary.
In 1933, at the request of the pilgrims, Father Pierre-Achille Bégin had a cross erected in front of the road leading to the Shrine. It is from this cross, still visible, that the pilgrimages to Beauvoir started. Along the way, wooden boards were set up on which were written the fifteen mysteries of the rosary. For Beauvoir, the erection of this cross gives all its meaning to the ascent of the rosary: it is the beginning of the ascent, it is the cross of the rosary that the lips kiss before murmuring the “Aves”, the first links of this long chain that leads the pilgrims to the very Love that awaits them at the Shrine.
In 1920, during a Holy Hour, he asked for a special favor from the Sacred Heart, with the promise of building a small chapel in Beauvoir if he was granted it. With the help of some local craftsmen, he had the promised little chapel built.
It is an architectural jewel that Abbé Laporte had built on the hill of Beauvoir.
But the Sacred Heart, never defeated in generosity, knows how to reward his servant by giving to vile materials a stamp of rustic elegance, to a humble and poor building, a beauty that escapes no one. And all those who come to pray in this rustic chapel find there a calm, a peace that penetrates deep into their souls and leaves them pacified. One can almost feel the loving presence of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which bends down with tenderness over those who come to visit it.
The exterior of this chapel is reminiscent in many ways of some of the country chapels of France. The rustic walls, the rudimentary furnishings and the few decorations are not likely to satisfy the connoisseur of expensive works of art. It is poverty, destitution. The only decoration is a statue, a frame, two statuettes, a few ex-votos testifying to the goodness of the Sacred Heart, lanterns and old images of the Way of the Cross. But, near the tabernacle, how one can taste with love and peace the divine presence of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus!
On October 24, 1920, Bishop Larocque came to bless the little chapel. The next day, Father Laporte celebrated the first mass on Mount Beauvoir.
In the spring of 1921, his health inexorably deteriorated. Even though he was ill, he was taken to Beauvoir four or five more times. Then he had to give up returning to Beauvoir. He was hospitalized at the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital at the beginning of August. And on August 20, Father Laporte was finally able to meet face to face with the one who was the great love of his life.
The body of Father Laporte now rests in the crypt of the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste of which he was parish priest. However, on the west wall of the little chapel in Beauvoir, a commemorative plaque recalls the man who founded the Shrine and who continues to watch over its work from above.
Father Laporte had bequeathed the Beauvoir property to the diocese on the condition that he pay the remaining $3,500 debt. The diocese refused this bequest. Beauvoir thus reverted to the universal legatee, Miss Euphémie Charest, Father Laporte’s former housekeeper. She sold Beauvoir in 1923 to the executor of Father Laporte’s will, the notary Gédéon Bégin, for the price of the debt. This wealthy businessman used Beauvoir Hill as a summer vacation spot for his family.
From 1923 to 1929, Beauvoir fell into almost complete abandonment. Only a few lovers of the Sacred Heart would go up there privately to pray at the foot of the Sacred Heart statue. But at the end of July 1929, Father Pierre Achille Bégin, a retired priest and brother of the owner, accompanied by a few members of the family, came to visit Beauvoir. Although the buildings had been quite damaged by thieves and the weeds had invaded the area, the group was charmed by the landscape and decided to settle there for two weeks.
From then on, the Bégin family would come to spend a few weeks in Beauvoir during the summer vacations.
Without looking for signs, the good abbot knows how to recognize an invitation. First of all, together with his family members, he decided to restore the place and to revive the project of Father Laporte. Every year in June, he invites the people of the area for the triduum in preparation for the feast of the Sacred Heart. This is the highlight of the year.
Throughout the summer months, Father Bégin, surrounded by nephews and nieces, ensures for the pilgrims the mass every morning and the prayer at the Sacred Heart every evening as well as a Holy Hour every Thursday evening. Father Bégin, after Father Laporte, sought to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart. It is in the small stone chapel that he spends most of his time in prayer and in welcoming the small groups of pilgrims who continue to climb the mountain. “All my desire is that in Beauvoir the Sacred Heart be particularly honored, praised and prayed to, and that He spread His greatest graces there.”
devotional fresco - column of the Church of San Francesco, Lodi
Tutte le colonne e le pareti sono decorate da numerosi affreschi risalenti ai secoli compresi tra il Trecento e il Settecento
All columns and walls are decorated with numerous frescoes dating back to the centuries between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Lake Maggiore from Sacred Mountain of Ghiffa - UNESCO World Heritage Site (2003)
Il Sacro Monte di Ghiffa (o Sacro Monte della Santa Trinità) è inserito nel gruppo dei Sacri Monti prealpini inseriti nel 2003 nell'elenco dei "Patrimoni dell'umanità". Tra la fine del XVI e la metà del XVII secolo, fu concepito un piano edilizio per l'ampliamento dell'antico oratorio dedicato alla Santissima Trinità e la costruzione, attorno ad esso, di un Sacro Monte sulla collina fitta di boschi con incantevole vista sul Lago Maggiore. Altri interventi costruttivi ebbero luogo tra la metà del XVII ed il secolo successivo. Nel suo stato attuale il sacro monte comprende, oltre al santuario, tre cappelle dedicate a differenti soggetti biblici e l'elegante porticato della Via Crucis.
The Sacred Mountain of Ghiffa is a Roman Catholic devotional complex in the comune of Ghiffa, (Piedmont, northern Italy), overlooking the Lake Maggiore. It is one of the nine Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy, included in UNESCO World Heritage list.
The dedication to the mystery of the Trinity was influenced by a pre-existing small oratory on Mount Cariago. The panoramic view over the Piedmont side of Lake Maggiore displays a high level of compositional architecture and landscape research. The monumental complex is not homogeneous but remains incomplete and the authors and founders are anonymous. The Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary Crowned was the first to be constructed in 1647. The portico of Via Crucis, erected in the 17th century, underlines the shift from the themes of the Counter Reformation to that of the Passion of Christ.
Artwork in Alice Street, Brisbane by John Meade, 2017. Today's selection of shots was taken during a stroll through Brisbane earlier in the year. I am in catch-up mode.
I know I am going to regret this, but, by popular demand, the first upload of some of my old artwork. This self portrait, from about 1995, was a bit of an experiment, which is clearly evident. I have no idea what I was trying to accomplish, but I was experimenting with blocks of colour and incorporating simplified cubism with traditiional techniques at the time. I soon gave up, and have probably only managed 2 paintings since!
Devotionals by Baptist Bible Hour
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us– Galatians 3:13
God is holy. God is perfect. And because God is perfect, He demands perfection of us. He reflects His perfect expectations for us in the perfect law that He has given us.
But we have not perfectly obeyed God’s law; and so now we are in a perfect mess. We are in the terrible predicament of being sinners who must one day give an account to a holy God for our sinful actions. What hope do we have of surviving the judgment day that God says is coming?
The only hope in all the world is that your sins were paid for by Christ when He died on the cross. Because if Christ died for you, then He has taken upon Himself the punishment for your sins.
The curse that the law demands was put upon Christ as He hung on the cross. If your sins were put upon Christ, then your penalty has been paid and you have been redeemed from the curse of the law! There is no better news than to know that those that are in Christ are now blessed because Christ has taken their curse upon Himself.
What is your hope? Will you stand before God on your own, or are you represented in the finished work of Christ? If you are Christ’s, then Christ has redeemed you, being made a curse for you.
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Image from my files. Taken @ Palm Beach Zoo.
West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
I used French Kiss Textures.
Tirupati is one of the richest pilgrimage cities of any religious faith in the world.Its famous for Venkateswara Swamy temple dedicated to Lord Venkateswara and draws millions of pilgrims and is the busiest pilgrimage center in the world.Here an elderly woman is seen in a devotional touch after visiting the god and is deeply immersed towards her faith
Tirupati,India
Devotional shrines are so pervasive in Italy that the saints themselves appear to oversee even the most mundane task.
A brahmacarini (nun) performing devotional service.
....... if we have given ghee to keep the lamp burning in the Lord's temple, sukriti will come. Not only a small amount – a lot of sukriti will be created by this. Then, sadhu-sanga comes again. Then, by serving Krsna, our life will be successful....
Source: Purebhakti
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Gangamatas Gaudiya matha, Walthamstow, London 🇬🇧
24th June, 2018
Raibolini Giacomo called il Francia (Bologna 1486 ca.-1557) - Madonna and Child in Glory, Saints Peter, Francis, Magdalene, Martha and six nuns (1525)- oil on wood 181x152,5 cm. - National Gallery of Bologna.
Figlio maggiore di Francesco Francia, e come suo padre venne chiamato il Francia.
Questo dipinto rappresenta uno degli esempi più tipici della copiosa produzione devozionale che caratterizza l'attività pittorica di Giacomo Francia, accanto a quella di incisore che lo vide ugualmente versato in soggetti profani.
Eldest son of Francesco Francia, and as his father was called the Francia.
This painting represents one of the most typical examples of the copious devotional production that characterizes the pictorial activity of Giacomo Francia, next to that of engraver that saw him equally versed in profane subjects.
An aarti is a devotional ritual that uses fire as an offering.
The aarti takes place facing the river. The lamps are lit and circled around by the pandits (Hindu priests) in a clockwise manner, accompanied by changing or songs in praise of Mother Ganga. The idea is that the lamps acquire the power of the deity. After the ritual is complete, devotees will cup their hands over the flame and raise their palms to their forehead in order to get the Goddess's purification and blessing.
The Varanasi Ganga Aarti takes place every sunset at holy Dasaswamedh Ghat, near Kashi Vishwanath Temple. It differs from the aartis at Haridwar and Rishikesh in that it's a highly choreographed ceremony. Although a spectacular must-see, some people consider it to be too much of an artificial and showy extravaganza to have a lot of meaning in a spiritual context.
The aarti is performed on a stage by a group of young pandits, all draped in saffron colored robes with their puja plates spread out before them.
It commences with the blowing of a conch shell, and continues with the waving of incense sticks in elaborate patterns and circling of large flaming lamps that create a bright hue against the darkened sky. The movement of the lamps, held in the pandits' hands, is tightly synchronizing to the rhythmic chants of hymns and clang of cymbals. The heady scent of sandalwood thickly permeates the air.
People start arriving very early (as early as 5 p.m.) in order to get a good position for viewing the aarti. A novel and effective way of seeing it is by boat from the river. Alternatively, many shops in the vicinity hire their balconies out to tourists. A maha aarti (great aarti) takes place on a particularly elaborate scale in Varanasi near the end of each year on Kartik Purnima.
For more information
Refer the below link
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Buddhism in Thailand is largely of the Theravada school. Nearly 95% of Thailand's population is Buddhist of the Theravada school, though Buddhism in this country has become integrated with folk beliefs such as ancestor worship. Thai Buddhism was based on the religious movement founded in the sixth century B.C. by Siddhartha , later known as the Buddha, who urged the world to relinquish the extremes of sensuality and self-mortification and follow the enlightened Middle Way...... The focus of this religion is on man, not gods; the assumption is that life is pain or suffering, which is a consequence of craving, and that suffering can end only if desire ceases. The end of suffering is the achievement of nirvana often defined as the absence of craving and therefore of suffering, sometimes as enlightenment. Like in most other Theravada nations, Buddhism in Thailand is represented primarily by the presence of Buddhist monks, who serve as officiants on ceremonial occasions, as well as being responsible for preserving and conveying the teachings of the Buddha.
Do Buddhists pray? Well Buddhist don't pray since they do not have a divine being to pray too. Meditation is 'mindfulness' that is watching your own minds, not trying to communicate with a higher one. Buddhist don't pray to a Creator God, but they do have devotional meditation practices which could be compared to praying. Buddhist prayer is a form of meditation. It is a practice of inner reconditioning. Buddhist prayer replaces the negative with the virtuous and points us to the blessings of Life. Photo taken at Wat Mathathat in the Historical park of Ayutthaya - Thailand.
Het overgrote deel van de Thaise bevolking, zo’n 90% à 95% is boeddhist. Men hangt aan het zogenaamde Teravada-boeddhisme. In het Theravada wordt meditatie benadrukt als een essentieel onderdeel van het pad naar verlichting, samen met moreel gedrag en wijsheid. Het brengen van een einde aan het lijden is het hoofddoel van het Theravada boeddhisme. De Boeddha legde verder een zeer gedetailleerde gedragscode voor de Monniken neer: de Vinaya. Over het algemeen worden monniken door de Boeddha aangemoedigd om wereldse aangelegenheden en passies achter zich te laten, zodat zij gemakkelijker in staat zijn een staat van vrede en wijsheid te bereiken, en sterke ongezonde emoties zoals haat, verlangen en lust te overwinnen. Een Monnik in z'n oranje gewaad, kaalgeschoren en met sandalen aan de voeten is niet meer weg te denken uit het straatbeeld van Thailand. Er wordt van iedere jongeman verwacht, dat zij een poosje (van een week tot enkele maanden) als monnik leven. Zo tussen hun schooltijd en hun werkende leven in. Het wordt beschouwd als een overgangsrite en zij verwerven op die wijze aanzien voor zichzelf en hun familie.
devotional fresco depicting Madonna and Child - column of the Church of San Francesco, Lodi
Tutte le colonne e le pareti sono decorate da numerosi affreschi risalenti ai secoli compresi tra il Trecento e il Settecento
Tutte le colonne e le pareti sono decorate da numerosi affreschi risalenti ai secoli compresi tra il Trecento e il Settecento.
English Christian Devotional Song | Gospel hymn | "How Joyous the Belief in God" | Praise and Worship
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Introduction
Some say today’s youth are corrupt, decadent;
they give parents headaches and annoy teachers.
Chorus
We young ones who believe and follow God,
shine bright, for we seek truth and we practice God's words .
We young ones are the new generation.
We’re loved and blessed by God, we are so joyous.
We’re loved and blessed by God, we are so joyous.
Verse 1
We no longer chase the latest trends
or the glamour the nightclubs offer,
no longer strive for fame and fortune
or compete over flesh’s pleasures.
We’re not troubled by money, hooked to games,
don’t chase silly romance or live in lust.
We do not seek false knowledge, willful no more.
We’ve heard God’s voice, returned before God.
Chorus
We young ones who believe and follow God,
shine bright, for we seek truth and we practice God’s words.
We young ones are the new generation.
We’re loved and blessed by God, we are so joyous.
We’re loved and blessed by God, we are so joyous.
Verse 2
The truth of God’s words has cleared our minds,
we know what’s lovely, ugly, good, and corrupt.
His words cleanse us, keep us from evil.
Taking His truth, we’re on the right path.
Daily we read God’s words, share the truth,
we’re now living the life of the church.
God's judgment is with us as we grow,
as are dealing and pruning of God’s words.
Bridge 1
We’ve shed tears, had grief, failures, and falls,
but God’s words enlighten us timely.
Thanks to the light of the word of God,
we understand the truth and now we’re free.
Chorus
We young ones who believe and follow God,
shine bright, for we seek truth and we practice God’s words.
We young ones are the new generation.
We’re loved and blessed by God, we are so joyous.
We’re loved and blessed by God, we are so joyous.
Verse 3
We all praise God with cheers and laughter,
we’re happy living, talking with God.
Trying to be honest, loved by God,
we are guileless, vibrant, untroubled.
We all proclaim, testify to God.
Oh! Yes, our hearts are happy and free.
We’ve seen God face to face, felt His love.
Truth is precious, gives our lives new purpose.
Chorus
We young ones who believe and follow God,
shine bright, for we seek truth and we practice God’s words.
We young ones are the new generation.
We’re loved and blessed by God, we are so joyous.
We’re loved and blessed by God, we are so joyous.
Bridge 2
Oh! Yes, thanks be to Almighty God ,
who has given us the truth, the way, and life.
None is more lovely than Almighty God;
we, the young ones, shall always praise Him!
Chorus
We young ones who believe and follow God,
shine bright, for we seek truth and we practice God’s words.
We young ones are the new generation.
We’re loved and blessed by God, we are so joyous.
We’re loved and blessed by God, we are so joyous.
from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs
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devotional fresco depicting Saint Stephen (on the head the stones, attribute and symbol of his martyrdom) - column of the Church of San Francesco, Lodi
Tutte le colonne e le pareti sono decorate da numerosi affreschi risalenti ai secoli compresi tra il Trecento e il Settecento
All columns and walls are decorated with numerous frescoes dating back to the centuries between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Hase-dera (海光山慈照院長谷寺, Kaikō-zan Jishō-in Hase-dera), commonly called the Hase-kannon (長谷観音) is one of the Buddhist temples in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, famous for housing a massive wooden statue of Kannon.
The temple originally belonged to the Tendai sect of Buddhism, but eventually became an independent temple of the Jōdo-shū.
Legend has it that the temple was established in the Tenpyō era (729-749 C.E.). However, documents at the temple suggest that the temple really came into its own during the Kamakura period (1192-1333).
The main statue of Kannon is one of the largest wooden statues in Japan, with a height of 9.18 metres (30.1 ft), and is made from camphor wood and gilded in gold. It has 11 heads, each of which represents a different phase in the search for enlightenment.
According to legend, the statue is one of two images of Kannon carved by a monk named Tokudō in 721. The camphor tree was so large, according to legend, that he decided that he could carve two statues with it. One was enshrined in Hase-dera in the city of Nara, Yamato Province, while the other was set adrift in the sea to find the place with which it had a karmic connection. The statue washed ashore on Nagai Beach on the Miura Peninsula near Kamakura in the year 736. The statue was immediately brought to Kamakura where a temple was built to honor it.
The temple sits about half-way up Mount Kamakura, southwest of the city of Kamakura. The temple commands an impressive view over Yuigahama.
Seven buildings make up the temple complex.
The temple is built on two levels and also includes a cave. The cave, called benten kutsu (Benzaiten Grotto), contains a long winding tunnel with a low ceiling and various statues and devotionals to Benzaiten, the sea goddess and the only female of the Seven Lucky Gods in Japanese mythology.
The temple is famous for its hydrangeas, which bloom along the Hydrangea Path in June and July.
The grounds of the temple are home to hundreds of small Jizō statues, placed by parents mourning offspring lost to miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion. These statues remain in place for about a year, before being removed to make way for more statues; it is estimated that some 50,000 Jizō statues have been placed at Hase-dera since World War II.
The temple is the fourth of the 33 stations of two different pilgrimage routes:
1) Bandō Sanjūsankasho pilgrimage circuit dedicated to the goddess Benzaiten.
2) Kantō Pilgrimage.
Hase-dera (Kamakura) - Wikipedia
Hase-dera (ン光ン慈照院長谷寺, Kaikō-zan Jishō-in Hase-dera), comúnmente llamado Hase-kannon (長谷観CESIS) es uno de los templos budistas en la ciudad de Kamakura en la prefectura de Kanagawa, Japón,famoso por albergar una enorme estatua de madera de Kannon.
El templo originalmente pertenecía a la secta Tendai del budismo, pero finalmente se convirtió en un templo independiente del Jōdo-shū.
Cuenta la leyenda que el templo fue establecido en la era Tenpyō (729-749 d.C.E.). Sin embargo, los documentos en el templo sugieren que el templo realmente entró en su propio durante el período Kamakura (1192-1333).
La estatua principal de Kannon es una de las estatuas de madera más grandes de Japón, con una altura de 9,18 metros (30,1 pies), y está hecha de madera de alcanfor y dorada en oro. Tiene 11 cabezas, cada una de las cuales representa una fase diferente en la búsqueda de la iluminación.
Según la leyenda, la estatua es una de las dos imágenes de Kannon talladas por un monje llamado Tokudō en 721. El alcanfor era tan grande, según la leyenda, que decidió que podía tallar dos estatuas con él. Uno fue consagrado en Hase-dera en la ciudad de Nara,provincia de Yamato,mientras que el otro fue puesto a la deriva en el mar para encontrar el lugar con el que tenía una conexión kármica. La estatua se lavó en tierra en la playa de Nagai, en la península de Miura, cerca de Kamakura, en el año 736. La estatua fue inmediatamente llevada a Kamakura, donde se construyó un templo para honrarla.
El templo se encuentra a la mitad del monte Kamakura, al suroeste de la ciudad de Kamakura. El templo tiene una vista impresionante sobre Yuigahama.
El templo está construido en dos niveles y también incluye una cueva. La cueva, llamada benten kutsu (Gruta de Benzaiten), contiene un largo túnel sinuoso con un techo bajo y varias estatuas y devocionales a Benzaiten,la diosa del mar y la única hembra de los Siete Dioses afortunados en la mitología japonesa.
El templo es famoso por sus hortensias,que florecen a lo largo del Camino de Hydrangea en junio y julio.
Los terrenos del templo son el hogar de cientos de pequeñas estatuas de Jizō, colocadas por padres que lloran a los descendientes perdidos por aborto espontáneo, mortinato o aborto. Estas estatuas permanecen en su lugar durante aproximadamente un año, antes de ser retiradas para dar paso a más estatuas; se estima que unas 50.000 estatuas de Jizō han sido colocadas en Hase-dera desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
El templo es la cuarta de las 33 estaciones de dos rutas de peregrinación diferentes:
1) Circuito de peregrinación Bandō Sanjūsankasho dedicado a la diosa Benzaiten.
2) Peregrinación Kantō.