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Members of the Prayer Shawl Ministry:
SM Adele Bandurski, S Alexandra Marie Kolat, SM Rosita Brennan, SM Carmeline Kowalski, SM Pontia Zdzichowska, SM Fides Milwicz. Missing from the picture is SM Angela Machowski.
As the temple was under renovation, all the big statues had been moved outside and were inside sitting in a temporary glassed-in shelter.
This pillow (for kneeling while praying) was sitting in front of the glassed-in shelter so that pilgrims could still pray while the construction work was under way.
Mother, may this prayer be granted:
That Christ's love may be implanted
In the depths of my poor soul.
At the cross, your sorrow sharing,
All your grief and torment bearing,
Let me stand and mourn with you.
Fairest maid of all creation,
Queen of hope and consolation,
Let me feel your grief sublime.
..tell me how does God choose,
whose prayers does he refuse...
Tom Waits (Day After Tomorrow. 2004)
St Peter's, Stourhead
The Bhutanese government has warned its citizens not to cut down thousands of young trees every year to make poles for hoisting Buddhist prayer flags.
It said that the felling of trees is a threat to the tiny kingdom's beauty and undermines the government's duty to promote "Gross National Happiness".
The flags are flown by Himalayan Buddhists to help the dead find the right path in their next life.
They believe that the more flag poles put up for the departed the better.
Buddhist monks say fresh poles must be used each time.
Government figures show that between June 2007 to June 2008, 60,178 trees - about 165 every day - were felled to meet the demand for poles.
About 550 trees were felled daily for other uses.
'Merit earned'
"There's an immense pressure on the forest," forestry department spokesman Gopal Mahat told the Kuensel newspaper.
The government has a constitutional duty to protect forestry
"We can't stop granting permits, especially for important religious rites because it involves sentiments," he said. "The demand is for straight, young trees, which have the potential of becoming crop trees."
Many Bhutanese Buddhists believe that the ideal number of prayer flags for deceased people is 108, preferably made from freshly cut trees.
"If you reuse an old flag pole, you aren't putting in enough effort, which means the merit earned is compromised," Buddhist monk Gyem Tshering told Kuensel. "Ideally, you should hoist 108 flags, but if you can afford more, it'll help the dead find the right path."
Officials warn that this approach means that most of Bhutan's forest will be gone within the next 20 years and that trees are already being cut down deeper and deeper within forests.
The problem has become so serious that forestry officers in the capital Thimpu have restricted the number of prayer flags posts to 29.
Plans are also afoot to persuade people to switch to bamboo for prayer flags, but a similar initiative recently launched to encourage people to use steel was unsuccessful.
Bhutan's constitution, which emphasises the importance of Gross National Happiness over Gross Domestic Product, stipulates the country must have at least 60% forest cover.
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I helped host a week of 24-7 prayer. It ended on Sunday. This was our second week this year and I think we're getting a bit addicted.
Here are some of the prayers/prophecies/artwork from the room.
Members of the Vicenza Military Community join together to attend the annual prayer breakfast Feb. 7. The guest speaker was the U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains Maj. Gen. Donald L. Rutherford. Photo by Julie M. Lucas/USAG Vicenza
Learn more about us on www.usag.vicenza.army.mil and www.facebook.com/USAGvicenza
Muslim high school girls at Koh Yao Wittaya in southern Thailand say their afternoon prayers on June 27, 2008. Many followers of Islam in Thailand are not strict, but even at this rural high school, girls and boys say prayers separated by a curtain, with the boys by the window, facing toward Mecca, and the girls behind them, entirely shrouded in robes in the sticky tropical heat.
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Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be:
Take her head upon your knee.
She that was so proud and wild,
Flippant, arrogant and free,
She that had no need of me,
Is a little lonely child
Lost in Hell,—Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee:
Say to her, "My dear, my dear,
It is not so dreadful here."
Edna St. Vincent Millay