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... the Virgin knelt down with great veneration in an attitude of prayer, and her back was turned to the manger .... And while she was standing thus in prayer, I saw the child in her womb move and suddenly in a moment she gave birth to her son, from whom radiated such an ineffable light and splendour, that the sun was not comparable to it, nor did the candle that St. Joseph had put there, give any light at all, the divine light totally annihilating the material light of the candle ....
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... Why do you seek the order of nature in the Body of Christ, seeing that the Lord Jesus Himself was born of a Virgin, not according to nature?
When Sister Lúcia was asked in an interview why the Blessed Virgin appeared as Our Lady of Mount Carmel in her last apparition, she replied: " Because Our Lady wants all to wear the Scapular ...
Miguel Sánchez, the author of the first Spanish language apparition account, identified Guadalupe as Revelation's Woman of the Apocalypse, and said: this New World has been won and conquered by the hand of the Virgin Mary ... had prepared, disposed, and contrived her exquisite likeness in this her Mexican land, which was conquered for such a glorious purpose, won that there should appear so Mexican an image.
Simón Bolívar noticed the Guadalupan theme in these uprisings, and shortly before Morelos ' execution in 1815 wrote: " the leaders of the independence struggle have put fanaticism to use by proclaiming the famous Virgin of Guadalupe as the queen of the patriots, praying to her in times of hardship and displaying her on their flags ... the veneration for this image in Mexico far exceeds the greatest reverence that the shrewdest prophet might inspire.
The final scene has Faust's soul carried to heaven in the presence of God as the " Holy Virgin, Mother, Queen, Goddess ... The Eternal Feminine ".
Then I heard also the singing of the angels, which was of miraculous sweetness and great beauty ... After this the Virgin kneels to pray to her child, to be joined by St. Joseph, and this ( technically known as the Adoration of the Child ) becomes one of the commonest depictions in the fifteenth century, largely replacing the reclining Virgin in the West.
The song's title was inspired by a line in the song " Her Story " ( 1979 ) by Virgin label stablemates the Flying Lizards, about bands ' selling out ' their artistic principles for commercial success (" But you can still make money, by singing sweet songs of love ... this is a love song ").
The roughly half-dozen varied icons of the Virgin and Child in Rome from the 6th-8th century form the majority of the representations surviving from this period ; " isolated images of the Madonna and Child ... are so common ... to the present day in Catholic and Orthodox tradition, that it is difficult to recover a sense of the novelty of such images in the early Middle Ages, at least in western Europe ".
Therefore I beseech blessed Mary ever Virgin ... and you, brethren, to pray to the Lord our God for me.
The " Catechism of the Council of Trent " says that to the first part of the Hail Mary, by which " we render to God the highest praise and return Him most gracious thanks, because He has bestowed all His heavenly gifts on the most holy Virgin ... the Church of God has wisely added prayers and an invocation addressed to the most holy Mother of God ... we should earnestly implore her help and assistance ; for that she possesses exalted merits with God, and that she is most desirous to assist us by her prayers, no one can doubt without impiety and wickedness.
Spanish also uses me cago en ... (" I shit on ...") followed by " God ", " the blessed chalice ", " the Virgin " and other terms, religious or not.
Just as a few years ago We consecrated the entire human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, so today We consecrate and in a most special manner We entrust all the peoples of Russia to this Immaculate Heart ...
: Just as a few years ago We consecrated the entire human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, so today We consecrate and in a most special manner We entrust all the peoples of Russia to this Immaculate Heart ...
... St. Albert the Great ... in a sermon which he delivered on the sacred day of the Blessed Virgin Mary's annunciation, explained the words " Hail, full of grace " 1: 28-words used by the angel who addressed her-the Universal Doctor, comparing the Blessed Virgin with Eve, stated clearly and incisively that she was exempted from the fourfold curse that had been laid upon Eve Genesis 3: 16 ...
" of Songs 8: 5 and applying them in a kind of accommodated sense to the Blessed Virgin, he reasons thus: " From this we can see that she is there bodily ... her blessedness would not have been complete unless she were there as a person.
The album, entitled Well ... was released by Virgin Records in April 1994.
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The special reporter for the October 17, 1917 edition of the Lisbon daily, O Dia, reported the following, "... the silver sun, enveloped in the same gauzy purple light was seen to whirl and turn in the circle of broken clouds ... The light turned a beautiful blue, as if it had come through the stained-glass windows of a cathedral, and spread itself over the people who knelt with outstretched hands ... people wept and prayed with uncovered heads, in the presence of a miracle they had awaited.
He recalled especially Rousseau's statue at the Panthéon (" I almost knelt before it ... he whom Tolstoy described as the conscience of the 18th century "), the River Seine and the tollings of the Notre Dame.
Soon, I knelt among the sweating, stinking penitents ...
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... But the true historic role of the UIS will be to break down the barriers to the exchange of information among countries and people.
Captain Parker described the march discipline – " As we marched through the country of our Allies, commissars were appointed to furnish us with all manner of necessaries for man and horse ... the soldiers had nothing to do but pitch their tents, boil kettles and lie down to rest.
The French and Bavarians, however, were almost as disordered as their opponents, and they too were in need of inspiration from their commander, the Elector, who was seen – " ... riding up and down, and inspiring his men with fresh courage.
" Casement then added how assailants would " bring down a dwarf on the way home, for the marital cooking pot ... The Dwarfs, as I say, dispense with cooking pots and eat and drink their human prey fresh cut on the battlefield while the blood is still warm and running.
Clement's diet is also unknown, but he said some things that look down upon eating flesh such as, " It is good ... neither to eat flesh " and that even the fumes from cooked flesh " darken the soul "; however he said non-vegetarians aren't sinning except in certain circumstances such as those who eat flesh with " gluttony " and he was not opposed to all instances of eating meat.
' Pitching a bit down here ... Probably from my own wash ... Straightening up now on track ... Rather close to Peel Island ... Tramping like mad ... er ... Full power ... Tramping like hell here ...
Allen publicly announced that he was stepping down as commander, but remained hopeful that the Second Continental Congress was going to name " a commander for this department ...
" His figure was that of a robust, large-framed man, worn down by confinement and hard fare ; but he was now recovering his flesh and spirits ; and a suit of blue clothes, with a gold laced hat that had been presented to him by the gentlement of Cork, enabled him to make a very passable appearance for a rebel colonel ...
Also, some British sources have accounted the flag story ( He had the Spanish flag hauled down and the English flag hoisted in its stead ; Rooke's men quickly raised the British flag ... and Rooke claimed the Rock in the name of Queen Anne ; or Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own responsibility caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession in name of Queen Anne, whose government ratified the occupation ).
I was making my way sleepily down the long flight of stairs when I heard staccato steps coming from the stage ... I could see just a single lamp burning.
" The problem, according to Eric Berne, is that because the superego is " a jealous master whose punishments are difficult to avoid ", one may ( in a return of the repressed ) " begin to feel guilty many years afterwards and perhaps break down ... under the long-continued reproaches of the Superego.
When the gods were believed to be duly propitiated ... Armour, weapons, and other things of the kind were ordered to be in readiness, and the ancient spoils gathered from the enemy were taken down from the temples and colonnades.
In analyzing quantum states and black holes, physicist Don Page writes that " determining experimentally whether or not information is lost down black holes of solar mass ... would require more than measurements to give a rough determination of the final density matrix after a black hole evaporates ".
Tom Wolfe, in his book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, describes a character's thoughts during an acid trip: " He looks down, two bare legs, a torso rising up at him and like he is just noticing them for the first time ... he has never seen any of this flesh before, this stranger.
I've got to walk down the street ...
" Nowadays, as Hezbollah scholar Magnus Ranstorp reports, Hezbollah does indeed have a formal governing structure, and in keeping with the principle of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists ( velayat-e faqih ), it " concentrate ... all authority and powers " in its religious leaders, whose decisions then " flow from the ulama down the entire community.
Benjamin Tucker said of Proudhon, that " though opposed to socializing the ownership of capital, Proudhon aimed nevertheless to socialize its effects by making its use beneficial to all instead of a means of impoverishing the many to enrich the few ... by subjecting capital to the natural law of competition, thus bringing the price of its own use down to cost.
When he declared to the House of Commons in November 1993 that " to sit down and talk with Mr. Adams and the Provisional IRA ... would turn my stomach ", Sinn Féin gave the media an outline of the secret talks indeed held regularly since that February.
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The AAA's current ' Statement of Professional Responsibility ' clearly states that " in relation with their own government and with host governments ... no secret research, no secret reports or debriefings of any kind should be agreed to or given.
# Comparisons of mean squares, along with F-tests ... allow testing of a nested sequence of models.
Simone de Beauvoir tries to base an ethics on Heidegger's and Sartre's writings ( The Ethics of Ambiguity ), where she highlights the need to grapple with ambiguity: " as long as philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it ... And the ethics which they have proposed to their disciples has always pursued thre same goal.
His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!
The great Torah scholar, commentator and kabbalist, Nachmanides ( Ramban 1195-1270 ), attributed Job's suffering to reincarnation, as hinted in Job's saying " God does all these things twice or three times with a man, to bring back his soul from the pit to ... the light of the living ' ( Job 33: 29, 30 ).
Working with only eight letters ( or pro ... tr ... ntes ), Bowra conjured up a phrase that brilliantly develops the meaning and the euphony of the poem ( or proton ' ontrechontes ), describing luminescence " running along the forestays ".
He also repaired a large part of Beverley Minster in the diocese of York, adding a presbytery and an unusually splendid painted ceiling covering " all the upper part of the church from the choir to the tower ... intermingled with gold in various ways, and in a wonderful fashion ".
He referred to a charge that his " Mother ... held to public scorn as a prostitute who intermarried with a Negro, and his ... eldest brother sold as a slave in Carolina.
The 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia remarks that " Undeniably secular and ambitious, his moral life was not above reproach, and his unscrupulous methods in no wise accorded with the requirements of his high office ... the heinous crimes of which his opponents in the council accused him were certainly gravely exaggerated.
were " enriched by Christ the Lord with a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit ...
The 1937 British Methodist Conference located the " true continuity " with the Church of past ages in " the continuity of Christian experience, the fellowship in the gift of the one Spirit ; in the continuity in the allegiance to one Lord, the continued proclamation of the message ; the continued acceptance of the mission ;..." a long chain which goes back to the " the first disciples in the company of the Lord Himself ...
" He spoke about ... such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes " she said, adding that on several occasions Thomas graphically described " his own sexual prowess " and the details of his anatomy.
... with regard to race, a naive version of the evolution of consciousness, a theory foundational to both Steiner's anthroposophy and Waldorf education, sometimes places one race below another in one or another dimension of development.
This suggestion has been recently repeated by Jerome Murphy-O ' Connor: " It is difficult to imagine that an Alexandrian Jew ... could have escaped the influence of Philo, the great intellectual leader ... particularly since the latter seems to have been especially concerned with education and preaching.
* 1992: Album of the Year – Heart in Motion ( lost to Unforgettable ... with Love by Natalie Cole )
What most troubles me now is the instability of the balance, the extreme peril of the current situation, the appalling waste of the arms race ... Each of us has a responsibility to think about this in global terms, with tolerance, trust, and candor, free from ideological dogmatism, parochial interests, or national egotism.
*# The division of mankind threatens it with destruction ... Only universal cooperation under conditions of intellectual freedom and the lofty moral ideals of socialism and labor, accompanied by the elimination of dogmatism and pressure of the concealed interests of ruling classes, will preserve civilization ...
Neither do they use worldly sword or war, since all killing has ceased with them ...
It is damn hard to concentrate ... when all the atmosphere is filled with gloom and forebodings about will the show get the money to go on?
Steven Suskin wrote: The " fascinating extended musical scenes, with extended choral work, ... immediately marked Sondheim as the most distinctive theatre composer of his time.
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