Although I'd never been to a Catholic Mass before, I liked the idea. I'm a Pagan at heart and soul - the concepts of my path are as natural to me as breath. The ritual, the piety in Catholic worship was something I identified with even before I set out tonight to experience it firsthand. When I arrived (and stood outside, nervous and waiting for my two friends to get there and provide me with someone...
Just got an amazing surprise of a group of friends: they send me to London 4 and 5 november to the Linacre Ethics Forum. When I heard about that forum I would have like to go (see also an earlier blog...bit emotional - a friend had to read the beautifull letter out loud since I couldn't - but it is great, really. I'm really looking forward to it :D To everyone who makes/made this possible: thank you
Hence I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; for God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control. (2 Timothy...words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus; guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us. (2 Timothy 1:13-14)
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. (2 Thessalonians 2:16-17)
...freak on but it did bring to memory my own experiences of the dreaded sex lessons in school. Those were the days, unfortunately. One must bear in mind before I start that your author received a Catholic education and as a result sex education classes were coloured by the need to push a not outside marriage, missionary position, single glass of water agenda. My first brush with the whole fiasco...
Bible reflections: Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things which you have not known. (Jeremiah 33:3) As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the... since you wait for these, be zealous to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. (2 Peter 3:13-14) But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 3:18
Bible reflections: With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble. . . (Jeremaih...them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. . . for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (Jeremiah 31:33-34
Bible reflections: And you shall be my people, and I will be your God. (Jeremiah 30:22) . . . become partakers of the divine nature. For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith... until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. (2 Peter1:19) . . . no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. (2 Peter 1:21
