When you were growing up, do you remember your parents complaining about money? It seems like there’s never enough of it to go around, spawning the phrase, “Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure helps.” It’s true that a lack of money can lead to a dissatisfaction with your daily life, but that dissatisfaction […]
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“For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16
Anyone who knows what it’s like to love a child knows the soul deep agony losing that child causes, because it lingers on the edges of their consciousness […]
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Baptism happens to be one of the most important commandments given by Jesus Christ as a common practice preached by the disciples as a ritual act. Similarly, ‘Baptism’ is a word derived from a Greek word ‘Batizo’, which means immersing or performing ablution.
However, some differences could be witnessed in the act of Baptism ranging […]
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The First Communion is a person’s first reception of the sacrament of Eucharist and a Roman Catholic ceremony; however, it is also practiced by some Protestant ethnicities such as the Lutherans. It is usually performed at age 7 or 8.
Such a tradition includes family gatherings accompanied by the fancy dressings to celebrate the occasion. […]
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What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
The Preacher’s Answer
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: […]
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In two of the four New Testament gospels we read that Jesus is born of a virgin (Mary) who was conceived by the Holy Spirit. Matthew does not give us many details how this happened and just mentions the basic facts: “This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary […]
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From: Amit Goswami
I started writing this article on Oct 10, 2005. According to the Hindu Calendar this is a very auspicious day of pooja offering to the Goddess Durga, the divine mother. It reminded me of the spiritual culture that was India, a spiritual culture in which I myself grew up. But now India […]
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A general dictionary defines recession in many ways like, “A period of an economic contraction, an extended decline in business activity, a general global slump that will last several months or years,” and so on. Recession is a time when economic disasters start, stock markets go haywire, mighty organizations drop to their knees, jobs […]
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From the foundation of the first church of San Fruttuoso di Capodimonte to the apogee of the Abbey
When one speaks of San Fruttuoso with someone who knows this splendid locality on the promontory of Portofino, few are aware that the complete name of the nuclear abbey of this little village is San Fruttuoso di […]
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Spiritual teachings
Spirituality and religion address the ultimate mystery—our existence. Are we the only creature that can ponder these questions: Where did we come from? What are we? What is reality? How can mind and consciousness emerge from body and brain? What survives death? The explanations have led to the recurrent wars between deduction and […]
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