from Disciplines If there is a prayer, there is a mother kneeling. by Dawn Lundy Martin If there is prayer, there is a mother kneeling, hands folded to a private sign. We recognize it. If there is a mother kneeling, hands a tent, she is praying or she is crying or crying and praying at […]
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A Christmas Prayer
Posted in Art, Uncategorized on Dec 23rd, 2011
Gracious, loving and merciful God, on this Christmas Eve, as the light of your Word penetrates our hearts, as we are reminded of the gift of life and faith, as the glories of the heavenly hosts are echoed in our midst, we open ourselves up to your Spirit and give you thanks. We are grateful, […]
THE HOLY TRINITY
Posted in Art, Bible, Philosophy on Dec 20th, 2011
The Holy Trinity and The Lord’s Prayer And so it is in the very truest and most literal sense a NEW-BORN CHRIST that we hail at each approaching Yule-feast, and Christmas is the most vital annual event for all humanity, whether we realize it or not. Max Heindel What is meant by the Second […]
Discord!, composed by Samuel Webbe for the newly-formed London Glee Club in about 1787: It’s first movement is based on a passage from Iliad, but the second verse, it is thought, he composed himself. Discord! Discord! Dire sister of the slaughtering power, Small at her birth, but rising every hour, While scarce the skies her […]
Christ Jesus, our Friend, Our prayers go to all tsunami victims in Japan, may their spirits live in peace and be protected by the Angels; our prayers go also to all who are in hospitals, feeling pain, suffering, waiting for comforters; may our Invisible Helpers attend to them and take away their sorrows and pain. […]
THE MYSTIC MARRIAGE
Posted in Art, Bible, Philosophy on Feb 2nd, 2011
I Am My Love’s And He Is Mine [Rays From The Rose Cross, Jan/Feb 1996] I am my Love’s and he is mine, And this is his desire, That with his beauty I may shine In radiant attire. And this will be when all of me Is pruned and purged with fire. —Canticles 7:10 HUMANS […]
THE FIRST NOEL
Posted in Art on Dec 24th, 2010
Sir Anthony van Dyck (22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of King Charles I of England and Scotland and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the […]