Finally, we have these three shorter prayers for a happy death. The first of these also touches on assistance from the Holy Family (including Mary’s “most chaste spouse” St. Joseph, who is the patron of a happy death, among other things)!
suicide attempts, and eventually her completed suicide â as she is for her writing. Perhaps Plath was one of the first of the post-World War II, post-1950s era women who lived lives of intensity, creativity, and success, and ...
John 1:1-14, in which John, one of Jesus’ apostles, meditates on the mystery of the incarnation, the taking on of human flesh by the Son of God and his dwelling in our midst. Borrowing from John’s thoughts and others elsewhere in the Bible, Lehms puts himself as a representative...
My parents divorced when I was six and my brother was two. She had to return to work as the switchboard operator at a trucking company. My Mom, Ronnie, and I lived with my grandmother in a small one-bedroom apartment in a section of the house. Two very loving women of God raised me...
And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labor, which men take in finding out...
-Revelation of St. John, II:184, 4356-457.However, it was also believed possible to escape the second death if one had lived a life free of sin, or if one repented for their sinful ways. And this same belief is held by those of the Hindu and Buddhist faith. That is, if the ...
"Jesus was crucified upon the cross"Life(1929) p.216 "The cross of Christ is the greatest pivotal truth of the divine arrangement, from which radiate the hopes of men."The Harp of God(Rutherford) p.141 It was worn by Watchtower followers as a lapel pin, brooch or necklace pendant in ...
Death by Churchhas a point to make–that God is saving “all of creation” (eg. p. 100) and that the “church” is not the substance of the kingdom of God (i.e., the whole of creation and all of humanity is). In fact, Erre says, the church is not the kingdom of God at ...
Saint John the Apostle, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and traditionally believed to be the author of the three Letters of John, the Fourth Gospel, and possibly the Revelation to John in the New Testament. He played a leading role in the early churc
Saint Matthew, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and the traditional author of the first Synoptic Gospel (the Gospel According to Matthew). Other than naming Matthew in the list of Apostles, the New Testament offers scant and uncertain information abou