Each candle in the Advent wreath has a significant meaning, but the third candle of Advent has an unusual place. In most advent wreaths, it is the one candle that is a different color than the others. There is something unique, more spontaneous, and celebratory about the theme of the ...
Advent, on the other hand, features purple (or dark blue) and pink. (As far as I know, purple is the original color of Advent. But many Christians prefer to save purple for Lent, using dark blue for Advent.) The purple/blue color signifies seriousness, repentance, and royalty. Pink ...
The commodity-form, to be sure, is not use-value, we must grant this to Marx and take account of the analytic power this distinction gives us. But if the commodity-form is not, presently, use-value, and even if it is not actually present, it affects in advance the use-value of ...
also in 1995, inThe Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality from the Pontifical Council on the Family. It’s in a passage warning parents to make sure that nobody teaches your kids to fear and despise virginity and babies, and it uses the phrase: “the contraceptive mentality, tha...
Today we consider 1 John 3.1-3, “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be...
Only one example is outside the Mosaic corpus, namely in Ezekiel 47:10. In every Biblical occurrence min is a term of biological classification and appears in an expression of the form le-min-suffix. The first part le- is the preposition lamedh, here meaning 'according to', and the ...
When those closest to you will not stand by you, that is far worse than falling into the hands of the haters. Hatred is more understandable than abandonment, and even abandonment is more understandable than treason. That is why the traitor is to be more despised than the enemy soldier. ...
This is why his temples were built at the entrance of villages. Other languages including Icelandic and most Slavic languages simply go for a positional name for this day, for example Mittwoch in Germany, meaning middle of the week, thus avoiding the reference to prechristian deities....
Does the word or concept associated with “Bible” impose a different interpretive understanding of what the Bible is than an examination of the individual biblical texts before there was a Bible? Is, therefore, the question ‘what is the Bible?’ asking us what this collection of texts as a...
I know the meaning of many things now. You would be happy to know that I have not had a drink all week. It’s not that I didn’t want to I just had no time for booze, or shopping, or even eating. All I wanted was a clean house. Since I will never have a clean soul. ...