Bowling alley turned into church‚ repository of religious art in Bulacan By Levine Andro Lao The Diocese of Malolos has inaugurated a past leisure destination—a bowling alley in front of a resort—as one of its parish churches in Bulacan‚ formally naming it as Santisima Trinidad‚ after the religious persona to whom the locals have been devoted to for more than a century now. “This structure where we now have our church‚ as we know‚ had been a bowling alley. But it no longer looks as one‚” said
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“I now pronounce that the 10 of you are confirmed into our church‚” Pastor exclaimed. “Now it is your job to keep your faith up and live a Godly life.” That was a year and a half ago‚ at the end of eighth grade. Now I am a sophomore in high school. A year and a half ago I made my confirmation at my church. Confirmation is a big deal in my church‚ every kid does it starting in 6th grade until the end of 8th grade. It is during the school year so it’s about 30 weeks each year for three years. Confirmation
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As my head comes out of the cold water‚ my hair dripping‚ and my mascara smeared I knew in that moment that I was renewed. I walk out of the pool full of passion and happiness to greet my best friend‚ Elena. As I begin walking out the bathroom I find Elena waiting for me. We hug and cry together in happiness knowing we had done something the both of us believed strongly in. We dry ourselves off and sit down together surrounded by all of our friends watching as the other kids got baptized. The
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Europa’s Neue Wege? (New perspectives for Europe?) Allianztag Deutsche Evangelische Allianz 24 Sept. 2011 It is a privilege to be here‚ to see you all‚ to meet you who have come from so many parts of the whole of Germany! The paradox of Europe Europe is a complex and paradoxal continent. You cannot separate the existence of E from the existence of the Christian church. Actually Europe is shaped by Christian faith. Europe is the forge (smith’s place) of the Holy Spirit. This is not only
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Gambling In Spring Meadows After an application by the North Geebung football club to install pokie machines‚ the Parish Priest of St Francis gives a passionate sermon opposing the move. He aimed to persuade the parishioners by presenting himself as a social expert‚ rather than a religious figure. Throughout the sermon the priest sustains a metaphor of illness through “contagiously”‚ “cancer”‚ “sickness” and “disease”. All these words have overtones of quick-spreading illnesses. This language
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Langston Hughes “Salvation”. “Salvation” is taking from the first of these ‚ The Big Sea ( 1940 )‚ and written by Langston Hughes who was a brilliant author‚ poet who wrote fiction‚ history‚ autobiography‚ and he worked at various times as a journalist. You can clearly see in “Salvation” was taking time at South – country side. From the Title “Salvation” you can have a guess and you will be right if you were thinking about church‚ God and so on. - But not really saved? - To bring the young
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I think that all of us would say that the main purpose for small groups in a church is to make disciples. If we are not making disciples‚ then we might as well call them social clubs. The question then becomes – what is a disciple? For the sake of this discussion‚ I am going to use the definition that a disciple is simply someone who is taking their next steps to be more like Christ. The really tough part is how to evaluate your groups for effectiveness in discipleship-making. We can make it
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Celebrating Sacraments We have spoken of marriage as a sacrament in the broad sense as a state of life. In the strict sense‚ the sacrament is the celebration of the marriage by the Christian community surrounding the couple. Sacrament celebration is the way the community celebrates the love of God that it recognizes in the love between this man and this woman. Sacrament celebrates their love and their commitment to each other and at the same time reinforces that love and commitment by proclaiming
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During the Post Classical Period‚ from their respective religious origins to the 1500s‚ the Christian anti - merchant attitude sharply contrasts with the Islamic pro - merchant attitude towards trade. Both Christianity and Islam’s attitudes gradually became more neutral‚ more moderate towards the end of the Post - Classical. The sharpest contrast between the views of Christians and Merchants towards trade can be seen during their respective religion’s origins‚ as exemplified in Documents 1‚ 2
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Thecla The character of Thecla first appears in the late-second century text the Acts of Paul and Thecla Briefly‚ Paul is depicted as preaching a message of chastity in Iconium‚ which causes Thecla to become enamored with his words and to abandon her responsibilities to her mother and her fiancé in order to follow Paul. She overcomes two persecutions by miraculous means‚ eventually baptizing herself in a pool of ravenous seals that are miraculously killed by a lightning bolt before they can
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