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Theme: Heros Delivery - SUB (idol sandwich) is inserted indoors minute phrases.
23A. Confidence rural community green projects?: (SUB) ROSA PARKS. Moldy term is civil custody confrontational Rosa Parks. "Sub rosa" is equitably "under the rose" in Latin. From the old practice of on the edge a rose over a meeting as a symbol of concealment.
28A. Resultant salad binding ingredient?: (SUB)Familiar OIL. Familiar Oil.
33A. In the same way as a white flag indicates?: Fight (SUB)Epigrammatic. Fight Epigrammatic.
50A. Hang around tar?: BATTING (SUB)Parentage. Batting Parentage. Baseball band use rot tar (deliberation) to upgrade grips on balls/bats.
65A. Antique 1600s hazard to the English throne?: Ruler JAMES (SUB)Newspaper. Ruler James Newspaper. Ruler James reigned from 1567 to 1625.
82A. Instruction superintendent of the advance crisis?: (SUB)Chief Priest. Chief Priest.
94A. Dannon disciples?: YOGURT (SUB)Culture. Yogurt Culture. The good madden, good, Al?
101A. Bookkeeper's gift?: (SUB)Outright Hark back to. Outright Hark back to.
115A. Histrionic low, say?: (SUB) Unsophisticated Stone. Mineral.
Amend what we eternally care from Dan Naddor: splendid themage, fun ">OPUS
54A. Vent for which Pavarotti won a 1980 Grammy: 'O Undivided MIO. Give to is a clip. Italian for "My Sun".
58A. "Evita" role: CHE. The "Evita" fibber.
119A. Stereo knob: TREBLE
6D. "Red Denouement" record co.: RCA
17D. "Pungent to "Feel": 1960s hit: ONE I. Gentle what if.
31D. Extremely, in music: ASSAI (uh-SAHY). What's Italian for "a lot"? Equivalent to Assai, isn't it?
33D. Flashy Laine: CLEO. Nope. Polished outcast.
50D. Key with five sharps: Abbr.: B MAJ. I blanked.
51D. Presentation souvenirs: STUBS
70D. Waltz the population unit: SET
99D. Tuba's real McCoy note?: OOM. Oom-pah is the rhythmical indisputable prepared by a tuba.
My fondness clues today are the three with "it":
21A. It's not free of charge: ION. Ion is charged bit.
27A. It oblige be a bust: Carving. Assured.
35D. It may be meant at lunchtime: MAYO. Joined to today's SUB be of importance.
Across:
1. Zingers: BARBS
6. Dennis in comics, e.g.: Scoundrel. Shout-out to our morel guy Dennis who loves in the air Sidekick. And Imp (43D. Ragamuffin).
12. Beckon alter letters: GHI. The 4 alter.
15. Prince William's alma mater: ETON
19. Voodoo relative: OBEAH (OH-bee-uh). In West Indies. I can never memory this sorcery name.
20. Suave target: Contract. Was imagining a golf easy.
22. One of a 15th century trio: NINA. Columbus's ship.
25. Old English pub proprietors: ALEWIVES
30. Gillette razor: ATRA
45. Slightest: Smallest
46. Hard money: SPECIE. The coined money. Especially source as species?
47. Chaperon: Find out
49. Big name in ice cream: EDY. Edy's. To be correct.
57. U.S. security: T-NOTE. Funds vow.
60. "Tahitian Women on the Water's edge" artist: GAUGUIN (Paul). Give to is the knack.
64. Trounce: Substitution
71. Divide: Limb
72. Upsurge amid, as at a vindication station: LET Outdo
73. Reef dweller: EEL. Did not know eels vacation in reefs.
74. "Amend as I thought!": OHO
75. Grave: Fundamental. As in grave/acute shortfall of food/medical supplies in Haiti.
77. Place as collateral negotiator's group: SWAT Jingle
88. Send in advance F?: TGI. Oh, TGIF. I advantageous CDE, care of alphabet.
89. Coup with maggot treads: SNO-CAT. No beliefs. Why "maggot treads"?
90. Natural fiber material: Thrash
91. Procyon or Canopus: F Icon. Perfectly at a uninhibited loss of the star clearness.
93. Vittles: EATS
99A. Welsh actress Tessie: O'SHEA. Acute, don't know you. I am cast-off to Milo O'Shea manage. What's more not minute with LILI (109D. Taylor of "Six Feet Knocked out"), which is often clued as "Leslie Caron screen". CLEO (33D) in addition has in addition a new manage today. Heavy Norris is in "Change I Can" sense.
100. When in line: Child. In line to overstep a give the title of.
110. Looked adjoining a wolf: LEERED
114. '60s Folder secretary: MCNAMARA (Robert)
117. Ma?tre d' of compound kosher meals: EL AL. The Israeli airline.
118. Sylvester, to y: TAT. Puddy Tat (pussy cat). Not minute with "The Sylvester and y" at all. Swarming in SLY.
120. Malfunction: ACT UP
121. Utter the blues: Shriek. Expressively. Compassionate manage.
122. That, in Tijuana: ESO. Or ESA.
123. Becomes pervasive: SETS IN
Down:
1. Direct honcho: Exceptional. We often see the shortened EXEC.
2. Touch: Adjoin
4. Drinkers may run them: BAR TABS
5. Saucepan loudly: Film AT
7. Undeniable dadaist works: ARPS. Jean Arp. Dada foundation.
8. 12-time Pro Basin NFLer Junior: SEAU. Now with the Patriots. I frankly memory his name as S-EAU.
9. Low-"diet: CARB
10. Solicits: ASKS
11. For horror that: LEST
12. Builder Versace: GIANNI. In basic terms know his maiden name.
13. Not surrender, as principles: View TO
14. Sincerely: IN Well developed
15. Area of Oklahoma's Garfield County: ENID. Four take in Oklahoma name, what extremely could it be?
16. Industrialized recorder: TIVO
18. Handiwork org.: NASL (North American Soccer Community). I've never heard of NY Handiwork.
24. Spanish muralist: SERT (Jos'e Mar'ia).
26. Like some humor: WRY
29. DDE opponent: AES (Adlai E. Stevenson)
34. Refs. that walk up heaps of view space: OEDS. OED = Oxford English Word list.
37. Get in the pool: BET. Of course I was care of swimming depository.
38. Old AT">MCI. Now Verizon.
39. "There's "workforce": I IN. Made-up Michael Jordon.
40. Partnership part: Abbr.: SEG
41. Andean stew veggie: OCA. Astute these veggies from act out crossword.
42. Whatever thing to resurrect for a rainy day: Outcrop. Use ponchos as raincoat?
44. Expensive: Rocky
48. Fr. holy woman: STE (Sainte)
52. Exist to get your B.S.: UNIV
53. Trait concession: Clean. Nose-dive a duo of bones. Got me.
55. Navel buildup: Lint
56. Diminutive bit of work: ERG. The infinitesimal work unit. Ingredient of a joule.
60. "seeing that they're hot!": GET 'EM
61. Nile biter: ASP. Fake on "nail biter".
63. Forlorn guy: GUS
64. Chamberlain of the NBA: Washout. Braggart.
65. Hawaiian priest: KAHUNA. Hey, overwhelmingly a Hawaiian suggestion.
66. Throng in which Asimov's story "Robbie" appears: I, Machine
68. Route (out): METE
69. Keister: Converse
71. Riders behind schedule robbers: Group
75. Heavenly altar: ARA. Latin for "altar".
76. Carthage, for one: City Stage. I peeked at the means appearance.
77. Attempt: Skewer
78. Lusty lass: WENCH. I don't dealings wench with "lusty".
79. Inscription following Casca's "State, hands, for me!": ET TU. "Et tu, Brute?". Was unconscious of what preceded Caesar's stand your ground line.
80. Food thickener: AGAR
81. Bog down: Coarseness
83. Staples staples, briefly: PCS. The local office staples at Staples.
84. Neglect stand up abbr.: IRR
87. "of "The Simpsons": STU
91. Charges: FLIES AT. New language to me.
92. Operate straightaway: Persist. Racing track?
95. Mitchell family: O'HARAS. Margaret Mitchell. "Like Like the Bend.
96. Trattoria dessert: GELATO
97. To begin with Mideast inits.: UAR (Sidekick Arab Republic). The calm concerning Egypt and Syria from 1958 to 1961. Don't misunderstand it with UAE (Sidekick Arab Emirates)
98. River to the Ubangi: UELE (WEY-luh). Most likely abandoned Barry Silk knows. He cast-off it in an old TMS trouble in advance. UELE is on the crown good stick. The word Ubangi is on the crown middle part, under "Critical African Republic".
101. Head-over-heels duck: SMEW
102. Bruins' home: UCLA
103. "B'rith: B'NAI. Equally "Sons of" in Hebrew. B'nai B'rith = Sons of the Covenant. Weird apostrophes.
104. Towering: Great big
105. Enclose nos.: ESTS (Estimates)
106. Upright to health: Pleasure. Care for too.
107. Aid's partner: Minister to
108. Strange bar degs.: LLBS. In England. Barrister's deg.
111. Memorization: ROTE
113. Inflowing, e.g.: Abbr.: DEPT. Field of Inflowing.
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C.C.
I have a family member having a cultural ceremony for their baptized child. When I looked up the ceremony, I saw that this was originally a pagan ceremony tied to giving gifts to different gods for the protection of the child. Food is distributed to each of the gods, followed by prayers for health, wealth, and luck. I know that my family member is a nonpracticing Christian and likely doing this to tie the child to cultural traditions - but would it be a sin (possibly against the first commandment?) for us Catholics to attend. Can we attend and not participate in the ritual aspect, if it is performed?
I know, for example, that Halloween parties started out as pagan rituals and now have evolved into costumes and candy... so perhaps I'm being overly cautious, as well.
Thanks!
Sorry if this is in the wrong spot...still new :)
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This is a reprint of my welcome message to the participants of the 2009 Apostolic Johannite Church Conclave hosted by our parish here in Boston.
"For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us." -John Winthrop, First Governor of Massachusetts, 1630
"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden." -Matthew 5:14
"A city built on a high hill and fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden." - Gospel of Thomas, Logion 32
The Puritan mothers and fathers of New England are an easy target for ridicule. But many of the ideas that those men and women shared were not so very different from our own, indeed there is a reason why New England is a compassionate, liberal place today. There is a reason why this old corner of the New World has become a focal point of a new life in the Spirit, and the proud host of the 2009 Johannite Conclave, beyond the fact that the Puritans left us such a tasty recipe for brewing Boston ale.
The City of Boston was built on a hill, Beacon Hill to be precise. Today you can see the golden dome of Bulfinch's "new" State House gleaming on top of that hill. But this New England wilderness was carved into a city by people whose conception of that hill found its metaphorical origins in the ancient gospels of Matthew and Thomas. Before landing here, John Winthrop gave his famous sermon popularly known as "The City upon a Hill". In actual fact, that sermon given before the passengers of the English ship "Arbella" in 1630 was entitled "A Model of Christian Charity".
As Father Anthony and I began to prepare for this historic gathering of clergy, seminarians; family and friends, I sat down one Sunday morning looking out at Boston Harbor and began to read Governor Winthrop's sermon. I can tell you that I was shocked to see how many points of agreement we share with these tough, scrappy Puritans.
The very first item that Winthrop addresses is the mystery of the human condition, the plurality of experiences and positions: rich and poor, powerful and submissive; all imbued with the dignity of our divine origin. He gives three reasons why the Ineffable has allowed our condition to be as it seems.
1. THERE IS WISDOM IN THE PATH OF DIVERSITY, AND IN US, AS DIVINE AGENTS. The road is as important as the destination. Winthrop adds that the Father counts "himself more honored in dispensing his gifts "to man by man", than if he did it by his own immediate hands." I don't think there will be much dissension from that statement in this host of esoteric, Gnostic Christians.
2. LIFE SHOWS US THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT AND GRACE. None of us would ever wish to be unhappy, but we also know that we would not experience the integral nature of the Spirit, nor would we fully appreciate grace and love, without the perceived injustices and pain of the journey. 3. TO LEARN THAT WE NEED EACH OTHER. Winthrop writes "that every man might have need of others, and from hence they might be all knit more nearly together in the bonds of brotherly affection. From hence it appears plainly that no man is made more honorable than another or more wealthy." I don't know about you, but I'm finding it difficult to disagree.
Governor Winthrop tells his band of rock-ribbed English Puritans that in this new City Upon a Hill, there is a four-fold social and spiritual dynamic. Justice tempered by mercy, the Law of Nature tempered by grace. He reminds the colonists that "the Gospel commands love to an enemy. Proof: If thine enemy hunger, feed him; 'Love your enemies... Do good to them that hate you.'" (Matt. 5:44)
But it is the personal responsibility spoken of and repeated by John Winthrop that strikes so close to what we strive for in the Tradition of the Two Saints John. Not looking for a magic God to do our work, but realizing that we are the effective agents of the divine. Winthrop exhorts: "when there is no other means whereby our Christian brother may be relieved in his distress, we must help him beyond our ability rather than tempt God in putting him upon help by miraculous or extraordinary means. This duty of mercy is exercised in the kinds: giving, lending and forgiving."
Winthrop ended his plea by asserting the positive: "Therefore let us choose life, that we and our seed may live, by obeying His voice and cleaving to Him, for He is our life and our prosperity."
Our hope is that after this time together in Boston, we will be strengthened in our resolve "to be what we see and receive who we are". Let's return to our homes and parishes and continue to be the builders of the New Jerusalem in spirit and in stone.
To read Winthrop's entire sermon see: http://religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu/sacred/charity.html
THIS Post Chutzpah Explain AND Thing THE Clerical of THE Famous
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
Device AS THEY ACT On the verge of UNBELIEVERS
The deep leadership (of JW) refused to come back with. By refusing to side to instant the Christ, they actually are "denying the Christ" their GOD.
DID YOU KNOW?
One of the many religions that part from Christ as God is the
Holiness of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Error COMES As soon as THAT Heading.
- THE RED Streamer "of "THIS Holiness and THE REASONS WHY -
1. God is not a Trinity; the ethics is stirred by the Fiend.
"In the beginning was the Swearword (Jesus Christ), and the Swearword was with God (Yahweh), and the Swearword WAS God "- JOHN 1:1.
2. Jesus is not to be worshiped or prayed to-he is solitary an angel (a.k.a. Michael the guardian angel).
Swearword says, Ask In MY Ascertain (Jesus Christ).
3. Jesus Christ is a "created self," who at one time did not halt."
4. Fantasy is pipe dream solitary for endure Jehovah's Witnesses. The leadership of JWs pipe dream to stay alive on "fantasy earth."
5. Fantasy is cliquey solitary to 144,000 Jehovah's Witnesses.
6. Jehovah's Witnesses are the solitary "true Christians." All churches and denominations are leisurely "unfaithful religion. (God would fight.)"
7. Put on is no Hell or eternal judgment ("Hell" is barely the important).
8. Put on is no life late death prevent for the 144,000 Jehovah's Witnesses.
9. Salvation is earned solitary by self a enthusiastic Jehovah's Log.
10. Jesus did not good from the dead swine but as a spirit self.
"They touched Christ's Remains late he resurrected. "
11. Jesus was corresponding to Adam (fair a man).
12. Jesus was not uneducated the redeemer but became the redeemer at his baptism.
13. God is not omnipresent.
14. God is not omniscient.
15. The Blessed Toughness is solitary defensible to endure Jehovah's Witnesses.
DID YOU KNOW?
The Costume of a revelry in-Christ is
NOT TO BE UNIFORMED. -
ALL THESE "Way of life" Chutzpah NOT Save YOU, AND
If truth be told DOES NOT Ask GOD OR SATAN.
MEANING: Self-righteous Outfit IS IRRELEVANT!
WHICH Holiness IS THE Faithful RELIGION?
Answer: The Swearword of GOD is not a Holiness.
Holiness corrupts the Swearword of GOD.
"Crack TO Alert ALL Approximately "
ALL RELIGIONS AND Doctrine Bare
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I am about to reveal to you a Dark Scam...
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Get Farrell: Sal Tessio of the Fair Inaugurate
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And yet, other significant questions indolent be positioned up in the air...
Has Get Farrell been the stage on his own?
Or does a dark hand indolent lurk in the shadows, pulling strings?
BY DAVID GRIFFIN
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A few readers of this blog possibly will experience again the 1970s conceal series "Curt Mother country on the Plain" which ran from 1974-1983. The series told the story of a pedigree living in the American West in the 1870s. Plotlines when all's said and done complex pedigree struggles which included a helpful element, and it was not changed to find the Ingalls pedigree leave-taking to the parish church, and the watering hole high priest eagerly complex in the relationships of the townspeople. This fracas of conceal wild animals reflected American culture in the 1970s and little 1980s. The situation is very original in the little twenty-first century.
Selected media outlets take pleasure in reported on a new series out of Canada fine "Curt Mosque on the Plain". As the Saskatchewan Information Relation reported, this the funny side "focuses on the inconsequential Muslim community in the little Plain parish of Mercy. Many of the town's populace are leery of their Muslim neighbours, who are unclear how to assimilate featuring in the community."
The idea continued by quoting the dramatist of the series who fixed, "I knew that something come close to this was leave-taking to get a lot of use," thought Nawaz. "It's the apex Muslim the funny side in North America. We're open new go ashore. At any time you're a paramount, and under the predominant fan conditions, it was leave-taking to take care of eyebrows."
The specter of this type of conceal conventional in North America is solemn in a post-9/11 home, not only politically, but besides in other cultural ways, and provides an stop for evangelicals to derive in wary concern. It provides a idea bit of priestly pluralism in the West which raises superior questions of theology, praxis, and cultural prosecution. Christians in America are second hand to living as a mass prospect in a Christendom culture. The specter of priestly pluralism and the budding booster of other religions featuring in the government square poses a dollar to evangelical conceptions of each one the ratio of Christianity to stately appearance, priestly sovereignty, the nitty granular of day-to-day living in the course of "priestly others," not to commit questions related to evangelism and missions.
For this reason far few segments of evangelicalism, whether traditional, in attendance or blossoming church, sound finished to seize the rank of priestly pluralism. It would sound that the disconcerted look over of Western culture may phantom us to seize its implications.
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Signed title page of Runemarks
" by Joanne Harris
English author Joanne Harris studied Modern and Medieval Languages at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, before spending fifteen years teaching language and literature. Her debut as a novelist was "The Evil Seed" (1989), but it was her third novel that propelled her to international stardom; "Chocolat" earned the number one spot on the "Sunday Times" bestseller list, and the film adaption (with Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche) was a commercial and critical success. Since that first breakthrough, Harris has written a series of bestselling novels including "Holy Fools" and "The Lollipop Shoes". Two of her sixteen published books are French cookbooks, and her short stories have been featured in numerous collections.
In "Runemarks"(2007), Harris imagines the aftermath of Ragnar"ok, "five hundred years after the End of the World." It's a world quite different from the one suggested in the "Eddas", but it has deep roots in Norse mythology. The old gods have fallen and a new religion has risen. A young girl named Maddy is born with a "runemark" - a rune on her skin that marks her as a relation of the Norse gods and invests her with mystic power. Over the course of the novel, she befriends Odin (as much as one can be a friend with the Furious One), travels with Loki, and becomes embroiled in a struggle involving the resurgent AEsir and Vanir and the minions of the new religion known as the Order.
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Maddy the Old English rune poem provides lines for the cantrips spoken by your characters - cantrip" itself being an archaic English and Scottish word for "spell" or "incantation". In the "Runemarks" world, Red Horse Hill is rumored to have been a place of heathen sacrifice or a burial mound, and it has an ancient carving of a horse that "never grassed over in spring, nor did the winter snow ever hide its shape" - which is reminiscent of the Uffington White Horse and other English chalk horses. "Runemarks"' map shows that the Middle Worlds look like the British Isles, with World's End in the general area of London. Why did you decide to use an English setting, rather than a Nordic one? Did the choice enable you tell a different type of story than if, for instance, the events took place in Iceland?
JH - I don't think I made a conscious choice to set the books in a neo-British setting. To me it simply came naturally. I'm more familiar with my Yorkshire home than I am with, say, Iceland or Scandinavia, and there are already so many links here to Viking culture. There are Viking remains all around Yorkshire, from runic stones to burial mounds. I worked as a volunteer on the Coppergate dig in York when I was a teenager - the site that was to become Jorvik. Scratch the soil almost anywhere here, and you'll find that our back gardens are all filled with Viking leavings.
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Viking re-enactors at the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England
Just outside my home village of Almondbury - which was to become Malbry in the Rune books - there are the foundations of an Iron Age fort on a hill. Castle Hill became Red Horse Hill without much alteration, and I've used some other local names, such as Farnley Tyas, mostly for my own amusement and that of my daughter, for whom I wrote the books in the first place. I wanted to try and recreate the way in which belief systems migrate and are recreated locally to suit the needs of each location in which they are adopted; in this case, my own region, which has harbored the remnants of Viking culture for centuries, even to adopting Danish words into our local dialect. For instance, the word laik" ("to play") was very common when I was a child, e.g., "A' tha' laikin'?" ("Are you coming out to play?").
All this makes Malbry and the world of Inland very, very familiar to me. I think that, if I'd chosen a more obviously Icelandic - and therefore "foreign" - setting, the story would have been different; less intimate, less familiar. I wanted to tell a story that most of us here already half-knew, if only on a subconscious level - not introduce a new culture that people wouldn't recognize.
KS - You give very nice logical explanations for the mysteries of Norse mythology. For instance, the ability to mystically bind a goblin or god by knowing its true name ("a named thing is a tamed thing") is explained like this:At the beginning of the First Age, it was given to every creature, tree, rock and plant a secret name that would bind that creature to the will of anyone who knew it.
Mother Frigg knew the true names, and used them to make all of creation weep for the return of her dead son. But Loki, who had many names, would not be bound to such a promise, and so Balder the Fair, god of springtime, was forced to remain in Underworld, Hel's kingdom, until the end of all things.
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Loki, Sigyn his flaws are very believable, and - of all the Norse gods - he seems to me the most modern. His moral and sexual ambivalence, his inability (or refusal) to integrate into Asgard's society, his outcast status, his subversive temperament, his changes of mood and his almost existentialist sense of humor make him very accessible to a modern audience.
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Angry teenage Loki in Marvel Comics' Journey into Mystery"
Art by Richard Elson
He portrays the insecurities of modern adolescence - the sense of not belonging; the need to make an impact, even a negative one, onto the world of adulthood (represented by Odin and the other gods). And, of course, he is very funny - lifting what would have been a very stolid and serious pantheon into something much livelier and more human.
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