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JOY..to..the world*[the Joy of the Gospel?)

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http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbcnews.com/53912415#53912415
http://www.news.va/en/source/vatican-va
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/vatican/vatican.htm

pre-paired
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1305361.htm

VATICAN CITY..(CNS]..by/Seeing a protest sign..in St. Peter's Square that read.."The poor cannot wait,"..Pope Francis urged individuals and government leaders..to recognize the pain,..struggles..and rights of REFUSgee/families..like Jesus, Mary and Joseph..who do not have a home.

Pope Francis read..the sign out loud Dec. 22..after reciting the midday Angelus prayer from the window of the apostolic palace.

"It's beautiful,"..he said.

"It makes me think..*/how Jesus was born/in a stall,..not a house. And reading that sign..I think today..[22/12]..of all the families without homes,..either because they never had one..or because they lost their home..for some*..reason.

"A family..and a home go together,"..the pope said.

"It's very difficult..to keep a family going..without a home to live in...During these Christmas days,..I ask everyone --individuals, social agencies,..authorities --to do everything possible so that every family..can have a home."

The sign was carried by members..of a loose coalition of protesters who had been demonstrating..across Italy since early December...Known as the "pitchfork movement,"..it included farmers, truckers and families protesting taxes..and government austerity programs.

Pope Francis praised/social involvement,..but he insisted that citizens must resist..the temptation..of violence and defend their rights through dialogue.

In his main Angelus address,..Pope Francis focused on the Gospel's description..of Joseph finding out..that Mary was expecting a child and facing a struggle..between his love for her..and his obedience to God's law,./which prescribed shunning her because they were not married.

"This brief phrase describes a real and true interior drama, if we consider how much Joseph loved Mary," the pope said, adding that it must have been like the internal struggle of Abraham when God told him to sacrifice his only son Isaac.

"But, as he did with Abraham, the Lord intervenes; he found the faith he was looking for and opens a different path, a path of love and happiness," the pope said.

Pope Francis prayed that Christians would learn to entrust themselves fully to God like Mary did and that, like Joseph, they would "prefer to believe the Lord rather than listening to the voices of doubt and human pride."

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http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-contemplate-st-josephs-greatness-of-soul/
Posted by one under god, Wednesday, 25 December 2013 10:18:14 AM
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lest we forget...my only mate...who comforts me
http://rss.infowars.com/20131224_Tue_Alex.mp3
Posted by one under god, Wednesday, 25 December 2013 10:21:50 AM
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Come, they told me pappa-rum pum pum pum
A newborn King to see..papa-rum pum pum pum

Our fine est gifts..we bring pa-rum pum pum pum
To lay before the..new born thing/King pa-rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum, Rum pum pum pum.

So to honor Him pa-run pum pum pum
When we come..for him ratta tat tat
ratter tut.ratter tut tut

Little Baby..looks so.oh..fore lorne..pa-pa-pah rup
ter pa rum pum pum pum..righiously..they come..pum per pum puluder pumpum..run/home.

I am a poor boy too pa-rum pum pum pum
That's fit to give our King pa-rum pum pum pum
Rum pum pum pum, Rum pum pum pum.

Shall I play for you..pa-rum pum pum pum
On my drum?

Mary nodded..pa-rum pum pum pum
The Ox..and Lamb..kept time pa-rum pum pum pum

I played my drum for Him pa-rum pum pum pum
I played my best for Him pa-rum pum pum pum

Rum pum pum pum, Rum pum pum pum.
put some more ruminthis one
lets just have fun
woks..is dun

core rupt the pun pun
love everyone
n1sun

Then He smiled at
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/so-much-joy-michelle-obama-reads-twas-the-night-before-christmas-with-a-muppet/politics/2013/12/08/79884

ahhh,men
patriarchy=overt+over

welcome inthe dawn..of matriarchal king dum
poor more rum..number one son..this time near dun
number one sun
ana is one
dun
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Posted by one under god, Wednesday, 25 December 2013 11:38:07 AM
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http://www.news.va/en/news/like-one-of-us

We want to be..proud of the pope.
http://www.radiovaticana.va/player/index_fb.asp?language=en&visualizzazione=VaticanTic&Tic=VA_3BRJR8GT

“What you’re seeing..is a lot of pent-up frustration..among a lot of Catholics..who instinctively want to stand by the pope,..want to promote the pope,..but felt somewhat ambivalent about doing so..with his two predecessors../.Now they have a pope that they believe represents..a Biblically robust representation of Christianity,..and they’re excited about that.”

Spiritual Reflection
The Naivitivity..of the Lord
reflecto..Benedict XVI,..Urbi Et Orbi Message,..Christmas 2010

“The Word became flesh”.

Before this revelation..we once more wonder:..how can this be? The Word.and the flesh are mutually opposed realities;.[contract/act].how can the eternal..and almighty lord become,,seen..by a frail and mortal man?

There is only one answer:..gods will=Love.

Those who love..all..desire to share with their beloved,..they want to be one/with the lover..of the..beloved,..and Sacred Scripture shows us..the great love story of God..for his creation which culminated in Jesus Christ...works..put..into words[…]

God is Love...[living/loving/love life..In himself/of himself..he is communion,..Unity in..holy-Trinity,..and all his words..and works are directed to communion.[between..t6hat above/with that..below/within

The Incarnation..[Emmanuel/god with-in]..is the culmination of creation...When Jesus,..the Son of God.[incarnate],..was formed in the womb of Mary…..evolved/creation..reached its high point...The ordering principle of the uni-verse,..the Logos,..began to exist in the world,..in a certain time and space.[…]..and/the christian/room..in the fathers house was opened

In the night..of the world..ofthe fathers divided house..a new light was kindled,..one which lets itself..be seen by the simple eyes of faith...by works[inter/active..love of neighbour..in/of the truth

in some sense..it would impose/itself..for the se4rvice..of other..by its own..freewilled/power...But if Truth is Love,..[what is love undelivered..it calls for faith,..works..for the “yes” of our hearts...to become..seen.

http://www.news.va/en/spiritual_reflections/

Non-Catholics are paying attention,..too...A November survey found “Pope Francis”..was the most talked-about proper*/name..on the English language Internet..in 2013. In December,..Time magazine named him “person of the year.”

The world seems suddenly to be listening..for all the right reasons, and the popular attraction..has high-profile atheists concerned.

“He’s obviously a nice man,..therefore a dangerous man,”..leading evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins..told fellow atheist Bill Maher in late October...

“We don’t want nice men in the Vatican.”

does dorkins speak for thee?
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=6152#178808
Posted by one under god, Thursday, 26 December 2013 7:00:55 AM
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let the inquisition/begin
where..are we..in relation..to revelations..?

let it snow..[the sign/of the times]
http://biblehub.com/revelation/20-3.htm
what links the cold spell..in the north?

A Wanderer in the Sprit Lands, by Franchezzo
(A. Farnese), [1896], at sacred-texts.com
http://new-birth.net/booklet/Wanderer_a4.pdf

CHAPTER IX.--The Frozen Land--The Caverns of Slumber.
I was next sent to visit what will indeed seem a strange country to exist in the spirit world. The Land of Ice and Snow--the Frozen Land--in which lived all those who had been cold and selfishly calculating in their earthly lives.

Those who had crushed out and chilled and frozen from their own lives and the lives of others, all those warm sweet impulses and affections which make the life of heart and soul. Love had been so crushed and killed by them that its sun could not shine where they were, and only the frost of life remained.

Great statesmen were amongst those whom I saw dwelling in this land, but they were those who had not loved their country nor sought its good. Only their own ambitions, their own aggrandizement had been their aim, and to me they now appeared to dwell in great palaces of ice and on the lofty frozen pinnacles of their own ambitions.

Others more humble and in different paths in life I saw, but all alike were chilled and frozen by the awful coldness and barrenness of a life from which all warmth, all passion, was shut out.

I had learned the evils of an excess of emotion and of passion, now I saw the evils of their entire absence. Thank God this land had far fewer inhabitants than the other, for terrible as are the effects of mis-used love, they are not so hard to overcome as the absence of all the tender feelings of the human heart.
Posted by one under god, Friday, 27 December 2013 8:39:20 AM
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Consenting sentient entities have the natural freedom & rights to do with their property, bodies and minds what they will, without private or public intervention.

The Moral Argument

The consenting/voluntary principle assures us that while we may have the possibility of choosing the worst, we also have the possibility of choosing the best. It provides us the opportunity to make things better, though it doesn’t guarantee results. While it dictates that we do not force our idea of “better” on someone else, it protects us from having someone else’s idea of “better” imposed on us by force. The use of coercion to compel virtue eliminates its possibility, for to be moral, an act must be uncoerced. If a person is compelled to act in a certain way (or threatened with government sanctions), there is nothing virtuous about his or her behavior. Freedom of choice is a necessary ingredient for the achievement of virtue. Whenever there is a chance for the good life, the risk of a bad one must also be accepted.
aware that there is also something else which stimulates our apathy in this respect. He signified the importance of leisure time for our own personal well being as well as for the well being of the community as a whole – it creates so to speak the possibility to make well informed decisions. Currently our leisure time is under assault. Thirty years of income stagnation in the midst of rising prices – people have to struggle to earn a living – meant that for most of us there is less time for critical thought.

But it has even been made harder to reflect on important issues since politicians and opinions leaders use marketing tools in order to seduce. Remember that soon after the 2008 banking bailout the discussion was reframed in such a way that government spending instead of the unregulated financial sector itself, was the root cause of all ‘evil’ – this message was repeated like a commercial, over and over again.
Posted by one under god, Sunday, 5 January 2014 6:29:26 PM
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