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Man in the Maze: THE BELLS OF CHRISTMAS
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011. THE BELLS OF CHRISTMAS. Bells announce the coming or arrival of an event, activity, or occasion. They toll for good times. They toll for bad times. They ring out warnings. Bells herald in the New Year. Bells are rung to announce the union of a man and a woman. They are rung during Christmas to announce the arrival of the season, to proclaim the birth of Christ. From the holidayinsights.com website. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day". I heard the bells on Christmas Day. God is...
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Man in the Maze: THE MAGI ARE MOVING
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Sunday, December 11, 2011. THE MAGI ARE MOVING. The Journey of the Magi". Reads the poem by T.S. Eliot (1808-1965),. A Nobel Prize in Literature winner with a bent toward. The religious and the philosophical. It's from a. 1961 recording on the Folkways label, titled:. Christian Poetry and Prose:. Selected and Read by Alec Guiness. A cold coming we had of it,. Just the worst of time of the year. For a journey, and such a long journey:. The ways deep and the weather sharp,. The very dead of winter.". And f...
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Man in the Maze: THE JEWS OF JESUS' TIME
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011. THE JEWS OF JESUS' TIME. Part IV, 121, 7. By the time of the first century after Christ the spoken interpretation of the law by the recognized teachers, the scribes, had become a higher authority than the written law itself. And all this made it easier for certain religious leaders of the Jews to array the people against the acceptance of a new gospel. The philosophic reasoning of the Greek proselytes to Judaism, including some of their concepts of the eternal life. The appeal...
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Man in the Maze: CHRISTMAS THROUGH INDIAN EYES
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Saturday, December 17, 2011. CHRISTMAS THROUGH INDIAN EYES. Everyday is our Christmas. Every meal is our Christmas. At every meal we take a little portion of the food. We are eating, and we offer it to the spirit world. Of the four legged, and the winged, and the two legged. We pray - not the way most Christians pray -. But we thank the Grandfathers, the Spirit,. And the Guardian Angel. The Indian Culture is actually grounded. In the traditions of a Roving Angel. It is in giving that we receive. Of gunsh...
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Man in the Maze: ROOM FOR CHRIST
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Saturday, December 3, 2011. It is no use saying. That we are born. Two thousand years too late to give room. To Christ. Nor will those who live at. The end of the world have been born too late. Christ is always with us, always asking. For room in our hearts. But now it is with the voice of our. Contemporaries that he speaks, with. The eyes of store clerks, factory workers,. And children that he gazes;. With the hands of office workers, slum. Dwellers, and suburban housewives that. Is giving it to Christ.
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Man in the Maze: ADVENT - THE SEASON OF WAITING
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Thursday, December 1, 2011. ADVENT - THE SEASON OF WAITING. From an essay by J.B Phillips. The Dangers of Advent". As a translator of the New Testament I find in it. No support whatever for the belief that one day all evil will be. Eradicated from the earth, all problems solved,. And health and wealth. Be every man's portion! Even among some Christians such. A belief is quite commonly held, so that the "second advent". Of Christ is no more and no less than the infinite number. Is to end,. For who he is.
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Man in the Maze: HEART ATTACK SEASON
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Sunday, December 4, 2011. From The Associated Press. Tis the season for heart attacks. Rich meals, stress may be culprits. Washington - Those lords-a-leaping and. Ladies dancing may want to consider the downside. Of the holidays: Heart attack season has arrived. December and January are the deadliest months. For heart disease, and many of the things that. Make the season merry are culprits:. Rich meals, more alcohol - and all. But what may make the Christmas coronary. They're even more reluctant for a run.
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Man in the Maze: THE FINAL WEEK OF WAITING
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Sunday, December 18, 2011. THE FINAL WEEK OF WAITING. In this final week of waiting the sense of expectancy. In the Church is heightened. The 14th century Dominican mystic, John Tauler,. Explains the gift of Zechariah's. God cannot leave things empty; that would be to contradict. His own nature and justice. Therefore, you must be silent. Then the Word of this birth can be spoken in you. And you will be able to hear him. But be certain of this:. If you try to speak then. He must be silent. Do not be afraid.
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Man in the Maze: THE ADVENT SERIES
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014. Our Advent Series from 2011 is being. Updated" with some fresh material,. And we'll continue to work on it through the month. Sorry to be running a day late. Http:/ maninthemaze.blogspot.com/2011/12/advent-season-of-waiting.html. And here's a full list of all 25 days. With the link for each:. ADVENT - THE SEASON OF WAITING. THE SHAKING REALITY OF ADVENT. KEEP AWAKE AND WATCH. CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY. CHRISTMAS CARDS, HEROD, AND MORE. THE MAGI ARE MOVING. OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE.
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Man in the Maze: FROM BETHLEHEM TO GOLGATHA
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011. FROM BETHLEHEM TO GOLGATHA. Are an indivisible whole. If we become immersed in one,. We are led to all the others. Thus the way from Bethlehem leads. Inevitably to Golgotha, from the crib. When the blessed virgin brought the. Child to the temple, Simeon prophesied. That her soul would be pierced by a sword,. That this child was set for the fall. And the resurrection of many,. For a sign that would be contradicted. His prophecy announced the passion,. All this was done, that ...