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Martin Mallon
Tuesday Ireland blogger
Pope
Francis: How to Know Jesus
We can come to know Jesus by following three paths to Him:
the paths of “the mind, heart,
and action.”
Pope's
homily yesterday:
Greed
destroys individuals and families
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Vatican II & Renewal
(1)
16
Documents of Vatican II
A
Call to Action
Assn Catholic Priests Ireland
Bp Pat Power
Bp Geoff Robinson
Bruce Duncan
Catalyst for Renewal
Catholica
Catholics for Ministry
Catholics for Renewal
STANDUP4VATICAN2
The Swag
VII - Voice of the Church
We Are Church
Excellent
articles on Mission
Hugh McMahon SSC
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African
Jesuit leader demands partnership not charity |
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"Women
in the Life of the Church"
- a special issue of America magazine |
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Father's
gene breakthrough
A father with no medical experience who helped uncover his son's rare
disease is hailed by geneticists
Protection
visa sequel worse than the original |
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Let's say a special prayer for Syria each day
for the next month or so:
Syria
conference announced, as suicide bomb kills dozens |
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10,000
Chinese to visit Tanzania annually
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Political decisions increasing ...
Beijing trying to take control of HK....Beijing wanting to control media...so ....
Tens
of thousands of HK people march in protest |
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Reflection
from Australia on New Missal: Fr. Kevin Burke
We’ve ended up with the farcical situation of Vatican officials, whose
first language is not English, having the final say on our English
translation |
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more they criticise him, the more let us pray for him, like
this |
Conservative
Catholics question Pope Francis’ approach
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Smile:
I live in a rough area. I hung up my Christmas stocking and Santa stole it |
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This website's Tanzania
File
- with links to all letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons |
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wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican
II Reflection 247
I
wonder how many Catholics say a prayer each day for a priest
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John W
mini-Blog |
My
weekly article for today's HK Ming Pao newspaper
(On
MP website)
Today's
topic: United Nations
Day (Oct 24)
Did you know it's supposed to be a public holiday in every
country?! |
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Sun:
Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid:
South America Sat:
Central & North America
Please join me in
praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Tuesday,
please bless the people of South
Asia
On this 22nd
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Zhejiang
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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Pope
Francis is under
attack from extreme Traditionalists
(I say extreme, because there
are moderate Traditionalists who would not dream of such slander).
Comment from reader: "The
levels of resentment, anger and hatred directed towards Pope Francis
are evident and people should be made aware that this kind of
fabrication and lying is going on in the name of Christ and the
Church"
What can we do? Pray...pray each day for the
Pope, asking God to give him good health, courage, wisdom and
protection from enemies within and without. My own custom is to pick
up a few bits of rubbish each morning as a prayer for the Pope:
Why
I pick up rubbish for Pope Francis (updated
yesterday) |
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John
W:
Previous Daily Blogs |
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Why
have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
(This article is relevant to all
materially-developed countries....and also makes one think of the
rapid Muslim birth rate...).
c.f. Japan
heading for extinction |
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Australian
connections to drowned asylum seekers
12th anniversary of Australia's worst asylum seeker disaster. On 19
October 2001, 353 people, mostly women and children, drowned on the
high seas trying to reach Australia in a small, dilapidated, grossly
overloaded fishing boat that would later come to be known as Suspected
Illegal Entry Vessel (SIEV) X |
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Interactive
Bible Quiz - the Gospel of Mark
Based on the actual words of the Bible.
How many times you can get 3/3 ?!
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Check the first comment at
this article from Questions from a
Ewe! |
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Call
for specialised drug treatment prisons to cut overdose deaths in
Victoria
This website's Tanzania
File
- with links to all letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
(including latest letter, of Oct 20)
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wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican
II Reflection 246
Missionaries
are meant to be marines, not policemen
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John W
mini-Blog
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To Facebook or not to
Facebook? After reading articles like
Five
hidden dangers of Facebook
I'm less inclined to start a Facebook
account
Google "dangers of using facebook" for more
disturbing info ... the main concern being the increasing no. of fake Facebook
accounts .... which can generate viruses, fraud and theft. (Fakebook?)
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Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia
Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid:
South America
Sat:
Central & North America
Please join
me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Monday,
please bless the people of Europe
& North Asia
On this 21st
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Yunnan
Please join me in praying
for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
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John W:
How maps can help us pray
Maybe a large map of the world in churches would help congregations
pray globally. Not a geography lesson, but a way of caring about
the whole human family, especially for groups and places going through
difficult situations
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Pope
Francis:
Thank
you Holy Spirit
Inspiring photos:
Engagements
of Pope Francis
Many
thanks for checking
this website each day
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Darlene Starrs
- Sunday blogger (Canada)
Church: A simple definition
Isn’t it a shame that a woman, called by Christ to teach, preach,
and sanctify has to prove it? And while we waste precious years
debating the issue, the woman’s precious gifts are wasted and the
Church ultimately suffers for it |
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Why
Do Nuns Outlive the Rest of Us?
American Catholic nuns experience greater physical and emotional
well-being at the end of life than other women and are 27 percent more
likely to live into their seventies |
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Who
advises the Pope? |
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Happy
40th Birthday: Sydney
Opera House |
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Sunday
smile:
A 5 year old who understood the power of prayer
and
- comedian & cardinal at dinner
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New
(Swahili) letter from a Tanzanian inmate in a Hong Kong prison,
calling on the the head of the anti-narcotics unit, Assistant
Commissioner of Police Godfrey Nzowa, to take stronger action against
drug lords
This
website's Tanzania File
- with links to all letters
from Tanzanian inmates in HK prisons
See
also: Over
300,000 people in Tanzania are slaves
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Vatican
II Reflection 244
It is necessary for future missionaries to
know along what roads the heralds of the Gospel have run in the course
of the centuries
I wonder how many
seminarians have ever heard of people like Matteo
Ricci, Hudson
Taylor etc? |
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John W
mini-Blog |
Mission Sunday today
....every Christian is meant to be a missionary...not necessarily by
knocking on doors or going overseas....but by prayer, good example and
...when an occasion presents itself...by doing a bit of gentle
lobbying |
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Sun:
Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia
Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid:
South America
Sat:
Central & North America
Please join
me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Sunday,
please bless the people of Africa
On this 20th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Sihuan
Please join me in praying
for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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Hope’s
watery grave ....a
humane twenty-first century ?
Then there were the stories: how it took people two months to get to
Khartoum, blackmailed by brokers and human traffickers. They would spend a
year in Khartoum, as a half-slave, half-beggar, to make money, and there
find the traffickers who could help them cross the desert and reach
Libya’s capital, Tripoli. The final stage cost US$1,600 per person, for
the journey of hope and death, via Misrata on the Libyan coast |
Bishop
Geoff Robinson
and Bishop Bill Morris:
Petition to Pope Francis
to stop sexual abuse
and to reform Church
- & calling for a new
Ecumenical Council !
(John W has signed petition)
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Please
encourage more people to see 1-10
re Bishop Bill Morris:
1:
Judge's conclusions
2: Canon lawyer's report
3: Radio interview with judge
4: "The Age" file of letters
5:
Summary re Rome
6:
Frank Brennan's update
7: ABC radio Fr Frank Brennan
8. Update from Frank Brennan
9. Vatileaks & Bp Bill Morris
10: Tablet letter - Frank Brennan
After
reading 1-10, check the "Pravda" report of CNA
Google "Morris" at top of this page for many articles re
Bishop BM, the most recent being talk of March 26, 2013:
Reclaiming
the Spirit of Vatican II
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Goleman
NY Times
Rich
people just care less
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Since the 1970s, the gap between the rich and
everyone else has skyrocketed. Income inequality is at its highest level
in a century. This widening gulf between the haves and have-less troubles
me, but not for the obvious reasons. Apart from the financial inequities,
I fear the expansion of an entirely different gap, caused by the inability
to see oneself in a less advantaged person’s shoes. Reducing the
economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy |
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Just when you thought
Australia couldn't get any harsher:
Coalition
Government resurrects temporary protection visas
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US
Navy rescues 128 Somali migrants in rough seas |
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International
priest organizations, lay leaders meet to discuss church reform
Archbishop Muller too strict: Don’t
blame the messenger
Muller not strict enough: Peru
cardinal's attack (..groan..)
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21st Century? |
Nearly
30 million people in slavery around the world
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In the Preface for the Memorial of the Holy
Guardian Angels, (2 October): "For the honour we pay the angelic
creatures in whom you delight redounds to
your own surpassing glory." "Redounds"?
(Tablet)
(How many Mass goers know the meaning of Redound?)
c.f. Pope
meets with International Commission on English in the Liturgy (does he
have any idea of the
New Translation fiasco? ...a tiny example of which is the Redounds
sentence above)
What I'm getting at is well put
here:
ICEL
in Rome for its 50th (or 10th?) anniversary (see comment by jw)
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This website's Tanzania
File
- with links to all
letters
from Tanzanian inmates
in Hong Kong prisons
Tomorrow:
a new letter from a Tanzanian inmate in a HK prison
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Vatican
II Reflection 243
A missionary
priest should be a totally submissive Superman?
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John W
mini-Blog
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How do the rich become
richer and the poor become poorer?
Well, last night I met a man now living on the street because his landlord
recently greatly increased his rent. Many little shops in my area have
closed down because greedy landlords have "upped" the rent too
much.
Where are the government laws to control rent prices?
Where are the politicians who care about this issue?
Where are the citizens to put pressure on politicians to care?
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Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid:
South America Sat:
Central & North America
Please join me in
praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Saturday,
please bless the people of Central
& North America
On this 19th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Shanxi
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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Today is International
Day for the Eradication of Poverty
(see this link for ways to take part in special
activities)
Ways
of knowing people in poverty
Is
Australia becoming comfortable with inequality?
This article has been added to Globalisation
of Indifference file.
Also added:
Pope Francis: the globalisation of indifference to the
scandal of hunger
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This
site's full statistics
for September 2013
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Selfishness
in children
"Responsible and loving
parents can help their children grow to develop a healthy personality by
courageously addressing the character weakness of selfishness on a regular
basis and by avoiding the harmful permissive parenting style"
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Daniel Daring
Thursday blogger
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Reflection on
October 29 Sunday readings:
Grant us justice, O Lord
We live in a world where criminals receive state funerals with
laudatory speeches while their victims are reduced to oblivion. Our
history books are written by the ‘secular priests’ working for the
victors. Truth gets lost under the garbage of lies. And yet, as the
parable rightly tells us, we should not give up our cry for justice |
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Republicans
are delusional about US spending and deficits |
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A poor man
was poaching lobsters at a beach. A game warden, his first day on the job,
saw him and said: ‘I’m going to have to arrest you. Poaching is
illegal.’ ‘I’m not poaching lobsters,’ the man said. ‘These are
my pets. I’m exercising them. I throw them into the sea, then whistle,
and they come back.’ ‘Show me,’ the warden said in disbelief. The
man threw the lobsters into the water and started to walk away.
‘Wait!’ the warden shouted. ‘Don’t you have to whistle to call
your lobsters back?’ The man looked at the warden, paused, and said,
‘What lobsters?’ |
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v2catholic.com's
Tanzania File
- with links to all letters
from Tanzanian inmates in HK prisons
Last
10
weeks, no new Tanzanian "drug mules" added to HK prison
population ....thanks to above file and promoters in Tanzania. DG!
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Vatican
II Reflection 241
Our Evangelical brothers and sisters, as soon as they are
baptised, hit the ground witnessing |
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John
W
mini-Blog
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For
today's International
Day for the Eradication of Poverty
I wrote this
little article for HK's Ming Pao newspaper
Can add an extra
sentence: one practical thing everyone can do every day is to pray for
better leaders in countries all around the world,
as in weekly schedule below (..today praying for South East Asia...)
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Sun:
Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid:
South America Sat:
Central & North America
Please join me in
praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Thursday,
please bless the people of South
East Asia
On this 17th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Shaanxi
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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Wednesday UK blogger
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Chris McDonnell
The deadwood of trees
Fragmentation
in the West proceeds at a pace. We see it in the breakup up of political
parties where smaller groups are emerging representing a narrow platform
of opinion. We see it in a society where often those who are already poor,
get poorer and those who have wealth increase their considerable fortunes.
We see it when smaller parts of a Nation seek independence, pursuing an
ethnic or language based identity.
And where is the Christian Church in this, often chaotic, diversity? |
Vatican II - Renewal (2)
Hans
Küng:
Letter
to bishops
Revolution
to stop authoritarianism
Fr Joseph Ratzinger:
Writings
on Vat II
(link
gone...anyone able to find it?)
Robert
Mickens:
Vatican Implosion
Nicholas Lash:
Vatican II:
Of Happy Memory - and Hope?
Robert
McNally:
Crisis & Criticism in the Church
Priests
9 Masses a day
- need to ordain married men
The
evil of compulsory celibacy
Link
between compulsory celibacy and sexual abuse
Why
are women not being
ordained to priesthood?
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Garry
Everett: A light in the Vatican window
The light in the Vatican window is a light of warmth, hospitality,
intimacy and love. Francis asks us all to let go of our immature
attitudes, motivations, ideas, and plans, and adopt instead, the Gospel of
love.
Pope Francis: “I
suffer when I see that the role of service of women slips into a role
of servitude”
Tony Flannery: Report
on International Meeting of Reform Groups in Austria:
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Elite
Insurgency
Monbiot's explantion of the US fiscal crisis - brewed by Tea Party |
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Peacemaking
starts with us
Our world is in a sad and destructive state. Nation upon nation is in fear
of one another. Can true peace ever reign, asks Good Samaritan Sister, Clare
Condon
Islam
strictly forbids terrorism, says Grand Mufti in Hajj sermon
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Mo
Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa fails to find a winner
Once again there is no winner this year for the world's
most valuable individual award -- the Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance
in Africa. It's the fourth time that the prize committee have decided
there is no-one suitable to receive the five-million-dollar prize --
awarded among Africa's democratically-elected leaders who have left office
voluntarily
How
a prepared India saved lives during monster storm
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YouTube:
Orangutan asks girl for help in
sign language |
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Long
term 23 hour solitary confinement planned for Queensland
Bikie gang violence needs to be combated firmly, but 23 hour cells is not
the answer. Internment in such cells for more than 15 days has been
condemned by the UN as torture. The US has 80,000 human beings in such
torture, some of them have been in such cells for decades. Which is why
the California bishops supported a recent hunger strike by California
inmates. The
bishops' statement
Books
reveal human cost of capital punishment |
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Clergy
Abuse Scandal Reaches Minnesota Archdiocese
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From St. Beuno's
Outreach, Wales:
Reflections
on the readings of this coming Sunday, October 20
(...for 29th Sunday...but some places will use readings for Mission
Sunday) |
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Tanzania
president says he will fight drug traffickers to the bitter end
(...empty words?...see file below...)
This
website's Tanzania File
- with links to all letters
from Tanzanian inmates in HK prisons
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Vatican
II Reflection 240
Bishops' conferences emasculated
and deconstructed by John Paul II and Benedicdt XVI
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John W
mini-Blog
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Yesterday at a detention centre I had the
happiness of giving (simple) Bibles to about 20 men from China
(recent arrivals ...will be in detention for about 8 months... for entering
HK illegally or overstaying). For nearly all of them, it was the first
time to hold a Bible in their hands
On a lighter note: in one
section of the same detention centre where a key is needed for the outside
doors of lifts....and I don't have a key ....I discovered doors can be
opened by a ....paper clip! (Otis Company, please
take note!)
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Sun: Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid:
South America Sat:
Central & North America
Please join me in
praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Wednesday,
please bless the people of East Asia
On this 16th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Qinghai
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
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