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"Same-sex marriage" file
Islam File
The
New Translation
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144.
A consumerist vision of human beings, encouraged by the
mechanisms of today’s globalized economy, has a levelling
effect on cultures, diminishing the immense variety which is the
heritage of all humanity.
Attempts
to resolve all problems through uniform regulations or technical
interventions can lead to overlooking the complexities of local
problems which demand the active participation of all members of
the community.
New
processes taking shape cannot always fit into frameworks
imported from outside; they need to be based in the local
culture itself. As life and the world are dynamic realities, so
our care for the world must also be flexible and dynamic.
Merely
technical solutions run the risk of addressing symptoms and not
the more serious underlying problems. There is a need to respect
the rights of peoples and cultures, and to appreciate that the
development of a social group presupposes an historical process
which takes place within a cultural context and demands the
constant and active involvement of local people from within
their proper culture. Nor can the notion of the quality of
life be imposed from without, for quality of life must be
understood within the world of symbols and customs proper to
each human group.
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A
2005 publication outlined the plan for an IS Caliphate to be established in 2013 .... and outlined how 2016-2019 is to
be a time of total confrontation.
Described in these four pages of It
IS About Islam
by Glenn Beck (which becomes more disturbing the more one reads
it) 
Previous
pages: see menu of Dec 3 and Nov 29, below |
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Readings are from
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Ruth
2
Naomi and Ruth arrived
in Bethlehem at the time of the barley harvest.
Ruth went to the fields
to look for left-over ears of corn.
She came to the attention of Boaz, Elimelech's clansman.
Boaz was a kind man and
he told the men harvesting his crop
to let Ruth take some sheaves of corn, not just left-overs.
As one of Naomi's closest relatives,
Boaz was in a group of several men from which one man was
required by law to marry Ruth and produce children for Elimelech
Lord,
please bless all young wives who have become widows
My
recording of this reading 
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Psalm
28
To you, O Lord, I call, my rock, hear me.
If you do not heed, I shall become like people in the grave.
Lord, you are my strength and my shield.
In you my heart trusts.
Thank you, Lord, for so often hearing my
prayer.
I will always thank and praise you.
You are the strength of your people Israel.
Save your people. Be our shepherd and carry us for ever.
Lord, please help people who
are in big danger today
Recording
Today's
Gospel
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Acts
22.1-23
Paul said to the crowd "I am a Jew, born
in Tarsus. I was brought up here in Jerusalem. I studied under Gamaliel. I
fully observed the Law of our ancestors. I even persecuted this Way to the
death, and sent many people to prison
But once when I was on my way to Damascus to arrest followers of the Way,
Jesus appeared to me and said 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, and you are
persecuting me'. Then a believer in Damascus told me I was to be Jesus'
witness in many places"
Up to now, the crowd had listened quietly to Paul, but when he said that
Jesus was sending him to non-Jews in far away places, the crowd shouted "Rid the earth of this man! He's not fit to live!"
Jesus, please help Jewish people accept you as
the Anointed One
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Luke
5.17-26
God's power was on display when Jesus healed
people.
People came from far and near to hear him teach, and to ask for healing
One day some people carried a paralyzed
man through a crowd to Jesus. The man was on a stretcher
Jesus knew that these people believed he could
help them,
so he said to the paralyzed man "My friend, your sins are
forgiven"
Some religious leaders in the crowd were
thinking to themselves
that Jesus was wrong to say he could forgive sins
So Jesus said to the leaders
"Which is
easier:
to say 'Your sins are forgiven', or to say 'Get up and walk'?"
Then to prove that he had authority to forgive
sins, he said to the paralyzed man "Get up, pick up your bed and go
home"
The man got up, picked up his stretcher and
went home.
The crowd praised God for what they had seen
Jesus, please give me more faith
in your power to forgive, your power to heal
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Please
join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the
week:
Sun:
Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific
Frid:
South America
Sat:
Central & North America
Jesus,
today, Friday,
please bless the people of South
America
And praying for prisoners in one
part of China each day of the month:
On this 4th of
the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Guangdong
And
praying for one of the
world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 4th
of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Mozambique
And
praying for one Islam-related
intention each day of the
week:
Jesus,
on this Muslim day of prayer, please bless all Muslims! |
This
website's Tanzania
File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into
bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
This
website's South
America file
(stopping
South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons
This
website's HK
Asylum Seekers' File
(stopping
South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK) |
To go with today's
Mass readings: 
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