Haiti's tent cities

IN THE past year the population of Haiti's tent cities has fallen from over 1m to less than 600,000. Sadly, that reflects official inaction rather than accomplishment. Most of the encampments' residents, who moved in after the January 2010 earthquake, have left because health clinics and water distribution ran out, because landowners and mayors illegally evicted them, or because they gave up hope that aid might reach them. Today, the “people who could get out of the tents [have] already got out of the tents,” says Patrick Rouzier, housing adviser to the new president, Michel Martelly. Those who remain are “the most vulnerable, the hard cases, the lost”, says Leonard Doyle, a spokesman for the International Organisation for Migration.

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Mother Teresa

“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” ~Blessed Mother Teresa

King David's Tomb

The second King of Israel's remains are traditionally held to be  in this tomb but it has not been disproved. It is located on Mount Zion just outside the Old City of Jerusalem.

Buddhism, a non theisitc religion

   

The Buddha did not believe in God, the soul, or salvation.  He concluded, after years of searching, that there 'was no evidence.'  And he may have been the first proponent of the god myth. Argued by many contemporary scholars, the myth holds that primitive man created the idea of all controlling ‘supreme beings’ as a means of gaining some influence over the fears and mysteries of their lives through prayer and sacrifice.  Instead, the Buddha believed that the problems of mankind were the product of human behavior, and thus curable by man and 'the way.'

Where was Sodom and Gomorrah?

The Valley of Siddim near Dead Sea

The ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah have been discovered southeast of the Dead Sea. The modern names are Bab edh-Dhra, thought to be Sodom, and Numeira, thought to be Gomorrah. Both places were destroyed at the same time by an enormous conflagration. The destruction debris was about three feet thick

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Jpr: Mother Angelica read the bible as if it was current news!

Kelly Nieto

It is an imperative to see/hear the story of this amazing woman who was a staunch atheist for most of her life. http://en.gloria.tv/?K Warning the emotional content is extreme!!

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3 remainders from Garden of Eden

"stars, flowers, eyes of children"

Mary Garden

What's under the yellow squiggle?

Stream daily Latin Mass

https://benedictinesofmary.org/node/2213

Stay Safe

A bit of the old south

"Hope Is The Thing With Feathers" by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity
It asked a crumb of me.

It's still Easter

It's still Easter

have a blesssed day

Hymn from time of St. Paul

For Holy Week sung in chant as originally performed

Hope before all

Psalm 91

5 You will not fear the terror of night,
    nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
    nor the plague that destroys at midday.

Fr Augustine Wetta Benedictine monk

After 18 years of playing Rugby he suffers from Parkinson's 

Recently he had electrodes implanted in his brain....works 

Black Elk

A second cousin to Chief Crazy Horse and a member of the Lakota Sioux, he fought at the Little Bighorn, and wounded knee.

Became a Catholic and his canonization is being promoted.

Vince Lombardi Trophy

Named after the coach who won the first 2 Super Bowls.... Vince Lombardi

The man attended catholic seminary in high school where he became a daily mass and communicate for the rest of his life.

Mother Angelica's brood

Mother Angelica died on Easter Sunday just before 5 pm leaving  some 12 cloistered nuns in the monastery.