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We've got a great Greek festival in my town each year. It's held at the Greek Orthodox Church and attended by thousands upon thousands of people. It's obvious that the vast majority of festival volunteers, from the church, are ethnic Greeks. Many speak Greek.
I assume they would accept non ethnic Greek converts into the Church. I know Orthodox Christianity is growing fast in the United States. But would they accept the converts socially? Would the converts be embraced and warmly welcomed into the community?
Yes, absolutely! I'm a non-Greek convert to Greek Orthodox Christianity, and I have to say you will never find a group of people more warm-hearted and welcoming. Even if they speak Greek a lot, it guarantee it is not out of a lack of love or disrespect–they just don't always realize people around them don't understand because most people there do speak Greek. They are very warm hearted, loving, down to earth people who love God very much and will accept you as if you were part of their family. God bless you on your journey. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or other concerns.
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March 27 2009 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
Please, Please, no sarcastic or uninformative answers. I believe a acquaintance of mine has been scammed by a person posing as a church official. I know nothing of the Catholic faith or rites, and I don't know if churches even sell holy water.
from strickley a legal point of view they can charge what they want
However selling of holy items is one step away from the corruption that got them in trouble back in the 1500's
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March 27 2009 | Catholic | 10 Comments »
I am a vary strong believer in God and a vary happy Christian and i just wont to help other peaple but im not vary sure wear to start or what to do. I would like to volunteer and help others out. Do you have any ideas on what i could do?
Look around you, regardless of your faith. People are everywhere that need a helping hand, a caring person, or someone who wants to help them with a "hand-UP," not a hand out.
Other questions on here are about volunteering, so check those out, too. Visit your elderly or disabled neighbors,and plan on helping a few in the next year. That is a great thing to do.
I believe if you check on this, Christ went after the one, not the groups that supported him – one person who needed help. You can do that, too.
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March 27 2009 | Christian | 7 Comments »
I am trying to look for the icon that I can put on my desktop that it can got straight to my yahoo mail.
From your mail page, right click with mouse, click Create Shortcut. A pop-up box will ask if you want to place a short-cut on your desktop. Answer Yes. Now you will have a big red Y! on your desktop that when clicked on, will go straight to your mail page.
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March 27 2009 | Icon | 1 Comment »
I belive in both evolution and creation but I am unsure how the Bible explains when dinosaurs lived.
I am not asking for a dispute of evolution and creation I am just wanting to know about how dinosaurs are explained in the Bible.
Thank-you!
Behemoth has the following attributes according to Job 40:15-24
It “eats grass like an ox.”
It “moves his tail like a cedar.” (In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”)
Its “bones are like beams of bronze,
His ribs like bars of iron.”
“He is the first of the ways of God.”
“He lies under the lotus trees,
In a covert of reeds and marsh.”
Some bibles and study bibles will translate the word “behemoth” as “elephant” or “hippopotamus.” Others will put a note at the edge or bottom of the page, stating that behemoth was probably an elephant or a hippopotamus. Although an elephant or hippopotamus can eat grass (or lie in a covert of reeds and marsh), neither an elephant or a hippopotamus has a “tail like a cedar” (that is, a tail like a large, tapered tree trunk). In your kid’s dinosaur book you will find lots of animals that have “tails like a cedar.”
We would expect behemoth to be a large land animal whose bones are like beams of bronze and so forth, so whatever a behemoth is, it is large. A key phrase is “He is the first of the ways of God.” This phrase in the original Hebrew implied that behemoth was the biggest animal created. Although an elephant or a hippopotamus are big, they are less than one-tenth the size of a Brachiosaurus, the largest (complete) dinosaur ever discovered.[1] A Brachiosaurus could therefore easily be described as “the first of the ways of God.”
Comparing all this information to the description in your kid’s dinosaur book, you may come to the conclusion that “behemoth” is not a normal animal, it is a dinosaur—the brachiosaurus. We agree with that conclusion!
Note: Some paleontologists have found fragmentary leg bones, ribs, or vertebrae which they propose belong to “new” sauropods larger than Brachiosaurus. Examples of these include Amphicoelias, Argentinasaurus, Sauroposeidon, Seismosaurus, Supersaurus and Ultrasaurus. There currently is not enough evidence to really determine the size of any of these, and some paleontologists believe that they are merely large examples of known dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus or Diplodocus. In any case, only the “modern scientific name” of behemoth would change. The point would still remain that behemoth refers to a dinosaur, not a “modern animal” like an elephant or hippopotamus.
Leviathan has the following attributes according to Job chapter 41, Psalm 104:25,26 and Isaiah 27:1. This is only a partial listing—just enough to make the point.
“No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up.”
“Who can open the doors of his face, with his terrible teeth all around?”
“His rows of scales are his pride, shut up tightly as with a seal; one is so near another that no air can come between them; they are joined one to another, they stick together and cannot be parted.”
“His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. Out of his mouth go burning lights; sparks of fire shoot out. Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.”
“Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; nor does spear, dart, or javelin. He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him. Darts are regarded as straw; he laughs at the threat of javelins.”
“On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear.”
Leviathan “played” in the “great and wide sea” (a paraphrase of Psalm 104 verses 25 and 26—get the exact sense by reading them yourself).
Leviathan is a “reptile [a] that is in the sea.” (Isaiah 27:1)
[a] Note: The word translated “reptile” here is the Hebrew word tanniyn. This shows that “Leviathan” was also a “tanniyn” (dragon).
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March 25 2009 | Bible | 12 Comments »
Also, which Catholic apostle associated with finding the Hungarian Catholic Church rite? Thanks to all who respond!
Hungary's Greek Catholics, were originally concentrated in what is now northeastern Hungary. This region was historically inhabited by Orthodox Christians from the Carpathian Mountains (Ruthenians and Romanians). Serbs fleeing the Turkish advance arrived later in what was then Hungary, but most stayed in the area that is now part of Serbia. Later still, when the Turks were driven back from Vienna in 1683 and from Buda and central Hungary in 1686, Ruthenians and Slovaks settled in the abandoned lands of Hungary. They were cared for by the Ruthenian Byzantine Rite Eparchy of Mukacheve (Hungarian: Munkács). In the 18th century many Hungarian Protestants joined the Roman Catholic Church, adopting the Byzantine Rite rather than the Latin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Greek_Catholic_Church
A rite represents an ecclesiastical tradition about how the sacraments are to be celebrated. As the early Church grew and spread, it celebrated the sacraments as would be best understood and received in the context of individual cultures, without ever changing their essential form and matter. The early Church sought to evangelize in the major cultural centers of the first centuries A.D. These centers were Rome, Antioch (Syria), and Alexandria (Egypt). All the rites in use today evolved from the liturgical practices and ecclesiastical organization used by the churches in these cities.
http://www.mncuf.org/rites.htm
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March 25 2009 | Catholic | 1 Comment »
Many of the early Christian martyrs were either fed to the lions, burned, crucified on crosses, beheaded, or hanged.
It seems as though they weren't afraid of death.
The early church even honored the marytrs with Roman priests celebrating Mass over the tombs of the martyrs in the catacombs.
So how strong was their faith?
They died to defend their faith, as soldiers die to defend their country. That's pretty darn strong!
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March 25 2009 | Christian | 8 Comments »
Looking through my Contacts in the Address Book and can't figure out what the speech bubble icon means next to someones number. Any help?
it means that contact has voice calling go to a contact with the bubble press more scroll down to edit contact press ok and you can change it or modify the contact.
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March 25 2009 | Icon | 1 Comment »
I'm doing my Capstone (it's like a senior project, but not for seniors), and I am planning, and coaching, an off-season workout program for the cross country team. Our team is not very motivated, and it will be a large group. What are some workouts that will help get them in shape, as well as keep them engaged and motivated?
I have been running for 8 years now and would recommend for you the following:
I would strengthen the core: calves, quads, hams, back and abdominal (the "six pack" muscles along with the obleks), chest and arms. But when strengthening these muscles, I would focus more on the muscle endurance not the muscle bulk. For more advice for this, I would consult with a personal trainer. For the running part, I would stay flexible as it helps/contributes to your balance (so do the muscles in your core) but also helps prevent some injuries like pulled muscles and shin splints. Also, I would try to make up a schedule where you can run for X amount of days and try to have a long run. I would start off slowly, running about 2-3 miles per run for the first week and increase my mileage per week. Make sure you have the following: a good diet, hydration, sleep, a good sense on how to take care of your body, and sleep. But make sure you make smaller training groups. Good Luck!!!
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March 25 2009 | Cross | 4 Comments »
I wanted to get a tattoo with both my sisters initials and i wanted a nice quote and or bible verse to go along with it. Any ideas?
Here are some excellent sister quotes –
“Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.” – Fionnula Flanagan
“Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood
In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?” – William Cullen Bryant
“All Greek houses face the stereotypes of being the partying type. But this isn't what we are about; we are about sisterhood and positive relationships.” – Cara Snyder
“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.” – Charlotte Bronte
“For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.” – Christina G. Rossetti
“I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.” – Venus Williams
“Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.” – Margaret Mead
“Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.” – Charles M. Schulz
“There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.” – Mary Worley Montagu
“We are sisters. We will always be sisters.Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.” – Elizabeth Fishel
“A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.” – Marion C. Garretty
“A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.” – Elizabeth Fishel
“No one knows better than a sister how we grew up, and who our friends, teachers and favorite toys were. No one knows better than she…” – Dale V. Atkins
“If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.” – Pam Brown
“Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.” – Elizabeth Fishel
“Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.” – Alice Walker
“Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.” – Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Here are some excellent quotes that are best fit for a tattoo –
“Drink to me” – Pablo Picasso
"Never give up.” – Winston Churchill
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius
“Injustice in the end produces independence.” – Voltaire
“Interdependency follows independence.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey
“If you can't convince them, confuse them.” – Harry S Truman
“Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.” – Woody Allen
“Give thy thoughts no tongue.” – William Shakespeare
Here are the sources –
http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/451201/fionnula-flanagan/divine-secrets-of-the-ya-ya-sisterhood
http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/268737/william-cullen-bryant/where-are-the-flowers-the-fair-young-flowers-that
http://www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/147119/cara-snyder/all-greek-houses-face-the-stereotypes-of-being-the
http://www.quotesdaddy.com/find/tag/sister/1
http://www.quotesdaddy.com/tag/sister/2
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March 23 2009 | Bible | 5 Comments »
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