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sprinkleeninow

(20,546 posts) Thu Feb 6, 2020, 12:28 AM Feb 2020

☦️This night I grieve. Not for my departed husband.

For Australia, for Syria, for the United States, for a Democratic governance, for injustices, for persecuted peoples, for starving peoples, for people perceiving no hope of redemption from their misery and torment, and much more.

Lord have mercy on us according to Your great mercies. Deliver us speedily from all our distress and trouble. Right the multitude of wrongs happening so frequently it seems. Preserve us all for Your benefit that we may stand upright and not faint in our resisting evil and the Evil One. AMEN.

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☦️This night I grieve. Not for my departed husband. (Original Post) sprinkleeninow Feb 2020 OP

Amen. AJT Feb 2020 #1

Thank you for sealing this, dear one. 💙 sprinkleeninow Feb 2020 #3

Prayer Peace06 Feb 2020 #2

I welcome that. It simply poured forth. 💙 sprinkleeninow Feb 2020 #4

Keep going and you will have all 8 of the safeinOhio Feb 2020 #5

Your gift of gold to this thread. 💛 sprinkleeninow Feb 2020 #9

Thank you. Mme. Defarge Feb 2020 #6

May all the reposed memory be eternal. sprinkleeninow Feb 2020 #8

☦ 💛 sprinkleeninow Feb 2020 #10

☦♰ The Beatitudes (excerpt from jesuschristsaviour.net) sprinkleeninow Feb 2020 #7

Kicked and recommended. ❤ nt littlemissmartypants Feb 2020 #11

💙 sprinkleeninow Feb 2020 #12

AJT

(5,240 posts)

1. Amen.

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Original post)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 12:54 AM

Feb 2020

sprinkleeninow

(20,546 posts)

3. Thank you for sealing this, dear one. 💙

Reply to AJT (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:52 AM

Feb 2020

Peace06

(248 posts)

2. Prayer

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Original post)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:41 AM

Feb 2020

I join you in your sincere and appreciated prayer!

sprinkleeninow

(20,546 posts)

4. I welcome that. It simply poured forth. 💙

Reply to Peace06 (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:54 AM

Feb 2020

safeinOhio

(34,069 posts)

5. Keep going and you will have all 8 of the

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Original post)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:56 AM

Feb 2020

Beatitudes covered.

sprinkleeninow

(20,546 posts)

9. Your gift of gold to this thread. 💛

Reply to safeinOhio (Reply #5)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:53 AM

Feb 2020

Mme. Defarge

(8,533 posts)

6. Thank you.

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Original post)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:16 AM

Feb 2020

And may your husband’s memory be eternal.

sprinkleeninow

(20,546 posts)

8. May all the reposed memory be eternal.

Reply to Mme. Defarge (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:51 AM

Feb 2020

'Vičnaja pamjat, Vičnaja pamjat.
Blazennyj pokoj, vičnaja jim pamjat.'

sprinkleeninow

(20,546 posts)

10. ☦ 💛

Reply to Mme. Defarge (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:54 AM

Feb 2020

sprinkleeninow

(20,546 posts)

7. ☦♰ The Beatitudes (excerpt from jesuschristsaviour.net)

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Original post)

Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:28 AM

Feb 2020

>>...the message of Jesus is one of humility, charity, and brotherly love. He teaches transformation of the inner person. Jesus presents the Beatitudes in a positive sense, virtues in life which will ultimately lead to reward. Love becomes the motivation for the Christian. All of the Beatitudes have an eschatological meaning, that is, they promise us salvation - not in this world, but in the next. The Beatitudes initiate one of the main themes of Matthew's Gospel, that the Kingdom so long awaited in the Old Testament is not of this world, but of the next, the Kingdom of Heaven.

While the Beatitudes of Jesus provide a way of life that promises salvation, they also bring peace in the midst of our trials and tribulations on this earth.

An early contemplation on the Beatitudes came from St. Gregory of Nyssa, a mystic who lived in Cappadocia in Asia Minor around 380 AD. He described the Beatitudes this way:

"Beatitude is a possession of all things held to be good, from which nothing is absent that a good desire may want.
Perhaps the meaning of beatitude may become clearer to us if it is compared with its opposite. Now the opposite of beatitude is misery. Misery means being afflicted unwillingly with painful sufferings."<<

Attribution: James Jacques Joseph Tissot of Nantes, France - La Sermon des Béatitudes, Brooklyn Museum, New York, circa 1896.