UNITED
NATIONS/BOLOGNA DAY-FULL HUNTERS MOON
Romans,
Chapter 15, Verse 30-32
30 I urge you, [brothers,] by our
Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of
the Spirit, to join me in the struggle by your prayers to God on my behalf,
31 that I may be delivered from the
disobedient in Judea, and that my ministry for Jerusalem may be acceptable to
the holy ones, 32 so that I may come to you with joy
by the will of God and be refreshed together with you.
Paul was asking for the prayers of his friends in
Christ and so I ask your prayers also for the success of this ministry. Our
church is great in that we have a multitude of assistance from others if we
only ask. Christ tells us to ask and we shall receive. Be not afraid nor humble
enough to ask if you are struggling. Did not our Lord accept the help of Simon
in carrying his cross; if our Lord who had the assistance of legions of angels
humbly accepted Simons help, should we act proud when we know we need help; so,
I ask your help with this ministry.
God
indeed is my savior; I am confident and unafraid.
United Nations Day celebrates the anniversary of the
ratification of the United Nations Charter which occurred on October 24, 1945.
The United Nations is an international organization engaged in the diplomatic
and peaceful communication between the countries of the world. The organization
oversees issues like human rights, international security, political freedoms
and democracy with an end goal of achieving of world peace. The UN Charter was
officially signed on June 26th, 1945 but it could not come into existence until
the signatory states had ratified it and deposited notification to the effect
with the US Department of State. This occurred on October 24th, 1945. The
organization's Charter has now been ratified by most countries in the world.
The United Nations is a global organization with six official languages,
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic. United Nations Day is
observed on October 24th each year.
Pray that the UN will be a force
for building the kingdom of heaven and not a secular force oppressing the
religious rights of the people of God.
One wonders if it was part of His divine
plan to have UN day and Baloney Day coincide.
Is it also national news media day?
When most of us think of bologna, we think of the smooth off-pink meat that comes with the red ring of plastic around it at the grocery store. While it’s true that this is one type of Bologna, most people are unaware that there is an entire range of bologna, and that it’s all named after the country of its origin. Bologna Day is your chance to learn a little something about this traditional lunch meat and where it came from. We know that most of you consider bologna to be a childhood favorite lunchtime meat, but there’s so much more to it than just that simple meat. Bologna can be made from any number of meats, including beef, turkey, venison, chicken, and even a vegetarian soy protein. What makes bologna is the seasonings used in its preparation, a combination of nutmeg, black pepper, coriander, allspice, celery seed, and the secret ingredient, myrtle berries. This final ingredient is what gives the meat its distinctive taste, and it also happens to be found in mortadella. There are a few common forms of bologna, though most of us are familiar with the pre-sliced variety. If you’ve ever seen Kielbasa than you’re familiar with the shape of Ring Bologna, though it is completely different meat. Ring bologna is commonly sliced and used as a topping on crackers, though it is also occasionally pickled to help aid its storage. Rag bologna comes in the form of a long stick and is typically sold in a swatch of cloth, hence its name. Unlike rag bologna or sliced bologna, it has a much higher fat content and texture, being made with milk solids, spices, cereal, and flour to help give it bulk. Finally, it’s put through a bath of lactic acid and then coated with paraffin wax. If the only bologna you’ve ever had is the sliced bologna, then Bologna Day is going to be a special occasion for you!
How to Celebrate Bologna Day
Passionate love, “embraces the good of the whole
person; it can enrich the sentiments of the spirit and their physical
expression with a unique dignity and ennoble manifestation of the friendship
proper to marriage”. For this reason, a love lacking either pleasure or passion
is insufficient to symbolize the union of the human heart with God: “All the
mystics have affirmed that supernatural love and heavenly love find the symbols
which they seek in marital love, rather than in friendship, filial devotion or
devotion to a cause. And the reason is to be found precisely in its totality”.
Why
then should we not pause to speak of feelings and sexuality in marriage? Desires,
feelings, emotions, what the ancients called “the passions”, all have an important place in married life. They
are awakened whenever “another” becomes present and part of a person’s life. It
is characteristic of all living beings to reach out to other things, and this
tendency always has basic affective signs: pleasure or pain, joy or sadness,
tenderness or fear. Human beings live on this earth, and all that they do and
seek is fraught with passion. As true man, Jesus showed his emotions. He was
hurt by the rejection of Jerusalem and this moved him to tears. He was also deeply
moved by the sufferings of others. He felt deeply their grief, and he wept at
the death of a friend. These examples of his sensitivity showed how much his
human heart was open to others. Experiencing an emotion is not, in itself,
morally good or evil. The stirring of desire or repugnance is neither sinful
nor blameworthy. What is morally good, or evil is what we do on the basis of,
or under the influence of, a given passion. But when passions are aroused or
sought, and as a result we perform evil acts, the evil lies in the decision to
fuel them and in the evil acts that result. Along the same lines, my being
attracted to someone is not automatically good. If my attraction to that person
makes me try to dominate him or her, then my feeling only serves my selfishness.
To believe that we are good simply because “we feel good” is a tremendous
illusion. There are those who feel themselves capable of great love only
because they have a great need for affection, yet they prove incapable of the
effort needed to bring happiness to others. They remain caught up in their own
needs and desires. In such cases, emotions distract from the highest values and
conceal a self-centeredness that makes it impossible
to develop a healthy and happy family life. This being said, if passion
accompanies a free act, it can manifest the depth of that act. Marital love
strives to ensure that one’s entire emotional life benefits the family as a
whole and stands at the service of its common life. A family is mature when the
emotional life of its members becomes a form of sensitivity that neither
stifles nor obscures great decisions and values, but rather follows each one’s
freedom, springs from it, enriches, perfects and harmonizes it in the service
of all.
"Read
these counsels slowly. Pause to meditate on these thoughts. They are things
that I whisper in your ear-confiding them-as a friend, as a brother, as a
father. And they are being heard by God. I won't tell you anything new. I will
only stir your memory, so that some thought will arise and strike you; and so
you will better your life and set out along ways of prayer and of Love. And in
the end you will be a more worthy soul."
111. Holy purity is given by God when it is asked for with humility.
Daily Devotions
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Day FOUR spiritual
warfare
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