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… with Johnny Weissmuller. I'd pretend that I was Boy and that I lived with Tarzan and Jane in a tree high above the troubles of the world; and when trouble did come, I'd be safe because Tarzan … learn to swim faster than an alligator, run quicker than a lion, eat bananas and berries from trees and soon take care of myself and others just like Tarzan and Jane took care of me. My …

… the bottom of the frame. In the Seville painting, viewers can make out a ship on a wide river, trees, rolling hills and a fountain; the London work adds architectural elements to the trees and fountain. To Velázquez, the Immaculate Conception was doubtlessly a heavenly …

… life, and so Zacchaeus can't see Jesus so he runs ahead of the crowd, climbs up a sycamore tree so he can see Jesus when he goes by. When Jesus gets to that point, he looks up and there's Zacchaeus. Probably everybody was laughing; here's this rich man up in a tree trying to see Jesus. What did Jesus do? He said, "Zacchaeus, come down. I must have dinner … the commandments very well. He really wanted to know Jesus, so he came down from that tree, stood before Jesus, and said, "Look, I'm ready to give half my possessions to the poor, and …

… my Creator." Merton thought that to live the truth of our own existence is to be a saint. "A tree is holy," he wrote, "simply by being a tree;" flowers are saints gazing up into the face of God. We humans are no less called to be …

… prototype is an egg-shaped sarcophagus that can hold a corpse in the fetal position. A young tree, chosen ahead of time by the deceased, will be planted over the pod in place of a headstone. … that "a part of life has disappeared and can now sort of get mixed up in the ground and in the trees and in the plants," O'Callaghan said. "This particular person, who lived in this particular …

… tightly, more than a dozen men and women are led by their partners around leafy plants and trees in the compound of an international charity. The occasional stumble sends nervous laughter …

… plundered and desecrated. To hear the cry of the poor means to hear the cries of animals, trees and the whole of tortured creation and Pope Francis says we must hear the cry of both the …

… Christmas, it is the grace of Christmas. The baubles can wait for another year. This year, no tree, no lights, just waiting for the Son of Justice, the messenger of the Father’s mercy, to …

… The camera pulls out to reveal that they are gathered in the office, a plastic Christmas tree conspicuously blinking in the background. When the eating frenzy winds down and Daigo is …

… Square in Bethlehem to eat hot cups of sweet corn and take selfies next to the 50-foot high tree in Manger Square. Christmas lights festoon the old stone alleyways, and the falafel sellers … between Israel and the Palestinian territories, cutting down his family's old growth olive trees and ruining his livelihood. "We feel like there is no future for us in this land," he said. …

… finds three El Salvadoran priests guilty of sex abuse … Slide show: … Americans have Christmas trees; Russians, New Year trees … DailyBreadBanner.jpg … Start your day inspired with daily scripture reflections. Join NCR …

… orchids are a symbol of peace." The pope gave Santos a peace medallion depicting an olive tree holding together two pieces of a fractured rock along with a copy of his message for the …

… robed reclining figure of St. Peter Nolasco cannot be sleeping soundly or dreaming sweetly. A tree has sprouted from his left side, and no fewer than 36 friars stand on leaf platforms formed … such as the Tree of Jesse and the Tree of Life, which also mapped out families or dynasties on trees, this mid-18th century “Genealogical Tree of the Mercedarian Order” by an unknown painter …

… raise children for Abraham from these stones. Look, the axe is already put to the roots of the trees. Any tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down, thrown in the fire." John was a prophet …

… area near our homes. One of the boys decided he needed to relieve himself and peed against a tree. Another boy followed. One of the boys who was there lived across the street from me. He was …

… bring back the basketball court, build small houses, turn it into a vegetable garden, build a tree house, plant a blueberry patch. A meeting was called. The organizers were hoping for 10 …

… Hurricane Sandy four years ago, placing us among the impacted, but there are still lots of trees, plenty of water, decent air quality. (There is often a strange competition for "most … cartoon terms. You surely know the stubble-bearded man, stranded on an island with only a palm tree and himself. He may fully represent American individualism, run amok. Oases are actually … management of water and ground resources as well as a close partnership with the date palm tree. RADDO, "the voice of the oases," speaks of the way climate change is adversely impacting …

… charges: that Christianity is inherently necrophilic because it worships a dead man on a dead tree, that Shel Silverstein's classic children's book The Giving Tree is really about how men destroy women with their greed and selfishness, that American …

… better not pout…” but the reward he promises for conversion is not at all like a tinseled tree surrounded by toys and electronics. John is indeed promising a reward, but it’s one that … then calls us to take all of those lofty ideals and make them as concrete as the fruits of the trees to which the world looks for nourishment. We don’t have to live like John the Baptist to be … mindset. He wasn’t saying that there was no good in his society. There were fruit-bearing trees, and there was wheat as well as chaff, but it was time for a major shakeup. John wanted …

… better not pout ..." but the reward he promises for conversion is not at all like a tinseled tree surrounded by toys and electronics. CEL_Dec042016.jpg John is indeed promising a reward, but … then calls us to take all of those lofty ideals and make them as concrete as the fruits of the trees to which the world looks for nourishment. We don't have to live like John the Baptist to be …