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… recent years, people's attempt to trace their roots and fill in the branches on their family tree has been greatly helped by the website ancestry.com. There, one can search through a wealth …
Pope’s quotes: Christmas is for forgiveness
… forgiving all in the name of God, because God forgives everything.” — Lighting the Christmas tree, Gubbio, Italy, Dec. 8, 2014 … Editor’s note: … We can send you a biweekly email alert with …
During journeys of peril, the 'everlasting arms' are God's alone
… story that the Holy Family hid from Herod's soldiers in the hollow trunk of an old pine tree. The tradition holds that the trunk lowered its branches to conceal the three. Some say …
Christmas in Connecticut & Everywhere
… on the doors, no psychedelic Santa displays on the lawns. My Dad asked that we not put up a tree this year because time is short and it takes a lot of work. Reluctantly, I agreed. My late mother had a wonderful collection of blue and silver ornaments and our tree was sublime. I make a note to self: Next year, come up a day or two early so Dad does not feel so rushed. We shall share in my sister’s tree across the street. Christmas shopping was kept to a minimum as we are saving money because …
Navy officer serving in Djibouti pays family surprise Christmas visit
… where he connected with his wife. "There are a bunch of gifts for him under the Christmas tree, pajamas, and an Oriole mug and T-shirt," Deanna told the Catholic Review , Baltimore's …
Palestinian poetry reflects a painful longing for home
… Edens, I who lost paradise twice. So expel me slowly, and kill me slowly, under my olive tree The remembrance of paradise is dissolved in a bitterness in which death is preferable to …
Have a defiant Christmas!
… their flat was dark. Our flat on the second floor was also dark -- except for the Christmas tree. The tree was strung with lights, and their soft glow could be seen through the upper window. The … tinsel that needed to be smoothed and rehung. As I tinkered with it, whatever was left of the tree's radiance dimmed. Then, abruptly, the revelation ceased. It became merely a pine tree …
Jewish-Arab children's soccer tournament honors WWI Christmas Truce
… began to happen. On a few battlefields , the Germans decorated their front line with Christmas trees and candles. Melodies of carols began to drift from the British camp, loud enough for the …
How Pope Francis' diplomacy may change everything, not just US-Cuba relations
… political dynamics involved. As John Paul said of the Soviet communism he helped doom: "The tree was already rotten. I just gave it a good shake." Most conflicts today, by contrast, are …
O Tree of Life
… Sisters of the Monastery of Mount St. Scholastica … O Tree of Life, may we branch out in generosity to others. … "O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree; … for so many in our world, a tree is truly a source of life: nourishment offered through the tree's fruit, the warm of its broken branches burning, a source of oxygen in our polluted air, …
In 'Advent Reflections,' young composer sets sister's poetry to music
… (If such a thing were possible.) I wait, and will not be dismayed. For tiny shoot of Jesse tree took root in me to love transform, give sight, set free. The inquiry led to a conversation … us back to you. O Adonai, set us free of fear, despair, misogyny. O Justice Flower, of Jesse tree, uproot our hatreds. Wash us clean in just-reign waters, plant us deep in Thee. O Key of …