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I do not know the details, but white smoke comes from urning the ballot papers, but the black smoke comes from mixing a contaminant with the papers. What it is I know not.

The island Socotra amazes me and appeals to me so much that I appreciate it as a biogeography-, mineral and natural resource-rich area whose woody plants particularly attract me.

The tree attraction directs me to Christmas and Epiphany, to the Holy Family of Jesus, Joseph and Mary and to the Magi and their frankincense, gold and myrrh.

The comment immediately below features whether or not fabulous Socotra furnished the frankincense and myrrh of the Three Magi.

But how about going a step further with Magi gold?

The island Socotra has Medden-area gold reserves and Seiga and Shashoba gold-mining areas!

You have given me a challenging question. Thank you. You would need to consult with one well versed in the care of souls to answer this, but .I am not such a person. So I entrust this sad person to the care and mercy of God. The woman seems to have God in her life, so she is not apostate. This is a case in which all involved need prayer.

A Catholic woman married a Jewish man who placed Jewish conversion as prequel to their marriage.

As a married couple, they presented their two children with both faiths until confirmation age. Both children realized Jewish conversions.

The cradle-Catholic Jewish-converted wife/mother, always alone, seeks a Sunday Mass. She stays sometimes just through Communion, sometimes to service end.

She always touches the holy water with her finger- and thumb-tips for a sign of the Cross at the lobby door out.

All that at the bare minimum would suggest her reaffirming her cradle-Catholic baptismal vows, wouldn't it?

We wouldn't know at all for sure, but wouldn't it suggest possibly also someone -- what with the saying that one never stops being Catholic -- wanting a consecrated-ground grave?

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

The Jorge Bergoglio papacy as Pope Francis came as a delightful surprise because -- as I've commented elsewhere -- of the Basque saying about an African, a Basque or a Latin American never as pope.

The black smoke describes a delay in deciding whom as pope even as the white smoke designates a pope at last.

What does the Vatican do to develop that smoke as black or white?

The church exists for forgiveness. Anyone can return.

I don't think Nazism has anything to do with her success. Brundage wasn't accepted in the USA because publishers preferred Clapsaddle (with way more stronger connections in Germany) and Humphrey, both already neing established as trademarks. Brundage was accepted by publishers in England and Germany where the top quality printing was at the time, and it was a logical step that buyers accepted her work because European publishers dominated the USA market as well.

Not really. Jenny Nystrom is best known by her dwarfs, but I decided to use her Easter witches because they are so different than other 'usual' designs. Otherwise, Nystrom's work doesn't differ so much. If I would have to point at one artist only, that would be Samuel Schmucker.

The computer crashed before I could conclude the component commenced below concerning my previous observation and question.

Today is the last day of the February month invoking crepes and pancakes.

So one might munch on crepes and pancakes covered with hickory syrup (like from the park species) with mountain-maple (Acer spicatum) fruited jams and jellies.

Mightn't one munch also on afore-mentioned February crepe- and pancake-month, hickory-syruped crepes and pancakes with mountain-maple flower and seed and yellow-birch (Betula alleghaniensis) leaf and seed salads.

Wouldn't that work wonderfully on this wonderfully warm day and evening?

The computer crashed before I communicated another component of my observation and question in the box immediately below.

Socotran island vegetation encompasses the myrrh-enabling spiny shrubs and small trees scientifically expressed as Commiphora socotrana and Commiphora kua.

Mightn't the below-mentioned tea time manifest more magnificently, marvelously, miraculously with both frankincense and myrrh scents?

Wouldn't that work wonderfully -- as I wonder whether or not Magi frankincense and myrrh were Socotran ;-D -- during the Christmas season?

Along the right side and also at the bottom of this wizzley access my article Two Ghosts Who Haunt the Royal Botanical Garden Across From the Westin Hotel Palace in Madrid, Spain.

Online sources add the Madrid and the Toledo distances from one another to 46.16788 miles (74.3 kilometers). That distance, according to them, addresses a 56-minute travel time.

Isn't it interesting to imagine the one Toledo ghost and the two Madrid ghosts itinerating to interact?

Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.

That someone who converts to another religion can be in a Church-consecrated cemetery by coming back into the Church prior to death catches my attention.

Does that demand going through RCIA and the Church conversion process or -- because one already is familiar with Church beliefs and practices as a cradle Catholic -- is it perhaps as simple as something said to the priest on the order of "One never stops being Catholic. May I be considered once more only Catholic not Muslim (or Jewish or Buddhist or Baptist, or whatever the faith of conversion)?"

Yes, but they are now frowned on and some users have ceased to use them to save water.

She could, but she would have to return to the church prior to death.