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Key Ideas in Catholicism
There's a blood drive from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. this coming Saturday.
That blood drive always has a refreshment area where volunteer blood-giving gets thanked with a nice drink and some nice snacks before leaving.
There should be a nice ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024
English Identities
Thank you!
Ireland attracted Norse speakers such that my maternal Norse line appears in every county of all Ireland.
That representation causes me to consider Scandinavian influences as strong in Ireland also.
Might Scandinavian influences be ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024
English Hedges
The Catholic Faith Store online advises us to "Get out and pray: how to create a prayer garden."
For Mary-dedicated prayer gardens, the aforementioned site considers:
Lilies, for Mary's grace and purity;
Roses, for Mary's heavenly ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024
Belfast; HMS Caroline
The in-text images of onboard drink and food cause me to consider officer and sailor fare.
Did the captain and his officers drink the same drinks and eat the same foods as their sailors? Or was it one menu for captain and officers and another ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024
Does God Speak?
Your comment below about natural events as harmful or as helpful caused me to consider world ends.
A comment elsewhere, again in answer to previous observations and questions of mine, designates from Christian tradition fire as world ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024
Christian Hermits
To return at the appointed time is in the temptations of Christ in Luke's Gospel. Yes I'll be back is apt. Did you see the temptations of Christ in this story?
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024
Irish myths and legends ( 1 ) - The Giant's Causeway
The last entry to the second subheading, Irish mythical creatures, advises us of "Fear Dearg - a mischievous spirit like a leprechaun but dressed all in red."
Can the other mythical creatures be color-coded in terms of signature dress?
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024
Can You be Rational and Religious?
In the collapse of Roman Europe many, most in fact, documents were lost, and Aristotle'-s works were among those lost.
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024
An Island Castle
Orkney and Shetland were only joined to Scotland innthe fifteenth century. They havevavstrong identity of their own,
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024
Irish Myths and Legends ( 2 ) - The Children of Lir
Reading your wizzley again caused me to consider that Ireland configures as Northern and as Republic.
Did swans lose royal-property protection with Irish independence outside Northern Ireland or did that protection transfer to someone or ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024
Christian Hermits
Thank you for Genius loci.
The aforementioned short story is compelling even as it invokes the scariness of being on one's own away from all worldly help in times of other-worldy and worldly troubles and the unsettling presence of a walker with ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024
Can You be Rational and Religious?
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
Your comment April 3, 2023, that "The Greek influence came not from Pharaonic Egypt but much later from the Byzantine Greek culture of the Eastern ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024
An Island Castle
Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous, same-day question.
It intrigues me that Orkney law invokes ancient Norse law even as ancient Norse law perhaps informed other areas of the British Isles.
Is Orkney managing to be ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024
Messages of Puss in Boots
The sole paragraph to the fourth subheading, Gifts Are the Key To One's Heart If you can't buy them, steal them!, advises us that "While it's not explicitly written who owns the forest where the cat caught the partridges and rabbits, it's ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 05/09/2024
The Christian Teaching on the Holy Spirit
Quite right. How much beingbfirstbmattersvwith twins I do not know.
frankbeswick, on 05/09/2024