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Taking Stock: Pope Francis at 80
Some lay women are employed by the Vatican, but I do not know the exact location of the bank.
frankbeswick, on 04/12/2023
A New Piece of Land
Garden compost chicken manure.
frankbeswick, on 04/12/2023
Why I am a Christian
A sense that nature was becoming transparent to a great presence.this experience was akin to Wordsworth's experience at Tintern Abbey. It has never been repeated. As for ascending Pen yr Oleu Wen again my illness has seriously impaired my ...
frankbeswick, on 04/12/2023
A New Piece of Land
The fourth paragraph to your first subheading, Hitting Hard Pan, counts among post-mattocked soil redeemers chicken manure, compost, lime and wood ash.
What did you use as compost?
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/11/2023
Taking Stock: Pope Francis at 80
The second and the fourth paragraphs to your first subheaading, Reorganizing the Church, comment respectively upon women in Vatican departments and upon the Vatican Bank.
Would women employees of Vatican departments be nuns and would they live ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/11/2023
Dublin ; The Book of Kells
Derdriu,
Brilliant question.
There were plenty of mistakes but the scribes did patterns and squiggles on them and illuminated them. Genius!!
Veronica, on 04/11/2023
Why I am a Christian
The second paragraph to your second subheading, The Content of Faith, considers that "Over the years I began to develop an interest in religious experience, which is one of my specialist academic areas.I began to realize that at the root of all ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/11/2023
Dublin ; The Book of Kells
The first stanza to your sixth subheading, Saint Colum Cille poem, cautions that "My hand is weary with writing / My sharp quill is not steady / My slender-beaked pen juts forth / A black draught of shining dark-blue ink."
There wasn't anything ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/11/2023
Wisdom: a forgotten concept
My masters degree in philosophy did not deal in
Hindu and Buddhist thought, but I have a certificate with distinction in world religions
frankbeswick, on 04/11/2023
Seeing a ghost
The pigs were in the pagan territory of Decapolis, where
Jewish rules were not followed.hence the inhabitants ate pork.What Jesus knew about science is unclear.
frankbeswick, on 04/11/2023
Dublin ; The Book of Kells
I understand not watching. I thought there was a chance it would have ended with the Queen's passing.
blackspanielgallery, on 04/10/2023
Wisdom: a forgotten concept
The third and fourth paragraphs to your second subheading, Outside the Judaeo-Christian tradition, consider Hindu illusional and Buddhist delusional interpretations of our reality.
Some Native American religions have those concepts within their ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023
Seeing a ghost
Your comment of 12/03/2016 contains the observation that "In the tale of the Gerasene demoniac the evil spirits are clearly operative in the world, and hence not in Hell. They plead with Jesus not to send them into the pit, and he allows them to ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 04/10/2023
Besides the Ocean of Time: reflections on the book
No, pencil monitor was specific to that particular school.
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2023
A British Garden Society
It was given to the local council, who rented out land on a first co Mr, first served basis.
frankbeswick, on 04/10/2023