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Quasi-sensory experiences: religious visual and auditory phenomena
I am afraid not. He never recorded his musical experiences, or if he did write a score it is lost.
frankbeswick, on 03/15/2023
God does not have a magic wand: Reflections on Pope Francis' Address
Christians have no reliable traditions about the penitent thief.
frankbeswick, on 03/15/2023
God does not have a magic wand: Reflections on Pope Francis' Address
The image is the ruined temple of Saturn in the Roman forum.The word lestoi is best translated as brigand, a word that was also used to denote Zealot terrorists. So Jesus was being crucified with Rome's enemies. Pilate was publically making a ...
frankbeswick, on 03/15/2023
The Role of the papacy
Polish, Latin (for theology) Italian (for the Vatican) Spanish, French, English, German,
Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Ladin, and, i believe, Hungarian.
frankbeswick, on 03/15/2023
Quasi-sensory experiences: religious visual and auditory phenomena
The last sentence under your second subheading, Problems with visions, describes Richard Rolle as experiencing "religious experiences in the form of exquisite music."
Online sources indicate that Rolle had mystical experiences of "heavenly" ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/15/2023
The Mystery of Evil
No problem, Derdriu
frankbeswick, on 03/15/2023
God does not have a magic wand: Reflections on Pope Francis' Address
The image to the left of your title intrigues me. What and where is it?
It makes me think of the Crucifixion. It makes me wonder about Jesus Christ being crucified with two thieves.
Surely that was not a random selection of company in one's ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/15/2023
The Role of the papacy
The third paragraph under your last subheading, The qualities needed, describes Pope John Paul II as speaking 12 languages.
Online sources identify different languages even as they merge about Latin and Polish.
Some sources even offer Pope ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/15/2023
The Mystery of Evil
Please accept my apologies for any confusion possibly arising from what computers do when they crash and revive.
Between crashing and resurrecting it situated the word "servants" -- which I didn't have in my comments to you -- between the wheat ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/15/2023
Foragers' Wines
I have no experience of lanternflies, as my home is in the North West, but in general growers have pests to deal with.
frankbeswick, on 03/15/2023
The Salt Path a review
The sheep market has been disrUpted by the idiocy of Brexit, which has undermined European markets for lamb. The Middle Eastern market for British lamb is strong, especially at the times of religious festivals. The prices that farmers get for ...
frankbeswick, on 03/15/2023
Foragers' Wines
The Environmental Protection Agency's Integrated Pest Management Program (EPA IPM) conducts an arborist-related webinar series on such topics as spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) invasions and management.
Their webinar yesterday indicated ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/15/2023
The Salt Path a review
Online sources describe Welsh sheep (Ovies aries) as badger-face and black mountain sheep. They indicate the appeal of the sweet meat that can be had from them as food sources and of their all-dark, dense, durable fleece.
Would Welsh sheep ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/15/2023
The Salt Path a review
Like many Welsh farms it focused on sheep. In their new farm in Cornwall they focus on Apple's and make cider out of it.
frankbeswick, on 03/14/2023
The Salt Path a review
Your first paragraph describes the couple's farm as one "that they had built up over many years."
Does the author indicate what the focus -- possibly sheep-shearing what with their orphaned sentient lamb? -- of that farm was?
Wild onions and ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 03/14/2023