Day: June 2, 2013

In awe of God’s Creation – The Unseen Sea – A time lapse video of San Francisco Bay – Ceata pe ocean – Coplesit de creatia lui Dumnezeu

Peanut Gallery: Our God is an Awesome God….

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The Unseen Sea

VIDEO from Simon Christen – The Unseen Sea

 

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5000 Young Catholics fill Salzburg Cathedral with Passionate Prayer

5000 Young Catholics fill Salzburg Cathedral with Passionate Prayer

Ian Nicholson, May 29th, 2013

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A team from 24-7 Prayer and Alpha recently spent a remarkable weekend celebrating Pentecost with the Loretto movement in Austria at Pfingsten 13. There was an overwhelming sense that God’s kingdom is much bigger and broader than we imagine and that the Holy Spirit is full of surprises!

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Salzburg Cathedral

Loretto began as a small group of young catholic students in 1987 who were hungry for the reality of God and turned to prayer. Several years later they experienced a powerful encounter with the Holy Spirit and the movement has now spread throughout Austria and is spilling over into the surrounding nations.

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A few years ago the leaders read ‘Red Moon Rising’ and 24-7 Prayer Rooms are now at the heart of Loretto’s vision and growth. The desire is to create places of prayer where lives are transformed by the presence of Jesus and thousands of young people are involved. Alongside this several Loretto communities are emerging around the nation.The Salzburg celebration is the big event of the Loretto calendar and is growing year by year. Over 5000 young people crammed into Salzburg Cathedral and the deep humility and singleminded passion for the presence of God was both challenging and encouraging. At one point 200 young people gave their lives to Jesus and there were commitments to start 100 prayer rooms around Austria.

Pete Greig spoke on the Saturday morning on the importance of prayer Continue reading “5000 Young Catholics fill Salzburg Cathedral with Passionate Prayer” →

Church in northern Arabia longs for ‘place to worship’

By Adelaide Mena

Washington D.C., May 30, 2013 / 04:05 am (CNA).-

As he oversees the missionary territory of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, apostolic vicar Camillo Ballin outlined Catholics’ need for religious toleration as well as a physical home for ministry.

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Bishop Camillo Ballin, Vicar Apostolic of Northern Arabia. Credit: Addie Mena/CNA.

A native of Italy, Bishop Ballin set out to study Arabic and Islam in order “to discover another world” after his ordination as a priest of the Comboni Missionaries.

In a May 29 interview with CNA, he noted that his travels have taken him to Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, and eventually to his 2005 appointment as apostolic vicar of Kuwait.  His vicariate – otherwise known as an ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the Church where a hierarchy is not yet fully organized – was expanded in 2011 to include the whole of the Northern Arabian Peninsula, which oversees Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

The area has supported a Christian population since before the advent of Islam, a fact that many Christians in the area look to for inspiration, Bishop Ballin said. As an example, he pointed to church within the vicariate that is dedicated to St. Arethas and the 400 martyrs that were persecuted and killed over a century before Islam came to the area.

Today, ministry within the vicariate focuses upon the spiritual sustenance of 2.5 million Christians in the area, Bishop Ballin said.

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Holy Communion Sunday: 1 Corinthians 11.23-26 NLT – my body / my blood

Reading: 1 Corinthians 11.23-26 NLT

holy_eucharistFor I pass on to you what I received from the Lord himself. On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and said,“This is my body, which is given for you. Do this to remember me.”

In the same way, he took the cup of wine after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his people — an agreement confirmed with my blood. Do this to remember me as often as you drink it.”

For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord’s death until he comes again.

Prayer: Lord Jesus – I am not worthy to receive you under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed. Examine my heart… scrutinize my thoughts and actions… and cleanse me from my wicked ways. So that, as I eat the bread and drink from the cup of the new covenant, I may declare your death for me… until you come again… to take me home. Amen.

Communion Hymn: “Bread of the World in Mercy Broken” – Reginald Heber (1827)

Bread of the world in mercy broken, wine of the soul, in mercy shed, by whom the words of life were spoken, and in whose death our sins are dead… and in whose death our sins are dead.

Look on the heart by sorrow broken, look on the tears by sinners shed; and be your feast to us the token that by your grace our souls are fed… that by your grace our souls are fed.