Mardi, 24 Mars,
2015
Verse of the Day: «Car le salaire
du péché, c'est la mort; mais le don gratuit de Dieu, c'est la vie éternelle en
Jésus-Christ notre Seigneur.» Romains 6.23
Quote of the Day: “Nothing is advantageous that
makes you lose your self-respect.”—Marcus Aurelius
«Rien n’est
avantageux qui te fait perdre le respect de toi-même.»—Marc Aurèle
French Fun Fact:
France created the first universal declaration of human rights in 1789. (confessedtravelholic.com)
What’s Really
Happening Over Here:
Weather – Cloudy,
Precip. 80%
Temperature – 58⁰F,
high of 58⁰
News – Passenger
plane crashes in French Alps (thelocal.fr)
More News – http://www.lemonde.fr/
A Day In the Life:
I believe that the doctrine of Intelligent Design is so
crucial, that it is impossible to be a true Christian unless you wholeheartedly
accept its veracity. I say this because the gospel itself hinges upon the
events that transpired in the Garden of Eden. If Adam, or the first man in this
case, was naught but a product of randomization and natural selection, then
there would have been no rules for him to break, and no relationship with a
Holy God for him to sever. Thus, he and his offspring would have no need for a
Savior to make things right. However he was a product of creation, he did sin,
and so have the rest of us; and we are all in absolute desperate need of a
Savior. Now I know that the doctrine of Intelligent Design is true, because the
evidence surrounds me. For me, the example closest to home is the intricacy and
majesty of the human body itself. Darwin himself admitted that "to suppose
that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to
different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the
correction of spherical selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the
highest possible degree." The eye is simple compared to the complexity of
the brain, the nervous system, adrenaline, even the index finger! The overall
perfection in the engineering of the human body is unmatchable, and is full of
dependent parts (such as the eye) and sub-parts which physically had to have
come into existence at the same time in order to function. The only explanation
for this is an Intelligent Designer, and all true Christians (including myself)
continue to hold this Designer to be God Himself.
St. Francis Xavier
Francis Xavier, SJ, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta (7
April 1506 – 3 December 1552), was a Basque Roman Catholic missionary born in
Xavier, Kingdom of Navarre (now part of Spain), and a co-founder of the Society
of Jesus. He was a companion of St. Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first
seven Jesuits who took vows of poverty and chastity at Montmartre, (Paris) in
1534. He led an extensive mission into Asia, mainly in the Portuguese Empire of
the time and was influential in
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| St. Francis Xavier |
St. Francis Xavier was beatified by Paul V on 25 October
1619, and was canonized by Gregory XV on 12 March 1622. In 1624 he was made
co-patron of Navarre alongside Santiago. Known as the "Apostle of the
Indies," and the "Apostle of Japan”, he is considered to be one of
the greatest missionaries since St. Paul. In 1927, Pope Pius XI published the
decree “Apostolicorum in Missionibus” naming St. Francis Xavier, along with St.
Thérèse of Lisieux, co-patron of all foreign missions. He is now co-patron
saint of Navarre with San Fermin. The Day of Navarre (Día de Navarra) in Spain
marks the anniversary of Saint Francis Xavier's death on December 3, 1552.
(The above information on Alcibiades is a direct quote from
the Wikipedia.com article
detailing his life.)
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