December 26th - St. Dionysius
259 - 268 AD

The storm of persecution which had slain St. Sixtus and St. Lawrence blew
throughout Rome with such violence that for some time the Christians could
not
elect a new pope. But by July of 259 Emperor Valerian was too busy worrying
about Persians to pay much attention to Christians. On July 22, 259, the
priest
Dionysius was elected pope.

St. Dionysius was to have a peaceful pontificate. In 260 Valerian was
defeated
by Sapor the Persian. He was made prisoner and then skinned. His son and
successor, Gallienus, though an incapable ruler, was well-disposed to the
Christians. Salonina, his wife, may well have been a Christian herself.
Gallienus issued a decree of toleration which not only gave the Christians a
breathing spell but even restored confiscated Church property. It is
interesting
to note that the decree dealt directly with the heads of the churches.

Word of God

CHRISTMAS ….. THE PROMISED MESSIAH ….

Remember My coming into the world with gratitude and joy, for it
signified for you an act of immeasurable love and compassion, a light
came to you which was intended to illuminate for you the path out of
the spiritual darkness of night…. an era of utter hopelessness came to
an end for you humans and a new period of development began….

The path was prepared for you which lead back to Me again.... And this
path was exemplified for you by the man Jesus, Who accepted this
mission for love of Me, and you, His fallen brothers…. For He wanted
to return My children to Me, who had been distant from Me for an
infinitely long time already and who languished in deepest
wretchedness. Jesus’ human shell was occupied by a soul of light, a
being which I had once externalised, which was lovingly devoted to Me
and had remained with Me when the host of originally created spirits
fell away from Me….

"Seon Ferguson" gmail.com> wrote:

The Big Bang led to the expanding universe, which will be followed
by the Gigantic Contraction and then the Colossal Rebirth.

monkfish wrote:

monkfish wrote:

monkfish wrote:

monkfish wrote:

On Dec 24, 12:22 am, kb gmail.com> wrote:

God Lives Under The Bed

I envy Kevin. My brother Kevin thinks God lives
under his bed. At least that's what I heard him say one night.

He was praying out loud in his dark bedroom, and I stopped
to listen, 'Are you there, God?' he said. 'Where are you? Oh, I see.
Under the bed...'

I giggled softly and tiptoed off to my own room. Kevin's
unique perspectives are often a source of amusement. But that night
something else lingered long after the humor. I realized for the first
time the very different world Kevin lives in.

He was born 30 years ago, mentally disabled as a result of
difficulties during labor. Apart from his size (he's 6-foot-2), there
are few ways in which he is an adult.

He reasons and communicates with the capabilities of a
7-year-old, and he always will. He will probably always believe that God
lives under his bed, that Santa Claus is the one who fills the space
under our tree every Christmas and that airplanes stay up in the sky
because angels carry them.

(ru) dolf: "Or better yet learn from the original Hebrew and Christian
concepts regarding the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple depicted in
the Arch of Titus of #81 CE and Roman Religious /Imperialistic
governance--as Caesar's acts of nepotistic sodomy and support for the
Egyptian Temples dedicated to Opet the Mother Goddess and Theban Triad
of Amun, Mut and Khonsu. The title Khonsu the Child (Khonsu pa-khered),
refers to his form as young sun-god {ie. the Maker or Determiner of
men's destinies} who was invoked as protection against dangerous animals."

- http://www.grapple.id.au/Chronicles/images/enneadgrapple.gif

"It was not 'out-of-date metaphysics' to 'speak of human nature as 'man'
or woman', he said. It came from the 'language of creation, despising
which would mean self-destruction for humans'. Gender theories, he said,
led to man's 'auto-emancipation' from creation and Creator." [Pope
Benedict's media statements on 'Saving humanity from homosexual or
transsexual behaviour was as important as protecting the environment'
Courtesy BBC News 23 December 2008]

Dan Listermann wrote: