But Ms. Fairchild's social media post guides us to the gold at its heart: Ms. McBride brings "nuggets of wisdom" about what Balanchine said that illumine a ballet that Ms. Fairchild has already loved dancing.
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ENGLAND in 1819 An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,__ Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring,— Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know, But leech-like to their fainting country cling, Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,— A peopled starve and stabbed in the untilled field,— An army, which liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield,— Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay ; Religion Christless, Godless—a book sealed ; A Senate,—Time's worst statute unrepealed,— Are graves, from which a glorious Phantom may Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.
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The closing chorale, "" (Illumine our minds and hearts as well), is a four-part setting for the choir, horn, oboes and strings.
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The book emphasized that keeping India united would allow Muslims to illumine non- Muslims with what they saw as the true faith.
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IndieWire, February 10, 2009. and a Prix Jutra nominee for Best Short Film at the 11th Jutra Awards."Jutra 2009: Ce qu’il faut pour vivre illumine la soirée".
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From the 2010s, Illumine Lingao became an increasingly concerned work in China's Internet literature studies for its collective and collaborative style of writing, and for its detailed descriptions of the proto-industrialized "new world" built by the time travelers. The novel is praised as the "encyclopedia of time travel" among readers. Some critics also call it "a unique phenomenon of contemporary Chinese literature". Illumine Lingao has some similarities with the 1632 series by Eric Flint.
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The last rays of the sun illumine the right half of the sky and envelop the mill in their radiant glow. Painted about 1650. Canvas, 34 inches by 41 inches. The painting features a unique tonal arrangement.
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In 1863 he produced a smaller canvas of The Icebergs, then called To Illumine the Iceberg (29 × 47 cm), for patron Samuel Hallett, who paid $300; it is likely the same painting known as The Iceberg and now in the collection of the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut.
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On the heights Rays of glory illumine the skies, 'Tis the land where Truth and where virtue dwell Where the sunshine of honour abides. March! Falter not, Though the way be weary and long. All the toil and strife face we bravely now Firm in faith, bold of heart and strong.
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The diverse public is symbolized in this sculpture, "La Foule Illumine". In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere.
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Speech cannot hold Thee, nor mind, Yet without Thee we think not nor speak. Love, who art partial to none, We are equal before Thy sight. Taker-away of our pain, We salute Thee, though we are blind. Come to the heart’s black cave, and illumine, Thou light of the light.
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Mary, under her different titles, wants all Bolivians to be united.... [Let us pray that] God will illumine the darkness in order to extinguish lies and deceit ... because they want to silence us. God’s message is free. God gives us the strength to guide our people. The Catholic Church shall not be enslaved.
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Illumine Lingao (), also known as Morning Star of Lingao, is a Chinese chuanyue (time travel) novel co-written by Xiao Feng () under the pen name "Boaster" (). The novel was originally published online in 2009 on Qidian Chinese Network. The first print volume was published by China Radio, Film & TV Press in 2017.
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Now, December 17, 2008. It was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 29th Genie Awards,Peter Knegt, "“Necessities of Life” Leads Genie Nods". IndieWire, February 10, 2009. and a Prix Jutra nominee for Best Short Film at the 11th Jutra Awards."Jutra 2009: Ce qu’il faut pour vivre illumine la soirée".
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Illumine the darkness of my intellect with a > ray of Thy heavenly light and inflame my heart with the fire of Thy divine > love that I may contemplate the great virtues and merits of the Saint in > whose honor I make this novena, and following his example imitate, like him, > the life of Thy Divine Son.
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The darkness of contention, strife and warfare between the religious, > the nations and the people has beclouded the horizon of Reality and hidden > the heaven of Truth! The world is in need of the light of Guidance! > Therefore, O God! Confer Thy favor so that the Sun of Reality may illumine > the East and the West.
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Bryan Life is the college's alumni magazine and is published twice a year. Illumine is a publication of the Bryan Institute for Critical Thought and Practice. E-Lumine is an e-newsletter for alumni and friends of Bryan, and is published each month except July. The Triangle is a bi-weekly student newspaper containing articles and stories written by Bryan College students.
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In the distance is the town of Haarlem, dominated by the church of St. Bavo. The sky is filled with great masses of cloud which overshadow almost the whole landscape ; stray sunbeams illumine part of the town and the bleaching-grounds. Signed in full in the left-hand bottom corner ; canvas, 24.5 inches by 21.7 inches. Exhibited at Düsseldorf, 1886, No. 288. Sale.
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There are three levels of ministry in the OCS. "Ministers" are the first level of ministry and are empowered to baptize, teach classes and lead Sunday Services. "Priests" are empowered to baptize and illumine students and teach most of the classes, lead Sunday services, and act as directors of the Centers of Light. Master Teachers are the highest level of ministry and are empowered to bring students through all three initiations and ordain priests.
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Numerous Catholic elementary and secondary schools are named for him, including schools in Toronto; Calgary; Cologne; and Dayton, Ohio. The Albertus typeface is named after him. At the University of Notre Dame du Lac in South Bend, Indiana, USA, the Zahm House Chapel is dedicated to St. Albert the Great. Fr. John Zahm, C.S.C., after whom the men's residence hall is named, looked to St. Albert's example of using religion to illumine scientific discovery.
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He called the sun more worthy of honor, because its rays illumine the whole world. But even the sun Abraham did not call god, because at night and by clouds it is obscured. Nor did Abraham call the moon or the stars god, because they also in their season obscure their light. Abraham argued to his father that they should worship the God who made everything, including the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the earth.
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In addition, the civil rights of the Catholic minority are non-existent "Time's worst statute unrepealed". In a startling burst of optimism, the last two lines express the hope that a "glorious Phantom" may spring forth from this decay and "illumine our tempestuous day". This poem was written as a response to the brutal Peterloo Massacre in August 1819. "England in 1819" first appeared in the four-volume The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Moxon, London, 1839.
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The light that has illumined > this country for these many years will illumine this country for many more > years... the Pope went on to note that Gandhi > who lived by non-violence appeared to be defeated by violence. For a brief > moment the light seemed to have gone out. Yet his teachings and the example > of his life live on in the minds and hearts of millions of men and women. > Yes, the light is still shining, and the heritage of Mahatma Gandhi speaks > to us still.
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It contains a story about King Zhao of Chu (r. 515-489 BCE) reading in the Shujing that the sage ruler Shun "commissioned Chong and Li to cut the communication between heaven and earth". He asks his minister to explain and is told: > Anciently, men and spirits did not intermingle. At that time there were > certain persons who were so perspicacious, single-minded, and reverential > that their understanding enabled them to make meaningful collation of what > lies above and below, and their insight to illumine what is distant and > profound.
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Tuska's body of work can be found in collections and public spaces, both regionally and internationally. He created thousands of pieces of art including drawing, collage, ceramics and papier- mache.Artist John Tuska's son sees spa industry as venue for popularizing his late father's work Retrieved on 20 Feb 2018 His last major work was Illumine, a "series of 56 bronze figures celebrating individual human expression that are mounted on the façade of UK's Fine Arts Building". He was working on it for 10 years - from 1985 to 1995.
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Gregory taught that the energies or operations of God were uncreated. He taught that the essence of God can never be known by his creature even in the next life, but that his uncreated energies or operations can be known both in this life and in the next, and convey to the Hesychast in this life and to the righteous in the next life a true spiritual knowledge of God. In Palamite theology, it is the uncreated energies of God that illumine the Hesychast who has been vouchsafed an experience of the Uncreated Light.
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He recorded several tracks with Journey guitarist Neal Schon on the 1999 "Piranha Blues" release and stayed close to the Journey family co-writing and recording the 2005 release VTR (Valory-Tickner-Roseman) with founders Ross Valory and George Tickner. He also co-wrote the No Nation "Illumine" project in 2007 which includes guest artists such as vocalist Jon Anderson of Yes, bassist Ross Valory and keyboardist Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues. Stevie continues to live and work in the Northern California Bay Area as an artist and performer.
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Roston is an interdisciplinary scholar, author of a series of books examining how a knowledge of contemporary changes in the visual arts can illumine our understanding of parallel developments in literature. His Changing Perspectives in literature and the visual arts was rated 'Outstanding' by Choice, described there as: "A sumptuous book… of paramount significance to literary studies, to cultural and art history, and to aesthetics".Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (October 1990). Milton and the Baroque was similarly described by the Times Literary Supplement as: "a study which itself partakes of the power and brilliance of his subject".
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"The rays of primordial Light that illumine purified souls with spiritual knowledge not only fill them with benediction and luminosity; they also, by means of the contemplation of the inner essences of created things, lead them up to the noetic heavens. The effects of the divine energy, however, do not stop here; they continue until through wisdom and through knowledge of indescribable things they unite purified souls with the One, bringing them out of a state of multiplicity into a state of oneness in Him." — From the Philokalia. On Spiritual Knowledge, Love and the Perfection of Living, #21.
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Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, John Matteson, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010, p. 324 Denton Jacques Snider called Brockmeyer "a genuine original elemental poet" and said that "Without this poetic power he could not have barbed his weighty philosophy with flashes of lightning which would pierce and illumine for a moment at least the dullest and darkest brainpan."The St. Louis Movement in Philosophy, Literature, Education, Psychology, Denton J. Snider, St. Louis: Sigma Publishing Company, 1920, p. 204 Harris acknowledged Brockmeyer's teaching and translations in his 1890 work "Hegel's Logic: A Critical Exposition".
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W. B. Carr, a longtime collaborator, took his place at the Register, under the byline "Tarquin". He served The Australasian for twenty five years, where his qualities of good sportsmanship, keen observation, and impartial criticism won for him a host of followers. > He possessed in a remarkable degree that journalistic quality whose first > interest is in the events of the day. He had a fine memory, and his long > experience mellowed his style, and gave a great charm to his writing; but he > utilised the fund of reminiscences on nearly every occasion to illumine the > subject of the hour, and not to exalt the past at the expense of the > present.
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As composer, Palackal and George Thaila, commissioned by the Syro-Malabar Church, created music for the English Solemn High Mass in the Chaldean rite. In an attempt to illumine the heritage of the Indian Christians, Palackal conceived and produced the documentary film Kerala: the Cradle of Christianity in South Asia. Palackal studied Hindustani classical music (vocal) under N. V. Patwardhan, graduating from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda; he holds degrees in Christian theology and psychology, the latter with a Gold medal from the Faculty of Arts of M. S. University, and held a National Merit Scholarship. He was, for a time, Dean of Studies at the Kalabhavan under Fr. Abel.
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Darden's research has led to the publication of several books. In her 1991 book, Theory Change in Science, Darden argues, contra Kuhn, that science is a self-correcting enterprise which progresses through a thoroughly piecemeal process of "reiterative refinement," consisting of three stages: (1) theory construction, (2) theory assessment, and (3) theory modification. Although there are similarities between stages (1) and (2) and the traditionally recognized contexts of scientific discovery and justification, Darden argues that her stages are not easily mapped onto this dichotomy. Furthermore, Darden attempts to illumine the "mysterious" process of constructing scientific theories by positing various "strategies" that she claims are sufficient for solving actual historical cases of theory change.
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The world did not need another moderately good college. We were eager to develop innovative programs that would give an entire school a genuine education, for we felt sure that such a curriculum would ignite sparks, spread into a kind of firestorm, and eventually illumine an entire nation. We had converted to Catholicism in 1956 and had both taught at Vanderbilt University before coming to TCU. Our ideas of education had been shaped by our friendship with the Southern Agrarians, along with study of Newman, Dawson, Maritain, Gilson, and intense reading in the brilliant theology of the forties and fifties—de Lubac, Guardini, Sertillanges, Rahner, John Courtney Murray—as well as C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot.
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For these > souls may be likened unto the ancient inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula, > who, prior to the Mission of Muḥammad, were like unto savages. When the > light of Muḥammad shone forth in their midst, however, they became so > radiant as to illumine the world. Likewise, these Indians, should they be > educated and guided, there can be no doubt that they will become so > illumined as to enlighten the whole world ... Following the Tablets and about the time of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's passing in 1921, a few other Baháʼís began moving to, or at least visiting, Latin or South America. First Martha Root followed by Leonora Armstrong were among the first to make this trips before 1928.
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He taught that the essence of God can never be known by his creature even in the next life, but that his uncreated energies or operations can be known both in this life and in the next, and convey to the Hesychast in this life and to the righteous in the next life a true spiritual knowledge of God. In Palamite theology, it is the uncreated energies of God that illumine the Hesychast who has been vouchsafed an experience of the Uncreated Light. Historically, Western Christianity has tended to reject the essence–energies distinction, characterizing it as a heretical introduction of an unacceptable division in the Trinity and suggestive of polytheism.John Meyendorff (editor),Gregory Palamas – The Triads, p.
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Finally, as according to tradition she not only remained a virgin by governing her passions and conquered her executioners by wearying their patience, but triumphed in science by closing the mouths of sophists, her intercession was implored by theologians, apologists, pulpit orators, and philosophers. Before studying, writing, or preaching, they besought her to illumine their minds, guide their pens, and impart eloquence to their words. This devotion to Catherine which assumed such vast proportions in Europe after the Crusades, received additional éclat in France in the beginning of the 15th century, when it was rumoured that she had spoken to Joan of Arc and, together with Margaret of Antioch, had been divinely appointed Joan's adviser. Ring of Saint Catherine, given to pilgrims visiting Mount Sinai.
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Jacob Royal of Sputnikmusic complimented Karnivool's experimentation and musicianship, writing that many of the tracks build in dynamics well and feature complex percussive arrangements from drummer Steve Judd. He considered "Illumine" and "Simple Boy" among the weakest points of the album, but praised most of the other featured songs. drr00t of Melodic considered the album a "masterpiece", directing praise at the performances of Judd and bassist Jon Stockman, and writing that "the instrumentation on this album is nothing short of complex, but the band still stays true to its melodies and fit the two together seamlessly". Jonathan Barkan of Bloody Disgusting compared Sound Awake to the work of Tool, Porcupine Tree, Muse and The Mars Volta, "while still being able to sound original and unique".
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Hamilton-Merritt, p.180 However, as the two aircraft flew back and forth attacking the facility, one aircraft was heavily damaged by ground fire from the facility and crashed. Meanwhile, crew at Lima Site 85 managed to call in a nearby Air America helicopter; a crew member aboard the helicopter armed with an assault rifle fired on the last biplane and caused it to crash.Hamilton-Merritt, p. 181 The site was eventually overrun by People's Army of Vietnam commando climbers. In the spring and summer of 1972, to illumine the theatre of war 360 tactical fighters of the U.S. Air Force and 96 Navy fighters, a great number of which were F-4s of recent modifications, opposed only 71 VPAF aircraft (including 31 MiG-21).
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As a child, Marshall was primarily brought up by his three maternal aunts, while his parents toured in theatrical productions. During school vacations, however, they took him with them. These early experiences initially gave him a negative view of the theatre: > I used to tour the provinces in England with my mother and father, you know, > when I was a small lad. And I was often tired and cold, there seemed to me > to be so much heartache and poverty and disappointment that the glamour and > applause and tinsel of the theatre escaped me, quite...No, I had no reason > to love the theatre...I spent most of my time trying to forget those tired > faces which the footlights served only to illumine, mockingly.
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The golden lampstand (1984 illustration by Jim Padgett, courtesy of Distant Shores Media/Sweet Publishing) A Midrash taught that God instructed Moses to cause a lamp to burn in the Tabernacle not because God needed the light, but so that the Israelites might be able to give light to God as God gave light to the Israelites. The Midrash likened this to the case of a man who could see, walking along with a blind man. The seeing man offered to guide the blind man. When they came home, the seeing man asked the blind man to kindle a lamp for him and illumine his path, so that the blind man would no longer be obliged to the seeing man for having accompanied the blind man on the way.
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In January of 2018, the new name Q Christian Fellowship was adopted, and the conference was held in Chicago for the second time the following year. In May of 2019, former board member and Co-Executive Director Bukola Landis-Aina became the Executive Director for the organization. In June of 2019, following Bethel Church's promotion of an ex-gay group called the Changed Movement, Q Christian launched the Unchanged Movement, an initiative developed as an "affirmative counter to the damage wrought in the name of God through ex-gay theologies and philosophies". The organization began advocating against the use of conversion therapy and ex-gay rhetoric in the Church, leveraging their platform to offer resources, amplify LGBTQ+ Christian stories, and illumine the myths often propagated by ex-gay leaders in the past.
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During this ceremony, the priest loosens the belt on the baptismal robe and prays: > "O Thou who, through holy Baptism, hast given unto Thy servant remission of > sins, and hast bestowed upon him (her) a life of regeneration: Do Thou, the > same Lord and Master, ever graciously illumine his (her) heart with the > light of Thy countenance. Maintain the shield of his (her) faith unassailed > by the enemy [i.e., Satan]. Preserve pure and unpolluted the garment of > incorruption wherewith Thou hast endued him (her), upholding inviolate in > him (her), by Thy grace, the seal of the Spirit, and showing mercy unto him > (her) and unto us, through the multitude of Thy mercies..." He then sprinkles the newly baptized with water and washes all of the places the chrism was applied, and performs the tonsure.
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The jiva is also enjoyer (bhoktr) essentially in all its conditions. For his knowledge and activity, however, the jiva depends on Hari; thus, though resembling Him in being intelligent and knower, he is at the same time distinguished from him by his dependence. This quality of dependence or of being controlled (niyamyatva) is the very nature of jiva even in the state of release, just as niyamyatva or the quality of being the controller, forms the eternal nature of Isvara. The jiva is atomic in size; at the same time his attribute, knowledge, is omnipresent, which makes it possible that he can experience pleasure and pain in any part of the body, just as, for instance, the light of a lamp can spread far and wide and illumine objects away from the lamp.
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The 21st- century editor and musicologist Francesco Luisi writes that although this description is not strictly accurate, the Galuppi–Goldoni operas were "a genuinely new beginning for musical theatre". In Luisi's view these works fundamentally changed the nature of opera by making the music part of the drama and not merely a decoration. Galuppi's contemporary Esteban de Arteaga wrote approvingly that the composer was able to "illumine the personalities of the characters and the situations in which they find themselves by selecting the most appropriate type of voice and style of singing". As well as his general contribution to the essentials of comic opera, establishing the music as at least as important as the words, Galuppi's (and Goldoni's) more specific legacy to comic opera was the large-scale buffo finale to end the acts.
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Burkett requires "absolute material accuracy" and has since 1980 evolved into one of the greatest color printers in the history of the medium, creating Cibachrome color prints of unprecedented dimension (40x50) from his brilliant 8x10 transparencies. "The best of Christopher Burkett's photographs have an almost mystical sense of connection to us, one that cannot fully be conveyed through words or reproductions.Jim Alinder "Paradise Found" "All of Christopher's photographs, is able to act across distance, to illumine a viewer standing fifty or a hundred feet away, to transcend the physical dimensions of its frame."James Reid "Vital Form and Radiant Light: A Painter Explores the Photographs of Christopher Burkett" Burkett is also a former brother in an Orthodox Christian religious order who, Vincent Rossi writes, has "transformed photographic technique into a spiritual endeavor.
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In Palamite theology, it is the uncreated energies of God that illumine the hesychast who has been vouchsafed an experience of the uncreated light. In 1341, the dispute came before a synod held at Constantinople and presided over by the Emperor Andronicus III; the synod, taking into account the regard in which the writings of the pseudo-Dionysius were held, condemned Barlaam, who recanted and returned to Calabria, afterwards becoming a bishop in the Catholic Church. One of Barlaam's friends, Gregory Akindynos, who originally was also a friend of St Gregory Palamas, took up the controversy, which also played a role in the civil war between the supporters of John Cantacuzenus and John V Palaiologos. Three other synods on the subject were held, at the second of which the followers of Barlaam gained a brief victory.
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All faculty and staff are teachers, from the President to the Janitor, regardless of their particular duties, and must be willing to work in close contact and cooperate with the parents to protect the rights of both parent and student. The faculty and staff, because of their commitment as Catholic lay apostles, will be leading the students in all areas of education, not solely in their own expertise St. Bonaventure once said, " A real teacher is he who knows how to enrich the mind with thoughts, to illumine it, and instill virtues in the disciple’s heart." At all times, the school fosters a genuine sense of wonder and love of learning in the souls of your students. If the children feel that their lessons are mere occupation or busywork, they will be disheartened and our purpose of making them lifelong learners will be in vain.
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" On January 31, 2012, West released a book entitled At the Heart of the Gospel: Reclaiming the Body for the New Evangelization. Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Cardinal Archbishop Of Vienna; General Editor, Catechism of the Catholic Church and Grand Chancellor, International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, gave the following endorsement for the book: :"The light of the Gospel, which is a clear but at times painful light, can illumine human sexuality to its very depth in order to transform it and bring it to its full beauty. Here lies the great strength of Blessed John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. In this peaceful and positive response to critics, Christopher West proves once again that he is a faithful and inspiring interpreter and communicator of this great pope’s teaching, a teaching so urgently needed for an effective proclamation of the Gospel.
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That the Moorish tower—that wooden shed with a door in the > centre, and daubs of crimson and yellow all round, like a gigantic watch- > case! That the place where night after night we had beheld the undaunted Mr. > Blackmore make his terrific ascent, surrounded by flames of fire, and peals > of artillery, and where the white garments of Madame Somebody (we forget > even her name now), who nobly devoted her life to the manufacture of > fireworks, had so often been seen fluttering in the wind, as she called up a > red, blue, or party-coloured light to illumine her temple! The Gardens feature in a number of other works of literature. They are the scene of a brief but pivotal turning point in the fortunes of anti-heroine Becky Sharp in Thackeray's 19th-century novel Vanity Fair, as well as a setting in his novel Pendennis.
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Although the epitaph's melody is "clearly structured around a single octave, … the melody emphasizes the mese by position … rather than the mese by function". Moreover, Charles Cosgrove, building on West, shows that although the notes correspond to the Phrygian octave species, analyzing the song on the assumption that its orientation notes are the standing notes of a set of disjunct tetrachords forming the Phrygian octave species does not sufficiently illumine the melody's tonal structure. The song's pitch centers (notes of emphasis according to frequency, duration, and placement) are, in Greek notational nomenclature, C and Z, which correspond to G and D if the scale is mapped on the white keys of the piano (A and E in the "two sharps" transcription above). These two pitches are mese and nete diezeugmenon of the octave species, but the two other standing notes of that scale's tetrachords (hypate and paramese) do not come into play in significant ways as pitch centers, whether individually or together in intervals forming fourths.
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He taught that the essence of God can never be known by his creations even in the next life, but that his uncreated energies or operations can be known both in this life and in the next, and convey to the Hesychast in this life and to the righteous in the next life a true spiritual knowledge of God (see theoria). In Palamite theology, it is the uncreated energies of God that illumine the Hesychast who has been vouchsafed an experience of the Uncreated Light. Palamas referred to this experience as an apodictic (see Aristotle) validation of God rather than a scholastic contemplative or dialectical validation of God. ;Synods In 1341 the dispute came before a synod held at Constantinople and was presided over by the Emperor Andronicus; the synod, taking into account the regard in which the writings of the pseudo-Dionysius were held, condemned Barlaam, who recanted and returned to Calabria, afterwards becoming a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.
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He taught that the essence of God can never be known by his creatures even in the next life, but that his uncreated energies or operations can be known both in this life and in the next, and can convey to the Hesychast in this life and to the righteous in the next life as a true spiritual knowledge of God (theoria). In Palamite theology, it is the uncreated energies of God that illumine the Hesychast who has been vouchsafed an experience of the Uncreated Light. In 1341 the dispute came before a synod held at Constantinople and presided over by the Emperor Andronicus III Palaeologus; the synod, taking into account the regard in which the writings of the pseudo-Dionysius were held, condemned Barlaam, who recanted and returned to Calabria, afterwards becoming bishop in the Roman Catholic Church. One of Barlaam's friends, Gregory Akindynos, who originally was also a friend of Gregory's, took up the controversy, and three other synods on the subject were held, at the second of which the followers of Barlaam gained a brief victory.
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With reference to the Messiah appearing to the east of Damascus – a commercial city within the Christian Byzantine Empire during Muhammad's time – In a tract published on 28 May 1900, Ghulam Ahmad linked Biblical prophecies concerning the return of Christ with those found in the Quran and Hadith, stating that they pointed in the same direction for a specific reason, particularly the one mentioned by Jesus in the 24th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew:Majmooa Ishtiharat, Vol 3, p. 285 According to Ghulam Ahmad, specific mention in the hadith of the east of Damascus with reference to the promised Messiah, carried a deeply religious significance since it was in Damascus that Paul of Tarsus laid the foundation of the doctrine of Trinity and divinity of Jesus and therefore the seed for the corruption of Christian beliefs, according to him, was first sown in Damascus. From there this erroneous idea had spread to other countries with Paul’s preaching, particularly towards the West. It was therefore fitting that the Messiah appear from the East and, like the sun, illumine through his teachings even the West where the Christian faith would at the time be ascendant.
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