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23 Dec 2023, 5:43 am by familoo
But I am lucky that most of my memories are happy ones, and I’m blessed to have had a single home throughout that I have been able through my whole life to come back to, to reconnect to and to ground myself. [read post]
22 Dec 2023, 7:45 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  Instead, the part of the story that I found most grimly amusing was Swinney's defense of his eight-figure annual salary -- part of a ten-year, $115 million salary that does not include endorsement money and the near-certainty that the contract will be rewritten with higher numbers before it expires.So this is a moment when the highest-paid (by a long-shot) employee of a public university might take a breath and count his blessings. [read post]
22 Dec 2023, 4:39 am by SHG
Friends, we gather here on this blessed December day to send the year 2023 off into the sunset. [read post]
22 Dec 2023, 1:40 am by Frank Cranmer
’” The prayers were first used last Sunday: on the previous day, The Times carries a report on one such blessing. [read post]
21 Dec 2023, 4:19 pm by INFORRM
David Hooper, now retired from practice as a media lawyer, but who has certainly not lost his touch for adventure, has written a good book about some bad people. [read post]
19 Dec 2023, 6:43 am by Bettina Hindin, Esq.
Further, the blessing should not be given “in concurrence” with a civil marriage ceremony to avoid appearing as a sort of church blessing of the union. [read post]
19 Dec 2023, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
In a Declaration titled "Fiducia Supplicans: On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings" (full text) issued by the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and approved by Pope Francis, the Pope has given priests permission to give a blessing to same-sex or other unmarried couples. [read post]
19 Dec 2023, 2:24 am by Frank Cranmer
Therefore, the pastoral sensibility of ordained ministers should also be formed to perform blessings spontaneously that are not found in the Book of Blessings. [read post]
18 Dec 2023, 6:17 pm by Mark Ashton
A friendly version is here: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p970.pdf  but this is a fairly technical area where first impressions merit the blessing of a real tax adviser. [read post]
18 Dec 2023, 2:44 pm by Steve Gottlieb
It is NOT about the rights our Constitution guarantees to “justice … domestic tranquility … the general welfare … [or] the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. [read post]
18 Dec 2023, 10:00 am by Mary Chastain
"...the Church does not have the power to impart blessings on unions of persons of the same sex. [read post]
18 Dec 2023, 8:36 am by David Pocklington
It is recalled that ‘from a strictly liturgical point of view’, the blessing requires that what is blessed ]be conformed to God’s will, as expressed in the teachings of the Church’”. [read post]
18 Dec 2023, 8:27 am
"From "Pope Francis Allows Priests to Bless Same-Sex Relationships/A church official said the blessings amounted to 'a real development' that nevertheless did not amend 'the traditional doctrine of the Church about marriage'" (NYT).MEANWHILE: "With a Deadline Looming, the United Methodist Church Breaks Up/A quarter of the denomination’s churches have left, as the faith divides over L.G.B.T.Q. policies" (NYT)("America’s… [read post]
Pope Francis condemned the incident in his weekly blessing on Sunday, saying: I continue to receive very grave and painful news from Gaza. [read post]
14 Dec 2023, 4:38 am
"Wikipedia next directs me to "Critique of work," and here, I'll just quote Nietzsche:Behind the glorification of 'work' and the tireless talk of the 'blessings of work' I find the same thought as behind the praise of impersonal activity for the public benefit: the fear of everything individual. [read post]
13 Dec 2023, 5:00 am by Barbara Pfeffer Billauer
By Barbara Pfeffer Billauer Approaches to resolving scientific evidentiary issues continue to diverge throughout the country.[1] A prominent recent example includes the rejection of the medical diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) to reflect disparate views in the scientific, medical, and legal communities. [read post]
13 Dec 2023, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
While Macron, hands clasped in front, stood to one side, Korsia lit both the shamash and first candle while intoning the blessings. [read post]