Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
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The Bible Gateway shares an informative graphic of the Christmas Story timeline. The chart shows the people and events of the Christmas story.
This visualization traces the Christmas story as told in Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2, showing you who is with whom throughout the story. Verse references are provided so you can look up each event [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Dec 23rd 2017
It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
John 6:63 (RSV)
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 17th 2017
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The parish church of St Dionysius, begun around 1300 as a chapelry of Great Bowden, was planned to be very much part of the townscape, with a central position in its own square, opening out directly onto the street with no space for a churchyard. It was intended to be sight worthy of its setting, [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 15th 2017
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 10th 2017
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The floor at the east end of King’s College Chapel has been lowered to enable Rubens painting, the ‘Adoration of the Magi’ to be displayed beneath the great East Window.
This powerful masterpiece was painted by Sir Peter Paul Rubens in 1634 for the convent of the White Nuns at Louvain in Belgium, and was subsequently [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Dec 5th 2017
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The memorial chapel on the south side, was once the chantry chapel of John Argentein. Provost 1501-1507, who was physician to Edward IV and the young Edward V and his brother, the murdered princes in the Tower. His brass lies before the altar, and in this chapel there is also a record of the Provosts [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 4th 2017
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It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.
Pope Benedict XVI
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 3rd 2017
