For God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
- John 3:16
The Dome of the Rock was first built in 691 A.D by the caliph (king) Abd al-Malik.
The Jews and the Muslims continue to fight each other over this Dome, because it stands on the site where the Jews’ holy temple stood.
The 10 Commandments
1. I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
3. Remember that thou keep holy the Lords's day.
4. Honor thy father and thy mother.
5. Thou shalt not kill.
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
7. Thou shalt not steal.
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
9. Thou shalt not covet they neighbor's wife.
10. Thou shalt not covet they neighbor's goods.
The Seven Sacraments
1. Baptism ~ Takes away original sin and makes us children of God.
2. Confirmation ~ Gives us the Holy Spirit and makes us soldiers of Christ.
3. Holy Eucharist ~ Gives us Jesus in the Mass and Holy Communion.
4. Penance ~ Takes away our sins and helps us to be good.
5. Extreme Unction ~ Helps us when we are very sick and in danger of death.
6. Holy Orders ~ Makes helps make priests and helps them to follow Jesus's orders.
7. Matrimony ~ Makes people marry and helps them to live the why they should.
Act of Contrition
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended
Thee, and I detest all my sins, because of Thy
just punishments, but most of all because they of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help
of Thy grace, to sin no more and to avoid the near
occasions of sin.
An Act of Faith
O my God, I believe all the truths which the
Holy Catholic Church teaches because Thou hast
made them know.
The Apostle's Creed
I believe in God, the Father
almighty, creator of heaven
and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only
Son, our Lord. He was conceived
by the power of the Holy Spirit
and born of the Virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and
was buried.
He descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again.
He ascended into heaven,
and is seated and the right hand
of the Father.
He will come again to judge
the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way,
the truth,
and the life;
no man cometh onto the Father,
but by Me.
- John 14:6
He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life;
and he that believeth not in the Son,
shall not see life;
but the wrath of God abideth on him.
- John 3:36
I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go
and prepare a place for you,
I will come again,
and receive you unto myself;
that is where I am,
there ye may be also.
- John 14: 2,3
A Ballad of Trees and the Master
Into the woods my Master went,
clean forspent, forspent.
Into the woods my Master came,
forspent with love and shame.
but the olives they were not blind to Him;
the little gray leaves were kind to Him;
the thorn-tree had a mind to Him
when into the woods He came.
Out of the woods my Master went,
and He was well content.
Out of the woods my Master came,
content with death and shame.
When death and shame would woo Him last,
from under the trees they drew Him last:
'Twas on a tree they slew Him~last
When out of the woods He came.
- Sidney Lanier
The Birth of the Flower
God spoke! and from the arid scene
sprang rich and verdant bowers,
till all the earth was soft with green,
he smiled; and there were flowers.
- Mary McNeil Fenollosa
Closed Doors
When God shuts a door He opens a window.
- Unknown
Burning Bridges
He who can not forgive others breaks the bridge
the bridge for which he himself must break himself.
- George Herbert
On Every Rose
I see His blood upon the rose
and in the stars the glory of His eyes,
His body gleams amid eternal snows
His tears fall from the skies.
I see His face in every flower;
the thunder and the singing of the birds
are but His voice~and carven by His power
rocks are His written words.
All pathways by His feet are worn,
His strong heart stirs
the ever-beating sea,
His crown of thorns
is twined with every thorn
His cross is every tree.
- Joseph Mary Plunkett
The Mystery
He came and took me by the hand
up to a red rose tree,
He hept His meaning to Himself,
but gave a rose to me.
I did not pray Him to lay bare
the mystery to me;
enough the rose was heaven to smell,
and His own face to see.
- Ralph Hodgson
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