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Yesterday
at a men's reception centre I spent quite a bit of time
in a day room of more than 80 older drug addicts,
almost none of them in detention for the first
time.
How
to help them break their addiction? This is the same
sort of question as on right: how can they be "unradicalised"
from drugs?
Can
be done ....has been done ... for many people ...by the
power of a Baby whose birth we celebrate in a couple of
weeks
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"Same-sex
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Islam File
The
New Translation
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150.
Given the interrelationship between living space and human
behaviour, those who design buildings, neighbourhoods, public
spaces and cities, ought to draw on the various disciplines
which help us to understand people’s thought processes,
symbolic language and ways of acting.
It
is not enough to seek the beauty of design. More precious still
is the service we offer to another kind of beauty: people’s
quality of life, their adaptation to the environment, encounter
and mutual assistance.
Here
too, we see how important it is that urban planning always take
into consideration the views of those who will live in these
areas.
Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science |
Dealing
with IS means dealing with people
who have been "radicalised".
How
can such people be "unradicalised"?
Two
stories of how "radicalised" people were "unradicalised":
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The
story of Kamal Saleem
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The
story of Paul of Tarsus
Anyone
know of other such stories? jdwomi@gmail.com
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Readings are from
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1
Samuel 3
One day when the boy Samuel was serving in the
temple,
the Lord called to him "Samuel, Samuel."
The boy thought it was the old priest Eli calling to him
so he ran to Eli and said "Here I am."
Eli replied "I did not call you."
Two more times the Lord called.
Both times the boy went to Eli.
Eli now realized it was the Lord calling
Samuel.
Eli told Samuel to say "Speak Lord, your servant is listening"
the next time he heard the voice.
The Lord told Samuel that Eli's family would
be punished
for the bad things they had done.
The people quickly found out that the Lord was
with Samuel
and that Samuel was the Lord's prophet.
Dear Lord, please
help me to listen to your voice - your voice in the Bible, in my conscience and in other people
My recording of this reading
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Psalm
33
Ring out your joy to the Lord, all good
people,
for praise is fitting for loyal hearts.
For the Lord loves justice and right;
he fills the earth with his love.
By his word the heavens were made,
he spoke and the universe came into being.
They are happy, whose God is the Lord,
he is the source of all true joy.
May your love be upon us, O Lord,
since we place all our trust in you.
Lord, we trust in your precious
love
Recording
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Acts
24.1-26
When the religious leaders arrived,
they put their case to Felix.
They summed up their accusations by saying "The plain truth is that
we find this man to be a perfect pest.
He stirs up trouble among Jews everywhere, and is a ringleader of the
Nazarene sect"
Paul replied "In regard to the
Way, which they malign as a sect, I serve and worship the very same God worshipped by our
ancestors. I live
in hope that God will raise the dead. If that's my crime, my accusers are
just as guilty as I am"
Felix postponed a decision. He met
with Paul many times, hoping Paul would offer him a
bribe
Jesus, please help judges to avoid
bribery
Recording
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Luke
6.12-16
Jesus went to the hills to pray. He spent a
whole night praying.
In the morning he called all his disciples together. He chose 12 of them
and called them "apostles":
Peter and his brother Andrew, James, John,
Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon, Judas
son of James - and Judas Iscariot who became a traitor
Jesus and the 12 came down from the hill to a
place of level ground.
Gathered there were his many disciples and a large crowd of people from
all over the country who had come to hear him and to be healed of
diseases
People in the crowd tried to touch Jesus
because power came out of him that cured everyone
Jesus, please bless modern day apostles who
pray for the sick to be healed
Recording
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(a):
The kingdom, already present and growing in our midst, engages
us at every level of our being and reminds us of the principle
of discernment which Pope Paul VI applied to true development: it
must be directed to “all people and the whole person”
We
know that “evangelization would not be
complete if it did not take account of the unceasing interplay
of the Gospel and of our concrete life, both personal and
social”.
This
is the principle of universality
intrinsic to the Gospel, for the Father desires the salvation of
every man and woman, and his saving plan consists in
“gathering up all things in Christ, things in heaven and
things on earth”.
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Please
join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the
week:
Sun:
Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific
Frid:
South America
Sat:
Central & North America
Jesus,
today, Thursday,
please bless the people of S.E.
Asia & Pacific
And praying for prisoners in one
part of China each day of the month:
On this 10th
of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Hubei
And
praying for one of the
world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 10th
of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Guineau
And
praying for one Islam-related
intention each day of the
week:
Jesus,
please pacify Al-Qaeda |
This
website's Tanzania
File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into
bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
This
website's South
America file
(stopping
South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons
This
website's HK
Asylum Seekers' File
(stopping
South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK) |
