Greccio-Christmas Crib At Midnight Mass

The violence of warfare is also prominent, “The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.” (1.5.5) When the Frenches lust for wine and blood becomes interchangeable when they flow through the streets. "To be registered, as doomed to destruction," returned Defarge.” (2.15.63-67) With violence comes extinction, the death of many whose innocence does not

17. Give an example of a wrong interpretation of what “eating forbidden fruit” means? Why should this interpretation be rejected?

These two passages rely on the retelling of stories from the Bible – the story of the Fall from Grace in the Garden of Eden in the Old Testament and the story of Jesus’ feeding of the hungry with an endless supply of loaves and fishes in the

Audience can be influenced by a variety of types of text. These include song, cartoon and speech. Each text can demonstrate a variety of persuasives techniques, such as repetition, emotive language and alliteration. Evidence of text can be found in “You’re the Voice” by John Farnham. The Sorry speech presented by Kevin Rudd. And the political cartoon by Clifton Evers, depicting refuges. Each of these text type employs a method, uses language and persuasives techniques and presents themes to their target audience.

Everyone know the story of how Jesus Christ, our lord was born. I bet you don’t know the little bits and pieces, do ya? Well don’t you worry one bit! I’m here to tell ya! I’m Micah! No, No, No, not like the book in the bible, but the very important barn mouse who helped put together the manger, they laid baby Jesus in! Let’s get this story started shall we?

Sermons on Christmas morning focus on the birth of a baby wrapped in swaddling cloth laid in a manger in ancient Bethlehem, such sermons proclaim the wonders of the Nativity. However, such sermons do more than just communicate the joy of our Savior’s birth, for this celebration, as exemplified in St. John Chrysostom’s homily, is an ideal setting to address the question of “who is Christ”. There are many themes and topics in Chrysostom’s Christmas morning sermon and through his speaking of Jesus Christ’s birth, the Incarnation, he addresses heresies, enumerates Christian doctrine, and announces various elements of Christology.

The Parable of the Good Seed in the book of Matthew is a metaphor for those who will be saved by God at the end of the world and those who will be sent to Hell for eternity. The world is compared to a field while the wheat is people who follow and worship God and the weeds are people who sinners or people who rejected God. The man who owns the field is a metaphor for Jesus while the enemy who planted the weeds in the field is the devil. An enemy of the man plants weeds inn his field, but instead of ripping them up, the man says to wait until the harvest where the reapers, which represent angels sent by God, will store the wheat in the barn and burn the weeds, with the burning representing Hell and the barn representing Heaven. This story is

A man can possess many things wealth, power, honor and in the 11th-century woman, contrary to the belief of the times women cannot be possessed for they are the determinants of fate and this shown through lady Macbeth being the catalyst for his transformation. Over the course of the play he becomes an entirely different person than he once was, he goes from a hero figure to a deceitful murderer that has a very narrow focus on becoming king and drives himself crazy with the prediction that he will become king. Macbeth betrays his own values, those close to him, and any moral compass that once existed within him. Throughout the play Macbeth does not stray from his ways in order to satisfy himself, he goes down the reckless path to become king in order to please his wife and this eventually leads to his demise. Machiavelli states “...fortune is a woman and if she is too submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her”(pg.81 The Prince). Due to the fact that Macbeth plays the passive role in their relationship and his own life when it comes to mobility he enables his wife to take over as a master of his fate. This occurs not only in the play Macbeth, it occurs in Madea, in Greek mythology through the story of Pandora's box and in the book of the city of ladies where it is proved that woman are drivers of fate through men, simultaneously they are able to manipulate fate on their own through virtuous actions such as invention or through divine intervention. The theme of the

“Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree, whose moral taste.” The taste of the apple gave them a taste of

As vassals in the covenant, they must give allegiance and obedience to the suzerain in order to receive his protection (The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible: S-Z). Specifically, the transgressions which they are committing are against the Ten Commandments and the covenant made at Sinai in the Book of Exodus (Eakin 64). Despite the vineyard owner doing everything necessary for a successful harvest and upholding his half of the covenant, Isaiah suggests in the parable that the occupants of the vineyard did not put their full trust in Yahweh, their suzerain. Because Yahweh is in a suzerainty covenant with the people of Israel, He is obligated to deliver judgement onto them, but no matter how severe the punishment, He will not break the covenant he has already made (Eakin 64). This parable shows that Yahweh fulfils his duty as the suzerain, both by preparing the vineyard – representing God’s love and dedication to his covenant people – and by enforcing the covenant by destroying the

They laid out red carpet for Jesus. He was going to save the town because he will have their supplies and money. But when he came they we shocked. He didn’t have anything with him. They wondered is this him? Did he have the wrong address? Didn’t he get the letters?

This parable is very applicable to my daily life, as well as society. I can apply this parable to my life by knowing that I was a seed planted in the good soil. I need to remember to continue my course of action and beliefs, no matter how difficult it is. That way, I can live a life lead by the Lord, spread his message, and “bear fruit”.

Matthew records Jesus entering into Jerusalem, riding on a donkey, to cries of 'Hosanna to the Son of David', in direct animated fulfilment of Zechariah's prophecy regarding the King of Zion, who will establish peace and whose kingdom will extend to the ends of the earth (Zechariah 9:9-10).

The meaning of the parable is that like the seed if the Kingdom of God

Harris (1980) clarifies that excerpts pertaining to the wineskins and vine-leaves both reference allusions to Christ’s life, and the ministry that he performed while he lived. Dean (1979) endorses those assumptions, stating similar conclusions about those same symbols. Harris (1980), Dean (1979), and Greenblatt et al (2013) express a shared consensus that the three trees that the magus recalls having seen as allusions to Christ’s crucifixion on Calvary, with the trees representing the three crosses that Jesus and the two sinners were hanged to die. Both Harris (1980) and Dean (1979) recognize and expound on the imagery of the white horse that the magus recalls having run past them, and into a meadow, as symbolisms of the second coming of Christ as described in the bible within Revelation. Thusly, while the piece contains obvious allusions to the birth of Christ, further analysis reveals that piece also alludes to the life and ministry, death, and return of Christ as