Easter Monday

New Year’s Day/ New Year’s Eve Happy New Year Everyone! As we go into 2018, we look to new horizons and opportunities. The best time to start a new beginning is now. Here in the U.S. we pop the champagne and watch the ball drop; whereas, in England, the first guest after the New Year brings good fortune. “The English custom for welcoming New Year is full of hospitality and warmth. They believe that the first guest for the year would bring fortune for them. He should be a male, should enter through

Chocolat is about a war between the forces of paganism and Christianity, and because the pagan heroine has chocolate on her side, she wins. Her victory is delayed only because, during Lent, a lot of the locals aren’t eating chocolate. The movie happens in the backdrop of a French village. Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche), an expert chocolatier, drifts across Europe with her daughter Anouk (Victorie Thivisol), following the north wind. In the beginning of the Lenten season in 1959

Las Posadas is Spanish for “The Inns”, and it is a religious festival celebrated across Mexico and some parts of the United States. It is held between December 16 and 24, and lasts for nine evenings. The Posada begins with the recitation of the Holy Rosary, a beautiful prayer to the Mother of Jesus, Mary. It finally ends with the Posada and Midnight Mass on December 24th. It commemorates the journey that Joseph and Mary made from Nazareth to Bethlehem in search of a location where Mary could

WWJD IN WORSHIP? Luke 4:14-21 Sunday, January 24, 2015 Do you remember slap bracelets? They were those bracelets that would roll out into a ruler-like thing, but when you slapped it against your wrist, the band would curl around and be like a bracelet. Very, very cool, but also very, very, dangerous. You see, inside was a thin piece of metal, and at the peak of their popularity, there were all kinds of injuries that occurred because the metal of the bracelet broke through the fabric and cut children’s

Released in 2011, Ready Player One is ann interesting read about a young man struggling with the fictional state of the world in the year 2044. The world is starving for resources, and the remaining resources are slowly dwindling. Jobs are scarce in the real world, and the land between cities is barren and desolate. Travelling between cities is dangerous, because there are gangs and raiders that attack helpless travelers. The world is a unfriendly and harsh place, and most tend to avoid it. The majority

Treyarch zombies first appeared in Call of Duty: World at War and quickly became very popular when DLC#3 came out with the zombies map that brought dogs into play, Shi No Numa. In this map, Treyarch added wonder weapons, dogs, and the four main characters, Tank Dempsey, Nikolia Belsinki, Takeo Masaki and Doctor Richtofen, that impressed thousands. With the release of Nacht der Untoten, the first ever zombies map, came the first ever strategies for a four player or one player experience . Most notably

National Spumoni Day in the United States The 21st of August is National Spumoni Day. National Spumoni Day is an unofficial national holiday that is observed in the United States. Spumoni is an Italian dessert that is constructed from layers of ice cream, whipped cream, nuts, and candied fruit. There are three layers to a traditional spumoni, chocolate, cherry, and pistachio. Each layer is mixed with nuts and dried fruit to create this special treat. Spumoni is similar to ice cream, the Neapolitan

Romania is situated in the southeast of Europe, to the north of the Balkan Mountains. It has a population of about 23 million inhabitants. Most of its people are of Roman origin-in fact, “Romania” means “land of the Romans”. But there are also Hungarians, Germans, Serbs, Tartars, and Russians who make up the rest of the population. The official language is Romanian, the only language of Latin origin in Eastern Europe. Brought up to respect religious traditions, the majority of Romanians is Orthodox

crusade, a Florentine noble named Pazzino de’ Pazzi “scaled the walls of Jerusalem” and was awarded pieces from the Holy Sepulchre that he brought back to Florence (Murray 613). This started a traditional Easter festival called “le scoppio del carro,” meaning “explosion of the cart,” that occurs every Easter in Florence (Murray 613), which is where Alighieri lived. The relevancy of this historical event during Alighieri’s life and city makes it incredibly likely that he was

Raoul of Cambrai and Christianity Raoul of Cambrai, an old French epic, has strong ties to Christianity despite only having several actual figures from the Church present in the story. Characters consistently use phrases such as “By God”, “I pray”, “for my faith”, and numerous references to saints and their relics in the epic linking their beliefs to Christianity. Lady Alice, Raoul’s mother, Bernier, Raoul’s vassal, and Count Ybert, family member to Bernier, see Christianity as a valuable resource