Posted on 14 November 2011. Tags: Catholic, church, confirmation name, death, diocletian persecution, elizabeth ann seton, exquisite lace, face, saint elizabeth ann, saint elizabeth ann seton, saint lucy, saint rose of lima, saint veronica, site, woman of jerusalem
I’m choosing a confirmation name, & these are the saints I am considering of honoring. Which do you think is the most honorable? I know that ultimately this is my decision only, but I just want some opinions. I’ll include a little about each of them. Thanks so much!
–Saint Veronica: A woman of Jerusalem who, moved with pity as Jesus carried his cross, gave him her veil that he might wipe his forehead. Jesus accepted the offering and after using it handed it back to her, the image of his face miraculously impressed upon it.
–Saint Bernadette of Lourdes: A miller’s daughter born in Lourdes. From 11 February to 16 July 1858, she reported 18 apparitions of “a small young lady” who asked for a chapel to be built at that site at Lourdes. She dug up the holy spring at Lourdes with her bare hands. Many people visit that site today.
–Saint Rose of Lima: She began to fast three times a week and performed severe penances in secret. When she was admired for her beauty, Rose cut off her hair and disfigured her face with pepper and lye. Her days were filled with acts of charity and industry. Rose helped the sick and hungry around her community. She would bring them to her room and take care of them. Rose sold her fine needlework, grew beautiful flowers, and would take them to market to help her family. Her exquisite lace and embroidery also helped to care for the poor, while her nights were devoted to prayer and penance in a little grotto which she had built. Otherwise, she became a recluse, leaving her room only for her visits to church.
–Saint Lucy/Lucia (which should I use?): Lucy was a Christian during the Diocletian persecution. She consecrated her virginity to God, refused to marry a pagan, and had her dowry distributed to the poor. Lucy’s would-be husband admired her eyes, so she tore them out and gave them to him, saying, “Now let me live to God”.
–Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton: Seton showed the concern for the poor. She helped to organize a group of prominent ladies who would visit the sick poor in their homes to render what aid they could. Later, she opened an academy for young girls. Mother Seton was described as a charming and cultured lady. Her connections to New York society and the accompanying social pressures to leave the new life she had created for herself did not deter her from embracing her religious vocation and charitable mission. She established schools in order to educate young girls to live by religious values.
–Saint Elizabeth (Mary’s cousin/mother of John the Baptist): Elizabeth is revered as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. She is commemorated as a matriarch in the Calendar of Saints. She was the first to say the Hail Mary.
–Saint Nikola: Nikola Tavelić is a saint of the Catholic Church. This Franciscan missionary, who died a martyr’s death in Jerusalem, was the first Croatian saint. Nikola was among 60 priests from various Franciscan provinces who were called by the Bosnian vicar, motivated by Pope Gregory XI, to work as missionaries in Bosnia. He spread Catholicism around Bosnia for 12 years. In his report to the pope, the Bosnian vicar later said that the missionaries converted around 50,000 Bosnian heretics.
In 1384, Nikola went to Palestine with the Franciscans Deodatus and Peter from Narbonne and Stephen from Cuneo. He stayed in the Mount Zion Monastery in Jerusalem, learning Arabian and visiting holy places. Together with his three friends, he was brought before the qadi of Jerusalem and sentenced to death. All four missionaries were martyred near the Jaffa Gate on November 14, 1391.
–Saint Vincenca: Saint Vincenca is a Christian saint, who lived in the 3rd century in Rome. As a young girl, she was tortured and then executed for her Christian beliefs, dying before the age of 17. She was later made a Christian martyred saint. She is Croatian.
I am Croatian, so that’s where Nikola & Vincenca came from. I’m not sure that I would use those, though. So, which is the best in your opinion?
BQ: Would it be stupid if I used Joseph or Jude, since I am a girl? Am I even allowed to do that? Because Joseph is my favorite biblical character & Jude is up there as well.
Thanks! ♥
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Posted on 25 September 2011. Tags: bleeding to death, brood, brother and sister, cleft lip, clubbed feet, dad, daddy, death, mama, refugee, sex, siblings, soviet union, stard
I’m 16. My mama died when I was just a few hours old. She had been told years before not to have any more babies,because she ran the chance of bleeding to death if she did. My dad wanted her to abort me and firmly declared that I could not possibly be his child,because he had been sleeping on the couch for the past year since my older brother and sister were born and hadn’t had sex with her. When I was born I had clubbed feet and a cleft lip. My dad refused to hold me and gave me to his mother until I was 4 years old. That’s how much he hated me!
He came to the US as a refugee when the Soviet Union fell apart. My mama was american. My daddy was so young at the time and he insisted that he had fathered so many kids by his wife(my mama) and a son by another woman that he had no idea how he was going to support his brood.
He has told me on several occasions that if he had attempted to raise me from birth he probably would’ve done something crazy like smother me with a pillow!
My granny,his mother, fled here to the UK. About a year after mama died, daddy brought my older brothers and sister and moved here,too. He finished university and became successful, but even his success hasn’t made him love me! I have my “niche” in the family,yet my dad never seems to quite as proud of me as he is everyone else.
My mama had a few kids when she married my dad. I have asked about them and guess what he tells me? “Be glad I kept you, dammit!”
My older siblings tell me to keep my mouth shut about our half-siblings and be glad I live here,too! Sometimes when he’s really mad my dad refers to as “the B*stard”.
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Posted on 08 August 2011. Tags: absolute beauty, bed, body, burning timber, dark person, death, door, empty bottles, fifteenth birthday, knee length, life maths, romantic trip, summer shirts, tortured soul, way
7:36pm
49b West St, Bristol
A dark soul doesn’t make a dark person, but a dark mind. The words of a father who had raised a daughter to accommodate a niche in his life, a sense of unaccomplished purpose, that he’d given the world nothing to remember him by and a child that took his name would fill this gap. And while her mother would take her on picnics alongside her grandmother, he’d read her Dante and encourage her to break away from the traditional. This early symbolism had a profound effect on the girl, raging against normality and the trials of an ordinary life. Maths Textbook ’86, knee length skirts, mum and the pressure from all of those she knew to kiss a boy. Not father, he understood that she was different. It troubled him but he ‘got it’ as she told him emotionally on her fifteenth birthday before introducing him to her first love Liz Sale the next week. She had such belief in her father being the only person alive that understood her being ‘virtually alone’, that when he died only months later she attempted to take her own life, for the first time.
As she stood inhaling the fumes of her own act, back pressed against the rapidly burning timber of her front door, this tortured soul laughed out loud at what she’d done. For the one bed roomed, top floor flat behind her held the memories of her past life, ones which were now smouldering in the depths of an inferno, started many years previously in the caves of her mind.
The blisters forming on her upper back meant little to her, no pain could shatter the absolute beauty of a new start, however difficult that fresh ‘life’ may prove to be. For, unconscious, on a brass built double bed next to an ashen pile of summer shirts and four empty bottles of value vodka, was a woman she’d met three years previously and first kissed two months later. A woman that believed they were in love and that had booked a two night romantic trip to Bruges for the 24th of that month. Now slowly burning to death on her own bed, Turned upon by a psychopathic depressive with access to alcohol and a cigarette lighter.
True, she’d loved the heart and mind and body of her ‘Astrid’ (so she called her for her resemblance to the photographer Astrid Kirchherr), yet in the end the darkness of her mind had led her to the atrocious act. Like an infected sore inside her brain that had inflamed, mutated her father’s words into thoughts of brutal murder. To burn her lover to death on a warm summer’s evening, to take advantage of the flat they rented together was not only to murder ‘Astrid’ but rid herself of the infection. At that, slumped against the far wall, tears of laughter rolling down her face – she was free.
The skin of ‘Astrid’s’ right arm began to peel, dying away at the intense heat of a room falling to wreck itself, the bedroom that she’d spent nights of passion, fatigue and rest within was now giving up its memory to the acrid smoke and curling flames that engulfed it. She gave one last forceful shunt to the door, collapsing to the ground as it gave way, already weakened by the heat. An unbearable surge of flame forced its way through the air as ‘Astrid’ collapsed. Hitting the floor her mind turned to what had happened, the electric kettle to the face. ‘Astrid’ wept, she’d thought she could change her, how wrong she’d been.
Smoke, black, pursed its way through the gap between the door and threshold, finding the ceiling seconds later. Yet all she could do was watch, laughing as her own death drew slowly nearer. The crackle of the fire attacking the wood scared her little, she’d lost her respectability, her intrigue in life, her love, her future and she was glad of it, for now she was soothed by the inevitability of death’s sweet release. Suicide was nothing new to her, three times had she attempted the plunge from Clifton suspension bridge into the Avon Gorge in her youth, only coerced out of the matter by shallow promises of change. Although she’d never succeeded, every time she did so a little piece of her had died, her eyes becoming colder. It was time.
Wood splintered and the air seemed to rip in two as the first shot ricocheted through her shoulder, the second found the upper arm. Into the smouldering heat that now enveloped her body she let out a blood boiling scream as all memories of her dark, tortured life were lost to the fire and the crimson blood that rolled down her right arm. The bullets now embedded in the wall of the corridor had come not from the far end of the hall but the other side of the door caught up in the blaze within. Her head hit the floor, body sliding down the wall, smearing it in her blood. She blinked for a final time before the blackness embraced her. Seeing the two splintered holes at the bottom of the door, just above the letter box made her smile. In her final act she had failed to destroy her own memories, it had been them that had destroyed her.
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Posted on 04 August 2011. Tags: america, cancellation, cancellation fee, cancellation requests, cancellations, certified mail, contract, contract price, death, disability, florida administrative code, karate america, proof, Reason
okay so heres the contract: You may cancel the contract if the services cease to be offered as stated in the contract. if by reason of death or permanent disability(with appropriate doctor’s orders), the buyer is unabled to continue the memership,buyer or buyer’s estate shall be relieved from the obligations of this contract. you may also cancel this contract should students permanatly move their residence more than 25 miles from an affiliated area(to be determined by karate america),with legitimate verification(to be determined by karate america)of the move. if you cancel this contract for any of thses reasons, the seller may keep only a portion of the contract price equal to a pro rata portion of the total price representing the portion of services you used or completed, plus the cost to the seller of any related goods which you have consumed or retained. all cancellations are subject to a cancellation fee of $150. All cancellation requests, including proof of move, must be sent in writing via certified mail. All cancellations will be based on the date in which they are received by the cancellation department. This contract or note is for future consumer services and puts all assignees on notice of the consumer’s right to cancel under chapter 2-18, florida administrative code.
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Posted on 03 August 2011. Tags: biology help, condition, death, dense population, density, density dependent factor, density dependent factors, factor, factor c, frogs in a pond, Number, population c, population density, population size, square millimeter
1) A condition in the environment that can restrict a population’s growth is a
A) Niche
B) Limiting factor
C) growth factor
2) Which of the following is a measurement of population density?
A) The number of frogs in a pond
B) The number of deaths per year
C) the number of bacteria per square millimeter
3) Which would be least likely to be affected by a density-dependent factor?
A) A small, scattered population
B) A large, dense population
C) A population with a low death rate
Complete each sentence or statement:
The ___method of estimating population size involves measuring every member of a species within a small area.
Space, food, and ___ are density-dependent factors.
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Posted on 30 July 2011. Tags: birthrate, carrying capacity, central park new york, city c, Curve, death, dispersion patterns, earthworms, Exponential, exponential growth, False, fundamental niche, population shift, yosemite national park
32. Wastes tend to accumulate in the environment as a population reaches the carrying capacity.
A) True
B) False
33.Regarding population dispersion patterns, which of the following is an inappropriate pairing?
A) randomly spaced — chance
B) evenly spaced — regular intervals
C) clumped — clusters
D) dispersive — randomly distributed
34.As a population reaches its carrying capacity, there is an increase in competition for
A) food.
B) shelter.
C) mates.
D) All of the above
35.Which of the following does not represent a population?
A) all the robins in Austin, Texas
B) all the grass frogs in the pond of Central Park, New York City
C) all the birds in Chicago, Illinois
D) all the earthworms in Yosemite National Park
36.An organism’s niche includes
A) what it eats.
B) where it eats.
C) when it eats.
D) All of the above
37.Because individuals in a population usually tend to produce more than one offspring,
A) populations tend to increase in size.
B) populations remain stable in size.
C) individuals tend to die quickly.
D) the number of individuals declines rapidly.
38.The movement of organisms into a given area from another area is called
A) immigration.
B) emigration.
C) population shift.
D) carrying capacity.
39.An organism’s niche includes its habitat.
A) True
B) False
40.When two species compete, the niche that each species ultimately occupies is its
A) competitive niche.
B) realized niche.
C) fundamental niche.
D) exclusive niche.
41.As resources in a population become less available, the population
A) declines rapidly.
B) increases slowly.
C) reaches carrying capacity.
D) enters a phase of exponential growth.
42.If a population grows larger than the carrying capacity of the environment, the
A) death rate may rise.
B) birthrate may rise.
C) death rate must fall.
D) birthrate must fall.
43.If the niches of two organisms overlap,
A) the organisms may have to compete directly.
B) the two organisms will always form a symbiotic relationship.
C) both organisms will disappear from the habitat.
D) one organism usually migrates to a new habitat.
44.In a logistic growth curve, exponential growth is the phase in which the population
A) reaches carrying capacity.
B) grows quickly.
C) growth begins to slow down.
D) growth stops.
45.What is happening in a population as it decreases?
A) The birthrate and the death rate remain the same.
B) The death rate becomes lower than the birthrate.
C) The death rate stays the same and the birthrate increases.
D) The death rate becomes higher than the birthrate.
46.An organism’s niche is the sum of all its interactions in its environment, including interactions with other organisms.
A) True
B) False
47.Which would be least likely to be affected by a density-dependent limiting factor?
A) a small, scattered population
B) a population with a high birthrate
C) a large, dense population
D) a population with a high immigration rate
48.The various growth phases through which most populations go are represented on a(an)
A) logistic growth curve.
B) exponential growth curve.
C) normal curve.
D) population curve.
50.Which of the following is a density-independent limiting factor?
A) earthquake
B) disease
C) emigration
D) parasitism
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