"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Homelessness ministry was the first ministry I really through myself into back in England. The issue has often perplexed and troubled me. I was therefore very interested when I found out about a TV programme where an explorer went to purposefully live on the streets for sixty days in some of Britain’s largest cities:
Back in 2013, I wrote a short post about Book Anathemas. Put simply, people would write curses in the front of their books to make sure people returned them if they borrowed them. Well, I recently came across another:
April 11th 2018: Christina Barba @ Mission San Diego
About the speaker: Proclaiming the dignity of human life has been a lifelong passion for Cristina. Since her early childhood, she has been involved in the pro-life movement with her family at events such as prayer vigils, life chains, and much more. While attending The Pennsylvania State University, she served as president of Penn State Students for Life organization, leading the efforts to build the culture of life on campus. Upon graduation, Cristina attended the Emmanuel School of Mission in Rome, Italy, a mission organization sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Laity. She has spent the last decade in full time mission in the pro-life, chastity and new evangelization world.
In July of 2014, Cristina founded The Culture Project International. Her vision was to restore culture through the experience of virtue. Since its inception, The Culture Project has provided a mission program to more than 50 missionaries who have served 45 dioceses and invited over 100,000 students to reclaim sexual integrity and the meaning of life, thereby inviting our culture to be fully alive.
Cristina received Honorable Mention by Our Sunday Visitor as one of the Inspiring Catholics of 2012. In 2016, she was one of the recipients of the Students for Life of America, Defender of Life Award.
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“Spiritually, we are Semites”
Pope Pius XI to a group of Belgian pilgrims in 1938
We’re taking a brief break from The Great Divorce to give the listeners an opportunity to ask the question: “Who exactly are Matt and David?
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We had a retreat this weekend in San Diego and I was introduced to this song…
Hallelujah, you have won the victory (lift up your voice and say now)
Hallelujah, you have won it all for me
Death could not hold you down
You are the risen king
Seated in majesty (yeah)
You are the risen king
By his stripes we are healed
By his nail pierced hands, we’re free
By his blood we’re washed clean
Now we have the victory
And The power of sin is broken
Jesus overcame it all, yeah, yes he did
(He has won) He has won our freedom (yes he has)
Jesus has won it all (it all, oh)
Hallelujah (won the victory) you have won the victory (so glad that we’re alive, sing)
Hallelujah (you have won it all) you have won it all for me (we sing death could not hold)
Death could not hold you down (you’re alive and well and)
You are the risen king (yeah, sing)
Seated in majesty (sing You are the king of glory)
You are the risen king (yeah, yeah, sing death could not hold you)
Death could not hold you down (nothing can hold you down, no God)
You are the risen king (and you’re seated in)
Seated in majesty (oh, you are the great)
You are the risen king (stretch out your hands, stretch out your hands, stretch out)
Our God is risen (He’s alive), He is alive (He’s alive)
He won the victory (sing He’s alive), He reigns on high (sing, He’s alive)
Our God is risen (He’s not dead), He is alive (so grateful that He lives)
He won the victory (ohh), He reigns on high (come on)
Our God is risen (He’s alive now), He is alive (He’s alive now)
He won the victory (ohh), He reigns on high (My god is alive and well)
Our God is risen (yes He is), He is alive (yes He is)
He won the victory (come on)
He reigns on high (lift up your hands and you’re voice, sing Hallelujah)
Hallelujah, (you’ve won the) you have won the victory (I’m so thankful for your life )
Hallelujah, you have won it all for me (death could not)
Death could not hold you down (I feel it ? in the air)
You are the risen king (and you’re seated, yeah)
Seated in majesty (He’s great, he’s great, say you are)
You are the risen king (open your mouth, open your mouth, open your mouth now)
Glory, yeah
Wake it open, wake up with the atmosphere
Wake it open with your worship, come on
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Wake it open now
Come on ? sing…