got this in an email. no idea if it's true... but if it IS, it's pretty cool.

...-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit--Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy. -The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes. -Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit--Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control. -The ten lords a-...

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Imagine that Jesus had been born a girl.

... to “come follow me”? Would her mother, who prophetically sung the Magnificat, have hushed her up and told her “girls don’t discuss theology”? If she sat on the mountainside and spoke the Beatitudes to the crowds, would her words be affirmed as a beautiful new way forward or dismissed as the rantings of a crazy woman who was probably PMSing? Would men have seen an independent woman as vulnerable, ...

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12 Days

...of creation. Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit: prophesy, serving, teaching, exortation, contribution, leadership, and mercy. Eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes. (From here on, the order is different from the original song!) Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,...

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oh dear oh dear oh dear, one forgets one's body can still feel like this at eveningtime...

...she said she had 'leila' in her bag. and i was telling her about how right before jamie left my flat last night, he spent what seemed like 20 minutes looking for beefy's farewell speech in 'the beastly beatitudes of balthazar b'. to no avail. but i admired his spirit although i wanted to go to bed. for it too is an amazing collection of words. and here are those that precede the above ones from '...

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TE Schedule + Pointers Part 2

... the Good News of the Kingdom > Searching for The Good News in the Parables > Seeing the Power and Goodness of Jesus in His Miracles Living The Kingdom Values > Living the Beatitudes Remembering Jesus' Last Days > Growing Opposition Against Jesus > Jesus' Prediction of His Passion Advent Encountering Christ Through The Liturgical Year > The Liturgical Calendar * Dismissal 10:30 a.m....

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News Clips

... in this way the church represented a unique spiritual and physical space in which people were free." In the early 1980s, Fuhrer began holding weekly prayers for peace. Every Monday, worshippers recited the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. Few came at first, but attendance grew as the Soviet Union began opening to the West. The prayer service, Fuhrer said, "was something very special in...

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Day 10: 19138 Words (3177 today!)

...on their own. It was the night of the dormitory Bible study, and they visited with Emily while she practised what she was going to do with the reading for that study session, a portion of the beatitudes. “I want to emphasize the forgiveness involved in this passage,” said Emily. “I wish I could think of an activity that would make it so that everything would become clear, you know? Some sort of ...

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Confessions of a Would-Be Teenage Clinic Bomber, Part II, or

...environmental justice and help for people with disabilities and for the rights of billionaires to go on hoarding and squandering and abusing those who make their money for them, go on voting against the Beatitudes and console yourselves that it's all a sign of how fucking virtuous you are, because that's all that matters. Spiritual narcissism - yet another manifestation of it, in the real world...

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10-22-09

Bio Lab > Detailed list of IP procedures (printed, short bond paper) due on Tuesday. Include exact measurements/amounts. Literature > Quiz tomorrow on Chapter 1 of JLC. CLE > Quiz tomorrow on Beatitudes. Reminders > Last day of payment for class pictures is on Tuesday. > Science might get a period tomorrow.

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p.p.s.

In Christianity, the Beatitudes (from Latin beatus , meaning "blessed" or "happy" [ 1 ] ) are blessings from Jesus recorded in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew and the Sermon on the Plain in Luke . The blessings in Luke refer to external situations while those in Matthew refer more to spiritual or moral qualities. [ 2 ] Biblical scholar and author ...

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