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I have no idea how the rest of the book is but I read an excerpt from this book called A Man Disrupted and I guess there was some kind of face off with a robot which for some reason ends in a theological discussion where the person says it’s silly to believe in God and the robot says it believes in God because it is logical to believe in God and then the person’s like but you don’t have a soul! And the robot quotes Jesus saying if people keep silent the stones will cry out in praise! What is silica but a stone? And I can say I’ve been thinking about that approximately every other thought since

#ai #argument for God

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May you find Him, and love Him. Amen

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Thank you, Lord. Amen

please pray for my husband. he's under a lot of stress and really struggling, and there's not much I can do to help besides emotionally support him and pray for him. it's hard to see him in pain like this.

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Luke 4:24-30

No prophet is ever accepted in his own country

The attempt to throw Christ off a cliff,

Engraving by Alexandre Bida (1813-1885),

Issued in 1853,

Steel engraving

© Alamy

Gospel Reading

Jesus came to Nazareth and spoke to the people in the synagogue: ‘I tell you solemnly, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country.'

‘There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah’s day, when heaven remained shut for three years and six months and a great famine raged throughout the land, but Elijah was not sent to any one of these: he was sent to a widow at Zarephath, a Sidonian town. And in the prophet Elisha’s time there were many lepers in Israel, but none of these was cured, except the Syrian, Naaman.'

When they heard this everyone in the synagogue was enraged. They sprang to their feet and hustled him out of the town; and they took him up to the brow of the hill their town was built on, intending to throw him down the cliff, but he slipped through the crowd and walked away.

Reflection on the engraving

At the end of this morning’s gospel reading, Jesus meets with a very violent reaction from the inhabitants of Nazareth, his home town. The people hustled Jesus out of the town, intending to throw him down the hill on which their town was built. Their reaction to Jesus was one of great anger. They simply did not want to believe anything he said to them. The inhabitants of Nazareth were angry with Jesus because he identified himself with two prophets, Elijah and Elisha, who ministered to people beyond Israel, people whom the inhabitants of Nazareth would have considered unworthy of such attention. The people of Nazareth had a much narrower view of God than Jesus had. Jesus reveals a God who relates to us not on the basis of whether we are worthy or deserving but simply out of a compassionate love, a boundless love.

In our engraving by Alexandre Bida, issued in 1853, we see Jesus depicted three times: once coming out of the city gate, then once at the foot of the hill, being rushed at by the angry crowd, and finally standing at the top of the cliff. In the bottom right he is depicted a fourth time, leaving Mary and his house behind to start his mission: a flashback, so to speak.

Jesus was simply showing the people of Nazareth that the God of Israel was the God of all humanity and that God often sent his prophets to care for people beyond Israel, indeed, to care for those who would have been considered enemies of Israel.

Article by Father Patrick van der Vorst

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God bless St. Peter, especially for his prayers for Tabitha ❤️

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God bless St. Philip ❤️ his story makes me so happy. Amen.

#st. Philip

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#amen #what a great passge for when the devil cones accusing

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Please pray for us St. Mary of Egypt especially to contend for purity of mind and tongue and body. Please don't despise this request, and pray that we may become whole and holy people who have a genuine love for God burning at the center of our hearts... Thank you, dear Saint, please accept also this picture I made of you, surrounded by the fire of the Holy Spirit and with the lion who famously came to help bury you on this day many many years ago. Thank you, beloved saint, of God, may we learn from your excellent example that none of us is beyond God's mercy and grace!

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#ven. fulton sheen

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#yes. #this.

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#ladies who love Jesus

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#large spaces

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#christian #faith in jesus #god the father #prayer #mother mary #jesus christ #artwork

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#christian #consercration #sacred hearts #amen

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#catholic #sacraments

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#Christian Vaporwave

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#Cheistian Vaporwave