New Delhi | Hitting back at the Opposition for criticising demonetisation, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the "prophets of doom" have been "conclusively proved wrong" with India retaining its position as the fastest growing economy for the fifth year in a row.
Many opposition leaders have been critical of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's move to demonetise high-value currency notes two years ago.
Responding to note ban critics, Jaitley said demonetisation has strengthened the economy and increased the government resources to fund poverty alleviation and infrastructure development programmes.
"What has happened to 'prophets of doom' who said India's GDP will decline by at least 2 per cent. For the fifth year running, India will be the fastest growing (large) economy in the world. It is continuing to happen. So prophets of doom have been proved wrong and conclusively proved wrong," he told reporters here.
Earlier, Jaitley in a Facebook post said demonetisation has helped in formalising the economy, expanding tax base and earmarking more resources for the poor.
On the controversial noteban decision, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said "scars and wounds" caused by demonetisation are getting more visible with time and second anniversary is a day to remember how "economic misadventures" could roil the nation.
Describing demonetisation as an "ill-fated" and "ill-thought" exercise, he said the havoc it unleashed on the Indian economy and society is now evident to everyone.
The senior Congress leader had earlier said that demonetisation would shave off 2 per cent economic growth rate.
Among other opposition leaders, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also questioned the rationale behind the Modi government's note ban move and termed it as "a self-inflicted deep wound" on the Indian economy.
Congress's spokesperson Anand Sharma, at a press conference, also alleged that demonetisation was "a big money laundering project".
The Modi government on November 8, 2016, demonetised high-value currency notes of old 500 and 1000 rupee notes, constituting 86 per cent of the currency in circulation.
Defending the demonetisation drive, Jaitley said, "Even when there was global stress, we still manage to have respectable growth rates and we had the courage because of leadership of the Prime Minister… we took decisive steps and these steps which are not economically correct have helped the system in the long run, and the long run, in this case, does not mean generations," he said.
The finance minister said that demonetisation has favourably impacted the tax system, digitisation and formalisation of the India economy.
"Of course, there is a long distance we still have to cover and I am certain in the coming years the advantage of these movements in the right direction will strengthen the India economy," he said.
Giving details of impact of demonetisation, Jaitley said the number of income tax return filers has gone up to 6.86 crore from 3.8 crore in May 2014.
"By the time the first five years of this government are over, we will be close to doubling the assessee base, he said.
He further said with the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST), it is now becoming increasingly difficult to evade the tax system and the indirect tax to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio has gone up to 5.4 per cent post-GST, from 4.4 per cent in 2014-15.
On the criticism that almost the entire cash money got deposited in the banks post demonetisation, Jaitley said confiscation of currency was not an objective of demonetisation.


The brand new indie-pop-folk-rock duo from Australia "High Highs" is our new entry to #LOMW. They only became a band in 2013 and they are already pretty big in USA with their debut album "Open Season" released. Jack Milas and Oli Chang are behind the mysteriously sweet song "Once Around The House". When you watch the music video and listen to the harmonic vocals you can catch yourself dreaming for a while... Read the lyrics and watch the music video here.
Sam Beam is the name behind the "Iron & Wine". Sam was raised in South Carolina, in 1974. He took his stage name from a dietary supplement named "Beef Iron & Wine" that he found in a general store while shooting a film. "Joy" is a song about love and how love can make you change your points of view about anything around you. The music video was produced and directed by Hayley Morris and it is basically the narration of the lyrics made by stop motion landscapes and hand made items. En-Joy it here.
Για άλλη μια φορά καλωσορίζουμε στο LOMW μια μπάντα με τρελό όνομα! Είστε έτοιμοι να τους γνωρίσετε; Μιλάμε για cool μουσική εδώ!
TNT: Είμαστε οι "The New Tigers" από το Turku στην δυτική ακτή της Φιλανδίας. Είμαστε τέσσερις: Appu, Janne, Valtteri and Ville..
We spoke before about those crazy folks, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros! Now, they are back with the very new release of their single "Life Is Hard" taken from their third album. They got some time to record a live performance and turn it into the music video of this single. Alex Ebert, the vocalist of the band, says that instead of making a lip-synced video clip like everyone else does, we'd rather present what we are good at, and this is our live performances. This song will make you feel happy while you realise that your life is pretty hard. Watch the music video and read the lyrics here.
The "Big Scary" is an indie-pop duo from Melbourne! It's not the first time LOMW hosts a band from Australia and definitely not the last. They have this garage-rock style and they sound too natural! "Luck Now" is a song with a few words but solid meaning, describing the exact sound of the heart, we all lose every day. Dark and insane. You can watch the music video and read the lyrics of "Luck Now" here.
William Fitzsimmons is basically the reason I've started to listen to indie-folk music. His songs was played at the background of Grey's Anatomy so I had to find out who was singing. He was born and raised by two blind parents. They taught him how to listen and play good music. He is the owner of a master in Counseling and he worked as a therapist before he turned into a musician. His music is inspired by the divorce of their parents and by his own divorce. Both first and second album are full self-produced at his home. The music video of his song "If You Would Come Back Home" is directed by Josh Franer . Together they won an award for a documentary short film for "Finding Home". This video clip is full of symbolisms and it shows how simple things in an abandoned home keep William connected. Enjoy the music and the read the lyrics here.
One more time we welcome on LOMW a band with a crazy name! Are you ready to meet them? Cool music, people! Cool music.
LOMW: Hello and welcome on LOMW. Could you introduce your band to us and tell us from where you are answering this long distance Q&A?
TNT: We are The New Tigers, from Turku on the west coast of Finland. There's four of us: Appu, Janne, Valtteri and Ville.
MS & MR (Miss and Mister) are a fuzz-electro pop duo based in New York. They start to earn public recognition big time. In their music videos you will see some things that will freak you out but their vintage sound will make you feel the chill right away. They created the band in 2011 and since then their albums are climbing the charts. "Hurricane" is talking about the darkness we all have as company in our minds.All the black thoughts and dreams. Are you ready to watch theirs? Read the lyrics and watch the music video of "Hurricane" here.
They are the "Arctic Monkeys". If you don't know them yet, it's the right time to meet them. Their album "AM" just got released and the first song "Do I Wanna Know?" is on #LOMW. It's very strange that I found them recently! Those Monkeys have a bright future ahead. Sheffield seems to be another mother of great artists. Grammy Awards, Brit Awards, two successful albums and some of the best song-titles ever given. The question "Do I Wanna Know?" is the real expression of doubt that humans can have in every relationships. The music video is animated and here you can read the lyrics too.
Έπειτα από το νέο μας look στο LOMW, χρειαζόμασταν οπωσδήποτε και μια ολοκαίνουρια είσοδο στην κατηγορία, συνεντεύξεις εξ αποστάσεως. Ο σημερινός μας καλεσμένος είπε αμέσως το μεγάλο ναι και σήμερα έχουμε την τιμή να σας παρουσιάζουμε τον Joel Baker. Ετοιμαστείτε να διαβάσετε για τα πάντα! Παιδιά χρόνια, σχέδια, φόβοι, Θεός, άλμπουμ, πολιτική!
JB: Γράφω από το διαμέρισμα ενός φίλου μου στο Holloway του Λονδίνου- όπου ηχογραφώ πάντα την μουσική μου- ενώ παρακολουθώ το ματς Manchester United-Chelsea.
LOMW: Welcome on LOMW, Joel! I hope you have fun with this Q&A. First of all, tell us, from where exactly are you answering this?
JB: I'm writing this from my friend's flat in Holloway, London – where I record all my music – whilst watching Manchester United vs Chelsea.


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NEW ALBUM: FEWS – Means
Filed Under: Album/EP — By: Elke Nominikat
"Means", the debut album by FEWS, is an example for the famous Aristotle quote "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" because each track on the album is a little gem in itself, yet when thrown together onto one record, arranged nicely, they begin to shine even more and dazzle the listener. That's when synergy starts.
Here's a quick look at the album track by track:
"I.D." – is a great instrumental intro into an alluring album.
"The Zoo" – released as the second single, which we made Song Pick of the Day
"Drinking Games" – is a playful song with urgent guitars and drums.
"The Queen" – is kind of majestic.
"10 Things" – could also easily be released as a single with it's high hit potential and a similar restlessness as "100 Goosebumps"
"100 Goosebumps" – amazing track, for which we featured the stunning band video.
"Keep On Telling Myself" – maybe the moodiest and slowest track of them all.
"If Things Go On Like This" – the newest single release.
"Zlatan" – the title refers to a Swedish soccer player.
"III" – the track that got released first and my current favorite song on the album of an album with 10 favorites. This track is mesmerizing, slightly moody but not too much, chiming guitars, nice effects all around. And it lasts for 8:17 minutes so there's plenty of the good.
Having been fortunate to be able to listen to the album for a few weeks already, and truly digging it, I had plenty of time to think about what I could compare it to, looking for another band's debut album. And the more I thought about it, the more I couldn't help but wanting to compare it to U2's debut album "Boy", in regards to its overall approach, the shimmering guitars and strong songwriting but with 36 years between them. I would certainly wish FEWS a successful career and will always treasure the times when I could still see them play small venues.
Follow FEWS on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The album is out now on Play It Again Sam. Get it on iTunes.
Go and catch FEWS live:
FEWS Tour Dates
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Schmidt knows Jones is not short of knowledge about Ireland
Former Munster full-back played a part in 2017 summer tour.
Published: 30 August 2019 - 12.00am
By Press Association Published: 30 August 2019 - 12.00am
Joe Schmidt fears South Africa might have recruited a World Cup quarter-final mole in Felix Jones.
Boss Schmidt lamented the Springboks appointing ex-Munster full-back and coach Jones to their World Cup set-up as "awkward" considering his inside knowledge on the Ireland camp.
Jones formed part of Ireland's backroom staff for the 2017 summer tour to Japan, and head coach Schmidt admitted the 32-year-old's intimate knowledge of his side's set-up could prove costly at the fast-approaching global battle.
Felix Jones has knowledge (PA)
Ireland could well face former Munster boss Rassie Erasmus' Springboks in the quarter-finals in Japan, leaving Schmidt frustrated Jones could not be tempted to stay on home shores.
"It's an awkward situation with Felix, I'd like a long chat with him on Wednesday," said Schmidt.
"It's a fantastic opportunity for him to go to a World Cup with a team that are on a massive upward swing.
"It's awkward because – you don't have to be a rocket scientist – he came to Japan with us the last time, so he was right in amongst us.
Joe Schmidt is looking forward to the contest (PA)
"He was with us, he's seen everything that we deliver and would have a great knowledge of even the language we use in our camp, so it's awkward for us.
"There were a couple of opportunities here, but I'd be a massive fan of what Felix has got to offer in the future, and it will be a great learning experience for him.
"I just hope that we don't suffer as a consequence because he's a smart coach, he already knows a lot about us and if we do get to a quarter-final it has to be either New Zealand, South Africa or Italy that we do play against.
"That would mean he could be directly opposite us on the coaching bench."
Jones won 13 caps between 2011 and 2015 with Schmidt often insisting the reliable last line of defence would have featured far more but for the outstanding full-back Rob Kearney.
Rob Kearney was hard to shift (PA)
Despite Jones' extensive knowledge of Ireland's current regime, Schmidt insisted he will not be driven to any changes – even a simple switch in terminology.
Asked if he could be tempted to alter that coaching "language" he said Jones would know so well, Schmidt replied: "Not really, because things happen so fast and sometimes if you have some prior knowledge and you say 'this means that' and 'that means this', sometimes when you've fatigued you're adding clutter, and not giving clarity.
"In the end you need to be clear. So if they become too cluttered, that might be a good thing.
"I can't control what Jonesy does. Those days are gone. Once he played full-back for me and I had a little bit of influence but even that, having coached him, he's a champion player, a champion bloke and I think he's going to be a really good coach.
"I just hope he delays that by a couple of months and is pretty average for the next two months. That would be good."


Will CorelDraw 8 work on XP?
reference or suggested workarounds for this problem.
document under Windows XP. I have yet to do this successfully.
Corel 10 or 11 all day long without any problems.
upgrade we just went though pointless.
document natively? That might be an acceptable workaround for now.
11. does 6.0 work with XP?


I remember when music blogging was one of my new endeavors, where as now it feels like a daily activity that seems to happen routinely, almost with no effort now. It's great to look back on everything I've wrote, and especially to look back on the connections I made. One of my first as an EARMILK writer came from an indie/electronic, Jamaica, Queens based trio name Neonfaith. Members Lay and Fef originally hooked up to produce hip hop tracks for Queens-based music collective Audio Never Dies (A.N.D.), but both were drawn to the innovative sounds that were emerging from the ever changing genre. With the intent of carving out a unique spin on the indie game, Neonfaith was formed and Megan Faye was rightfully recruited to back the vocals.
If you remember, I first introduced you to them by sharing their debut self-titled EP, a gem that garnered a good amount of first impressions in that short week of October. We saw extremely gritty appeals, followed by even darker tones. I love the style of Neonfaith because even when it seems like indie can't get any lighter, these guys swoop in with a darker style then Bane in a black hole.
Today they release the the first single off of their next EP, titled "Between the Lines." Listen in now and grab the free download of their self-titled EP from their website, and our second EP, Jungle Fever, will be coming out in August.


Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut has teamed up with Nestle to create the world's first candy bar made from ruby chocolate.
As if Kit Kat flavors like Sake, Sweet Potato and Strawberry Cheesecake weren't unique enough, Japan has upped the ante by debuting a millennial-pink version of the wafer-filled chocolate bar.
The limited-edition "KitKat Chocolatory Sublime Ruby," which made its world debut Jan. 19, is the first product in the world to utilize the newly-invented ruby chocolate, the first new, natural chocolate to hit the market in 80 years.
Chef Yasumasa Takagi, owner and head chef of Le Patissier Takagi in Tokyo, Japan, is behind the delicately-colored bar.
"I have created an especially simple KitKat that allows you to enjoy the characteristic fruity fragrance and subtle acidity of ruby cacao to the fullest," Takagi said in a news release.
Of course, this isn't the first over-the-top Kit Kat product to make a splash. Last fall, Taco Bell released a tortilla stuffed with melted Kit Kats, and we've also seen a Halloween-themed, pumpkin pie-flavored Kit Kat and a Red Velvet Kit Kat bar for Valentine's Day.
The Sublime Ruby KitKat will be available for a limited time in KITKAT Chocolatory boutiques in both Japan and Korea, and it will also be sold in 80 pop-up throughout Japan. You can also get it online.
Anna Lingeris, senior communications manager for Hershey, which distributes Kit Kats in the U.S., told TODAY Food there are currently no plans to bring the Sublime Ruby bar stateside. However, she said that Hershey continues "to explore bringing new items, like ruby, and special flavors into our iconic brand line up based on what our fans are telling us they want," sharing that the company recently expanded the Kit Kat Dark bar due to customer requests.
So if you want the pink chocolate Kit Kat, you'd better let Hershey know!
If you simply must try the ruby-hued bar, you can actually order them from Japan beginning early February. They'll be available in five- or seven-piece boxes, containing other Japanese Kit Kat flavors and will retail for up to $22. But if you just can't wait til next month, you may have to settle for the strawberry KitKat, which is the closest thing we have in America. Though it was a limited-edition flavor, you can still buy them online at Amazon.


Dental Insurance Kentucky – Find It Here!
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Recent studies have discovered a marked link between gum disease and such general but serious illnesses as heart disease, diabetes, cancer and even some complications with pregnancy. What these new studies seem to indicate is that dental care is much more important for our health then it is cosmetic although you also can't discount the value of a beautiful white smile. Dental insurance Kentucky can help you save money while maintaining both your health and your white smile.
At Preferred Insurance Group we know that sometimes it is nice to have a friend in the business. That is why we are with you every step of the way helping you find the insurance products and options that best fit your lifestyle and budget to filling out those complicated application forms and we are still here even after you buy your policy. Insurance of any kind can be complicated with new laws and policies so we stand by our clients every step of the way.
We can even help you file claims and support you if you ever have a problem with your policy or carrier. Just give us a call toll free at 877-334-1597. Or if you are really a do-it-yourselfer at heart you can click on the link above and check out a few quotes for great dental insurance Kentucky yourself; it's fast, free and there is absolutely no obligation.


This is a pretty, printable collage sheet of gift tags I created from this lovely white rose image I posted here. I've also given you the digital image of the blank gift tag design so you can create any size gift tag you desire. The digital rose label is gorgeous on its own, but I just had to create a project with all the inspiration it's given me. These 10, blank printable gift tags measure approximately 2.5" x 4", so they're a perfect size for gift tags, hang tags, or any kind of tags you have in mind. I hope you enjoy this beautiful printable gift tag collage sheet for all your gifts!
You're welcome, Jenny! I hope you enjoy them. That rose is so delicious I just had to do something with it!
Your so sweet these are beautiful! Would be great to use as labels for craft bins, boxes etc too. Endless ways. Thank-you!!
Thank you, Linda, for your kind comment. And, thank you for your wonderful ideas. Such great inspiration!


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International Advertising Association (IAA) India Chapter brings back its annual property, the Olive Crown Awards in its 7th edition. IAA recently announced the call for entries, inviting applications across 20 categories from the marketing and advertising fraternity for the IAA Olive Crown Awards in 2017. The Awards, recognize creative excellence in communicating sustainability or "green" advertising, and have been embraced by the entire industry. Entries will be accepted till 15th February 2017.
The awards will be presented across 20 different categories, which include the coveted title of the Green Crusader of the Year as well as Campaign of the Year, Green Advertiser of the Year, Green Agency of the Year and Young Green Writer of the Year among others. There is also one special Corporate Social Crusader Award for companies who believe that doing good, is good for business. An eminent jury has been invited to judge these awards.
Over the years the IAA Olive Crown Awards have grown in stature and are a unique way of celebrating excellence in creativity that encourages sustainability, and builds consciousness towards the environment.


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Grandmaster Flash Quotes & Sayings
Grandmaster Flash Topics
What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.
We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.
We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit.
We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.
The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.
So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?
Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.
I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now.
I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song.
I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc.
Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.
For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.
For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times.
For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.
Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.
Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft.
But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.
As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.
All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.
Complicated Life
Daughter Birthday


The National Post column of Warren Kinsella has died. It was, ... oh, who honestly cares how old it was?
Removal crews are expected at National Post headquarters next week to begin trucking away stacks of unused headlines, some of which are expected to be auctioned off at Liberal fundraising dinners in the future (your auction bid is not considered a donation, no limits, ahem, ahem, nudge, nudge, see you round the back door later with the envelope).
- that's enough headlines - Ed.
The loss of the column has been greeted with alarm by some dog trainers, who say they will now have to train their pets to defecate on another columnist's work. Owners are advised to print Kinsella blog posts in the interim to help their animals adjust.
The food processing industry reacted favourably, however, with a spokesperson saying that consumers could now rest easy knowing their breakfast cereals were guaranteed not to be repackaged in recycled Kinsella.
Shares in manufacturers of personalized golf-balls were up in early trading.


New Zealand's World Cup fairytale came to an end at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane after a goalless draw with Paraguay.
In the end it was not All White on the night for Ricki Herbert's side as Slovakia's win over Italy meant the Europeans sneaked into second spot.
But New Zealand finished Group F unbeaten, having drawn with defending champions Italy and a talented Paraguay team who qualified ahead of Argentina in South America.
Playing for the first time in the tournament in the black shirts so synonymous with the country's rugby team, New Zealand began well. Shane Smeltz, who attained hero status by scoring in the 1-1 draw with Italy, blazed wildly over from outside the penalty area in the fifth minute while Middlesbrough's Chris Killen was only inches away from connecting with Simon Elliott's hanging free-kick to the far post.
When the space did open up for Paraguay Nelson Valdez overhit his cross from the left while Denis Caniza followed suit with a volley after Manchester City striker Roque Santa Cruz had lifted the ball over Tony Lochhead.
Right-back Caniza was becoming a constant threat and he hit a 20-yard swerving shot over the angle of crossbar and post and then dropped a dipping drive onto the roof of Mark Paston's net. Benfica striker Oscar Cardozo also blasted over as Paraguay finished the half on top.
Within three minutes of the restart a Lochhead cross deflected into the path of Elliott whose strike fizzed past Justo Villar's right-hand post.
Paston, who had been relatively untroubled, produced an instinctive save from new Sunderland midfielder Cristian Riveros' diving header as the South American's quality began to tell.
His heroics continued as he dived low to his right to parry substitute Edgar Benitez's shot and brilliantly tipped the ball away from Lucas Barrios when he seemed certain to score.
The last 10 minutes should have seen the charge of the All White Brigade but they had exerted so much energy in keeping Paraguay at bay there was little left in the tank, and the resulting stalemate allowed their opponents to qualify for the last 16 as group winners.


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Workforce Nutrition Alliance Reflection on 2021 Year of Action for Nutrition
Dear Partners and Friends,
As 2021, Year of Action for Nutrition, comes to a close, we are inspired to reflect on the year and what it has meant for workforce nutrition and the Workforce Nutrition Alliance.
Firstly, we would like to begin with a thank you to all of our Partners and Friends who have joined with us on this journey. Your support and direct action have helped to put the Workforce Nutrition Alliance on the global platform, and to position workforce nutrition as key towards achievement of the global nutrition goals.
It has been an exciting time, but we cannot rest on our laurels yet. There is more work to be done.
The year began with the launch of www.WorkforceNutrition.org and the announcement of leading employers coming on board as Lighthouse Leaders – including Olam International with the direct involvement of CEO Sunny Verghese – a true global leader on workforce nutrition.
Through this online platform, stakeholders can now access a growing array of tools and resources, webinar recordings, news and information, and knowledge from leaders at the forefront of workforce nutrition – as well as information and guidance for commitment making – all designed to increase the number of nutrition commitments on workforce nutrition.
This then led to workforce nutrition being recognised at both the Rome pre-summit of the United Nations Food Systems Summit in July, and the high-level summit itself in New York in September.
Workforce nutrition – and the Workforce Nutrition Alliance itself – shone even brighter in early December during the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit, and in the official side events, where it was recognised as a valuable mechanism to bring healthy nutrition to millions of people worldwide.
The announcement by one of the most influential companies – Google – that it had put engagement with the Workforce Nutrition Alliance as its number one global nutrition commitment, was something we could not have imagined at the start of the year.
At these high-profile global events, the Workforce Nutrition Alliance and workforce nutrition were also given high-level recognition by the CEO of Ajinomoto, the CEO of Olam International, the Global Health Director of Johnson & Johnson, the Global Health Director of Unilever, WBCSD, among other leading influencers. Equally important, has been the inclusion of workforce nutrition in leading data benchmarking – including key data launches by the World Benchmarking Alliance and the Access to Nutrition Initiative.
This growing awareness for workforce nutrition as a key win-win-win driver for employee health, company performance, and economic strength continues to spread to more and more audiences.
With this growing interest, the Workforce Nutrition Alliance launched its first in a series of Technical Support Programmes, designed to guide a company in the development and implementation of their own workforce nutrition programme. No less than 20 companies reaching more than 30,000 workers are now taking part in the sold-out inaugural programme that launched in October, and a second more advanced session is set to launch in January.
The Workforce Nutrition Alliance also held a growing number of learning webinars to support capacity building of employers in the area of workforce nutrition – with nearly one thousand cumulative participants from around the globe taking part throughout the year.
What has been achieved in just this short year is nothing short of remarkable, and is already beginning to have an impact on the lives of many workers – especially women, who often suffer the most from lack of healthy nutrition. It is also helping communities to build resiliency as they continue to be impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
As we now look forward to 2022 and beyond, we are excited to continue to work with you all, and to scaling up workforce nutrition to reach our goal of bringing healthy nutrition to +3 million employees and supply chain workers by 2025.
We are well on our way in this journey, and we thank you for your support.
Wishing you all a very happy holiday season,
What is Business Committing at the Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021? Statement by the Business Constituency Group CHL Coalition Takes Stock of 2021 Progress and Maps Out Priorities for the New Year Calling on All Companies to Step Up for Better Nutrition Employee Wellbeing Takes Centre Stage with New Paper & Launch of CEO-led #WellbeingWednesday CGF Participates in UN Food Systems Pre-Summit and Supports UNFSS Action Tracks
Wai-Chan Chan
Managing Director	, The Consumer Goods Forum
Executive Director	, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)


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'They earned it - now we must get momentum back' Leeds United fans react as play-offs all-but confirmed
Sheffield United's 2-0 win over Ipswich Town means that only a goal difference miracle will stop the Blades going up
Joe MewisLeeds United editor
Sheffield United's 2-0 win over Ipswich on Saturday evening has all-but confirmed the Blades place in the Premier League.
Only a Leeds United win on Sunday then a goal difference miracle on the last day of the season will prevent Chris Wilder's side from playing in the top tier next season, as the Whites are now left to contemplate a play-off run.
A 24th minute opener from Scott Hogan and a 71st Jack O'Connor header secured the win over the relegated Tractor Boys, meaning Marcelo Bielsa's side go into the Sunday lunchtime clash against Villa knowing their top two dream is over.
After seeing their side lose to Wigan and Brentford over Easter to hand the Blades the initiative, plenty of Whites fans tuned into the Saturday tea-time clash hoping for a miracle, but it would not come.
Here's how they reacted to the result on social media...


Closing Date for ALL entries has been extended to April 30, 2012.
Presidency's Address to the Church will be webcast live, Sunday, April 15. Join in "Hearing Good News…Being Good News!" at 6:00 p.m. (CDT) during an inspirational worship at the Temple in Independence, Missouri, and webcast in English, French, and Spanish. President Steve Veazey will share testimony about the increasingly successful implementation of the mission initiatives. He will also share about the vision for church life and mission presented in Doctrine and Covenants 164 and what it truly means to be community through which Jesus Christ continues his mission in the world today. He will also share some personal perspective with nations preparing for national conferences in 2012 and 2013. Presidents David Schaal and Becky Savage will also share "good news." Highlights will include the Young Adult Vision Project, church growth through membership confirmations, launch of the Leaders of Congregations in Mission project, and unveiling the "look" of the hymnal that will launch in 2013. Be part of "Hearing Good News…Being Good News!"—at the Temple or at www.CofChrist.org.
Check out the mission initiative video interview series in which President Steve Veazey talks in depth with Apostle Linda Booth about Luke 4:18–19 and the five mission initiatives. Excerpts of the first of the six-part series are in the March Herald article, "Holistic Mission." Follow the entire series in the magazine. To subscribe, visit www.HeraldHouse.org or contact subscriptions@HeraldHouse.org or 1-800-767-8181. Also, see and share the videos from www.CofChrist.org/mission/Veazey-Booth-interview.asp.
Community of Christ Sings will be the name of the next Community of Christ hymnal to be launched at the Peace Colloquy in October 2013. The name "reflects the personality of the collection and who we are." See the March Herald article to see the "look" of the name. The look will also be unveiled during the First Presidency's address to the church on April 15 (www.CofChrist.org/broadcast/upcoming.asp). In a long line of distinguished hymnals, we welcome the next primary songbook of the church.
The March 2012 Witness the Word: Sermons on Demand is mailing to pastors in Australia, British Isles, Canada, and USA. We are excited to feature the first bi-lingual sermon by Apostle Carlos Mejia and Apostolic Assistant Art Smith in this edition of the series. The DVD also includes a Communion message by Apostle-designate Barbara Carter and a mission-focused sermon by President of Seventy Kris Judd. In addition to this quarter's Witness the Word DVD, a second DVD with seven short Jack and Jenn videos and lesson plans is included. Please share these videos with your congregation!
Beginning March 1, the Daily Bread is launching a free blog at www.CofChristDailyBread.wordpress.com.
The site offers content from the Daily Bread book, ability to share your comments, and the blog is mobile-friendly. Enter the URL above on any smart phone and save it to the home screen for easy viewing each day. Encourage your congregation to visit the site and subscribe to take advantage of this daily discipline!
The Herald commentary series on signal communities continues with "Signal Communities…Reflect Christ's Peace," by Apostle Linda Booth. To form signal communities we must "become fully immersed in the servant life of Christ" (Doctrine and Covenants 164:3a). Read more about the shapes these communities take.Get the series delivered free to your e-mail by subscribing at www.CofChrist.org/subscribe.asp. To subscribe to the Herald, visit www.HeraldHouse.org or contact subscriptions@HeraldHouse.org or 1-800-767-8181.
Remember World Hunger emphasis on Sunday, March 4. Please remind those planning offertory remarks to remember needs met through the Abolish Poverty, End Suffering mission initiative, which includes World Hunger ministries and grants. Information and resources are at www.CofChrist.org/hunger.
Get to know more about Jim Poirier, member-designate of the Presiding Bishopric. Apostle Linda Booth interviewed Jim. Excerpts are published in the March Herald. To see the interview, visit our online Media Archives at www.CofChrist.org/broadcast/2012archive.asp.
The latest health brief from Community of Christ Health Ministries Association is about careful handling and disposing of medications. Prescriptions are required for medications that are unsafe to use without guidance of a healthcare professional. If we value our children and youth, we will not create a hazard or a stumbling block to them, like leaving medications, especially prescriptions, where they can get to them. Identity theft for medication fraud can also be a problem. Be sure to share the information and tips about medications with your congregation, friends, and family. All health briefs can be found at www.hmaCofChrist.org.
Community of Christ Educators Association is accepting applications for the 2012 $500 scholarships for any church member majoring in education. Applicants must be entering their junior year of college. The application is due by May 1 and can be found at http://CofC3.org/educators. Please download and mail it with all other required information to the address on the application. E-mail cfrerking@att.net if you have questions or comments.
•"live into" shared practices of Christian discipleship that create a congregational culture shaped by the mission of Jesus Christ.
•engage the gifts of all ages in mission.
•carry out the basic elements of organization and administration required for a well-functioning congregation.
Arrangements are being made with mission center presidents to provide print copies for congregational leaders who do not have adequate Internet access. As you continue grounding your leadership in a relationship with Christ, this field guide will provide practical ways to give that leadership expression through the life of the congregation.
We are saving trees and postage! Thanks to the availability of e-mail addresses in Shelby for pastors, seventy, and field specialists in Canada and the USA, and those who have proactively signed up for an e-subscription, we are now printing and mailing significantly less paper copies of the 10-Minute News Report. You are part of helping uphold the Sacredness of Creation by saving paper, printing, and postage. Anyone can get a free e-subscription to the 10-Minute News Report at www.CofChrist.org/subscribe.asp.
How does your congregation support the mission initiatives? How do you Invite People to Christ; Abolish Poverty, End Suffering; Pursue Peace on Earth; Develop Disciples to Serve; and Experience Congregations in Mission? All five are needed to be true to the whole mission of Jesus Christ. Please send photos and stories to Herald@CofChrist.org. Share good news with sisters and brothers who may read your story in the Herald and be inspired.
Register now for MEADS (Ministerial Education and Discipleship Studies)! August 6–10 courses at Community of Christ Temple in Independence, Missouri, are: Spiritual Formation with Bruce Crockett, 8:30 a.m.–noon; and Mission and Evangelism with Karin Peter, 1:30–5:00 p.m. Cost is $88 per class, or $175 for both. Also offered is Young Adult Ministries with Erica Blevins Nye, 1:30–5:00 p.m. for $35. This course is for Temple School credit and does not go towards MEADS certification. For more information and course syllabi, visit www.CofChrist.org/meads/schedule.asp. To register contact Michelle Booth: mbooth@CofChrist.org, ext. 1459.
Are you involved in, or interested in being involved, in prison ministries? A Community of Christ prison ministry group based in Kansas City, Missouri, wants to network with and assist others in prison ministry across the USA. Please send your name, address, e-mail, and the congregation you attend to prisonministry@live.com. If you know an incarcerated person who might want Community of Christ contact, please send their information to prisonministry@live.com.
A brief worship service is held daily at 1:00 p.m. central time at the Temple. Join us in prayer from wherever you are. For details and the text of each day's prayer, visit www.CofChrist.org/prayerpeace/.
BC and Alberta, remember to turn your clocks forward one hour on Saturday night when you go to bed.


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Five killed, 15 injured in DR Congo church bomb attack
Five people have been killed while 15 sustained injuries in a bomb attack during a service at a Protestant church in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Sunday.
A spokesman for the DRC army, Anthony Mualushay, told reporters the attack during the Sunday service in the city of Kasindi on the border with Uganda, was likely carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group with links to the Islamic State terrorists.
"Despite the security measures put in place, the first indications show that it is the ADF which is behind this bomb attack," Mualushay said.
A resident of the Kasindi province, Alain Kitsa, who also spoke with journalists, said he saw bodies of children at the scene of the bomb attack.
"I just came back from the scene, where I saw the bodies of children on the ground," Kitsa said, describing the atmosphere in the town as tense.
However, the ADF, a rebel group which began as an uprising in Uganda and has been in the DRC since the late 1990s, has not claimed responsibility for the bombing.
The group, in 2019 pledged allegiance to ISIL and has been accused of killing hundreds of villagers in several attacks over the past two years.
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The M23 rebels have announced that its fighters have seized control of the strategic town of Kitshanga, in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after days of intense fighting.
The DRC military authorities also confirmed in a statement late on Friday that its forces have withdrawn from the town in a tactical move to protect civilians in the face of a renewed offensive by the rebel militia.
"We have tactically withdrawn from the city in order to attract these genocidal forces deep into the city and avoid the worst for our people in Kitshanga," spokesman for the military governor of North Kivu, Lieutenant-Colonel Guillaume Ndjike, said in the statement.
"We are making every effort to dislodge this enemy," he added.
Videos then emerged on social media showing the M23 fighters celebrating and claiming they had captured the town.
The M23 rebels said it took control of Kitshanga town on Thursday night after capturing several villages on the road linking the town of about 60,000 people to the provincial capital, Goma.
In an earlier statement, M23′s spokesman, Lawrence Kanyuka, has accused government troops of attacking civilians in Kitchanga and elsewhere, and said the rebel group was "obliged to intervene and stop another genocide".
While condemning the recent development, the UN peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO), said more than 500 people, including women and children, are seeking refuge at its base in the town of Kitshanga.
MONUSCO spokesperson, Ndeye Khady Lo, said civilians fleeing from Kitchanga have been given tents, food, water and first aid.
Not less than 237 African migrants were on Friday, rescued after their makeshift boat capsized off the Libyan coast while navigating the dangerous Mediterranean Sea, on their way to Europe.
French medical charity, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which carried out the rescue mission, said the migrants were rescued by its chartered rescue vessel, Geo Barents, which was sailing in the Mediterranean Sea, north of the country's capital Tripoli, when it received a distress call.
"The Geo Barents ship encountered other overcrowded rubber dinghies with migrants attempting to reach Europe and took them on board," the NGO said.
"Following instructions by the maritime rescue coordination centre, the ship then sailed towards the northern Italian port of La Spezia.l," it added.
The MSF and other NGOs operating rescue vessels off Africa's northern coast have accused the Italian government of deliberately assigning far away ports to discourage their operations, an accusation the Italian Interior Ministry had denied.


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Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen en Baron Caroly (Dutch for 'City Museum Wuyts-Van Campen and Baron Caroly') was a fine arts museum located in the city centre of Lier, Belgium. The permanent exhibition offered an overview of mainly Flemish, Belgian and Dutch paintings from the 16th to the 20th century.  In addition, the museum holds a collection of objets d'art.

History
The museum took its name from two legacies: the first by Jacob Jozef Wuyts made in 1887 and the second by Baron Georges Caroly made in 1935.

The building which houses the museum originally dates from the second quarter of the 18th century and was remodelled after a design by city architect FH Cox in the period 1891-1892. The museum was officially inaugurated on 16 October 1892.  A second hall was added in 1904-1905 after a design by M. Van Ockelyen.  Further expansions took place in 1936-1946 after designs by C. Sol.  The museum buildings are executed in a neo-Gothic style.

The address of the museum is Florent Van Cauwenberghstraat 14, Lier, Belgium.

Permanent collection

The permanent exhibition offers an overview of mainly Flemish, Dutch and Belgian paintings from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Noteworthy are a number of works by Flemish masters such as Frans Floris, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Peter Paul Rubens, and modernists such as Raymond de la Haye .

In 2009 a visiting Spanish scholar discovered that a painting of a Madonna and Child kept in the museum's storage is actually an early work by the 17th century Spanish master Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.

Besides paintings, the collection also includes drawings, prints, silver and ceramics. The collection was also expanded with around 92 drawings, including Italian works, from the Verhoeven bequest.

At the end of February 2018, the Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen & Baron Caroly has been closed. At the end of September 2018, it was reopened as stadsmuseum Lier.

References

External links

Art museums and galleries in Belgium
Lier, Belgium

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La calle Regla es una vía pública de la ciudad española de Oviedo.

Descripción
La vía debe el nombre a las heredades próximas al lugar antes de que este se urbanizase. Discurre en la actualidad desde la calle Postigo Alto hasta Juan Escalante de Mendoza, y tiene cruces con el pasaje de Luis Muñiz y la calle Postigo Bajo. Aparece descrita en El libro de Oviedo (1887) de Fermín Canella y Secades con las siguientes palabras:

Véase también
Anexo:Calles de Oviedo

Referencias

Bibliografía

Calles de Oviedo


Known as "The Little Arab"
St. Mary of Jesus Crucified, OCD, born Mariam Baouardy (alt. sp. Bowardy), was a Discalced Carmelite nun of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. She was canonized in Rome on May 17, 2015, along with St. Maria Alphonsina Ghattas—both of whom had mystical experiences and lived and died in the Holy Land during the second half of the 19th Century. (Her feast day was set for August 26th). Born to Greek Catholic parents from Syria and Lebanon, Sr. Mariam, also known as "the Little Arab," was a mystic who experienced the stigmata and was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. She was born on January 5, 1846 (the eve of Epiphany), in the village of I'billin, the region of Southern Syria in the Ottoman Empire, now in Israel, to Giries (George) Baouardy and his wife, Mariam Chahine, both of Damascene ancestry. Mariam was their thirteenth child and first daughter (none of her preceding brothers had survived infancy). Their grief was immense at the loss of all twelve of their children. Broken-hearted, but full of hope, the mother had an inspiration that she confided to her husband: "Let us go to Bethlehem on foot, and ask the Blessed Virgin for a daughter. Let us promise her that if our prayers are answered, we will name her Mariam…" They traveled the 70 miles to Bethlehem and were later blessed with the birth of Mariam. She was joined by a new brother, Boulos, two years later.
However, when Mariam was only two years old and her brother an infant, both her mother and father died within a few days of each other of an unknown disease. An aunt later related to Mariam her father`s last words. Looking at a picture of St. Joseph, he murmured. "Great saint, here is my child; the Blessed Virgin is her mother; deign to look after her also; be her Father." A maternal aunt, living in Tarshish, took her younger brother Boulos into her home; Mariam was adopted by a paternal uncle in her hometown of Ibillin and raised in a loving home in comfortable circumstances. The brother and sister were never to see each other again. As a child she had a marked spirit of religious fervor. One incident from the time of her childhood revealed significant insight into her character and clearly indicated the direction of her life to come. It took place in her uncle's orchard amidst the apricot, peach, and pecan trees. She kept a small cage filled with small birds, a gift given to her. One day she decided that her little beloved birds needed a bath. However, she unintentionally drowned them in spite of her well-intentioned efforts. Their death broke her small heart. Grief-stricken, she eventually decided to bury them when deep inside she heard a clear voice, "This is how everything passes. If you will give me your heart, I shall always remain with you." These words penetrated and took root in the young heart of Mariam.
When Mariam was eight, her uncle and his wife moved to Alexandria, Egypt, to improve their situation. Later in a "dream" that she was always to remember, she saw a merchant come into her uncle`s house and offer a fine big fish for sale. She understood that the fish was poisoned, and then she woke up. "It was only a dream!," she told herself. But in the morning a man did showed up to sell a fish just like the one in her dream. She warned her uncle, who nevertheless stubbornly persisted in wanting to buy the fish. Mariam wept and insisted that her uncle not eat the fish, and since he would not give in, she insisted that she should take the first bite, happy to sacrifice herself for the others. In the face of her persistence, her uncle and aunt finally opened the fish, and to their great astonishment and surprise the fish was indeed poisoned, as it had swallowed a small poisonous snake! The Blessed Virgin was a big part of her life. In her honor, from the age of five, she fasted every Saturday, taking only the evening meal. In the springtime she would gather flowers—choosing the loveliest and most fragrant from the garden or on the hills of Ibillin to place before the icon of the Blessed Virgin. One day she found that the cut flowers had taken root in the vase. She showed her uncle who, in turn informed the local pastor. In an effort to keep her humble, he scolded her as though her sins were responsible for this phenomenon. Mariam fell on her knees, humbled herself, and asked pardon for her sins. "What do you think will become of this child?" wondered the pastor, the relatives, and the neighbors at the sight of such spiritual piety and devotion from a five year old child.
In 1858 when she was 13, in keeping with tradition, she was engaged by her uncle to his wife's brother, who lived in Cairo. In her great distress, she could not sleep the night before the wedding ceremony, and she prayed fervently that God might intervene, or show her His holy will. In the depths of her heart she again heard a familiar voice, "Everything passes! If you wish to give me your heart, I will remain with you." Mariam knew it was Jesus' voice, the only spouse she would have! The remainder of the night was spent in deep prayer before the icon of the Virgin Mary, beseeching her for her help. Having dozed off for a moment, she suddenly heard within her a voice which said "Mariam, I am with you; follow the inspiration I shall give you. I will help you." In the morning Mariam informed her Uncle that she would not marry. He first tried to reason with her, explaining the material advantages and benefits of a prearranged marriage. Her adoptive uncle then flew into a wild rage when he saw that Mariam would not marry but would remain a virgin. He beat her and screamed at her for her insubordination and disobedience. This did not change Mariam's mind, and she withstood the beatings and insults hurled at her by her uncle. Mariam's heart was deeply saddened that she had upset her uncle, but she stood firm in her resolve, for her love for God was greater than anything else.
In punishment, her uncle then resorted to treating her as the lowest household servant, giving her the most difficult kitchen tasks, and subjecting her to a position lower than his hired help. Mariam sank into a deep sense of desolation and desperation. In her suffering she wrote to her younger brother, Boulos, then living in Nazareth, and invited him to come and see her in Alexandria. The young male servant she asked to deliver the letter then attempted to woo her. She rejected his proposal, which caused the young man to fly into a rage. He drew a knife and cut her throat. Thinking her dead, he dumped her body in a nearby dark alley. It was the feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8, 1858. What followed was a strange and beautifully-moving story, told years later by Mariam to her Mistress of Novices at Marseilles, France: "A nun dressed in blue picked me up and stitched my throat wound. This happened in a grotto somewhere. I then found myself in heaven with the Blessed Virgin, the angels and the saints. They treated me with great kindness. In their company were my parents. I saw the brilliant throne of the Most Holy Trinity and Jesus Christ in His humanity. There was no sun, no lamp, but everything was bright with light. Someone spoke to me and said that my book was not finished."
Mariam never saw her aunt and uncle again. They knew nothing of the tragedy and they thought that Mariam had run away to escape their ill treatment and to perhaps become a nun. They had every interest in keeping silent about their adopted child, as she could only bring them dishonor by her refusal to marriage. She was only thirteen and was now on her own. At first she supported herself by working as a domestic servant. An Arab Christian family named Najjar hired her to work for them. They gave her food, room and a small salary. She lived as one of the poor, with just one dress, and she gave her salary to the poor, except for a few piastres to provide oil for the little lamp that burned before an icon of the Blessed Virgin. Her spare time she devoted to the less fortunate. Hoping to see her brother, and especially desiring to walk in the footsteps of the Lord and to visit His holy places, after about a year she left and joined a caravan that was heading for Jerusalem. One day, when she was fifteen years old, a handsome young man approached her and spoke to her in praise of perfect chastity. Some days later he met her again, said his name was John George, and offered to show her the way to the Holy Sepulcher. Having arrived at the holy place, she promised her mysterious guide that she would take a perpetual vow of virginity if he would do the same. And thus it was that at the sacred edifice, on the very place of the glorious tomb of the risen Lord Jesus, these two young people became "children of the Resurrection" by pronouncing the definitive vow of chastity. Before taking leave of Mariam, John George recalled to her the main stages of her life as the Blessed Virgin had sketched them for her in the grotto of Alexandria. Ten years later at Mangalore, India, Mariam was to see her "spiritual brother" again; this was shortly before her perpetual profession in Carmel. The young religious then understood that John George was an angel that the Lord had sent her, to help guide her, as he had in former days to the young Tobias. After her stay in Jerusalem, Mariam returned to Jaffa to go from there to Saint Jean d`Arc; however, the boat she was travelling on was forced by inclement weather to change direction and to port in Beirut. Feeling it was perhaps the will of God, she once again took up an occupation as a household servant.
There she felt inspired to make a vow of perpetual virginity at the Holy Sepulcher. She then took a boat in Jaffa with the intention of heading to Arc in France. Due to poor weather, however, the boat had to stop at Beirut. Taking this as a sign from God, she disembarked and found work as a maid. Two exceptional facts stand out during this period. She had been working for scarcely six months when suddenly she was struck with total blindness. This lasted for forty days. Once again Mariam turned to the Blessed Virgin, "See, my Mother," she said, "all the trouble that I am causing in this house. I was not even better cared for by my parents. Oh, if it would please you and your divine Son, give me back my sight!" Immediately something fell from her eyes and they opened, and she could then once again see.
A couple of months after that, she suffered a tragic fall when she was hanging clothes on the terrace. At first the family for whom she was working thought she was dead; her bones seemed to be badly broken and crushed, and the doctors gave no hope of recovery. Her employers cared for her as for their own child. A month later, in front of her little night lamp that she kept burning before a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she saw—as did St. Therese of the Child Jesus later on—the Blessed Virgin smile at her, recommending three things to her, obedience, charity and confidence. A perfume and light filled the room. Mariam was cured, and she immediately became hungry. The family and neighbors came flocking in, and at the sight of the prodigy everyone, Christian and Moslem, went down on their knees, giving thanks and proclaiming God`s miracle through the Virgin Mary.
These facts were later confirmed in a letter in 1869, when the prioress of the Carmel of Pau where Mariam was then a sister, wrote to Sister Gélas, the superior of the Daughters of Charity of Beirut, asking her to verify the accuracy of these facts, and the superior confirmed that the events had happened exactly as stated, and even added some further details. At age eighteen, circumstances led her to leave Lebanon for Marseille, France at the beginning of May, 1863. There she became a cook for an Arab woman named Madame Naggiar. Each morning Mariam usually went either to the church of St. Charles or to the church of St. Nicholas, the latter being of the Greek Catholic rite, which was her rite. In this church she once again enjoyed the sumptuous ceremonies of the confessor she chose a Lebanese priest, Fr. Philip Abdou, who was the rector of the church.
During one of her first communions there, she was rapt in a wonderful ecstasy. Her mistress, when informed of it, came for her in her carriage. The phenomenon lasted for four days, and the doctors did not know what to make of it. Mariam acknowledged later that she had gone through heaven, hell and purgatory. While in ecstasy she received the order to fast for one year on bread and water to expiate the sins of gluttony in the world, and to wear poor clothing to expiate the sins of immodesty and luxury. As stated earlier, while Mariam was in the marketplace of Jerusalem, she had been approached by a handsome young man who gave her excellent counsel. In Marseille, one morning when she was going up to Notre Dame de la Garde for Mass, she saw she was being followed by a man who was holding a child by the hand. This happened several times. Troubled by such persistence, Mariam approached the stranger and asked him to please stop following her. Surprisingly, the stranger answered with a beautiful smile and said: "I know that you want to enter the convent, and I will follow you until you are in the convent."
From that moment onward, Mariam felt herself called to the religious life. Who was this stranger? The young girl had no doubt that it was St. Joseph. In her efforts to follow her vocation, Fr. Abdou was of great help to her. But, as always in her life, the stages were many and laborious. The young Palestinian went first to the Daughters of Charity and applied to enter. Forestalled by Madame Naggiar, who did not want at any price to be deprived of her cook, they refused under the pretext that she was a servant. Mariam then went to see the Poor Clares, whose style of poverty and silence appealed to her immediately. But her delicate health did not allow her to enter the cloister; she had been so greatly weakened by her fast that she had been given the sacrament of the sick. But once again, rapidly and contrary to all expectations, she found herself cured.
She made a fresh attempt to enter the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, founded by Emily de Vialar. For it was St. Joseph who had appeared to her repeatedly in the street encouraging her to become a nun. The motherhouse and novitiate were located at "the Capelette" in the suburbs of Marseille. The little Palestinian could neither read nor write, and she spoke only Arabic. She was accepted, however, because the novitiate in fact had a few Palestinians among its numbers, and the Congregation had several communities in the East, especially in the Holy Land. Upon entering, she was familiarly called "Mariam the Arab," or "the little Arab." She remained a postulant for two years. Thus the first part of the vocation that had been given to her by the Blessed Virgin had been realized, for she was now a daughter of St. Joseph.
Her fellow sisters were always amused by her broken French, but they were most impressed by her remarkable virtues and piety. Fortunately for Mariam, two women of great virtue were directing the Capelette at that time, the Superior General, Mother Emily Julien, and the Mistress of novices, Mother Honorine Piques. They were excellent spiritual guides for Mariam. To their surprise, they soon began to notice some strange phenomena in the little Arab. In January 1866, when Mariam was twenty years old, Mother Honorine came upon her in the dormitory, prostrate, with her face to the floor and her left hand covered with blood. From Wednesday evening to Friday morning each week, there soon was added another remarkable phenomenon, the stigmata. The stigmata of the heart was the first to be manifested (in August, 1866, at Marseille). She was praying in the chapel one evening, when, in the tabernacle she saw Jesus, who appeared to her with His five wounds and the crown of thorns. It seemed to her she saw coals of wrath in His hands. She heard Jesus say to His Mother prostrate at His feet: "Oh, how My Father is offended!" The little postulant then sprang toward Jesus and, putting her hand on the wound of His Heart, exclaimed, "My God, give me, please, all these sufferings, but have mercy on sinners." Coming out of the ecstasy, she saw her hand covered with blood and experienced a severe pain in her left side (the latter would bleed every Friday).
On March 27, 1867, the other stigmata appeared. The privileged one of the Crucified confided to the mistress of novices: "It seemed to me that I was gathering roses to decorate Mary´s altar: these roses appeared to have thorns on both sides, and the thorns were thrust in my hands and into my feet. When I came to myself, my mouth was very bitter, my feet and hands swollen: in the middle of my hands and on my feet there were black bumps." The following day, Thursday, the sufferings continued to increase until Friday. It was the Feast of the five wounds of Christ. In the morning, about ten o'clock, the black scabs fell off, the crown of thorns appeared on her forehead, and blood flowed from her head and feet. The prodigy was renewed during the months of April and the first two weeks of May. It ceased upon an order of the mistress of novices. This latter, in order to put an end to the rumors that were circulating in the community, asked the postulant to obtain from God that nothing would appear exteriorly. To the great joy of the stigmatist, the wounds closed and healed up.
Faced with such facts, Mother Honorine acted with as much prudence as understanding in regards to both the ecstasies and also the stigmata. Obedience being, in such cases, the litmus test of the Church, she thus forbade Mariam to have ecstasies during the day and in the presence of the religious. Even during the night she was not to get up, and she was not to attract attention. Mariam obeyed, and God, Whom loves obedience, seconded and approved of her actions . The Mistress of novices, seeing that she was dealing with a person extraordinarily fashioned by the Holy Spirit, asked the child to relate for her what she remembered of her childhood and adolescence. Everything was put in writing. One copy would later be sent to the Carmel of Pau with this note of Mother Honorine, "I am sending you copy of what I myself have gathered together from what she related to me, not without much resistance, but complying solely through obedience. She asked of me the greatest secrecy which I have guarded until this day... I have omitted everything I did not entirely understand, because of the difficulty this dear child experienced in explaining herself in French."
Mother Honorine fell ill, and was replaced in the novitiate by Mother Veronica. This religious was to hold a large place in the life and heart of Mariam. She was English and a convert from Anglicanism. After seventeen years of religious life with the Sisters of St. Joseph, she was later to enter the Carmel of Pau with Mariam, and it was in her arms that "the little Arab" would die, at the Carmel of Bethlehem. Mariam, had foretold that, contrary to all expectations, Sister Veronica would become mistress of novices at the Capelette. She held this office for one month, until the reception of the Indult permitting her to enter Carmel. And it was at Mother Veronica's wish that Mariam`s stigmata disappeared at Marseille, and in accordance with Mariam's prophecy at that time, the stigmata would not reappear until the following Lent, at Pau.
As may be imagined in such a large and diverse community, Mariam became an object of contradiction. While the majority of religious were favorable to her, there was a group of Sisters who were in opposition to her because of the extraordinary mystical graces that was receiving. For such is a common problem with mystics and victim souls who are called to religious life. After all, is such a person with such strange manifestations suitable for an active congregation? And then, with regard to such phenomena, were they authentic? The day came for the vote for admission to the novitiate. Of the seven eligible to vote, there were two abstentions, two in favor and three against. Mariam was not admitted!
It was a hard blow, first of all for Mother Honorine, who had good reasons to believe in her manner of life. As for the Superior General who, absent at the time of the vote, declared later at her return that, had she been present, that would never have happened. Later, on December 12, 1868, the Mother Superior wrote to the Prioress of the Carmel of Pau, "Our ecclesiastical superiors did not believe we should keep her in our midst, saying that a cloister was a better place to hide such souls. Our sisters obeyed. And so you now have this privileged soul. May God be praised for it!" Obviously the blow was hardest for Mariam. What was to become of her? Unknown to her the Holy Spirit was preparing the next course of action for her. Mother Veronica, who had received from Rome the authorization to become a Carmelite nun and transfer to the Carmel of Pau, proposed to Mariam that she might introduce her to the Mother Prioress. Mariam agreed so Mother Veronica wrote and the reply was immediate and positive. In her letter of introduction, Mother Veronica had passed over in silence Mariam`s extraordinary mystical privileges, but she had added, "She will obey even miraculously."
Having both gained admittance into the Carmelites, the two religious presented themselves at the door of the Carmel of Pau, France on Saturday, June 15, 1867. Mariam knew nothing at all of Carmel or of St. Teresa. But that day she understood that the mysterious words of her miraculous nurse at Alexandria were realized, "You will be a child of St. Joseph before becoming a daughter of St. Teresa". In 1870 she went with the founding group to establish the Carmel of Mangalore in India. It was there in Mangalore that Sister Mary of Jesus Crucified made her profession. She returned to the Carmel of Pau, France in 1872. Three years later she went to the Holy Land where she built a monastery in Bethlehem and began the planning for another at Nazareth.
Those who read her life discover that Mariam had experienced ecstasies all her life: from her early childhood, in the garden, in her home, and in the church of Ibillin; during the bloody night at Alexandria, at her employers in Beirut and Marseille. In the church of St. Nicholas she was rapt in an ecstasy that lasted four days. But it was especially from the time she entered religious life that the phenomena began to be intensified. At the Capelette, when she was with the Sisters of St. Joseph, she was found in ecstasy in the chapel, at recreation, and especially at night in the dormitory.
After she entered Carmel, we note a crescendo, to the degree that at Mangalore the ecstasies occurred almost daily: she had as many as five a day. At Bethlehem, during her last years, they were still more frequent, but at the same time more serene and more painful. The ecstasies would sometimes occur suddenly, and at other times progressively. "There are times," she said, "when I can do absolutely nothing: no matter what I do to prevent it; and at other times I can distract myself a little in order not to go off." In fact she did struggle against the raptures. In her ignorance of mystical things she did not even suspect the privilege she enjoyed for she spoke of her ecstasies as "sleep" And how she fought against going to "sleep"! She begged Father Manaudas, her spiritual director, to forbid her to sleep. "My child," the priest replied, "do not worry; you can go to sleep in all security." She began to cry. She made the same request to Bishop Lacroix, who ordered her to abandon herself to God instead of struggling against such a sleep. It was in fact a real struggle. In order to resist the rapture she moved around, she shook herself, she dashed to the fountain to wash herself, she worked more diligently. She even tried pricking her skin with pins, and in refectory she put burning hot food into her mouth. Nothing helped.
To the mistress of novices, who asked her how she could easily go to sleep, she replied innocently: "I feel as though my heart is open; as though there was a wound in it; and when I have certain ideas and impressions of God which move me, it feels like someone touched the wound in my heart, and I fall in weakness, I lose myself." During her professions ceremony at Mangalore, November 21, 1871, it required an order of the prioress to awaken her so that she could pronounce the vow formula. On June 28, 1873, at Pau, the prioress went into the little one´s cell after the recitations of matins. The latter was seated before the open window: she was in ecstasy. She said to the mother prioress: "The whole world is asleep, and God so full of goodness, so great, so worthy of all praise, and hardly no one is thinking of Him! See, nature praises Him, the sky, the stars, the trees, the grass, everything praises Him, and man, who knowledge of His benefits, who ought to praise Him, sleeps! Let us go, let us go and wake up the universe!" She skipped out of her cell: "Let us go and praise God, and sing His praises. Everyone is sleeping, the whole world is asleep, let us go and wake them up. Jesus is not known, Jesus is not loved. He, so full of goodness, He who has done so much for man!"
During her ecstasies, her body sometimes remained supple, but often it became rigid, remaining in the same position that it was at the beginning of the ecstasy. During this time, nothing and no one could make her move. It was impossible to have her sit or lay down, or to take her from her any object she was holding, or to lower her raised arm. Only obedience could overcome this immobility. She was also completely insensible to any external stimulus. Once, she injured her knee with a nail, which caused her much pain and she could not help but to limp when walking due to the pain. Suddenly she was rapt in ecstasy, and remained for two hours on her knees.
"I am in God, and God is in me. I feel that all creatures, the trees, the flowers belong to God and also to me. I no longer have a will, it belongs to God. And all that is God´s is mine." Only love can fill the heart of man. The just man is satisfied with love and a pinch of earth, but the wicked man, with all the pleasures, honors, riches (he can acquire), is always hungry, always thirsty. He is never satisfied. "Pay attention to little things. Everything is great before the Lord. The Lord does not want robbery in the sacrifice. Offer and give Him everything. "In heaven, the most beautiful souls are those that have sinned the most and repented. But they made use of their miseries like manure around the base of the tree." "Be very charitable; when one of your eyes sees what is not right, shut it and then open the other one! Change everything into good." "If you love your neighbor, it is by this that you will know if you love Jesus. Each time you look at your neighbor without seeing Jesus, you fall very low."
We see in the lives of many mystic saints that an ecstatic, while in ecstasy, can be drawn a little above the ground through a supernatural and mysterious grace. However, Sister Mary of Jesus Crucified was one of the only ones, along with Saint Joseph of Cupertino, to make real flights. The phenomena was verified for the first time on June 22, 1873 in the garden of the Carmel of Pau. Noticing her absence at supper, the mistress of novices looked for her in vain in the cloister and the orchard, then another nun heard a song: "Love! Love!" She looked up and discovered Mariam balancing herself without support at the top of an enormous lime tree. Advised of this, the prioress arrived and confronted with this phenomenon she initially did not know what to do. After a prayer she addressed the little one: "Sister Mary of Jesus Crucified, if Jesus wishes it, come down through obedience without falling or hurting yourself." At the simple word obedience, the ecstatic descended in fact "with the radiant face" and perfect modesty, stopping on some of the branches to sing Love. "Hardly was she on the ground," noted a witness, "and as if to make amends to our mother and sisters for our anxiety in looking for her and in seeing her perched up so high, she embraced us with a sort of enthusiasm and affection impossible to express."
Eight ecstatic levitations were documented: Beginning in 1873 on June 22, July 9, 19,25, 27, 31, August 3, 1873 and finally on July 5, 1874. "How did you manage to climb like that?" the mother prioress asked her. And she replied: "The Lamb held out His hands to me:" Some of the nuns wanted to make sure of this so they spied on her. One day a lay sister who was working in the garden was witness to the flight: "She had taken hold of the tip of a little branch that a bird would have bent; and from there, in an instant, she had been lifted on high." On July 5, perched on the lime tree, she addressed the mother prioress: "I was on that one there and I came up here. Look, see, my alpargates (a kind of soft slipper) are still there." On July 19, 1873, when the order was given for her to descend, she hesitated a moment. She begged to be allowed more time with the Lamb. "No," insisted the prioress, "through obedience, come down." She obeyed, but the shadow of hesitation had been fatal: the vision had disappeared. "The Lamb went away." Sighed the sister, "He left me alone to come down." In fact, because of her hesitance in obedience it was with effort that she got down to the ground and for four days of grief she expiated that unhappy moment. On July 25, the levitation lasted from four to seven o'clock in the evening; on July 31, it lasted from the end of recreation, which follows supper in the evening, until nine o'clock. This phenomenon occurred only at the Carmel of Pau.
In a letter dated February 14, 1927, Father Buzy, the Carmelite´s biographer, wrote the following statement to bishop Oliver Leroy: "Sister Mary used to raise herself to the top of the trees by the tips of the branches: she would take her scapular in one hand, and with the other the end of a small branch next to the leaves, and after a few moments she would glide along the outside edge of the tree to its top. Once up there, she would remain holding on to branches normally too weak to bear a person of her weight." The following are some depositions given by witnesses at process: "Sister E., now deceased, told me that one day when she happened to be in the garden with the servant of God, the latter said to her: "Turn around." She had hardly turn her head when looking back again, she saw the little one already seated on the top of the lime tree, on a little branch, balancing herself like a bird and singing divine love. Another person declared: "Once I saw her in ecstasy at the top of the lime tree, seated at the tip of the highest branch, which, normally would never have been able to support her. Her face was resplendent! I saw her come down from the tree like a bird, from branch to branch, with great nimbleness and modesty."
First let us read, in the memoirs of Mother Veronica at the Capelette, the description of the first stigmata of the little Arab: "On the first Thursday, May 2, 1867, when I went to see Mary, I found her sitting near her bed in great pain. She showed me her side, her feet and her hands. On these latter, in the place where they had been imprinted, that is to say on the upper part, there was a sort of blister, which formed the head of the nails, and in the palms the spot was black and swollen. At the place on her side, a little above the heart, there was the form of a cross all red and inflamed; and in the middle three small blisters with a little hole…I spent the night near her, and at five o'clock in the morning blood flowed from the wounds in her hands which I bathed, and the pain seemed to be alleviated. The blood flowed from the palm. The fingers were contracted and curved around, as if the nail had really gone into the palm, she could not extend them, nor take hold of the glass when I gave her a drink from time to time.
At about nine o'clock blood flowed from the crown of thorns all around her head. I can solemnly attest that I saw blood coming from the holes of the thorns, one of which, in the center of her forehead, opened before me, and blood gushed from it. While I was washing it, it closed again, leaving her forehead without any mark, except the traces of blood. Her feet were white; one would have said the feet of a corpse, and the toes were stretched like those of one crucified. The wounds on the upper part bled, as did the wound on her side. After three hours she was completely herself again, experiencing only a little weakness. I told her to get up, which she did by herself, and that evening she came to supper with the community." In the notes of the Carmel of Pau, we read that on Thursday, February 27, 1868: "She could not get up, she was suffering so much in her hands and feet. We took her to the infirmary. All that evening when passing near there, we would smell a strong sweet fragrance, but we could not detect its source. The novice´s veils and mantle also had a pleasant odor. The night was a bad one for her and the next morning blood began to flow from her feet and hands. The crown of thorns bled profusely at two different times, then the wound in her side, all with unspeakable pain. At noon all the bleeding stopped but the wounds remained open and became deeper each day, which prevented her from walking or putting her feet on the floor, for forty days. She could hardly bear any contact with the linens used to wrap her wounds, especially on Friday and Saturday. From that day until the following Friday, the wounds only oozed, but on Thursday of each week, a large pimple formed, black like a nail, which grew in size until Friday, then at the hour she designated in advance, this sort of blister fell off and the blood flowed; afterward the wound closed until the following week."
During the Mangalore period, we have above all the testimony of Father Lazare, a Carmelite and her director. On November 24 and 25, 1871, he attentively examined the stigmata. From his report we selected some precise statements: "The hands were swollen on the palm and the wounds were open; but all around the edge of the wounds there was a little coagulated blood, no doubt because this wound had begun to open several days before. On the inside of the hand there was a sort of button, forming the head of the nail. The flesh of the palm seemed to have been separated violently; it was torn, if I may thus express it, on the inside there were no tears, only the head of the nail was visible. The feet were similarly pierced through and through. The wounds were fresh, the flesh torn perhaps more than on the hands. One of the perforations was exactly in the middle of the sole of the foot, and there it ended with a quite newly formed small round hole, just as if the point of a sharp nail had been driven through it and then pulled out. It was the same with the other foot."
Lastly, for the Bethlehem period (1875-1878), we have chiefly the testimony of the mistress of novices, mother Mary of the Child Jesus. The stigmata appeared during the Lent of 1876. On March 3, the first Thursday of Lent, the little one called the mother into her cell and said to her: "See my humiliation; I don't anyone to come here, look at my hands." And the witness stated precisely: "We were able to ascertain that the blackish swelling, that looked like a large nail in the palm of her hands and also on the top of the hand, was formed much more quickly than during the Lent of 1868. Towards nine o'clock, the marks were still darker and more extended; her contracted fingers prevented her from using her hands. At noon, we saw the same thing on the upper part of her feet, but she absolutely refused to let us cover them with linen, which would greatly increase her suffering."
The following day the stigmatist was covered with a sweat of blood. On Friday, March 10, the mistress of novices and the sister infirmarian saw the crown of thorns take form on her bloody forehead. The same phenomenon on Friday, March 24: Here is their testimony: "About five thirty, all around the front of her head was bleeding; she had a sort of crown of little button shaped holes, some of which were still open as we looked on. During this time she wiped the blood from them. She got up right after that and all traces disappeared." Holy Week was frightful. Every part of her was bleeding: head, heart, hands and feet. During the course of her life she came to relive and act out certain scenes of the passion. She became the crucified spouse of a crucified God! Identified with her Spouse to the very details of Good Friday! "When she was in the state, she could have been called an 'ecce homo,' " declared Mother Honorine, in 1867 at the Capelette.
The next year at Pau, France, on Good Friday April 10, 1868, the stigmatist was truly on the cross; all her wounds reopened and the blood flowed from her head as well. We cannot conceive the intensity of the suffering she experienced. First she felt her legs pulled one after the other; and the same with her arms; then she felt her nails being driven in…Later, the heart bled as usual, and immediately after that, the wounds began to heal. She remained very weak all week and continued to suffer from her knees which were injured, swollen and full of bumps, perhaps resembling those our Lord must have had after all His Falls.
"She was groaning and she trembled in her whole body. It was heart rending to see her like that. She often repeated these words: "My God, do not abandon me; my God I offer it to You! Pardon, my God, pardon!" At a quarter past two in the afternoon she began a painful agony; we were all around her. Her legs were stiff, her feet down and crossed one over the other; her arms extended in the form of the cross, were supported by two of the sisters; her chest was distended, she even emitted a few sighs, as though she were breathing forth her soul…After three and a half hours, she had a little relief and spoke again to those "children" (angels) saying to them: "Have pity on me, call me today." She also experienced transports of desire and love: "Call me so that I may leave this earth!" Then she was heard to say: "Fiat, Jesus!" We then had the impression that the crucified one was descending from the cross and from Calvary in order to prepare for the Easter joys. "Don Belloni, confessor of the stigmatist at Bethlehem, asserted that when holding one of her hands against the light, the flesh appeared transparent at the place of the stigmata.
Besides being deeply grounded in humility, in her ignorance she did not realize that the stigmata was a privileged grace from God; she looked upon it as an illness and begged God and Blessed Virgin to take from her what she called "the wretched marks." According to her prediction, the wounds reopened the following Lent, at the Carmel of Pau. They caused atrocious suffering and flowing of the blood. That was renewed every Friday during the Lent of 1868. The Carmelite nuns were admitted to see the prodigy; and the superior of the Carmel, Fr. Guilly entered the enclosure. He verified the phenomena, he put his finger on one of the wounds: at this contact the novice´s entire body shuddered. On Holy Saturday the Stigmata disappeared. The wounds appeared again at Mangalore. On November 20, 1871, the eve of her profession, the little one confided to the mistress of novices: "If I tell you something will you keep my secret?" - "Yes." - "Look, this illness that I fear so much has returned." And she showed her her swollen hands and feet. The day after her profession the stigmata bled profusely. Frightened, the sister earnestly begged God to cure her. This time again she was heard. For more than four years she experienced nothing.
The last period of stigmatization took place at Bethlehem in April 1876. It was the longest and most painful. It made witnesses think they were on Calvary before the spectacle of Crucifixion! Sister Mariam said: "Do you know? Five rosebushes are blooming, quick, quick. They have given the roses to others, and the thorns to me." And she added with a smile: "We do not like that; here we give at least a few roses! And not to let me smell the perfume at all, nothing but thorns! Oh, well - I deserve it! That Jesus may be content, that is all I desire. I accept all the thorns on my body, but tell the Master of the rosebushes to close the roses." After these red flowerings at Marseille, Pau, Mangalore, and Bethlehem, the "five roses" of her Stigmata were closed for the last time on April 26, 1876.
Mariam's devotion to the Holy Spirit was not common in her time. And yet her spiritual journey seemed to be guided by the Spirit in unprecedented ways. Inspired by having received a special prayer to the Holy Spirit during one of her ecstatic experiences, she was convinced that devotion to the Holy Spirit, who was then commonly known as the Paraclete, was needed by the whole Church. She even sent a petition to Pope Pius IX asking him to cultivate a greater devotion within the Church to the Holy Spirit. No one knows what the pope thought of this at the time, but 20 years later Pope Leo XIII published an encyclical about devotion to the Paraclete. Concerning devotion to the Holy Spirit she wrote: "The world and religious communities are seeking novelties in devotions, and they are neglecting true devotion to the Paraclete. That is why there is error and disunion, and why there is no peace or light. They do not invoke light as it should be invoked, and it is this light that gives knowledge of truth. It is neglected even in seminaries. Every person in the world that will invoke the Holy Spirit and have devotion to Him will not die in error."


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