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Christos Anesti: When He rose, empires fell.
2008-03-25 08:05:00 I wonder if the people sitting in churches this [last] week understand how very much Jesus of Nazareth?s last week of life was driven by clashes pertaining to wealth and poverty, freedom and tyranny. Probably not. Theologians generally don’t study history. Historians usually don?t study theology, and neither study economics. Here?s what happened: For over half ... More About: Religion , Articles , Opinion , Rose , Empires
Finding hope between death and resurrection
2008-03-24 01:11:00 In the biblical descriptions of the Easter event, the story moves straight from Good Friday to Easter Sunday. An entire day of grief, devastation and fear lies unspoken between the end of one paragraph, where Jesus is buried, and the beginning of the next, his resurrection two days later. Perhaps it was simply that there ... More About: Religion , Articles , Jerusalem , Opinion , Death
The Greatest Man in History
2008-03-21 20:13:00 J E S U S had no servants, yet they called Him M a s t e r. Had no degree, yet they called Him T e a c h e r . Had no medicines, yet they called Him H e a l e r. He had no army, yet Kings Feared Him . He won no military battles, yet He Conquered the World. He ... More About: Religion , History , Spirituality , Opinion , Italiano
Devotion to the Passion of Christ
2008-03-20 01:04:00 The sufferings of Our Lord, which culminated in His death upon the cross, seem to have been conceived of as one inseparable whole from a very early period. Even in the Acts of the Apostles (i, 3) St. Luke speaks of those to whom Christ “shewed himself alive after his passion” (meta to mathein autou). ... More About: Religion , Events , Articles , Jerusalem , Opinion
A knight of history
2008-03-19 02:47:00 Wearing a gray sports coat, necktie and business slacks, Andrew Linnell looked every bit the 21st century businessman that he is. However, standing before a handful of people inside an auditorium in the Marlborough Public Library, the EMC competitive business consultant was poised to tackle a topic usually reserved for men of a different cloth: the ... More About: News , History , Opinion , Knight , England and Wales
Holy Week as time of purification
2008-03-18 02:40:00 Pope Benedict XVI opened Holy Week at the Vatican with the traditional Palm Sunday procession and Mass in St. Peter’s Square on March 16. About 50,000 people attended the Eucharistic celebration. Most were young people who were observing World Youth Day in the Rome diocese, preparing for the worldwide celebration that will be held in Sydney, ... More About: News , Religion , Events , Spirituality , Time
Knights of Malta elect Englishman as new leader
2008-03-17 02:47:00 In an unprecedented move an Englishman has been elected for the second time running as Grand Master of the Knights of Malta , the Roman Catholic order which traces its origins to the Crusades nearly a thousand years ago. Fra Matthew Festing OBE, 58, an art expert and former army officer who leads the order in Britain ... More About: News , Articles
El camino de los hombres buenos
2008-03-14 02:42:00 La fortaleza de Montségur es el paradigma histórico de la resistencia cátara, la herejía que arraigó en el sur de Francia durante la Edad Media. Actualmente, las ruinas de este castillo son la culminación de una ruta que parte de las tierras catalanas y que constituye una verdadera peregrinación por los santuarios y paisajes que ... More About: Religion , Articles , France , Opinion , Crusades
New Templar bottles designed by O-I win the Syba* ?Packaging of the Year 20
2008-03-13 13:27:00 The vaulted cellars of the Templarske Wine Company are located in the beautifully reconstructed buildings which were a former commandary of the Templar Knights back in the 13th Century. The Czech wine company uses the legendary Templar cross both as company name and emblem since their creation in 1992, although the cellars were never actually ... More About: News , Events , Packaging , Year , Bottles
New pub puts the ale in grail
2008-03-12 13:54:00 Templar knights will be back in Hertford when a new pub opens on Monday, after a £3million revamp. Herts-based pub chain JD Wetherspoon has spent the past 12 months converting the building in The Wash into the new-look pub, called The Six Templars. The pub takes its name from the town’s strong connection with the Knights Templar, ... More About: England and Wales
Hot on the trail of the Grail
2008-03-11 01:01:00 The focal point of the cold, bare room is a stone table on which rests a plain cup held in a jewelled stand. It seems ordinary, but it’s anything but. “This monastery was a resting place of the Holy Grail,” our guide Belen Bistue says casually. “It’s now in Valencia Cathedral; that is a replica.” For anyone ... More About: Trail
Da Vinci Code link nets chapel £1.3m
2008-03-10 01:49:00 Rosslyn Chapel has chalked up a £1.35m surplus due to the stream of visitors who came to see the building in the wake of the Da Vinci Code film. The 15th-century Scottish church, which featured in the controversial hit movie, saw the number of visitors climb from just 30,000 a year in 2000 to 120,000 in ... More About: News , Scotland , Opinion , Link
The Spiritual Quest
2008-02-29 02:24:00 Most spirituality information is concerned with the question of, “what are some of the challenges people face when attempting to live a more spiritual life and how they can overcome them?” The biggest challenge people face when attempting to live a more spiritual life is that they are going against a lifetime of conditioning and beliefs ... More About: Articles , Opinion , Spiritual , Quest
La Vera Cruz de Segovia
2008-02-28 03:04:00 Cuenta la leyenda que recién inaugurada la iglesia, allá por el año 1162, murió un caballero de la Orden del Temple. Su cuerpo fue llevado hasta los muros de esta enigmática y espectacular construcción y un descuido hizo que el cadáver del caballero se quedara solo durante toda la noche. Fue entonces cuando los grajos entraron ... More About: Religion , Articles , Opinion , Spain , Cruz
The Order Welcomes New Members in Slovenia
2008-02-27 03:05:00 The OSMTHU welcomes its new members in Slovenia . As we had announced, the Priory of Slovenia met in the Castle of Turjak for a weekend of spiritual retreat and Templar ceremonial. Prior General Fr+ Marin Zen was the perfect host to the over 100 attendants, including Fr+ Leslie Payne, Prior General of England and Wales and ... More About: News , Events , Order , Members
Dropping anchor in Greece and Turkey
2008-02-26 08:44:00 Blue is everywhere, differing shades of sky, sea, the blues aboard the boat and ashore. With a cool drink in my hand, a novel on my lap and the golden hues of a sinking Mediterranean sun, it?s an idyllic picture. Sailing past islands that have inspired myths and legends, yachting is the perfect way to do ... More About: Turkey , Articles , Greece , Opinion , Crusades
Candlemas - A Templar Celebration
2008-02-25 09:54:00 The term Candlemas (or Candelaia) derives from the late Latin “candelorum” or “candelaram” namely the blessing of candles and it indicates a holiday in astronomical time, coinciding with half winter in the rural cycle, when we approach the end of winter and the beginning of spring. The most famous popular saying about it states: “When ... More About: Religion , Events , Articles , Italy , Opinion
Candelora - Festivitá Templaria
2008-02-22 01:58:00 Questo é il video preparato por il Priorato de Italia in occasione della Festività della Candelora lo scorso 2 febbraio 2008. Il termine Candelora (o Candelaia) deriva dal tardo latino “candelorum” o “candelaram” cioè benedizione delle candele ed indica una festività collocata, nel tempo astronomico, a mezzo inverno e coincidente, nel ciclo agreste/vegetativo, con la fine ... More About: Video , Religion , Events , Articles , Italy
A Day in Haifa
2008-02-22 01:27:00 It was a beautiful morning in late December when we set off on the coastal highway towards Haifa , just an hour or so northwest of Alfe Menashe. Along the way, we passed new construction on the beach front that one of our party, a friend from England, hadn’t seen before. Lately, developers have built up ... More About: Religion , Articles , Jerusalem , Opinion
Encomienda de Malaga reúne el proximo 1 de Marzo
2008-02-21 15:27:00 El próximo día 1 de Marzo reunirá la encomienda de Málaga del Priorato de España en ceremonia y investidura a realizar en Marbella. Los miembros del Priorato de España que deseen participar, por favor contacten vuestro Comendador o el Prior General Fr+ Manuel Quintanilla. El Canciller de la Orden ha confirmado su presencia a los actos. ... More About: News , Events , Malaga
Best of British
2008-02-20 02:57:00 Rock-and-Rollers and hippies have long had a soft spot for the decorative appeal of William Morris?s Gothic Revival, with its fair-haired maidens in flowing robes and its air of medieval mysticism. So it is not surprising that when Paul Reeves decided in 1973 to break out of designing avant-garde clothes for David Bowie, Led Zeppelin ... More About: Events , British , Holy Grail , England and Wales
Trinity Western University to host Shroud of Turin exhibit
2008-02-19 02:54:00 It has been controversial for centuries. The Shroud of Turin , a 4.3-metre linen cloth bearing the hidden image of a crucified man, is held by some to be the burial cloth that covered Jesus - and by others to be an elaborate medieval hoax. Now a special exhibit at Trinity Western University in Langley will allow local ... More About: Host
Priory of Slovenia Will Meet at Turjak Castle
2008-02-18 01:55:00 The Priory of Slovenia will be conducting a seminar for members and an Investiture ceremony in the Castle of Turjak this coming February the 24th. Recently the Prior of Slovenia, Fr+ Marin Zen, has lead a pilgrimage of the Templars to the Marian Sanctuary of Medugorge where they celebrated mass and chanted the “Non Nobis” in ... More About: Events , Meet , England and Wales
The Golden Legend: St. Thomas Becket
2008-02-15 01:19:00 Thomas is as much to say as abisme or double, or trenched and hewn, he was an abisme profound in humility, as it appeared in the hair that he wore, and in washing of the feet of the poor people, double in prelation that was in word and in ensample, and hewn and trenched in ... More About: Religion , Articles , Opinion , Crusades
Is Our Spiritual Growth Being Served by Our ?Way of Life??
2008-02-15 01:13:00 Don’t you just love this adventure we are all on called “Life on Planet Earth?” It is a delicious and wonderful game and the only way it would be otherwise is if you choose for it to be. Right now we are in a stage of collective evolution, as the human species, where we have chosen ... More About: Articles , Opinion , Spiritual , Growth
St. Valentine
2008-02-14 13:43:00 At least three different Saint Valentine s, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have ... More About: News , Events , Opinion
Rare sighting with hidden meaning
2008-02-13 01:38:00 Like the unicorn, the white stag (or hart) is the stuff of legends. Its origins lie deep within the ancient Celts and pre-Indo-European cultures. When a rare white stag was spotted, it was always the sign the otherworld was near for man or kingdom. The white hart also appears when someone is transgressing a taboo, as ... More About: Meaning , Rare , Hidden , Holy Grail , England and Wales
Pray for Ramos Horta
2008-02-12 13:46:00 José Ramos Horta, President of East-Timor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and a good friend of the Order was shot yesterday in an attempted coup by rebels. He remains in a serious condition. We ask that all members of the Order and friends include Mr. Ramos Horta in their prayers for a fast and complete recovery. President ... More About: News , Articles , Charity , Pray
?Devil in details? in archbishop?s sharia plan
2008-02-11 01:56:00 Headlines may scream about stoning and hand-chopping, but the main question about sharia law in any western country is whether Islamic courts should judge Muslims in cases such as divorce, inheritance or business. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams caused uproar by suggesting British law adopt some sharia law. Critics decried the idea as barbaric, citing the ... More About: News , Articles , Opinion , Sharia , Devil
A Day in Haifa
More articles from this author:2008-02-08 01:27:00 It was a beautiful morning in late December when we set off on the coastal highway towards Haifa , just an hour or so northwest of Alfe Menashe. Along the way, we passed new construction on the beach front that one of our party, a friend from England, hadn’t seen before. Lately, developers have built up ... More About: Religion , Articles , Jerusalem , Opinion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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