Catholic Ping - Come home for Easter and experience God’s merciful love. Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
Posted on 02/13/2005 6:30:52 AM PST by NYer
Catholic Ping - Come home for Easter and experience God’s merciful love. Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
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This kid's life is in danger.
beautiful story.
He sounds like a good young man, and let us all hope this is a true conversion. Then let us all pray for his safety, because we all know what mohammedans do to those who leave their cult.
Apostasy. Now he's marked for death.
He should consider changing his name to "Mike."
If the story is true, then I would advise this young man to move to a country where Christians are the majority. For his own sake.
He's a marked man for death in the muslim world but he has the promise of everlasting life with Christ. A dead ender who took a detour and found himself on the main avenue of approach with God. I like it.
God Bless him and keep him safe!
And he should probably should change his name to Mike!
I was thinking something more like "John" or "Elijah" - maybe even "Gabriel" - but Michael is a good Christian angelic name.
I wonder if there is a treatise on the differences between Christian and Muslim names.
Absolutely. A big red bullseye.
let's pray for him.
To read later.
Now there is a man who will be not only under fire, but on fire for his faith!
Hooray! Good news for the first Sunday in Lent. I believe that God is going to honor the true self-sacrifice of Christians this Lent by performing many miracles such as this. Thanks be to God for this lost Muslim sheep whom the Shepherd has found and returned to the fold. May many more follow him!
Re: The Icon of Jesus pictured at the beginning of this post is one of hundreds made from @500AD on, and is the model of what we think of as "Jesus" As a portrait artist, this has fascinated me for decades - I definitely believe they originated from the image on the Shroud of Turin.
(This will be fascinating as, next year, the Winter Olympics will be held in Turin - and many millions of people who aren't yet familiar with the Shroud, will learn about it.)
- - The study of Iconography looks at how the Shroud (of Turin) image, rediscovered in Edessa in 525 AD was the progenitor of all the images of Christ that followed.
Orthodox homes had an Icon in every room of the home as a means of drawing Christ's very presence into that room as with the saints.
It was a tradition to give the bride and groom each an Icon on their wedding day. The bride received an Icon of Mary while the groom an Icon of Christ
The one I have posted here is one of my favorites -
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