![]() ![]() Augustine Zhao Rong and his 119 companions, who testified to the presence of God despite numerous waves of anti-Christian persecutions, hatred and death. Today we have four different examples of those who acknowledge God before others.God wants to make us worthy to speak to him and about him, so that we can in fact give witness in every age, like Isaiah to his contemporaries before the exile, like the apostles before their martyrdoms. Before a priest proclaims the Gospel in the Extraordinary Form, he prays for God to purify his lips and heart like God purified Isaiah’s lips with a burning charcoal. Once purified, when God asks for a volunteer to send, Isaiah steps forward: “Here I am. But God cured him through the seraphim with a burning charcoal, much like God wants to purify each of us by sending us the fire of the Holy Spirit. He was a man of “unclean” (profane) lips and considered himself objectively unworthy of speaking of what he had seen. After Isaiah saw the theophany of God, he recognized his unworthiness to be in God’s presence. That’s why the first reading from the vocation story of the prophet Isaiah is so important. Regardless the mission to which he entrusts them can be humanly intimidating.He promises them that whoever acknowledges him before men he himself will acknowledge eternally before the Father. He encouraged them to speak in light and proclaim on the housetops the truths he has confided in them, confident that, rather than fearing the opinions of others, they should only care about what God thinks, reminding them that God loves them, has numbered every follicle and accounts them far more valuable than many sparrows whom he likewise never forgets. He indicates to them that just as he’ll be treated, they’ll be treated, but through that suffering they’ll become like him their teacher and master, and, like him and together with him, introduce people to how the kingdom will triumph even over sin, persecution and death. But today Jesus tells them three times not to be afraid. In the section we had yesterday, Jesus had spoken humanly ominous words that they would all suffer in the proclamation, be betrayed by family members, religious leaders and civil officials, hated by all, be persecuted and even killed. Today we finish five days of instructions that the Lord Jesus gave to the apostles before sending them out for the first time to announce and demonstrate that the Kingdom of Heaven had drawn near.The following points were attempted in the homily: To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click below: Saturday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II ![]() Monastery of Saint Anne, Swieta Anna, Poland Retreats for Priests, Deacons, and Seminarians.The regular avatar mesh is hidden by wearing an alpha layer and the rigged tiny mesh body is worn as an attachment. The option to upload rigged mesh to the Second Life grid also made it possible to create small mesh avatars, often not bigger then 1/4 or a 1/3 of the normal sized avatar. Afterwards, prims and invisiprims are used to hide the rest of the regular avatar mesh. They need special animations to fold/crush the avatar to a tiny size. Tinies can't be created by just lowering the size of an avatar, via the appearance menu, since the smallest avatar size is still too tall for a tiny. ![]() Resident Kage Seraph was the first one who made a tiny avatar in Second Life. An extremely small avatar, usually a furry, designed to resemble an animated stuffed animal. ![]()
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