Moses

Today is Moses' birthday!
It was also on this day that he left his bodily form.

Moses (Moshe in Hebrew) is the great patriarch of the Jewish people, who freed them from the slavery in Egypt, who re-established the Alliance with the Creator and received the Tablets of the Law.

To know more about Moses, check the chabad and nehora websites.
And/or passages from the Bible which tell about Moses's birth, last blessing and death.
For Torah passages: birth, last blessing and death.


Em português.
In Portuguese.

Forty Days

Forty days we have
To remember
And the weight of the Cross
See where it is

Sweetness for the soul
Is inner peace
Inside the profound being
Is where God is

Power of creation
Is my Jesus
And my Saint John
Is who guides us

Treasure of the nation
There is no greater crystal
This holy star
From Jerusalem

Hymn 106 of the hinário "O Segredo" received by Regina Pereira.
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Purple Carbon Jesus by Alex Grey.

Lent is a time for preparation and contemplation.
It is a time that we may use to go inside our selves.
Once inside, we can reignite the flame of love for Christ,
and with this flame alight , we can see clearer and put in order everything that is out of place.
Lent is the opportunity that we have to offer Jesus some kind of love sacrifice.
For love, for companionship, for thankfulness, for compassion.
It is a reminder that love isn't always well received, but it always prevails.

"Each year Lent recalls the mystery of Christ "lead by the Spirit in the desert" (Lk. 4:1). With this unique experience, Jesus gave witness to His complete surrender to the will of the Father. The Church offers the faithful this liturgical season so that they can renew themselves internally through the Word of God and may express in life the love which Christ instills in the heart of everyone who believes in Him."

Extract from the message of the Holy Father John Paul II for Lent 1998.

"For believers, therefore, Lent is the appropriate time for a profound re-examination of life. In today’s world, there is much generous witness to the Gospel, but there are also baptized people who, when faced with the demanding call to "go up to Jerusalem", remain deaf and resistant, even at times openly rebellious. There are situations where people’s experience of prayer is rather superficial, so that the word of God does not enter deeply into their lives. Even the Sacrament of Penance is thought by many to be unimportant and the Sunday celebration of the Eucharist is seen as a mere duty to be performed. How should we respond to the invitation to conversion that Jesus addresses to us in this time of Lent? How can there be a serious change in our life? First of all, we must open our hearts to the penetrating call that comes to us from the Liturgy. The time of preparation for Easter is a providential gift from the Lord and a precious opportunity to draw closer to him, turning inward to listen to his promptings deep within. 2. There are Christians who think they can dispense with this unceasing spiritual effort, because they do not see the urgency of standing before the truth of the Gospel. Lest their way of life be upset, they seek to take words like "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you" (Lk 6:27) and render them empty and innocuous. For these people, it is extremely difficult to accept such words and to translate them into consistent patterns of behaviour. They are in fact words which, if taken seriously, demand a radical conversion. On the other hand, when we are offended or hurt, we are tempted to succumb to the psychological impulses of self-pity and revenge, ignoring Jesus’ call to love our enemy. Yet the daily experiences of human life show very clearly how much forgiveness and reconciliation are indispensable if there is to be genuine renewal, both personal and social. This applies not only to interpersonal relationships, but also to relationships between communities and nations."

Extract from the message of the Holy Father John Paul II for Lent 2001.

Iemanjá is the Queen of the Sea

Iemanjá is the Queen of the Sea
She is sovereign, she is chaste and beautiful
It is the chant from the waters arriving
With my brothers, me in the Forest

Further above is the Astral
Make the connection here on Earth
The joy of love will return
For us to fulfil the path of the stars


Hymn received by Marina Ruberti


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(White) Yemanjá by A. Andrew Gonzalez.

This post in Portuguese.
Esse post em português.

Padrinho

SEBASTIÃO MOTA
THE CABOCLO ECOLOGIST

Padrinho Sebastião is remembered by us as a man devoted to God. Naturally his feelings were always the noblest. Among these feelings, a great love for nature. Even without ever attending school or an ecological lecture, he knew about things through a simple act of love that was inherent in him. I recollect wistfully the old times of settlement of the community, the origins of Céu do Mapiá. Padrinho accompanied the opening of squirt roads across the forest step by step, always demanding from the youths respect and affection for the virgin forest. On a certain occasion, a rubber tapper found a herd of pigs and killed more than one animal, out of vanity, for he was far and would not be able to carry them both. When Padrinho got to know about the wickedness, he severely reprehended the offender. By living harmoniously we can make use of what the forest offers for our survival. It is possible to knock down a tree and preserve all the ecosystem. This must be our reality: to know how to live together with the wealth that God offers to us. Never to be a greedy, harmful person, a destroyer. "Well-ventured are the humble of spirit because theirs is the Kingdom of the Heaven. Well-ventured are the gentle because they will inherit the Earth". So Jesus said. I trust this brotherhood and I see that a lot people deserve this title. They are the ones who live in great universal harmony, not pursuing neither injuring their similar, not polluting neither mistreating the nature.

by Lucio Mortimer

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Translated from:
http://www.idacefluris.org.br/sistema/editorvirtual/noticia_publica.php?CodigoDaNoticia=112&LANG=1&CACHEOPTION=1

DOIS DE NOVEMBRO (Second of November)

The day dawned
And today I remember
The day of the deceased
Is the second of november

I ask to my God
And to my Jesus
For the disincarnates
That need light

I ask to my Mother
Here on Earth
Health for us
That are embodied

I made an effort
I arrived until here
Joyful, contented
Happy I will follow

With my Saint John
By our side
Fulfilling his commands
For I am His soldier

Hymn received by Odemir, offered to Maria Antônia Paez (a.k.a. Tonha)

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I Give Viva to All Saints

I give Viva to All Saints
Giving Viva to our Party
Praised be God
In everything in which He manifests Himself

Praising this day
I Praise the day of Deceased
For there is only one day
The day that was determined

The day determined
By our Lord God
When the light of our life
Goes back to His domain

I am a son of the truth
And I expand this light
What I say now to everybody:
Who clarifies me is Jesus

I ask strength to all beings
From my Father I ask comfort
For each one brother
By the means of their effort

The road is open
For the ones who pay attention
But for those who are mocking
There is only darkness

I value this light
Of This Omnipotent Brilliance
I hold myself in this force
Of This Omniscient King
Cover me with Thy cloak
Omnipresent Lord God


Hymn number 90 received by Padrinho Alfredo and offered to Roberval (a.k.a. Bal)

Day of All Saints

The festivity of the day of All Saints is celebrated in honor of all of the saints and martyrs, known or unknown. The Catholic Church celebrates the Festum omnium sanctorum on the 1st of November followed by the day of the faithful deceased on the 2nd of November. The Orthodox Church celebrates this festivity in the first Sunday after the Pentecost, closing the liturgical time of Easter. In the Lutheran Church the day is celebrated mainly to remember that all the holy persons baptized are Saints and also those persons that passed away in the year.

The day of All Saints' objective is to supply any absences from the faithful ones in remembering all the saints in the celebrations during that year. This tradition of remembering (make memory) the saints is in the origin of the composition of the liturgical calendar, in which initially were the dates of anniversary of the death of the Christians martyrized as a testimony through His faith, being carried out in these celebrations prayers, masses and vigils, habitually in the place or in the immediacies of where they died, as happened around the Coliseum of Rome. Subsequently it became habitual to erect churches and cathedrals dedicated to their memory in those same places.

According to the teaching of the Church, the messianic intention of this celebration that takes place in the whole world, stands out the calling from Christ to each person to follow Him and be a saint, to the image of God, the image in which we were originally created and for which we should continue to walk in love. This not only cause to see that alive saints exist (not barely the ones from the past) and that each person can be, but especially causes to understand that is endless the number of potentials Saints who aren't known, but in the same way that the canonized equally see God face the face, have full happiness and intercede for us.

Christ, we adore Him, because He is the Son of God; concerning the martyrs, we love them as disciples and imitadores of the Lord; and this is fair, because of their imcomparable devontion to their King and Master. So we may also be their companions and condisciples.

Martyrum sancti Polycarpi 17, 3: SC 10bis, 232 (FUNK 1, 336).

Translated from: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dia_de_Todos-os-Santos

More info in English about All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints

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