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...By the time it arrived at Christ Church in 1765, Jacopo Bassano’s late-16th-century “Entombment of Christ”, a fully coloured, animated oil sketch on paper made in preparation for a church commission in Padua...
...This weekend, millions of people will celebrate Easter. For Christians, the passion of the Christ signifies redemption through divine self-sacrifice....
...In the last week of February, a large billboard appeared across the street from Mike Johnson’s home church in Benton, Louisiana....
...Within the Church, Opus Dei members have been in charge of the Vatican’s press office and its bank....
...Presbyterians could not expect to have, except through God’s selective grace....
...In that book, compiled in Bruges for Count Johann II of Oettingen, Christ and the apostles surround a youth arrayed in velvet and furs....
...“Amazing Grace” John Newton was rector....
...A low serving table in front of it means the server must bow before Christ to pick up the tray, while the cross imparts a blessing as they pass through the door....
...For centuries, biblical exegesis has tried to explain away the Song’s naked eroticism as an extended metaphor for God’s love of Israel or Christ’s love for the church....
...the very hour of Christ’s coming.”...
...Church College (model for Hogwarts’ Great Hall)....
...He would go underwater in full snorkelling gear with a Nikonos III and a handheld flash, capturing moments of flailing, profound trust between learners and confident swimmers, and flashes of fishlike grace...
...In this scenario, the apparitions were a kind of last hurrah of the church, in retreat in the face of secular modernising forces, questioning the laws and customs governing illegitimacy, marriage, birth...
...Another narrative line sees the romance of Yahui and Mingzheng mirrored in a narrative that traces the birth, life and afterlife of Buddhism’s Goddess of Mercy, Guanyin, and the Daoist philosopher Laozi;...
...Many of the [real-life] survivors still have faith, so their experiences may have pushed them away from the church but not from God. That fascinated me.”...
...A puzzle over the nature of religious experience hangs over Victoria Mackenzie’s For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain (Bloomsbury £14.99), a plea to God uttered by the medieval mystic Margery...
...He means Cass Elliot, aka Mama Cass, who died in the summer of 1974. “My God, I danced non-stop with her.”...
...; in the name of Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, who suffered for thee; in the name of the Holy Spirit, who was poured out upon thee and anointed thee.”...
...Five My Aunt Grace died in January 2016, but we kept her body on ice for three months so that her family in England could shore up the money to make the funeral....
...“Seeing people being droned every day,” she said, “that really made me question my faith in God.”...
...Not far away on the same night, the Grenfell Tower fire rages “without mercy, too fast, a horror of heat, a murderous orange sprint of thirsty arm-waving gods”....
...To all that wished her grace wel, she gave heartie thankes, and to such as bade god save her grace, she sayd agayne god save them all, and thanked them with all heart”....
...The Baths of Diocletian were abandoned until Michelangelo transformed part of the complex into a church in the 16th century....
...A car in the church car park is blasting Georgian pop music: a low rhythmic thump, a weaving string melody, a mournful voice singing in the looping, guttural sounds of Georgian....
...The play has its origins in an oath the village’s elders swore in 1633: that if God protected them from the plague they would perform the Passion of Christ every 10 years from then on....
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