Question your being? Excommunicate: The Guide to Enlightenment for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad on the iTunes App Store. The challenge of Pope Benedict XVI - can it be heard in these Christophobic times? – Opinion – ABC Religion & Ethics. Seventy-two hours before the papal conclave of 2005 was sealed, the possible futures of Joseph Ratzinger came into focus.
By September, the seventy-eight-year-old Ratzinger would be back home in Bavaria, living with his brother Georg, surrounded by his beloved books, embarked on a retirement of writing and lecturing, doing the occasional puzzle with the grandchildren of his old friend Margaret Richardi. Or he would be marking his fifth month as pope. There is not the slightest doubt which future he would have preferred. But God and his brother-cardinals had other ideas. There remained one final task to complete. Pope Benedict XVI gave hints of how he understood the essentials of that task in the homily he preached at his installation Mass in St Peter's Square on 24 April 2005. For Benedict, this task is bound up the with symbols the new pope had just received: the pallium and the Fisherman's Ring. Then there is the Fisherman's Ring. Then came the Wojtyla-Ratzinger years. Apis bull. Google Doodle Celebrates First Day Of Summer And Winter. Google is celebrating on Tuesday the longest day of the year and the first day of summer with a Summer Solstice Google Doodle from Japanese artist Takashi Murakami.
At 1:16 p.m. Eastern Tuesday, the Earth's Northern Hemisphere will be the closest it will come to the sun all year. But while the Earth's Northern inhabitants are getting ready to hit the beach, Google hasn't forgotten that residents of the Southern Hemisphere are hunkering down for winter. So residents of countries such as South Africa, Chile and Argentina on Tuesday get to see a Winter Solstice Google Doodle also by Murakami.
Murakami is known for his sculptures and paintings that are highly influenced by Japanese Anime culture. Topsy-Turvy Seasons Google also celebrated June's Summer and Winter Solstice in 2010 with four different doodles for each hemisphere, with the eight doodles showing a different seasonal scene. Summer solstice — or winter solstice, depending on where you live — dawns today (Photos) - BlogPost. Posted at 08:31 AM ET, 06/21/2011 Jun 21, 2011 12:31 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost Mayan descendants pray at a ceremony in honor of the coming solstice at the Mayan archeological site of Tazumal in Chalchuapa, El Salvador. (Luis Romero/AP) The solstice derives from Latin words that mean, the “sun stands still.” It’s the day, because of the Earth’s rotation, that the sun appears to stop moving north, and starts heading south again.
For those south of the equator Tuesday is actually the winter solstice. Here are images from solstice celebrations over the years: Young Belarusians jump over a campfire on Ivan Kupala Day, an ancient nightlong celebration marking the summer solstice in 2010. Yoga enthusiasts from across the country participate in the "Summer Solstice in Times Square Yoga-thon" in New York, June 21, 2007.
People dance as they celebrate the summer solstice shortly after 04:52 a.m. at Stonehenge, England, early Monday, June 21, 2010. Top Ten List. Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations.
Solstice. A solstice is an astronomical event that occurs twice each year as the Sun reaches its highest or lowest excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. As a result, on the day of the solstice, the Sun appears to have reached its highest or lowest annual altitude in the sky above the horizon at local solar noon. The solstices, together with the equinoxes, are connected with the seasons. In many cultures the solstices mark either the beginning or the midpoint of winter and summer. The word solstice is derived from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), because at the solstices, the Sun stands still in declination; that is, the seasonal movement of the Sun's path (as seen from Earth) comes to a stop before reversing direction.
At latitudes in the temperate zone, the summer solstice marks the day when the sun appears highest in the sky. The term solstice can also be used in a broader sense, as the date (day) when this occurs. Cultural aspects[edit] Chart of 2011 equinox, solstice and cross quarter dates and times, worldwide from archaeoastronomy.com.
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