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Monday, 30 January 2017

interview skills

 
 
You have an interview, scary or what?
 
 
scenario one, you have an interview for the biggest, badest company ever, what do you do?
 
 
1) google-map its location.
 
2) find out what transport goes that way.
 
3) what number on the front of the bus, goes that route.
 
4) how well do you know the company.
 
 
Phew! the basics are over with, or so we hope! provided you have watched the video provided, you will most likely not realise what makes a good or bad interview.
 
but lets look closer.
 
star questions
 
yes, all  companies will no doubt ask you a star question, or maybe even a few!
 
it is best to always listen for nuances from the interviewer, this will give you a vocal clue as to whether or not it is a star question!
 
 
 
and most of all, don't mumble, fidget, look impatient, etc. this will only make the interviewer think that you quite frankly don't want the job!!

The Holy Rosary

The Holy Rosary

Why Catholics pray the Holy Rosary
Catholics pray the Holy Rosary daily.  Catholics believe that if they pray it daily, it will give them blessings, etc.  There are also 15 promises attached to the rosary.

There are four mysteries in the Holy Rosary.

The four mysteries of the Holy Rosary
1) The Joyful mystery.

2) The mysteries of light.

3) The sorrowful mysteries.

4) The glorious Mystery.


                           

Friday, 27 January 2017

The relevance of the angelus




V. The angel of the lord declared unto Mary;

R. And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.

V. Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, jesus

R. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

V. Behold the handmaid of the lord.

R. Be it done unto me according to thy word.

V. Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art though amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

R. Holy Mary, mother of god, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.

V. And the word was made flesh:

R. And dwelt among us.

V. Hail mary, full of grace, the lord is with thee, blessed art thou the amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

R. Holy Mary, mother of god, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.

V. Hail Mary, full of grace, the lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

R. Holy Mary, mother of God pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death, amen.

V. Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.

R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray.
Pour forth, we beseech thee, O Lord, your grace into our hearts, that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, your son, was made known by the message of an angel, may his passion and cross be brought to the glory of his resurrection, through the same Christ our Lord, amen. May the divine assistance remain always with us and may the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.  Amen.


1) the Angelus is an important part of the Catholic prayer time.  It is important as it celebrates the incarnation of our Lord Jesus.

2) it is also important to Catholics, as it is also a prayer of Thanksgiving.

3) the annunciation is at the core of the Angelus.  This is apparent with Mary saying to the angel of the lord, "be it done unto me according to thy will".

4) it helps to sanctify the day for most Catholics.



                       

Thursday, 26 January 2017

A history of Christianity

This is a highly educational read.  I could not shout about it more for people to read in the history of Christianity.

"Plato's influence on Christianity was equally profound in two other directions.  First, his view of reality and authenticity propelled one basic impulse in Christianity, to look beyond the immediate and everyday to the universe or ultimate.  In his dialogue 'the republic', he represents Socrates as telling a story which in more than one sense illuminates the Platonic view of the human condition.  Prisoners are chained in a cave, facing a wall; their bonds are fixed in such a way that the wall is all that they can see.  Behind them a great fire roars, but between them and the fire is a walkway, on which people parade a series of objects, such as carved images of animals or humans, whose shadows fall on the wall under the prisoners' gaze.  The bearers pronounce the names of the objects as they pass and the echoes of the names bounce off the wall.  That is what they understand to be reality.  If any of them are released, the brightness of the sun's real light is blinding, and makes thier sight of any of the real objects less convincing than the shadows which they have come to know so well, and the echoing names which they have heard.  Human life is an imprisonment in the cave.  The particular phenomena we perceive in our lives are shadows of thier ideal 'forms', which represent truer and higher versions of reality than the ones which we can readily know.  We should not be content with these shadows.  An individual human soul should do its best to find its way back to the forms which lie behind the world of our clouded senses, because there we may find arete - excellence or virtue.  The pan is through the intellect.  Excellence (arete) of soul' is our chief purpose or direction, because beyond even the form is the supreme soul, who is God and who is turn is ultimate arete.
Plato's second major contribution to Christianity is his conception of what God's nature encompasses: oneness and goodness.  Plato took his cue from Socrates's radical rethinking on the traditional Greek range of gods (the 'pantheon'), looked beyond it and made ethics central to his discussion of divinity.  The pantheon portrayed in both Greek myth and the Homeric epics can hardly be said to exemplify virtue: the origins of the gods in particular make up an extraordinary catalogue of horrors and violence.  Hesiod's 'theogony' named the first divinity is chaos; among the Divinities who emerged from him, representing the cosmos spawned out of chaos, was Gaia, the earth.  Gaia's son Ouranos/Urania (the sky) incestuously mated with his mother and had twelve children, whom he forced back into Gaia's womb; Gaia's youngest son, Kronos/Cronus, castrated his father, Ouranos, before in turn committing incest with his sister and attempting to murder all thier children.  How unlike the home life of the Christian trinity.  Matters only marginally improved in the generation of Zeus.  If one were compiling a school report on the behaviour of the Olympian gods, it would have to include comments on thier lack of moral responsibility, consistent pity or compassion.
Greeks generally looked upon this disconcerting lack of moral predictability among thier Divinities with cheerful resignation and did thier best to secure the best bargain available from them by due ceremonial observances at home or in temples or shrines." (MacCulloch, D.  2010.  A history of Christianity. Pp 31-32)

As you can see from this excerpt, there is a complete historical narrative, much more than what some historians would dare to accomplish in one book, concerning any religion.  This excerpt looked at two of the major influences that Plato had on early Christianity.  While also letting you look at the original "religion" of Greece before the advent of the Messiah or Jesus.


Christ Be Our Light



Who am I?

I am Happy Catholic, I am a female Catholic, who follows the Roman Catholic path.
I went to a Non-Denominational School when I was growing up, though we still learned about all the different religions, especially Christianity.
I made a choice to become a catholic as an adult, no other religion gives me peace quite like Catholicism. 

What was I before becoming Catholic.

I was an atheist who felt that there was something much more grander than me and the world as a whole.  I take delight in the little big things in life.

when I was an atheist I used to meet a lot of very militant atheists, who, believed that their "way is the only way".  while being with those people and going to a school that was a Non-Denominational School, I was surrounded by Christians, Catholics, Muslims and Sheikhs, etc. it was through my education that I was introduced to faiths that were calming to me.

What Happened at my school to put me off atheism as a whole?

Militant Atheism, I said it, yes, it was militant atheists who put me off atheism as a whole - for life.

One day in school, there was a boy who was dragged out of class violently by his dad, simply because his dad did not want him to be "indoctrinated" into any religion, never mind the fact that we were only LEARNING about them, weren't being forced to choose one and then living it.

This scene left a sour taste in my mouth, even thinking about it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
I understand his father's point of view, really I do. But, there are ways and means of getting what you want and need without violence or a threat of it. 

You get nowhere with violence or aggression.