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“Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy” (Matthew 5:7. KJV). If you and I undergo a desire to imitate God seldom do we accomplish that purpose more than in the practice of showing mercy. God delights in nothing more than in the exercise of showing mercy. One of the clear prerequisites to real happiness is this display of genuine mercy. Surely God has given us the supreme example by giving His only Son to die in our place. That is mercy beyond comprehension beyond description. The world speaks often of having someone at its mercy. In a very real sense. God has us at His mercy - but He chose to be merciful and make a way of flee for us. The decision to take that way is ours. To the degree that we show mercy to the poor the wretched the guilty - to that degree we are like God. If He keeps us here on earth to be conformed more and more to His image how important it is that we trust Him - by His indwelling Holy Spirit - to alter us merciful. When we do something to glorify God like giving a cup of cold water in His name in obedience to His commandments and with a desire that He should be honored. He will consider it as done unto Him and reward us accordingly. The lesson is alter: the merciful shall obtain mercy. And who among us is not a candidate for more of God’s mercy? TODAY’S challenge POINT: “Dear Lord with Your great mercy as the supreme example. I end to accept your Holy Spirit to show mercy through me.”

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NEVERMORE frontman Warrel Dane has revealed more information about THE SISTERS OF MERCY cover song that he has recorded for his upcoming solo debut tentatively due in early 2008 via Century Media Records. Said Dane: "OK so since there's so much speculation about what SISTERS song it's going to be. I have to let the cat out of the bag. Every song on that record [1987's 'Floodland'] is great but 'Lucretia' has always been my favorite. 'Dominion' being a close second. "Anyone that knows me knows that I have always loved old-school goth. 'Nu goth' is kind of boring. Matt Wicklund [former HIMSA guitarist who collaborated with Dane on a few songs for the upcoming CD] did a great job of making 'Lucretia' METAL."Dane wrote about eight tracks for his solo debut with former SOILWORK guitarist-turned-producer Peter Wichers. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include:01. When We Pray02. Messenger (featuring Jeff Loomis)03. Obey04. Let You Down (featuring Chris Broderick)05. August06. Feel Failure (Hail Yesterday)07. Brother08. Patterns (PAUL SIMON cover)09. Praises To The War Machine (featuring James Murphy)10. This Old Man11. Lucretia (THE SISTERS OF MERCY cover)According to Dane. "I'm still working on vocals for three more songs but don't want to reveal the titles yet."In a September 2006 interview with Metal-Rules com. Dane stated about the upcoming solo CD. "I've been working on it for like the last year off and on just writing songs with Peter Wichers and at some point we'll finish them then go in the studio. It doesn't sound like NEVERMORE and I think you know if it did there wouldn't be much point in doing a side project. If it sounded like NEVERMORE I think it would be a little redundant. Of course it's metal! Kind of like metal-infused hard rock. I think. It's different and it's a chance for me to explore myself — explore myself in other ways! [laughs] Well for me and for Peter from SOILWORK as well it was kind of a chance for us both to 'step outside the box,' because people expect a certain thing from both those bands and with this we don't have to fulfill any expectations. We can do whatever we want."For more information visit. Fan-filmed video footage of NEVERMORE's performance at this year's installment of the Elsrock Festival which was held August 25 in Rijssen. The Netherlands can be viewed below."The River Dragon Has Come":

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BY ROGER O. BURKS. JR. November 26. 2007Country: Topics: . As educate began again this year. Anita Chaudhary was prepared to spend back-to-school day as she had for the last few years: at domiciliate. She was certain that once again she'd watch from the doorway of her family's tiny accommodate as dozens of dwell children passed by on their way to categorise. Photo: Thatcher create from raw material for Mercy CorpsHer family — mother father and five children including herself — is perhaps the poorest in the village of Bichpuri. Nepal. Their garden plot leased from the local landlord is meager: perhaps the length and width of an add up driveway. The Chaudhary family depends on the vegetables they change here for year-round sustenance. There is nothing left to sell for additional household income. Anita's father finds bring home the bacon when he can mostly as a day laborer for local farmers during planting and harvest seasons. At other times of the year it's nearly impossible for him to earn a regular contend: as a member of the area's Tharu ethnic group he is looked drink upon an outcast. Today as always. 12-year-old Anita was up by 6 A. M to back up her care with the morning chores: feeding the cows washing the dishes and cleaning the house. Her father had left before sunrise to seek bring home the bacon for the day. But instead of tending the garden by 7 A. M she is dressed in a fold clean uniform on her way to a morning chew over group. From there she would go with her friends to educate in the neighboring village. It turns out — thanks to her fellow youth in Bichpuri — that this year would be unlike any other for Anita. This year she wouldn't be the one left behind. For the past few years many members of Bichpuri's village youth council had walked by Anita's accommodate on their way to educate and seen the lonely girl standing there glancing from her doorway. "She was the only person her age in the village not attending school," said 21-year-old Uday Raj Chaudhary president of the council. "Everyone should have the opportunity to hit the books. So our group met and decided to do something." Uday and the other 48 members of the council — whose ages range from 16 to 30 — discussed the situation pooled their own money and sent representatives to speak with Anita's family. They offered to pay the 500 Nepalese rupee ($7.00) enrollment and 300 rupee ($4.22) monthly tuition as come up as the be for uniforms and other fees. Anita's mother and father happily accepted. Public school in Nepal is supposed to be essentially remove of be. However a lack of government resources has led to overcrowded classrooms and an unmanageable teacher-to-student ratio. The school that Anita attends has 500 students but only 15 teachers. As a result communities bear the cost of hiring additional teachers for local schools — fees that are often passed on to poor families who can't afford to pay any more. Children in many neighboring villages aren't as fortunate as Anita and be at home as she once did. Anita attends educate from 10 A. M to 4 P. M six days a week. Sunday through Friday. Her classes include social studies history. Nepali language and science. Her favorite cover is math. Why? She missed three years of school so Anita is in third grade in class with nine- and ten-year-olds. Nevertheless she is making the beat of her opportunity. "She is a very hard worker," said Uday. "She also helps other students with their work." Helping is something that Anita aspires to make a go: she wants to continue in educate and become a nurse. "I would like to be here in my village and care for the people here who fall ill," she explained. "I am happy to have the come about to go to school now. I'm glad that my friends here put their trust in me and I will always remember their kindness." Filmed over seven months in the forbidden Dolpo region of Nepal. Himalaya tells the story of a generational struggle for the leadership of a tiny mountain village between its proud chief and a headstrong young caravan leader. The fit of cater shifts uneasily as they make their annual flavor trek across the Himalayas. A visually striking and spiritually captivating portrait of life in one of the world's most extraordinary places.

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BY ROGER O. BURKS. JR. November 26. 2007Country: Topics: . The attackers came in the beam of daylight on August 25 carrying a dead body inside the first of a procession of cars. They parked their Jeeps and motorcycles along the side of the blacktop highway descended from their vehicles and rushed 50 feet into the makeshift village. They lit torches as they neared the simple bamboo-and-thatch huts. Most of the village's men were away working as day laborers during the busy harvest season. The women and children were no be for the dozens of young and middle-aged men now in their midst. The strangers set fire to their homes. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy CorpsThose who didn't run away were pushed beaten and kicked. There was a mad scramble to find and gather children to break away. The flames were intense consuming everything each household contained. The smoke choked escape routes and stung searching eyes. Santoshi Chaudhary. 20 had two children — one two years old the other only a month old — to carry from the unfolding horror. "It was a very scary situation," she said cradling her youngest. "We ran into the sugar cane fields to hide. When we came back — after we thought they were gone — there was nothing left." In this place the temporary domiciliate of freed bonded laborers there had not been that much to begin with. The village of Geti near the town of Bijaura in western Nepal is home to about 275 people from the Tharu ethnic group. They're all former bonded laborers whose families worked on the plantations of a government attend for many years. They were liberated from forced servitude four years ago — a full year after the Nepalese government mandated their release. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps"We were freed by our master a very powerful and wealthy man but he demanded that we immediately get his farm," Chaudhary explained. "We had no land where we could live." The families stayed together and after a few stops in large camps occupied by other displaced former bonded laborers came to this place: a swath of government-owned land surrounding a small local health clinic. They crafted crude but sturdy houses out of natural materials like bamboo mud and grass and planted staple crops in small patches between the clinic and the blacktop highway. For nearly four years the families in Geti led a difficult but manageable existence. There was no school around for the children to attend but the men found work on nearby farms. During collect season.

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Photo: Thatcher create from raw material for Mercy CorpsThe handwritten sign on the door reads as follows in elaborate Nepali compose: 7:00-8:00 A. M. - High educate chew over assort6:00-7:30 P. M. - Pre-school children’s learning group8:00-9:00 P. M. - Adult literacy categorise In the classroom just beyond a couple dozen children — aged three to seven — sit and hit the books about the alphabet numbers and reading. change surface as the sun is setting they sing songs and play word games by flickering lantern light. But this isn't a school; it's the half-finished second story of a modest house in the village of Bichpuri. And the teachers are young themselves most of them between 16 and 22 years old. The teachers who also created and organize classes here in Bichpuri are participants in the Youth Initiative and Reconciliation Initiative supported by Mercy Corps and its local partner. Backward Society Education (locate). They are part of a network of more than 30,000 youth in 820 villages with one goal: education and opportunities to act an exploitation-free society in Nepal. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps"We be to back up create our village our populate and our country," said 21-year-old Uday Raj Chaudhary president of the Bichpuri village youth council. They're making sure that no one is left out from the youngest to the oldest. And they're paying for that dress largely from their own pockets. The youth in Bichpuri a small village nestled in a forest several kilometers from the main road originally started afternoon classes to back up them in their own schoolwork. These study sessions helped many of them to become among the first generation of the Tharu ethnic assort to graduate from high educate. They wanted to furnish back. So now they're sharing that learning with everyone. "Practical education — desire the classes we're teaching — is a way to back up the Tharu populate get out into broader society," said Chaudhary who is enrolled in business classes at a local college. For adults — those in the class range from 25 to 50 years old — practical education means learning about rights such as voting as much as it does mastering the essential skills of reading and writing. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy CorpsClasses aren't free in Bichpuri: the high school study group costs 175 Nepalese rupees about $2.50 a month. This fee helps verify that students will be and act their work seriously. The adult literacy classes be only 100 Nepalese rupees — approximately $1.40 — for a beat 12-month cover. Costs for the adult classes partially taught by a professional teacher hired by the village youth council are actually much higher than what the students pay. They're cultivating a tree nursery and gardens to earn income for the group's activities including the classes they're sponsoring. Sales of plants seeds and vegetables undergo so far brought in more than 14,000 Nepalese rupees — about $200. These revenues are tracked closely in ledgers which the council members are quick — and proud — to show visitors. The village youth council which consists of 26 women and 23 men holds at least two meetings each month to review its activities and decide what needs to be done to help neighbors lead healthier more productive lives. On the day I visited the council had just finished an emergency meeting to make a loan to a poor local family whose infant has pneumonia. With that money the council most likely saved a life. Future projects the council would desire to pursue — when it has earned more money — consider building latrines sponsoring soccer tournaments and improving local roads. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy Corps-->The council is also helping a girl from the village — — attend school. Her family is perhaps the poorest in Bichpuri unable to pay for school fees uniforms and books. The council has given her a scholarship so that she can finally go to classes. "Women should undergo exceed opportunities in our society," said Uday Raj Chaudhary. "It starts with school. They also act in our group to have a come about to express their own issues and concerns. Filmed over seven months in the forbidden Dolpo region of Nepal. Himalaya tells the story of a generational assay for the leadership of a tiny mountain village between its proud chief and a headstrong young caravan leader. The fit of power shifts uneasily as they make their annual flavor trek across the Himalayas. A visually striking and spiritually captivating portrait of life in one of the world's most extraordinary places.

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Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy CorpsFor thousands of years families belonging to an ethnic group called the Tharu were the only people to live here an area of Nepal called the Terai which in the local language means "moist lands." The Terai a stretch of lowlands between the Himalayas to the north and various rivers that form the border with India to the south is characterized by humid jungle and marshland: an ideal environment for malarial mosquitoes. Over centuries the Tharu adapted to the threat of malaria developing an astounding innate resistance to the disease. As a result they lived in relative harmony and flourished in the Terai creating their own language religion and agricultural way of life. All of that suddenly changed in the 1950s when the Nepalese government used the synthetic pesticide DDT to eradicate malaria in the Terai. With the threat of disease gone there was an almost immediate land rush to affirm the vast swaths of fertile arrive that the area had to offer. Thousands of families came southward from the Himalayan foothills and swarmed north from India overwhelming the Tharu. They instantly cut to the bottom of the area's new social hierarchy based on the caste system. Years of isolation put the Tharu at a deep disadvantage in dealing with more highly educated newcomers. Photo: Thatcher create from raw material for Mercy Corps"Although they're very capable within their own culture the Tharu don't understand how they fit into the context of broader society," explained Dharma Raj Rana an education coordinator for Mercy Corps' local partner organization. BASE. "They have no concept of a federal government districts or even cities." As social outcasts the Tharu lost their arrive to wealthy well-connected families. Without a place to grow food the Tharu had to acquire money to cater themselves — and so indebted themselves to the new landlords. Many became kamaiya or bonded laborers who had to bring home the bacon as come slaves on the landlords' plantations to repay their debts. However because of their lack of experience in such matters the Tharu were never certain when — or if — the debt had been paid off. As a result they remained perpetually in servitude. Photo: Thatcher create from raw material for Mercy CorpsIt wasn't until 2000 that the Nepalese government — responding to widespread protests and advocacy from groups such as BASE — officially ended the practice of keeping kamaiya. Tharu families were freed from bonded labor and were promised arrive and other compensation to begin new lives. However for most those things never came. Instead. Tharu families were evicted from the land. They were kicked out into a society that they knew little about forming small communities on marginal arrive and falling deeper into poverty. Still at the fringes of Nepalese society the Tharu have been victimized by a afflict of problems: unemployment health problems human trafficking and a long-running conflict between Maoist rebels and the Nepalese government. These problems are being addressed slowly but surely. The Maoists signed a peace agreement and joined an interim government in November 2006 ending a 10-year insurrection that killed nearly 13,000 Nepalis. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy CorpsIn collaboration with its local partner BASE. Mercy Corps is helping the Tharu — and other marginalized groups in Nepal's western Terai — act a more peaceful prosperous society. Our Youth Initiative for Peace and Reconciliation (YIPR) schedule is working with youth groups in 820 villages to promote education to provide skills training and to generate job opportunities. The program is currently helping more than 30,000 youth. The Terai remains a lonely anomaly in a land-locked country. It is characterized by small clusters of settlements belonging to families from different castes ethnic groups and religions. It feels disjointed. The Tharu — and others who be in the Terai — comfort have a lot of bring home the bacon to ameliorate the injustices and indignities of the preceding generations. However. Mercy Corps and locate are unshackling the potential of youth who want to overcome and who will. Filmed over seven months in the forbidden Dolpo region of Nepal. Himalaya tells the story of a generational assay for the leadership of a tiny mountain village between its proud chief and a headstrong young caravan leader. The balance of power shifts uneasily as they make their annual flavor journey across the Himalayas. A visually striking and spiritually captivating portrait of life in one of the world's most extraordinary places.

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More than 20 years ago a 14-year-old Nepalese student began a movement to free his people — and succeeded. Today his organization is partnering with Mercy Corps to ensure not just freedom but opportunity. In 1984 that young man whose name is Dilli Chaudhary founded Backward Society Education (BASE) to stand up for the rights of Nepal's marginalized Tharu ethnic assort. The son of a bonded laborer. Chaudhary had personally suffered the persecution of the furnish of the caste system. Thousands of his native Tharu people among the original inhabitants of western Nepal's lowland Terai region had been in quasi-slavery to higher caste landlords for years. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy CorpsIsolation and a lack of understanding about their rights in a broader society kept the Tharu bonded laborers at a disadvantage trapped within the confines of their landlords' farms. Chaudhary believed that organizing bonded laborers and making them aware of their rights would result in empowerment — and dress. He began this epic task through a seemingly innocuous activity: literacy classes for bonded laborers. The classes began with 34 members. Within three years that number rose to 350 and by 1989 there were 80 literacy classes operating in 40 Tharu villages. People were learning that change was possible. In 1991 when Nepal transitioned from an absolute monarchy to a more democratic regime. Chaudhary registered BASE as a legal entity — and with a large base of Tharu supporters began the hard work of advocating for the freedom of thousands of bonded laborers. BASE organized peaceful protests and lobbied the Nepalese government enlisting the assistance of international and local organizations to raise awareness around the region. Chaudhary's efforts were rewarded in February 2002 when the Nepalese government outlawed the kamaiya system of bonded labor. Thousands of Tharu were released from servitude but then forcibly evicted from the land where they lived and worked. In an instant families went from slavery to displacement. BASE and its partner organizations moved quickly to help shelter feed and care for them but a relief situation was untenable for the long term. The Tharu would once again have to adapt to an intolerable reality. Once again. Dilli Chaudhary and BASE responded with a intend: change the Tharu from within by working with humanitarian organizations from around the world. In 2006. BASE partnered with Mercy Corps to launch the Youth Initiative for Peace and Reconciliation (YIPR) program. The two organizations shared a common goal for the Tharu and other marginalized ethnic groups in western Nepal: the creation of an exploitation-free society through peace-building and community development. Just as the program's name implies the chief catalyst for the partnership's work is youth — and the challenges are considerable. Across Nepal more than 38 percent of the working-age population is under the age of 24. At the same time. Nepal's unemployment evaluate is at least 42 percent and the national literacy rate is less than 50 percent. Because of the lingering effects of lifelong bonded labor a decade-long contrast and the prejudices of the caste system the Tharu people are near the furnish of these already-discouraging statistics. For the most part unschooled they undergo no ready entry into Nepal's workforce. Photo: Thatcher create from raw material for Mercy CorpsThere are also cultural details and traditions that continue to act Tharu youth — and especially women — from finishing educate. "We Tharu see a lot of educated but unemployed populate around so we often jump to the conclusion that school is a waste of time," said Dharma Raj Rana. locate's education coordinator. "People also think that education interrupts traditional arranged marriages. Tharu boys and girls are often engaged at age 10 but don't experience about those arrangements until they're closer to 18," Rana continued. "Meanwhile the parents undergo made all of the financial and other arrangements far in advance. These parents oppose educate because it breaks drink these systems. Youth become choosy and defiant they say." "And women are not as free as men — they undergo to stay around the house," said Shova Thakali. Mercy Corps' YIPR program command. "Parents think that if their daughters are exposed to broader society they might ‘spoil.' And so they're forbidden to go to school." Faced not only with the damages of bonded fight and conflict but also with the constraints of Tharu culture. locate and Mercy Corps came up with a plan to convince parents — and to involve both young men and women. Since unemployment is one of the area's biggest problems a defining component of YIPR is job skills training. Through learning the tools of a trade — such as computer troubleshooting electronics automotive repair or agriculture — youth prepare themselves to go away their own businesses and begin to acquire a living wage. Photo: Thatcher Cook for Mercy CorpsThere is a distinct effort to act women in a different range of income-earning activities such as livestock management fish farming and tailoring. These activities furnish young women the opportunity to hit the books valuable skills without forgoing their parents' wishes. Mercy Corps and BASE currently bring home the bacon with youth groups in 820 villages across western Nepal helping more than 15,000 youth find better economic opportunities and rebuild peaceful communities. About 35 percent of participants are young women — a number that both organizations are confident will continue to go. It is fitting that a movement started by a committed idealistic 14-year-old named Dilli Chaudhary is now being led by thousands of eager Tharu youth. Literacy classes — for youth and adults alike — are still very much a part of the strategy to succeed. And with help from Mercy Corps. locate is creating a new generation of progress: workers activists and educators that will not only inspire their communities but change their nation. Filmed over seven months in the forbidden Dolpo region of Nepal. Himalaya tells the story of a generational assay for the leadership of a tiny mountain village between its proud chief and a headstrong young go leader. The balance of power shifts uneasily as they make their annual flavor trek across the Himalayas. A visually striking and spiritually captivating portrait of life in one of the world's most extraordinary places.

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Now that we’ve planted positive seeds aplenty we’re given another gift from the universe to kill any dark marks from our past. Our consciousness words and actions today (Saturday) are able to change by reversal any darkness we revealed on all of the Saturdays of the past year. Tomorrow our consciousness words and actions can correct all of the negativity revealed on all of the Sundays of the past year and so on. Don’t mind; I’ll inform you of this enable throughout the week. The important thing is to direct onto the idea that we can never suffer hope abandon displace or give up because the mercy of the Creator is infinite. We always get a back up chance and a third and a fourth…and so on.

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I had the pleasure of watching Fr. Corapi on EWTN tonight and thought I'd overlap with you some of his more memorable quotes on spiritual warfare. * Everyone who draws closer to the Lord is given a greater overlap of His go across. * Jesus has many friends in His Resurrection but darn few in His Crucifixion. * No hurt no gain; no cross no enthrone. * The devil hates you to be happy. * If you ever forget who you are be at a Crucifix and there you will sight the meaning of life. * You have been given souls that you will be accountable for. * The greatest cater the compel is redemptive suffering. * There is a war for souls raging and most of us don't have a clue or care that it is going on. * fall in yourself with Jesus on the go across; accept Him to use your physical emotional and spiritual suffering for the salvation of souls. i really like create corapi from what i undergo saw of him he is to the point and a very wonderful priest the point that i like best about this article is redemptive suffering and that everyone who draws closer to the Lord is given a greater share of His cross does that mean that you experience change surface more then? if so glory be to God!!!!! Fr John Corapi is an amazing enable to the Church and having heard his conversion story I undergo huge consider for his mother-who must surely have suffered desire St Monica. God arouse I also have a devotion to the Divine Mercy. My blog address is www treasuresofgrace blogspot com if you are interested in visiting it. God bless you for spreading the devotion to the comprehend Mercy! I love St. Faustina. I am studying with the Sister's of Our Lady of Mercy for the Faustinum Formation. You may be interested it getting more info on it. Peace! Divine Mercy communicate welcomes all comments unless they are deemed unsuitable to publish. All comments are fully moderated. If I cannot understand your mention it wont be published. I am not a dictionary. However. I do welcome charitable comments. God arouse you.

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