It is important to note that Braque was careful to articulate all 33 beads of the rosary, this number reflecting the years traditionally accounted to Jesus' earthly life, and connecting the rosary with Christ's Passion, a linkage further suggested by the way in which the rosary and thus the implied act of prayer embraces the cross.
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He is credited with saving the shantytown - perched on a hilltop overlooking the sea, with the Christ the Redeemer statue visible in the distance - from being demolished.
What he believed in was a living God of compassion and love and the possibility of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ through whom this love was enacted in human time.
So the shelves remained packed with gaudy shrine paraphernalia, from portraits of Christ with a halo of flashing green, yellow and blue fairy lights, to depictions of the Last Supper illuminated with almost psychedelic colours.
We are to serve Christ with all our talent which entails supporting brothers and sisters being persecuted.
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The faith's official theology, after wrestling with the different senses in which Christ was human and divine, had crystallised with the pronouncement in the early fifth century that Mary was Theotokos, the Mother of God: the person whose body was the miraculous locus of a unique cosmic event, the coming together of the Creator and the created, physical world.
When we tend to the sick, when we console those in pain, when we sacrifice for those in need, wherever and whenever we are there to give comfort and to guide and to love, then Christ is with us.
If you are stupid enough to dine with the devil, for Christ's sake use a long spoon.
You look at every book in the New Testament and it throbs with the fact that Jesus Christ is risen, that is a fact.
In contrast, "The Fable" began and ended with an idea if Christ returned to earth he would be crucified again.
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He eventually became a camera assistant working on films ranging from Haunted Mansion to The Passion of the Christ before teaming up with Argy.
The exhibition concludes with variations on the Baptism of Christ.
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Icon spent very little on advertising the film, which deals with the last hours of Jesus Christ's life, when it was released earlier this year - instead, it made the film available for special screenings at churches.
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And, of course, Brazil and India have the same fears of China as global low cost manufacturer as the US. In India, each village has their own little gods of protection and people tend to have god idols in their homes the way a Brazilian might have a statue of Jesus with open arms, like the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio, decorating their book shelves.
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He started with the small quatrefoil lights of the Holy Spirit and the crucifixion, proceeding down through the main panels of Christ and his followers on the mountain, with all the way the white shaft of God's transfiguring light growing broader through the fire-and-storm colours of the glass.
He then oversaw a ceremony at the 2, 000-year-old Colosseum recalling Christ's final journey with the cross.
He has in the past accused fellow church leaders of hypocrisy and forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes.
The scheme is a partnership scheme between the University of Greenwich and the University of Kent, together with Mid-Kent College and Canterbury Christ Church University College.
Catholics are still buzzing over his speech last year accusing fellow church officials of hypocrisy for forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes.
The overwhelming success of movies like Passion of the Christ and The Blind Side, with their Christian themes, stunned Hollywood and movie critics.
"Hong Kong has a stair culture which is typified by a certain slowness and rhythm that has defined a way of life and attitude in the areas of the city with steep topography, " said Melissa Cate Christ, an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong.
Each painting broke with convention, yet none so violently as "Christ in the House of His Parents, " which depicts the Holy Family as mere owners of a carpenter's shop no Classical drapery, no halos.
He said that when John Paul was elected, Poland became a special witness to faith in Jesus Christ, and he urged Poles to share with the other peoples of Europe and the world the treasure of your faith.
At 8am, the morning assembly at the Believers in Christ Christian Academy in downtown Milwaukee is packed with parents, some of whom make up the orchestra at what looks more like a gospel-singing service than the normal chaos of assembly.
This, arguably, was the contrast that every great Mediterranean mind had to wrestle with for several centuries before and after the life of Jesus Christ.
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Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, the most solemn season on the church's liturgical calendar that ends with Holy Week, when the faithful commemorate the death of Christ and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.
Mr. Knecht breaks up the story of Lucky Linda's construction by salting in some rather fun history of yachting though the ages, beginning with Pharaoh Ptolemy IV, who ruled Egypt 200 years before Christ and built a 400-foot vessel powered by several hundred oarsmen.
It helps, she says, to make the picture unusual or exaggerated or silly one of the rules, almost word for word, in a standard Latin treatise on rhetoric written in the century before Christ, which recommends memory-boosting images ornamented with crowns, or stained with mud or blood, or rendered comic in some way.
Though it might be tempting to write off this young group as one-dimensional, it is worth noting that they also include on their album songs like "In the Name of Jesus Christ" and "Someone Like Daniel" that grapple with religion.
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