Today's saint, St. Lydia Purpuraria, was the first Christian convert in Europe, a businesswoman who dealt in luxury goods. She is the patron saint of cloth dyers. Saint Lydia was born during the first century in Thyatira, a town famous for its dye works in Asia Minor, famous for its dye works, (hence, her name which means purple seller). She was a seller of purple dye and was St. Paul's first convert at Philippi. The following is from the Acts of the Apostles: And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us. ~Acts 16:14-15 She was baptized with her household. Thereafter, Paul made his home with her while in Philippi. Lydia was a woman of hospital...
The white house occupant is too stupid to view anything intelligent.
ReplyDeleteThe GREAT news is his poll numbers are falling.
I'm horrified right now because I know how stupid our society has become. The "re-education" of our children in public schools has resulted in at least three generations of idiots that think socialism is so great and since they can't think outside the box, when socialism is rephrased in to feel good terms (like it's being done now), they think we're the crazy ones for calling it what it is... socialism.
ReplyDeleteI can only fight where I can and pray the rest of the time that our society wakes the heck up.
Great films... my heart goes out to the people of Iran and I pray they succeed in obtaining true freedom.