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You Are a Blueberry Muffin<br />
You are a nurturing, domestic, homey person.Of all the types, you are the most likely to make your own muffins at home.You don't like to rock the boat, and you're most content when you're making everyone else happy.You are very loyal. You'll defend your family and friends, even if you secretly disapprove of what they're doing.You tend to be a bit shy and withdrawn. You don't make friends quickly or easily.But once you do make a good friend, the chances are high that you'll be friends for life. - My Favourite - especially if it's a skinny blueberry muffin with a skinny latte!</div>
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This mental solitude cannot be violated by the many people who surround you since they are not standing around your heart but only around your body. Your heart remains alone in the presence of God.” (St. Francis de Sales) </i></span><br /><br /><span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"May nothing distract me from You, neither noise nor diversions. O my Master, I would so love to live with You in silence. But what I love above all is to do Your will, and since You want me still to remain in the world, I submit with all my heart for love of You." (Elizabeth of the Trinity) </span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Jews have recently celebrated Yom Kippur on September 13<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
and 14<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also known as
‘The Day Of Atonement’ and is the holiest day of the year for the Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are a lot of days to celebrate in September
for the Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They include Rosh Hashana –
the Jewish New Year and Sukkot – the Feast of the Tabernacles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>September is a month of beginnings for us too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We celebrate the beginning of autumn and
often the Harvest Festival falls at this time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The full moon in September is called the Harvest Moon because it allowed
extra light for bringing in the harvest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have the autumn equinox when the days and nights are of equal
length.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The days will now shorten until
we reach the winter solstice in December.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This used to be the beginning of the year too for farming communities
and is reflected in the beginning of new school terms after the summer
holidays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The tradition of computing the start of a new year with
autumn was common to the lands of the Bible and to all the lands around the
Mediterranean. The summer harvest was at an end, the crops were stored, and
people prepared for a new agricultural cycle. It was an appropriate time to
begin a new year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is still the start
of the Church year in the Orthodox Church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Michaelmas also falls at this time of year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The feast of Saint Michael the Archangel
(also the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael, the Feast of the
Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels) is a day in the
Western Christian calendar which occurs on 29 September. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it falls near the equinox, it is
associated in the northern hemisphere with the beginning of autumn and the
shortening of days. In medieval England, Michaelmas marked the ending and
beginning of the husbandman's year, George C. Homans observes: "at that
time harvest was over, and the bailiff or reeve of the manor would be making
out the accounts for the year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To come back to Yom Kippur, the general theme is one of
atonement and repentance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some say there
is a link to kapporet, the “mercy seat” or covering of the Ark of the Covenant.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abraham Ibn Ezra states that the word
indicates the task and not just the shape of the ark cover; since the blood of
the Yom Kippur sacrifice was sprinkled in its direction, it was the symbol of
propitiation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is on the tenth day of
the seventh month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact September
used to be the seventh month before the calendars changed hence the name – Sep
from ‘septem’ meaning seven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the
seventh month of ten in the old Roman calendar. In 1752, the British Empire
adopted the Gregorian calendar. In the British Empire that year, September 2
was immediately followed by September 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Apart from Michaelmas day the other principal ecclesiastical
feasts falling within the month are: the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin on the
8th, the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on the 14th, St. Matthew the apostle on
the 21<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Globally now September is a time when we remember the
September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A time when we pray for peace especially in
the Middle East.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's
fate for the coming year into a book, the Book of Life, on Rosh Hashanah, and
waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict. During the Days of Awe,
a Jewish person tries to amend his or her behaviour and seek forgiveness for
wrongs done against God (bein adam leMakom) and against other human beings
(bein adam lechavero). The evening and day of Yom Kippur are set aside for
public and private petitions and confessions of guilt (Vidui). At the end of
Yom Kippur, one hopes that they have been forgiven by God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Leviticus 16:29 mandates establishment of this holy day on
the 10th day of the 7th month as the Day of Atonement for sins. It calls it the
Sabbath of Sabbaths and a day upon which one must afflict one's soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leviticus 23:27 decrees that Yom Kippur is a
strict day of rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Five additional prohibitions are traditionally observed, as
detailed in the Jewish oral tradition (Mishnah tractate Yoma 8:1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The number five is a set number, relating to:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">1. In the Yom Kippur section of the Torah, the word soul
appears five times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">2. Soul, in the Torah is known by five separate names: soul,
wind, spirit, living one and unique one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">3. Unlike regular days, which have three prayer services,
Yom Kippur has five- Maariv, Shacharis, Mussaf, Minchah and Neilah<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">4. The Kohen Gadol rinsed himself in the mikveh five times
on Yom Kippur<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In order to apologize to God, one must:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">1. Pray<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">2. Repent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">3. Give to charity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">These are similar themes in our Christian life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Talmud states, "Yom Kippur atones for those who
repent and does not atone for those who do not repent".[15] Repentance in
Judaism is done through a process called Teshuva, which in its most basic form
consists of regretting having committed the sin, resolving not to commit that
sin in the future and to confess that sin before God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sprinkling of blood is an essential part of the ‘atonement’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ, however, "went through the
greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not man-made, that is to say, not a
part of this creation. He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and
calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood,
having obtained eternal redemption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ's
redemptive work "as the antitypical fulfilment of the sacrificial ritual
of the day of atonement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The New
Testament refers to Day of Atonement in Acts 27:9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Much time had been lost, and sailing had
already become dangerous because by now it was after the Day of Atonement. So
Paul warned them …”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">God's own Word described the One who would come, die, bear
the sins of humanity, and be rejected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"What’s with the goats? Leviticus 16 v 7 Then he is to
take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent
of meeting. 8 He is to cast lots for the two goats—one lot for the Lord and the
other for the scapegoat. 9 Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the
Lord and sacrifice it for a sin offering. 10 But the goat chosen by lot as the
scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord to be used for making
atonement by sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat. The wilderness goat
died, leaving the iniquities in the wilderness. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeshua (Jesus) took our iniquities to Sheol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revelation 1:18. New International Version - I
am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And
I hold the keys of death and Hades. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Followers of Jesus the Messiah confidently look forward to
eternal life, because our names are written in the Book of Life. When Jesus
died, the veil of the Holy of Holies ripped in two, symbolically breaking a
barrier between humans and the presence of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Unlike the Israelites' annual sacrifices on Yom Kippur,
Jesus' one sacrifice continues to provide atonement to this day. Yom Kippur,
for followers of Jesus, reminds us of the certainty of our redemption through
the blood of our Messiah and High Priest, Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yom Kippur also reminds us of the ultimate salvation of the
Jewish people. The prophet Zechariah speaks of a day when the nation of Israel
will recognize her Messiah and "they will mourn for Him as one mourns for
his only son" (Zech. 12:10). When the Jewish people recognize Messiah, as
Paul writes, "All Israel will be saved" (Rom. 11:26). The Day of
Atonement thus reminds us of our own salvation and also looks forward to the
salvation of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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