"If one man cannot own another in slavery, and a man can no longer own a woman in marriage, how come a woman can own a child in gestation? What is so civilised about killing the unborn for the convenience of the individual or the state?"
Reading - writing - good films - swimming - dancing - drama - music - Art (check out the photo albums in my Pics section to know more) - walking alone in nature - "God issues" - Justice, Peace and Life issues - laughter!
CREATIVE SPIRIT (Genesis 1:1-2)
SHADOWS AND LIGHT (Genesis 1: 14, 19)
A NEW DAY (Genesis 1:29-31)
Music
Blind Guardian - U2 - Týr - Thin Lizzy - Boomtown Rats - Kamelot - Within Temptation - Nickleback - Don Francisco - Beethoven - Mozart - Vivaldi - The Chieftains - African Music - John Michael Talbot - Bruce Springsteen - Tracy Chapman - Sinéad O Connor - Bob Marley - to name a few!
Movies
Nell - Rob Roy - Bruce Almighty - Dead Man Walking - Ben Hur - Midnight Express - Cry Freedom - Romero - The Last Days of Sophie Scholl - Sister Act - Hotel Rwanda - The Shawshank Redemption - My Left Foot - Kingdom of Heaven - The Matrix - Mary Shelleys Frankinstein - Luther - Les Miserables - The Mission - The Nuns
Story - When a Man Loves a Woman - Schildlers List - Braveheart - The Killing Fields - The Field - Amistad - The Passion of the Christ - A
Beautiful Mind - The Scarlet and the Black - A Man for All Seasons - Prince of Egypt - Lion King - Spirit!
Books
The Bible - Left to Tell - An Evil Cradling - The Prophet - Under the Eye of the Clock - To Kill a Mockingbird - Animal Farm - Lord of the Flies - Animal Liberation - Forbidden Grief - Animal Theology - Children of Men - The Lucifer Effect - Lord of the Rings - Clowns of God - East of Eden - Grapes of Wrath - Exodus - Night - Life of Christ - The Dark Night of the Soul - Miracles Do Happen - Introduction to Christianity - The God Delusion - How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization - How the Irish Saved Civilization
THE HOMECOMING (Luke 15: 20-24)
Heroes
Jesus - Immaculée Ilibagiza - Martin Luther King - Bishop Oscar Romero - Edith Stein - Damian, the Leper - Mahatma Gandhi - Maximilian Kolbe - Francis of Assisi - Mary of the Passion - Charles de Foucauld - Richard Wurmbrand - Steve Biko - Dorothy Day - Corrie Ten Boom - Jerzy Popieluszko - Aung San Suu Kyi - Brian Keenan - Fr. Shay Cullen -
Bono - anyone who shows integrity and courage
Maria recently formed a Myspace Group called Friends of St. Francis of Assisi and invites you to check it out at http://groups.myspace.com/friendsofsaintfrancis.
About me: Originally from Ireland, the Faroe Islands have been my home since 1990. I love the sea and the rugged beauty of these 18 beautiful islands lying in the middle of the North Atlantic.
I am a former member of Amnesty International, a vegetarian and a pro-life activist on several fronts. I became a vegetarian in July 2002 as a result of an encounter with a searching atheist who is also a vegetarian. His questioning helped me see the link between the developement of unborn children and the intelligence and capacity of animals to feel pain. I decided I could not continue to speak out against torture, the death penalty and abortion, yet remain indifferent to the suffering of animals in so many avoidable circumstances, creatures also gifted with the breath of life. Neither could I continue eating meat knowing that the grain being used to feed animals in order to produce meat for human beings could go directly towards feeding many desperately poor and hungry people - to their advantage and with far less damaging consequences for our health, animal welfare and the environment. I ceased to be a member of Amnesty International in 2005 (after years of active membership), having written many letters seeking straight answers to questions regarding their developing policy on "reproductive rights", specifically abortion. My suspicions were proved correct in June 2007, and later in August 2007 when AI decided to support abortion. I cannot understand how an organization founded by a Catholic to defend the defenseless and the voiceless - especially their right to life and security of person - can now support access to and decriminalization of abortion: an inherently violent act against the unborn, women and men. I have a special place in my heart for the many men and women suffering silently from the unspoken pain of abortion and keep you in my prayer. In fact, I pray for all my friends in my space and for all those who drop by to view my profile :) I would like my space to be a place of dialogue. I hope it will be a source of blessing ...
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Save The World - One Click At A Time!
On each of these websites, you can click a button to support the cause -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing! Bookmark these sites, and click once a day!
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EDUCATE YOURSELF: VISIT ONE OR ALL OF THESE SITES!
Compassion in World Farming - food without cruelty:
http://www.ciwf.org.uk/your_food/sustainable_food/default.aspx
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Abortion is the unChoice. Unwanted. Unsafe. Unfair: www.unfairchoice.info/ *************************************************************
Rachels Vineyard Ministries - healing the pain of abortion: www.rachelsvineyard.org/
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TruthTV - an interactive website dealing with Life issues: www.truthtv.org/main.asp?a=1&p=&
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Action by Christians against Torture: www.acatuk.org.uk/
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Make the world a better place for everyone by taking a LIVESIMPLY promise: www.livesimply.org.uk/
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Who I'd like to meet: People everywhere, especially those engaged in all or some of the issues mentioned above, those with questions and those who need a prayer or a listening ear :) Oh, and I do NOT accept Applications for games, hugs, secret boxes or whatever so please do not send me any!!!!
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Two minute video: Think before You Eat the Innocent
"It is a terrible thing that religious people today can be so indifferent to the cruelty of the farms, shrugging it off as so much secular, animal rights foolishness. They above all should hear the call to mercy" - Matthew Scully in Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of animals and the Call to Mercy
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Four Minute Video: Abortion Truth
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”Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person” (Article 3, Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
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”No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,inhuman
or degrading treatment or punishment” (Article 5, UDHR)
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Seven Minute Video: Make the Connection -
EARTHLINGS PROLOGUE
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, "Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage." When King Herod heard this, he was greatly troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. Assembling all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born. They said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it has been written through the prophet: 'And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; since from you shall come a ruler, who is to shepherd my people Israel.'" Then Herod called the magi secretly and ascertained from them the time of the star's appearance. He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and search diligently for the child. When you have found him, bring me word, that I too may go and do him homage." After their audience with the king they set out. And behold, the star that they had seen at its rising preceded them, until it came and stopped over the place where the child was. They were overjoyed at seeing the star, and on entering the house they saw the child with Mary his mother. They prostrated themselves and did him homage. Then they opened their treasures and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed for their country by another way.
Dear friend, Let us all fix our eyes on Jesus & surrender our lives to the mighty hand of God to direct & guide our way into the new year. May you be blessed beyond your expectations this coming new year! God bless you!
Heh, thanks :) I love language, and where these are obscure (to an American such as I :P), I'm sure that adds to their appeal for me. Next on the list would be Faeroese and Gaeilge :D
Thank you for all the wonderful comments and your friendship throughout this past year. My hope for you in 2009 is that your life will be blessed with much happiness and love.
Thank you for your comments and wishes, only one thing - I don't teach Norwegian and Polish, haha! I only wish I knew them that well. It's just that my favorite bands are Norwegian and Polish, and I happen to love both cultures. You see, it also suits me that although I'm a Heathen, my basic values still are shared with conservative Catholicism, so...plus I just feel they are the coolest sounding languages there are :D
And I'm fourth generation American, unfortunately; but mostly Irish :D
