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By Randy Sly
6/4/2011 (4 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
For most converts from Protestantism the term Novena is quite strange, yet the Biblical account of the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin Mary tarrying in the Upper Room after the ascension for nine days is quite familiar.The heart of any Novena is the same as the first one, called by our Lord Himself. "He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father."
By Randy Sly
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
6/4/2011 (4 years ago)
Published in Living Faith
Keywords: Novena, Randy Sly, Prayer, Holy Spirit, Convert, Piety, charismatic
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - The Catholic Encylopedia on our site defines a Novena as "nine days' private or public devotion in the Catholic Church to obtain special graces." While the number eight in the Judeo-Christian tradition was always thought of as a festive number of new beginnings, the number nine seemed to be often linked with suffering.
On the tenth day, Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came upon them and the Church was born.
The heart of any Novena is the same as the first one, called by our Lord Himself. "He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father." (Acts 1:4, emphasis mine)
I remember hearing a sermon many years ago asking the question, "What if they had given up and left?" The persistence of the Christ's followers and His mother to wait for the promise ended in fulfillment. On the Feast of Pentecost, tongues of fire appeared of each of their heads declaring the coming of the Holy Spirit.
Nine day vigils were noted in Church history from the third century onward. By the middle ages novenas for the Pope and Cardinals were commonplace. Still today, whenever we undertake a novena of prayer, we are declaring that same supreme desire to wait for the promise, persevering with confidence until the end.
Either as a public or personal observance, a novena involves nine days of hopeful anticipation of an answer for the petition or intention for which prayers are being offered. Often a sense of urgency and earnestness accompanies these times. they are also a wonderful witness to a belief in the power of prayer and the dynamic role of genuine faith.
When we pray a Novena, we either pray the same prayer for all nine days or follow a list of prayers to be prayed for each day. Every novena is a bit different in the intention, formation of prayers and practice.
The Catholic Encyclopedia goes on to say, "The novena is permitted and even recommended by ecclesiastical authority, but still has no proper and fully set place in the liturgy of the Church. It has, however, more and more been prized and utilized by the faithful."
Parishes often offer a novena of Masses for the departed or for a special intentions, such as mothers and fathers or vocations to the priesthood and the religious life.
There are a number of Novenas, most of which focus upon Mary, St. Joseph, the Sacred Heart, particular Saints, a special theme such as Divine Mercy or the Holy Family, or preparing for Special Feasts. Often they are focused on special needs of the whole Church or a particular part of the Church.
On the day after Ascension the Church often enters in to a Novena to the Holy Spirit, which culminates with the Feast of Pentecost. In our own day it is time to reach into the treasure house of the traditions of prayer within the Church and pull out treasures old and new. (Matt. 13:52) The Novena is just such a treasure.
We invite you to join us at Catholic Online in this time of focused prayer from now until the great Feast of the Birthday of the Church.We need a New Pentecost for the Church in the Third Millennium. Come Holy Spirit!
Randy Sly is the Associate Editor of Catholic Online. He is a former Archbishop of the Charismatic Episcopal Church who laid aside that ministry to enter into the full communion of the Catholic Church.
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They may taste like a decadent treat, but these cupcakes aren't just like any other dessert — they still pack a nutritious punch from the sweet carrots, omega 3-rich walnuts, and chewy raisins in the batter.
Recipe courtesy of Country Living reader Kelly Chilton.
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- 1.50 c. all-purpose flour
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- 0.50 c. light-brown sugar
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- 1 tsp. baking soda
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- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 0.50 tsp. allspice
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- 2 large eggs
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COE are set up to offer vocational training programmes to upskill the Saudi workforce to meet the needs of their job market.
They are built and owned by the Saudi government and the bulk of the teaching is in English. Wintec had been interested in the project since the first wave of tenders for international operators went out last year.
"Winning this bid is a tremendous endorsement of Wintec. Organisations from around the world are competing for this opportunity," chief executive Mark Flowers said.
Wintec is the first New Zealand educational organisation to secure such a contract in Saudi Arabia and Flowers said the national, government-supported approach was a drawcard.
"They're really trying a pretty major education change programme, which is good to be involved in. It's a pretty extensive programme. It's pretty ambitious what the Saudis are trying to do."
Saudi Arabia was heavily dependent on immigrant labour and the government was aiming to upskill the next generation to change that, Flowers said.
The cluster Wintec was involved in was expected to open in September.
Wintec formed a partnership with Mondragon - which already runs a COE - after discussions when they found they "really clicked" and shared values.
Mondragon brought its international reputation and experience in the Saudi environment, and Wintec offered expertise in areas such as English language and health studies.
The two organisations were to set up a jointly owned company for the colleges, including a local Saudi company with a minor partnership, Flowers said.
Over time, the number of Saudi staff would increase, and those teaching there could include Saudi students who had studied degrees in New Zealand, he said.
The Saudi colleges would offer mainly diploma level courses and most Saudi students who came to New Zealand were studying for degrees.
The net benefit from the joint venture deal between Wintec and Mondragon was likely to be in the millions of dollars during the five-year contract, Wintec said. Gains would be invested in Wintec programmes, services and facilities in New Zealand and to "reinvest in international education opportunities".
But for Flowers the move was about about making the most of new opportunities in the Middle East, which fitted in with Wintec's internationalisation strategy and "modern approach".
The Government was also keen to increase export education as a part of New Zealand's economy, he said.
"You can approach it by saying 'Well, we'll just get more and more students coming to New Zealand'. But we don't think in the longer run that's the solution. Countries just can't afford to keep sending people here all the time. Over time they want to do what the Saudis are doing, which is have their own institutions. So we need to be part of it in other countries." And Wintec was keen to pick up further colleges in Saudi Arabia once it had set up the structure and got staff based there, Flowers said.
The institute was also looking at setting up a college within Chengdu University in central China "and there may be other countries we'll look at".
In the long term it would look towards South America, where its association with Mondragon could prove useful.
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Say what you will about the D-backs' beleaguered pitching staff, but even with injuries to Mark Trumbo and A.J. Pollock, the D-backs' offense has been slightly better than average — you might even say good, in some ways. But they're accomplishing that while being among MLB's worst in taking walks and driving the ball. And although it fights against the normal sabermetrics instincts, you might even be able to say that's a good thing.
The club was recently overtaken in games played (finally), and while they're still among the league leaders with 92 games, a difference of 2-3 games is a lot less significant than it was the last time we checked in on the offense generally. Still, with the D-backs hovering right around the league average number of runs scored, it's rate statistics — as opposed to counting statistics — that may be most enlightening.
Take the classic, for instance: batting average. The D-backs rank 12th in BA in the majors, and considering 5 of the top 6 teams are in the American League, that's no small accomplishment. They have the exact same rank for slugging percentage, and so it seems like the D-backs' hits have been extra base hits at a normal rate. And it looks like the D-backs have earned the hits they've gotten, too: their batting average on balls in play (BABIP) is .298. The league average? Exactly .298. It seems pretty clear that at the plate, the D-backs have not been the beneficiaries or victims of luck so far this year.
Here's how the D-backs offense stacks up (all stats courtesy of ESPN Stats & Info):
The D-backs are 14th in the majors in runs scored — 6th in the NL, just above average. But where the team's batting average and slugging marks are right around average, their walk rate is terrible ( 6.4%, 29th in the majors). Compared to the league average walk rate (7.8%), that's 42 walks "missing" — and borrowing from a run values of events chart, that's roughly 22 "missing" runs (assuming the walks would replace outs). Theoretically, at least, if you replaced the D-backs' walk rate with a league average walk rate, the team would rank 4th in the NL in runs scored, not 6th.
But let's not beat the D-backs up for what they aren't; let's examine them for what they are. And what they are is a contact-hitting team. Led by Martin Prado, the D-backs have the fifth-highest contact percentage in the majors. Especially for a team in the NL, that's huge. These guys don't miss. The problem is that when they do hit the ball, they aren't hitting it very hard. Despite doing fairly well in slugging, the D-backs' hard-hit average is very low.
This may just be because they're getting a better-than-average number of the balls they swing at in play — maybe it's those extra balls in play that are weakly hit. But this is not a team that regularly hits the ball on the screws.
There are exceptions, of course. Here's the D-backs field, led by Paul Goldschmidt, a resurgent Miguel Montero, and newcomer David Peralta (again, courtesy of ESPN Stats & Info):
Revealing, no? This "hard hit average" statistic (abbreviated as either HHAV or WHAV), proprietary to ESPN, really seems to shed some light. Goldy has an insanely good BABIP, but that's backed up by the fact that he's really spanking the ball all over the place — to get in the top 10% of hitters, you'd need a hard hit average of .190 or better, which Goldy clears with ease. Meanwhile, there's also some reason to think that David Peralta's hot start isn't about luck — he's hitting the ball with authority. And on the other end, we can confirm that Gerardo Parra really is not doing so hot, and something may be wrong.
But back to the point: the D-backs offense, on the whole, has been a contact-style offense. It's not Paul Goldschmidts and Miguel Monteros up and down the lineup — as much as we might love that, it's just not in the cards. Is that a problem? Maybe not. Allow me to excerpt a nugget from a recent interview with Bill James, the father of sabermetrics:
We are hung up on bat speed, as an industry. All scouts look for bat speed, and if the ball doesn't jump off your bat, it's very, very hard to get drafted. This has excluded from the majors now a type of player that I think of as a Nellie Fox-type player. Such an old reference—we might call it a Brett Butler-type player or a Tony Gwynn-type player. Very slow bats. I believe there's a big potential payoff for an organization that says, "Okay, well we don't care if the ball jumps off your bat or not. We're looking for guys who make solid contact all the time." But the reason I can tell you about this is the Red Sox can't do something like this, and the reason the Red Sox can't do something like this is that we can win playing by the rules everybody else is playing by. So the team that gets to [disregard bat speed] is the team that doesn't have the resources to go head-to-head with the Red Sox and the Dodgers and the Yankees and come out on top.
Count me among the folks who think that maybe the D-backs don't have the resources to go head-to-head with the Red Sox, Dodgers, and Yankees and come out on top. Maybe, then, James is right and "slow bats" are one of the next inefficiencies. We're talking about guys who grit out at bats…
Did the Towers/Gibson team dream this up, and purposefully rely on "slow bat" types like Parra and Prado? I'm not so sure about that. And James's comments were less about how to dole out playing time or handle player acquisition via trades. One way to beat the market, James is suggesting, is to target amateur players who seem to have high batting average, but who have not aroused other teams' attentions because they don't have the sexy bat speed that scouts love.
If Towers and Gibson are content to field a major league team that sort of fits that mold, might they be willing to go in a similar direction in the minors, despite it being unconventional? I'm not sure. But if the team were looking for a way to both corner an inefficiency and keep the current management team in place, moving in the "slow bat" direction through the draft and in minor league development could be a perfect match for what "gritty" is all about.
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I like your comment about David Peralta. If you take requests, I'd like to see a breakdown of his early success and whether it's sustainable or not. Is he someone we can look to rely on in the future? He's still relatively young and I believe will remain cheap for a few years. Could he be a useful fourth outfielder to spell Trumbo and Parra next year and beyond? Or do you see him as a starter if Parra gets dealt?
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Bradford — check back on Friday! The problem we run into is small sample size, as when you start looking at different aspects of his hitting, the samples get tiny. But as a preview, when I looked a couple of days ago, there didn't seem to be anything he was struggling with.
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I got these so called 100% LINEN home, I opened the box of 8 that I purchased, and looked closely at the label......it clearly stated 100% RAMIE linen. Ramie is not linen!!! I was so upset, spending so much time shopping, looking for linen, than waiting for delivery and it turns out it is Ramie....and not as advertised as linen....I was so upset, I instantly went on computer and printed a return label...more time wasted....then to carry this heavy Ramie to ups store!!! Linen is light! Then I chatted with overstock representative, she offered me a replacement, apologized that the wrong item was sent, and she offered me to sent the same Ramie curtains as replacement....?????what???Read More
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The only reason I gave this a 4 star instead of a 5 is that I ordered 6 panels and 2 need to be exchanged. There were flaws in the material BUT Overstock was quick to send 2 more out to me. I do suggest ironing these curtains. Yes, they would probably hang out but when ironed, they look absolutely beautiful, flawless and way more expensive than the price paid. The ARE 100% linen which is hard to find within this price range. Do not hesitate to order them.Read More
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I purchased four 108" panels and I am very pleased. The fabric hangs beautifully and was easy to hem with hem-tape. The color "pearl" is not really white but blends well with my Benjamin Moore "white dove" walls. I would have liked the grommets to be silver but for the price and the look, these curtains are great.Read More
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These were nice curtains, but they are NOT white. They're more of a linen/cream color. I returned them since the color wasn't what I expected. Hopefully they'll update their description to reflect this so potential buyers don't have to read all the reviews. I obviously didn't or I would've known better.Read More
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I was so impressed with these curtains. (ordered a pearly white) The fabric is heavy, the wrinkles fell out in days. Nice to see American made linens that are so well made. I would definitely order from this manufacturer again.Read More
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Scotland and the United Arab Emirates took a giant step towards booking a place in next year's Cricket World Cup with Super Six stage victories today.
With only one round remaining, the two teams sit on top of the standings on six points, two points clear of their nearest rivals, Papua New Guinea and Hong Kong.
If Scotland and the UAE can win their final Super Six game on Thursday, they would seal their ticket to next year's one-day international World Cup and meet in Saturday's final of the qualifying tournament.
Scotland ran out 52-run winners over tournament surprise package Papua New Guinea at Lincoln. They amassed an imposing 288-9 from their 50 overs, which was built around a handful of strong partnerships.
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Hong Kong remain on track for a top four finish after they overcame Namibia by 76 runs. They appeared in trouble batting first at 37-3, but Mark Chapman and Nizakat Khan helped steady their innings, combining for a 155-run fourth wicket stand.
Chasing a whopping 289, Namibia never really looked likely, falling to 94-5 in the 21st over. They were eventually rolled for 207 with batsman Craig Williams the shining light with 59 runs.Hasseb Amjad continued his outstanding tournament with the ball taking 4-33, while Tanwir Afzal chipped in with three wickets.
In bottom four section games in Mt Maunganui, the Netherlands were eight wicket winners over Canada, with Canterbury's Peter Borren scoring 61 not out in the win. Nepal gained their first victory of the tournament, routing winless Uganda by 160 runs.
Scotland 288 for nine in 50 overs (P Mommsen 94, M Cross 49, F Coleman 48; R Haoda 2-48, M Dai 2-52, W Gavera 2-54) beat Papua New Guinea 236 all out in 46 overs (V Morea 57, M Dai 50; R Taylor 3-45, M Haq 3-52) by52 runs
United Arab Emirates 246 for eight in 50 overs (K Khan 85, A Javed 63, S Patil 36; N Odhiambo 4-54, D Allan 2-62) beat Kenya 233 all out in 50 overs (M Ouma 42, C Obuya 41, I Karim 38; M Naveed 3-40, A Javed 2-29, M Guruge 2-48) by 13 runs
Hong Kong 283 for nine in 50 overs (N Khan 85, M Chapman 82; L Klazinga 4-65, J Smit 2-49) beat Namibia 207 all out in 44 overs (C Williams 59, C Viljoen 40; H Amjad 4-33, T Afzal 3-41, N Ahmed 2-43) by 76 runs
Super Six points: UAE 6, Scotland 6, Hong Kong 4, PNG 4, Kenya 2, Namibia 2.
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