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The Immaculate Conception
Francisco de Zurbaran

The Immaculate Conception
Guido Reni

Immaculate Conception (La Colosal)
Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Promulgation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception:

On December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX officially declared the Immaculate Conception a dogma of the Church, which means that all Christians are bound to accept it as true. As the Holy Father wrote in the Apostolic Constitution Ineffabilis Deus, "We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful." (http://catholicism.about.com/)


Immaculate Conception
Peter Paul Rubens

understanding the immaculate conception at its simplest:

...the Immaculate Conception refers to the dogma in the Catholic religion that Mary was born without original sin on her soul.  “Being always free from original sin, she was from the start filled with the sanctifying grace that would normally come with Baptism after birth.”  The term refers to her immaculate conception â€" being pure and free from all sin, and, therefore, chosen to be the mother of Jesus.

The term has nothing to do with the Virgin Birth of Jesus. (http://www.idontgetit.us/)


Immaculate Conception
Jusepe de Ribera

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception celebrates belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is universally celebrated on December 8, nine months before the feast of the Nativity of Mary, which is celebrated on September 8.

It is the patronal feast day of Spain, Korea, Portugal, Nicaragua, Brazil, the Philippines and the United States of America. It is celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church as well as a few other closely related Christian churches.


The Immaculate Conception
Francisco Zurbarán
Note the inverted moon and various imagery in reference to the Marian titles of Litany of Loreto.

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today, december 8, is the feastday of the immaculate conception.

it is a holy day of obligation for catholics.

the immaculate conception is the patron saint of the philippines.


Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

tahan na, bear.  nandiyan na si teddy mo. 

hay, salamat.  solb.  he who despairs must find a way out.  even if it takes an octopus.

strange.  init kaayo ganinang buntag sa manila.  mao nga nagdalidali kog adto sa vet for the vaccination of our cats aron di maabtan sa udtong tutok.  karon, kalit lang nga dag-om ang langit.  from our window, i can see part of manila bay with some rain.

goodness me.  this is a guest who emptied my wine cellar!

power does carry its own paranoia.  these end-of-civilization-world fictions are churned out as primetime shows and spread to the world primarily from the u.s.!

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 08, 2012, 12:49:52 PM
Repeats of the show are all you'll find nowadays -- but it's still compelling television -- maybe even more compelling today simply because America just might get nuked by terrorists and rogue nations that support them.

america nuked hiroshima and nagasaki.  not that a taste of one's own medicine is wished here, but japan, with memorials in hiroshima and nagasaki, and the japanese are there--- stronger, better and more resilient and polite than ever as a country and as a nation.

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 08, 2012, 12:49:52 PM
Total social breakdown. Complete loss of civil infrastructure. No police. No military. No fuel. No food. No power. Major cities gone.

and it's presumed that there would still be people?

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 08, 2012, 01:42:43 PM
Hmm, how about making a book out of your face? Could mean a lot of money...

that would still be sisyphean.  mine is a face that's not as square as the pants of sponge bob.

this pope is truly, undeniably cerebral.  one day in the far future, i will not be surprised if history were to judge him as the pope who held the church together, doctrinally, in one of its most trying times. 

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 08, 2012, 12:59:09 PM
Cool... sa ilawom silong...

sa langob nga among gipuy-an...

i need a real horse to do gangnam.  no need for a real whip.

a relative of yours?

pabenditahe na lang na sila ni fr chic.  aso-aso gyod ang agi.

daan pa lagi ko.  di man gani ko maka-make money out of my face, facebook pa ba hinoon.

torotoy mong tanan uy, ayaw na lang ta.  mahadlok gani ug santa claus, ibig sabihin, daghan pa mog bugas nga angay kan-on.  apil na tanang lagutmon.

Quote from: chicogon on December 08, 2012, 11:45:57 AM
We mentioned his name not to long ago...

oh, he's the one in ireland now?  i hope vrglguaps befriends him.  if i know vrglguaps as i knew him from ancient times, he's a calming presence.  which reminds me, cebu archdiocese's loss is ireland's gain.

karong taud-taod naa na pod tay senator or congressman nga mo-propose ug bill sundog niini.  ma-hero gyod ug ahat si ronald singson.

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 08, 2012, 11:14:39 AM
Maypas Islander, taking to it like a duck to water...

hmph.  para dat?  santa claus?  hadyokon.  gikan pa ko anang giilisan niyag diaper.

si pikoy aning hitaboa, nisutoy na, mao nga wa maapil sa picture.

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 08, 2012, 11:13:18 AM
Kaluoy ni Bugsay, Chongki ug Tigbao, mako jamog ngaag...

bisag wa pay santa claus, mako gyod na silag ngaag...

haraw molagpot sa kanal ang pustiso sa modiwalwal nako.

been trying all these years to follow that whistling intro...

mine is inorganic.

dreamy eyes lang mi uy.  nagpa-charming kunohay.

anyone, anything will do.  just don't make him morph into angelina jolie.

my heart goes to the torturer.

i'll have second thoughts about this one, though, like, shall i throw him to the garbage bin?

way laking masuko ana, sure ko kay smiling.  the eyes show that she means no malice.  cute gyod ni para sa mga laki, as lorenz pointed out.  para sa mga baye, paigat lang ni nga harmless.

Quote from: chicogon on December 08, 2012, 02:51:21 AM
You happen to know him... unfortunately he also left the priesthood not to long ago hehehe

ooops, di gyod diay ko pakumpisalon niya.  surely that practical wisdom is being used in good stead in his new life now.  (duha ra ang imong gihisgotan nga nigawas nga kaila ko.  he must be either of the two then.)     

i'm sure he won't dare come to tubagbohol.

hehe, pildi nako siya sa way ilhanay. 

daoy, pinaborit man nako na sa diha pa miy kaguran during ancient times.  karon kay de lata naman o powdered form ang coconut milk uy.  wa ra bay pakapin nga botbot.

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 07, 2012, 03:40:12 PM
Kon moadtog beerhouse, sabak2x jud ang tuyo, pasumangil na lang ang beer...

bitaw.  unya sa kahubog, wa makamatikod nga ang kargador na ang gisabak.

after glutathione and vicky belo:

the grown-up shaolin master, before glutathione and vicky belo:

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 07, 2012, 04:36:15 PM
He he, di ba gaplano kang moapil og tsis tornamint?

uy, wa koy plano uy.  nagduwa-duwa kog chess sa bata pa ko gibadlong man ko ni father dear kay angay ra kuno nag laki.  wa kuno siya makakita ug baye nga gaduwa ana, puro ra kuno unya laki ang akong kaatbang.  tua, wa hinoon ko madayon pagka eugenia torre.

hehe.  bishop x pawn = checkmate diay imong ipasabot?

more at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2244031/The-horror-Meth-Before-pictures-reveal-shocking-transformation-faces-users-hooked-deadly-drug.html?ITO=socialnet-googleplus-dailymail

How Meth Destroys the Body

What makes methamphetamine such an attractive high? Meth users report that after taking the drug they experience a sudden "rush" of pleasure or a prolonged sense of euphoria, as well as increased energy, focus, confidence, sexual prowess and feelings of desirability. However, after that first try, users require more and more of the drug to get that feeling again, and maintain it. With repeated use, methamphetamine exacts a toll on the mind and body, robbing users of their physical health and cognitive abilities, their libido and good looks, and their ability to experience pleasure.(http://www.pbs.org/)

Methamphetamine - aka Crank, Crystal, Crystal Glass, Crystal Meth, Meth, Christina, Tina, Cris, Cristy, Ice, Speed,    Geep, Geeter, Getgo, Go Fast, Poor Man’s Coke, Redneck Cocaine, Working Man’s Cocaine, Trash, Garbage, Wash, better known as Shabu in the Philippines

kaluod ba uroy.

abi nakog ang abacist tig-recite ug ABC.  ang tig-recite ug ABKD kay abakadist.

ug una man pod ang matag tikist?

hinoon, laing klase nga bagyo tingali si JLo.

Quote from: chicogon on December 07, 2012, 03:58:26 PM
Meaning, di nato iapil nang mga way labot sa RH Bill nga nasalanta sa bagyo. Kung mga senador pa hinoon na kalas sa bagyo... basin motoo pa ko bwahaha

didto man kuno hinoon sila naghuot sa show ni JLo, mora god kuno ug legislative session ang show.  at 20k a pop, that was people's money well spent.  baga.

Quote from: chicogon on December 07, 2012, 03:58:26 PM
...dili punishment sa imong mga sa ang pag coma sa imong mama. Hayahaya man siyay na coma sa imong sala? Kung dunay angay silotan sa imong mga sa, ikaw...

hahaha!  paskang lingawa nako ani.  tinuod baya gyod tuod.  why man lain ang silotan.  cool.  angay kumpisalan tong paria da, hehe.

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 07, 2012, 03:47:43 PM
Hmm, why not? MENSA counts among its members a good number of prostitutes...

hinoon, tungod tingali sa ka-bright gipili na lang nila nang trabahoa kay tapulan man mo-eskwela, aguruy.  as for sylvia kristel, na-shock lang ko kay tiaw bay labaw sa akong IQ nga 186.75, hehehe.

ang bagumbayan sa amo kay pan nga bahaw nga gi-recycle ni intsik beho into big cookies nga makapangag. 

naa diay district of bagumbayan sa albany, new york?

niadto ko sa link kay na-curious ko sa picture.  hey, si mary kuno na, taga bagumbayan, albay, an american.  kana lang daan katingalahan na. 

okay, daghang mestizo/mestiza sa albay, let us grant, pero nagdangag ang nag-edit or nag-localize gamay ani nga article kay ang sunod nga paragraph gisugdan man ug "Like most Americans, Mary makes an average salary..."  in albay?  talking dog.

women, beware.  look at what salespeople will do to play on our vanities.  caveat emptor!

hahaha!  mantinir na lang ni Jlo, chongks.  20,000 pesos ra man diay tong ticket sa iyang manila show.  cheap.

naunsa man ni si pablo.  an unwanted guest to begin with, and now he's overstaying?

makakurog man ning balitaa.  kalooy intawon.  my prayers. 

babies and pets.  apili na lang ug smile ni banana republic bisag warak siya sa trabaho nga mouli...

diay ba?  now i'm beginning to entertain the thought... i happen to be a believer that there's no such thing as coincidence.  i'm feeling weird here.  of course, we could come up with a thousand and one reasons.  but as for preponderance of evidence... hehe.

To make the snow look realistic, Kabel used a tool most people have inside their bathrooms: a toothbrush.

"It splatters so it looks like snow," Kabel said.

The White House won't be paying Kabel for her portrait of Bo ("I'm living on glory," she said when asked about compensation), but she and her husband will attend the White House holiday party on Dec. 18.

She sees meeting the president and Mrs. Obama as a highlight of the trip, but she is also excited to do something many White House guests are familiar with: celebrity watch.

"I've never seen anyone famous, so I'm like, who will be at the party?" Kabel said. "I'm looking for anybody."

http://gma.yahoo.com/

Kabel's own canine companion, Beans - a Boston Terrier/Pug mix - follows her to the studio each day and sits by her side while she earns her livelihood painting, drawing and printing.

"It's not like we're sitting here chatting or anything," Kabel said. "But when I don't bring him to the studio I constantly am peeking over my shoulder to look where he would normally be. When he's not there I feel his absence."

The dog in the portrait is sporting a scarf, something Kabel says was an addition she made to the photo the White House sent out for her as part of the competition.

"They asked us to do an interpretation of the photo, and I did need to change a couple of things," Kabel said. "Black animals are difficult to represent and have them read as three-dimensional."

"I had very, very, very low expectations about it in the first place," Kabel told ABC News. She said her husband kept asking her afterwards, "Did I dream that you're going to do this?"

"No, I had the same dream," she would reply. "I'm pretty sure this is true."

It has been a big year for the two-time Obama supporter. Kabel's husband's band opened for Bruce Springsteen at President Obama's rally in Des Moines, his last rally before election night. At that point, the couple knew her painting had been selected, but had to keep that secret.

The black-and-white illustration features the Obama family Portuguese water dog. It shows a jaunty Bo, knee-deep in snow in front of a blurred White House.

Story Behind White House Holiday Card

By Sarah Parnass | ABC OTUS News
07 December 2012


ABC OTUS News - Story Behind White House Holiday Card (ABC News)   
   
Larassa Kabel never expected to be chosen when she submitted her painting to be considered for the White House holiday card this September.

The Des Moines, Iowa, artist said "it was a very surreal moment," when she got the call from the White House secretary's office while cooking pizza for her family one night, hearing that first lady Michelle Obama had chosen her piece.

The White House released the 2012 Christmas card, painted by Kabel, this morning.

the horror, the horror!  kalooy intawon.  may he rest in peace.

my jaws dropped when i came across an article claiming that she has an IQ of 187.  it turned out that she just made it up so she'll be taken seriously.

kalooy sa balde, kalooy sa kahoy, kalooy nga labaw sa motorcycle ani, bolbs.  maayo pay usa na lang unta ang ligid sa motorcycle...

i am distressed beyond comfort.  cruel earthlings... inhuman...

Quote from: Chongki on December 07, 2012, 12:55:32 PM
WTF!!!

what the forethoughtlessness?  hihihi.

pilay pad sa tarsier, kun way rh bill di na manghilabot ang china sa scarborough shoal...

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on December 07, 2012, 10:50:50 AM
Hurricane Sandy is also related to RH Bill? Kuyaw pud ang pangutok.

sounds like a politician to me.

Quote from: hubag bohol on December 07, 2012, 11:01:25 AM
BxP ch

unsah man nih?  explain or i'll go bonkers!

Quote from: chicogon on December 07, 2012, 10:10:18 AM
Believe it or not, naa poy kiriring ug utak ning mga taga Simbahan

it looks like it does take all kinds.  luckily, faith remains the same, as steady as the rock on which the church stands.

in my younger days in tagbilaran, i remember helping someone gather those chain letters regularly left by her mother on the pews of the cathedral.  the mother had tragically gone bonkers, and she took to advising the US president on what to do, through the chain letters she herself wrote.  the series of advice was intelligent and sane and up-to-date, i must say.  i only wondered how it would reach the US president. 

or the fish that carries its ball, if not the world, on its head...


A flowerhorn fish is displayed at the annual fish festival or "Pramong Nomjai Thai Tuala" at a shopping mall in Bangkok. (http://lightbox.time.com/)

Franklin Reyesâ€"AP
Nov. 24, 2012. Dancers Maylin Daza, right, Barbara Paula, center and Rubi Amaro get dressed and apply makeup before dancing with their group Danza Voluminosa in Havana, Cuba. Voluminous Dance is a theater company with overweight dancers founded by dancer, choreographer and director Juan Miguel Mas.

Stephane Maheâ€"Reuters
Nov. 24, 2012. A French riot gendarme secures the area while a demonstrator hangs from the trees, as evacuation operations continue on land that will become the new airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, western France.

Tsering Topgyalâ€"AP
Nov. 23, 2012. Indian boys feed migratory birds on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India. (http://lightbox.time.com/)

Stephane Maheâ€"Reuters
Nov. 23, 2012. A French riot gendarme wipes his visor after being covered with lime during clashes with demonstrators during an evacuation operation on land that will become the new airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, western France. (http://lightbox.time.com/)

Vandivert (above, in the early 1940s) was the first Western photographer to gain access to Hitler’s Führerbunker, or “shelter for the leader,” after the fall of Berlin, and a handful of his pictures of the bunker and the ruined city were published in LIFE magazine in July 1945. A few of those images are republished here; most of the pictures in this gallery, however, were never published in LIFE and vividly illustrate the surreal, disturbing scenes Vandivert encountered in the bunker and in the streets of the vanquished city beyond the bunker’s walls.

In his typed notes to his editors in New York, Vandivert described in detail what he saw. For example, of the sixth slide in this gallery, he wrote, “Pix of [correspondents] looking at sofa where Hitler and Eva shot themselves. Note bloodstains on arm of soaf [sic] where Eva bled. She was seated at far end … Hitler sat in middle and fell forward, did not bleed on sofa. This is in Hitler’s sitting room.” Remarkable stuff â€" but, it turns out, it’s only about half right. Historians are now quite certain that Braun committed suicide by biting a cyanide capsule, rather than by gunshot â€" meaning the bloodstains on the couch might well be Hitler’s after all.

A NOTE ON THE PHOTOGRAPHER: William Vandivert â€" who at 6 ft. 5 in. held the distinction of being the tallest photographer on staff â€" shot for LIFE from the late 1930s through the late ’40s. In 1947 he joined Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour in founding the legendary Magnum photo agency. (Rita Vandivert, his wife, served as Magnum’s first president.) William Vandivert died in 1992.

http://life.time.com/history/hitlers-bunker-rare-photos/

William Vandivertâ€"Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. An image almost too perfectly symbolic of Berlin in the spring of 1945: a crushed globe and a bust of Hitler amid rubble outside the Reich Chancellery

William Vandivertâ€"Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. A common practice of soldiers throughout the centuries: scrawling graffiti to honor fallen comrades, insult the vanquished or simply announce, I was here. I survived. "Columns at entrance into Chancellery gardens," wrote Vandivert of this eerie scene, "showing bomb and artillery wreckage and names of Russians who fell fighting there."

William Vandivertâ€"Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Russian soldiers and a civilian struggle to move a large bronze Nazi Party eagle that once loomed over a doorway of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.

William Vandivertâ€"Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. An American soldier, PFC Douglas Page, offers a mocking Nazi salute inside the bombed-out ruins of the Berliner Sportspalast, or Sport Palace. The venue, destroyed during an Allied bombing raid in January 1944, was where the Third Reich often held political rallies and where Hitler and others frequently gave speeches.

William Vandivertâ€"Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Aerial view of bombed-out buildings and wrecked gasworks in and around the Schöneberg section of Berlin in 1945.

William Vandivertâ€"Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. LIFE correspondent Percy Knauth, left, sifts through debris in the shallow trench in the garden of the Reich Chancellery where, Knauth was told, the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun were burned after their suicides.

William Vandivertâ€"Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
A ruined, empty and likely looted safe inside Hitler's bunker

William Vandivertâ€"Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
With only candles to light their way, war correspondents examine a couch stained with blood (see dark patch on the arm of the sofa) located inside Hitler's bunker.

Hundreds of thousands perished in the Battle of Berlin â€" including untold numbers of civilian men, women and children â€" while countless more were left homeless in the ruins. But it was two particular deaths, those of Adolf Hitler and his longtime companion and (briefly) wife Eva Braun, in a sordid underground bunker on April 30, 1945, that signaled the true, final fall of the Third Reich.


William Vandivertâ€"Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. In the typed notes (see next slide) that William Vandivert sent to LIFE's New York offices after getting to Berlin, he described his intense, harried visit to Hitler's bunker: "Note and note well," he wrote. "These pix were made in the dark with only candle for illumination ... Our small party of four beat all rest of mob who came down about forty minutes after we got there." Above: A 16th century Madonna and Child stolen from a Milan museum

Between August 1940 and March 1945 American, RAF and Soviet bombers launched more than 350 air strikes on Berlin; tens of thousands of civilians were killed, and countless buildings â€" apartment buildings, government offices, military installations â€" were obliterated. Vandivert, LIFE reported, “found almost every famous building [in Berlin] a shambles. In the center of town GIs could walk for blocks and see no living thing, hear nothing but the stillness of death, smell nothing but the stench of death.”


William Vandivertâ€"Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
A new view of a photograph that appeared, heavily cropped, in LIFE, picturing Hitler's command center in the bunker, partially burned by retreating German troops and stripped of valuables by invading Russians

Hitler’s Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin: Rare Photos

Life Magazine
http://life.time.com/history/

In April 1945, as Russian and German troops fought â€" savagely, street by street â€" for control of the German capital, it became increasingly clear that the Allies would win the war in Europe. Not long after the two-week battle ended, 33-year-old LIFE photographer William Vandivert was on the scene, photographing Berlin’s devastated landscape.


William Vandivertâ€"Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Oberwallstrasse, in central Berlin, saw some of the most vicious fighting between German and Soviet troops in the spring of 1945

Rajesh Kumar Singhâ€"AP
Nov. 17, 2012. An Indian villager collects cow dung cakes after they are sun dried on the banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India. Cow dung cakes are a major source of domestic fuel for rural households and an environment friendly alternative to firewood. (Time Magazine)

baby lolla

baby tigbao

ngano god tawong mohatag man kog load ug tawo nga tua sa gawas.  ba uroy.

laing klaseng scam that we all know of... kapila na gyod hinoon ko makadaog ug bisag unsa na lang, apil pa jackpot nga almost a million pesos. 

simple ra akong conclusion kun makadawat kog mga ingon ana nga text: it's too good to be true.  di ko ing-ana kaswerte nga pagkatawo nga ahat lang kong modaog nga way giapilan nga contest.  gihimo na hinoon nakong lingaw ni.  daginoton pa gyod ang scamming texter ug tubag ug "claim it for me, please.  it's all yours." 

tingalig iyang nanay ang scammer?

hahahaha!  puro pa ra ba gyod tambok ang mga nadakpan.

soon.  no more front ride or back ride? 





will the habal-habal be put out of business in case this ordinance is copied by other cities?

The measure also cited the case of Polytechnic University of the Philippines vice president Augustus Cesar, who was reportedly shot dead by two motorcycle-riding assailants in October last year.

“This heinous crime is far from being isolated as there have been previous cases where men riding in tandem brazenly killed their unsuspecting victims with impunity,” it said.

Just recently, a Manila cop was shot dead when he flagged down two men on a motorcycle. A Chinese trader was also killed in a robbery last week with the same modus.

The proposed ordinance added that motorcycles were “fast, sleek and easy to maneuver even in heavy traffic being capable of sprinting away through narrow alleys to elude pursuing police vehicles.”

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/