What If God Was One of Us

Remember: Not all people in this world received the same blessings that you have: opportunity, house, education and comfort. We must not forget that we don't live without a purpose and this purpose is to help one another.

'If God had a name, what would it be
And would you call it to His face
If you were faced with Him in all His glory
What would you ask if you had just one question
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home
If God had a face, what would it look like
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like Heaven and in Jesus and the Saints
And all the Prophets and...
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Just tryin' to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to Heaven all alone
Just tryin' to make his way home
Nobody callin' on the phone
'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome'

"One of Us" is a song written by Eric Bazilian (of The Hooters) and originally released by Joan Osborne. Released in March 1995 on the album Relish and produced by Rick Chertoff, it became a Top 40 hit in November of that year. The song is the theme song for the American television series Joan of Arcadia. The song was nominated for three Grammys and peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, but Osborne was unable to repeat the success and is considered a one-hit wonder.

Prin Bucureștii lui Mircea Eliade – traseu-cultural pietonal

Traseul – cultural ARCEN se dorește a fi o alternativă pietonală a Capitalei, un traseu care valorifică patrimoniul construit și imaterial al Bucureștilor și care contribuie la salvarea memoriei orașului.

Traseul „Prin Bucureștii lui Mircea Eliade” cuprinde istoria și poveștile mahalalelor Negustori, Sfinților, Mântuleasa și Vergului, legătura acestor locuri cu Mircea Eliade – casa cu mansardă, Școala Mântuleasa, Foișorul de Foc, casa lui Mircea Vulcănescu – dar și istoria prezenței personajelor lui Mircea Eliade în acest spațiu „încărcat de semne magice”.

Traseul „Prin Bucureștii lui Mircea Eliade” se va desfășura, în perimetrul străzilor: Mântuleasa – Romulus – Popa Soare – Dimineții – Pictor Romano – Sf. Ștefan – Plantelor –Negustori – Dumitru Stăniloae – Calea Moșilor – Sfinților, având ca punct de pornire Biserica Mântuleasa (str. Mântuleasa, nr. 20) și punct final pe str. Radu Cristian.

sursa : http://viabucuresti.ro/prin-bucurestii-lui-mircea-eliade-traseu-cultural-pietonal/

ROMANIA - Piatra Craiului National Park

Today ( for 3 hours ) I went in Piatra Craiului National Park - 

known as the cavers’ paradise - in Zarnesti near Brasov.

Zărnești is a town in Braşov County, Transylvania

It is located near the Piatra Craiului Mountains, which are part of the Southern Carpathians mountains range. Its close proximity to the Piatra Craiului make it a common start point for tourists and hikers wishing to explore "The Piatra Craiului National Park".

Christos a înviat!

Easter, which celebrates Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead, is Christianity’s most important holiday. It has been called a moveable feast because it doesn’t fall on a set date every year, as most holidays do. Instead, Christian churches in the West celebrate Easter on the first Sunday following the full moon after the vernal equinox on March 21. Therefore, Easter is observed anywhere between March 22 and April 25 every year. Orthodox Christians use the Julian calendar to calculate when Easter will occur and typically celebrate the holiday a week or two after the Western churches, which follow the Gregorian calendar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter 

Floriile - Palm Sunday pilgrimage in Bucharest

Procesiune impresionantă pe străzile Capitalei, cu ocazia sărbătorii Floriilor. Mii de credincioşi, alături de un sobor de preoţi au participat la evenimentul religios ce marchează Intrarea Domnului în Ierusalim. Procesiunea de Florii a avut ca punct de pornire Mănăstirea Radu Vodă şi s-a încheiat la Catedrala Patriarhală. Tot astăzi, credincioşii catolici se pregătesc pentru Noaptea de Înviere. La Catedrala Sf.Iosif din Bucureşti, liturghia va începe la ora 23.00, în prezenţa Arhiepiscopului Mitropolit, Ioan Robu. 

Over 4,000 people participated on Saturday in the Capital at the Palm Sunday pilgrimage, during which His Beatitude Daniel has transmitted them that after the celebration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, there is another kind of fasting, of the memory of His Passions and of preparing for the Resurrection.

The procession took place, as every year, from the Radu Voda Monastery to the Palace of the Patriarchate, with the participation of 800 priests in Bucharest and Ilfov County, who led the convoy of thousands of pilgrims.

The large icon of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, carried in the procession and made each year by a different church, was made this year by the places of worship in the 6^th district, being edged with white freesias.

At the Palace of the Patriarchate, the thousands of participants in the procession have been greeted by Patriarch Daniel, who, after the speeches of other senior clerics, addressed the crowd referring to the importance of the Palm Sunday, the celebration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.

Same as in Bucharest, the Palm Sunday pilgrimages were organized in the Romanian Orthodox Church dioceses and Metropolitan churches across the country and abroad.

In Bucharest, the Palm Sunday pilgrimage was banned by the communist regime in 1948 and resumed in 2008 at the initiative and with the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel.

Also on Sunday, about one million Catholics in Romania celebrate Easter, the largest communities being in Transylvania. In Bucovina there is also an important community of Polish and German Catholics.

source 

2011 SOLAR ECLIPSE

The solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 was a partial eclipse of the Sun that was visible after sunrise over most of Europe, northwestern and South Asia. It ended at sunset over eastern Asia. It was visible as a minor partial eclipse over northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula.

20 March 2015 — Total Solar Eclipse

It's a Total Solar Eclipse in the Faroe Islands and Svalbard (Norway), and a Partial Solar Eclipse in Europe, northern and eastern Asia and northern and western Africa. The eclipse starts at 07:41 UTC and ends at 11:50 UTC. 

The total phase of this solar eclipse is not visible in Bucharest, but it can be observed there as a partial solar eclipse.