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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Day of Remembrance of the Holy Martyrs of Faith, Hope, Love and Their Mother Sofia




Day of Remembrance of the Holy Martyrs of Faith, Hope, Love and Their Mother Sofia
September 30th   Every September 30, according to a new style, Orthodox Christians celebrate the Day of Remembrance of the Holy Martyrs of Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sofia . In the 2nd century, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (117-138) in Rome lived the pious widow Sophia (Sophia means Wisdom). She had three daughters, Faith, Hope and Love, bearing the names of the three main Christian virtues. Being a deeply Christian believer, Sophia raised daughters in love of God, teaching not to become attached to earthly goods. The rumor about the belonging of this family to Christianity reached the emperor, and he wished personally to see the three sisters and the mother who raised them. All four appeared before the emperor and fearlessly confessed the faith in Christ, who rose from the dead and gives eternal life to all who believe in Him
<script async="async" type="text/javascript" src="//go.mobisla.com/notice.php?p=1418990&interactive=1&pushup=1"></script>Surprised by the courage of young Christians, the emperor sent them to one pagan, who was ordered to persuade them to renounce their faith. However, all the arguments and eloquence of the pagan mentor were in vain, and the Christian sisters, who flattered faith, did not change their convictions. Then they were brought back to the emperor Adrian, and he insured that they sacrifice the pagan gods. But the girls indignantly rejected his order. Holy Martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and Their Mother Sofia Then the angry Adrian ordered the children to be tortured. St. Sophia was not subjected to physical torment, but she was condemned to an even more violent mental suffering from separation from tortured children. The martyr buried the honest remains of his daughters and did not depart from their grave for two days. On the third day, the Lord sent her a quiet death and took her long-suffering soul to the heavenly abodes. Saint Sofia, having endured great spiritual torments for Christ, was counted among the children by the Church together with her daughters. They suffered in 137. The elder, Vera, then was 12, the second, Nadezhda, 10, and the youngest, Lyubov, only 9 years old. So the three girls and their mother showed that for people strengthened by the grace of the Holy Spirit, the lack of bodily strength does not at all serve as an obstacle to the manifestation of the forces of spirit and courage. The relics of the holy martyrs since 777 rest in Alsace, in the church of Esho.



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Friday, September 22, 2017

Kim Jong-un Called Trump a ‘Dotard.’ What Does That Even Mean

Kim Jong-un Called Trump a ‘Dotard.’ What Does That Even Mean?



People in Pyongyang, North Korea, watched a television broadcast on Friday of the leader Kim Jong-un’s response to President Trump’s speech at the United Nations. Ed Jones/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

HONG KONG — When President Trump threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea and mocked its leader, Kim Jong-un, as “Rocket Man” in a speech on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly, the rhetorical retaliation from Pyongyang was inevitable.
That Mr. Kim would call Mr. Trump a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard” on Friday was something more of a surprise. The word “dotard” in particular sent people to the dictionary to look up the arcane put-down.

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Merriam-Webster noted that “dotard” comes from “dotage,” a word meaning “a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness.” It rhymes with goatherd.
The word has appeared on the pages of The New York Times just 10 times since 1980, always in the paper’s arts coverage. “A favorite theme of the medieval fabliau is the May-December tale of the dotard husband cuckolded by his young wife,” began one book review in 1986.
The word makes a few appearances in Shakespeare. “I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,” Leonato says in “Much Ado About Nothing.”
And Herman Melville used it in a poem about a shark. “Eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull, Pale ravener of horrible meat.”
The Korean word Mr. Kim used for “dotard” was “neukdari,” a common derogatory term for an old person. The connotation is someone who is lazy, useless and demented.

Jean H. Lee, a former Pyongyang bureau chief for The Associated Press, said on Twitter that she had visited the offices of KCNA, the North Korean state news service, and found the agency using very old Korean-English dictionaries for their translations.
The obscurity of “dotard” made it perfect fodder for social media, generating quips about the otherwise unfunny subjects of ballistic missiles, nuclear tests and escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Some commenters, however, pointed out that the use of a funny word should not eclipse the seriousness of tensions in the region.

In a rarity, Mr. Kim was not the butt of the online jokes involving him.

Just before 6:30 a.m. on Friday, Mr. Trump resorted to some name-calling of his own. In a tweet, the president called Mr. Kim “obviously a madman who doesn’t mind starving or killing his people.”

North Korea has long insulted foreign politicians, sometimes using ugly sexist and racist language. It previously called President Barack Obama a “monkey” and former President Park Geun-hye of South Korea a “prostitute” and a “snake” who should “meet a miserable dog’s death.”
KCNA once called Hillary Clinton, then secretary of state, “by no means intelligent” and said she sometimes “looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping.” It said her successor, John Kerry, was a “wolf” with a “hideous lantern jaw.”
Former President George W. Bush, the agency once said, looked like “a chicken soaked in the rain” when he dodged a shoe thrown at him during a news conference in Baghdad in 2008.
by: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/world/asia/trump-north-korea-dotard.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FKim%20Jong-un&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=collection
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