In this article, The Catechism tells about such themes as sexuality, marriage and its purposes, chastity as a virtue, forms of chastity, offenses against chastity,(lust, masturbation, fornication, pornography, prostitution), homosexuality, conjugal fidelity, fecundity of marriage, artificial birth control, rhythm method of birth control, gift of children, offenses against the dignity of marriage, free union, and trial marriages. ...

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Her recollections detail her spiritual journey through a life that was anything but ordinary, fraught with business failures, the difficult pregnancy and birth of her first child, bearing thirteen subsequent children while desiring chaste living; enduring temptation, struggling with lustful urges, and a difficult marriage to a demanding husband. ... After the birth of her first child, a nervous breakdown incurs, causing her to see hideous devils around her. ...

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In the second chapter the very human conditions of Jesus' birth are displayed.He imagines the impact of the virgin birth on a first century Jewish community, noting that under Jewish law Mary could have been stoned for becoming pregnant while betrothed to Joseph. ...

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Thus, in the Hebrew Bible there are barren women who through God's grace give birth to sons of their husbands who come to inherit the Abrahamic covenant of land. However, in the Greek Bible there is a story of a miraculous virginal conception in which Mary gives birth to God's son who will come to inherit not the earthly land, but the land of God's kingdom in heaven. ...

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Also, Jesus Christ and Beowulf is both hero, a being of Godlike prowess and beneficence who often came to be honored as a divinity, having come from miracles birth and adversely change people's life with journey that reveal them. ...

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Views on particular topics involving women, such as education, employment opportunities, rights to inheritance, dress, age of marriage, permissibility of birth control, divorce, property rights independent of her husband, driving, and many others have been varied pertaining to the particular region or culture that has adopted it. ...

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The word "synoptic"" is defined as "presenting or taking the same or common view ", or when taken from the literal Greek translation, it means "seen together"." The first three gospels of the New Testament of the Bible, the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are referred to as the "Synop...

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Multiple factors correlate to the advancement of a congregation but increasingly, these factors gravitate towards a common variable: leadership. Pastoral leadership can be defined as the work that pastors do to equip and motivate church members in the pursuit of the church's overall mission. Therefore, everything a pastor does from preaching, to teaching, to counseling, can be defined as leadership. Some tasks require more direct leadership than others such as administrative meetings, long range planning and financial monitoring of the church's affairs. Overall, the pastor is the...

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Toward the end of her examination, Bourgeault articulates her support of this conspiracy, but states that theirs is a union purely spiritual in nature and devoid of physical progeny, which she defines as "Fifth Way" love, a "kind of intense and transforming love, which is really the birth-pangs of union at a higher plane....

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