A 13-year-old boy is credited with saving the lives of his mother and two younger siblings with an hourslong swim after the family was swept out to sea off the Australian coast. Tony Dokoupil has the story.
Flyers GM Briere attempts to defuse perceived Tocchet-Michkov conflict
For centuries, humanity has established an interstellar federation spanning thousands of light years. But along the way, humanity’s home planet, Planet Aquamarine (once known as Earth), has been forgotten. Until one day, a spaceship from Bethlehem crash-lands on this long-forgotten planet… Here, you will become an unexpectedly lost interstellar pilot and a human teacher to a android student at the Planet Aquamarine Academy, exploring the boundaries between machinery and the soul.
“The Point” airs weeknights on WGN-TV.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) A man this week accused a California doctor of violating Texas’ anti-abortion policies, testing a new law in the GOP-led state allowing private citizens to sue abortion pill providers for mailing the medication. The lawsuit comes after Louisiana, also a Republican-led state, last month pushed to extradite Dr. Rémy Coeytaux, who [.].
Following Thursday night’s upset loss at USC, eighth-ranked Iowa made the 13. 7-mile cross-town trip to take on second-ranked UCLA. The Hawkeyes came up short, 88-65, finishing their trip to Los Angeles with a 0-2 record. The Bruins owned the paint for all four quarters, where they outscored the Hawkeyes by 30 points. Ava Heiden led. The post Iowa women’s basketball crushed by UCLA, finishes West Coast trip winless appeared first on The Daily Iowan.
A homicide investigation is underway after a body was found in Marina del Rey Saturday. Los Angeles County deputies received reports of a woman’s body spotted about half a mile west of the Marina del Rey harbor entrance around 2:36 p.m. The woman, who was not identified, was confirmed to be deceased. A cause of […]
Steph Curry injury update: Warriors provide new info on sore knee
When we think of Lent, ideas of hunger, sacrifice and suffering may come to mind. In holy Scripture, the desert is a unique place of encounter with the Lord: Israel crossed it to leave slavery and reach the promised land. St. John the Baptist chose desert life to prepare himself and the people for the coming of the Messiah. Christ spent 40 days and nights in the desert preparing for his mission before beginning his public life. This shows us that great things happen in the desert in aridity, solitude and silence because God wants to purify us so we can enjoy a new life full of meaning and purpose. We need to embark on our own journey through the desert, leaving sin and slavery behind, to reach our liberation in the promised land. The Church proposes three exercises that help us progress: almsgiving, fasting and prayer, moving from love of neighbor to self-love to love of God. Almsgiving is a concrete way of loving our neighbor. The call to generosity invites us to practice charity and be sensitive to the pain and needs of our brothers and sisters. Hunger, thirst, sickness, cold the suffering of any brother or sister is our concern. Anyone in need becomes our sibling, and almsgiving is our response to that pain. Generosity allows us to be Church, to bear witness to how we love one another, and to be the hands and feet of Christ. Fasting helps us free our hearts. We were created to worship, glorify and bless God. When God does not occupy that primary place in our hearts, we seek something else to replace him, creating idols and unhealthy attachments. Fasting helps us rediscover the deepest longings of the heart. When we experience physical hunger and thirst, we recognize our spiritual hunger and thirst. Our carnal appetites cease to dominate, and our spiritual needs open the eyes of our soul. Rather than rejecting the body, fasting seeks its purification so we can attend to our deepest needs. It becomes an act of self-love because it purifies us, frees us, and shows us how to satisfy our hearts’ deep longings. Our greatest longing will always be to be with God, and only in his arms do we find true peace. Prayer is the purest way to love God because prayer lifts up the heart with our passions, feelings and deepest desires and the mind to him. It teaches us to seek his presence and enter into communion, lifting our whole being to God. By learning to be worshipers and spending time with Jesus. During Lent, we are invited to repent, to open our eyes and realize what we need to change, because an excellent way to pray is to observe and understand our faults and weaknesses. Many perceive confession as a ritual of punishment and guilt; this is a superficial approach to so great a gift. What is really offered in reconciliation is liberation and healing from our deepest wounds those that poison our relationship with others, ourselves and God. These three Lenten exercises, far from being sources of suffering, are ways we can love our neighbor, ourselves and God in a more honest, selfless and free way. If we live them as gifts from the Holy Spirit, we will enjoy the enormous benefits found through them, and our experience in the spiritual desert will transform our hearts. Only then will we be ready for the resurrection God has prepared for us. Then we can experience the joy Christ experienced in overcoming death and enter with him into the promised land.
Creative Director Fawzi Mesmar says the Beyond Good and Evil 2 development team was unaffected by the recent closures and cancellations.
