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Twice a year the monks and priests of the Church of Narga Selassie on Dek Island in northern Ethiopia gather to bless an urn of water scooped from the lake that surrounds them. They pray over the water for three days and ask God to sanctify it in the name of Jesus. Then, in a small stone alcove, the head monk pours the water over a silver cross, its detailed engravings worn almost smooth with centuries of polishing, and onto the heads of believers who come in their dozens to be baptized. For the rest of the year the waters...
...would like the government to buy the priests a faster boat so more tourists could visit their church. Electricity, he says, would be a miracle. "We learn from our grandfather and our father that this river crosses many countries," he says slowly. "But even they do not own it. God made it and it belongs to God. Nobody can call it their own." Whether it is owned by God or man, the next few years will determine the future of the river that spills from the lake a few kilometers away...
...board of directors. "I said, 'I'll pay for my own mammogram. Just let me get it done.'" She won her appeal and finally had the test. "They didn't even have to do a biopsy," she says. "The radiologist just looked at it and said, 'Oh, my God. You've got breast cancer...
...feeling, he said, "that there's got to be more to life than this. I wrote a letter to the prelate of Opus Dei. You make a verbal commitment. You don't take vows. Nothing else changes in your life necessarily. This is a commitment between you and God. So you do your ordinary work but you offer it up to God and give it a divine meaning." Clearly there is a quiet evangelism built into the functioning of Opus Dei. Midtown just sent a numerary to Latvia to start a center there...
...when he asked for people to change their lives, they don't love him so much anymore. A lot of people are satisfied with what they are doing and that causes problems. A lot of the world sees suffering as the greatest evil and must be avoided but God sees suffering to overcome sin. We interpret the teachings of the church literally, and that's orthodox and for some people that doesn't fit. They want a little more wiggle room in life...