Ave Maria – Schubert – Luciano Pavarotti

Chào các bạn,

Dưới đây là bài hát Ave Maria của Schubert do tenor Luciano Paravotti trình diễn với lời Latin. Ave Maria là lời kinh cầu nguyện với Đức Mẹ Maria. Tiếng Việt gọi là Kinh Kính Mừng, đọc cực kỳ thường xuyên trong các nhà thờ công giáo, thường nhất là khi lần hạt mân côi.

Dưới đây có lời kinh Ave Maria với tiếng Latin, tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt.

Mời các bạn thưởng thức.

Mến,

Hoành

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Ups and downs

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Life is ups and downs constantly.

When you’re on the way up, you jump around happily. When you’re down, you lie on bed feeling close to death.

That is normal, but no one feels normal, especially when they go down. In addition, everyone will agree with me that your tough days are much more numerous than your easy days. Say, marriage, the peak of marriage life is the wedding celebration and the honeymoon. From the peak, you can’t go any higher and can only go down. Two persons living together may have all kinds of problems very quickly and these problems come in long series – one gives birth to the next, each problem is a mother of a long chain of childrens, and each child soon becomes a mother too. Problems can spread with a geometric progression aka exponential growth. Continue reading Ups and downs

Finding a dropped wallet

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Have you ever picked up someone’s lost item?

A few days ago, a taxi driver gave a lost wallet to our family hotel. He said he had found the wallet in the back seat of his taxi after dropping off two foreign guests at the hotel in the middle of the night.

Inside the brown leather wallet contained more than 500.000 VND, along with a Vietnam SIM card, a credit card, and a driver’s licence of a British person named “Georges”. Continue reading Finding a dropped wallet

 A deadly incident underscores the risks for Chinese migrants journeying to the US

April 1, 2024 
Marlon Sorto, Omar Fajardo and Yong Xiong, CNN
A rendering of the Chang'e-8 mission was shown at the International Astronautical Congress held in Baku, Azerbaijan, on October 2.

Chinese migrants have been found dead on the coast of southern Mexico, authorities said, after their boat capsized along a popular but perilous route for illegally entering the United States. The bodies of the seven women and one man were discovered Friday on a beach in San Francisco del Mar, Oaxaca, the state’s prosecutor’s office said in a statement.  Continue reading  A deadly incident underscores the risks for Chinese migrants journeying to the US