Jesus,
Empty spaces in the day are great.
Empty spaces.
Time of you.
Time to do nothing.
Only be still.
And enjoy your peace.
Love you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
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Lời cầu nguyện 443 – Prayer 443
Giêsu ơi,
Giêsu và em,
đang sống đời đơn giản.
Đơn giản và chậm rãi.
Như ốc sên.
Ô, thật chậm rãi và đơn giản.
Sao mình lại sống đơn giản và chậm rãi như thế này? Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 443 – Prayer 443
Beijing ‘installs missiles’ on South China Sea islands
Published 12:00 AM, May 04, 2018
BEIJING, China – Beijing Thursday, May 3, reasserted its right to build “defense” facilities in the disputed South China Sea, but declined to confirm reports it had installed new missiles on artificial islands it has built in the region.
Prayer 442
Jesus,
Do you think
if we have the right to Freedom of Association,
our volunteer activities will grow more,
and our youth will have many more things to live for and to love?
Our volunteering is weak now.
Volunteer groups are small.
They don’t work together like a large volunteer network.
And they are not solving important problems of our country.
Please bless us.
Let us know what we should do.
Amen.
PTH
La folie des grandeurs
vietnamnews Update: May, 06/2018 – 09:00
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| Painting of West Lake by Hanoi-based artist George Burchett. |
by George Burchett*
Around the time Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly (1807-1873), under the orders of Emperor Napoleon III, fired the first canon shots of the Cochinchina campaign (1858-1862) to lay claim to what would become France’s colony of Indochina, Paris embarked on an epic renovation project directed by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, also under the Emperor’s orders. The plan was to modernise Paris and get rid of insalubrious slums – breeding ground for diseases as well as popular discontent. No doubt rich plunder from the colonies helped fund this – largely successful – imperial enterprise.
Prayer 441
Jesus,
I think about an image –
Mary used a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume;
poured it on your feet
and wiped your feet with her hair.*
How did you feel?
Perhaps you didn’t care how your feet felt
although you liked the aroma of nard.
You cared for Mary. Continue reading Prayer 441
Vietnam: An up-and-coming clean energy leader?
Alex Perera –
Vietnam has a significant challenge ahead: power its remarkable economic growth with less polluting and more affordable clean energy.
This is no small task. According to the Vietnam Business Forum, the country’s current energy plan would increase coal use from 14 gigawatts (GW) to 55GW by 2030 and require 10 million tons of coal to be imported every year from 2017 onward.
Prayer 440
Jesus,
Before knowing you,
creativity at work wasn’t easy.
After knowing you,
the more I focus on you,
the more I become creative.
Love you.
Amen.
PTH
Prayer 439
Jesus,
I love an image –
Mary used a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume;
poured it on your feet
and wiped your feet with her hair.*
Every time I see the image,
I am filled with love.
Did you like the aroma of nard?
Why did Mary know you like the aroma? Continue reading Prayer 439
Nearly two-thirds of global workforce in the ‘informal’ economy – UN study
ILO/Vijay Kutty – Cycle rickshaw pullers in the old quarter of Delhi, India. According to a new ILO report, about 93 per cent of the world’s informal employment is in emerging and developing countries.
news.un.org – More than 61 per cent of the world’s employed population – two billion people – earn their livelihoods in the informal sector, the United Nations labour agency said on Monday, stressing that a transition to the formal economy is critical to ensure rights’ protection and decent working conditions.
“The high incidence of informality in all its forms has multiple adverse consequences for workers, enterprises and societies and is a major challenge for the realization of decent work for all,” said Rafael Diez de Medina, the Director of the Department of Statistics at the UN International Labour Organization (ILO).
Prayer 438
Jesus,
Please touch my forehead with your lips.
Your kiss will be a gate that through it,
your peace and wisdom pour into my soul.
My soul will melt
and become a little stream,
flowing tenderly anywhere,
following your will.
Please kiss me deeply.
Amen.
PTH
EU – Vietnam: launching the first Viet – Mong bilingual supplementary materials for ethnic minority children in Lai Chau
aide-et-action – Lai Chau, December 9th, 2016 – Aide et Action Vietnam and its partner CISDOMA, has launched an initiative on the supplementary materials in Mong and Vietnamese languages for preschool and primary school (5 years old – 8 years old) in Tam Duong district, Lai Chau province. The Mother-Tongue Bilingual Based Education (MTBBE) approach uses Mong as the bilingual language of instruction, along with Vietnamese.
Prayer 437
Jesus,
We should join the economy someday, do you think so?
Every time I go to a bank,
the bank seems weak.
It means our economy is weak, too, right?
We should study economics more.
Would you like to plan for me?
I’ll follow you.
Love you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
Vietnamese models ride high-displacement motorcycles in traditional outfits
A group of Vietnamese models donning traditional ba ba outfits while riding modern high-capacity motorbikes is sparking a nationwide debate.
Dictionaries and writing aids – Từ điển và văn phạm
- Cambridge Dictionary (English and other languages; and English grammar)
- Dictionary.com
- The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
- Elements and Styles – Strunk & White
- Dictionary – Vietnamese, English and other languages
- Hán Việt Từ Điển Trích Dẫn
- Từ Điển Việt Hán Nôm
- Từ Điển Phật Học Thiện Phúc
- New Catholic Encyclopedia: Vol 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, Supplement 2010
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