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Bringing Forth New Life (生ましめんかな, Umashimen kana) is a poem by Sadako Kurihara written in August 1945 in Hiroshima after the city's atomic bombing. [1] It tells the true story of a woman giving birth to a baby amongst the ruins, while the midwife dies of burns and exhaustion in the process.
This rhyme was first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire (Volume II, pp. 287–288) [2] in 1836 and was later collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-19th century, varying the final lines to "The child that's born on Christmas Day/ Is fair and wise, good and gay."
The ceremony blessing states that God has ‘‘commanded us to bring her into the covenant of the people of Israel.’’ [2] An earlier version of the Reconstructionist ceremony was known as Brit B’not Yisrael ("Covenant of the Daughter of Israel") and was formulated by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and her husband Rabbi Dennis Sasso in the ...
Barasala (also Namakarana Dolarohana or Naam Karan, or spelled Balasare) is a traditional ceremony of naming a newborn baby among Hindu communities of India. Jews celebrate this ceremony in the name of Javed Habat or Brit Mila. It resembles the Christian baptism ceremony, and was also celebrated in ancient Greece and Persia.
and gazed upon the baby, safe and snug in Mary's arms. And Joseph, lost in shadows, face lit by an oil lamp's glow stood wondering, that first Christmas Day, two thousand years ago.
Morning Prayer from the 1777 New England Primer: [1] Almighty God the Maker of every thing in Heaven and Earth; the Darkness goes away, and the Day light comes at thy Command. Thou art good and doest good continually. I thank thee that thou has taken such Care of me this Night, and that I am alive and well this Morning.
A Poetry of Remembrance was described by the Albuquerque Journal: "Whether recalling a 'love-hate' relationship' with his high school English teacher or remembering a street-corner encounter, Romero sees and hears the courage, grace, honesty, and beauty so many of us often miss. It is the poet's job to remind us of those things, and Romero does ...
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