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Victory of life over death, thus a plant assigned to Christ, furthermore a symbol of humility, the Holy Spirit and the Holy Trinity: The name "columbine" comes from the Latin for "dove", due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together. [4] [3] Daisy: Innocence, beauty, salvation, modesty, purity and love ...
Youthful beauty and winning grace, [6] rejected love (in Switzerland), "glory of spring," heartsickness and the death of young maidens; [11] rusticity, healing, pensiveness [5] [4] Creeping Willow Love forsaken
The meaning of these gorgeous flowers varies depending on the hue. Purple lilacs represent the first emotions of love while magenta lilacs symbolize love and passion, perfect for a more serious lover.
In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads: Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. The Novum Testamentum Graece text is: μακάριοι οἱ ἐλεήμονες, ὅτι αὐτοὶ ἐλεηθήσονται.
In the Bible outside of Genesis, the term "tree of life" appears in Proverbs (3:18; 11:30; 13:12; 15:4) and Revelation (2:7; 22:2,14,19). It also appears in 2 Esdras and 4 Maccabees , which are included among the Jewish apocrypha. According to the Greek Apocalypse of Moses, the tree of life is also called the Tree of Mercy.
A flowered cross in a parish church (2006) Flowering the cross is a Western Christian tradition practiced at the arrival of Easter, in which worshippers place flowers on the bare wooden cross that was used in the Good Friday liturgy, in order to symbolize "the new life that emerges from Jesus’s death on Good Friday".
In Catholic theology, merit is a property of a good work which entitles the doer to receive a reward: it is a salutary act (i.e., "Human action that is performed under the influence of grace and that positively leads a person to a heavenly destiny") [4] to which God, in whose service the work is done, in consequence of his infallible promise may give a reward (prœmium, merces).
The Roman Catholic Church has often held mortification of the flesh (literally, "putting the flesh to death"), as a worthy spiritual discipline. The practice is rooted in the Bible: in the asceticism of the Old and New Testament saints, and in its theology, such as the remark by Saint Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans, where he states: "If you live a life of nature, you are marked out for ...