Feel
the
Accord
感受到协议
Gǎnshòu dào xiéyì
調和を感じる
Chōwa o kanjiru
Sentire eademque sententia
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When they said, "Let us go to the house of the Lord"
I was filled with the feeling of great accord.
Now that we are standing within your gates in peace,
accord with common law is the ground beneath our feet.
The capital is built as a city for unity with the nation.
Border strength is a priority in national station.
Freedom of assembly allows for legal organization.
Organization is grown for purpose in negotiation.
There are seats of judgment for justice
in the house of legal augustness.
There are seats for writing law
in the house of legislative awe.
There are seats for executive authority
in the house of administrative minority
for the majority.
There is the seat for the royal unity
of the houses for the moral reduction of immoral impunity.
The Father grew the vine and built a vineyard in time.
The Son inherited the vineyard to abide with redemption from error in mind.
The Spirit abides for the perpetuation of salvation of the right kind.
Religious rites are for the emulation of salvation.
The assembly considered the value of law for the community in the nation.
Pray for the strength of the nation
in international relations.
May they prosper who love you
with respect for the balance of power with truth.
Let peace reign within your borders
with the quiet strength of social order.
I pray for prosperity from productivity
in the nativity of earned equity with festivity.
I will seek to do good in the house of the Lord our God
for your benefit in the course of experience for our guard.
Feel the accord
in the house of the Lord.
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I am happy
1 I was glad when they said to me,
"Let us go to the house of the Lord."
2 Now our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem is built as a city
that is at unity with itself;
4 To which the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord,
the assembly of Israel,
to praise the Name of the Lord.
5 For there are the thrones of judgment,
the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
"May they prosper who love you.
7 Peace be within your walls
and quietness within your towers.
8 For my brethren and companions' sake,
I pray for your prosperity.
9 Because of the house of the Lord our God,
I will seek to do you good."
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Acts 15:2-6
Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension with those who taught that circumcision was necessary for salvation. They were appointed with some others to go to Jerusalem to discuss the question with the apostles and elders. They went on their way by the church. They reported the conversion of the Gentiles as they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria. It brought great joy to all believers. They were welcomed by the church, the apostles and the elders when they arrived in Jerusalem. Some who belonged to the sect of the Pharisees stood up and said, 'It is necessary for them to be circumcised and ordered to keep the law of Moses.'
The apostles and elders met together to consider the matter.
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Religious rites are for the emulation of salvation.
The assembly considered the value of law for the community in the nation.
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John 15:1-5
'I am the true vine. My Father is the vine-grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have been cleansed by the word I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it is attached to the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine. You are the branches.'
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The Father grew the vine and built a vineyard in time.
The Son inherited the vineyard to abide with redemption from error in mind.
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The Bible
Helena of Constantinople
c.246/248
d. 330 Rome, Roman Empire
Helena was an Empress of the Roman Empire. She was the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great.
She was born among the lowest of commoners, possibly in Drepana, Bithynia. Drepana is known as Hersek in modern times. It is about 82 km (51 miles) from Istanbul, formerly known as Constantinople.
Bithynia is a province located next to the Black Sea in Asia Minor. The location in the north west made it a strategic point of interaction between Greeks, Romans, Armenians and Persians (Parthians). It was positioned between the frontiers of the Danube in the north and the Euphrates in the south-east.
Drepana was in the western part of Bithynia. It was on the southern side of the Gulf of Astacus. The gulf is also known as Izmit Bay.
She became the consort of the future Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus (reigned 293–306) and the mother of the future Emperor Constantine the Great (reigned 306–337).
Helena ranks as an important figure in the history of Christianity and of the world due to her influence on her son. She made a religious tour of Syria Palaestina in her final years. She allegedly discovered the True Cross during her visit to Jerusalem.
Helena gave birth to the future emperor Constantine I on 27 February, 272. Constantius divorced her some time before 289 in order to obtain a wife more consonant with his rising status.
Helena and her son were dispatched to the court of Diocletian at Nicomedia. Constantine grew to be a member of the inner circle. Helena never remarried. She lived for a time close to her only son in obscurity. He had a deep regard and affection for her.
Constantine was proclaimed Augustus of the Roman Empire in 306 by Constantius' troops after the latter had died. His mother was brought back to the public life in 312 in her return to the imperial court and following his elevation.
She received the title of Augusta in 325. Her conversion to Christianity followed her son becoming emperor according to Eusebius.
Helena undertook a trip to the Holy Places in Palestine and other eastern provinces in 326-328. She was responsible for the construction or beautification of two churches according to Eusebius of Caesarea.
The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and the Church of Eleona on the Mount of Olives were blessed by her administration. The churches were built on the sites of Christ's birth and ascension, respectively.
Jerusalem was still being rebuilt following the destruction caused by Titus in 70 at the time of Helena's pilgrimage. Emperor Hadrian had built during the 130's a temple over the site of Jesus's tomb near Calvary, and renamed the city Aelia Capitolina.
"There was a temple of Venus on the spot. This the queen (Helena) had destroyed," according to Eusebius. Helena ordered the temple torn down and chose a site to begin excavating according to a legend that arose at the end of the 4th century.
The excavation led to the recovery of three different crosses. Helena had a woman who was near death brought from the city. When the woman touched the first and second crosses, her condition did not change, but when she touched the third and final cross she suddenly recovered.
Helena declared the cross with which the woman had been touched to be the True Cross. Constantine ordered the building of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on the site of discovery.
Helena died around 330 with her son at her side. She was buried in the Mausoleum of Helena outside Rome on the Via Labicana.
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