Thursday, December 5, 2024 Bishop Robert Barron Cycle C Advent 1st wk of Advent Bible References Matthew 7:21, Matthew 7:24-27 Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus closes his Sermon on the Mount by showing us the importance of applying his teaching: “Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse.” This is the heart of it: if you are rooted in God, then you can withstand anything, precisely because you are linked to that power which is creating the cosmos. You will be blessed at the deepest place, and nothing can finally touch you. But the one who does not take Jesus’ words to heart “will be like the fool who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds buffeted the house. And it collapsed and was completely ruined.” When the inevitable trials come, the life built on pleasure, money, power, or fame will give way. So the question is a simple one: Where do you stand? How goes it with your heart? On what, precisely, is the whole of your life built? Gospel Reflections Meditate on Daily Gospel Reflections from Bishop Robert Barron

Interesting, but Immanuel Velikovsky had already offered an alternative that might explain this in the 1950s. That, he suggested, may have been an eruption from Saturn which led to a great rain on Earth... but if this were the case, would there not be more frozen water on the surface of the Moon? Surely it could not all have fallen on the Earth... or does this suggest that, at that moment in time, there was no Moon? Any hypothesis such as this (it is not a theory) tells us more about the limitations on (or indoctrination of) the thinking of the speaker than it does about a past reality. Astronomers seem to be obsessed with a surprisingly small repertoire of possible physical phenomena which do not take full account of what is actually available in the wider cosmos. Plus, if the Moon had already been orbiting the Earth when this alleged "collision" took place, it would have gone careering through the Solar System once Earth's gravitation field was disrupted... so, are they suggesting that afterwards, the Moon was somehow magically "recaptured"? Or was it simply not there yet, being captured during a later epoch? No matter how hard they try, the reformulation of hypotheses usually leads only to more contradictions down the line. The worst part, however, is that videos such as this function only as uncritical "repeaters" of pseudo-information - "pseudo" precisely because the "evidence" can only be indirect. These things are largely based on supposition, limited information and a pre-formed notion of how the universe works; the big surprise seems to be that, when you stand back and look at it, it seems to be based upon a surprisingly Newtonian, gravity-based model... and real "science" would be served better if they instead challenged the hypothesis. If "science" is merely a collection of unsupported hypotheses, we should not be surprised if the whole enterprise eventually collapses under the weight of contradictory evidence. Unfortunately, as I have said before, the trouble with this kind of hypothesis is that in our experience, time travels in only one direction, and we are not able to jump into a convenient time machine to travel back and confirm anything. What we have is only an "interpretation" through the rose-tinted lenses of the current dominant paradigm. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1779950362746428

C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) is a comet from the Oort cloud discovered by Cradle of Modern Astronom Observatory in China on 9 January 2023. Visible to the naked eye, It made its closest approach to Earth on 12 October at a distance of 71 million km. Origin: The comet is believed to originate from the Oort cloud, a vast region of icy bodies located at the edge of our solar system. Visibility: During its closest approach, the comet was visible to the naked eye, making it a spectacular sight for those in the right location and under favorable conditions. Distance: The comet passed Earth at a distance of 71 million kilometers, which is relatively close in astronomical terms. The appearance of a comet like C/2023 A3 is a reminder of the incredible diversity and beauty of the universe. Learning to human civilization observation and our ability to explore the cosmos.

Uranus, the most distant naked-eye object in the Solar System, that has seen by visible to the naked to human eye anyway visible to the naked eye, but it was not discovered in ancient times. So what's going on with this solar system planet?. Discovery by Telescope: Uranus was not officially recognized as a planet until 1781 when astronomer William Herschel observed it through a telescope. Herschel initially thought it was a comet, but after further observation, it became clear that it was a new planet. This was the first planet discovered with a telescope, marking the shift in how we observe the cosmos. Uranus is an example of how astronomical discoveries can be overlooked despite being theoretically visible for centuries, largely due to human perception, observational limitations, and the planet's peculiar characteristics. In astronomy, the naked eye may be used to observe celestial events and objects visible without equipment, such as conjunctions, passing comets, meteor showers, and the brightest asteroids., Sky lore and various tests demonstrate an impressive variety of phenomena visible to the unaided eye.

RT - Putin signs Moon-station deal with China: https://www.rt.com/news/599170-putin-russia-china-moon/ #LunarResearchStation #ILRS #LunarExploration #Moon #Roscosmos #CNSA #SpaceExploration #StrategicPartnership #InternationalRelations #Astronomy #SpacePolicy #Policy

Robert Lea - The Euclid 'dark universe detective' telescope has revealed new images of the cosmos — and they are remarkable: https://www.space.com/euclid-space-telescope-new-images-may-23 #Euclid #SpaceTelescope #ESA #DarkEnergy #DarkMatter #EarlyReleaseObservations #DeepSky #Galaxies #GalaxyCluster #GravitationalLensing #Infrared #Cosmology #Astrophotography #Astronomy

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RT - India congratulates Russia on lunar mission launch: https://www.rt.com/india/581134-india-congratulates-russia-lunar-mission-launch/ #India #ISRO #Chandrayaan3 #Chandrayaan #Roscosmos #PolarExploration #WaterOnMoon #LunarExploration #PlanetaryScience #Astronomy

Brian Koberlein - Euclid Reaches L2, Shares its First Test Image: https://www.universetoday.com/162631/euclid-reaches-l2-shares-its-first-test-image/ #Euclid #ESA #VISible #InfraredAstronomy #Infrared #Cosmos #Mapping #Cosmology #Astronomy

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