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31Marriage and wedding customs in the Philippines — A Filipino wedding held in December at the Manila Cathedral in the Philippines. Traditional marriage customs in the Philippines and Filipino wedding practices pertain to the characteristics of marriage and wedding traditions established and… …
3217. THE NIGHT JOURNEY (al-Isra') — In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. 1. Glory to Him who journeyed His servant by night, from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We have blessed, in order to show him of Our wonders. He is the Listener, the… …
33heaven — heavenless, adj. /hev euhn/, n. 1. the abode of God, the angels, and the spirits of the righteous after death; the place or state of existence of the blessed after the mortal life. 2. (cap.) Often, Heavens. the celestial powers; God. 3. a metonym …
34heaven — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Abode of the blessed Nouns 1. heaven, above, empyrean; kingdom of heaven or God, Abraham s bosom; future state, eternal blessedness, eternity, everlasting bliss, eternal life or reward; Paradise, Eden,… …
35Eschatology — • A survey of the subject in various pre Christian religions and cultures, an examination of the development of eschatology in the Old Testament, brief overview of Christian teaching Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Eschatology …
36death rite — ▪ anthropology Introduction any of the ceremonial acts or customs employed at the time of death and burial. Throughout history and in every human society, the disposal of the dead has been given special significance. The practice was… …
37Elysium — /i lizh ee euhm, i lee zhee , i liz , i lee zee , i lizh euhm/, n. 1. Also called Elysian Fields. Class. Myth. the abode of the blessed after death. 2. any similarly conceived abode or state of the dead. 3. any place or state of perfect… …
38PARADISE — PARADISE, the English derivative of Παράδειοος, Greek for garden in the Eden narrative of Genesis 2:4b–3:24 (see garden of eden ). One of the best known and most widely interpreted pericopes in the Bible, this narrative is at the same time one of …
39Paradise — Paradise1 [par′ə dīs΄, par′ədīz΄] n. [ME paradis < OE & OFr, both < LL(Ec) paradisus, heaven, abode of the blessed < L, park, orchard < Gr paradeisos, park, garden (in N.T. & LXX, Paradise) < Iran * pardez, akin to Avestan pairi… …
40ABRAHAM'S BOSOM — ABRAHAM S BOSOM, designation in the New Testament (Luke 16:22–31) of the abode of the blessed souls of the pious and poor in the other world (compare IV Macc. 13:17; Matt. 8:11, where all three patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, are… …
