To all saints waiting for the soon return of our Lord Jesus Christ,
greetings and our Lord may bless and keep us.
yr bro fr
This morning I marvelled when I found these reports and links at
and I like to share it with you:
for instance:
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DOUBLE SUNSPOT: A big double sunspot has emerged over the sun's eastern limb. The two pieces of sunspot 693 are each about twice as wide as Earth. They're connected by magnetic lines of force that harbor energy for M-class solar flares. This 'spot is easy to see, but never stare at the blinding sun. Use a safe sun-projector instead.
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or this report:
CROSS-QUARTER DATE: Halloween is a date of astronomical interest: it's a cross-quarter date, midway between an equinox and a solstice. There are four cross-quarter dates throughout the year, and each is a minor holiday. One is Groundhog Day (Feb. 2nd), another is May Day (May 1st), the third is Lammas Day (Aug. 1st), and the fourth is Halloween (Oct. 31st).
Says John Mosley of the Griffith Observatory: "The Celts of the British Isles used the cross-quarter days to mark the beginnings of the seasons, and winter began with Halloween. Halloween marked the transition between summer and winter, light and dark - and life and death. On that one transitional night those who had died during the previous year returned for a final visit to their former homes. People set out food out for them and lit fires to aid them on their journey -- but remained on guard for mischief the spirits might do on the one night when the dead returned to the land of the living."
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very interesting are the links mentioned above:
„….Telling Time…”
http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/%7Epogge/Ast161/Unit2/time.html
and also very beautiful the report from John Mosley of the Griffith Observatory, which I like to copy here
http://www.griffithobs.org/skyreport.html
Sky Report for October 28 - November 2, 2004
This is the Sky Report from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles for the week ending November 2nd. I'm John Mosley.
Many people missed the eclipse last Wednesday because of clouds, and there won't be another total lunar eclipse visible from Southern California until August of 2007 -- but there's another really neat astronomy event coming up only next week that you won't want to miss. That's a close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets.
Face east as the sky is brightening a half-hour to an hour before sunrise, and you'll see two very bright planets low in the sky. The brightest is Venus and it sits a short distance above Jupiter. The distance between them is narrowing day by day, and the two planets are getting closer to each other. This change is due to the motion of Venus. Both planets are moving eastward against the background of distant stars as they orbit the sun, but Venus -- being closer to the sun -- orbits faster and moves more quickly across the sky. We see Venus appear to approach Jupiter, although of course Jupiter is far beyond Venus. On the morning of the 29th Jupiter is 7 degrees below Venus, but on November 2nd their separation has decreased to less than 3 degrees. And they'll move closer still. On the 3rd Jupiter is 1-2/3 degree below Venus and they'll form an exceptionally pretty pair. They're at their closest on the morning of Thursday the 4th when Jupiter is a scant 3/4 of a degree from Venus -- a wonderful sight you won't want to miss. And then they separate. Be sure to be watching these two planets during the week to come.
Saturn is in the morning sky too, and it's as bright as the brighter stars. Look for it high in the southeast and nearly overhead while checking out Venus and Jupiter. Saturn is in line with and below Castor and Pollux, the heads of Gemini the twins. Saturn has been in the news because of spacecraft Cassini's close fly-by to its moon Titan, and you can see Saturn's moon Titan for yourself through any small telescope. We'll be showing Saturn and Titan through our telescope at the Observatory Satellite when it moves into the evening sky after the first of the year.
The time to be watching Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn changes this weekend when we go off Daylight Saving Time. Daylight Time was instituted during World War I, and the purpose in shifting the clock was to make it light later in the evening in dimly-lit munitions factories so people could work later. These days people enjoy late sunsets after work or school -- but that changes on Sunday the 30th when we move our clocks back one hour, from 3 to 2 for example, and beginning Sunday evening the sun sets an hour earlier. It's dark earlier in the evening, but it's light later in the morning (you can have that hour of sunlight in the morning or evening but not both) and that pushes up the time for pre-dawn sky-gazing. The best time to look at Venus and Jupiter is around 6:30 a.m. through Saturday, and then 5:30 a.m. beginning on Sunday. [See http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html for additional background info on Daylight Time.]
So through Saturday the sun rises late -- and the sunrise on Saturday the 29th is the latest of the year by our clocks. On the 29th the sun rises at 7:10 a.m. It rises later astronomically speaking each morning for the next six weeks until the winter solstice -- but we've gone off Daylight Time and the sun rises at 6:11 Standard Time on Sunday morning. The astronomical effects during the next six weeks can't compensate for going off Daylight Time.
We go off Daylight Time and on Standard Time on the last Sunday of October -- which this year happens to be Halloween -- and Halloween is a date of astronomical interest. You're familiar with the two equinoxes and two solstices, which are the four dates when the sun is at its two extreme and two mid-points of its travel in the sky, and these astronomical "quarter dates" divide the year in four and determine the beginnings of the seasons. The four dates mid-way between the solstices and equinoxes are called the "cross-quarter" dates, and they mark the middles of the seasons. Each is a minor holiday. For many reasons this division is not mathematically precise, but you've heard of them: one is Groundhog Day (February 2nd), another is May Day (May 1st), the third is Lammas Day (August 1st) -- and the fourth is Halloween.
The Celts of the British Isles used the cross-quarter days to mark the beginnings of the seasons, and winter began with Halloween, which also began their new year. Halloween marked summer's end and the transition between summer and winter, light and dark - and life and death. On that one transitional night those who had died during the previous year returned for a final visit to their former homes. People set out food out for them and lit fires to aid them on their journey -- but remained on guard for mischief the spirits might do on the one night when the dead returned to the land of the living.
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Here are some thoughts….
“a double sunspot……” : soon the two witnesses ???
“cross-quarter-date…..” : soon our crossing-over date ???
“Lecture 10 : Telling Time…” : (10 virgins …. ) what time is it o Lord….???
“Many people missed the eclipse…” : we did miss here too, because of clouds…. the moon was in clouds… clouds! …” he cometh with clouds…”
“Venus….Jupiter…..next week… ” : a meeting, how fast and quick and close….. “a wonderful sight you won't want to miss…”
“summer's end”… “daylight saving time” : Jeremiah 8, 20 "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved…” ???
“On that one transitional night those who
had died during the previous year returned
for a final visit…” : 1 Thessalonians 4,…
13: But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them
which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14: For if we believe that Jesus died and
rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15: For this we say unto you by the word
of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord
shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16:
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of
the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise
first:
17: Then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18: Wherefore comfort one another
with these words.
Praise the Lord!
There we are: October 31, 2004 …”Halloween”, this year a Sunday, the eighth day of the week, the “Lord’s Day”….
this year also in this night ….the time change…..!
this week… the events in the EU in Rome! and same moment
in Israel…. “removing” of Y.A. who has “survived” so many….
(2 Thessalon. 2, 8 : “….until he be taken out of the way.
8: And then
shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of
his mouth,
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming….”)
next week… the “elections” in the USA………..
What time is it ?
…..still Harvest Time… and still the Time of Grace upon Grace…,
Thank you Jesus!!!
But time is running out….
there is a change coming…. and it is so very very close: Jesus is coming soon!!!
O Lord, help us to be ready!
Amen, Come, Lord Jesus!