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Reflecting on the life of Jesus and participating in it, Thomas a Kempis’ Imitation of Christ seems to be a perfect manual of practice. It instructs on what you should be and do to imitate Christ. Thomas spells them out in his book and Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr lived it out. The content of this reflection is: The Concept of the Imitation of Christ Musing One Musing Two Musing Three Acts 7:55-60 Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked up intently to heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and Stephen said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” But they cried out in a loud voice,  covered their ears and rushed upon him together. They threw him out of the city and began to stone him. The witnesses laid down their cloaks  at the feet of a young man named Saul. As they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Then he fell to his knees and c...

Table of Content Hephaestus Tiresias Larunda How can human language describe the gods and goddesses and their potent infliction of disabilities on other gods or goddesses? This writing will focus more on the ‘other-inflicted’ disabilities by the gods and goddesses with a few examples from ancient Greek or Roman mythologies. The gods and goddesses seem to punish other gods or goddesses with disabilities for either speaking out or saying their minds or even being cast out for having a disability. Here, we see the confrontation between the powerful and the protected, between the superior and inferior gods and goddesses, between what is normal and what is different, between ability and disability. A god or goddess that is inflicted with disability seems to lose the capacity to revert to ability again.   Can there be anything like a god or goddess with a disability? To start with, a god is a supernatural being who is viewed as divine or sacred. The word ‘divine’ means a being like a...