Blind Dog & Loyal Brother in Need of Home

Both dogs, approximately 8-months-old and believed to be lab-pitbull mixes, were found on the streets of Philadelphia

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OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA SURPRISES MACY'S CUSTOMERS WITH RANDOM ACT OF CULTURE

RANDOM ACT OF CULTURE ON OCTOBER 10, 2010



UPDATE: I just happened to be reading how the very devoted Catholic blogger The Anchoress, was not terribly moved by this video...something I just can't understand...but I did want to mention a comment from "Ken from Kansas" because it fleshes out the historical setting for the video:

...for people from Philly like me it [Macy's] will always be the John Wanamaker Store at 13th and Walnut.

The Wanamaker organ and the great court at the holidays is something special to us. Plus for me the thought of the Hallelujah Chorus and the words, “the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ,” sung in a temple of commerce (Mammon?) gives me goose bumps. God does honor his Word even when that word goes forth in the most unlikely places and he will be exalted. BTW, John Wanamaker was a wonderful Christian and would have approved I am sure.

Merry Christmas to all.

Charter to Pennsylvania: 3/10/1681

26-year-old William Penn received from King Charles II the charter to Pennsylvania on MARCH 10, 1681, as repayment of a debt owed to his deceased father Admiral Sir William Penn, who captured Jamaica and defeated the Dutch navy.

A student at Oxford, William Penn was expelled for having his own prayer services in his dorm room instead of attending the Anglican chapel. Penn converted to Quakerism and was imprisoned in the Tower of London. His colony was a "holy experiment" for persecuted Europeans, one of the few original colonies to accept Mennonites, Amish, Catholics and Jews.

Emphasizing his plan of Christian tolerance, William Penn named the city "Philadelphia," Greek for "Brotherly Love." History records that since William Penn insisted on treating the Delaware Indians honestly, paying a fair sum for the land, Philadelphia was spared the Indian attacks and scalpings that other colonial settlements experienced.

Before arriving, William Penn wrote to the Delaware chiefs: "My Friends, There is one...God...and He hath made...the king of the country where I live, give...unto me a great province therein, but I desire to enjoy it with your...consent, that we may always live together as...friends."

American Minute with Bill Federer