Delta defies subpoena in Alaska–Virgin trademark and royalties dispute
- By CH-Aviation Staff
https://www.ch-aviation.com/news/162235-delta-defies-subpoena-in-alaska-virgin-trademark-case
More: https://hype.aero/coverage/airline-industry-market-trends/?story=ef102df4-152f-46f4-a1a5-a3462103aefc
#businessaviation #alaska #virgin #aviation
Was #Jesus Actually Born of a #Virgin?
Do #Christians Get #Christmas All Wrong?
Delta accused of refusing to produce subpoenaed evidence in Alaska's trademark suit against Virgin
- By Mateusz Maszczynski
https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2025/12/19/delta-air-lines-is-refusing-to-hand-over-evidence-in-a-multi-million-dollar-trademark-lawsuit-despite-subpoena/
More: https://hype.aero/coverage/airline-industry-market-trends/?story=9d0388c3-c730-49da-ac47-51ed96d13fe5
#alaska #delta #deltaairlines #virgin #aviation
16 December: Blessed Mary of the Angels Fontanella
December 16
BLESSED MARY OF THE ANGELS FONTANELLA
Virgin
Optional Memorial
Born in Turin, Italy, in 1661, she died, after spending her whole life there, in 1717. In 1675 she entered the Discalced Carmelite Convent of St. Christina, and several times filled the offices of Prioress and Novice Mistress. She underwent continual spiritual trials but was constant in her ardent love of God. She was outstandingly faithful to prayer and particularly devoted to St. Joseph, in whose honor a convent was founded through her good offices at Moncalieri.
From the common of virgins
Office of Readings
SECOND READING
From The Way of Perfection by Saint Teresa of Avila
(C 40, nos 3,8 ed. Kavanaugh-Rodriguez 1980, pp. 193-95).
True love for God cannot be hidden
Those who truly love God love every good, desire every good, favor every good, praise every good. They always join, favor, and defend good people. They have no love for anything but truth, and whatever is worthy of love. Do you think it is possible for a person who really loves God to love vanities? No, indeed, he cannot, nor can he love riches, or worldly things, or delights, or honors, or strife, or envy. All of this is so because he seeks only to please the Beloved. These persons go about dying so that their Beloved might love them, and thus they dedicate their lives to learning how they might please him more. Hide itself? Oh, with regard to the love of God—if it is genuine love— this is impossible. If you don’t think so, look at Saint Paul or the Magdalene. Within three days the one began to realize that he was sick with love; that was Saint Paul. The Magdalene knew from the first day; and how well she knew! Love has this characteristic: it can be greater or lesser in degree. Thus, the love makes itself known according to its intensity. When slight, it shows itself but slightly; when strong, it shows itself strongly. But where there is love of God, whether little or great, it is always recognized.
And could one conceal a love that is so strong and just that it always increases and sees no reason to stop since its foundation is made from the cement of being repaid by another love? This other love can no longer be doubted, since it was shown so openly and with so many sufferings and trials, and with the shedding of blood, even to the point of death, in order that we might have no doubt about it.
May it please His Majesty to give us his love before he takes us out of this life, for it will be a great thing at the hour of death to see that we are going to be judged by the One whom we have loved above all things. We shall be able to proceed securely with the judgment concerning our debts. It will not be like going to a foreign country, but like going to our own, because it is the country of one whom we love so much and who loves us.
RESPONSORY
℟ The Lord fulfills the desires of those who fear him, he hears their cry and saves them. * The Lord watches over all who love him.
℣ We know that God makes all things work together for the good of those who love him. * The Lord watches over all who love him.
Morning Prayer
CANTICLE OF ZECHARIAH
Ant. To love God is to be truly wise, and wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord.
PRAYER
Lord,
you have told us that you live forever
in the hearts of the chaste.
By the prayers of the virgin Blessed Mary of the Angels
help us to live by your grace
and to become temples of your Spirit.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God, forever and ever.
Evening Prayer
CANTICLE OF MARY
Ant. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
Blessed Mary of the Angels (Marianna Fontanella)Catholic Church 1993, Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the Order of Discalced Carmelites (Rev. and augm.), Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome.
#blessedMaryOfTheAngels #discalcedCarmelite #liturgyOfTheHours #virgin
These are the 10 best extra virgin olive oils from Catalonia in 2025
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Donald Trump breaks silence on photos of him being in bombshell new Epstein files
11 December: Saint Maria Maravillas of Jesus Pidal y Chico de Guzmán
December 11
SAINT MARIA MARAVILLAS OF JESUS
PIDAL Y CHICO DE GUZMÁN
Virgin
Memorial
Maria Maravillas was born at Madrid in 1891. She entered the El Escorial Carmel, Madrid on 12th October 1919. In 1924 she was inspired to found a Carmel at Cerro de los Angeles, alongside the monument to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. From this foundation followed nine others in Spain and one in India. She always gave first place to prayer and self-sacrifice. She had a true, passionate zeal for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Even while living a life of poverty in the cloister she helped those who were in need, initiating apostolic, social and charitable works. In a particular way, she helped those of her own order, priests, and other religious congregations. She died in the monastery of La Aldehuela, Madrid, on 11th December 1974. She was canonized on 4th May 2003 in Madrid.
From the common of virgins or of holy women (religious)
Office of Readings
Second Reading
From the letters of Saint Maravillas of Jesus, Virgin
(Letters to her spiritual directors: 305, 254, 101, 458b)
My delight is to be with the children of men
Yesterday, Sunday, on climbing the stairs to go to the upper choir for the sung Mass, I was quite recollected, yet without any particular thought, when I heard clearly within me, My delight is to be with the children of men. These words which made a strong impression on me, I understood were not for me this time, but rather in the nature of a request the Lord was making me to offer the whole of myself to give him these souls he so much desires. It is hard to explain, but I saw clearly, that a soul which sanctifies itself becomes fruitful in attracting souls to God. This so deeply moved me that I offered with my whole heart to the Lord all my sufferings of body and soul for this purpose, despite my poverty. It then seemed to me that this offering was right, but what was strictly important was to surrender myself, wholly and completely to the divine will, so that he could do what he desired in me, and likewise I would accept the pain along with the pleasure. I seemed to understand that what pleased him was not the greatest sacrifice but rather the exact and loving fulfillment in the least detail of that will. In this I understood many things I find hard to explain, and how he wished me to be very sensitive in this fulfillment, which would carry me a long way in self-sacrifice and love.
I offered myself in such a way that nothing would excuse me, not even hell (if there you can love the Lord), but then I am so cowardly. The Lord will remedy that, since I can do no more than commit myself to Him in all my misery. I began experiencing this as a desire to commit myself for souls and to be faithful for this purpose: thinking about what he had done for them, it seemed he was saying to me I could not do much, but he could, with my help. On feeling this immense desire of the Lord for the salvation of souls, it seemed so amazing that nothing remained but to be committed to God so that He could carry out all his work in the soul and thus make it, despite its poverty, capable of giving him what he desires. Each time it became clearer to my soul so that nothing of my own remained important, except that the Lord alone be glorified.
What a treasure the Lord has given me in allowing me to live in Carmel! Here, everything is arranged with such simplicity, yet in such a way that, living it to the full, you can do everything. How can we live in the House of the Virgin, pleasing the Lord with her, yet not imitating her, as the Holy Mother desired? I felt that this is the Carmelite’s way, imitating Mary, how we must grow less, to be truly poor, self-sacrificing, humble, nothing. I felt quite deeply how Jesus gives us in his own life continual examples of sacrifice, of humiliation, of making ourselves small, yet we do not understand. I felt his mercy and zeal for souls in this way, that here is the strength that can take hold of our life through his mercy. By his grace, may I, who am so absolutely poor in everything, be well able to imitate him in this with more ease than other creatures. I seemed also to understand that these lights were not given only for myself, but also for guiding my sisters. The sole thing I do, many times in the day, is to say to the Lord that I wish to live only to love him and to please him, that I desire all that he wishes in the way that he wills.
Responsory
℟ Prudent virgin whom the Bridegroom found watching with her lamp alight, * enter into the eternal nuptial banquet.
℣ I find my delight in your will, your saving justice in the depths of my heart. * Enter into the eternal nuptial banquet.
Prayer
Lord God,
who drew Saint Maria Maravillas of Jesus
into the secrets of the heart of your Son,
grant through her intercession and example,
that we may work together for the salvation of souls,
experiencing the delights of your love.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
God, forever and ever.
Catholic Church 1993, Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the Order of Discalced Carmelites (Rev. and augm.), Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome.
#discalcedCarmelite #liturgy #optionalMemorial #stMariaMaravillasDeJesus #virgin
Street Art
Portalet Street
Hyères, French Riviera
It reminds to me Klimt's art...
#streetart #streets #street #painting #graffiti #posters #door #doorway #arch #archway #rustic #old #hyeres #france #frenchriviera #alcove #stichers #urban #oldcity #klimt #art #lady #virgin #woman #character
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UB40, Rat in the Kitchen, 1986 on A&M
Seventh UB40 full length, on A&M in the US and DEP International / Virgin elsewhere. Love the title track as well as “Sing our Own Song,” with the rallying cry of the African National Congress (“Amandla Awethu”).
Got to see them around this time in Minneapolis – what a fantastic live show they put on, including many of the songs here.
My copy—via the Worcester Record Riot—is an Indianapolis pressing on A&M labels with the original inner liner.
#1980s #1986 #AM #DEPInternational #Reggae #UB40 #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #Virgin #WorcesterMA #WorcesterRecordRiot
I’ve been trying to report a damaged roadside #telecoms box to #bt, #virgin, #cityfibre as it’s not clear who it belongs to. (Virgin media were the hardest to get through to)
Peter Gabriel, So, 1986 on Geffen
One of the foundational albums of my youth – not just the “In Your Eyes” boombox scene from Say Anything, but really every track here. Sounds fantastic on vinyl. Definitely one of my desert island discs, provided I can bring a turntable.
In the UK this was issued on Charisma (PG5) and Virgin but in the US it was out on Geffen. It was reissued as a multi-CD / box set in 2012. On the basis of how great this album is I went back and learned the whole Peter Gabriel solo catalogue and even the early Genesis – on top of all the Womad / world music stuff he was also part of.
My copy, via the Worcester Record Riot, is an RCA Music Service club pressing from the RCA plant in Indianapolis.
#1980s #1986 #Charisma #geffen #Indianapolis #PeterGabriel #RCAMusicService #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #Virgin #WorcesterMA #WorcesterRecordRiot
#StKitts marked a major milestone in its #cruise sector today with the inaugural call of #Virgin Voyages’ newest ship, Brilliant Lady, at Port Zante. https://www.caribjournal.com/2025/12/03/virgin-voyages-st-kitts/
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Conscious Party, 1988 on Virgin
Third LP from Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, which included Stephen, Sharon and Cedella plus Ziggy, all children of Bob and Rita Marley (who also adds backing vocals). Guests include Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth. Chris Franz and Weymouth also produced.
Loved this album when it came out – fairly certain I had a copy on vinyl in 1988, but jah knows where it ended up. This copy—via the Worcester Record Riot—is a Specialty pressing (see the E A S T around the spindle hole) with the original printed inner liner.
#1980s #1988 #ChrisFranz #JerryHarrison #MelodyMakers #Reggae #RitaMarley #TinaWeymouth #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #Virgin #WorcesterMA #ZiggyMarley #ZiggyMarleyAndTheMelodyMakers
Virgin Australia and Qatar Airways launch daily Melbourne–Doha service, boosting capacity 53%
- By Jake Nelson
https://australianaviation.com.au/2025/12/virgin-australia-slots-in-last-piece-of-doha-puzzle/
More: https://hype.aero/coverage/routes/?story=49b558cf-18a3-44d0-8afb-a8552a472c48
#b777 #virginaustralia #virgin #qatar #aviation
‘My Guiding Light, My World’: Richard Branson Pays Tribute to Late Wife Joan Templeman
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.billboard.com/pro/richard-branson-joan-templeman-obituary/
UB40, Labour of Love, 1983 on A&M
Fourth studio LP from UB40 – a collection of covers including their giant hit “Red Red Wine” – but don’t hold that against them. It’s really a fantastic album start to finish.
“All of these songs were recorded by reggae artists between 1969 and 1972” – they came to “Red, Red, Wine” not via Neil Diamond (who wrote it) but Tony Tribe’s version.
They’d go on to make sequels: Labour of Love II, Labour of Love III, and Labour of Love IV – but none were quite as magical as the first.
My copy—via Worcester Record Riot—is an Electrosound Group Midwest pressing on gold letter A&M labels.
#1980s #1983 #am #electrosoundGroupMidwest #reggae #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #virgin #worcesterMa #worcesterRecordRiot
