After scenes of him being threatened by shadowy enemies hit the screen, a clone
of that mystery man came into the picture.
And even though Father James knows the identity
of the mystery man, he declines to name him to the local police inspector (Gary Lydon).
The common scenarios are: You've broken up with him and now he's dating someone Are you falling for a guy who seems like a bit
of a mystery man?
Today's post title was by courtesy
of Mystery Man.
Not exact matches
The series
of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the
mystery man.
According to the
mystery man, «the basic institutions
of the modern world — the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund — were all a front,» writes Lawson.
Lawson describes Nichols as «the Zelig
of conspiracy theories» — a
mystery man rumoured to be involved in everything from the Iran - Contra scandal to the CIA's MK - Ultra mind control experiments to the JFK assassination.
When the Justice Department announced the arrest last month
of a
man who allegedly swindled more than $ 100 million from two U.S. tech giants, the news came wrapped in a
mystery.
More
men, now in their 70s, have come forward to say they were subjects at the facility, in what has been called the «Montauk Project» - an underground extension
of the military's
mystery - shrouded Philadelphia Experiment.
Man at Centre
of Controversy Over Trudeau's India Trip Remains a Political
Mystery
From Big Bang to Big
Mystery: Human Origins in the Light
of Creation and Evolution by Brendan Purcell New City Press, 370 pages, $ 34.95 Benjamin Disraeli famously asked whether
man is «an ape or an angel» and answered that he himself stood «on the side
of the angels.»
When we understand these two bookends
of the Bible as framing the whole Christian
mystery, the marriage
of man and woman takes on its true nature as an image that points us towards our ultimate destiny marriage to God.
Russell Kirk, a
mystery writer and «Bohemian Tory
man of letters,» in one variation
of his «canons
of conservatism»:
Youve taken one one
of lifes buggest
mysteries, that
men have been searching for answers for thousands
of years, and come to the conclusion
of «lights out».
Finally medicine
man came out
of cave sweating and all bruised, her husband rushed to him, and asked about wellbeing
of his wife and child, boy or a girl, medicine
man could not answer, while he was trying to figure out way to explain, finally he put himself together and started to explain
mystery of his child birth.
In
Mystery Men, a movie from a few years back, William H. Macy, Ben Stiller and Hank Azaria starred as a trio
of lesser superheroes with fairly unimpressive superpowers.
At the dramatic and comedic conclusion
of the first Austin Powers movie, Dr. Evil defines the cultural shifts that occurred while the International
Man of Mystery was sleeping through a few decades.
I have never been a Calvinist but prefer to say that certain aspects
of God's sovereignty and
man's free will are
mysteries to us here on earth.
The story
of Jim Jones is the story
of a
man who by miracle,
mystery and authority affected an entire valley in northern California — and an entire world.
His themes are the ultimate themes
of all religious thought — the kingdom and the power and the glory
of God, the wonder and
mystery of His ways with
men.
Masculinity, on the other hand, expresses the other half
of the
mystery, standing for «The Son
of Man» who brings and prompts that life through his own flesh and blood.
It is because there is a reason and purpose for the division
of human nature into male and female in God's plan, which gives
men and women different and complementary, but equally valuable, roles in the
Mystery of Salvation.
There is a great
mystery here, but The Catechism
of the Catholic Church teaches that «God permitted such painful upheavals as the angels» fall and
man's sin only as occasions and means for displaying all the power
of his arm and the whole measure
of the love he wanted to give the world» (CCC 760).
The Fathers did not reflect on the exact causality
of this process, but they constantly emphasised the fact
of this living relationship with Christ through «the
mysteries» through which mortal
men are incorporated — literally — into the Divine Life.
Our recognition
of the
mystery of salvation in
men and women
of other religious traditions shapes the concrete attitudes with which we Christians must approach them in interreligious dialogue.
Keen labels such «dis - eased» persons Homo Faber (
man the fabricator, or worker)-
man bent on creating his own meaning by eliminating all elements
of mystery.
I am afraid, too, like all my fellow -
men,
of the future too heavy with
mystery and too wholly new, towards which time is driving me.
The minds
of men so often yearn for might and power, and their thoughts are constantly being drawn to such things, as if by their attainment all
mysteries would be resolved.
Because it is intractable he simply dodges the kingship
of acclaim, awaiting instead the coronation that will be his in his supreme hour, a coronation which by its quality
of contempt suggests, even partially reveals, the many - leveled
mystery of the Son
of Man.
The love
of a
man and a woman, lived out in the power
of baptismal life, now becomes the sacrament
of the love between Christ and his Church, and a witness to the
mystery of fidelity and unity from which the «New Eve» is born and by which she lives in her earthly pilgrimage toward the fullness
of the eternal wedding.»
The believing
man who passes through this shattering
of security returns to the everyday as the henceforth hallowed place in which he has to live with the
mystery.
All
men naturally worship someone or something, but in the commonly assumed absence
of God, this worship is given almost wholly to such things as success, sport, the heroes or heroines
of the fantasy - world
of the screen or stage, or to the
mysteries of science.
The
mystery of the Eucharist also flows directly from the plan
of the Incarnation which is primarily about the «divinisation»
of man in Christ.
The
mystery of love in God's creation is nowhere more powerfully revealed than in this: the sexual attraction which
man shares with the animals is immediate, self - centred, and gratifying, yet it leads to the possibility
of a love which requires commitment and loyalty and in which physical and emotional gratification become sacraments
of the spirit.
«Reflecting on the unity
of man and woman as described at the moment
of the world's creation (cf. Gn 2:24), the Apostle exclaims: «this
mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the Church» (Eph 5:32).
Were the authors
of Ecclesiastics or Ruth or Leviticus simply
men who «caught a glimpse
of mystery, the Unknowable, and did their best, inspired by such a vision» I highly doubt it.
The
mystery of love in its relation to the lostness
of men remains, and there is the long and dreary history
of Christian theology on the theme
of predestination.
They knew what they were doing, for they weren't «
men caught a glimpse
of mystery, the Unknowable, and did their best, inspired by such a vision,...»
For the future
of the Church everywhere, too, what is most essential is the ancient yet ever - new message
of Christianity, that is to say that in the darkness
of this life the hearts
of men must entrust themselves to that ineffable, adorable
mystery of life which we call God in faith, hope and love and unconditional confidence in Jesus Christ our Lord.
We need much thought and practice before we can preach the
mystery of the incarnation
of the eternal Logos in Jesus
of Nazareth in such a way that this message does not sound almost like a myth in which modern
men can no longer believe.
Let it be said here and now, however, that we need not conclude that the very sciences which are forcing us more and more to abandon as invalid our traditional understanding
of the nature and destiny
of man, have thereby solved the riddle
of life and
of the
mystery of man.
To say that the Bible was written by «
men caught a glimpse
of mystery, the Unknowable, and did their best, inspired by such a vision,...» to me comes across as either:
But then someone else ended up dead, and another story began to unfold — about a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure and the
mysteries of one
man's life.
Men have from time immemorial experienced wonder,
mystery, awe, and dread in the face
of the inexplicable and uncontrollable forces
of nature and
of their own inner nature, and have hypostatized these experiences in the gods.
But then someone else ends up dead, sparking a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure, and an unearthing
of the
mysteries of one
man's life.
It was particularly vital at those times in which
man sensed the
mystery of life and growth, namely birth, puberty, marriage and death, the sowing
of crops, the spring lambing, the building
of a new home, the going forth to battle.
There, he sought to show how Jesus» earthly life «traced out» each
man's journey: Just as Christ is the way for each
man, each
man is the way for the Church, «the way that leads invariably through the
mystery of the Incarnation and the Redemption.»
And the gospel is the good news that all
man's fuss and feathers over his relationship with God is unnecessary because God, in the
mystery of the Word who is Jesus, has gone and fixed it up Himself.
And Kermit opened the 33rd Seal and saw a brown talking dog, and beside him stood a shabby young
man, and they were is search
of mysteries to solve, though they were easily made afraid, and often they were distracted by delicious morsels called «Scooby Snacks».
And to make all
men see what is the fellowship
of the
mystery, which from the beginning
of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ