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Recent Reviews for Catholic Daycares in Baltimore MD
Parkview Trail Children’s Den, Windsor Mill
“The caregiver has been SO wonderful to my family. My sons have been so lucky to have her. She really cares about the children and gives them all the attention they need. I have”
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Woodbridge Valley Children’s Den, Catonsville
“The caregiver is warm, caring, and attentive. We moved away but if we were still in the area I would send him here. My son loved going to her daycare!”
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Other Catholic Daycares near Baltimore MD
Angels At Play, Rosedale
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help Preschool, Ellicott City
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St. Augustine School, Elkridge
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How many catholic daycares and preschools are there in Baltimore?
There are 2 catholic daycares and preschools in Baltimore, based on CareLuLu data. This includes 0 home-based programs and 2 centers.
How much does daycare cost in Baltimore?
The cost of daycare in Baltimore is $717 per month. This is the average price for full-time, based on CareLuLu data, including homes and centers.
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Catholic Daycares in Woodbridge VA
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Holy Family Catholic School Preschool & Extended Day Programs is a child care center in Woodbridge, VA.
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Recent Reviews for Catholic Daycares in Woodbridge VA
Trentdale Little Children’s Place, Woodbridge
“This provider is amazing! She’s so gentle, loving, and kind.
She treats the kids as her own and takes great care of them. My infant and toddler are always happy to go to her”
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Sweety Muna Family Child Care, Woodbridge
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There are 1 catholic daycares and preschools in Woodbridge, based on CareLuLu data. This includes 0 home-based programs and 1 centers.
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The cost of daycare in Woodbridge is $821 per month.
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From Christianity to Islam and Back: 4 Stories of People Who Changed Their Religion who encouraged them to do so.
Olesya, 35, entrepreneur
Converted from Christianity to Islam
A few years ago, I began to seriously think about how a single girl could survive without support in the world of men. I am not a complete feminist, but I am aware that many male colleagues only look at my feet. Sometimes I was scared that ten or fifteen years would pass, and they would even stop looking at my feet. Now all these fears are in the past.
My parents were not believers, they did not go to church, but, obeying the general spirit of the 90s, they were baptized and baptized me.
When I was little, my mother and I were in Belarus. There I went to the central Catholic Cathedral of Minsk, the Church of St. Simeon and St. Helena. He is very handsome inside and out. It was hot outside, my feet hurt in uncomfortable, hard sandals. I sat on a bench in the cathedral, admiring the stained-glass windows and icons, listening to the whispers of the parishioners and relaxing in the coolness of the dimly lit room.
I decided that Catholics are better than Orthodox: you can sit in their church.
My father had a child from his first marriage, and he was always more important to him. He did his homework with him, gave him money, later loaned him for an apartment, for a business, then for debts. He probably felt guilty before him. I wanted to impress my father: I thought that I would follow his instructions to the faculty of “Accounting and Auditing”, I would succeed and say: “Look, dad, I have achieved, I am the best, everything worked out for me. I am strong, I could, even without you.” No not like this. I will tell him: “Love me, I am worthy.”
I worked a lot. One day my friend asked me to be the godmother of her child. It was a very pompous event. A bunch of relatives came, for them it was a large-scale entertainment. The only one who wasn’t happy was the baby. Well, so am I. Everything was fine until the moment when, holding the baby in my arms and languishing from the height of the heels, I started laughing right in the middle of the prayer that the priest was reading.
(I must say that at that time a crisis was raging over the country, it was 2009, people were losing their jobs in batches, and I was just trying to deal with real estate, and my company was seriously indebted for the purchase of apartments. I still remember the night calls of collectors “They weren’t as brutal as they are now, but they pretty much frayed my nerves. I fought as hard as I could. And then, in the midst of a desperate struggle, this absurd episode with baptism, a priest, drunken relatives and a screaming unfortunate baby, whom I sincerely sympathized with.)
I started laughing. Right in the middle of the prayer, I laughed and laughed and laughed, I couldn’t stop, I disrupted the ceremony, they took me out of the church. I cried for another four hours before I calmed down. I didn’t see my girlfriend again.
When I was 33 years old, I suddenly realized that I had nowhere else to go. I weighed what happened to me over the years. Hard daily work. First, in an auditing company – as an assistant, team leader, manager.
Then his own business, first in the apartment business, ended in complete bankruptcy. Then a new business that I started with my college friend – a company for servicing SMS traffic.
For the last three years we have been working 16 hours a day, and I am very tired. There was no light at the end of the tunnel, the money was running out, we urgently needed a strategic investor or a new major client. I felt that I would not be able to get up the third time. There just isn’t enough strength.
It was the most difficult moment of my life. And then in the middle of it all, I met Karen.
I would never have thought that I would meet with an Armenian, and even with an artist, a person who, in my rational opinion, does not have solid ground under his feet. It doesn’t matter how we met and became close, what he found in me, tired and desperate, how he warmed my heart and mind, which no longer believed anyone. It is important that after meeting with him, things suddenly went smoothly.
In the fall of 2014, he told me that one of his clients, a major collector from the government, advised me to change all the money I had into foreign currency, wait six months and see what happens.
We took out a huge loan for our company, pledging everything we had, and changed the money into foreign currency. My business partner, using the money won from this advice, not only paid off the bank, but also bought high-speed servers and was able to set up new software. We suddenly broke into the market by winning a major tender.
We are fine now. There is little Islam in Armenia, but Karen is a hereditary Muslim. When he proposed to me, he asked me to convert to Islam, he said that he would be pleased. I agreed. So I came across religion for the third and last time.
Andrei, 51 years old, retired military man, entrepreneur
Passed from Islam to Christianity
In Soviet times, there was a stubborn struggle against religion and everyone was atheist.
Despite the fact that my father is a Muslim, he never went to the mosque and did not know the Koran. He himself called himself a Muslim atheist. He grew up in a remote village. The Tatars did not then have a patronymic, and the surname was given by the name of the father. Father became one of the many Khalilovs. It was time to enter a military school, it was necessary to draw up documents, and he took a more Russian name and surname, joined the party. And to make a career, he had to be an unbeliever. Then it was time to get married. He returned to the Tatar village, where a bathhouse was heated for him. There was a girl waiting for him. Later, he learned that if a Tatar takes a bath with a girl, she becomes his wife. It is not clear who he did not want to marry, so he fled to another city. There, in a hostel, he met a Tatar girl, also from a remote village. She hardly knew Russian. He liked her, they later signed. My father categorically forbade speaking Tatar in the family. Since my mother did not speak Russian well, she hardly spoke to me and my sister.
Everyone called me Andrey. I went to kindergarten like Andrei, to school too. When I received my passport, I first learned that I was, in fact, Azat, and my father’s name was completely different. Later, I entered a military school, called myself Andrey, and brought the documents to Azat. Then they told me to decide who I am – Andrei or Azat.
I met my future wife at school, and when I returned from school, we got married. I was 22 years old. Since my wife is a Christian, I was worried about how our parents would react to our union. At the wedding, my father said that I am nobody, I do not belong to any religion, we can live as we want and he does not insist on anything.
The 90s have come, the situation with religion has changed. I became very ill and practically died. The doctors couldn’t help me. One day I was walking down the street, a woman came up to me and said that I was sick and that she could cure me, but she did not accept Muslims. The woman was a clairvoyant and healer.
I was very surprised – how did she find out about the disease? And I thought: since she sees that I am sick, then she can probably help me. I didn’t have any other hope anyway. I really wanted to believe in a miracle and went to church and was baptized. Then he went to the address left by the woman. As a result, she cured me with Christian prayers and holy water.
Since then I know exactly who I am. I try to keep a fast, I swim in an ice hole on Epiphany, I celebrate Easter with my wife, but I don’t specifically pray and I don’t go to church often. I just believed. Christianity gave me faith in life and in miracles.
The family turned away from me when they learned that I had converted to Christianity. My sister immediately asked how they would bury me now? To which I noticed that in my family everyone is older than me, so it’s not a fact that they will bury me. Mom always obeyed my father, as it should be for Muslim women, and my father firmly decided that I was no longer his son.
I tried to reconcile. The first thing I did was go to the mosque and ask the imam for advice. He said to invite his father, wanted to talk to him, explain that God is one and every person has the right to come to faith in his own way. But the father categorically refused. He said that he had never gone to a mosque and would not go now, and that no one had the right to dictate to him how to live. Being an unbeliever himself, he declared a boycott on me, wrote a letter on two pages, in which he demanded, in addition to changing religion, to divorce my wife, who, in his opinion, was pushing me to convert to Christianity. After that, I went to church and talked with the priest. Batiushka said that this is my cross for life, I chose my religion myself and must make peace with my family. He said to call his father for a conversation. Father again refused to come.
So four years passed, until one day dad just came to my house and started acting like nothing had happened. I am still a Christian, we reconciled without discussing anything.
Perhaps someday he will want to talk to me. In the meantime, it’s enough for me that my family is together again.
Evgeniya, 29 years old, scientific consultant
Converted from Christianity to Buddhism
I was baptized when I was a baby. For as long as I can remember, I have always believed in God and never doubted his existence. But the way Christianity explains the destiny of man, the process of his birth and death, seemed to me debatable. I was haunted that a man was sent to earth to suffer humbly. I, as a mother, cannot understand how you can doom your child to cruel torment and suffering (meaning Christ). How could his death alone, in principle, atone for something, and before whom?
I didn’t have a Christian way of thinking from the start, I guess. It cannot be said that I purposefully searched for a suitable religion for me. The right people began to appear in my life. I met my future husband and at his suggestion I became interested in Buddhism.
Some things in all religions have something in common. The main idea of any faith is love for God. In Buddhism, it is perceived as love for the whole world around. The way of the Christian means acceptance, patience and humility; love for God, love for all living things around. All hardships must be endured humbly. And in Buddhism, it is not necessary to turn the other cheek if you are hit. But the very fact of a blow is a divine manifestation that teaches you something. The attitude to sex is the same: it is not allowed to be protected, children must be born – as a result of love. In fact, the paths of a Christian and a Buddhist are similar – the concepts of good and bad in religions are similar. But the patterns of life and death are different.
In Christianity, earthly life is given once, then the soul goes to heaven or hell forever. And in Buddhism, the body is just a shirt for the human soul, which is eternal. Each new rebirth for a Buddhist is a way to get closer to God if you live according to divine laws; work off sins from past lives, cleanse karma.
The path of birth is not endless. The monks strive to live their current life in such a way as to stop the chain of rebirths in this world and move on to more subtle worlds.
The most difficult issue was raising children. I always thought that if parents have no doubts and they are sure of something, then it will not be difficult to transfer their knowledge to the child. But it turned out that the influence of society is very strong. I thought that the mind of a child is like a blank slate and can be filled with anything. But an unpleasant discovery awaited me – neighbors, grandmother, acquaintances, friends had already drawn something on it. Relatives sometimes bend their line. For example, explaining that grandfather is in heaven. As a result, the children are confused – mom and dad say one thing, and grandmother another. Or the grandmother is trying to feed the child with meat, because it is healthy, and our children do not eat meat. They have a lot to explain.
My parents were never against my worldview, so there was no conflict between fathers and children as such.
Their attitude to life has also begun to change over the years, and they now share many of my beliefs. We have a good relationship, and I am grateful to them for strengthening my faith in God. I explain to the children why in Christianity we follow such and such rituals, but take something from Buddhism. We baptized them early, still in the garden. It is rather a tribute to parents, protection from unnecessary questions from others. We did not want to go into conflict, parents were worried that the grandchildren were not baptized. We waited until the children were able to understand what baptism is, and the children went through the ceremony in full understanding. I think they will grow up and choose their own path.
Of course, many Christian rites still help me in a difficult situation. Some prayers I use all the time to talk to God. I often read “Our Father”, I want the children to know it too. It is impossible to completely abandon what you have been taught since childhood. Some rituals are already part of you, they are so important and powerful.
I try to meditate as soon as such a need and opportunity arises – this requires mood and solitude. The process is somewhat similar to yoga. Some mistakenly perceive it as physical education. And yoga is inextricably linked with meditation. Not only the exact posture that helps to meditate is important, but also the mental attitude. You can also meditate in the park, for example. Most often, we meditate in order to get an answer to some difficult, painful question. Meditation is not about choosing a solution from a few that you come up with. During the session, unexpected options open up that you didn’t even think about. A person turns off and communicates with higher forces that send signs.
One day the husband was sitting on a bench in the park, meditating, and received the following answer: a group of people were passing by, one of them was telling something, and it turned out that a fragment of his phrase, which reached the husband, became the solution to the problem.
Sometimes in the hustle and bustle of days we don’t notice something important. Meditation helps to separate the wheat from the chaff. Meditation can be cured, for example, of a cold or more serious illnesses. This is art. Of course, my husband does it better, and I am constantly improving. In the future, it would be interesting for me to visit Tibet and learn more about the life of the monks.
I am very respectful of any religion. In itself, the fact that a person believes in God is already worthy of respect. It doesn’t matter to me how he does it, how he calls the prophet and what prayers he has. Faith in the existence of God unites all people, makes everyone kinder and more tolerant.
Nicholas, 38 years old, military man
Converted from Christianity to Islam
Religion has always been involved in this dispute about what is right and what is not. I tried to remember the main points that led me to the decision to change my faith. I grew up in an incomplete family.
More precisely, it became incomplete when I was 9years, my father left us. Mom was good, kind, sympathetic, took care of the house. My father was in the military, we often moved. The parents seemed to love each other. I think nothing would have happened if my mother had not become more and more religious over time. Perhaps she was bored, her father was at work, and she was trying to fill the void. She baptized me very young, although my father was against it. “Grow up, decide on its own,” he said jokingly. My mother and I often went to church. When I was 8 years old – too often. Mom began to sing in the church choir, and although her father at first politely, then by force, tried to stop her, return her to the family, she completely stopped listening to him.
I am reminded of an incident that happened at dinner in our kitchen. Father came early, and that day I got into a fight with two older boys. I was protecting the kid from whom they took the ball. The baby was crying, and it seemed unfair to me.
And dad always told me that we should try to maintain justice.
Then my father, seeing the bruises on my face (and I got it great), asked me how it all happened. I told. He praised me. And my mother used to swear a lot before that, saying that I was interpreting faith incorrectly, that we should learn humility and, if they hit me on the right cheek, turn the left. I liked my father’s thoughts much more.
After a while the father left. Mother had to earn money, and religion was done away with for a while. We moved to Moscow.
It was then that I thought: what kind of faith is this, which took dad from mom, and mom from dad, and which does not allow you to fight off bad boys? My mother died when I was 23 years old.
The second story happened to me at school. As a teenager, I read a lot: dad was not around, mom worked two jobs, there was no one to consult with. I remember the silence of the libraries, the muffled whispering and shuffling of feet along the corridors, the smell of dust and the spines of books standing on the shelves, along which I ran my fingers, looking for the right ones.
There I met the greatest classics. I was especially touched by the phrase that the Russian writer Shishkov put into the mouth of the highlander Ibragim-Ogly. “What is Allah, what is Issa – all are one,” he said. Then I realized that everyone believes in their own God.
Next was the flight school, assigned to a unit. I was the best graduate of the stream, but there were few flights. Then the authorities changed and they began to fly more. I was sent to Libya. We flew on bombing raids. Taking off on a mission, pressing the trigger of the bomber, I thought, did the people directing my plane make a mistake? Aren’t bombs being thrown at children, women, innocent men?
I have always marveled at the American pilot Paul Warfield Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, who reduced so many innocent people to ashes and never regretted it. For him, these people were extras, meaningless ashes. Infidels to be exterminated. Then I again thought that something was wrong in our Christianity.
Libyan Shiites often came to our base.
We didn’t drive them away, we talked. Far from all of them contained hatred. They are very religious, but even true believers are quite sane, religion has not overshadowed their minds, like the mind of my mother.
They preach a virtuous person, a healthy family and a harmonious society – this is the basis of Islam. I made friends with some of them, understood their way of thinking, culture. In this young religion, I found a call to action that I was missing. Perhaps some justification for what I unwittingly did.
In general, now I believe, and some kind of will has appeared in me, maybe a certain core that helps me overcome difficulties, containing at the same time the strength that my father brought up in me. But the soft power that is required to protect the weak.
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Dear friends and read my blog, I congratulate you on bright Easter! Today, in honor of the holiday, I really want to write about some beautiful cathedral or church, so I decided to talk about one interesting sight in Nha Trang about Catholic Cathedral in Nha Trang.
Nha Trang Catholic Cathedral
Do you know that about 8% of Vietnamese are Catholics? Considering that about 90 million people live in the country, it turns out that there are about 7 million Catholics in Vietnam! Previously, almost all of South Vietnam was Catholic, so there are a lot of Catholic churches – Cathedrals here.
A few years ago, I was very surprised by the Catholic cathedrals in Asia, because I have always associated Asia with Buddhist Temples and Pagodas. But in the Philippines we have seen so many Catholic churches that now the crosses in Asia no longer surprise us!
On the territory of the Catholic Cathedral in Nha Trang
Description
Nha Trang Cathedral began to be built in 1928, when Vietnam was a colony of France. The place for its construction was chosen on the top of the mountain, having previously leveled the surface of 4500 square meters with the help of mines.
Cathedral built on a hill
Construction of the Catholic Cathedral lasted almost 6 years.
It was illuminated in 1934.
Massive walls of the cathedral Near the entrance to the temple
There is a small square around the cathedral, you can relax on one of the benches in the shade of trees. There is a statue of the Holy Virgin Mary here, flowers bloom all year round.
A statue of the Holy Virgin Mary was erected in front of the church.
The cathedral was built in the Gothic style. The height of the main tower of the cathedral is 38 meters, a clock is installed on it.
The cathedral is so high that it doesn’t fit in the frame 🙂The lower part of the templeThe clock
is installed on the 38-meter-high tower. Now the Catholic Cathedral of Nha Trang is the main cathedral of the city and the residence of the bishop. The cathedral is active, every day they hold services in Vietnamese: twice a day on weekdays and 5 times on Sunday.
Schedule of services in the Catholic Cathedral of Nha Trang. Here’s something, but the Vietnamese do not like to duplicate the inscriptions into English.
Very uncomfortable!
Locals often get married in the cathedral. We just caught the beginning of the wedding ceremony.
Weddings are often held in the cathedral. Here they bring pink balloons to decorate the cathedral 🙂The beginning of the wedding photo shoot
Inside the cathedral seems just huge. As in any other Catholic Cathedral, it is very pleasant to be in it, sit in the cool, enjoy peace and quiet. The noise and bustle of the Vietnamese city remains somewhere far beyond the walls of the temple.
Inside the cathedral. Pay attention to the colored stained glass windows. Very beautifulInterior decoration of the cathedral
On the street along the perimeter of the cathedral there are statues of saints.
Until 1988, there was a cemetery near the Catholic Cathedral, but during the construction of the Nha Trang railway station, the cemetery was demolished, and the ashes of the deceased were transferred to the cathedral and buried in the niches of the temple wall.
Burials from the old Catholic cemetery were moved to the temple Nha Trang Catholic Cathedral
Opening hours
If you can inspect the cathedral from the outside at any time, then you are allowed inside from 8:00 to 11:00 and from 14:00 to 16:00.
Cost
Oddly enough, but recently they began to take 9 from tourists0121 entrance fee to the cathedral! It happens as a voluntary-compulsory donation! At the moment, the donation is small:
- 20,000 VND for one
- 30,000 VND for two
- 40,000 VND for three
Although recently we visited the Nha Trang Cathedral for free!
Where is the Catholic Cathedral in Nha Trang and how to get there
The Catholic Cathedral of Nha Trang is located in the city center, not far from the railway station. If you, like us, live in the European (tourist) quarter of Nha Trang, then you can walk to the cathedral in 20-30 minutes. From the beach near Lotus, you have to go all the time straight along the main road to the big circle.
A taxi will cost a maximum of VND 40,000 (~ $2).
The Catholic Cathedral can be reached by bus number 4. The fare is 7 dong. Read about bus routes in Nha Trang in this article.
If you come by bike, you can park below, not far from the statue of the Virgin Mary, or drive higher into the arch and leave the bike right near the entrance to the temple.