Dear friends in Christ,
To all of you Anglicans out there, I want you to know I am praying for you. I pray that for those who wish to return to the Roman Catholic Church may do so with love and fidelity. How happy I am for you. Long live the Anglo-Catholics, and long live Pope Benedict XVI.
The British newspaper, "The Guardian", predicts that over half a million might take advantage of the new Anglican structure within the Catholic Church.
What a move by Pope Benedict, and think of the implications of this on the rest of us. What a great show of unity under the See of Rome. The Catholic world just got a little bigger.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Anglicans return to fold in Apostolic Constitution by Benedict XVI
The Vatican today announced the setting up of Anglican Dioceses in communion with Rome. This means a potential mass return of hundreds of thousands of Anglicans into the Catholic fold, while at the same time, the Anglicans can keep their liturgical traditions. Anglican ministers will be ordained Catholic priests, even if they are married. This is really big news (this might even eclipse Summorum Pontificum). There will be separate dioceses for this group, and they will not fall under jurisdiction of Catholic bishops overseeing the same area (like Oriental Churches in the United States, where they are separate and not under jurisdiction of the Roman Diocese or bishop).
Here is the article in more depth.
This is quite astonishing. It is very exciting news, and I am really interested in seeing what happens these next few weeks as this continues to unfold.
Here is the article in more depth.
This is quite astonishing. It is very exciting news, and I am really interested in seeing what happens these next few weeks as this continues to unfold.
Study: H1N1 Vaccine Too Late, Won't Help Most - H1N1 - FOXNews.com
Are we being pressured to receive the Swine Flu, H1N1 Vaccine, either by the government and the likes of Kathleen Sibelius, or by our own medical provider. I personally know a nurse who is on a campaign to get as many people vaccinated as possible. But why? According to this article below, it may not even be effective.
Study: H1N1 Vaccine Too Late, Won't Help Most - H1N1 - FOXNews.com
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People have lost faith in their own bodies to be able to fend off bugs and viruses. If you actually take care of yourself and get the nutrients that your body needs, you will find that you will be able to find off bugs and disease a lot better. Let's get out of the vaccination mentality, and start taking care of ourselves without pumping a lot of unnecessary chemicals into our body. Take the following article as another example:
Merck Researcher Admits: Gardasil Guards Against Almost Nothing
What is with all the unnecessary vaccinations (I'll give you a hint: $)? Think about it before you do it.
God bless.
Study: H1N1 Vaccine Too Late, Won't Help Most - H1N1 - FOXNews.com
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People have lost faith in their own bodies to be able to fend off bugs and viruses. If you actually take care of yourself and get the nutrients that your body needs, you will find that you will be able to find off bugs and disease a lot better. Let's get out of the vaccination mentality, and start taking care of ourselves without pumping a lot of unnecessary chemicals into our body. Take the following article as another example:
Merck Researcher Admits: Gardasil Guards Against Almost Nothing
What is with all the unnecessary vaccinations (I'll give you a hint: $)? Think about it before you do it.
God bless.
Monday, October 19, 2009
St. Isaac Jogues and Companions
Dear friends in Christ,
Today we celebrate the Feast Day of the North American Martyrs. These are a group of eight Jesuit missionaries in upstate New York and Canada who were martyred by the Huron and Iroquois Indians in the mid-1600s. Here they are, pictured in glory:
There are two shrines in North America that are dedicated to the eight Jesuit martyrs, these great saints who gave their lives witnessing to Christ. One is in Auriesville, NY; it is about 45 minutes from where my wife grew up, and we had the chance to go up there over the summer. Several of the saints were martyred here, including St. Rene Goupil, a Jesuit brother, St. Isaac Jogues, a Jesuit priest, and St. John Lalonde, a lay missionary. Auriesville is also the birthplace of the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, often called the Lily of the Mohawks. I believe that Blessed Kateri is the first beatified American Indian.
These martyrs, who were priests, brothers, and lay missionaries, all teach us an important lesson: "There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for his friends." These saints laid down their life for the love of the Indians. Reading this article, I learned that they didn't have to return to the mission; they could have escaped with their lives. But it is their choice to return to the work to which they were called.
Let us pray to these saints, that through their prayers and examples, we may come to be more Christ like, and overcome all hatred and attacks against the Faith. May we always strive to proclaim the truth of Christ and His Church.
May you remain close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. God bless.
Today we celebrate the Feast Day of the North American Martyrs. These are a group of eight Jesuit missionaries in upstate New York and Canada who were martyred by the Huron and Iroquois Indians in the mid-1600s. Here they are, pictured in glory:
There are two shrines in North America that are dedicated to the eight Jesuit martyrs, these great saints who gave their lives witnessing to Christ. One is in Auriesville, NY; it is about 45 minutes from where my wife grew up, and we had the chance to go up there over the summer. Several of the saints were martyred here, including St. Rene Goupil, a Jesuit brother, St. Isaac Jogues, a Jesuit priest, and St. John Lalonde, a lay missionary. Auriesville is also the birthplace of the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, often called the Lily of the Mohawks. I believe that Blessed Kateri is the first beatified American Indian.
These martyrs, who were priests, brothers, and lay missionaries, all teach us an important lesson: "There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for his friends." These saints laid down their life for the love of the Indians. Reading this article, I learned that they didn't have to return to the mission; they could have escaped with their lives. But it is their choice to return to the work to which they were called.
Let us pray to these saints, that through their prayers and examples, we may come to be more Christ like, and overcome all hatred and attacks against the Faith. May we always strive to proclaim the truth of Christ and His Church.
May you remain close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. God bless.
Friday, October 16, 2009
The View and Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
This is a great You tube video I got from American Papist, and it is a short clip of a woman who is trying to get the point across of Obama's radical abortion policy on national TV. In addition, she is witnessing by being pregnant with her sixth child and being proud of it. Now, if only "The View" had two regular conservatives on, and actually balance the conversation out. Wouldn't that be novel?
May you remain close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. May we pray for President Barack Obama, that he will enact laws that will protect the right of the unborn, and may we pray for an end to abortion. God bless.
May you remain close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. May we pray for President Barack Obama, that he will enact laws that will protect the right of the unborn, and may we pray for an end to abortion. God bless.
Abortionist Reflects on Dismembering One Baby While Feeling Her Own Flutter in Her Womb
A regular reader of LifeSiteNews, I often find articles that make me sad, precisely because of the assault to the moral fabric of our society. This one article I found is a reflection of a woman abortionist, and how when one day when she was performing an abortion on a second trimester child, she felt her own child in her womb start kicking. Click here to read the article..
There is a reality to abortion that many people don't realize. Abortions are happening in your community, in your neighborhoods, and in your hospitals, most likely. In a local town for me, called Media, PA, there is a planned parenthood about a block away from a Catholic Church with a Perpetual Adoration Chapel. I have been in this chapel for Holy Hours at different times since moving here, and I try to pray for the unborn, and for an end to abortion, especially at the Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Media.
Some people look at abortion as an overwhelming thing to overcome, with the amount of abortions that happen in the United States and beyond. What people sometimes don't think about is the maxim: Think globally, act locally. If everybody acts locally against the local planned parenthood and other abortion mills, I pray that results will be seen in the closing of these establishments. Find your local abortion mill, and get active. Pray, and fast for the unborn and for those thinking of having an abortion. Pray, and fast.
May you remain close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. God bless.
There is a reality to abortion that many people don't realize. Abortions are happening in your community, in your neighborhoods, and in your hospitals, most likely. In a local town for me, called Media, PA, there is a planned parenthood about a block away from a Catholic Church with a Perpetual Adoration Chapel. I have been in this chapel for Holy Hours at different times since moving here, and I try to pray for the unborn, and for an end to abortion, especially at the Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Media.
Some people look at abortion as an overwhelming thing to overcome, with the amount of abortions that happen in the United States and beyond. What people sometimes don't think about is the maxim: Think globally, act locally. If everybody acts locally against the local planned parenthood and other abortion mills, I pray that results will be seen in the closing of these establishments. Find your local abortion mill, and get active. Pray, and fast for the unborn and for those thinking of having an abortion. Pray, and fast.
May you remain close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. God bless.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
A Youthful Marriage.
Dear friends in Christ,
It has now been almost two months since I have gotten married Angela, whom I love very much. These past two months, I have learned more about her than I think I have when we were dating and when we were engaged. I have learned also, a lot about myself these past two months.
One of the interesting things I noticed is that she has made me youthful, and I have made her youthful. We find that we are enjoying doing things that we did when we were younger. For example, just last week, I find quite the yearning to go to a pumpkin patch and pick a pumpkin, and go on a hay ride. I haven't gone on a hay ride in probably at least 15 years, so to go on a hay ride is not my norm. But we went, and we both had a great time. We find that now that we are married, we have someone else to do everything else with.
On this trip, we also went through a corn maze. This corn maze wasn't very big, but it was a good size for us. It was fun. We raced each other through, and she beat me by about 10 seconds. I also took a wrong turn, but I also made a trail of my own, cutting through a thin patch of corn to another trail.
All of this was free. I say that because then we went to another, more commercialized pumpkin patch, where they charged admission. We just asked if we could walk around, and they allowed us to go in without admission. It was a kids thing, and they saw we didn't have any kids, so it was alright I guess. They had hay rides, a corn maze, and a lot of other things. One of the things they had was a corn cannon, where they put ears of corn in a cannon and launched it into a field towards a giant target. Something I liked was the duck races. There were these rubber duckies, and old red water pumps, with a PVC pipe track. The purpose was to get your duck to go down the PVC pipe to the small pool before the other guy with his duck. See, I feel like a kid.
Marriage should make you youthful; for me, it has done that, and I can't be happier because of it.
Going home to my wife is quite a nice thing, and even if I could, I would never go back to being single because I have found my fulfillment, at least an earthly fulfillment, in my wife Angela. I feel more complete with her, and I love her.
Cherish always your husband or wife; never take them for granted, and always love them. And tell them that you love them.
May you remain close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. God bless.
It has now been almost two months since I have gotten married Angela, whom I love very much. These past two months, I have learned more about her than I think I have when we were dating and when we were engaged. I have learned also, a lot about myself these past two months.
One of the interesting things I noticed is that she has made me youthful, and I have made her youthful. We find that we are enjoying doing things that we did when we were younger. For example, just last week, I find quite the yearning to go to a pumpkin patch and pick a pumpkin, and go on a hay ride. I haven't gone on a hay ride in probably at least 15 years, so to go on a hay ride is not my norm. But we went, and we both had a great time. We find that now that we are married, we have someone else to do everything else with.
On this trip, we also went through a corn maze. This corn maze wasn't very big, but it was a good size for us. It was fun. We raced each other through, and she beat me by about 10 seconds. I also took a wrong turn, but I also made a trail of my own, cutting through a thin patch of corn to another trail.
All of this was free. I say that because then we went to another, more commercialized pumpkin patch, where they charged admission. We just asked if we could walk around, and they allowed us to go in without admission. It was a kids thing, and they saw we didn't have any kids, so it was alright I guess. They had hay rides, a corn maze, and a lot of other things. One of the things they had was a corn cannon, where they put ears of corn in a cannon and launched it into a field towards a giant target. Something I liked was the duck races. There were these rubber duckies, and old red water pumps, with a PVC pipe track. The purpose was to get your duck to go down the PVC pipe to the small pool before the other guy with his duck. See, I feel like a kid.
Marriage should make you youthful; for me, it has done that, and I can't be happier because of it.
Going home to my wife is quite a nice thing, and even if I could, I would never go back to being single because I have found my fulfillment, at least an earthly fulfillment, in my wife Angela. I feel more complete with her, and I love her.
Cherish always your husband or wife; never take them for granted, and always love them. And tell them that you love them.
May you remain close to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. God bless.
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