Common Ground

Author Finds Common Ground between Anglicans and Roman Catholics

Blessed Be the Name of Jesus

U.S. judge allows Jesus at meetings

The Divine Praises

Blessed be God.

Blessed be His Holy Name.

Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man.

Blessed be the name of Jesus.

Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.

Blessed be His Most Precious Blood.

Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.

Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.

Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy.

Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception.

Blessed be her glorious Assumption.

Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.

Blessed be Saint Joseph, her most chaste spouse.

Blessed be God in His angels and in His Saints.
May the heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment, in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time. Amen.

When in Rome...

Why would anyone need this information? When in Rome, you might be tracked

I wonder if BXVI was tracked too. Or anyone else from the Vatican.

That is, when Romans had their cell phones turned on. Telecom Italia, Italy's main telephone operator, has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a real-time mapping system that tracks how people move in urban spaces.

Halloween History

Halloween October 31st-Background

In the United States, the first official citywide Halloween celebration occurred in Anoka, Minn., in 1921.

Interesting. I didn't know this.

Place Jean-Paul II - Notre Dame

In Paris, a plaza for a dead pope - and some furor in the streets

Now, add to the Parisian capital's list of honorary designations the new one that has just been assigned to the plaza in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, one of the city's most famous sites. As of Sunday, that high-traffic patch of pavement will be known as the Place Jean-Paul II (John-Paul II Plaza) in honor of the pontiff who died last year.

It Figures!

HALO Systems -Mercy Hospitals use this. Also a local hospital uses them too! St. Vincent's! Ahhh!

"Chips" Accepted by Doctors and Hospitals

VeriMed System Now Has 140 Hospitals and Approximately 300 Physicians as Part of Its Network

VeriMed, the first and only FDA-approved microchip for patient identification and access to medical information has advanced adoption in key areas of hospital and physician acceptance.

I am extremely concerned! This is very serious! Please inquire with your doctor and with the hospital (before admittance for any procedure) as to their participation or "acceptance". If they are participating find another physician and hospital. Then, make sure you formally voice your opinion of the situation with all parties--write, call, protest, alert family and friends.

More background or information:
RFID Journal--Questions & Answers on RFID
RFID Gazette
RFID-Weblog

News Items:
Company requires RFID injection
High-tech cloning
Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants

Huh?

No "God spot" for nuns, researchers show

Pope Benedict XVI in Assisi

Pope Notes Conditions for Interreligious Prayer Meetings
A Testimony of Fraternity, Which Must Avoid Syncretism, He Says

However, so as not to betray the spirit of John Paul II's prayer convocation in Assisi for peace, it is necessary to recall the importance he gave to avoiding "syncretistic interpretations, founded on a relativist conception," contended Benedict XVI. According to these conceptions, in which there is no absolute truth, all religions are valid, so that no essential differences exist among one another.

The Bishop of Rome clarified that interreligious prayer meetings do not seek "a religious consensus among ourselves or negotiation of our convictions of faith." Rather, they manifest that "religions can be reconciled at the level of a common commitment in an earthly project that exceeds them all." Thus they are not "a concession to relativism in religious beliefs," contended Benedict XVI.