There is a profound Catholic significance in celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday on a Thursday, the day of the Eucharist. The Gospel we heard draws us into the Cenacle; liturgically, today is not merely Thanksgiving Day, the last Thursday of November. It becomes for us Holy Thursday. It is the hour of Christ’s Mystical Supper with His disciples. Christ is at table and we are there with Him.
Our Lord speaks to us; He gives us the mysteries of His Body and Blood. He calls us to fruitfulness, to the fruitfulness of sacrificial love. Thanksgiving and fruitfulness are inseparably bound up. Those who are thankful will be fruitful. Those who are fruitful will be thankful. “I chose you,” says Jesus, “and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide” (Jn 15:16).
HAVE A BLESSED
+JMJ+ Isaiah 41:15 Behold, I will make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff; Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire. "Let the TRUTH be your delight.... proclaim IT..., but with a certain congeniality." St. Catherine of Siena
Thursday, November 22, 2007
From Fr. Mark: Holy Mass: Our Great Thanksgiving
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
BEWARE: Defense of "The Golden Compass"
Catholic author and religion scholar Donna Freitas (Boston University).
Her blog.
Pullman Interview
Monday, November 19, 2007
'Mr. Whipple' actor Dick Wilson dies
Eternal rest grant unto him, O LORD and let perpetual light shine upon him. May all the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of GOD rest in peace.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
PRAYER NEED:
Cyclone death toll passes 2,200
Russia, U.S. lead in abortion
Detective 'certain' Madeleine is alive
Pensioners' organs used in transplants
Rights for human eggs could be a ballot question in CO.
New laws to pave way fpr 'CLONED' BABIES
Venezuelan President Chavez Warns of Higher Gas Prices if U.S. Strikes Iran
A "House" case/storyline...AND PRAYERS NEEDED!
VeriChip News
Touting their product in the 'big city' of N.Y.!
VeriChip Corporation and Digital Angel Corporation to Disclose Additional Details on Implantable RFID Glucose-Sensing Microchip for Humans on December 4th and 5th in New York
'On the road'
Digital Angel Corporation to Hold Virtual Investor Road Show for All Interested Investors
Digital Angel Receives Over $600,000 Order From USDA For National Animal ID SystemMr. Edelstein said, “We believe the merger with Applied Digital will open the door for increased institutional investment in the combined company by removing the obstacles that have previously dissuaded these investors from buying Digital Angel stock. By no longer having a majority owner of Digital Angel, which caused an overhang on our stock, we believe investors will again focus on the value and growth potential of our businesses. This online road show is accessible to all interested investors.”
Digital Angel Corporation Remotely Tracks the Ponies
In Europe
Cat Apparently Hitches From NJ to Ga.
Microchip leads to reunion with dog
Vanessa Williams, pet lover
Microchip Clinic
God is not nice
Niceness, at least as it is normally conceived, seeks to avoid pain at all costs. It not only avoids pain, but even the hint of discomfort. Niceness is the highest moral expression of bourgeois society, a society that sees comfort and ease as the highest goods. And modern society is bourgeois in the highest degree. It is unguent-soaked, padded, temperature-controlled, luxuriant, tidy, well-groomed; it is mediocre par excellence. It is no surprise, then, that modern society values niceness so highly. To be nice is to be non-judgmental, pliant, stroking, and affirming. It allows for no negativity, for negativity is uncomfortable.
"Unsolicited advice"
Los Angeles Times offers pointers to Benedict XVI on his 2008 visit
to U.S., advises pontiff don’t “side with the hard-liners”