Thursday, January 01, 2009

What is a Natural-Born Citizen?

Exactly What IS a Natural Born Citizen?

Prayer Alert: Priest in VA killed by Falling Tree

Priest Killed by Falling Tree

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God

(Holy Day of Obligation)
(Pavarotti - Schubert)
O Dearest, Mother Mary, Mother of God, we beg of you - your intercession for each of us - your small unworthy children.
We ask with child-like confidence that you please assist us in all our needs.
HAIL, HOLY QUEEN, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us, and after this our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!
May we all resolve to spend time with our Mother in daily prayer - the rosary. What graces abound and await us in those moments spent with HIS Mother - praying & living through HIS life and Hers.
O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.

Update on PlainsRadio News Item

I.O., "12/31, 2:30pm CT: Ed Hale has sent an email stating that his delivery has been delayed until Friday, 1/2. We wait another day for what he has to show. We can be patient in light of how long we wait for Barack Obama to admit the truth of his ineligibility per Article II (and show us the whole truth of his actual Hawaiian birth certificate, besides)."

Be cautious of this info...as 'they' are saying (right now) that Ed Hale will be making an announcement....

Whatever...

Revealing Information from 'Ministers'

First One -from Minister Louis Farrakhan:Farrakhan on President-Elect Barack Obama (he doesn't say born in Hawaii...hmmm)

RK: Minister, I’ll get back to the theme in a second, but we have a chat room that runs live as we go live on the air, and there is some great discussion going on in there right now. “[Mr.] Thomas” from Germany [asks]: “Can Obama function as a bridge between White and Black people, as well as the Muslim and Western world?”

HMLF: Absolutely. The very fact that Barack Obama has a White mother and an African father, and he grew up in Hawaii; and even though his African father left him at two years old, his mother married an Indonesian, and moved him to Indonesia where he spent four or five years growing up, again, in a Muslim country.

Although he is a Christian, he has great depth of understanding of the Muslim world. He has grown up in a multi-cultural and multi-racial setting, so who is better to build a bridge between Black and White? Between religious differences and different ethnicities?

We thank God for this young man, and I hope that the American people will realize that he is a mercy from God to the United States of America, to help America come up out of the condition that America’s leadership has placed the American people in.


Second one from Rev. Rick Warren: Pastor talks of faith, turmoil

In the same speech, Warren described the United States as a land of immigrants, telling his audience: “I think it’s historic that we have a first-generation immigrant who’s just been elected president.”

These people know the information.

China & the US

China-US ties at new historical starting point

Over the past 30 years, China and the United States have become more interdependent. Niall Ferguson, a famous economic historian, coined a new word, Chimerica, to describe the close ties between our two countries.

Remember this: "Did you know that...."

Faith Triumphs Over Persecution

China: Papal letter to loyal bishops

Cardinal Zen of China: 'We have to use this freedom to speak out’

Prayer Need: A Catholic Mother (Blogger) Has Passed Away

Catholic journalist who blogged about fight with cancer dies at 40

I did not know Emilie but I am so very touched and inspired by her life and death.
Read lemmondrops.

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May her soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

'Pushin' it'

A talk with The Rev. Richard P. McBrien

"And why don't you leave?"

"McBRIEN: Because it's my church. It's my home. And I was born in it. I've been a Catholic all my life. And I have affirmation from so many good people. I feel that I have a responsibility to them to continue working at it and doing the best I can."

"Born in it."

But, continues to dissent against Holy Mother Church and her teaching...


A Good Question:

"Why don't you wear a collar?"

"McBRIEN: I only wear a collar when I go to my home parish in West Hartford to say Mass on a Sunday when I'm home. My Roman collar is my television uniform. You don't see the apostles with Roman collars on. It's a custom. And the custom in the academic world is that most priests who teach in Catholic colleges and universities wear a tie or just have an open sport shirt."

And there's your answer...

Pray for Fr. McBrien and for all priests.

Fr. Z comments (after all he is mentioned in the article)

Priest Shopping

A NYT series: Divine Recruits
Serving U.S. Parishes, Fathers Without Borders

And 'making the rounds' - A godsend: international priests & Commonweal- Importing priests

Another agenda?

"We experience the priest shortage, and rather than ask the question, 'Why do we have a priest shortage?' we just import some and act like we don't have a priest shortage," Holly said. "Until we face the issue of mandatory celibacy and the ordination of women, we can't deal with the lack of response to the invitation to priesthood."

Monday: One priest’s story.