"Ten pupils began wearing a chip sewn into their uniforms eight months ago."
+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
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
From Fr. Mark - His Homily from France
Michael Brown - Our Blessed Mother Weeps & MHR
Yes, I believe Our Blessed Mother is crying for all her children...most especially her priests.
Please don't cry 'Momma'...we'll make it better...we'll pray more and accept our crosses for love of HIM and YOU!
Is this part of the 'plan'?
I pray and hope so!Gautier considers the emergence of people in this role a stop-gap measure. "It's not like all parishes are going to be replaced by lay people," Gautier said. "It's to help them out until there's such a time as there's enough priests to go around."
With Minninger empowered as a pastoral minister, she's not only able to counsel church members but can pick up such duties as preaching, presiding over funerals and baptizing children when a priest isn't available.
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Well apparently, she sees this for the future....hmmmm...'plan'....?
But Minninger said her family fully supports her new career, and its rewards far outweigh its challenges. "I would hope that in this position that I or anyone else in this ministry will be able to model for other people the many ways that you can serve in the church," she said. "I do see this as a part of the future of the church."
Well there ya' go....it is the 'plan'.
VOTF - National Conference News Wrap-Up
And since they've got no where else to go on issues...why not jump on the same old worn out issue---Allowing married priests may be group’s next goal
"Rev. Richard McBrien, a theologian at the University of Notre Dame and a longtime friend of the group"... again visits...celibacy:
There is another reason as well for reconsidering the rule, he said. In such a pool of men for whom lifelong celibacy is not a problem there is bound to be a disproportionate number of “sexually immature or sexually dysfunctional candidates,” he said. Opening the door of the priesthood to married men would broaden the pool of quality candidates, he said.
Nah....the issue is HOLINESS and Mr. Hayes hits it (DITTO!) :
Michael Hayes, managing editor of a Web site, BustedHalo.com, and author of Googling God, offered members in a workshop yesterday some of the challenges that Voice of the Faithful faces in trying to reach out to younger Catholics, particularly those in the so-called Millennium Generation, born after 1980.
In contrast to the Voice of the Faithful members, who are often perceived as more distrustful of authority, including church leaders, the Millenniums, said Hayes, are far more trusting of civil and church authority. They are more likely to get involved in helping one’s neighbor not because it’s a nice thing to do but because it is what Jesus asks of them, and far more comfortable than Baby Boomers to pray alone before the Blessed Sacrament and to seek out a priest for confession — all things the Voice of the Faithful members need to appreciate more if they’re ever going to reach a new generation.
ANSWERED PRAYERS! - Priests FREED
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Feast Day of St. Gaspar del Bufalo:Apostle of Devotion to His Most Precious Blood
His Life
Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S.- His Blog - Rifugio San Gaspare
Litany of the Most Precious Blood
May HIS MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD pour down
over this country and the ENTIRE WORLD!
Commentary: Archbishop Niederauer & MHR
"The problem is, the Archbishop and priest of the diocese aren’t focusing their heat on MHR, they’re taking shots at the people who caught the incident on video and who are writing about it on the internet."
AGAIN, DITTO!