FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: "Holiness consists in this: Showing up. Listening. Speaking truth without blame or judgement. And being open to the outcome." The Rev. John Loya
IN OTHER NEWS:
P.V. sent in an article HERE about why Chief Sitting Bull wore a crucifix.
From the same person two more stories: What went wrong with the sexual revolution HERE and an article on why so many persons quit the production of a movie on Roe vs Wade HERE. Thanks.
Eric Armusik's work (often mentioned here) was in the news again. Go HERE and scroll down to page 17 fo the story.
M.K. sent in THIS article about the difficulty of buying a house in Akron as they are flying off of the shelves (so to speak.) A couple of our parishioners are mentioned in the article.
This week's video is HERE. It made me laugh - and it is SOOOOO soon.
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: If a therapy doens't help you feel better we think its not working. In contemplation, the purpose isn't to help you feel better. Its to help you see the truth of your life. Seeing the truth of your life may initially make you feel terrible. But if you're committed to truth, then you the question of how you feel is not the main issue." unknown
QUOTE II: "It may be love. It may be a heart attack. At the moment, it's hard to tell the difference." from Katie Schneider's, "We All Know Love"
IN OTHER NEWS:
From the Diocese of Cleveland Enewsletter: Did you know this is National Vocation Awareness Week? Read more here.
Don't forget to BE INFORMEND and VOTE TODAY!
Here is a 3 minute video of the ordination to the transitional deaconate two weekends ago.
And just for the fun of it - Lynn sent this 4 minute video in. Who knows what is inside that small, unassuming house next to yours???
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: "We simply do not know enough about what we call 'sexual orientation' - nor are we likely to for a very long time - to embrace a completely novel understanding of the ultimate purposes of love and sex on the one hand, or to discount without pause the questions about it that both historical study and social testimony have raised on the other" from Ephraim Radner's article, "Anglicanism on It's Knees" in "First Things"
QUOTE II: "High school hockey is such a Catholic sport." Said by a Protestant traveling hockey Mom who marvelled at a Catholic's ability to attend Mass just about anywhere.
IN OTHER NEWS:
I will be away from the parish for the next week so there will be no posts. August 15th we get to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption. The parishes in the Akron area feel so blessed by this holy day of obligation, the most important of the Marian feasts, that we make attending Mass as easy as we possibly can. Here is the local (to Adam's Ale) Mass schedule:
Thursday, August 14th: 5:30PM vigil St. Bernard
7:00PM vigil St. Sebastian
Friday, August 15th: 6:30AM St. Vincent
7:00AM St. Hilary
8:00AM St. Sebastian
9:00AM St. Vincent and St. Hilary
11:00AM St. Vincent
12:10PM St. Bernard and St. Hilary
5:15PM St. Sebastian (extraordinary form - Latin)
6:30PM St. Hilary
7:00PM St. Sebastian
I SPY: When can you view the International Space Station? Frank sent this site in.
Matt sent this in:
Pat sent this in: "Search engine giant Google recently made a groundbreaking decision to eliminate pornography from their advertising." Read more here.
Here is a link to the Ohio Shakespeare Festival's Iambic Pentameter song. GO HERE
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: "We all readily understand that our physical energies are limited. Distance runners approach the state of collapse at the end of a twenty-six mile marathon. Most of us do not easily grasp that our mental resources are also limited. This is why the individual who spills himself out in sense stimulations, who is engulfed in the mass media, is never a person of deep prayer." from Thomas Dubay's, "Fire Within"
QUOTE II: "Unfortunately many baptized persons depart from this life without ever realizing that they were destined to a deep communion with God. Vocal prayer was all they knew, for it was all they were taught." same source
IN OTHER NEWS:
Russ sent this great article in on how the Sistine Chapel was painted. Here is a link for a tour of the chapel where Pope Francis was just elected. Look up, look down, look all around and don't forget to zoom. Warning if you are looking at this when you are supposed to be working: There is music in the background.
You are invited to the Chrism Mass (when priests of the diocese renew their vows and the oils used throughout the year at every parish are blessed) tonight at our cathedral. Here is more information.
Fr. B sent this video in. A kid in his parish made this video. Pretty cool:
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: "Had angels been your priests, my brethren, they could not have sympathized with you, have had compassion on you, felt tenderly for you, and made allowances for you, as we can; they could not have been your patterns and guides, and have led you on from your old selves into a new life. as they can who come from the midst of you." from Blessed John Cardinal Newman's "Men, Not Angels"
QUOTE II: "A central finding of this study is the extraordinarily high rates of priestly happiness and satisfaction. The finding are strong, replicable and consistent: priests, as a group, are very happy men. They like priesthood. They are committed to it. They find much satisfaction in their lives and ministries. In fact the satisfaction rates of priests are among the highest of any way of life or vocation in the United States." from Stephan Rossetti's book, "Why Priests Are Happy"
IN OTHER NEWS:
"The Restless Heart" a film about Saint Augustin (the trailer can be seen on last week's Quote Tuesday) is showing in Massilon tonight at the Lincoln Theater at 7PM.
Below is a picture of a Zimbelstern. It is a new feature on our new pipe organ. We didn't think we were going to have one but somehow it mysteriously showed up. But I'm not complaining. It is really wonderful though limited in use. To learn more than you every wanted to know about Zimbelsterns, GO HERE. About a minute and thirty seconds into this mp3 you will hear one.
This was so popular that I thought I would run it again. From Lori, "If you go to this link you can sign up for a small, readable portion of the Catechism to be delivered into your email daily. The deliveries began yesterday and will continue for 1 year, at which time you will have read the WHOLE CATECHISM! :) So sign up now!" Thank you for sending it in again.
The Diocese of Cleveland Enewsletter asks, "Did you know, the Diocese Cleveland has created a special "Year of Faith" web page?" See it here.
There are some interesting developments from the Chesterton Society that you can read and listen about here. You may also learn more about (and join!) the Saint Sebastian Chesterton Society by clicking on his picture to the right of your screen.
Frank sent this in. How could anything SO VERY UNCHRISTIAN also be so very funny?
Is that what Jesus would have done?
Eric sent this in. It is at least interesting to contemplate. Thanks.
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: “American Catholicism is like a professional football game; 60,000 people desperately in need of exercise watching 22 men desperately in need of rest.” Author unknown.
QUOTE II: “Statistics are not very comforting if you are one of the fatalities.” Author unknown
Someone brought this web to my attention again. Catholics Come Home. Pass it on to someone who needs it.
Here is a "behind the scenes" of one of their videos. I actually got to meet Eduardo Verastegui (I hope I spelled that right) when he was in town a few years back. He really is a great supporter of priests.
Here is another fantastic group - Emmaus Roundtable. They have regular meetings at St. Sebastian. Check them out!
Looking for something to do in the Diocese of Cleveland. The Diocese of Cleveland Enewsletter provides this link to parish activities.
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: “Persecutions always strengthen the Church. Ex-Catholics in the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War were vicious enemies of the Church. Even Hitler had been baptized a Catholic. Yet they hated the Church and tried to destroy her. They are gone; the Church has survived.
“Like the Nazis and Bolsheviks and all the others, the present gaggle of anti-Catholic writers will fade away. They will go over the waterfall of history and the Church will still be there – and praying for them.” Benedict Groeschel C.F.R. in Priest Magazine
QUOTE II: “As one Protestant minister, now a convert, once said, any theological problem he ever thought of as a Protestant trying to grind it out by reading the Bible, he found out, when he became Catholic, that the Pope had been well aware of that problem and had answered it centuries ago.......” Anon.
IN OTHER NEWS:
2 minute video:
Among others here is a picture of St. Sebastian folks participating in Life Chain.
The Ruth Institute has this one question "quiz" about teens and sexting. It is obviously a way for them to get your Email address but that might not be so bad. If you are interesed here it is.
C.K. has put together an extremely intresting blog called, "Dear Penn." - though it is not quite finished yet - there are a couple of things she wishes to tighten up. But I highly recommend it just the same! Go here to see it.
M.B. sent this 9 minute video in. Very interesting indeed!
SCREWTAPE UPDATE: Sorry this is getting to you so late. I know some of you will be attending on Friday but Fr. Pf. and I have a previous engagement. We will be attending on Saturday and getting there just in a nick of time! If you are going to be there on Saturday please send a note and we will try to say he afterwards.
I was listening to something on the car radio yesterday and desperately wanted to write it down so that I would remember. I found a pen readily enough but nowhere (whilst I was driving – only try that at home kids) could I find a piece of paper. Reaching down between the seats I snatch up (among other things) an old receipt from a pizza parlor in New York that already had a bunch of things scribbled on it. Well, I might as well get some of those scribbling out of the way and so here are a few of them.
This was written by John Updike and was read on the show Prairie Home Companion. Scribbled on my note was “Updyke (sic) Why miss church?” After a little surfing I found what had piqued my interested that day. Here is “Going to Church.”
"There was a time when I wondered why more people did not go to church. Taken purely as a human recreation, what could be more delightful, more unexpected than to enter a venerable and lavishly scaled building kept warm and clean for us one or two hours a week and to sit and stand in unison and sing and recite creeds and petitions that are like paths worn smooth in the raw terrain of our hearts? To listen, or not listen, as a poorly paid but resplendently robed man strives to console us with scraps of ancient epistles and halting accounts, hopelessly compromised by words, of those intimations of divine joy that are like pain in that, their instant gone, the mind cannot remember or believe them; to witness the windows donated by departed patrons and the altar flowers arranged by withdrawn hands and the whole considered spectacle lustrous beneath its patina of inheritance; to pay, for all this, no more than we are moved to give—surely in all democracy there is nothing like it. Indeed, it is the most available democratic experience. We vote less than once a year. Only in church and at the polls are we actually given our supposed value, the soul-unit of one, with its noumenal arithmetic of equality: one equals one equals one."
The second scribbled note was, “Trumpet – Taps!” I had left a graveyard (this was in Chicago) where we had just buried a relative. He served in the air force during WWII. As such he was afforded a military funeral. There was an honor guard, the folding and presenting of the flag, and the gun salute. Then a man picked up a trumpet to play taps.
Now, I’ve been at such events when all that was available was a boom box, a man would break from formation, bend over like one of those “Lady working in her garden” cut outs that were so popular in the 90s while trying to find the button that said, “PLAY.” Later they installed a big red button on the side of the chapel that a lady would go up and punch like the “Emergency Stop” button in a machine shop and a recorded trumpeter would sound.
Well, here we were again at a cemetery. The man went and picked up his trumpet. I remember thinking it an odd looking instrument – something between a flugelhorn and a bugle. He fiddled with the bell in a very military and professional manner for a moment and then put the instrument to his lips. It sounded a bit off to me but I marked it up to being a rather unique instrument . The man did not seem to be breathing very deeply for someone playing a trumpet-like instrument. In fact, he was breathing IN as sound was coming OUT. And what was that odd mute in the bell of his instrument? That was no mute! It was a speaker!
I know I’ve written about this before but when do we get to the point when we say, “You know what? We don’t have the talent to do this for real so we will skip this part of the ceremony? (Let’s not restrict this playing taps but apply it even to the Mass.) Many people would argue that no one can tell the difference between a real organ or fake one, real bells or fake bells, an actual organist or a prerecorded one, electric candles or real ones, real masonry or plastic, etc. But how far is too far? If we are going artificial should we be bold about it and not try to play as if it were real? Should we at least be genuine in our artificiality? Did man every have this problem before?
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: "It is by giving fair names to foul actions that those who would start at real vice are led to its practice under the disguise of virtue." from Scott's "Ann of Geierstein"
QUOTE II: "Creation was not finished until the poet came to interpret, and so complete it." from Nathanial Hawthorn's, "The Great Stone Face"
IN OTHER NEWS:
I am sans wisdom teeth today and following doctor's advice to lay low. So far so good! Also thank you to those who sent in the information that Saint Apollonia is patron Saint of those with dental problems having all of hers knocked out by a Christian persecutor. Read more here.
Greg sent a news release stating that St. Padre Pio's body has been found incorruptible, pilgrims to his tomb being presented with the face of man who seems to simply be sleeping though he died some 40 years ago. St. Pio, pray for us!
CORRECTION!Adoro kindly sent this follow up to the above story. "There has been an internet rumor going around for the last year that Padre Pio is incorrupt and that is NOT TRUE! He IS corrupted and what we see is a wax mask that was made for display (for quite obvious reasons!). I do believe that his hands may be incorrupt. The news stories that were published after his exhumantion went into detail on this but some people didn't bother to read those facts. They saw the wax mask and jumped to the conclusion of incorruption." For information and the full story look here. Thanks Adoro!
The Diocese of Cleveland Enewsletter reports: "Genuine health care reform that protects the life and dignity of all is a moral imperative and a vital national obligation," said Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., as he outlined the policy priorities of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on the issue of health care in a July 17 letter to Congress. The letter supported efforts to pass health care reform, but warned against inclusion of abortion." More information here.
From the same source: "Did you know, Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP) is a mission driven, not-for-profit health system? They operate acute care hospitals, long-term care facilities, housing sites for the elderly, home health agencies, hospice programs, wellness centers and other healthcare organizations that meet the healthcare needs of people in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and nearby states." Read more here.
Elena sent this link to an blog that ties in nicely with Monday's guest blog.
He also sent in this video of a choir performing a rainstorm. I know - I thought it sounded pretty lame too until I listened to it. Approximately 6 minutes but the first two minutes are the neatest part. I want to try this!
Have you had a chance to read Pope Benedict's new encyclical "Caritas in Veritate" yet? Find it here. Go on . . . print it up and read it at your leisure.
Joan's Rome is a pretty interesting site provided through EWTN. If you are looking for short insights from someone in the heart of Rome it is a good read.
J.B. sent this information about a new Catholic lay initiative beginning in the Canton area but is seeking to become a larger initiative. "I am the director of Saint Cecilia Classical Productions Inc., a new pro-life, Catholic, evangelizationapostolate. We are located in the Canton-Massilon area, and are a non-profit, 501 (c) (3) organization. The main focus of our apostolate is the advancement of the Culture of Life by the promotion of authentic Catholic family values to today’s young people." I know next to nothing about this organization. If you have any information please send it in. For the rest of you here is more reading.
Oh, and finally, a couple of more pictures from my vacation. . .
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: "Every Angel is frightening. Beauty is but the beginning of terror which we can just barely sustain, and we admire it so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us." Rilke
QUOTE II - "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." - Unknown - H/t to Christine
IN OTHER NEWS:
Pat sent this article in. It is interesting not for the specific case it reports on but for the general observations it makes. Thanks Pat.
Jeff turned me on to this site for a few laughs. He is beginning his own site (LOLSaints) to try to bring some levity to the faith.
The Diocese of Cleveland Enewsletter gave this link to CNS report on the results of a Vatican visitation report of our seminaries.
This is the length we go to save money at the parish. We were on our way to a meeting with the city and decided to walk. On the way home we spotted this table. At this rate we will furnish the empty guest room in no time. I'm sure it was an interesting sight.
What a blessing has fallen upon our heads! Jay proclaims Catholic Carnival 209 officially open!
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: "Any person seeking consolation wants not a priest who has super strength, all the answers and solutions and possesses all qualities, but a priest who listenes . . . And who can listen? Someone who has knowns and loved with weaknesses and woundedness . . . someone who allows himself to be poor and who in the face of weakness hasinfinite confidence in the source of strength and healing, namely Christ . . . These are they who truly listen, who truly intercede . . . These are the wounded healers of the Church." Avery Cardinal Dulles.
QUOTE II: ". . . I think that to turn the Catholic religion into something dull is practically unforgivable." William Oddie in Gilbert Magazine
IN OTHER NEWS:
HAPPY FEAST OF SAINT SEBASTIAN! I found this picture in a book from the late 1800's in the rectory:
This is a picture of the Basilica of Saint Sebastian purchased by Fr. K and which hangs in the rectory. Look closely at the reflection and you'll see me taking the picture. If you are interested here is what the basilica looks like today. Not much different!
Fr. D. sent this in for those who may be struggling with porn. He writes, "I read a couple of eye-opening articles recently about the staggering numbers of people whose lives are being ruined by porn . . . One of the articles I read directed me to a website that I had never heard of before: http://www.xxxchurch.com/ It's a site designed to help folks who are struggling with addictions, and even reaches out to those in the adult film industry and works to bring them healing and conversion. It's one of the best resources I've come across on this issue, and I am passing it on to you because all of you are in a position where you might be able to help some folks by directing them to this site. Those of you who write pastors columns or edit bulletins might think of sharing this site with parishioners. Those of you who work with young people can use this site in catechesis and conversations. It also may be very useful to confessors and counselors. I know this won't solve the problem, but it is good to know that there's some help out there for our people who might need it." Thanks for sending that in.
The Diocese of Cleveland Enewsletter writes, "Urgent: Post Card Campaign To Oppose The Freedom of Choice Act!Heightened attention is aroused by President-elect Barack Obama's reported statement that he would look forward to signing the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which is currently in Congress awaiting passage. Read the complete "Legislative Hot Line - January 7, 2009">. Those in the Diocese of Cleveland can look here to see who to write to parish by parish.
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man." ~Benjamin Franklin
QUOTE II: "The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective." ~G.K. Chesterton
HabemusPapem, from whom we've not heard in a spell, sent this link that has a video interview with the Nashville Dominicans where we have mutual friends. There is also a place to sign up for their on line newsletter if you are so desirous.
Kay sent this video in of a dog having fun in the snow with Harry Connik Jr. singing a Christmas song in the background.
FINDING TRUTH WHEVER IT MAY BE FOUND: “After all, what is health and security if your life has no meaning?” from Phillip Kerr’s “The Pale Criminal.
QUOTE II – “It seemed the only unifying doctrines in Protestant teaching were rejection of any unifying authority and that the Catholic Church was always wrong.” from an article in This Rock magazine by Chris DeVolld.
L.M. sets us up with another mind numbing game. You have four seconds to complete the game which is about as well as I did on the last game that was posted here. WARNING: HIGHLY ADDICTIVE.
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: "When it does not pay to be a priest; that's when it means the most." Fr. Gene Fulton
QUOTE II: "If you have to ask someone if he'll love you tomorrow, then he doesn't love you tonight." Dawn Eden. (Somebody really needs to write a country western song with this as the title.)
IN OTHER NEWS:
B. sends this in and it is my pleasure to post it for those of you in the Cleveland area who would be interested. Dr. Andrew Trew, professor of bioethics at St. Mary Seminary and John Carroll University will be speaking on Faith Based Bioethics at local parishes. Reservations are required though there is no charge. Call (440)- 724-1468 for more information.
OCTOBER 7th - Celebrating the Gospel of Life at Saint Joan of Arc 7:00
OCTOBER 14th - This is My Body at Saint Joan of Arc 7:00
OCTOBER 21st - Living Life to the End at Holy Angels 7:00
M. sends this in: "Dear Choral Friends, Here is some more from Rome regarding the Pope's love of great music. Finally, hope for restoring musical dignity to the Mass. It is a long read but worth your time. Some of the key points are at the end of the article. Keep Chanting in Latin! Make the Pope happy.
I found this little ditty over at Salve Regina and thought it pretty cool. I am willing to negotiate!
Actually, if someone would be so kind as to explain to me what Technorati is, that would be nice.
Finally, Fr. Kyle has a "Week in the Life of a Vocations Director" if you are looking for a read. I know I appreciate that my classmate is vocations director for this diocese because I hate driving and most of his day seems to be driving around the diocese meeting with prospective candidates and going to meetings. God bless you guys!
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND – “I was beginning to understand how easy it is to be a heretic. One had only to say something heretical, which was easy to do when one knew little about the Traditions of the Church and the teachings of the Magisterium.” Fr. Jay Longacre
QUOTE II – “Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.” – Carlos Ruiz Zaton
IN OTHER NEWS:
Rob over at Back to Catholicism sent this list of questions along to see what books grace my bookshelves.
NAME THREE NONFICTION BOOKS THAT EVERYONE SHOULD READ:
1. “Fire Within” by Thomas Dubay, S.M. – Every time I get a little off spiritually I start reading this book again on the spirituality of St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross. My copy has twelve bookmarks and underlining or highlighting on almost every page.
2. “Violence Unveiled” by Gil Baily – This book will give you a whole different insight to the goings on in our times. Even if you do not buy the whole book it will make you think twice about the understanding why things are they way they are.
3. “The Problem of Pain” by C.S. Lewis – It is sad that people only really start taking this question seriously when they hit a hard patch in life. Unfortunately it is almost too late at that point because understanding it or at least accepting it has a lot to do with being in a relationship with Jesus Christ. This book will help.
NAME THREE BOOKS OF FICTION THAT EVERYONE SHOULD READ:
1. “Ivanhoe” by Sir Walter Scott – This was the first novel I read on my own. I picked it because my grandpa taught himself a lot of the English language by reading this book and I can see why he chose it. It snagged my interests in reading classical literature ever since.
2. “The Seville Communion” by Alturo Perez-Reverte – I read this book on the plane on my first visit to Rome. It was the perfect companion. It since made its way throughout the family reading circle and has been well appreciated by all.
3. Gads, it’s hard limiting it to just one more. I’ll change my mind a thousand times. There are so many fighting for this position! So perhaps I will wimp out and just give you a fun summer read that I loved and has also made its rounds of the family but will eventually fade off into book oblivion. It’s good for a laugh though I do not like their ideas on architecture. “Rococo” by Adriana Trigiani.
NAME THREE AUTHORS EVERYONE SHOULD READ:
1. You’ve just gotta read Shakespeare.
2. Pope Benedict is just awesome. He is readable, practical, and to the point.
3. Dickens, because I love his works, they’ll pull you in and get you excited about classical reading, and I haven’t seen him on anybody else’s list yet.
THREE BOOKS NOBODY SHOULD READ:
The problem with this list begins with its great length and the fact that if I hate the book, I stop reading it, banish it from my thoughts and then send it to my sisters with a note that reads, “This is a horrible book, don’t read it.” Interestingly enough there was a book on this list (and see, I can’t even remember the title) that was by the same author as one of my must read books. When I go home and see the pile of books marked “discard” (which we never, ever do) maybe I’ll post them. This should do for now.
Thanks Rob – Adoro, I’m still working on yours!
My sister's cat just had kittens. Here are some pictures:
Here is a picture of a dandylion reflecting a red light that caught my eye on a bike ride the other night.
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: “True Hell: Being alone with yourself for all eternity. Only yourself to hope in, only your own self love in saecula saculorum.” – Tony Hendea
IN OTHER NEWS:
From the Unsubstantiated Rumors Department: Rumor has it that the new president of John Carroll Jesuit University has some desire to reestablish a stronger Catholic identity for this Cleveland Institution. A student reports that a Pro-Choice group was initially given permission to form at the University only to have that permission revoked on the basis of the Catholic nature of the school before they could hold any meetings. Posters were put up around campus protesting this decision that were removed by the University; the student body being informed that there would be repercussions for anyone posting such signs again.
A) I hope this is true. B) I hope they keep moving in this direction.
Students at Gonzaga Jesuit University show what fraternity life might look like if Catholic identity of Catholic institutions were taken seriously.
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND - "Love that is hopeless, that cannot end in marriage, does one of two things; either it degrades or it exalts. It leaves its mark always, but that mark need not be a stain." - Mary Roberts Rineheart
IN OTHER NEWS:
You may remember an earlier post about the young lady from Saint Clare who joined the Sisters of Life in New York this year and was interviewed for a show on MTV. Well, as of yet we still do not have an air date though word is that its production is finished. However another interesting tidbit of news has emerged from this episode. Apparently the two women who worked on the segment (did the interviewing and the filming) were so impressed that they decided to start volunteering with the order. Is that cool or what?
I was sitting in the loft of the church and noticed the reflection of the windows in the light fixtures. I just thought it was neat and wanted to share it with you. Pictured is Saint Mary and Saint Clare.
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: "The worse thing about sin is that the body remembers." - Thomas Aquinas
QUOTE II - "From the pulpits we hear the drone of safe talk on safe issues delivered in vanilla rhetoric whose honey dipped phrases disregard the reality of today's moral crisis. Where are our homilists? Where are the Kolbe's and Romeros? The Church honors martyrs, but more it needs living, brave leadership." - Drew DeCousey
IN OTHER NEWS:
The Cleveland Museum of Art is largely closed for remodeling but the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage which had the fabulous exhibit last year, "The Cradle of Christianity" (a show put together for Pope John Paul II) is now presenting, "Materpieces of European Painting" on loan from the CMA.
Adoro De Devote sent along this link to "Catholic Daily". She says, "Catholic Daily is a new website apostolate of sorts. The webmaster/editor is looking to build a content base for education and evangelization, and just yesterday, he added discussion forums. Currently he's still garnering authors, some pretty big names, also. The content isn't all original, for example, Mark Shea's articles posted on Catholic Exchange are also being posted on Catholic Daily, etc. He's got some big ideas and this guy is working hard to make it happen!"
Adoro is published there!
AND LASTLY,
My cousin sent this along. If you are looking for something to do, give it a try:
1. go to www.google.com 2. click on "maps" 3. click on "get directions" at the top 4. type " New York " in the first box (the "from" box)5. type " London " in the second box (the "to" box) 6. click on "get directions" top right. 7. scroll down to step #23
Posting Tuesday Early - Wednesday's post will be late.
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: “The Lord is not calling you because you are the strongest, most talented, or most qualified. The Lord is calling you because He loves you and He can work with you.” – Msgr ?
Quote II – “That does not mean that we should not enjoy ourselves. But rather that the universe has put us here for higher purposes than watching television reruns.” – Duane Elgin
In other news:
Now you will know the nefarious truth behind the Easter Bunny, that supposed cute, furry, little bunny that tries to steal attention away from the true message of this important day. Watch it if you dare!
In more serious matters, here is a video revealing what our nation is doing to itself by distorting our image of ourselves.
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: [N]eeding love has little to do with what is normally meant by deserving love. Thus it is the sinner who most needs God’s love, though it is also the sinner who least deserves it. - James Gaffney QUOTE II: Who has the harder battle than he who strives to conquer himself? – Thomas a Kempis
FINDING TRUTH WHEREVER IT MAY BE FOUND: "Holiness consists in this: Showing up. Listening. Speaking truth without blame or judgement. And being open to the outcome." The Rev. John Loya
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