Today Michael Jacob will be baptized into our Catholic faith by a Bishop friend of mine who is visiting his mother in Ohio. We will journey there this morning to meet them...a sort of taking the child out of Indiana to Ohio...Israel to Egypt motif.
Joseph ever the wordsmith has asked "Was I bap ba tized too?"
"Yes" we tell him, "that is why you have to go to Church every Sunday. Now your brother will have to go too." This seems to satisfy him.
Joseph was bap ba tized in a monastery in Southern Indiana.
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Merry Christmas to All
During this octave of Christmas when there is some down time I hope that you find time to reflect on the meaning of God becoming one of us and coming into this world. If you attended Mass on Sunday (Feast of the Holy Family) you were confronted with what that coming of God into our world means: the Kingdom suffers violence and the violent are taking it by force.
On the same day a tragedy of mamoth proportions took place in the Pacific, thousands of human lives ended on that day, a modern slaughter of innocents at the hands not of a Herod but of nature itself. It should give us all pause to reflect on what is the meaning of life and what are we doing with whatever time we have on this planet?
For Joseph it was responding to the message of an angel in a dream. What might God be speaking to us in the subbtle messages that we barely notice?
On the same day a tragedy of mamoth proportions took place in the Pacific, thousands of human lives ended on that day, a modern slaughter of innocents at the hands not of a Herod but of nature itself. It should give us all pause to reflect on what is the meaning of life and what are we doing with whatever time we have on this planet?
For Joseph it was responding to the message of an angel in a dream. What might God be speaking to us in the subbtle messages that we barely notice?
Apologies
Sorry that I haven't been posting much in the last week. I've barely been online between running around doing erands and shoveling snow. Also sorry that I dropped the ball on the Advent meditations--a work in process, I'll try to pick that up again next year.
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Fort Wayne Ranked Least Intelligent City in USA
News that hits close to home...
The list is in the current issue of Men's Health Magazine. I haven't seen anything about it in the local press yet (although someone will tell me if I'm wrong). I intend to email both papers a tip on the story.
From9news.com | News:
"Denver is one of six cities to get an A + on the 'intelligence' survey. Minneapolis, Boston, St. Paul, Seattle and San Francisco were the others.
Just a little farther south, Colorado Springs, came in ninth out of 101 cities and earned an A-. Aurora tied with Grand Rapids, MI. Both cities earned a C + and came in 45th.
Los Angeles and Kansas City also earned an A- and tied for 12th. New York City tied with Spokane, Washington and came in 32nd with a B-.
The six least intelligent cities, according to the survey, are El Paso, TX, Newark, NJ, Las Vegas, NV, Laredo, TX, Corpus Christi, TX and Fort Wayne, IN. These cities each earned an F."
The list is in the current issue of Men's Health Magazine. I haven't seen anything about it in the local press yet (although someone will tell me if I'm wrong). I intend to email both papers a tip on the story.
From9news.com | News:
"Denver is one of six cities to get an A + on the 'intelligence' survey. Minneapolis, Boston, St. Paul, Seattle and San Francisco were the others.
Just a little farther south, Colorado Springs, came in ninth out of 101 cities and earned an A-. Aurora tied with Grand Rapids, MI. Both cities earned a C + and came in 45th.
Los Angeles and Kansas City also earned an A- and tied for 12th. New York City tied with Spokane, Washington and came in 32nd with a B-.
The six least intelligent cities, according to the survey, are El Paso, TX, Newark, NJ, Las Vegas, NV, Laredo, TX, Corpus Christi, TX and Fort Wayne, IN. These cities each earned an F."
More about Foucauld
From Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome:
"The Vatican officially attributed a miracle to the intercession of Charles de Foucauld, French explorer and evangelizer in the Sahara, clearing the way for his beatification.
The Congregation for Sainthood Causes promulgated a decree today, in the presence of John Paul II, in relation with the miraculous cure of a cancer sufferer in 1984.
Born in Strasbourg, France, in 1858, de Foucauld was orphaned at 6. After a brief military career, in 1883 he undertook an expedition in the Moroccan desert which won him the gold medal of the French Geographic Society. "
"The Vatican officially attributed a miracle to the intercession of Charles de Foucauld, French explorer and evangelizer in the Sahara, clearing the way for his beatification.
The Congregation for Sainthood Causes promulgated a decree today, in the presence of John Paul II, in relation with the miraculous cure of a cancer sufferer in 1984.
Born in Strasbourg, France, in 1858, de Foucauld was orphaned at 6. After a brief military career, in 1883 he undertook an expedition in the Moroccan desert which won him the gold medal of the French Geographic Society. "
Monday, December 20, 2004
Pope to Declare Charles de Foucauld a Blessed
I think it is a sign of how saintly someone is that when many of you hear this you'll think "I thought he already was a saint."
Friday, December 17, 2004
Recommendations
A book refuting that Christianity was the invention or copycat of the pagan mystery religions...a must for every college student:
And:
A scriptural support for the Catholic Church's teaching on sex:
And:
A scriptural support for the Catholic Church's teaching on sex:
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