Catholic Church Conservation plays "What it is?" My first thought was a fancy tootsie pop. My second thought was that they were setting up the ball sport played in Battlestar Galactica.
The diocese of Sioux Falls suggests starting a novena to the Immaculate Conception today especially since they have an abortion ban on their ballot. So for the next nine days I will be running their novena.
Prayer To The Immaculate Conception
O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, did prepare a worthy dwelling place for Your Son, we beseech You that, as by the foreseen death of this, Your Son, You did preserve Her from all stain, so too You would permit us, purified through Her intercession, to come unto You. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end. Amen.
Day Six
Glorious and immortal Queen of Heaven, we profess our firm belief in your
Immaculate Conception preordained for you in the merits of your Divine Son. We
rejoice with you in your Immaculate Conception. To the one ever-reigning God, Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit, three in Person, one in nature, we offer thanks for your blessed
Immaculate Conception. O Mother of the Word made Flesh, listen to our petition as we ask this special grace during this novena…
(State your intention here…)
O Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Mother of Christ, you had influence with your
Divine Son while upon this earth; you have the same influence now in heaven. Pray for
us and obtain for us from him the granting of my petition if it be the Divine Will.
Amen.
Dawn Eden has a great music video promoting her soon to be released book Thrill of the Chaste.
Check out this ad from Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good:
Some things ARE as simple as RIGHT and WRONG
Abandoning the poor is WRONG
45 million Americans without health insurance is WRONG
Torture is WRONG
Government corruption is WRONG
War without a plan for peace is WRONG
Notice anything missing?
It’s always sad when people feign an interest in subjects that bore them. Think of the progressive Christians you know: is there a single one of them who doesn’t convey the attitude that religion is an irritating interruption of more important business?
I guess they now have their own five "non-negotiable" principles now. Once again though they are pointing out things that no politician is running a campaign on. Who is running on a I am for government corruption campaign or where they say vote for me and I will abandon the poor. I missed the campaign of somebody advocating war without planning. "I’m John Doe and I approve this message supporting torture " was an ad I missed.
It seems that the words "Common Good" are the progressive’s latest phrase. I see it used now almost everyday. I guess it replaces the "Seamless Garment", but to the same effect. These magical words turn things like the minimum wage to be the same moral weight as abortion. That healthy young people who normally don’t want to pay for heath care is the same problem as scientists killing human embryos for experiments. They are ruining the phrase common good the same way they ruined the phrase social justice.
If you conducted a Turing test where you had to differentiate between the DNC’s talking points and the talking points of most progressives would it be humanly possible to tell the difference?
Hell Pizza’s latest "condom" promotion has fuelled public anger and brought about 30 complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority in a matter of hours.
The Advertising Standards Authority said today it had been inundated with complaints about Hell Pizza’s latest promotion.
The pizza company has included condoms in a mail-out to promote its "Lust" pizza.
The small pamphlet advertising the Lust pizza contains a condom, and explicit instructions on how to use the condom during sex.
Hell Pizza giving out condoms seems pretty appropriate to me. This being in New Zealand and the fact that Hell Pizza delivers I bet they have a problem with at least one city. After all I would hope Hell Pizza will not prevail against Christchurch. With a lust pizza instead of asking to be delivered from evil they deliver evil.
They also have a delivery promise. Now Hell being outside of time 30 minutes late is pretty subjective.
JOLIETTE, QC, November 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Diocese of Joliette has issued a press release after the mainstream media erroneously reported that the Vatican had given permission for a Catholic priest who supports abortion and homosexual ‘marriage’ to run for public office.
Both a Canadian Press story, published in several papers, and a CBC story claimed that the Vatican granted Fr. Raymond Gravel special permission to run for politics. Gravel is representing the Bloc Quebecois, a separatist party which is also known for its support of abortion and homosexual ‘marriage’.
The first line of the press release from the diocese states: "No ‘green light’ was given by the Vatican." It continues, "The Bishop of Joliette did not receive any permission from Roman Authorities regarding the plans of Fr. Raymond Gravel."
Of course I truly doubt that there will be as many news stories correcting storiest saying the priest had Vatican permission as there were to assert this.
The openly gay Gravel, 54, is a former male prostitute who decided to enrol in a Catholic seminary after suffering a beating that left him near death.
He also supports legalized abortion and the ordination of homosexuals (in 2005, he told a Montreal magazine that 50 per cent of priests in Quebec are gay and that priests in general don’t take their vow of celibacy seriously).
He also once received a disciplinary letter from a cardinal named Joseph Ratzinger, better known these days as Pope Benedict XIV.
The outspoken Gravel, who has also run afoul of his church because of his support for gay marriage, wants to run for the Bloc in Repentigny, a staunchly sovereignist riding just off the eastern tip of the Island of Montreal.
The Star was unable to reach Gravel for comment, but he told Radio-Canada that if the Catholic authorities objected to his desire to run, he would continue in his current vocation.
To have believed the original stories in the first place means that you are also probably corresponding with someone in Nigeria concerning a windfall financial transaction. This premise of the story was so ridiculous in the first place and it just shows you how stupid the MSM is. Sure they have editors, but wouldn’t a story like this require that someone check with the Archdiocese first?
Fr. Gravel saying he would continue in his current vocation is Church authorities objected is a not unsurprising lie. At the time he already knew not that there was no way he was ever to get such permission. Or that he lied about the Vatican permission in the first place is the sure sign of a dissenter. On this rock I will build my Church, sorry it was not on this Fr. Gravel I will build my Church. Even though every dissenter considers themselves infallible.
Update: Diogenes comments on the story and asks the obvious questions.
The diocese of Sioux Falls suggests starting a novena to the Immaculate Conception today especially since they have an abortion ban on their ballot. So for the next nine days I will be running their novena.
Prayer To The Immaculate Conception
O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, did prepare a worthy dwelling place for Your Son, we beseech You that, as by the foreseen death of this, Your Son, You did preserve Her from all stain, so too You would permit us, purified through Her intercession, to come unto You. Through the same Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end. Amen.
Day Five
O Lord, who, by the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, did prepare a fitting dwelling for your Son, we beseech you that as by the foreseen death of your Son, you
did preserve her from all stain of sin, grant that through her intercession, we may be
favored with the granting of the grace that we seek for at this time…
(State your intention here…)
O Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Mother of Christ, you had influence with your Divine Son while upon this earth; you have the same influence now in heaven. Pray for us and obtain for us from him the granting of my petition if it be the Divine Will. Amen.
ROSEDALE, Md. — A Rosedale family, priests and parishioners are praying that a stolen heirloom will be returned in time for an important ceremony this weekend.
On Saturday, Friar David Kashen is to be ordained as a priest at St. Clements Catholic Church in Rosedale, the parish where he grew up.
But something important is missing.
Last week, the chalice that once belonged to his uncle, the late Father John Barbernitz, was stolen.
It was the same chalice Barbernitz held when he was ordained in the same sanctuary in 1950.
"The chalice that was given was a gift from the parish. It’s very special to me. Not only was it my uncle’s, but it was something that came from the parish," Kashen said.
"The people in this parish donated jewels and gold to make this chalice. That’s why it has so much meaning," said Patricia Barbernitz, a nun who is Kashen’s aunt and sister to his late uncle.
The chalice and communion plate, called the Patton, were stolen last week from Kashen’s aunt’s house not far from the church.
The Patton? Well General Patton was called "Old Blood and Guts", but that is not exactly the same as vessels for the Sacred Body and Blood. Of course they meant Paten, which is an easy mistake.
I do hope that they are returned in time.
"The sisters aren’t going to pray to St. Anthony, because it’s not lost. Instead, they’re praying to the thief. He has no idea what he’s up against, with all these nuns praying, and I agree with that," Barbernitz said.
St. Dismas get to work!
Fr. Roderick put together a very funny and well produced short Halloween/All Saints Day/All Souls Day movie.
A reader sent me a link to a homily by Archbishop Chaput at at Red Mass. The Archbishop always makes for a good read and his homily included the following.
We need to drill it into our heads that defending the sanctity of the human person and serving the common good can’t be separated. Stuffing our Catholic faith in a closet when we enter the public square or join a public debate isn’t good manners, and it isn’t political courtesy. It’s cowardice. And we’ll be judged for that cowardice by the God who created us.
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