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HO-HOS FOR HUMANITY! - smockmomma on the news that fat might be a stem cell source.
501(c)(3) be damned - why can't a single bishop stand up, in the wake of events like last Friday's debate and publicly say to this creep, "Senator Kerry, stop publicly mischaracterizing the Catholic faith. Stop using your Catholic identity to somehow justify positions that are in direct contradiction to the Catholic faith. By doing so, you are "teaching" people about what it means to be Catholic. Do you know what, buddy? That's not your job. That's ours. Just stop it." I've been saying this, off and on for months. To me, this silence, this implicit permission given to Kerry to use his deficient understanding of the Catholic faith for political purposes is inexcusable. - Amy Welborn
In case you missed my subtle big announcement here, I'm pregnant. Gulp. I'll bet you haven't met too many gals who can celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary and announce their 7th pregnancy within 10 weeks or so of each other! But hey it happened to me! Statistically speaking this is a miracle. From what I could find out on line, your chances of conceiving after age 40 drop down to around 4%. - Elena of My Domestic Church
When I have before me a huge piece of exotically delicious dessert, there is no doubt but that I want that dessert. Everything inside of me screams out automatically, "Eat it now, before someone else does!" I can't control that desire, for it is a passion. I want the dessert. But, at the same time, my mind says not to eat it, because I'm watching my weight and am interested in being healthy. And so, even if offered, I can truthfully say, "I don't want a piece, thank you." That is the active power of the will, and that is something I can control. What I feel like is out of my hands, and I can't be responsible for that; what I choose is where morality starts, and this is the true testing ground of good and bad. Apply that to human relations, and it is the testing ground of real love. - Fr. Jim of Dapped Things
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost...Despair is the ultimate development of a pride so great and so stiff-necked that it selects the absolute misery of damnation rather than accept happiness from the hands of God and thereby acknowledge that He is above us and that we are not capable of fulfilling our destiny ourselves. But a person who is truly humble cannot despair, because in a humble person there is no longer any such thing as self-pity. - Thomas Merton, via MamaT of Summa Mamas
Interesting excerpts from St. Jerome's letter to Ctesiphon..."1. What the Greeks call pasio and what we call passions,---for example, vexation and gladness, hope and fear, two of which relate to the present and two to the future,---[the Pelagians] assert can be expelled completely from our minds; and they say that every root and fiber of vice can be removed from a man by meditation on virtue and the constant practice of virtue.... 6. It is not enough for me that God has given me grace once, but He must give it always. I ask, that I may receive; and when I have received, I ask again. I am covetous of receiving God's bounty. He is never slow in giving, nor am I ever weary of receiving. The more I drink, the more thirsty I become...7. Listen, I ask you, only listen to [Pelagius'] profanation. "If," he says, "if I want to bend my finger, move my hand, sit, stand, walk, run, spit, use two little fingers to blow my nose, empty my bowels, or urinate, is it always necessary for me to have God's help?" Listen, you blasphemous ingrate, and hear the preaching of the Apostle: "If you are eating, if you are drinking, or if you are doing anything else, do all in the name of God." - Bill of Summa Minutiae
You've seen enough of it here, I need hardly say more except to note how very much I enjoyed every aspect of this book. (But what is blogging but the art of saying more when nothing more need be said?) - Steven of Flos Carmeli
The Church of England is distributing a new order of service in which Anglicans will pray for the dinner. No, not pray to receive, but to intercede on behalf of the dinner itself, or more accurately, the animals it once was. They’re being asked to pray for the soul of the animal.-Domenico of Bettnet
I may be allowed to not exercise my right to self-defence, but that doesn't mean I am allowed to neglect my duty to defend someone else. And public authorities -- such as Presidents of nations -- are supposed to exercise their authority not for themselves, but for others. For the U.S.A. to not have intervened would have been like telling the citizens of Iraq to just keep turning the other cheek. It would have been no better than for a rich man to tell a poor man to "go in peace, be warm and filled". Sorry, but faith without works is dead. - Fr. Tom of Waiting in Joyful Hope
I'm Bill White, and I approved this blog. --Bill White of Summa Minutiae
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