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As either James Joyce of Philip Jose Farmer noted, "Discretion is the bitter part of valor." - Steven of "Flos Carmeli"
Let's play a game of guess the charism. Pick the religious order by using the following clues of what they offer.
Therapeutic Massage- Curt Jester; craniosacral therapy!? :-)
La Stone Therapy
Craniosacral Therapy
Maya Abdominal Self-Care Workshops
Australian Bush Flower Essence Practitioner...
On another night, bioethicist Lee Silver from Princeton visited the show. [Stephen] Colbert told him he believed that science and spirituality could go hand in hand and that all people, embryos included, have souls. Silver begged to differ. He told Colbert that, in the shower, we scrub off thousands of skin cells every day, and that the cells on his arm are human life in the same way that embryos are. To which Colbert responded: “If I let my arm go for a while and didn’t wash it, you’re saying I’d have babies on my arm.” Thank goodness we have comedians to take such arguments to their natural conclusions. - Nathaniel Peters of "First Things"
The evangelicals of America are very important to the fights both against Islam and against liberalism. You may like them or dislike them. You may be one of them or not. But if you have eyes to see and any sociological sense at all, you can see that they provide a huge amount of the foot-soldiering for the various culture wars, and that if they can be mobilized to recognize the Islamic threat, they can provide foot-soldiering there, as well. They have given us the Christian schools and the homeschooling movement of the past forty years (Christian schools first, then home schools), which have had an enormous part in saving a generation from brainwashing and are going to save more generations still...in the words of that famous Jew of Tarsus, we are "all members one of another," part of the same Body. But whether you put a sociological or a spiritual significance onto it, we cannot ignore what is happening to the evangelicals. And the megachurch movement, and still more, the Emergent Church movement, are sapping that vitality. - Lydia of "What's Wrong with the World"
The future justice of the U.S. Supreme Court describes this harrowing scene: "I lay across the bed and curled up in a fetal position, tired beyond imagining." This is the central crisis of the book and of his life. According to "My Grandfather's Son," [Clarence] Thomas realized that the only way to survive humiliation was humility. "It had long since become clear to me that this battle was at bottom spiritual, not political," he writes, "and so my attention shifted from politics to the inward reality of spiritual life." He had been extraordinarily proud of his work at the EEOC and Department of Education, but now he wondered: "Might I have been too proud? It occurred to me for the first time that I had cherished my good name in the same way that a wealthy man cherishes his money. ... perhaps I would have to renounce my pride to endure this trial." - Charles Sykes of "American Thinker"
Is your generosity grown cold? Am I a second to you? You did not die for souls - that is why you don't care what happens to them - Your heart was never drowned in sorrow as was My Mother's. We both gave our all for souls - and you? You are afraid, that you will lose your vocation - you will become a secular - you will be wanting in perseverance. No - your vocation is to love and suffer and save souls and by taking the step you will fulfil My Heart's desire for you...Your present habit is holy because it is My symbol. Your sarie will become holy because it will be My symbol...Wilt thou refuse? When there was a question of thy soul I did not think of Myself but gave myself freely for thee on the Cross and now what about thee? - words of Jesus to Blessed Mother Teresa
There are two extremes to frugality. On one end, life is painfully meager and sparse with short, cold showers, freezing rooms, and scratchy toilet paper, all in the name of saving money. On the opposite end, the world is so fabulously full of freebies that little consideration is taken for other people and their livelihood. People become tools in an agenda and life becomes about gathering lots of stuff as cheaply as possible. While definitely not immune to either extreme--I've lived at both ends--my question is more about living in the center. Where is the line between being frugal and being unethical?... For those of you not into coupon gaming, CVS has a glucose monitoring machine on sale for $29.99, that when purchased, will generate $20 worth of Extra Care Bucks to be used on the next shopping trip...I'm not a diabetic and I don't need this machine, let alone five of them, but there are folks out there who do. If I go to CVS and work this very legal deal...I may very well be depriving others of something that is not just nice to have, but necessary for their well-being. - blogger at "The Place Beneath"
The Mass in something fundamentally other than a Bible study. It is a living commemoration and re-presentation of the Sacrifice of the New and eternal Covenant. Hence, the role of the Bible in the Mass must be understood to as entirely subordinate to the sacramental function of the liturgy. It is intended to provide a liturgical setting for the Sacrifice. As such, any lexical project aimed at "getting through" the Bible, as such, works at cross purposes with the liturgical intent and sacramental focus of the Mass. - Pertinacious Papist
Suffering is the precondition of profundity; we see here a glimpse of the romantic underpinning of the modern taste for self-destruction, which is now a mass phenomenon. For when suffering will not come to you, you must go to it, at least if you want to be considered profound. And by an error of logic that is so common as to be almost universal, people suppose that if persons of a profound nature need suffering to bring out their profundity, then the fact of suffering, however caused, is itself proof of profundity. - Theodore Dalrymple
One day the Little Red Hen found a Politician. It was a Pro-Abortion Politician, but the Little Red Hen was so accustomed to bugs and worms that she supposed that, if encouraged, it could be made into a Nominee and then into a President. So she called loudly: "Who will plant the Seed of this Politician’s electability in the minds of the Press and the Party?" But the Pig said, "Not I," and the Cat said, "Not I," and the Rat said, "Not I." "Well, then," said the Little Red Hen, "I will." And she did. Then one day the Little Red Hen chanced to notice how well the Politician was doing, so she ran about calling briskly: "Who will ask the other Candidates to cut their losses and join the Campaign?" The Pig said, "Not I," the Cat said, "Not I," and the Rat said, "Not I." "Well, then," said the Little Red Hen, "I will." al Election?"...At last the great moment arrived. The Politician – Oh, dear! The Politician lost the General Election. Then the Red Hen called: "Who will blame Somebody Else for this Debacle?" The Pig said, "I will," the Cat said, "I will," the Rat said, "I will." But the Little Red Hen said, "No, you won't. I will." And she did. - Tom of Disputations
I once worked for a school principal who had such a fear of snakes that she taped pages in books with photos of snakes on them together, so she wouldn’t accidentally open to them. She was a science teacher, which made it all…difficult.) - Amy Welborn
Today's a good day to start memorizing the De Profundis, Psalm 130(129). Pray it daily for the souls in purgatory, then you'll have it on hand whenever you pass a cemetery. - Tom of Disputations
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