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Losing Latinos-Catholic Church Needs to Address This BROOKLYN BORN BELIEVER - May 14, 2013 ... sacraments and most especially Holy Communion. So what's wrong and what can be done? I'm convinced, good music is crucial to uplifting liturgies. And inspiring homilies as well. But obviously this situation should be addressed by the New Evangelization-practical solutions that work are needed. Committees that get to the bottom of the problem and address it in a timely and realistic way. ...http://brooklyn-born-believer.blogspot.com/2013/05/losing-latinos-catholic-church-needs-to.html
A Different Kind of Church JOY - May 12, 2013 ... a nice church, and I can see the attraction of it for so many people, (enabling it to become a "mega" church.) The "sanctuary" was actually not as big as I would have expected, especially considering the massive exterior of the church. Maybe it would seat 400? Super comfy chairs, which were necessary, as you will see later. Huge, cozy gathering space with coffee and snacks, and even an "Information" desk, along with lots of meeting rooms and a large kids space which made it such a big ...http://marajoy.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-different-kind-of-church.html
Priest Resigns From Clergy Treatment Center Amid Allegations CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 12, 2013 ... are keeping this situation in prayer," Sheila Harron, Ph.D., chief operation officer and interim CEO of the St. Luke Institute, said May 6. "We are committed to continuing to move forward, to providing high quality care for priests and religious, and to supporting a culture of healthy ministry in the Church." The New Hampshire attorney general is investigating Msgr. Arsenault after the Diocese of Manchester discovered evidence of improper transactions of diocese funds. The ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/priest-resigns-from-clergy-treatment.html
The Journey to Yes: Part II BLESSED WITH FULL HANDS - May 10, 2013 ... team members to pray over me. I spilled out all my thoughts and feelings, wanting to move, God saying to wait. As she prayed over me, she confirmed that I was hearing God correctly, and that HE would see it to completion. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. Phillipians 1:6 January and February passed with no real answers. Lent came, and Holy Week was here. I thought, what a nice Easter gift . . . But it did not ...http://blessedwithfullhands.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-journey-to-yes-part-ii.html
Catechism for the Year of Faith FAITH AND REASON - May 9, 2013 ... the ministry of priests and deacons. 1145 A sacramental celebration is woven from signs and symbols. In keeping with the divine pedagogy of salvation, their meaning is rooted in the work of creation and in human culture, specified by the events of the Old Covenant and fully revealed in the person and work of Christ. 1147 God speaks to man through the visible creation. The material cosmos is so presented to man's intelligence that he can read there traces of its Creator. Light and darkness, ...http://faithandreasonblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/catechism-for-year-of-faith.html
Friends of Different Faiths CATHOLICMOM.COM - May 7, 2013 ... heart. Jenny was present at my First Communion ceremony, where I, in a white eyelet dress and short veil, tasted the body of Christ for the first time. We never really talked about religion; there were far more exciting things to do. But there must have been things she liked about my faith life, just as there were things I instinctively enjoyed about hers. I liked the picture framed on her bedroom wall, an image of a smiling Jesus sitting in a sunny meadow, surrounded by kids in modern ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Catholicmomcom/~3/8hCxncxVFAI/
Tidbits From Haiti! FRANCISCAN LIFE - May 6, 2013 ... from cholera. I was so touched by this experience this morning. It was beautiful to see how when someone in our village is in trouble, the first people they turn to are the sisters. It is our presence with them that is most important. They know that we are here because we love them and they are not afraid to reach out to us when they are in need. Our Holy Thursday started out very differently from the way we planned it and it couldn't have been any more grace-filled than it was. April 2, 2013 ...http://franciscanlife.blogspot.com/2013/05/tidbits-from-haiti.html
Saint Catherine of Siena CATHOLIC FIRE - April 29, 2013 ... twenty-six children, was born in Siena on March 25, 1347. During her youth she had to contend with great difficulties on the part of her parents. They were planning marriage for their favorite daughter; but Catherine, who at the age of seven had already taken a vow of virginity, refused. To break her resistance, her beautiful golden brown tresses were shorn to the very skin and she was forced to do the most menial tasks. Undone by her patience, her mother and father finally ...http://catholicfire.blogspot.com/2013/04/saint-catherine-of-siena.html
SUNDAY, APRIL 28th: ORTHODOX PALM SUNDAY; LATIN 5th SUNDAY OF EASTER MONKS AND MERMAIDS (A BENEDICTINE BLOG) - April 28, 2013 ... The week following the Sunday of St Mary of Egypt is called Palm or Branch Week. At the Tuesday services of this week the Church recalls that Jesus' friend Lazarus has died and that the Lord is going to raise him from the dead (Jn 11). As the days continue toward Saturday, the Church, in its hymns and verses, continues to follow Christ towards Bethany to the tomb of Lazarus. On Friday evening, the eve of the celebration of the Resurrection of Lazarus, the "great and saving ...http://fatherdavidbirdosb.blogspot.com/2013/04/sunday-april-28th-orthodox-pam-sunday.html
A Married Priest in the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter: A Guest Post FEAR NOT LITTLE FLOCK - April 24, 2013 ... Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter should be married will need to be answered by the generation of men who will grow up in the church, such as my 1 year old son. In summation, I do not see a reason for the rule of celibacy to changed in the normal Latin Rite dioceses of the West, but I do believe that the Church needs to do more work on thinking theologically about the values and detriments of the married priesthood in the Eastern Catholic Churches in the West and the ...http://remnantofremnant.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-married-priest-in-personal.html
A Prayer for the Dead DYMPHNA'S ROAD - April 22, 2013 ... their salvation to a miracle of grace; Jesus, Mary, Joseph! My Jesus, mercy. To parents who failed to watch over their children; Jesus, Mary, Joseph! My Jesus, mercy. To superiors who were not solicitous for the salvation of those entrusted to them; Jesus, Mary, Joseph! My Jesus, mercy. To the souls of those who strove for hardly anything but riches and pleasures; Jesus, Mary, Joseph! My Jesus, mercy. To the worldly-minded, who failed to use their wealth and talents in the ...http://dymphnaroad.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-prayer-for-dead.html
Raising Boys to Be Men - With Practical Tips! FOREVER, FOR ALWAYS, NO MATTER WHAT : CATHOLIC ADOPTION & - April 22, 2013 ... services? Certainly there is a small percentage of boys who truly do qualify for the labels, but how often are the labels placed on boys because they are simply acting like boys!! Growing up to Manhood It wasn't that long ago in our society when boys spent the majority of their day with their fathers working a trade, working on a farm, or just generally spending their day actively working for their families. Even when schools started to crop up across the country, most ...http://www.foreverforalwaysnomatterwhat.com/2013/04/raising-boys-to-be-men-with-practical.html
Children of Medjugorje, April 2013 Newsletter MARY, OUR MOTHER - April 19, 2013 © Children of Medjugorje 2013 Permission is given to spread the text of these reports under two conditions: 1) No words are changed, 2) "Children of Medjugorje" is cited along with our website www.childrenofmedjugorje.com April 15, 2013 Dear Children of Medjugorje, praised be Jesus and Mary! 1. On April 2nd, Mirjana received her monthly apparition in her home, with only a few visitors because of heavy rain on the village. After ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/YVVY/~3/-SRsV1mym-Y/children-of-medjugorje-april-2013_19.html
What Difference Does It Make? POSTABORTION JOURNEY, WALK WITH ME... - April 17, 2013 ... day's coverage, say a quick prayer, and then try to move on. I follow the story in the hopes that I'll start to see some kind of turn around in the abortion "debate." How could somebody read the Grand Jury report and not completely change their thinking if they claim to be prochoice? But that may be the reason nobody who is prochoice is reading it - for fear of what may happen. Kind of makes the safe, legal, and rare argument null and void when you see what looks to be a very ...http://postabortionwalk.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-difference-does-it-make.html
Pope Francis Begins Spring Cleaning at the Vatican, Starting With the Bank CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 6, 2013 Pope Francis is rolling up his sleeves, at least figuratively. The Holy Father has spent the first weeks of his papacy officiating at services and demonstrating how true servants of God should be. Now he may be preparing to do some house cleaning. Those close to Pope Francis, speaking on the condition of anonymity, say that the Holy Father is considering plans to remove the head of the Vatican Bank, Cardinal Tarciscio Bertone, who is the Vatican's second-in-command and ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/pope-francis-begins-spring-cleaning-at.html
"They Killed Him": Deicide and Holy Saturday INSIGHT SCOOP THE IGNATIUS PRESS BLOG - March 30, 2013 ... My parish marks it with morning prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours, but most churches don't do anything, which is certainly appropriate; Jesus Christ is liturgically dead. And so I've taken to my own observances. Last year after the Good Friday communion liturgy, my wife and I watched The Passion of the Christ , and on Holy Saturday we kept things low-key while listening to Bach's Matthäus-Passion and Johannes-Passion as well as Mozart's and Verdi's Requiems. But life ...http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2013/03/sourceurlfilelocalhostuserscarlericolsoncarls20filescatholic20world20report20editor201320articles20cwrlhuizen.html
Martha or Mary? On Choosing the Better Part CATHOLICMOM.COM - March 26, 2013 ... out recipes and made mental notes of what services we would attend during the Triduum. I checked my bins of Easter decorations, taking stock of what I could use and what items still needed to be purchased. While my original intention was to plan a beautiful celebration to honor the Risen Lord, my focus drifted as I made menus and managed children. Lost in my visions of Easter morning "perfection", I pushed Jesus' scourging at the pillar from my mind. I forgot ...http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Catholicmomcom/~3/EPuEbQto1ac/
Let Us Love One Another During Holy Week CATHOLICSEEKING - March 25, 2013 ... Jesus is sentenced by Pilate to Calvary, to see him rejected, mocked, spat upon, beaten and forced to carry a heavy cross, to hear the echo of the hammer, to feel the agony of the torn flesh and strained muscles, to know Mary's anguish as he hung three hours before he died. We recoil before the atrocities of war, gang crime, domestic violence and catastrophic illness. Unless we personally and immediately are touched by suffering, it is easy to read Scripture and to walk away without contacting ...http://catholicseeking.blogspot.com/2013/03/let-us-love-one-another-during-holy-week.html
Tuesday, 26 Mar – Birth of Betrayal OXYGEN - March 25, 2013 ... betray their good intentions and take everything for granted? Today's Gospel is the birth of betrayal, with Satan entering Judas and Peter denying the future of his betrayal when Jesus was brought to the high priests. There are many forms of betrayal and we would somehow have betrayed someone regardless of degree of seriousness. We are reminded today that we are to stay faithful and grateful for firstly our Lord Jesus who has not given us anything but love, and with that, we are not to betray ...http://thecatholicwriter.com/oxygen/2013/03/tuesday-26-mar-birth-of-betrayal/
"Let Us Make This Week Holy" WHISPERS IN THE LOGGIA - March 22, 2013 ... garden of suffering, to be there and watch as Jesus is sentenced by Pilate to Calvary, to see him rejected, mocked, spat upon, beaten and forced to carry a heavy cross, to hear the echo of the hammer, to feel the agony of the torn flesh and strained muscles, to know Mary's anguish as he hung three hours before he died. We recoil before the atrocities of war, gang crime, domestic violence and catastrophic illness. Unless we personally and immediately are touched by suffering, it is easy to read ...http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2013/03/let-us-make-this-week-holy.html
