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Jesus & the homosexual 2009-01-18 22:03:25 I know people who live with someone of the same sex. I don't know if they're gay and I don't really care to know. It won't change the way I relate to them. While the Church condemns homosexual acts, it does not condemn being gay or lesbian. In fact, Jesus
might have enlisted the assistance of a homosexual for his last supper. In Mark 14: 13, Jesus asked his followers to meet &am
Spreading the wealth in the name of Christ 2009-01-18 22:02:40 Special meeting of the late Pope John Paul II with members of religious orders working in the island of social unrest During my practical training, I was assigned in an island of sugar cane plantations where the land owners traveled Europe every year while the workers lived in something like a large dog house. Back then, some priests applied Liberation theology – an unholy union of Marxist Read more:Christ
Heart speaks to the heart 2009-01-17 12:13:26 St. John Bosco counsels his educators, "Love what the youth loves and they will love what you love." No one cares about what you know until they know that you care. The picture shows a few of my students from a school where I had a tough class. I had time to "waste" of them e.g. during the candy drive, I took groups to the metro station where we sold so much that we won 2nd p
Freedom of Choice Act is Anything But 2009-01-15 19:30:23 With the passage of the Freedom
of Choice
Act, FOCA, looming like a deadly storm in the horizon, people are bracing for the worst. I have written my senators urging them to oppose it. And with my grandpa, uncle & brother having served to safeguard freedom, I think we have earned the right to ask, "If doctors, nurses & others will be forced by FOCA to perform or assist in abortions,
Holiday business 2009-01-11 16:02:53 (Picture with Obama fabricated.)During the holidays, I had to attend to official business. So, my wife hauled the kids to my in laws out of state for a week. I thought I could get a lot done in the house. But I was wrong. When I got home, I felt debilitated. I watched TV, drank & slept. In the old school, I might have been guilty of sloth & maybe gluttony – a capital vice & deadly si Read more:Holiday
Flew in by mistake 2009-01-10 14:49:55 This little bird flew in the house by mistake. My son picked it up and gently laid it outside to fly. If only it can be that way with the fetuses that somehow flew in the womb by mistake. I guess we can still reach out gently to help the mother and save the child.From here, I can only point out web sites of people who are happy to adopt that "little birdie".
Sweet lemonade 2009-01-10 08:31:54 It was what I did when I was in between jobs that seemed to matter most. Back then, I took my late dad for his cataract surgery. We got his new car together and went shopping at CostCo. But that changed when I started working again as I spent 10 hours a day in the office & 2 on the road and then some over the weekends. I stopped visiting him. When he came to visit, I asked what he neede Read more:Sweet
Nothing too wicked, never too late 2009-01-04 15:34:25 I’ve heard of a priest who made the boys call the devil during their annual retreat. These seniors were cocky, so the retreat master dared them to call satan. The tough guys went in a room alone and had to call satan trice. They came out frightened because they felt the presence of evil. From then on, they took the spiritual exercises more seriously. However, if one is a big time wr Read more:Nothing
Infant for sale 2009-01-04 07:06:30 Sadly, but it happens. There was an ad in the web. Those folks must be in dire straits. I hope I never get into a situation like that. But even if I do, I don't think I can ever sell my children. Yet, God did not sell His Son; He gave Him up freely. And for what? To pay for our wrongdoing. That's a very unprofitable transaction. Here we are wallowing in selfishness and utter Read more:Infant
Fraternal Correction 2008-12-28 19:00:14 One tells the offender what's wrong. If that does not work, one brings a group like an "intervention". Finally, one uses tough love & shuns the unrepentant one.
Turning the Other Cheek 2008-12-28 18:59:05 Turning the other cheek is not the acquiencense of the weak & cowardly, but the non-violent resistance of the patient & the brave. Gandhi used this to free India from Britain. (They may be Hindus but Gandhi got the idea from the Gospel.) It took down Communism at Gadansk. It is the soul of the civil rights movement in the US. And the inspiration of many "People Power" movement
The "just" war vs. "jihad" 2008-12-28 18:56:04 There are certain conditions that justifies Christians to take up arms. WWII is a clear struggle with evil. But Christians do not engage in "jihad" with non-believers ( - not in my lifetime at least). On the contrary, I've heard a rumor that during the ethnic cleansing at Kosovo, the late Pope John Paul II sent armaments to help the Moslems - not the "Christians".
To fly, one needs to be light & unattached 2008-12-06 22:04:47 While his fellow birds were set on finding fish to eat, Jonathan Livingston Seagull was obssessed with flight
. All he did was fly, trying to go higher each time. He lost weight and kept it off. He wasted no time in anything else. Because of this, he soared into heights that no seagull has ever reached and then some.During these lean times, many will do without or with less. This divestiture is a c
No thanks to God on Turkey Day 2008-12-06 21:58:09 These days there are posters in the buses that read, "Why believe in a god when you can be good for goodness sake?" Released just before Thanksgiving, these are meant to start the practice of taking God out of the holiday and promoting atheism. First of all, one does not need to believe to know that there is God; one simply needs to think. (Cfr. philosophical proofs -of-god.html )Then, there are Read more:Turkey
, Turkey Day
Cross on devil's cape 2008-12-06 19:38:02 Back when I was a novice, I was cleaning the study hall when my Novice Master pointed to the lopsided crucifix at the center of the hall. "That's how much he means to you." he said as he walked out in disgust. Yesterday, we went to an amusement park and almost had a perfect family day. It was ruined by a stage show "Disco Inferno" where the demons had huge crosses on their capes. I wanted Read more:Cross
Priest in a brothel 2008-12-06 19:36:12 I know a priest to went to a whore house & met someone. But it isn't what it appears to be. What happened was the parents of the girl saw him earlier and told him how their daughter ran away & and got into debt. To pay that off, she ended up a prostitute. The priest dressed like a civilian & paid for the services of this woman. While in the room with her, he sat quietly Read more:Priest
A Latino construction worker 2008-12-06 19:30:27 A priest friend, Fr. Jimmy Hernandez, told me about a Latino
construction worker who would use his lunch break to visit a nearby church. It took him 30 minutes to get there, so all that he can do is knell and pray, "Lord, this is Jose. I just dropped by to say hello." Then he'd hurry back to the site. One day he fell from a scaffolding and was hospitalized. When his friends visited him, he wa
The neutral angels & the fighting Irish 2008-09-21 07:45:12 I've always wondered about the "Fighting Irish
". What's with the fighting? For a Catholic people, it seems contradictory. Then I heard this romantic literary tale from the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen. It's been told that during the war between Lucifer's legions and God's faithful angels, a third group of angels stayed on the sidelines - taking neither side. At the end, these neutral angels were a
Jewish people, Moslems, Hindus, Atheists do not need to convert 2008-08-24 06:36:39 I wish my Jewish
friends and acquiantance with the peace from G*d as in, "Avinu shalom aleikem". To Moslems when I identify them, I wish same as in "Salaam akelum" and I praise our common Father with "Allah Agbar!" (God is great.). To the Hindus I acknowledge the spark of the Divine in them with "Namaste". The best man in my wedding is from China and my godfather is a Freemason. ( Not everyone kno Read more:people
, Atheists
Experiencing God through Others 2008-07-24 19:52:28 My wife doesn't like the name "divine-ripples" ; it sounds like nipples। The idea is that the main splash was Jesus and the ripples are those who're like him. Gandhi said that he would have become a Christian, if the Christians were more Christ-like. And that's the point. The Christian message is more than an institution with doctrine, rituals and rules. The message and messenger are seen as one Read more:Others
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