What Can I Do Before Lent Begins?
Just imagine that this Lent is going to be different from every other Lent we've experienced. Imagine that there will be many graces offered me this year. Let's even imagine that God is going to help transform our lives, with greater freedom, greater joy, deeper desires for love and service. read more*****Ash Wednesday is just one week away. Start now to prepare your Lenten practices for the year. I really love this liturgical season and some years I am completely caught unawares. Not this year!
Pelosi and the Pope
*****Following the General Audience the Holy Father briefly greeted Mrs Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, together with her entourage. His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the Church’s consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society, to work in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development.
Do you think Madame Speaker understood what Our Holy Father was saying?? We can only hope.
Check out LarryD's Diseases of Dissent over at Acts of Apostasy. We need more laughter right now!
A New Friend
******Second only to receiving strange made up awards from my blogger buddies, I love acquiring new friends. It seems Pauli over at Est Quod Est was having a very, very slow morning and wandered this way (and even left a comment). To avoid heading off to the gym, I wandered about his home on the web and discovered he is one funny fellow. Pauli manages to say some very serious stuff with a wonderful edge.
9 comments:
I am SO Proud of our Pope for standing up to Ms. Pelosi!!!
Simply stated.. you can't be pro choice and Catholic (period)!!
I am praying that we are going to make huge headway in the near future.. we need to hear it not only from our Pope but from our Priests ALL the time, we need men and women to stand up and say NO MORE!
Ok, off my soap box:)
Tracy - you just stay on that soap box. It's people like you that will save the world!
Thanks for the link, Adrienne! What a friend!
Pelosi comes across as a ditz when she talks about abortion and contraception.
Kudos to the pope for standing up for the truth and speaking truth to power. Very pastoral!
As for Lent, I am planning on a couple of things. I have already started to limited meat in anticipation of Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of Lent. I am also getting some devotional reading ready for the season -- St. Francis de Sales sermons on Lent, for example, and some devotions by Benedict XVI on the lenten season. My wife and I are also planning on making a retreat during the first part of holy week in anticipation of Easter.
All in all, I am actually looking forward to this Lent, and I am viewing it as a time of spiritual training and discipline prior to the joy of Easter.
I blogged about this very same thing today.
I think loud music should play when Pelosi unhinges her trap. I’m SO tired of the nonsensical gibble-gabble.
Please don’t think I’ve ignored you. I haven’t forgotten about Toby’s pics. Just today when I started feeling much better from my cold, I had to drive my mother to her doctor because she’s now caught the same flu I had:0(
I have to keep a close eye on her. She has a tendency to develop pneumonia.
Tom - I know you've been sick. Sure don't like hearing about Mom being sick now. It's harder on us "older folk"
Mark - You're such an organized little soul. I plan on hitting St. Marks in Spokane for some good music (yea - I know what kind of a church it is. I promise not to pray. LOL)
will she understand? only if she wants to. she could continue to be one of a group with ears who do not hear.
BUT
what's more important is the message he sent to the rest of the world.
watch the move "Thank you for smoking" to get a good example of what I'm talking about here.--honest, it's a great movie which makes a very good point about "debates".
[blushes and kicks dirt with toe of sneaker...]
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