Obama cozies up with the atheists!

New Schedule and other minor wonders......

*****Just starting this week on what I hope will become permanent changes in my schedule. I was so inspired by Ironic Catholics Why Go to Daily Mass, that I have started to attend morning Mass on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (the only days it is available.) After Mass I head to the gym. This means that by 10:00 am I have prayed, sweated, showered and dressed. Hubby has joined me on this quest to be a better person and a much better Catholic.

*****I have some interesting follow up to the post on the San Francisco post re: pro-homosexual curriculum in their schools and also the ramifications of the ridiculous "cash for clunkers" bill.

*****Meantime, I hope you are all ready to become or continue being Blue Fish.

And still more to make your blood boil:

He managed to make the atheists of this country very, very happy according to the following article. Never mind us radical right-wing extremist types clinging to our guns and religion.

And you folks who voted for him still don't believe there is an evil agenda in this administration?

Obama tones down National Day of Prayer observance...

(CNN) -- "For the past eight years, the White House recognized the National Day of Prayer with a service in the East Room, but this year, President Obama decided against holding a public ceremony." read the rest

Right now I'm off to run errands. I'll be back because, as usual, I have a lot to say (don't little old Italian ladies always have lots to say??)

Vote - Vote - Vote

This will give you all time to pop on over to the Crescat and vote for me again (Therese over at Aussie Coffee Shop has informed me you can vote everyday - thanks Therese!) And while you're there vote for her, too....

Blue Fish

It’s not easy being a good Catholic. In order to be a good Catholic, it is necessary to become counter-cultural. In most cases you are going to be diametrically opposed to what society claims is the “ok” thing to do.

During one of my classes on the reasons for the Catholic Church’s stance on birth control, I closed with the images of a school of little fish on the whiteboard. In the middle was one fish going the other direction. When I first drew this little vignette, my choice of marker pen colors was pretty limited. I had black and blue, so the single fish became blue. From that day the blue fish became my metaphor for “doing the right or Catholic thing.”

When we are baptized into the family of God, we accepted the dual responsibilities of learning the teachings of the Church and living by them. Nobody suggested that if we didn’t like the teachings, or if they weren’t convenient at that time in our life, we were free to change them. Not one person ever said it would be easy. The fact is, they aren’t always easy but they are always doable.

To be a good Catholic means you have to be a “blue fish.” When it seems all of society is swimming in one direction, you will be swimming in the opposite direction. The next step after the minimum required by the Precepts of the Church, would be to become a “blue fish.” And when you do, don’t expect it to be easy.

Picture by F. Frankhttp://www.newfishart.com/fishfile2/2007/blue-orange-fish-art.html