Monday, August 17, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
THE FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT 2009
Can anybody remember the 1940’s, the war years listening to the radio for the news of the day? There were no TV’s then...
Can ya remember that entertainment was sitting down having a soda or coffee talking around the table in the kitchen and reading books, magazines and news papers?
Can ya remember talking about the destruction of the world by the Nazis, Joe Stalin and Benito Mussolini?
Can ya remember the name of the Pope then?
Can ya remember receiving communion in the mouth because touching the host by anyone other then a priest’s consecrated hands was anathema?
Can ya remember when Pope Pius Xll died and John XXlll was elected and He got Vatican ll started, for Paul the 6th to complete it.
Can ya remember the blackout of 1965 when NY City came to a standstill for hours into the night?
Can you remember hearing about the holocaust, the horrors of Auschwitz, Vietnam, and later Afghanistan, and Iraq?
Can you remember where you were on September 11, 2001?
Can you remember seeing on T.V. the strange figures of rescue men, firemen wearing coats and boots full of whitish dust and smoke; they were barely visible emerging through a smoke cloud after the 2nd tower fell.
They are most haunting memories, but this is HISTORY
Can you remember names like Policarp, Papius, Origen, and Josephus Flavius? these are the names of religious men of the first 3 centuries who theologians read in order to validate the originality of the Epistles; the letters of Paul, John, Peter, the Acts of the Apostles, the Gospels and their authors, the very beginning of the early Christian movement which is known to us to-day as Christianity and the Catholic Church and how it grew.
LENT is a time that we read about the ministry of Jesus and all that happened up to His Passion, death and Resurrection...EASTER.
LENT is a time of giving up--- for giving.
This is a good time to give up some of our TV time-- go to the library and read about the history of our religion so that we can pass it on to our youngsters, teach them their religious genealogy.
Interest them in serving the Lord as Jesus did the world…
“This is the time of fulfillment”
Can ya remember that entertainment was sitting down having a soda or coffee talking around the table in the kitchen and reading books, magazines and news papers?
Can ya remember talking about the destruction of the world by the Nazis, Joe Stalin and Benito Mussolini?
Can ya remember the name of the Pope then?
Can ya remember receiving communion in the mouth because touching the host by anyone other then a priest’s consecrated hands was anathema?
Can ya remember when Pope Pius Xll died and John XXlll was elected and He got Vatican ll started, for Paul the 6th to complete it.
Can ya remember the blackout of 1965 when NY City came to a standstill for hours into the night?
Can you remember hearing about the holocaust, the horrors of Auschwitz, Vietnam, and later Afghanistan, and Iraq?
Can you remember where you were on September 11, 2001?
Can you remember seeing on T.V. the strange figures of rescue men, firemen wearing coats and boots full of whitish dust and smoke; they were barely visible emerging through a smoke cloud after the 2nd tower fell.
They are most haunting memories, but this is HISTORY
Can you remember names like Policarp, Papius, Origen, and Josephus Flavius? these are the names of religious men of the first 3 centuries who theologians read in order to validate the originality of the Epistles; the letters of Paul, John, Peter, the Acts of the Apostles, the Gospels and their authors, the very beginning of the early Christian movement which is known to us to-day as Christianity and the Catholic Church and how it grew.
LENT is a time that we read about the ministry of Jesus and all that happened up to His Passion, death and Resurrection...EASTER.
LENT is a time of giving up--- for giving.
This is a good time to give up some of our TV time-- go to the library and read about the history of our religion so that we can pass it on to our youngsters, teach them their religious genealogy.
Interest them in serving the Lord as Jesus did the world…
“This is the time of fulfillment”
Sunday, February 22, 2009
THE CONFESSIONAL IS A SUPER-DUPER DRY CLEANING ESTABLISMENT.
WEDNESDAY THE 25th IS ASH WEDNESDAY AND SO BEGINS OUR LENTEN JOURNEY
AS USUAL A TIME OF PERSONAL, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL SACRIFICE TO CELEBRATE THE PASCHAL MYSTERY...
LENT IS 40 DAYS AND REMINDS US OF THE 40 DAYS AND NIGHT JESUS SPENT IN THE WILDERNESS WITH THE DEVIL TEMPTING HIM EVERY MINUTE OF THE TIME, BUT HE OVERCAME...
THE PURPOSE OF LENT IS TO BE A SEASON OF FASTING, SELF DENIAL, CHRISTIAN GROWTH, PENITENCE, CONVERSION AND SIMPLICITY
THE CATECHUMENS, (THE CONVERTS IN WAITING) ARE PREPARING FOR THE RECEIPT OF THE CHURCH’S SACRAMENTS FOR THE 1st TIME EASTER EVE...
WE THE FAITHFUL, EVER MORE ATTENTIVE TO THE WORD OF GOD AND PRAYER, PREPARE OURSELVES BY PENANCE AND SACRIFICE FOR THE RENEWAL OF OUR BAPTISMAL PROMISES.
A MEANINGFUL SACRIFICE IS TO BE MINDFUL OF THE POOR OF THE WORLD...
THE PURPOSE OF LENT IS TO BE A SEASON OF FASTING, SELF DENIAL, CHRISTIAN GROWTH, PENITENCE, CONVERSION, AND SIMPLICITY.
LENT, THE WORD MEANS SPRING TIME AND CAN BE THOUGHT OF AS A SPIRITUAL SPRING CLEANING, A TIME FOR TAKING SPIRITUAL INVENTORY AND THEN CLEANING OUT THOSE THINGS WHICH HINDER OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST AS WELL AS OUR SERVICES TO HIM.
THE CONFESSIONAL IS A SUPER-DUPER DRY CLEANING ESTABLISMENT.
AS USUAL A TIME OF PERSONAL, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL SACRIFICE TO CELEBRATE THE PASCHAL MYSTERY...
LENT IS 40 DAYS AND REMINDS US OF THE 40 DAYS AND NIGHT JESUS SPENT IN THE WILDERNESS WITH THE DEVIL TEMPTING HIM EVERY MINUTE OF THE TIME, BUT HE OVERCAME...
THE PURPOSE OF LENT IS TO BE A SEASON OF FASTING, SELF DENIAL, CHRISTIAN GROWTH, PENITENCE, CONVERSION AND SIMPLICITY
THE CATECHUMENS, (THE CONVERTS IN WAITING) ARE PREPARING FOR THE RECEIPT OF THE CHURCH’S SACRAMENTS FOR THE 1st TIME EASTER EVE...
WE THE FAITHFUL, EVER MORE ATTENTIVE TO THE WORD OF GOD AND PRAYER, PREPARE OURSELVES BY PENANCE AND SACRIFICE FOR THE RENEWAL OF OUR BAPTISMAL PROMISES.
A MEANINGFUL SACRIFICE IS TO BE MINDFUL OF THE POOR OF THE WORLD...
THE PURPOSE OF LENT IS TO BE A SEASON OF FASTING, SELF DENIAL, CHRISTIAN GROWTH, PENITENCE, CONVERSION, AND SIMPLICITY.
LENT, THE WORD MEANS SPRING TIME AND CAN BE THOUGHT OF AS A SPIRITUAL SPRING CLEANING, A TIME FOR TAKING SPIRITUAL INVENTORY AND THEN CLEANING OUT THOSE THINGS WHICH HINDER OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST AS WELL AS OUR SERVICES TO HIM.
THE CONFESSIONAL IS A SUPER-DUPER DRY CLEANING ESTABLISMENT.
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