November 14th March of Dimes celebrates Prematurity Awareness Day.

If we can persuade Google to create a doodle for us on November 14th, we can potentially be seen by millions of internet users.

Please help us spread the word, and sign the petition for the top spot on Google!

This is very simple to do, and It can help many millions of babies. It only takes a second of your time, and every single name that we can get on the list strengthens it in the eyes of google, and every single name is important! Please, together we can save babies!

The link for this is http://www.marchofdimes.com/forms/signpetition.asp

There's not much time left, so please do this as soon as possible!!!

Hi! I know it's been a while. I've had soo much stuff to do lately that I have just not had time to write anything!!! :(

So, in regards, let's ask a little question. Today's question is....

Who is your favorite saint, and why??

 

To answer, just leave a comment under this article. I'm also trying to work on starting up doing a little "mini sermon" each sunday...

I have also recently become a canter at my parish. My priest asked me if I've ever been to an abbey, and I said no. He told me that my voice resonates and sounds like a monk! Hah! :)

Well... back to work on the sermon...................

H.L.D.

I've decided to have a poll to see what you guys would like to see here, seeing as how more and more people are looking at my blog. What kind of stuff would you like to see here? Any suggestions then make it in  a comment on this article.

God Bless,

H.L.D.

Surprisingly, the church moved very slowly in claiming marriage as a focus of attention and care. Nearly everywhere in the Roman world, citizens agreed on how to celebrate marriage. Consent of the man and woman is what made a marriage valid in the eyes of the law, and although there was a traditional ceremony, it was home-based and optional. The ceremony was for showing the social status of the families involved (the procession ideally detoured through crowds), and for reminding the woman of her legal transfer from her father's control to her husband's. The "big moment" of the ceremony had nothing to do with vows, but with the bride's donning the daily wear of married women. A wedding feast included soothsayers and animal sacrifice to the new household's gods. Christians found that distasteful, of course, but since marriage was a family matter, they could edit things out. The church was comfortable with this, and sometimes recommended that the couple seek the advice of the bishop. His permission was only required for the marriage of a cleric, or for a marriage Rome didn't recognize, such as between a free woman and a slave. There was no blessing, no liturgy, no priest. Christians followed the customs of the day, but they knew that custom and relationships were transformed from within themselves by the fact of their baptism. Outwardly, Christians married exactly as their pagan neighbors, but they certainly invested the usual gestures with a dynamic sense of Christ's presence.