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On My Mind
Today, during my aunt's funeral Mass I was again struck by the realization that as babies we are carried in and baptized into the faith. Again we are carried after death, into our Father's House, our bodies are present at one more Mass, before the tabernacle, the altars, and statues one more time. It is a nice way to say goodbye, a nice way to end a life of service to the Lord, before Him, in His Church, just as we were on that first day of Christian faith.
Tags: christianlife, prayer
Friday September 5, 2008 - 03:30pm (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
Eternal Rest
...grant unto her O Lord and may your perpetual light shine upon her. Sweet Aunt Carmella please pray for us with our most Holy Mother, Mary Help of Christians.
Tags: christianlife, prayer
Wednesday September 3, 2008 - 12:01am (EDT) Permanent Link | 2 Comments
Yuk, Politics
I hate to get into politics here, but I feel the need to vent a bit. In someways I am excited with McCain's choice of running mate. On the other hand how much is this ticket going to support my beliefs of women being home, of a return to femininity, and extolling the natural female temperament? I just don't see how a wife and mother has more important work to be done in Washington, her most important work is in her home.

On the other hand, I like that she comes from a blue collar background, I like that she wasn't raised in politics. She may be one of the few that really understands what life is like for most of us.

I'll refer you to Catherine's Blog Home Girl she had a nice post with several other links gathering other people's opinions.
Tags: news, femininity
Saturday August 30, 2008 - 01:35pm (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
The Case For Modesty
I am on page fifty-three of Colleen Hammond's book Dressing With Dignity. It is one of those widely lauded Catholic-must-read books. I read a while back The Return to Modesty by Wendy Shallit. I posted that although it was very well researched I found it to be poorly written. I should have been kinder. I think Ms. Hammond has some excellent points to make but the informal, over generalized, and repetitive style she takes in Dressing With Dignity make it a true challenge to read. I suffer in reading this book. Am I the only one who doesn't think its that great? Maybe I have to finish the book, but I am not impressed thus far.

In my very humble opinion, convincing people to turn their hearts and their bodies toward modest dress, thought, and behavior, is best done not by trying to appeal to the trendy or popular or the already casual in people. I think it is best done by seeking out a person's more noble tendencies, those given by God toward intelligent reason and dignity.
Tags: femininity
Friday August 29, 2008 - 02:39pm (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
Only If You're a Christian...
Political Correctness is an abused and sometimes dirty term that has caused us to neuter our speech to make it less offensive to feminist, it has also made it entirely unfashionable to presume your beliefs are correct and another's are not. Political Correctness loves relativism, relativism loves political correctness.

Generally, the standards of P.C. strongly forbid the mocking of another's religion, it is very wrong to assume that worshiping a houseplant or a pretty rock is not in fact truth, for that individual, in the way that they themselves define truth, for their individual life. The same rule that covers the tree-huggers and pretty-rock worshipers also extends to other major religions, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism. That is of course so long as we are not talking about Christianity, no that one doesn't fall under the rules, precisely because those Christians just don't believe in people defining their own truth. And so we have this news story (warning: it has an upsetting and unholy image) Museum Defies Pope Over Crucified Frog.
This isn't about the Pope, this isn't about the Holy Roman Catholic Church, this is about a commonly held belief that is is gravely wrong to mock another's God. The Christians, are still being persecuted. May God strengthen and defend us.
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Thursday August 28, 2008 - 10:36pm (EDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
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