I love this quote!
Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world." - St.Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to the Romans.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Notre Dame
Notre Dame invited Obama to give a commencement speech at their graduation ceremony and while he was there they gave him an honorary doctorate. It is controversial that they invited Obama to speak considering that it is a Catholic University and he has done more harm than any president I know in the first 100 days in regards to Church related issues. But he is the current president of the United States so I suppose that it's alright that they invited him to speak. It is a great travesty that Notre Dame awarded him an honorary doctorate. He is a radical pro abortion president.
We must be witnesses to our Christian faith. Notre Dame has not been such a good witnesses during this trial. Having their campus police arrest peacefully protesting priest is not exactly being a good Christian witness. At a time when popular culture would do away with the Church altogether as something archaic, Catholics and all Christians must stand up for their beliefs. We must be counted. I ask for God's forgiveness that I didn't figure out a way to drive to Indiana and stand in solidarity with the protesters. I certainly was with them in spirit. Hopefully in the future I will do better.
If Christians do not begin to stand together in solidarity the ultimate outcome will be that Christianity, or Christian beliefs, will become illegal(or at least unlawful). Many Christians have already watered down their theology to such a degree that they won't even notice. But get ready for it, with the Muslim rise in Europe and the continued secular rise in the west, the body of Christ is going to be refined in fire in the next 50 years.
Lord, let us be the instruments of your peace, let us reach out to those who kill us, arrest us, or kill our unwanted brothers or sisters. Help us to Love like You Love, Dear Lord. So that the world will be won over with our Love. Amen.
We must be witnesses to our Christian faith. Notre Dame has not been such a good witnesses during this trial. Having their campus police arrest peacefully protesting priest is not exactly being a good Christian witness. At a time when popular culture would do away with the Church altogether as something archaic, Catholics and all Christians must stand up for their beliefs. We must be counted. I ask for God's forgiveness that I didn't figure out a way to drive to Indiana and stand in solidarity with the protesters. I certainly was with them in spirit. Hopefully in the future I will do better.
If Christians do not begin to stand together in solidarity the ultimate outcome will be that Christianity, or Christian beliefs, will become illegal(or at least unlawful). Many Christians have already watered down their theology to such a degree that they won't even notice. But get ready for it, with the Muslim rise in Europe and the continued secular rise in the west, the body of Christ is going to be refined in fire in the next 50 years.
Lord, let us be the instruments of your peace, let us reach out to those who kill us, arrest us, or kill our unwanted brothers or sisters. Help us to Love like You Love, Dear Lord. So that the world will be won over with our Love. Amen.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Take up your cross
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), Foundress of the Missionary Sisters of Charity A Gift for God: prayers and meditations
"Let him take up his cross daily and follow me"Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the tortures of your crucifixion and passion. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you. Enable us to go through them patiently and bravely, trusting that you will support us. Make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centred desires that we can come to live more fully; for it is only by dying with you that we can rise with you.
Lord help us to take up our cross, like those before us, especially Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, that we may accept all the sufferings of our lives with Love. Let us follow your example, Dear Lord, through the cross to Easter morning.
"Let him take up his cross daily and follow me"Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the tortures of your crucifixion and passion. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you. Enable us to go through them patiently and bravely, trusting that you will support us. Make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centred desires that we can come to live more fully; for it is only by dying with you that we can rise with you.
Lord help us to take up our cross, like those before us, especially Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, that we may accept all the sufferings of our lives with Love. Let us follow your example, Dear Lord, through the cross to Easter morning.
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