Posted on 09/03/2016 8:16:05 AM PDT by xzins
Add to your faith virtue said Peter. She had that in spades.
I just love the way humans find a way to distill good tasting stuff from whatever’s around. And, yes: Tequila has a wonderful taste. Srsly. A desert succulent plant, by the wonder of phosotsynthesis, makes enough sugar for yeasts to make alcohol. And after the violence, as you might say, of distillation, the desert wildness remains in the spirit.
We have so much to be grateful for ... in a dazzled way. Not just agave ... but tequila! How generous God is!
"A country which kills its own children has no future."
-Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
So do you believe that NBC, Wash Compost and Hitchens are all truth tellers?
Amen.
Absolutely.
The New-Agers think that the Faith has no mysticism, no wonder. But, “Seeing, they do not see.” Hand clasping hand in a hospital ... if your eyes are open you will see skyrockets.
The guy I habitually go to for confession always ends the thing with, “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.”
And, of course, I respond, “And his mercies endure forever.”
I suffer from almost crippling depression. I am old. I see disability and death coming. And loneliness.
Yet I say, “Who with open eyes can deny the wonders of the Lord who lifts up the lowly?”
The poor, blind secularists. They can barely see the wonder of a clover blossom with its intoxicating sweetness. They are blind to a caress freely given to a dying leper.
As it happens, I am colorblind. I understand what a defect in vision is, and what its cost is. But if I have to choose between missing the beauty of the season of fall and missing the beauty of a heart bared for piercing ... I count my fate a blessing.
God bless you.
And you too.
We so much need blessings.
You know I am the worst sort of Dominican and Catholic: a convert and a “philosophical theologian.” Yet, I am what I am.
Blessed Teresa saw deeply BECAUSE she saw the needy right in front of her. There is a demographic aspect to contraception and abortion. Even secular sociologists have to deal with that.
But, by the Grace, we see more deeply. To abuse, to desecrate life in the very womb, is to strike at the core: Be fruitful and multiply.
The Serpent said, “You shall not surely die,” when our first parents rejected the source of Life.
God said, “You have chosen death. You may have it in abundance. But I will not be frustrated. I will make the death you chose the path to life.”
We must, as Saint Teresa did, understand each “phrase” of this conversation. God WILL prevail. But the cost is dreadful.
When Mother Teresa spoke to us in 1982 she told the story of a woman lying in the gutter, whom everyone passed by. She stopped, stooped down, and scooped up her hand. The woman looked up at her and said, “Do you know how long it has been since I have felt the warmth of a human hand?”
The donations went to run her schools and clinics. Stop libeling her just because you hate Catholics.
true, Collaborate is a word that brings to mind the Frenchmen and women who were pro Germnan. They were dealt harshly in the post liberation, preislamic France
I did not choose that word wisely.
BUT, I was very good at diagraming sentences, and spotting disguised prepositional phrases.
There you go.
Those who haven’t worked out what “God is love,” means will tend to miss the importance of that. St. Teresa was evangelizing.
I've talked with several FReepers who have "informed" me that a person is simply "not Christian" unless they can cite the specific time they went to some tent revival meeting at a fundamentalist protestant church and "got saved".
Not surprisingly, I don't see them come on threads like this and make the argument that Mother Teresa "wasn't a Christian" because she never joined some fundamentalist protestant church in the bible belt. They wouldn't defend their viewpoint on the thread about Justice Scalia's devout religious life, either. Interesting.
The Catholic Church should do as much for the unemployed who also live on the edge of despair and who are also outcasts from society. The loss of one child, as regrettable as it is, is the loss of one life while the loss of a job may destroy an entire family. I must admit that Protestant Churches do more to seek employment for their jobless than Catholics do. Catholics could at least pray at Mass for the unemployed, but they often don’t even do that.
The Catholic Church should do as much for the unemployed who also live on the edge of despair and who are also outcasts from society. The loss of one child, as regrettable as it is, is the loss of one life while the loss of a job may destroy an entire family. I must admit that Protestant Churches do more to seek employment for their jobless than Catholics do. Catholics could at least pray at Mass for the unemployed, but they often don’t even do that.
And exactly how do you verify your statement?
Source please.
I already posted a prayer for the unemployed. Did you miss that?
What verification is required? Go to Mass and see if they even mention the jobless in their official prayers. I know of two Protestant Churches here in Houston who help anyone looking for a job with prayer services, food, resume writing and anything else required for job hunting. In my opinion, there is no greater form of charity and mercy than to give a job seeker what he searches for.
Yes, it is mentioned quite often during Daily Mass as well as Sunday Mass.
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