Job Opening

May 25, 2012 By Mark Shea 1 Comment

A reader writes:

I don’t know if any of your readers are interested, but the Diocese of Yakima is looking for someone to take on the role of Director of Campus Ministry at Central Washington University. I know there are a lot of very qualified, recently graduated college seniors out among your readers who would be perfect for the job. I know it has been open for a while, but to the best of my knowledge they are still accepting applications. If you know of anyone looking and could pass this along to them I would appreciate it. Thank you.

Carpe diem!

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Further Recommendation for What to Do With our Ruling Class

May 25, 2012 By Mark Shea 51 Comments

In addition to stripping our elected officials of all financial gain beyond their salaries for their elected office and putting it into a fund for wounded veterans, with a proviso that any protest means immediate induction into the military or prison, I also think that the entire management of Goldman Sachs should immediately have all their personal wealth confiscated and put into that same fund for wounded vets. After all, the vets were doing all the fighting and dying while these vampires were enriching themselves by clever forms of theft from their native land in a time of war.  I think that’s treason.  Once stripped of their stolen wealth, they should then be sentenced to a life helping homeless vets find work.  If they protest, they should be immediately inducted into the Army and sent to Afghanistan to clean toilets and be the last to be allowed to leave, after repeated tours of duty.  If they cavil at cleaning toilets, they should be given the task of scouting ahead of patrols for IEDs and be buried in a landfill if they get killed.  They should also be kept in separate barracks from our honorable troops, since decent people should not have to be forced to socialize with such loathsome parasites.  When they return from Afghanistan or whichever other war of empire our Ruling Class launches next (and they should never return till all our eternal wars are over) homeless vets should be hired to help get them set up with low-income housing and food stamps.  Then they should be taught a useful trade, making things with their hands.

Just some thoughts this Memorial Day as I contrast the valor and self-sacrifice of our troops (indeed, one of our troops sent me  the link) with the disgusting treasonous parasitism of these Human Ticks on Wall Street.

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Four Ways the Gay “Marriage” Debate…

May 25, 2012 By Mark Shea 9 Comments

…has been rigged. Marc Barnes is inimitable.

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Cool Software Alert!

May 25, 2012 By Mark Shea 2 Comments

Andrew Jones from Logos Bible Software writes:

I hope all is well. We here at Logos have just released our version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. This edition is a response to the Vatican’s call for more use of technology in the study of the Catechism. I think you might find it very useful for a lot of the work you do. You can watch a demonstration video here: http://scripturestudysoftware.com/catechism/

Check thou it out!

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A Reader Needs Your Help

May 25, 2012 By Mark Shea 18 Comments

She writes:

I walk my dogs every morning and a fellow dog walker is a former Catholic now baptist preacher. While discussing redemption I told him he had some very Catholic ideas. He wasn’t too happy about that. He claims he knows “everything” about the Catholic Church. He also told me he knows what a monstrance is and I just smiled and gave him a thumbs up. Then he asked me to quiz him. Ask him anything he said. At that point we parted ways on our walk. He is away on a business trip. While he is gone I am looking for 5 questions to ask about the Church that will make him think. He is not a stupid man and prides himself on his intellect. Perhaps you and your readers can think of some questions and answers I can present to him to give him a bit of a challenge. He’s the one who asked to be quizzed after all.

I’d start here. I’d also give him a copy of By What Authority?, from which that is excerpted.

Learned readers, feel free to add whatever questions you think might be useful here.

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Off to our Hidden Island Redoubt!

May 25, 2012 By Mark Shea 6 Comments

Even a Dark Lord needs a break sometimes so, as is the Shea custom every Memorial Day weekend, we shall be giving ourselves up to four days of jollification and merriment at our Hidden Island Redoubt. There shall be eating of pancakes, extensive walks in wood and on beach, singing, bird-watching, frisbees, wine by the campfire, a chance of clams, naps, reading, visiting with friends, and long walks, as well as Mass in this charming Church:

I will give thanks for all y’all being such fine readers!

See you Tuesday!

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This weekend is Memorial Day Weekend

May 25, 2012 By Mark Shea 8 Comments

…and whether you vote for the Nobel Prize Winner who has launched more cruise missiles and drone strikes than any other, or we choose the lesser of two evils and vote for, you know, the evil of a warmonger party that has learne absolutely nothing from its blunders….

“I can’t name a single Romney foreign policy adviser who believes the Iraq War was a mistake. Two-thirds of the American people do believe the Iraq War was a mistake. So he has willingly chosen to align himself with that one-third of the population right out of the gate,” – Christopher Preble, Cato Institute.

…we will help guarantee that we have more troops to memorialize. 

Unless, of course, we vote for, oh, I don’t know, somebody who saw the Iraq War would be a disaster and who thinks the best way to support our troops is to keep them home with their families and not send them to get killed in expermental nation-building wars, followed by being tossed in a land fill, stripped of their benefits by the traitorous swine in the Ruling Class, and abandoned to joblessness and suicide.

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Prayer Request

May 25, 2012 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment

A reader writes:

Thursday was one week since Lydia, the 13 year old daughter of our dear and cherished friends was struck by a garbage truck as she stepped off her school bus. Now, one week later, Lydia remains in a non-induced coma in hospital. It is amazing to see & hear of how God is pouring out His mercy and blessings in the midst of this terrible situation. Yesterday she showed the first signs of healing – just a glimmer – when she lifted her arm to push away the source of pain in a sensory test. This revealed a higher level of cognitive functioning – it was not simply a reflex. Her parents have a renewed sense of optimism and hope. She still has such a long way to go toward healing – in her chest, with many broken ribs & internal injuries, her collar bone, and in her bruised brain. Thankfully, an MRI today indicated she does not have any major spinal injuries, so she is not paralyzed – thank you Jesus. Please continue to pray for Lydia’s Miracle. For complete healing and restoration. For peace and strength and hope and endurance for her family. For wisdom and attentiveness for her doctors & nurses. For her bus driver and for the driver of the recycling truck – both are broken men. And that she might open her eyes soon and be ‘present’ to her parents. May God continue to be glorified each step of the way, and in the days ahead. Amen.

Father, hear our prayer for Lydia’s complete healing in body, soul and spirit through Christ our Lord. Grant wisdom, skill and compassion to her caregivers and grace, peace, strength and consolation to all who love her. Thank you for the progress she has made so far. See her through to complete healing through Jesus Christ. Mother Mary and St. Luke, pray for her!

A reader with an autistic child who is moving to Coeur d’Alene writes:

I spoke with a member of the Panhandle Autism Society based in CDA and she not only recommended the Coeur d’Alene School District, but to try to find a rental in the school boundaries of Skyway Elementary School. Please join us in praying for a 3 + bedroom house with a fenced yard. Both girls want their own room, so if we can get a 3 bdrm with either an office or family room that we could convert, that would work, too. Oh, and please pray that we can find a rental in our price range. Thanks, so much. Help me to trust in You, Jesus!

We are looking to be out of our Woodinville house by the end of June and a lot of rentals may be coming open this next month, so please pray with me to manage my time well between finishing up our home schooling year, looking for our rental and packing/cleaning up this house. God continues to amaze and bless us and we are so grateful for your prayers, which have sustained us during this transition time.

I am so looking forward to the additional services available in CDA, which, according to the Panhandle Autism Society, is much more supportive to families with children with autism. We are also looking forward to getting settled and having our dear friends visit us in this beautiful area of the country.

Father, hear our prayer through Christ our Lord. Mother Mary, pray for this family that they get exactly what they need.

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The Invaluable Mike Flynn…

May 25, 2012 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment

expatiates on Science![TM] and, as bonus takes a look a recent piece of crap Science![TM] which will have the hand-wringers out, fretting about Racist Babies.

If you aren’t doing so yet, you really need to go buy his novels, which are fantastic.

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Another refugee….

May 24, 2012 By Mark Shea 20 Comments

from the Thing that Used to be Conservatism.

The crazy carnival of lunacy that is now what passes for “conservatism” is a sort of mirror image of the thing it hates. No thanks. Choosing between it and the Faith is like choosing between a stay at a madhouse or the House of Tom Bombadil. It doesn’t even require a moment’s thought.

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Prayer Requests

May 24, 2012 By Mark Shea 2 Comments

A reader writes:

A while ago I asked for some prayers for a young man I was working with who was trying to discern is he should become a priest. The priest who works with with these young men advised my student to complete his BA, he is in a program to become a special educator. He was to go student teaching this fall, but to do so he had to pass a test from the state (his grades are not the best). He received the notice that he did not pass the test. He can take it again in June. But right now he is thinking of quitting college. This is a problem on several levels – to enter the pre-vocational program in our diocese he needs his BA; student teaching would give him the confidence in his abilities to work with all sorts of people, a skill needed to be a priest, and completing the degree whether he becomes a priest or not would help his self-efficacy. COuld you please ask your readers to offer a prayer for this young man as he prepares again for this test and for his decison making process.

Father, help this young man pass his test, do well in school, and find the path you have for him. Mother Mary and St. Jean Vianney, pray for him. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Another reader writes:

If you and your readers would offer a prayer for my grandmother, I would greatly appreciate it.

Father, hear our prayer for this woman, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Mother Mary and St. Anne, pray for her.

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If I haven’t said so lately, I’ll say it now

May 24, 2012 By Mark Shea 3 Comments

Simcha Fisher is one of the greatest ornaments of the American Church. She has more common sense and wisdom in her little finger than some professional theologians have in their whole body.

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