… Some where along the way we lost it, our sense of personal responsibility. I see it every day in my job. Some one has a sob story, life was unfair to them, they couldn’t pay their debts and now their credit is shot and they can’t even get approved for a rental property. The government should pay their debts, forgive their school loans and medical bills and I should be less cold hearted and rent to them. I am... Read more

…California, land of fruits and nuts. Read more

… winter! I am so over doing yard work. All the living green stuff in my yard needs to die. Now. Read more

… not much time for blogging anymore but I hate to have neglected the Nativity of the Theotokos that was celebrated yesterday. So for your viewing pleasure… Vittore Carpacciov Read more

Collect: Father of mercy, give your people help and strength from heaven. The birth of the Virgin Mary’s Son was the dawn of our salvation. May this celebration of her birthday bring us closer to lasting peace. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Read more

Birth of Mary On Our Lady’s birthday the Church celebrates the first dawning of redemption with the appearance in the world of the Savior’s mother, Mary. The Blessed Virgin occupies a unique place in the history of salvation, and she has the highest mission ever commended to any creature. We rejoice that the Mother of God is our Mother, too. Let us often call upon the Blessed Virgin as “Cause of our joy”, one of the most beautiful titles in... Read more

Kontakion (Fourth Tone) In your holy birth, Immaculate One, Joachim and Anna were rid of the shame of childlessness; Adam and Eve of the corruption of death. And so your people, free of the guilt of their sins, celebrate crying: “The barren one gives birth to the Theotokos, who nourishes our life.” Read more

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… don’t look for me here. I won’t be blogging. Friday the 5th has been designated as a day of prayer and fasting for the people of India in hope that the atrocious anti-Christian violence and persecution will soon come to an end. Friday is the memorial of Bl. Mother Teresa. [source] Read more

Vecellio Tiziano, Bacchanal of the Andrians c.1523 … have you ever noticed the reoccurring theme when you converse with ex-Catholics about their faith, or their current lack of it? They all have the same basic lament about Catholicism… the guilt. Oh that famous “Catholic Guilt”. According to them, Catholicism represents an ideology that everything is a sin and a source of shame. It’s oh-so-inconvenient to have a moral conscience. Especially in this day and age when every modern psychologist will... Read more