Catholicism: Nancy Pelosi Catholicism's Person of Year? Time for a Catholic Smile.
Diary 1/21/20
Been going to mass every week. This past week, as of this writing, was the celebration of the Lord's baptism.
Couple of things about this. First, it was barely after New Year and I ponder celebrating the baptism of Jesus. Jesus was not an infant when John the Baptist anointed him. Seems incongruent in terms of time passage as I see it. Second, the Deacon and priest walked around the church and spattered holy water on all church parishioners. The Deacon wetted my pew down something awful and we had to do the whole mass soaked.
Some Catholic entries below but goodness, the Catholic church named Nancy Pelosi as its "focused honoree". Could this be because every chance she gets she tells everyone she is Catholic and thus does not hate, does not let farts in church, is not mean to people?
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Been going to mass every week. This past week, as of this writing, was the celebration of the Lord's baptism.
Couple of things about this. First, it was barely after New Year and I ponder celebrating the baptism of Jesus. Jesus was not an infant when John the Baptist anointed him. Seems incongruent in terms of time passage as I see it. Second, the Deacon and priest walked around the church and spattered holy water on all church parishioners. The Deacon wetted my pew down something awful and we had to do the whole mass soaked.
Some Catholic entries below but goodness, the Catholic church named Nancy Pelosi as its "focused honoree". Could this be because every chance she gets she tells everyone she is Catholic and thus does not hate, does not let farts in church, is not mean to people?
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Why Catholics Celebrate the New Year
We have a very nice mass at my church for New Year, which is why I wondered if New Year was some sort of holy day of obligation.
Although, silly me, the church has masses every day, but at special times on Thanksgiving. I also attended mass on Thanksgiving and it was quite special to me.
We have a very nice mass at my church for New Year, which is why I wondered if New Year was some sort of holy day of obligation.
Although, silly me, the church has masses every day, but at special times on Thanksgiving. I also attended mass on Thanksgiving and it was quite special to me.
The Christian vocation, following on the principle of the Incarnation, seeks precisely to bring God to the world, to embody faith within it in order to transform it. It is the vocation of the laity, in particular, to permeate all of human activity with the life of the Church, not to stifle it, but to bring it to a greater perfection in Christ.
How then does this relate to the Catholic celebration of New Year’s Day? The answer is that dates do matter and that the marking of these dates defines how we understand our place within history and God’s plan. New Year’s should reinforce our sense of vocation for the coming year.
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Cardinal Mueller: Church Crisis Comes from Abandoning God, Adapting to Culture
It's a bit blurry, but I understand what Cardinal Mueller is saying in the story below.
Here's hoping the church remains on a moral path and condemns abortion and same-sex marriage, no matter how the culture re-defines it.
Nancy Pelosi? I know she goes around telling people she is Catholic, and thus perfect. But she votes FOR abortion and all sorts of depravity concerning marriage and same sex relations.
In naming Pelosi as its focused honoree, National Catholic Reporter cited her “steady and thoughtful service to the nation at a time of extraordinary challenge and for exemplifying, in all its complexity, a public and, in this case, political role in which her Catholicism acts as a kind of moral bedrock.”
As we mark the year...it helps to think back to Pope St. John Paul II’s celebration of the new millennium. John Paul recognized that the marking of 2,000 years from the birth of Christ represented a significant milestone in the life of the Church, a time for Christians to rediscover their vocation in the world. The document, Tertio Millennio Adveniente, in particular, provides a powerful reflection on the Incarnation, a Christian understanding of time, and the way we mark it in our own lives.
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Time for a Catholic Smile
Cardinal Mueller: Church Crisis Comes from Abandoning God, Adapting to Culture
It's a bit blurry, but I understand what Cardinal Mueller is saying in the story below.
Here's hoping the church remains on a moral path and condemns abortion and same-sex marriage, no matter how the culture re-defines it.
Phoenix, Ariz., Jan 1, 2020 / 09:27 am (CNA).- The crisis facing the Catholic Church today has arisen from an attempt – even by some within the Church - to align with the culture and abandon the teachings of the faith, said Cardinal Gerhard Mueller Jan. 1.
“The crisis in the Church is man-made and has arisen because we have cozily adapted ourselves to the spirit of a life without God,” the cardinal told thousands of Catholics gathered in Phoenix for the 2020 Student Leadership Summit hosted by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS).
“The poison paralyzing the Church is the opinion that we should adapt to the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the age, and not the spirit of God, that we should relativize God’s commandments and reinterpret the doctrine of the revealed faith,” he said. He cautioned that even a number of people in the Church are “longing” for a kind of Catholicism without dogmas, without sacraments, and without an infallible magisterium.
“The crisis in the Church is man-made and has arisen because we have cozily adapted ourselves to the spirit of a life without God,” the cardinal told thousands of Catholics gathered in Phoenix for the 2020 Student Leadership Summit hosted by the Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS).
“The poison paralyzing the Church is the opinion that we should adapt to the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the age, and not the spirit of God, that we should relativize God’s commandments and reinterpret the doctrine of the revealed faith,” he said. He cautioned that even a number of people in the Church are “longing” for a kind of Catholicism without dogmas, without sacraments, and without an infallible magisterium.
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Catholic publications join in naming people of the year
Nancy Pelosi? I know she goes around telling people she is Catholic, and thus perfect. But she votes FOR abortion and all sorts of depravity concerning marriage and same sex relations.
In naming Pelosi as its focused honoree, National Catholic Reporter cited her “steady and thoughtful service to the nation at a time of extraordinary challenge and for exemplifying, in all its complexity, a public and, in this case, political role in which her Catholicism acts as a kind of moral bedrock.”
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