"Animal, Vegetable or Miserable"

A former Marine friend in California sent this link by email, with the subject "Murderers!", today for your "anthropocentric" amusement:

Animal, Vegetable, Miserable

Karen Barbour

LATELY more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised. Were the animals humanely treated? Did they have a good quality of life before the death that turned them into someone’s dinner?

My friend concludes: "Just reflect on this article while you're enjoying your Thanksgiving turkey. And pass a drumstick, please."

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Sunday at St Mary of the Assumption: "Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

"For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

We belong to the Truth. We listen to His voice. His kingdom is in the world but not of the world.

We hear the Lord's voice in love, and with him we testify to His truth and in His love, that He may do the work of His Kingdom in and through us.

- we testify with His voice and in His love to the truth that abortion is always wrong because it is always and in every case the intentional taking of human life and never necessary for self defense as sometimes, tragically, is the case with capital punishment or war

- we testify with His voice and in His love that we can never support such taking of human life with our tax dollars as is proposed by the current health care proposal before Congress

- we testify with His voice and in His love that any health care plan that pays for, reimburses for or in any way condones or supports abortion would involve our financial support which is excluded by the laws of Almighty God as cooperation in a moral evil

- we testify with His voice and in His love that we are bound to oppose such measures with our lives, our actions and our words

His Kingdom is justice, love and peace for every human person, born and preborn. His kingdom is without end. Amen.

-- ((((..))))

"Viva Cristo Rey!" -- Blessed Miguel Pro, S.J., martyr, Mexico, 1927. For more on Blessed Miguel click here.

"Eulogy" for the paten

Elogio del piattino

During the distribution of Communion some fragments of the sacred Host might inadvertently fall. To avoid that the Body of the Lord might end up on the floor and trampled on the Church provides, today and not only in the past, that during the distribution of communion the minister holds the paten under the chin of the communicant, in the event that fragments fall on it they will not be scattered and profaned.

The use of the paten has been expected up until now, and is not optional, in no. 118 of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal and in no. 93 of Redemptionis Sacramentum, the instruction of Pope John Paul II and published in 2004: "It is necessary to maintain the use of the paten for the Communion of the faithful, to avoid dropping the host or a fragment of it."

From the GIRM:

"118. The following are also to be prepared:

1. "Next to the priest's chair: the Missal and, as needed, a hymnal;
   
2. "At the ambo: the Lectionary;
   
3. "On the credence table: the chalice, a corporal, a purificator, and, if appropriate, the pall; the paten and, if needed, ciboria; bread for the Communion of the priest who presides, the deacon, the ministers, and the people; cruets containing the wine and the water, unless all of these are presented by the faithful in procession at the Offertory; the vessel of water to be blessed, if the asperges occurs; the Communion-plate for the Communion of the faithful; and whatever is needed for the washing of hands.

"It is a praiseworthy practice to cover the chalice with a veil, which may be either the color of the day or white."

Italiano

Durante la distribuzione della Comunione può accadere che alcuni frammenti dell'Ostia santa inavvertitamente cadano. Per evitare che il Corpo del Signore finisca per terra e venga calpestato, la Chiesa dispone (oggi, non solo ieri!) che durante la distribuzione della comunione il ministrante tenga il piattino sotto il mento del comunicando, affinché eventuali frammenti cadano su di esso e non vengano dispersi e profanati.

L'uso del piattino è tuttora previsto (e non è facoltativo!) al n. 118 dell'Ordinamento Generale del Messale Romano e al n. 93 di Redemptionis Sacramentum (l'istruzione voluta da Giovanni Paolo II e pubblicata nel 2004): "È necessario che si mantenga l’uso del piattino per la Comunione dei fedeli, per evitare che la sacra ostia o qualche suo frammento cada".

Ed è un peccato che questo piccolo ma prezioso gesto di riverenza verso il Corpo e Sangue del Signore sia finito nel dimenticatoio di tante parrocchie, inclusa la Basilica Vaticana: alla S.Messa (extraordinaria) celebrata lo scorso 14 novembre da mons. Pablo Colino, il ministrante in mancanza di piattino ha dovuto utilizzare la palla del calice...

Grazie a Messa in Latino

"Sarah's Choice": pro-woman, pro-life and pro-family

"Sarah's Choice" is a new pro-life film which shows compassion for expectant young mothers in need of the true support of authentic love. Sponsor a showing or obtain a personal copy to show to families, youth groups or parishes. For more information on where to see or how to order "Sarah's Choice" click here.

"...less than fully Catholic"

Episcopal Governance and Catholic Communion

If such is not the universally accepted sense of Catholic communion, we bishops must look to ways to strengthen Church unity. Relations do not speak first of control but of love. If there is a loosening of relationship between ourselves and those whom Christ has given us to govern in love, it is for us to reach out and re-establish connections necessary for all to remain in communion. As you know, we have recently begun discussions on how we might strengthen our relationship to Catholic universities, to media claiming the right to be a voice in the Church, and to organizations that direct various works under Catholic auspices. Since everything and everyone in Catholic communion is truly inter-related, and the visible nexus of these relations is the bishop, an insistence on complete independence from the bishop renders a person or institution sectarian, less than fully Catholic.

-- Cardinal George
Opening Address
USCCB Fall Meeting 2009

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Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family.

We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental truths about justice and the common good, and to call upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike, to join us in defending them. These truths are:

1. the sanctity of human life
2. the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife
3. the rights of conscience and religious liberty.

Inasmuch as these truths are foundational to human dignity and the well-being of society, they are inviolable and non-negotiable. Because they are increasingly under assault from powerful forces in our culture, we are compelled today to speak out forcefully in their defense, and to commit ourselves to honoring them fully no matter what pressures are brought upon us and our institutions to abandon or compromise them. We make this commitment not as partisans of any political group but as followers of Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen Lord, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Jesus cleanses...

... the temple of body and soul in every holy Mass.