I just read an article from Zenit News Agency, whose mission is "to provide objective coverage of events, documents and issues emanating from or concerning the Catholic Church". This particular article concerns Pope Benedict XVI's address that secularism "doesn't have all the answers". It is a very interesting article about how "attentive people" can no longer "grapple with the ethical and spiritual questions posed by the life sciences". The comments were made at the 20th International Conference by the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, who were there discussing The Human Genome Project. You can read the article here.
On Sunday Greg and I went to Borders and I bought a copy of Catholic Customs & Traditions-A Popular Guide Revised and Updated by Greg Dues. I am eager to read it to see how much more information I can learn about the traditions and customs and practices of the Catholic Church. It says on the back cover it "makes an ideal resource for people involved in the RCIA". We shall see...
I am looking forward to our RCIA's first retreat, a daytime retreat that is about Confirmation. I am uncertain at this point if I am learning about the sacrament or if I am actually receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation. I will learn more Dec. 5th when we start up again after a Thanksgiving break with Intro to the Sacraments. The retreat will be on Dec. 10th.
I am excited about the Advent Wreath I designed for RCIA last week. I am going to have Greg take a picture of it to post up here, if possible. That might cost money and if it does, no such photo shall be published.
Please pray for our friend, Kahlil, the first grader Greg and I are sponsoring in Palestine. We are putting him through a year of school in a Catholic school. The public schools there teach the children about Islam and how to be a practicing Muslim. This way Kahlil can come home singing and praising Jesus instead of praying to the East and reciting the Koran. He is one of six children and he can help his family stay with their Catholic upbringing. There are apparently less than 2,000 Christians left in the Holy Land. Please pray that he will grow mightily strong in his Christian faith and able to share it with his family so that we may have one more child of God and one less Islamic Fundamentalist.
"O God, the nations have invaded your heritage; they have defiled your holy temple, have laid Jerusalem in ruins. They have left the corpses of your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your faithful for the beasts of the earth....Do not hold your iniquities against us: may your compassion come quickly, for we have been brought very low. Help us, God our savior, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, pardon our sins for your name's sake...Then we, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever, through all ages we will declare your praise." -Psalm 79:1-2, 8-9, 13
On Sunday Greg and I went to Borders and I bought a copy of Catholic Customs & Traditions-A Popular Guide Revised and Updated by Greg Dues. I am eager to read it to see how much more information I can learn about the traditions and customs and practices of the Catholic Church. It says on the back cover it "makes an ideal resource for people involved in the RCIA". We shall see...
I am looking forward to our RCIA's first retreat, a daytime retreat that is about Confirmation. I am uncertain at this point if I am learning about the sacrament or if I am actually receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation. I will learn more Dec. 5th when we start up again after a Thanksgiving break with Intro to the Sacraments. The retreat will be on Dec. 10th.
I am excited about the Advent Wreath I designed for RCIA last week. I am going to have Greg take a picture of it to post up here, if possible. That might cost money and if it does, no such photo shall be published.
Please pray for our friend, Kahlil, the first grader Greg and I are sponsoring in Palestine. We are putting him through a year of school in a Catholic school. The public schools there teach the children about Islam and how to be a practicing Muslim. This way Kahlil can come home singing and praising Jesus instead of praying to the East and reciting the Koran. He is one of six children and he can help his family stay with their Catholic upbringing. There are apparently less than 2,000 Christians left in the Holy Land. Please pray that he will grow mightily strong in his Christian faith and able to share it with his family so that we may have one more child of God and one less Islamic Fundamentalist.
"O God, the nations have invaded your heritage; they have defiled your holy temple, have laid Jerusalem in ruins. They have left the corpses of your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your faithful for the beasts of the earth....Do not hold your iniquities against us: may your compassion come quickly, for we have been brought very low. Help us, God our savior, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, pardon our sins for your name's sake...Then we, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever, through all ages we will declare your praise." -Psalm 79:1-2, 8-9, 13
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