Andrew

Andrew arrived home on break early this morning!

Special Family Christmas Treat

We are booked to see the Vienna Boy's Choir perform this Christmas. Can't wait!

An Insult to our Democracy

This tyranny speaks for itself.

Gabriel Garcia Moreno

"Liberty for everyone and everything save for evil and evildoers" so said Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador from 1859-1865 and 1869-1875. His presidency was significant because it proved that a Republic can be ruled with Christ publicly proclaimed and acknowledged as King throughout the nation with His laws as the foundation of all others. And how did Ecuador and its people fare during his presidency, especially considering the economic and social collapse prior to his taking the healm? It prospered. According to wikipedia:

Slavery was abolished, but there was full compensation for the owners; (this neither former slaved nor masters suffered economically). The army was reformed, with officers being sent to Prussia to study, and illiterate recruits taught basic skills. Houses of prostitution were closed, and hospicals opened in all the major towns. Railroads and national highways were built, telegraph extended, and the postal and water systems improved. City streets were paved, and local bandits suppressed. Garcia Moreno further reformed the universities, established two polytechnic and agricultural colleges and a military school, and increased the number of primary schools to 500 from 200 . The number of students in them grew from 8000 to 32,000. To staff the enourmously expanded health-care and educational facilities, foreign religious were brought in. All of this was done while expanding the franchise and guaranteeing equal rights under the law to every Ecuadorean.

Garcia Moreno attended Mass daily as well as spent time in front of the Blessed Sacrament. He also formally consecrated Ecuador to the Sacred Heart. He was assasinated by Freemasons, his famous words as he lay mortally wounded: "God does not die!"

Consider Garcia Moreno's Rule of Life, one fostering Christian perfection and, in Moreno's case, one which helped build a truly civil and just society. There should never be a contradiction between the person confessing Christ on Sunday from the one conducting his life and interacting with society during the remainder of the week. We are to be active leaven to help build up Christ's kingdom here on earth as exemplified by this noble knight:

"Every morning when saying my prayers I will ask specially for the virtue of humility."

"Everyday I will hear Mass, say the Rosary, and read, besides a chapter of the Imitiation, this rule and the annexed instructions."

"I will take care to keep myself as much as possible in the presence of God, especiallly in conversation, so as not to speak useless words. I will constantly offer my heart to God, and principally before beginning any action."

"I will say to myself continually: I am worse than a demon and deserve that Hell should be my dwelling place. When I am tempted, I will add: What shall I think of this in the hour of my last agony?"

"In my room, never to pray sitting when I can do so on my knees or standing. Practice daily little acts of humility, like kissing the ground, for example. Desire all kinds of humiliations, while taking care at the same time not to deserve them. To rejoice when my actions or my person are abused or censured."

"Never to speak of myself, unless it be to own my defects or faults."

"To make every effort, by the thought of Jesus and Mary, to restain my impatience and contradict my natural inclinations. To be patient and amiable even with people who bore me; never to speak evil of my enemies."

"Every morning, before beginning my work, I will write down what I have to do, being very careful to distribute my time well, to give myself only to useful and necessary business and to continue it with zeal and perseverance. I will scrupulously observe the laws of justice and truth, and have no intention in all my actions save the greater glory of God."

"I will make a particular examen twice a day on my exercise of different virtues, and a general examination every evening. I will go to confession every week."

"I will avoid all familiarities, even the most innocent, as prudence requires. I will never pass more than an hour in any amusement, and in general, never before eight o' clock in the evening."

Read the biography of Garcia Moreno by Fr. Augustine Berthe. You will not be able to put it down.

Wayward

The forest is dark. The path is narrow. My lantern is charity fueled by self abnegation. The lantern dims and I stumble to the end of a path now crossed. Squinting eyes attempt to survey the terrain of each choice. To the right or to the left? It is impossible. My lantern's radius is too mean and narrow, further diffused by the encroaching night. Only one choice is correct. Only one choice is Truth. Only one choice is freedom.

Tiny drops of confusion, distraction and perturbation swell up onto the surface of my skin. In my mind repeats an age old refrain "my will, my will, my will". My senses begin to numb, restored only by Et ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis. And then, echoed back sweetly on a steady whisper, I begin to discern an invitation "My will... My will... My will...". In my mind again is heard "what of my injury, my insults, my sacrifice?" And returned sadly on the same whisper I slowly contemplate, "what of My injury... My insults... My sacrifice..." Another invitation.

Before me now stands my brother. His face is known and unknown, liked and disliked. In his arms, gifts. I recognize them as something lost, dropped haphazardly along the path some time ago. He holds them out to me. I reach for his hand. My lantern sparks and its glow widens. Down the eastward branch of the path is now heard a melody of life that quickens and draws me: "Introibo ad altare Dei..."

Christ the King

I intended to write briefly on what a Republic looks like that is ruled under the sweet yoke of Christ the King since this is the exalted feast of that very Kingship. My subject was to be none other than Garcia Moreno, that gentile and noble knight that, as President, took the bankrupt and brigand-ridden nation of Ecuador in the second half of the 1800s to a peace, civility and prosperity that a government and peoples can only realize when Christ is the head and His laws are the bedrock of all others. I hope to take up the topic of Garcia Moreno in a forthcoming post, in particular to contrast his character with the deceit and treachery that have become the trademark characteristics of the modern politician. So much the worse those politicians that have the effrontery to call themselves Catholic while forsaking the City of God for that of man and antichrist. Civilization is at a crossroads.

Either there will be the reconstruction of the kingdom of Christ, or there will be a general collapse! To be nor not to be, that is the question today ... One senses now that it is a question of greatest, of utmost importance, of all or nothing. It lies like the atmosphere of Advent over mankind. There is great anxiety among the people because of the stormy thundering of the sea. Yet there is also longing and desire for the strong Redeemer, the coming King. We have had enough of the liberal era with its rights of man, its limitless arbitrariness and its God-empty laicism. We demand once again an Era of the Rights of God. We are sick of the wild anarchy in questions of truth and morals. We want law and order once again. We are tired of the harsh dictatorship of the spirit of the times, of the masses, of the wallet and the lodge. We demand a return to the mild reign of the Crucified! Christ must be King!
--Fr. Mader, from Cross and Crown

We enjoyed a wonderful feast today. Meghan and Amanda sang in the choir for the first time at today's Mass. Christopher also moved up the altar boy ranks and was inducted into the St. Stephen's Guild. Big feast days also center around the table at home for us, typically with big meals and little extras that make it even more special. Today was no exception.

Father's sermon should be posted shortly.

Viva Cristo Rey!

Feast of St. Raphael, Archangel

In Tobias, it is revealed that there are seven archangels that stand before the face of God. Tobias and family had the privilege of being accompanied and directly assisted by one of them, Raphael. Our girls baked a couple of pies adorned with fish (St. Raphael saved Tobias from being swallowed by a large fish) for today's feast.

Week in Review

Blogging has been slow this week due to a peak of work activity. There are several points of recent interest and they all tie nicely together. First, the Traditional Mass was celebrated at St. Peter's in Rome for the first time in 40 years. This is a great sign in what will likely be a very long process of restoration. Archbishop Burke, who presided, is definately one of the good guys. Who would have thought it possible five years ago? Pray for Pope Benedict, pray for the restoration of Christendom, and especially pray for the Social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ in all hearts and in all nations.



That leads nicely into the second point of interest this week, that is the conversion of Anglicans back to the Church. This is, I believe, the largest mass conversion in English history since the tragedy of the Protestant revolution in England triggered by Henry VIII in the sixteenth century. Could this be the beginning of the re-conversion of England so ardently prayed for by St. Paul of the Cross long ago? Time will tell. This comes at a time when large numbers of Muslims are about to descend on the House of Commons and 10 Downing Street to demand the establishment of Shari'ah law in British society. Crusade anyone?



Lastly, the critical doctrinal talks begin in a few days between the Society of St. Pius X and Rome. Let us pray that the outcome will be the condemnation of ambiguities/errors and practices that have eroded the Catholic Faith and placed so many in exile since the Second Vatican Council. It appears that the Holy Father would like to place the Fraternity in a personal prelature, similar to Opus Dei which I believe places them directly under his auspices. Bishop Fellay needs prayers, and all involved, that God's Will be done and all for His glory and honor.

St. Paul, in his epistle to St. Timothy, exclaims: "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties of words, and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called." (l. Tim. vi. 20.)

"Who is at present this Timothy?" asks Vincent of Lerins, and he answers: It is the Body of the Pastors of the Church, and therefore every Pastor must apply these words of St. Paul to himself: O Timothy, O Pastor, O Doctor, O Priest, " Keep that which is committed to thy trust," pure and undefiled, "earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints; " (Jude, v. 3); never depart from the sacred words of God, "once put into thy mouth." (Isai. lix. 21.) "You, therefore," says Bishop Hay, "must never know what it is to temporize in religion, in order to please men, nor to adulterate even one iota of the Gospel of Christ to humor them. You must declare the sacred truths revealed by Jesus Christ in their original simplicity, without seeking to adorn them with the persuasive words of human wisdom, much less disguise them in a garb not their own. Truth, plain and unadorned, is the only weapon you must employ against your adversaries, regardless of their censure or their approbation. ‘This is the truth,’ you must say, ‘revealed by God; this you must embrace, or you can have no part with him.’ If the world looks upon what you say as foolishness, you must not be surprised, for you know that ‘the sensual man perceiveth not the things that are of the spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand’ (I. Cor. ii. 14.) ; ‘but that the foolishness of God is wiser than men;’ and pitying this blindness you must earnestly pray to God to enlighten them, ‘with modesty admonishing them . . . if, peradventure, God may give them repentance to know the truth.’ (II. Tim. ii. 25.)

Mom and Dad Visit

We had the delight of my mother and father paying us a visit this past weekend. Time was too short, but what little of it we had was wonderful. We had a big family dinner on Saturday, and were able to pop down to Lake Placid last evening for an adult only dinner to celebrate birthdays and recent anniversaries.

I think that the chair is swallowing Dad

+ St. Peter Alcantara

Sermon Posted

Fr. Hewko was in town this weekend. The Sunday Sermon is posted.

Truth and Beauty

This is a Requiem Mass said for the repose of the soul of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The music is set to Mozart's Requiem Mass in D Minor in the breathtaking interior of a Baroque church in Poland. Enjoy!

Feast of St. Teresa of Avila

What I call consolations from God, and elsewhere have termed the Prayer of Quiet, is something of a very different kind, as those of you will know who by the mercy of God have experienced it. To understand it better, let us suppose that we are looking at two fountains, the basins of which can be filled with water. There are certain spiritual things which I can find no way of explaining more aptly than by this element of water; for, as I am very ignorant, and my wits give me no help, and I am so fond of this element, I have observed it more attentively than anything else. In all the things that have been created by so great and wise a God there must be many secrets by which we can profit, and those who understand them do profit by them, although I believe that in every little thing created by God there is more than we realize, even in so small a thing as a tiny ant.

These two large basins can be filled with water in different ways: the water in the one comes from a long distance, by means of numerous conduits and through human skill; but the other has been constructed at the very source of the water and fills without making any noise. If the flow of water is abundant, as in the case we are speaking of, a great stream still runs from it after it has been filled; no skill is necessary here, and no conduits have to be made, for the water is flowing all the time. The difference between this and the carrying of the water by means of conduits is, I think, as follows. The latter corresponds to the spiritual sweetness which, as I say, is produced by meditation. It reaches us by way of the thoughts; we meditate upon created things and fatigue the understanding; and when at last, by means of our own efforts, it comes, the satisfaction which it brings to the soul fills the basin, but in doing so makes a noise, as I have said.

To the other fountain the water comes direct from its source, which is God, and, when it is His Majesty's will and He is pleased to grant us some supernatural favour, its coming is accompanied by the greatest peace and quietness and sweetness
within ourselves -- I cannot say where it arises or how. And that content and delight are not felt, as earthly delights are felt, in the heart -- I mean not at the outset, for later the basin becomes completely filled, and then this water begins to overflow all the Mansions and faculties, until it reaches the body. It is for that reason that I said it has its source in God and ends in ourselves -- for it is certain, and anyone will know this who has experienced it, that the whole of the outer man enjoys this consolation and sweetness.

From her spiritual classic, Interior Castle

Remembering Those Who Held Fast

Shortly after the Cristeros uprising in Mexico just a couple of decades earlier, the Catholic Church was brutally attacked once again by Communists and Freemasons in Spain. Countless churches were leveled. Altars were desecrated. Thousands of priests, religious, and Catholic faithful, including women and children, were tortured and executed. Since then, over one thousand Spanish martyrs have been canonized by the Church. The video above is a testimony to their sacrifice and fight to keep Our Lord Jesus Christ King of Spain.

Can such a persecution happen today anywhere aside from a third world country? In America? With the recent approval of the Hate Crimes legislation, slyly embedded in a defense spending bill, "thought crimes" can now be prosecuted. One, say a pastor, who publicly proclaims scriptural teaching against sodomy can be thrown in jail for "hate". Very little imagination is necessary to see how far that can go.

There will be no special status for those who hold traditional values, however. To use the President's own recent remarks (once again demonstrating his use of Saul Alinsky's techniques of ridicule and polarization for overcoming opposition) traditional values people "hold fast to outworn arguments and old attitudes." I suppose one who cannot defend a moral argument from reason and Natural Law has but one defensive posture remaining -- to glibly dismiss it as "outworn." But then again, diving too deeply into the morality of a proposition is probably above the pay grade.

So will it come to blood as it did in Spain and Mexico less than 100 years ago for those who choose Christ as their King? If the signs of the times and history are as reliable as they typically are, it seems so. I think it is critical, and I look first to myself, to redouble our efforts in this Rosary Crusade so that the Holy Father will consecrate Russia and we will see a true peace before further descending down this precipitous slope to barbarism.

Saint Innocencio of Mary Immaculate, pray for us.

The House of Stinkman

Early Monday morning, I shot up in the middle of the night, aroused by a powerful odor. At first, I thought maybe the woodstove was burning too hot, but then I realized a skunk had sprayed. I assumed the skunk sprayed somewhere out in our backyard. However, I had the supreme joy of discovering later that it sprayed in our attached garage.

I have never fully appreciated the tenaciousness of skunk juice until now. Not only is our garage unbearable, but the odor has seeped into our home, in particular the downstairs and my office, as well as onto us. The teachers at the girl's school had to remove our girl's backpacks to the backyard because apparently the odor was so bad. The backpacks were inside the house when the skunk sprayed! A good friend opened up the car door of our van this morning and was apparently flattened by the ill-born essence that sailed from within. What is worse, I think we are getting used to the smell, so it may be on us and we do not even perceive it.

I've bleached down the floor of our garage, but cannot be certain exactly where the beast sprayed. We have a couple of piles of wood in there, along with a lawn tractor, freezer, and various outdoor playthings. We cannot even wash clothes because we are still waiting for our washer to be repaired from the breakdown a few weeks ago.

Humility is a good thing.

A Note Concerning Sermon Uploads

Given the ever increasing demands on the priests at the Syracuse Priory, Fr. Hewko will not be present as regularly at our parish. I will record and post his sermons when he is in town, as well as visiting priests on occasion. No sermon posting again today, unfortunately.

Please keep Alicia Bradley and family in your prayers: three Memorare's daily for Alicia's cure and also requesting help from Our Lady of Victories and Fr. Baker.

In Christ the King...

Fr. Damien Canonized Today

Fr. Damien, the saint of the lepers, is to be canonized today. Listen to the story of a remarkable life of self sacrifice for those that the rest of mankind abandoned:

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Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in:

Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me. Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, and fed thee; thirsty, and gave thee drink? And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and covered thee? Or when did we see thee sick or in prison, and came to thee? And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me. St. Matthew 34-40

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Devolution Continued

I was shopping last month for my six year old daughter and happened upon the scene pictured above. What would have made my grandmother recoil in horror twenty five years ago are today's "toys". What is even more horrifying is that these creatures, a snapshot right out of the red light district, are marketed to six year olds! Question: Is this a cause or a symptom of Devolution? It must be a mixture of both because there are perpetrators and victims. The victims are our children.

Pimped out dolls are created and marketed with a purpose, whether people care to acknowledge it or not. Money is just one piece of the picture. Cultural revolution is the other. Parents need to wake up and fight for the hearts, minds and souls of their children from those who are trying to pervert them. These "dolls" steal away the innocence of a child, steal away beauty and purity, replacing it with ugliness and darkness. For anyone who cares to argue that point, I would love to see a list of virtues that such toys emulate, with their rebellious facial expressions, their scant and revealing dress and their overall message.

It does not take an advanced degree in Psychology to inform a parent that children are impressionable like clay; they imitate. What parent would put something so foul before their child to imitate, along with the supporting music, movies and television shows? And what parent would expect a child given such playthings to grow up virtuous and selfless? Parents would not think twice if required to protect their child from an exterior life-threatening danger. Why is it that so many stand aside when their child is assaulted with a moral danger, one that amounts to a life-threatening attack on the child's interior? Where is the outrage? I am obviously outraged myself typing out this post, but I believe it is well justified. Kyrie Eleison .

Praying for Alicia Bradley

A storm of prayers continue for Alicia Bradley, mother of ten and pregnant, who is afflicted with an aggressive brain tumor. This past weekend, Father David Hewko led a pilgrimage in Buffalo to the tomb of Venerable Father Nelson Baker to pray for a miracle. God's Holy Will be done. Follow this link to pictures of the pilgrimage: Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Victory Basilica for a Cure for Mrs. Alicia Bradley.

We are asking Father Baker's help in obtaining a cure. The family is also asking that three Memorare's be prayed daily as well as petitions to Our Lady of Victory. Please keep all of the Bradley's in your prayers.



+Feast of the Holy Rosary

Evelyn Waugh

This morning, I was handed a quote from Evelyn Waugh, an early twentieth century Catholic convert, and, in the estimation of William F. Buckley Jr., "the greatest English novelist of the century." Although I cannot appreciate what it must be like to possess such literary talent, as a convert myself however, I can fully appreciate the following sentiment so beautifully expressed:

When Penelope Betjemen was received, Evelyn wrote to her: "You are coming into the Church with vastly more knowledge than most converts, but what you cannot know until Tuesday is the delight of membership of the Household, of having your chair at the table, a place laid, the bed turned down, of the love & trust, whatever their family bickerings, of all Christendom. It is this family unity which makes the weakest Catholic nearer the angels and saints, than the most earnest outsider."
- Taken from Selina Hasting's biography, Evelyn Waugh

In addition to the above, I will cite two additional quotes from Waugh. The last represents Waugh's sentiment that the modern world must choose between Christianity or Chaos. And just where are we today?

Conversion is like stepping across the chimney piece out of a Looking-Glass world, where everything is an absurd caricature, into the real world God made; and then begins the delicious process of exploring it limitlessly.

Today we can see it on all sides as the active negation of all that Western culture has stood for. Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe - has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance. The loss of faith in Christianity and the consequential lack of confidence in moral and social standards have become embodied in the ideal of a materialistic, mechanized state ... It is no longer possible ... to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it rests. [emphasis mine]

+ St. Bruno

Devolution

I am a proponent of the theory of Devolution. On the whole, I believe mankind, hell-bent on giving up its heavenly patrimony and spurning its creator, is becoming the brute, unrational creature of which those who promote the religion of Evolution claim to originate. I have loads of empirical data supporting my theory, all recorded on a daily basis by the faithless scribes at outlets such as CNN.com, ABC.com and CBS.com.

As Western Civilization continues to crumble around eyes glued to flickering screens and ears plugged up with iPods, ideologies that have long sought our destruction continue to grow in strength and numbers. Heck, we even celebrate these ideologies now by lighting up our national landmarks in their favorite color, as we did last week at the Empire State Building to honor the anniversary of the Communist takeover of China. Yes, that is the same Communist ideology that slaughtered at least fifty million people last century in Russia alone, not to mention what they have done and continue to do to the people in China through forced abortions, sterilization and a myriad of other human rights violations. All of this begs the question, who is really driving this bus and where is it going?

What is happening to our nation's children in their formation at school plays critically into the dilemma which we now face. A good priest in a recent Lenten Mission summed up the effects on individuals and society when a system of godless education is adopted by a nation. In short, Devolution. His summary, taken from a book written in 1935, follows:

• After two or three generations, the knowledge of God will essentially disappear from among the people
  
• The sense of right and wrong will be lost
  
• Good will be called evil and evil good
  
• There will be no respect for the moral law
  
• The depravity of youth will grow worse and worse
  
• Dishonesty and corruption will prevail in business, in the courts, in the legislature and in the government itself
  
• Taxes will be misappropriated or disappear into the pockets of grafters
  
• Heavy expenses will be necessary to maintain the growing number of asylums, juvenile courts, reform schools and prisons
  
• There will be no security to honor property and life
  
• The relations between capital and labor will be strained to the breaking point
  
• Violence and bloodshed will become inevitable
  
• Family life will be disrupted by adultery, divorce and free love
  
• National rivalries, jealousies and hatreds provoked by commercial greed, grow more and more intense until they lead to national wars with an unspeakable misery to millions
  

"Nations that sow the whirlwind must reap the storm." It is late, but still not too late. As this same padre is fond of saying, "it is time to wake up and smell the sulpher!" To end on a brighter note, as my own pastor is fond of saying, "in all of history, there has never been a better time to become a Saint." The battle lines are drawn; reach for the rosary -- live and breath the supernatural mysteries of our Holy Faith as stalwart beacons in an encroaching darkness.

+ St. Placid & Companions

Happy Birthday Isabella Frances "Curly"!

Therese with her friends on her name day

St. Therese

Today is the Feast of St. Therese, the Little Flower. She is the patron saint of our parish, and is the namesake of our own little Therese. I will never forget right after our Therese was born the nurse remarking, "doesn't she have her own little way?" For those who know St. Therese, this great modern saint found her sanctity through what she called "her little way." May this, our valiant sister in the faith, inspire us all to great holiness and love for God.

What to do on a rainy day?

Saturday night it started raining and it has not stopped raining since.

So what to do on a rainy day when all duties are fulfilled? Why, read, of course. I have been reading to the children the excellent series by Owen Francis Dudley, beginning with The Shadow On The Earth, A Tale of Tragedy and Triumph. Although appreciated by children, this series, written in the 1940s, is definately not just for children. The Shadow On The Earth tackles the topic of human suffering through the exchanges of characters that include a Monk, a Cripple, an Optimist, a Pessimist and an Atheist. As the author notes, "The problem of pain and suffering, with which this book is concerned, is prominent in the minds of men to-day. Unfortunately many only know it as presented by life's rebels--coloured with malice, twisted with cunning sophisms. It would seem to be the delight of certain writers to dangle the problem on the point of a virtiolic pen and hurl it as the heavens in defiance. These rebels offer no solution of the problem of pain and suffering. Instead, they sound the clarion of revolt. They have no solution to offer. There is a solution, however. It is offered in these pages."

Suffering has meaning. But modern man shuns suffering; attempts to stop suffering by "cunning sophisms" as Dudley states in his opening notes. These sophisms fuel the abortion mills, justify "mercy" killing of the elderly and crippled and reduce the worth of man to a utilitarian productivity measurement, like a gear in a machine that should be discarded once it breaks down.

The answer to the question of human suffering is known, and is revealed once again through the pages of this excellent story which, though the characters are fictional, is true to life. If you have not read these books, consider picking up the set by following the link above. I bet you will not be able to put them down.

"You may keep your religion to yourself! --to yourself! Do you hear?"
"You needn't shout at me. I am not deaf," replied Brother Anselm. "I shall not keep my religion to myself. My religion is my answer to you. You shall know why we love God; and you shall know God's love for us.... Do you see this Crucifix I wear? Do you know what that means? Yes, look at it! ... That is why we love God. And that is God's love for us. That is why we expect pain and suffering--"
From an exchange between the Monk and the Atheist

Real Food

Leslie just started a Real Food blog. Have a look and join the real food challenge. Given all of the sickness floating around, a healthy diet is extremely important. In addition, the links between various diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes to processed food is quite profound.