Monday, November 02, 2009
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
With his daring scheme for Anglicans, Benedict XVI fulfils the hopes of Cardinal Newman
The Telegraph reports:
Was Pope Benedict XVI inspired by Cardinal John Henry Newman, whom it is hoped he will beatify in England next year, when he suddenly threw open the gates of Rome to disaffected Anglicans on Tuesday morning?
The official website for Newman’s Cause hinted as much when it greeted the announcement with a reminder of Newman’s support for a proposal to establish an Anglican Uniate Church for converts, similar to that provided for Byzantine-rite Catholics. The plan was conceived by Ambrose Phillips de Lisle and Newman rightly guessed that it would be unworkable. But if it could be made to work, he said, he was all in favour. As he wrote to de Lisle in 1876:
“Nothing will rejoice me more than to find that the Holy See considers it safe and promising to sanction some such plan as the Pamphlet suggests. I give my best prayers, such as they are, that some means of drawing to us so many good people, who are now shivering at our gates, may be discovered.”
Read more here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100014403/with-his-daring-scheme-for-anglicans-benedict-xvi-fulfils-the-hopes-of-cardinal-newman/
Was Pope Benedict XVI inspired by Cardinal John Henry Newman, whom it is hoped he will beatify in England next year, when he suddenly threw open the gates of Rome to disaffected Anglicans on Tuesday morning?
The official website for Newman’s Cause hinted as much when it greeted the announcement with a reminder of Newman’s support for a proposal to establish an Anglican Uniate Church for converts, similar to that provided for Byzantine-rite Catholics. The plan was conceived by Ambrose Phillips de Lisle and Newman rightly guessed that it would be unworkable. But if it could be made to work, he said, he was all in favour. As he wrote to de Lisle in 1876:
“Nothing will rejoice me more than to find that the Holy See considers it safe and promising to sanction some such plan as the Pamphlet suggests. I give my best prayers, such as they are, that some means of drawing to us so many good people, who are now shivering at our gates, may be discovered.”
Read more here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100014403/with-his-daring-scheme-for-anglicans-benedict-xvi-fulfils-the-hopes-of-cardinal-newman/
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Assisted Suicide
Lord Joffe, who has campaigned strenuously for the legalisation of assisted suicide, is giving a public lecture at Bath University to promote his views. The University wishes the public to have their say in a poll on their website. It is a good, straightforward question "Should assisted dying be legalised for the terminally ill?" Currently there is a massive majority of "No" votes - go over to help keep it that way.Cast your vote here.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
An Abortionist turns to the Divine Mercy
Patric Madrid - http://patrickmadrid.blogspot.com/ - reports on a former medical doctor who was involved in contraception for women turned back to his Catholic faith - He used to perform abortions. Then he returned to his Catholic faith. Now, Dr. John Bruchalski's mission is to help spread the message of Divine Mercy through his medical practice. His powerful conversion story is why planners for the upcoming North American Congress on Mercy have invited him to give his witness for the historic Nov. 14-15 event.
Read more here:http://patrickmadrid.blogspot.com/2009/10/abortionist-turns-to-divine-mercy.html
Read more here:http://patrickmadrid.blogspot.com/2009/10/abortionist-turns-to-divine-mercy.html
Alma Mater
ALMA MATER
"The Choir of the Philharmonic Academy of Rome and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will release eight original pieces of modern classical music featuring prayers recited and sung by Pope Benedict XVI recorded mostly during His Marian pilgrimages by Vatican Radio."
http://order.universalmusic.co.uk/musicfromthevatican/
"The Choir of the Philharmonic Academy of Rome and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will release eight original pieces of modern classical music featuring prayers recited and sung by Pope Benedict XVI recorded mostly during His Marian pilgrimages by Vatican Radio."
http://order.universalmusic.co.uk/musicfromthevatican/
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
And tragic
American 'abortion addict' reveals she terminated 15 pregnancies in 17 yearsRead more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1220095/American-abortion-addict-15-terminations-17-years-publishes-memoir.html#ixzz0TqMUc3pC
A self-confessed abortion addict has revealed how she had 15 terminations in 17 years in an extraordinary act of rebellion against her controlling husband.
Irene Vilar, 40, claims she was unable to stop herself conceiving children Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1220095/American-abortion-addict-15-terminations-17-years-publishes-memoir.html#ixzz0TqMbGvPp
A self-confessed abortion addict has revealed how she had 15 terminations in 17 years in an extraordinary act of rebellion against her controlling husband.
Irene Vilar, 40, claims she was unable to stop herself conceiving children Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1220095/American-abortion-addict-15-terminations-17-years-publishes-memoir.html#ixzz0TqMbGvPp
More tragedy
Boy, 10, awarded £7.1 million damages for birth blunders which left him brain-damagedRead more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220081/Boy-10-awarded-7-1-million-damages-birth-blunders-left-brain-damaged.html#ixzz0TqMCVN1d
Harry, who will never be able to work during his adult life, was born on February 23 1999 at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
His lawyers said he was delivered by caesarean Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220081/Boy-10-awarded-7-1-million-damages-birth-blunders-left-brain-damaged.html#ixzz0TqMIXAIr
Harry, who will never be able to work during his adult life, was born on February 23 1999 at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
His lawyers said he was delivered by caesarean Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220081/Boy-10-awarded-7-1-million-damages-birth-blunders-left-brain-damaged.html#ixzz0TqMIXAIr
Our Lady of Fatima
"You have seen Hell where the Souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish in the World Devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say is done, many Souls will be saved and there will be peace”
Our Lady’s Words to Lucia 13th July 1917
Our Lady’s Words to Lucia 13th July 1917
What is happening to our NHS?
What is happening to our NHs? The media constantly reporting a catalogue of errors. Last week, it was reported that nearly 4,000 NHS patients in England die each year as a result of an error of some kind in their care, Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1219950/The-little-girl-left-mother-everyday-operation-went-terribly-wrong.html#ixzz0ToXXOmJi
And also http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220050/The-devastating-moment-parents-said-goodbye-son-left-severely-brain-damaged-hospital-blunders.html
Personally we have experienced my father on a ward and left without food and fluids. An operation where someone was sent home early and only after three phone calls able to get a doctor out and readmitted to a hospital where there where no beds and had to be transported to another hospital at 4 am in the morning before treatment. And a maternity ward with no midwives taking an 'active' role in the birth of a baby without pestering for attention.
And also http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1220050/The-devastating-moment-parents-said-goodbye-son-left-severely-brain-damaged-hospital-blunders.html
Personally we have experienced my father on a ward and left without food and fluids. An operation where someone was sent home early and only after three phone calls able to get a doctor out and readmitted to a hospital where there where no beds and had to be transported to another hospital at 4 am in the morning before treatment. And a maternity ward with no midwives taking an 'active' role in the birth of a baby without pestering for attention.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Left to Die
The Daily Mail reports that a 76 year old man was left to die after being wrongly diagnosed with cancer and sent to a hospice with a controversial "death pathway". His family claim he was denied food, water and medication except painkillers. He died within two weeks.
But tests after his death found that his cancer had not come back, and he was in fact Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219853/Father-misdiagnosed-cancer-dies-medics-death-pathway-stopped-feeding-him.html#ixzz0TlB2rhS6
But tests after his death found that his cancer had not come back, and he was in fact Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219853/Father-misdiagnosed-cancer-dies-medics-death-pathway-stopped-feeding-him.html#ixzz0TlB2rhS6
Veneration of the relics of St Thérèse
The relics of St Therese were at Aylesford this weekend. I don't have any photos but fellow blogger : http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/ has some good photos - check them out.
Thérèse de Lisieux (2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), or Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a French Catholic Carmelite nun who was canonised and recognised as a Doctor of the Church, one of only three women to receive that honour. She is also known as "The Little Flower of Jesus".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_of_Lisieux
Thérèse de Lisieux (2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), or Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a French Catholic Carmelite nun who was canonised and recognised as a Doctor of the Church, one of only three women to receive that honour. She is also known as "The Little Flower of Jesus".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_of_Lisieux
Prayer Needed
Fr Sean Cole of Bangor to Bobbio sends the disturbing news that Columban Father Michael Sinnott was on Sunday evening from the Columban house in Pagadian City by six armed men while he was walking in the garden.Fr Sinnott will be 80 in December, had a heart bypass four years ago, and has regular medication. Please say a prayer for his safe return to the community in the Philippines where he has served local people for decades.For further information, see Fr Sean's posts:Columban priest abducted in Pagadian City, PhilippinesUpdate on kidnapped Fr Michael Sinnott
Mary
Currently I have been volunteering at a Centre Of Peace bookshop, originally coming out of the Medjugorje movement. As well as books we sell a wide range of Catholic items. Being at the shop has meant I have been finding out more about Medjugorje and other Marian apparitions around the world. As well as Marian apologetics.
The following article on Bl. Bartolomeo Longo and the Rosary was written by Br. Ezra Sullivan, OP. It originally appeared on the Catholic Exchange website on October 26, 2007, in the month dedicated to our Lady of the Rosary.
On the day of Bartolo Longo’s beatification, October 26, 1980, Pope John Paul II called him a “man of the Madonna”; he later called him “a true apostle of the rosary” and “a layman who lived his ecclesial pledge to the full”. And John Paul II knew what he was saying — his own Marian spirituality was influenced deeply by what, as a young man, he had gleaned from Bartolo’s life and works.
So who was this a man who so profoundly affected the greatest pope of the 20th century and who has had a permanent effect on the way we Catholics venerate Mary? Unfortunately, he is unknown to many of those in the English-speaking world. His name is Blessed Bartolo Longo. Most people who know of Bartolo have heard of him from asides made by John Paul II in his apostolic letter on the rosary — but there is much more to this remarkable man than a few pithy quotes. His feast day is October 6th, and this is his story.
..... Through Bartolo’s tireless efforts, the occult arts were practically eradicated in the region of Naples, a worldwide Marian movement was started, and a church that was once used by about 100 elderly people became a basilica shrine that is now visited by about 10,000 a day.
Bartolo’s Marian and rosary-centered spirituality was so influential that, in his own day, he was directly encouraged by Bl. Pius IX, St. Pius X, and Leo XIII, the last of whom has been called the Pope of the Rosary. After his death, Bartolo’s influence on the very highest circles of the Church did not wane. It was due largely to the popular movement which Bartolo started that Pius XII made the infallible declaration on the Assumption of Mary. Even in our own time, Bartolo continues to inspire the Church.
Br. Ezra Sullivan, O.P. is a Dominican Friar in formation for the priesthood at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.. Please visit our vocations blog: www.dominicanfriars.org.
To read the full article go here: http://www.dominicanfriars.org/2007/10/29/the-rosary-the-devils-defeat/
The following article on Bl. Bartolomeo Longo and the Rosary was written by Br. Ezra Sullivan, OP. It originally appeared on the Catholic Exchange website on October 26, 2007, in the month dedicated to our Lady of the Rosary.
On the day of Bartolo Longo’s beatification, October 26, 1980, Pope John Paul II called him a “man of the Madonna”; he later called him “a true apostle of the rosary” and “a layman who lived his ecclesial pledge to the full”. And John Paul II knew what he was saying — his own Marian spirituality was influenced deeply by what, as a young man, he had gleaned from Bartolo’s life and works.
So who was this a man who so profoundly affected the greatest pope of the 20th century and who has had a permanent effect on the way we Catholics venerate Mary? Unfortunately, he is unknown to many of those in the English-speaking world. His name is Blessed Bartolo Longo. Most people who know of Bartolo have heard of him from asides made by John Paul II in his apostolic letter on the rosary — but there is much more to this remarkable man than a few pithy quotes. His feast day is October 6th, and this is his story.
..... Through Bartolo’s tireless efforts, the occult arts were practically eradicated in the region of Naples, a worldwide Marian movement was started, and a church that was once used by about 100 elderly people became a basilica shrine that is now visited by about 10,000 a day.
Bartolo’s Marian and rosary-centered spirituality was so influential that, in his own day, he was directly encouraged by Bl. Pius IX, St. Pius X, and Leo XIII, the last of whom has been called the Pope of the Rosary. After his death, Bartolo’s influence on the very highest circles of the Church did not wane. It was due largely to the popular movement which Bartolo started that Pius XII made the infallible declaration on the Assumption of Mary. Even in our own time, Bartolo continues to inspire the Church.
Br. Ezra Sullivan, O.P. is a Dominican Friar in formation for the priesthood at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.. Please visit our vocations blog: www.dominicanfriars.org.
To read the full article go here: http://www.dominicanfriars.org/2007/10/29/the-rosary-the-devils-defeat/
Friday, October 09, 2009
Sexualising our children
The schools and government are concerned about the craze for runner bands which can be exchanged in the school playground - for 'favours' by the girls. They are obviously concerned about sexualising of our children - what about the education system itself which has been sexualising our children at younger and younger ages. They should look on their own doorsteps first at some of the policies that they ahve out in place.
Culture Watch says: Governments Sexualising Our Children
We can understand the sex industry and porn lobby attempting to target our kids and push their sleazy agenda on them. But when the government gets into this business, using our tax dollars to do so, then we must be especially concerned.
Primary school kids are being targeted by a website developed by La Trobe University. The site, http://thehormonefactory.com, uses cartoons to tell 10 to 12-year-olds about how they can get “interested in sex”. It also informs them what a relief it can be if a woman has an abortion.
Indeed, this is part of the advice given to our children about “not making babies”: abortion “can also be a relief. If a woman has a termination she can still have a baby at another time.” How about some truth telling here guys? Why not inform these kids that abortion increases the risk of sterility? Chances are good there will not be a next time. But why let facts stand in the way of propaganda?
Read more here: http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2009/04/07/governments-sexualising-our-children/
Culture Watch says: Governments Sexualising Our Children
We can understand the sex industry and porn lobby attempting to target our kids and push their sleazy agenda on them. But when the government gets into this business, using our tax dollars to do so, then we must be especially concerned.
Primary school kids are being targeted by a website developed by La Trobe University. The site, http://thehormonefactory.com, uses cartoons to tell 10 to 12-year-olds about how they can get “interested in sex”. It also informs them what a relief it can be if a woman has an abortion.
Indeed, this is part of the advice given to our children about “not making babies”: abortion “can also be a relief. If a woman has a termination she can still have a baby at another time.” How about some truth telling here guys? Why not inform these kids that abortion increases the risk of sterility? Chances are good there will not be a next time. But why let facts stand in the way of propaganda?
Read more here: http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2009/04/07/governments-sexualising-our-children/
Monday, September 21, 2009
Is it necessary?
On the Laura Ingraham Show, Raymond Arroyo reported that the Met's new season opener, Puccini's Tosca, features a very disturbing scene.
At the end one of the acts, the baritone who plays Baron Scarpia apparently simulates the sexual act with a statue of the Virgin Mary. When the curtain rises again, he is found caressing the statue.
We would never see this type a scene perpetrated with a statue of Mohammad. But, as usual, we Christians are fair game.
I cannot see how this is necssary in the name of art and must be offensive to many. One show I will be avoiding if it comes to the UK.
At the end one of the acts, the baritone who plays Baron Scarpia apparently simulates the sexual act with a statue of the Virgin Mary. When the curtain rises again, he is found caressing the statue.
We would never see this type a scene perpetrated with a statue of Mohammad. But, as usual, we Christians are fair game.
I cannot see how this is necssary in the name of art and must be offensive to many. One show I will be avoiding if it comes to the UK.
Vocations
“The example St Jean Marie Vianney leaves to priests is that saintliness is possible in the ordinary ministry. Jean Marie did nothing exceptional, he simply lived every moment of his life as a man of God”.
Pope Benedict XVI
http://www.southwarkvocations.com/Southwark_Vocations/Welcome.html
Pope Benedict XVI
http://www.southwarkvocations.com/Southwark_Vocations/Welcome.html
Atheists are a dying breed
Data is rare in this area, but what they do have suggests that atheists are a dying breed. Austria is the only country which records the religious belief of parents but their figure, of 0.85 children per atheist woman, is far below replacement rate (2.1) and below even the most barren European country’s average rate, which is about 1.2. And since most people inherit their parents’ political and religious world views, this is bad news for Team Dawkins.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100010450/a-nightmare-for-richard-dawkins-statistics-show-that-atheists-are-a-dying-breed/
http://pontesisto.wordpress.com/ says: This is very bad news for atheist pin-up boy, Mr. Dawkins, as he and his chums have just spent a fortune on tee shirts claiming atheists ‘never dun nuffin’ wrong’, unlike people of faith who cause wars and other nasty things. Hard to believe this Oxford don hasn’t heard of the atheistic murderers: Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, et alia!! Still, one wonders whether the tiresome bighead might evolve… into a Christian, perhaps, in order to survive? At least with so many spare tee shirts, he’ll have plenty of dusters.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100010450/a-nightmare-for-richard-dawkins-statistics-show-that-atheists-are-a-dying-breed/
http://pontesisto.wordpress.com/ says: This is very bad news for atheist pin-up boy, Mr. Dawkins, as he and his chums have just spent a fortune on tee shirts claiming atheists ‘never dun nuffin’ wrong’, unlike people of faith who cause wars and other nasty things. Hard to believe this Oxford don hasn’t heard of the atheistic murderers: Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, et alia!! Still, one wonders whether the tiresome bighead might evolve… into a Christian, perhaps, in order to survive? At least with so many spare tee shirts, he’ll have plenty of dusters.
Swiss consider banning Dignitas and assisted suicide just as Britain considers relaxing its own laws
It's a sad day today as Britain changes the laws on assisted suicide. Members of the Swiss Government want the laws on assisted suicide tightened up - at a time when Britain considers relaxing its own laws.
As the Swiss prepare for a debate into assisted suicide, the Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales said new legal guidance will set out the circumstances in which friends or relatives can help without fear of prosecution.
More than 100 people have travelled from Britain to the Dignitas clinic Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214798/Families-help-terminally-ill-loved-ones-commit-suicide-prosecuted.html#ixzz0RlDxYsRK
In attempting to 'clarify' the law on assisted suicide, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer is in severe danger of achieving exactly the opposite.
Helping someone to kill themselves is a crime punishable by up to 14 years imprisonment under the 1961 Suicide Act.
But prosecutions are rare and convictions of those whose motives were obviously compassionate almost unknown.
While still giving a clear message that assisting suicide is wrong, the law has been implemented with mercy and discretion in often heart-rending situations. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1214962/DAILY-MAIL-Assisted-suicide-moral-minefield.html#ixzz0RlE6v8Ss
As the Swiss prepare for a debate into assisted suicide, the Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales said new legal guidance will set out the circumstances in which friends or relatives can help without fear of prosecution.
More than 100 people have travelled from Britain to the Dignitas clinic Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214798/Families-help-terminally-ill-loved-ones-commit-suicide-prosecuted.html#ixzz0RlDxYsRK
In attempting to 'clarify' the law on assisted suicide, Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer is in severe danger of achieving exactly the opposite.
Helping someone to kill themselves is a crime punishable by up to 14 years imprisonment under the 1961 Suicide Act.
But prosecutions are rare and convictions of those whose motives were obviously compassionate almost unknown.
While still giving a clear message that assisting suicide is wrong, the law has been implemented with mercy and discretion in often heart-rending situations. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1214962/DAILY-MAIL-Assisted-suicide-moral-minefield.html#ixzz0RlE6v8Ss
Friday, September 04, 2009
Holiday Time
We visited my sister. This is her with her daughter who looks a lot like my youngest daughter and us at the top at the theme park. We visisted Whipsnade Zoo and St Albans (St Alban was the first Christian Martyr) and Wicksteed Theme Park which was founded by a gentleman who believed in building social housing and was originally from St Asaph and the son of a minister. He was also friends with the Booths (Salvation Army).
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Today's Tract
"No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. We are only as strong as the weakest among us." If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.
Daily Reflection
"If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere."
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A relationship can bring you life's greatest joy or its worst pain. In the cartoon strip "Peanuts", Charles Shultz portrayed in his characters a lot of human traits with which we can identify. Charlie Brown personified a joyful yearning for a special relationship and the painful experience of unrequited love. It was devastating to see him rejected so often. How do you handle rejection or betrayal?
Fr. Robert O.P.
http://shrineofsaintjude.com/
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
A relationship can bring you life's greatest joy or its worst pain. In the cartoon strip "Peanuts", Charles Shultz portrayed in his characters a lot of human traits with which we can identify. Charlie Brown personified a joyful yearning for a special relationship and the painful experience of unrequited love. It was devastating to see him rejected so often. How do you handle rejection or betrayal?
Fr. Robert O.P.
http://shrineofsaintjude.com/
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Single Mothers in UK
Parenting a child well is a worthwhile, necessary, demanding full time JOB OF WORK. To put a parent with no working partner under pressure to work (under threat of financial penalty) when a child is under 5 may cause long term psychological damage to the child. Research shows how personality problems are formed in children traumatised before the age of 5. These lead to future (costly) social problems. Vulnerable children need love and stability with their biological parent/s. Why destroy a child's developing sense of self, learned through family love, security and discipline by paying a childminder when you can pay the parent to do the job she/he is biologically programmed to do. Children left with trauma find it easy to turn away from family to gangs for security and recognition. Children of all ages are vulnerable to abuse as they grow up looking for love they can't find at home. These are some of the problems exacerbated because our culture does not appear to value good parenting as a JOB OF WORK.
Sign here and pass it on: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/PARENTINGISAJOB/
Sign here and pass it on: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/PARENTINGISAJOB/
Home Schooling Moms
Single parent who are home schooling should not be forced to look for another job by signing on to Job seekers allowance (JSA), but they should be awarded financially and be commended by the government for the job they are already doing without a salary. They should be allowed to continue on income support or the government should introduce a new benefit assessment/regime to reflect the job they are doing or give them support in developing a business around their home schooling work.
Sign the petition here:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/jsaHEloneP/
Sign the petition here:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/jsaHEloneP/
Pensions for women
Interested in what is happening to pensions for women - sign one of these petitions as your pension is slowly being eroded.
http://search.petitions.number10.gov.uk/kbroker/number10/petitions/search.lsim?ha=1157&sc=number10&qt=pension
Did you know that you only receive half the second pension as a widow now?
http://search.petitions.number10.gov.uk/kbroker/number10/petitions/search.lsim?ha=1157&sc=number10&qt=pension
Did you know that you only receive half the second pension as a widow now?
Monday, August 03, 2009
When a loved one passes on.
ORDINARY SAINTS: HELPING MAKE PRAYER MORE KID-FRIENDLY
If someone close to your family has recently died, help your child to see that person as a saint who can intercede for them. Try something like this for an explanation:
“Now that Uncle Joe is in heaven with God, he really knows God so much better than we do. When you have a problem, ask Uncle Joe to take it to God for you. Uncle Joe still loves you so much—even more now that he’s in heaven. He’ll want to do what he can to help you. And because Uncle Joe knows God so well now, he can help you know God better, too.”
- by Annemarie Scobey, from the archives of At Home with Our Faith
If someone close to your family has recently died, help your child to see that person as a saint who can intercede for them. Try something like this for an explanation:
“Now that Uncle Joe is in heaven with God, he really knows God so much better than we do. When you have a problem, ask Uncle Joe to take it to God for you. Uncle Joe still loves you so much—even more now that he’s in heaven. He’ll want to do what he can to help you. And because Uncle Joe knows God so well now, he can help you know God better, too.”
- by Annemarie Scobey, from the archives of At Home with Our Faith
Sunday, August 02, 2009
The dangers of some pentecostal/evangelical churches.
The BBC report a man that let his daughter die because he put prayer over calling for medical assistance. Yes, prayer and faith are important but God has also given us medical wisdom and the two should go hand in hand.
A US jury has found a man guilty of killing his sick 11-year-old daughter by praying for her recovery rather than seeking medical care.
The man, Dale Neumann, told a court in the state of Wisconsin he believed God could heal his daughter.
She died of a treatable disease - undiagnosed diabetes - at home in rural Wisconsin in March last year, as people surrounded her and prayed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8180116.stm
The Catholic Church has always balanced faith and reason, whereas some of these churches seem to concentrate on faith only and this is where they get out of kilter and unbalanced.
A US jury has found a man guilty of killing his sick 11-year-old daughter by praying for her recovery rather than seeking medical care.
The man, Dale Neumann, told a court in the state of Wisconsin he believed God could heal his daughter.
She died of a treatable disease - undiagnosed diabetes - at home in rural Wisconsin in March last year, as people surrounded her and prayed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8180116.stm
The Catholic Church has always balanced faith and reason, whereas some of these churches seem to concentrate on faith only and this is where they get out of kilter and unbalanced.
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