Ever wondered how different it is with children now as compared to back when we were children? Here’s an interesting article from Catholic Exchange.
At The Store Then: “Stay by my side. Stay where you can see me! Don’t you dare leave this aisle! Hold my hand in this store! Get out from under that clothes rack — that is NOT funny! You scared Mommy to death!”
At The Store Now: “Stop stepping on my heels! What are you, my shadow? Feel free to go wander around and look at stuff. I’ll text you when I’m ready to go.”
School Mornings Then: “I hear the bus, hurry! Get away from the curb! Do you have your lunch? Homework? Gym clothes? Quick! Run back to the house and get them. Hurry Hurry Hurry!”
School Mornings Now: “Drive carefully. No loud music. No texting while driving! Watch your speed. Do you have your keys? Sunglasses? Wallet? Phone? Quick! Run back to the house and get them. Hurry Hurry Hurry!”
Halloween Then: “Can we get our pumpkins now, can we huh huh huh?”
“It’s October 1st!”
“So?”
Halloween Now: “Want to pick out pumpkins tonight?”
“Nah. I don’t wanna get one this year.”
Christmas List Then: “And a super monster Lego set, Thomas the Tank Engine trains, a dumptruck, cap gun, Brio pirate set, and some Hank The Cowdog books on tape.”
Christmas List Now: “Uhhhhh, lemme think about it. Grocery money?”
Read the complete article here.
Tags: Humor, Inspirational
I came across this on Catholic Exchange today. A truly inspirational piece by Karen Rinehart.
It’s the day you spend one hour vacuuming the house and three hours trying to dislodge a pink Barbie comb out of the vacuum cleaner engine.
It’s the day you got a sitter for the baby, switched preschool carpool days, set the alarm thirty minutes early to put on makeup and iron a shirt in order to get to school for the class party, only to find out your kid told you the wrong day.
It’s the day you rush out the door to meet the bus on time, stub you toe and spill your Starbucks on your freshly ironed blouse only to have your kid say, “Why didn’t you bring the dog?”
It’s the day you remember to bring the dog to the bus stop but he sees a cat and pulls you into the half shut door which hits your brow bone so hard that you see stars, but you stumble to the bus stop anyway only to have the kid say, “Why are you late?”
… …
It’s the day you cave into your maternal conscience and put clean sheets on those stupid bunk beds only to throw out your back and be forced to cancel the hair appointment that’s made your life worth living for the last two weeks.
It’s the day you’re cemented to the couch with the bad back and heating pad, wondering if you’ll be incapacitated through the rest of the fall planting season only to have your daughter bring you a “Get Well” drawing, a root beer and a kiss.
It’s the day that anything that could possibly hit the domestic fan and fly in your face does; only you realize it’s going to be okay.
Read it in it’s entirety here.
Tags: Inspirational
According to the definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, theism means
: belief in the existence of a god or gods ; specifically : belief in the existence of one God viewed as the creative source of the human race and the world who transcends yet is immanent in the world
Different cultures tend to view and understand God differently. Which is probably the inspiration for
Father Philip Powell’s latest
blog post on
suppl(e)mental. Here’s a taste of Father’s Powell’s brilliance.
One of the major problems in the work of finding useful complementary interactions among science, philosophy, and theology is the question of divine action in creation: how does God interact with His creation?
Three are three basic schools of thought that address this question:
Classical theism (CT): God is Being per se; He created all contingent beings ex nihilo (from nothing) and holds all creation in existence; He exercises His will according to His nature as Love through instrumental causality (sacraments, people); He allows moral evil as a consequence of His choice to give His human creatures free will; natural evil is a consequence of the fall and the entrance of death into creation; He is Self-limiting, that is, limited only by His own choices and wholly unaffected by His creation. Total transcendence.
Pantheism (P): God is identical with creation, “All is God, God is All”; Spirit is the Soul/Mind of the physical universe, which is God’s body; everything is divine because everything is God, there is nothing “outside” God; God acts in the universe in a way analogous to the human mind acting within the human body; as the universe grows and changes, so does God; God is directly affected by free human choices; moral and natural evil are consequences of physical law, God is unable to intervene; He is naturally limited by physical law. Total immanence.
Panentheism (EN): God contains creation but transcends creation, “All in God, but not all of God in All”; creation is ex nihilo but also on-going; creatures assist in on-going creation through free will and choice; God allows His will to be affected by free human choices; He operates in the world through persuasive human agency; moral evil is a consequences of this agency; natural evil is the consequence of physical law. Transcendent and immanent.
Read the complete article
here.
Tags: Inspirational
A couple of really neat Top Ten Lists I came across on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam…
My Top Ten List Catholic Weasel Phrases:
1). one-issue Catholic voter (of the course this only applies to pro-life advocates)
2). complex moral problem (as cover for dissenting from Church teaching)
3). in good conscience (voodoo incantation that magically turns Evil into Good)
4). social justice issue (left-liberal social engineering meddling)
5). creative fidelity (imaginative dissent that on issues settled in the 4th century)
6). democratic ecclesiology (Protestantism by any other name)
7). missioned/missioning (Nun-word, means “to commission”)
8). in the proper context (the context here always seems to trump the truth)
9). pro-choice Catholic (have no idea what this is supposed to mean)
10). preferential option for the poor (see #4)
My Top Ten Liturgical Acts That Should Be Punished by Public Beating:
1). holding hands during the Our Father (not a real liturgical gesture)
2). improvised Eucharistic prayers (“Say the black, do the red, Father!”)
3). omitting the Gloria on Sundays and other solemnities (pure laziness)
4). pronoun shuffle to avoid using male pronouns (forced participation in a political experiment)
5). editing the Creed to make it politically correct, theologically dodgy (ditto)
6). using the homily to ask for money (throw hymnals at pastors who do this)
7). saying “Good morning, everyone!” after the “Lord be with you” (doesn’t trust the liturgy)
8). making imperatives into statements: “The Lord IS with you” (pretentious theology)
9). universalizing prayers, e.g. as in “Blessed are WE who are called to THIS supper”
10). funky priestly gestures, e.g. waving the host around at the consecration (stop that!)
My Top Ten Bad Excuses for Missing Sunday Mass
1). “I went to a wedding on Saturday.”
2). “I couldn’t find a convenient time to go.”
3). “The family Mass is annoying.”
4). “My pastor is a heretic.”
5). “The vestments are ugly, the music is bad, and the deacon can’t preach.”
6). “Sr. Moonbat always gets up and tells us about her eco-retreat center.”
7). “Father is always begging for money.”
8). “I went for a walk in the park. . .that’s the same as Mass!”
9). “Father said it was OK to miss Mass once in a while as a treat to myself.”
10). “I had out of town guests who aren’t Catholic.”
I recently did a review on the Hanc Aquam blog. Read it here.
Tags: Catholic, Inspirational
This is how politicians try to tempt the weaker ones among us.
Great job by Paul Nichols at the Catholic Cartoon Blog!
Tags: Catholic, Humor, Inspirational, politics
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