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For anyone who regularly or rarely checks this site, I apologize for the extended absence. A few weeks ago I ran an auto-upgrade (a feature in recent versions of Wordpress, the blogging application) and it broke the back end. While the site still worked for viewing, I had to fix the portion that allowed me to post, etc. I have a few topics I wish to cover in the near future.
Also, don’t forget I am also blogging over at truehopetruechange.com.
After barraging my personal blog with political rants, I have decided that the next step in improving my efforts in both scenarios I would shift my political writings to a fresh blog, truehopetruechange.com. Clearly the name of the blog represents a play on an administration that is providing us with less hope than we have ever had for our country: a nation that is increasingly marginalizing God and the unborn child — a clear recipe for disaster.
Thank you for following my writings here, at this blog, and I hope this presents an opportunity for you to focus on what you are most interested in: the personal side of my life, including my family interests, sports interests, etc., here at this blog, as well as the political philosophies at my new site. If you enjoy both, I appreciate it even more. You will notice, soon, that I will have an RSS feed from the other site posted on whichever site you are viewing. If anything piques your interest you can venture over to the other.
Please pray for my new efforts, that I may do God’s will in presenting a Christian political viewpoint.
I want to thank all Veterans for keeping us safe and free as another Veterans Day comes and goes. To my grandfather, my dad, and my good friends who have served, you are all heros in my mind.
I get the following in email from my mother-in-law this morning. She has my daughter a couple days every week:
Shelly & Judd….Just had to write and tell you what Ella said just now while we were looking at Spiritdaily.com on the internet!!! There was a picture of a fetus in the womb, and she right away said “BABY!”…isn’t that something when a 18 month old can recognize her/him as a baby, but the rest of America(or part) hesitates to call it what it is!!!!!! Amen for babies and all, especially the young and innocent who calls it as it is!!! Praise the Lord for the little ones!!! Have a good day!!! Love ya, Gepa K.
…I just thought I’d throw a little scare into you on this frightful day.
Happy Halloween!
After a somewhat full experiment with Facebook, I have concluded that such a space is not for me. I realized that many people performed on Facebook in a way to appeal to others (in varying ways) rather than to represent the truth about them. I’ve realized that it is an avenue for people to make themselves out to be more important than they are (and feared I would become one of them if I haven’t already). Most of all, I realized I was learning things about my friends — good, solid people — that I simply didn’t want to know. Perhaps they weren’t things that were intrinsically evil, but things I didn’t agree with them on nonetheless. I know these people to be good people, and I pray that they (as well as myself) are always looking for Truth. Still, one can’t help but let these things creep into their judgement about human beings, and it shouldn’t be about that.
I reconnected with some friends I hadn’t talked to in a while, albeit brief re-connections in most cases, and for that I’m thankful. The bad has finally outweighed the good to the point where it’s time I could spend in better ways. For now this blog will be my little dose of self-importance. Actually, it isn’t that but a place where I can vent to a theoretical group of people. My webstats say I have quite a few visitors, and that’s just enough to fool me.
Please keep my wife and our baby in your prayers! Here he or she is, at 8 weeks and 2 days.
But I must congratulate my wife, my brother, and my brother-in-law who all received their Masters Degrees this past Saturday. It was a great day for our families and a great wrap-up of a lot of hard work on their part.
Also, congrats to my cousin who received his B.A. degree in journalism. For some reason I’m not into naming names today, but you all know who you are and I want to congratulate all of you.
May Mary, the Mother of God, point you toward Him in your each of your careers.
Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers out there. Every day should be Mother’s Day, but as long as we recognize it today, I hope you have a good one.
Mary, mother of God, intercede for all mothers, including those expecting and those trying to get pregnant.
My cousin, Sr. Marie Ange, made her final vows today to become a full member of the Carmelite order of nuns. Praise be to God!
The homily was based on Matthew on 22:36-40, during which a lawyer puts Jesus to the test by asking him what the greatest commandment is.
“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind,” Jesus answers. “This is the greatest and the first commandment.”
The priest then explained that he has been a priest for almost 25 years, and in 25 years of confession he has never had someone confess to having broken the great commandment. He said that this is likely due to the fact that we all have our own idea about what this commandment means. I know that I would have a hard time explaining how the greatest commandment applies to my own life. I also know that I probably put myself ahead of God quite regularly.
Sr. Marie Ange will live a cloistered life of quietness and simplicity. She will offer herself in intercessory prayer for all of us and the world in Mass, Divine Office, and her own private prayer. She will also work, maintaining the grounds of the Monastery as well as creating religous artificacts (rosaries, prayer cards, etc.).
Sr. Marie Ange has set the bar very high for all of us. She isn’t the first, but instead continues the great work of the saints in heaven, especially the saints of her order. Still, it is comforting to have a living, breathing example of the great commandment for all of us to remember in our daily lives. We also will never know the blessings we have received from the prayers of Sr. Marie Ange and her sisters until we are welcomed into heaven to see God’s face. We do know that these two things will not simply be coincidental.
God bless Sr. Marie Ange. May we follow the living examples of the great commandment, the men and women of Carmel.
Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross, pray for us!
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us!
Praise be to God!
