Thursday, 11 December 2014

St. Augustine and St. Monica

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Raissa makes the comment that too many Catholics do not believe that people can be as holy as those in the early Church.  This is not true. ...

Perfection Series VIII Part XX On The Truth of Conversions

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Years ago, my spiritual director at the time told me that he personally knew the priest who brought Jean-Paul Sartre back to the Church j...

Perfection Series VII Part XIX The Inner Life

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One of the things which has struck me in my own life is the fact that I really do not care about outward things. I must care about eating...

For the heck of it

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http://www.express.co.uk/travel/shortbreaks/532961/What-to-do-in-Sherborne

Thoughts on Today's Readings

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Today in the Old World, this is the Thursday in the Second Week of Advent. The readings at Mass included one which is a favorite of mine....

If only.....

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...Father Barron would watch fifteen minutes of the E channel, and 15 minutes of a typical music video channel, even with the old ones, he w...

To Be A Catholic

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For almost two hours, one of my mentors in this world and I discussed poetry, from Gawain and the Pearl , to Morte d'Arthur , the fi...
Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Great site and thanks to a reader for heads up

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http://medjugorjedocuments.blogspot.com/2013/11/2013-cdf-twice-to-us-bishops-on.html

Nice...on the Syllabus of Errors

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http://voiceofthefamily.info/wordpress/?p=599

Getting Back to Raissa Perfection Series VIII Part XVIII Simplicity and Unity

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A key truth about why we must cooperate with grace to become perfect could not be more easy to understand. Three stages demand simplicity of...

Endangered Species

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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grizzlymumcubs-c01.jpg Several friends and I were discussing "normal families". By our...

On The Feminazis

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Voris Today Mark Two

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There was a technical error in the other video, so here is a new one. I wanted to post this for awhile, anyway. At one time, I was close th...

Back to Raissa Tomorrow

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Fighting the elements today...will return to Raissa's Journal tomorrow.

From The Times of India

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/British-Vicar-of-Baghdad-claims-ISIS-beheaded-four-children-for-refusing-to-convert-to-...

Prayers Needed

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For all graduate students taking exams, who read this blog. For all seminarians in retreat, who read this blog. For all young men and wo...

Umm, what do you think, Readers?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/12/09/iowas-going-to-have-smartphone-drivers-licenses/ I have weaned myself from my ce...

News from a different front

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/oilprices/11283875/Bank-of-America-sees-50-oil-as-Opec-dies.html

Storms

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This morning, plans to meet a friend were cancelled for his reasons. However, I am not venturing out until later. Where I am has experienc...

Fascinating

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I find it fascinating that Muslims, militant homosexuals, feminists, radical Protestants, and atheists read my blog. I am truly glad they ...