Thursday, January 31, 2013

January 31. Feast Day of Saint John Bosco -- Priest.

31 de Enero. San Juan Bosco -- Presbítero.

"[O]ne who knowingly and deliberately votes for a candidate who is on record as supporting...

... the killing of unborn babies ... 

... is guilty of mortal sin ..." 


James J. Drummey's "Catholic Replies."
In The Wanderer. Thursday, January 24, 2013.


"Q. Is a priest obligated before an election to tell his congregation that they must not vote for pro-abortion candidates?

"Is it a mortal sin to vote for such candidates?

"A. As the moral leader of his parishioners, a priest is obligated to steer them away from cooperation in evil, whether it's abortion, prostitution, adultery, pornography, racism, or sexual abuse of children.

"Abortion is intrinsically evil, and no Catholic may vote for a  political  candidate  who supports an intrinsic evil.

"By voting for such a candidate, a Catholic makes himself complicit in the abortions that the election of this candidate will make possible.

"Therefore, one who knowingly and deliberately votes for a political candidate who is on record as supporting the killing of unborn babies cooperates in that evil and is guilty of mortal sin ..."  
  
Interesting, huh? :)

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Asia Bibi and Barbara Castro Garcia:
Two heroic young women!

Now among Inside The Vatican magazine's 
"Top Ten People of 2012"

As excerpted by The Wanderer. Thursday, January 24, 2013.

"BARBARA CASTRO GARCIA

"This Spanish mother died after postponing cancer treatments, in order to save her unborn baby from possible harm.

"Her child, Barbarita, was born in 2010.

"But Barbara's cancer flared up immediately after she gave birth, leading to her death...

"ASIA BIBI

"This Pakistani Christian woman was arrested and sentenced to death for allegedly  blaspheming against  Islam in 2009.

"Far beyond the borders of her native Pakistan, Asia's story has become an emblem of religious persecution.

"In November  2010, Pope Benedict spoke of his spiritual closeness to her and called for her release.

"This was a wake - up call to Western governments and media, whose silence over the persecution of Christians worldwide adds up to a glaring moral blind-spot..." 

That's for sure!! :) 

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

"How to evangelize Hispanic Catholics..."

Leading them astray in Chicago ...

The curse of Padre Gringo ...

Snippet of original by Rey Flores. In The Wanderer, Thursday, January 24, 2013.

In Chicago,"there are at least a couple dozen huge parishes located in Hispanic neighborhoods that almost always have the stereotypical white, liberal pastor.

"Padre Gringo -- insert the name Larry, Tony, Bruce, or Mike here -- with his social justice and Liberation Theology agendas, tends to decide what is most important to his flock.

"It is Padre Gringo who tells his Hispanic parishioners that immigration is the first and foremost social issue that they should be concerned with.

"Never mind all that silliness about  homosexuality or abortion and contraception.

"What is most sad here is that the communities then start to worship the pastor almost more than Jesus.

"The next time you want to lead a rosary at the nearest abortion mill or have a pro - life or pro - family activity at your parish, reach out to some of these parishes ..."

But! Beware!

"You will definitely face opposition by some bishops, pastors, parish staffers, and other so - called leaders in these communities..."

Good points, Señor! :)

Monday, January 28, 2013

January 28. Feast Day of Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Priest and Doctor of the Church.

Enero 28. Santo Tomás de Aquino -- Presbítero y Doctor de la Iglesia.


Southwest Texas, U.S.A. ...

Saint Mary Magdalen Catholic Church.

Brackettville,  78832.

Good, supportive -- all around ministerial team -- rocks!

At last Saturday's deacon - less  5:30 p.m. Mass.

 Celebrant: Father Antonio Moreno.

Altar Server TEAM: Ms. Brianna Flores and Mr. Alex DeHoyos.

Extraordinary Ministers: La Señora Norma Sandoval, K of Cs Mr. Roland Boysen and Mr. John Carlson.

Before Mass Rosary Leader: Mr. George Nicolai.

Lector: Mrs. Frances Franklin.

Una pareja tan parejo: Mr. and Mrs. Javier and Lucila Valdez, for helping with the during - Mass baptisms of Israel and Roland.

Choir Director: Mrs. Lynn McNew.

Ushers: Mr. George Nicolai and Mr. Faustino Sandoval.  

Way to go, great and wonderful people! :)

Latest Radio informacion sin fronteras escapee count from last September 16's Mexican jailbreak in Piedras Negras:

16 shot dead.

44 recaptured more or less alive and breathing.

70 still running loose all over the countryside.

Way to go, amigos! :)

"Attempted suicide is still risky business..."
 

And deliberately overdosing because they cut - off your cable TV this weekend -- even here in Brackettville, Texas 78832 -- simply su*cks.

Period!

Enough said! :(


Friday, January 25, 2013

For males only? :)

"The Joy of Midlife"

By Michael J. Rayes of The Latin Mass magazine, Christmas 2012.

He is the author of 28 Days to Better Behavior.

"We hear much about the midlife crisis.

"This is when American men reach their 40s and 50s and begin to regret what they missed in life so far.

"They pine for their evaporated youth.

"Typically, the stereotype of this phase of life involves sports cars, adultery and career changes.

"What men need are goals, self - respect, and a solid, loving relationship  with their Creator.

"CHOOSING JOY

"God gives us joy but does not promise us happiness in this life.

"Sometimes you may simply have to choose to be joyful rather than relying on external circumstances.

"The mature Christian transcends statements such as he made me angry or she makes me happy.

"This transcendent, self - controlled inner joy takes time to develop..."

NEVERTHELESS!

"Those in midlife are oftentimes ready for this message because they already have decades of experience dealing with externals and realizing that only God can give true peace.

"In your life to this point, you worked for your daily bread and built a family.

"Now, you can realize the importance of peace with God and peace in your other relationships ..."

Way to go, Señor! :) 

January 25. Feast Day of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle.

"Local law officials on high alert after Acuña shootout leaves 5 dead..."

Headlines in Del Rio Herald, Wednesday, January 23, 2013
 

Thursday, January 24, 2013

"Let's put it provocatively: the entire academic curriculum at any institution  of higher learning stands or falls depending ..."

A snippet from the controversial  right - on campus radical Dr. Peter A. Kwasniewski, Professor of Theology and Philosophy's timely article in the Christmas 2012 issue of The Latin Mass magazine.

His rock'em sock'em professorial title edits itself into:

The Source and Summit of the Christian Life: What the Schools of the Great Catholic Religious  Orders  can Teach Us About the Mass.

"As  Saint Augustine says in De Doctrina Christiana -- all study is ordered to understanding the Word of God and only then to communicating it.

"The dedication to study found so plentifully in the Catholic Tradition is ultimately in the service of hearing God's Word with a mind thoroughly prepared to receive it, so that His wisdom becomes ours, and our joy becomes complete.

 "Let's put it provocatively: the entire academic curriculum at any institution of higher learning stands or falls depending on whether it opens the ears of its students to the full message of Divine Revelation as delivered by the mouth of the Church's liturgy..."

Hummm ... can't get much more radical than that!! :)

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

In a remote, sparsely populated corner of the still - developing Third World...

Southwest Texas, U.S.A.

Brackettville - 78832. 

A great full - service Catholic ministerial team rocks!

At Saint Mary Magdalen's 5:30 pm Saturday Mass!

 Saturday, January 19, 2013

Celebrant: Father Anthony Moreno and the Reverend Mr. James Bader, Deacon.

Altar Server TEAM Ms. Brittany Castilla.

Extraordinary Ministers: Mrs. Susan Davis and Mr. Duke Meek.

Before - Mass Rosary Leader: Mr. George Nicolai.

Lector: Mr. Lloyd Davis.

Ushers: Mr. George Nicolai and Mr. Faustino Sandoval.

Choir: Mrs. Lynn McNew. 

Way to go, great people! :)

"'In October of 2006, a teenage girl from Atlanta desired an unnatural relationship with another teenage girl, 

but the desire wasn't mutual ..."

 A snippet from Thaddeus J. Kocinski's article We're all Traditionalists Now: The Priority of Praxis to Theoria in the Culture War. 

In The Latin Mass magazine, Christmas 2013. 

"... As a consequence the girl -- as we know from the text messages she was sending at the time of the incident -- tried to kill herself by driving head - on into a randomly - selected car.

"The girl survived, but the driver in the other car did not.

"She was the mother of three children, one of them a six - year - old girl.

"This seems to me beyond ordinary wickedness.

"It only takes a moment of reflection to recognize the profound evil of this crime, the senselessness of it, its utter banality and absurdity.

"These words don't even do it justice -- even the word evil seems wanting ..."

Good point, Señor! :)     
 

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Oops! Forgot the "Let us pray" Conclusion! :(

Tribute to a dear departed friend and neighbor from the Texas' Brackettville Housing Authority -- Zip 78832.

La Señora Celinda Salazar.

Who died one week ago today from a sudden onslaught of lethal cancer...

"The Good Father, Lord of Charity, who embraced Celinda Salazar so tenderly in her lifetime, today opened to her the doors of Paradise.

"The angels have come to her and the Blessed Virgin Mary has personally given our dear departed sister Celinda the crown of victory, because she, la Guadalupana, better than  anyone, knows what it takes to give her life for love, just as Celinda did ...

"LET US PRAY....

"Eternal Rest grant unto her oh Lord...

"And let Perpetual Light shine upon her!

"May the soul of Celinda Salazar and those of all the faithfully departed brothers and sisters in Christ -- whose names we have ever been able to recall in the past or whose names we will ever be able to call to mind in the future -- through the mercy of God rest in peace.

"Amen.."

Original English - language version published in the website of the Diocese of Córdoba, Spain ...

Picked - up from that source by Inside The Vatican Magazine, January 2013.

"The fear of God frees us from the fear of men."

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday, January 6, 2013, in Saint Peter's Basilica.

In Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly, Sunday, January 20, 2013.
 
Way to go, Your Holiness! :)
 

Pope Pius XII and the NAZIS

Gordon Thomas - www.gordonthomas-author.com - his latest blockbuster:

The Pope's Jews: The Vatican's Secret Plan to Save Jews from the NAZIS ... 

Yesterday morning's raging gun battle a little over 33 miles west of Brackettville, Texas ...

in nearby Ciudad Acuña left four Drug Cartel hoods shot dead by the Mexican Army.

The two soldiers  wounded were air - lifted by helicopter  to a hospital downriver in Piedras Negras...


Way to go, amigos! :)

Shades of the daily reports coming out of Algiers -- like 51 years ago this month! 

Friday, January 18, 2013

Cardinal André Vingt - Trois, Archbishop of Paris.

Sandro Magister The Reawakening of the Church in France.

Snippet from Inside The Vatican magazine, January 2013.

Originally published in L'Espresso magazine, December 7, 2012.

"Its opposition to the law on homosexual marriages is finding agreement even among non - Catholics and nonbelievers.

"The archbishop of Paris is at the helm of the new course..."

Among his allies:

"[T]he feminist philosopher  Sylviane Agacinski, wife of the socialist (and Protestant) former prime minister Lionel Jospin.

"She has strongly criticized the gender studies which present sexual differences as a cultural construction, and has warned of the serious  consequences, that, for example, procreation through insemination in couples composed of two women could have on a child..."

Also:

"Clear opposition to the law on homosexual marriage has been expressed by the chief rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, and the president of the French Council of Muslim Faith, Mohammed Moussaoui...

"The Archbishop of Paris is no longer a general without an army.

"The bishops are with him.

"They have elected him president of the episcopal conference ..."

Way to go, good people! :)

Thursday, January 17, 2013

January 17. Feast Day of Saint Anthony, Abbot.

January 21. Feast Day of Saint Agnes -- Virgin and Martyr.

January 21. Dr. Martin Luther King Day.

January 22. Day of prayer for the legal protection of unborn children.

January 23. Feast Day of Saint Vincent -- Deacon and Martyr.

January 24. Feast Day of Saint Francis De Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church.

January 25. Feast Day of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle.

January 26. Feast Day of Saint Timothy and Saint Titus, Bishops.

January 28. Feast Day of Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Priest and Doctor of the Church.

January 31. Feast Day of Saint John Bosco, Priest.

Snippets from Monsignor Charles Pope, in OSV Newsweekly.

Sunday, January 13, 2013.

Bible's "Chapters and Verses ... who added them?"

"[I]n the 13th century ... the Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton, assigned chapter numbers in order to make the reading of the Bible easier.

"The enumeration of the text into verses did not happen until 1551.

"Robert Stephanis, a Protestant former Catholic, classical scholar and printer, published the first such Bible in Paris ..."

Interesting, huh? :) 


Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Hey, UTEP!

¡Hey, familia!

Spring Semester 2013 has sprung!

Mid - Terms + Spring Break are barely two months away

"Good luck everyone ..." :)


¡Ora, UTEP!

¡Ora, MEChA!

¡Adelante, DESTINO!

More snippets from Russel Shaw's article in the OSV!

Biblical guidelines to Christian cheerfulness ...

"Start with the fact  that Christianity doesn't deny the reality of evil.

"Rather, it situates it in the context of faith.

"G.K. Chesterton ... Speaking of the doctrine of original sin ... insisted that at bottom it's good news since it means that human beings have misused a good world, and not merely been entrapped into a bad one ...

"Christian cheerfulness is rooted in this idea that what is so obviously and painfully wrong  with the world can be overcome by placing human freedom at the service of goodness and truth...

"Jesus Christ showed the way ..."

Amen, to all that! :) 

French intellectual Albert Camus (1913 - 1960

"There is but one truly philosophical problem and that is suicide ..."

In contrast?

French intellectual Paul Claudel (1868 - 1955)

"Tell them their only duty is cheerfulness.

"Because joy is the sign that we love God, and thus we do a great good for others and for ourselves.

"We must be happy, and others should know that we are..."

Snippets from Russell Shaw's article Biblical guidelines to Christian cheerfulness in Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly.  

Sunday, January 13, 2013.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

So, no more so - called American Catholic gay boys in bondage liturgical monkeyshines, huh? :)

UK's  "Archbishop of Westminster Ends Controversial Soho Masses"

Snippet from Paul Likoudis' article in The Wanderer, Thursday, January 10, 2013.

"LONDON -- Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster  has decreed the end of the controversial special Mass for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people, their families and friends at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in London's Soho district, effective Lent 2013 ..."

Way to go, your Eminence! :)

"It is physically impossible for two men or two women to consummate a marriage ..."

Francis Cardinal George, OMI, Archbishop of Chicago.

Snippet from Chicago's Iconic Hispanic figure Rey King Flores' article Cardinal George Defends Marriage in Illinois -- in The Wanderer, Thursday, January 10, 2013.

  "... even when they share a deep friendship or love.

"Does this mean nature is cruel or that God is unfair?

"No, but it does mean that marriage is what nature  tells us it is and that the state cannot change natural marriage..."

Way to go, Excellency! :)               

My name is Eddie Solis and my number is 24.

My favorite play was "B - Right."  

The Z Pattern.

Touch Down for Career Total of 23 for Brackett Tigers.

This includes On Defense: where I intercepted 13 passes in 4 District Games.

On these interceptions, I ran  1   for 87 yards -- with my mother watching! -- and the other for 72 yards.

 And that's the way it was from 1969 to 1972 with the Brackett TIGERS Varsity!

Zip Code 78832, all the way! 


Monday, January 14, 2013

Meanwhile, in a remote, largely unpopulated part of the Still - Developing Third World ...! :)

Southwest Texas, U.S.A.

Last call for Away in a Manger ♪  ...

A Full Ministerial Team  Rocks!

At 5:30 pm Mass at Saint Mary Magdalene Catholic Church

Brackettville, Texas 78832


Father Antonio "Tony" Moreno was celebrant, assisted by the Rev. Mr. James "Jimmy" Bader, Deacon.

Altar Server TEAM Mr. Justin Hidalgo and Mr. Moses Hernandez, Jr.

TEAM MOMS Patti and Chica.

Extraordinary Ministers Mr. John Carlson and Mr. Duke Meek.

Usher TEAM Mr. George Nicolai's!

Choir DIRECTOR Mrs. Lynn McNew

LECTOR Ms. Pat Hidalgo.

Way to go, great people!! :)

Congratulations to all contestants and siblings and visitors -- grades Pre - K through 16 -- who participated in ...

the 58th Annual Kinney County Junior Livestock Show...

Brackettville, Texas 78832.

Way to go everyone! :)

Friday, January 11, 2013

Pastor Ned Sitzes' Frontier Baptist Church.

Brackettville Texas  78832.

Marquee Magic:

"God is!

"Got any questions?"

Plus:

"Give Satan an inch.
 

"He'll be a Ruler."

Way to go, Reverend! :)

Southwest Texas USA 78832.

58th Annual Kinney County Jr. Livestock Show

But with no Rodeo!

Friday, January 11 - Saturday, January 12, 2013.

Swine, Rabbits, Goats -- BBQ!! :)

All - American 4 - H and FFA: ♪All the Way