Tag: Blithe Spirit

What the heck is a doctrinal homily?

Most of us have never heard one. It goes like this:

First, a central idea, which the group of readings contains, will be articulated. In this way, the homilist can illuminate the overall salvific meaning of the Lectionary readings.

Second, one doctrine from the Deposit of Faith or Catholic morals which the readings contain will be identified. The outline will help the homilist define, explain, and illustrate this doctrine.

Third, practical ways that the laity can apply this doctrine to their lives will be offered. This third step helps accomplish the Churchs desire that the homilist nurture the Christian life of the lay faithful. It helps fulfill the goal of the Year of Faith that the faith be lived.

It’s based on the idea of church as depositary (bigger than any of us), which is quite a major aspect, I’d say, giving pause to us who entertain even strenuous misgivings.

I may add the deposit of writings over the centuries, from earliest times. What the preacher quotes is what the people pray, or determines it, to adjust the ancient slogan, Lex orandi lex credendi, “The rule of prayer determines the rule of faith.”

Etc. Don’t get me started.

Devastating quotes from Margaret Sanger here, vs. blacks, Jews, infants in large families, etc. What a twisted woman.

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“…and the more resolutely, the more constantly, your heart is turned towards God and His saints the more it will be enlightened, purified, and vivified”.  “Be true in heart always and everywhere, and you will always and everywhere have peace, but especially be true in your converse with God and the saints, “because the spirit is truth.” St. John of Kronstadt

Today is the March for Life in Washington, D.C. and I was glancing through the morning shows on TV and while I was looking, at least, not one announcer or news reporter mentioned it.  To give them the benefit of a doubt, I did not watch every channel, all morning long.  But as I was surfing channels, no one said a thing about it.  Oh, they discussed whether or not Beyonce lip-synced the National Anthem at the Inauguration, but not one word about the March for Life.

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NLRB to be not there any more?

From: Phillip Wilson*
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:33 AM
Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Court Rules – NLRB Appointments Unconstitutional

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC circuit ruled President Obama’s recess appointments unconstitutional.

The case will now go to the Supreme Court. From the AP story:

  • “The Obama administration is expected to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, but if it stands, it means hundreds of decisions issued by the board over more than a year are invalid. It also would leave the five-member labor board with just one validly appointed member, effectively shutting it down. The board is allowed to issue decisions only when it has at least three sitting members.”

This dame, I mean woman, can be quite peremptory, right?

Hillary to the senators:

Clinton was a model of prevarication, particularly in a heated exchange with Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Pressed by Johnson on why the Obama Administration had initially led the public to believe that the September terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous uprising, a sputtering Clinton barked, “What difference at this point does it make?” (if you think this looks bad in print, check out the video)

She got quite testy on the point, in a let’s-move-on gambit.

The whole point being that her dept. is on the dock.

Are we better off or are we not? That is the question

It’s always a pleasure to see Loudmouth Reich shown to be wrong, as here:

By DONALD J. BOUDREAUX 
AND MARK J. PERRY

A favorite “progressive” trope is that America’s middle class has stagnated economically since the 1970s. One version of this claim, made by Robert Reich, President Clinton’s labor secretary, is typical: “After three decades of flat wages during which almost all the gains of growth have gone to the very top,” he wrote in 2010, “the middle class no longer has the buying power to keep the economy going.”

This trope is spectacularly wrong.

Average hourly wage taken by itself has been flat since 1964. It’s the sort of talk-show grenade routinely heaved by the diminutive Reich. But Boudreaux and Perry fill in details that apparently have gone over the head of the voluble Reich.