Edith!
Far out. It's Edith Stein's feast day. She's one of the best, even if I can't
understand everything she wrote. She came to Catholicism via philosophy, and
that always makes for some of the most interesting saints. Read more about her
here
Religion
Something for Sunday Morning
> If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of
Christians would go to Heaven.
St. John Vianney
No Islamic Fun
> Britain's biggest theme park has called off the country's first "National
Muslim
Fun Day" because of lack of interest, the park said Wednesday
[http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-08-02T184048Z_01_L02862061_RTRUKOC_0_US-MUSLIMS-FUNDAY.xml&src=
Something for Sunday Morning
> When a man is always occupied with the cravings of desire and ambition, and is
eagerly striving to satisfy them, all his thoughts must be mortal, and, as far
as is possible altogether to become such, he must be mortal every whit, because
he has cherished his mortal part.
Something for Sunday Morning
St. Therese Lisieux's deathbed explanation of remaining a little child before
God:
> It is to recognize our nothingness, to expect everything from God as a little
child expects everything from its father; it is to be disquieted about nothing,
having no other occupation but to gather the
CE
This week's column at Catholic Exchange
[http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=33679]. Excerpt:
> While on vacation, I flipped through Ian Lendler's Alcoholica Esoterica: A
Collection of Useful and Useless Information as It Relates to the History and
Something for Sunday Morning
"Worldly people have not the Holy Spirit, or if they have, it is only for a
moment. The noise of the world drives him away."
John Vianney
42% by Pius
According to this blog
[http://totuspius.blogspot.com/2006/06/pii-responsible-for-42-of-church.html],
Popes named Pius declared 42% of the Church Doctors.
St. Athanasius (296-373)- Declared Doctor in 1568 by St. Pius V
St. Hilary of Poitiers (315-367)- 1851 by Bl. Pius IX
St. Gregory of Nasianzus (325-389)-
Something for Sunday Morning
> The beautiful Prayer of St Richard is one of my favourite and prayed in the
aftermath of the wonderful Feast of Corpus Christi, it takes on a special
resonance:
> "Thanks be to you, my lord, Jesus Christ,
For all the benefits that you have given me;
For
Something for Sunday Morning
The three compulsions of the world: to be relevant, to be spectacular, and to be
powerful.
Henri Nouwen
I'd never heard it phrased that way, but those three categories seem to capture
every temptation from the world: desire for fame, fortune, good reputation,
respect, excellence. Nouwen has a