In a post about Divine Movers – a real moving company – Ironic Catholic says:
Yep, they’re for real. Divine Moving serves the New York tri-state area.
I guess the rest of the world is out of luck. So much for the Great Commission, hmmm….
And if they were proper Thomists? "Prime Movers Incorporated". Their advertizing could explain "the five ways" why it is proper that they exist.
On the up side, the Divine has references, BBB approval, and what gives me the most theological heebie jeebies, coupons.
Well I once did a post on possible companies that included this:
Paul Nichols has outdone himself with his latest.
I once wrote a post called Conversion and Mr. Magoo since I associate my conversion with with his blind blunders ending up in the right place.
Carl Olson of Ignatius Insight posted a story on the last Pope John Paul II sneaking out for skip trips during his years at the Vatican. Carl in his last line said.
Hilarious! No word yet if Pope Benedict is also covertly sneaking out of the Vatican, not to ski but to visit used bookstores.
Now that really made me laugh and I can really imagine our book loving Pope going out on the sly perusing shelves for more books to get. I remember reading one quote from the pope when he was talking about the impermanence of things. Mountains will pass away and at one point he said, I believe, "even books" will pass away. I laugh when I read that also since it was so indicative of the Pope’s personality and his love of books. The Pope’s endears me to him even more.
Now I consider myself a bibliophile, though not as well read as the Pope or many members of St. Blogs. I also read a lot of books where their copyright has expired and their text is available on the internet. Mostly I convert them using text-to-speech software to listen to on my iPod/computer. Though sometimes I am disappointed to find that a book is not quite old enough yet to be freely available. I once fantasized about wanting a time machine so that I could go into the future passed the expiration of their copyright – downloading them – and returning home. Though I am not quite sure about all the moral ramifications of this. Is a book downloaded in the future and then subsequently read in the present a violation of copyright?
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Are you a believer and have steadily been working on improving your prayer life but now feel you have hit a wall? Do you pray and yet your heart feels separated from God, that you have no taste for thoughts, memories, and feelings, even spiritual ones? That you are praying in a deep void with no echoes of reply that God is there with you always? If you are truly living your faith, yet have one of these symptoms you might be experiencing spiritual dryness. Spiritual xerosis is a serious problem which can severely affect your faith if not treated correctly. First off if you have Spiritual xerosis – don’t be embarrassed – you are in good company. Throughout history the saints have experienced this in short bouts or even throughout their lives. St. Thérèse says that, "although I had not the consolation of faith, I forced myself to act as if I had. I have made more acts of faith in the last year than in the whole of my life" and "If you think of the poems I have written, . . . I must have seemed overwhelmed with spiritual consolation and like a child for whom the veil of faith is almost torn apart. But there is no veil, but instead a wall which towers to the sky and hides the stars." In the case of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta she disclosed to her spiritual advisors feelings of "doubt, loneliness, and abandonment. God seemed absent, heaven empty, and bitterest of all, her own suffering seemed to count for nothing, ". . . just that terrible pain of loss, of God not wanting me, of God not being God, of God not really existing." Now your thinking "Oh great if they suffered like that, what am I going to do?"
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Jan. 17, 2007 (CWNews.com) – The international Catholic charitable organization Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) will send a specially designed minibus known as the “confessional car” to a tourism fair in Essen, Germany, in February.
Father Hermann-Joseph Hubka of ACN will introduce the vehicle, which was made to fit the needs of vacationers seeking the sacrament of Penance. For three years the minibus has been in use under the patronage of Augsburg Bishop Walter Mix.
In recent years ACN has built “chapel boats” to be used on rivers in Brazil and Russia, providing for the spiritual needs of people living along rivers, far away from a church. Plans to introduce the "confessional car" at a tourism exhibition were announced on the same day that the Pontifical Council for Migrants released a report encouraging new pastoral strategies to address the needs of travelers.
No word yet if the confessional cars will only be available on Saturdays for 15 minutes to make American tourists feel at home.
As the temperature dips into the low single digits (or below zero according to some), I ran into some particularly Catholic experiences this morning. So here is my "A Catholic knows it is cold when:"
– Your lips freeze to the metal crucifix as you kiss your Rosary for the morning commute.
– You bless yourself with holy ice instead of holy water from the font by the front door.
– You experience an apparition walking by the front yard statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary; she isn’t crying, but she appears to be shivering.
– The Rosary swinging from the rear view mirror chips ice off the windshield as you slam on the brakes.
and the number one way to know it is cold (not exclusive to Catholics)
– The environmentalists stop talking about global warming.
Funny stuff. Now here is my Florida counterpoint.
A Catholic knows it’s hot when.
- You fill up your Holy Water font five times a day because it keeps evaporating.
- You have a cross shaped burn mark on your lip from kissing your crucifix.
- You squeeze to rinse your scapular daily because of the all the sweat it has absorbed.
- You never buy a Rosary with black beads because they retain too much heat.
- The plastic Jesus on your dashboard melted.
- There are no miraculous statues of Mary since her tears evaporate before anybody notices anything.
- You burned your fingers blessing yourself at Mass from a Holy Water font warmed by sunlight through the stained glass windows.
- Your church bulletin is printed on asbestos.
And the number one way Catholics know that it is hot
- You start to wonder just how bad Purgatorial flames can be in the first place.
Today being the feast of the Epiphany here is a little known episode of what happened after the three wise men left.
Here is also a rerun of a post five years ago.
A Church of England bishop has attacked “sentimental” Christmas card portrayals of the Nativity, saying that Jesus’s family were asylum seekers and the three Wise Men were part of an assassination plot.
The Bishop of Lichfield, the Rt Rev Keith Sutton, said the shepherds were not the lovable characters depicted in Nativity plays but were on “the fringes of society” and that, for most people, Christmas was a chore.
[Full Delusion]
Did Herod the Great contract out a hit to three foreigners for plausible deniability? How did this assassination go awry? Did King Herod say “Go and murder him” and they thought he said “Gold and myrrh to him?", frankly that makes sense.
(Washington D.C.) Roto Reuters – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has suffered a concussion as a result of her crashing through the marble ceiling yesterday. She still shows signs of confusion in that she thinks she can be both Catholic and pro-abortion, though this is probably a pre-existing condition.
