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Today St. Juan
Diego was canonized by the Holy Father. There must be a reason
why God has decided that after 450 years it was time for him to be
recognized as a saint. There wasn’t any political reasons involved
like in the case of St. Thomas
More. During Juan Diego’s time the practice of human sacrifice
was the norm in some of the native cultures, but within a short
period of time after the miraculous picture of Our Lady of
Guadalupe the inhabitants were converted and this human sacrifice
ended. Now we have the modern day equivalent of sacrificing
children in abortion. In both cases this was done for the reasons
of some supposed greater good for the indivual or society. The
Indian symbolism of the picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe shows her
as being pregnant with Jesus and this picture has already been
closely connected with the pro-life movement. Juan Diego please
pray for the conversion of the world to the culture of
life.

>Cuban
Tell me it isn’t so Jimmy Carter. Why would anyone want to defect from this bastion of
freedom and free health care. The Canadian government had rejected
the visas of about 20 percent of the people requesting them for
World Youth Day from governments where people just might have
wanted to leave permanently. I wander why Cuba didn’t make this list.

Latest example of the government schools teaching the ABCs,
Anything But Christianity. If they would have brought in any
Islamic or occult material there would portably have been no
problem. This comes on the heels of last weeks story about a child
wanting to write a report about Jesus and was told that they had
to write about a real person. 7-year-old’s
Christmas book banned from class.

WWJE Trying to use the bible as a science text book is not enough, now they are trying to
use it as a diet book. Obviously taking care of ourselves is a
good idea, but for some reason I find it hard to imagine St.
Thomas Aquinas on a treadmill.

Move over Osama Bin Laden a group of domestic terrorists must
be operating in this country. Ronald McDonald, Colonel Sanders,
Wendy, and the Burger King must have kidnapped Caesar
Barbar and forced him to eat their foods and thus he is justly
suing them for this action. What ever happened to personal
responsibility? We scapegoat our genes, parents, neighbors, and
the government for anything that happens to us. I am surprised
that a class action suit against Adam and Eve has not been sought.
Exultet – “Oh happy fault, which gained for us so great a
Redeemer!”

Emily Stimpson
in reference to the song “Shine Jesus Shine.” says “(As a
completely unrelated side-note, that idiotic song is one of the
few things in the universe to which I can honestly say my hatred
knows no bounds. Liturgists who inflict it on their parishioners
are just asking for time in Purgatory.)”

I agree
whole-heartily with her. I heard that song at the end of mass at a
parish I was visiting a couple of weeks ago. To make things worse
the people were clapping in beat to it, as was the priest as he
went up the center of the isle. Songs like this should be put into
a class of songs to do penance by or songs that are penance. If
St. Augustine was around today he might have said “When you sing
you do penance twice”. When visiting a parish and I see the
dreadful “published by OCP”, I know I am in for a real treat. The
acronym OCP must really stand for Often Causes Pain. Going through
their hymn books you would think that there were not any songs
written before 1980. Now I know that these hymn books are put out
by Oregon Catholic Press and I just wonder if there is any
connection between these insipid songs and that Oregon was the
first state to legalize euthanasia. There are already too many
distractions in my head, and I need all the help I can to ensure
that I worship Christ at the sacrifice of the mass.

There is an article on ZENIT, 3
Key Proofs of Juan Diego’s Existence. I think that only one
proof is needed, the fact that the Holy Father is canonizing him
is proof enough. Declaring someone a saint would definitely invoke
the pope’s charism of infallibility.

And I said let there be blog, and there was blog and it was good.

“It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.” – G.K. Chesterton “Patriotism and Sport,” All Things Considered

if something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.” G.K. Chesterton

Hopefully my blogging will be a good sign, even if done badly. While reading through the blogs of the parishioners of St. Blog’s Parish, I have been tempted to add my two cents to the discussions. Not all blogs have comment sections and there is the vanity in me that prefers not to have my ideas hidden in the comment section. This blog is my comment section on life.

I throw my blog on the mercy of Nihil Obstat.