tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203810462024-03-07T13:46:33.317-05:00A Quiet CatholicCommenting on Catholicism and life.
Watch out for the quiet ones.Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-35355068974002569322020-02-23T12:40:00.002-05:002020-02-23T12:40:49.713-05:00I've moved!I've moved to WordPress and started blogging again. Come join me at <a href="http://aquietcatholic.com/">aquietcatholic.com</a>.Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-75544313096194111322011-12-17T09:09:00.000-05:002011-12-17T09:09:44.729-05:00Mary of the Velvet Log CabinI don't know, I like it (but I'm a fiber artist hahaha and I like anything that uses velvet).<br />
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<a href="http://backhometorome.blogspot.com/2007/09/st-mary-of-velvet-log-cabin.html">Mary of the Velvet Log Cabin</a>Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-68818212443200555492011-12-17T09:04:00.000-05:002013-09-15T15:52:56.881-04:00Ember Day!Today is the last of the 3 ember days before Christmas...<br />
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The Wednesday one isn't too hard, if I remember to do it. The Friday one is somewhat easy because I'm used to not eating meat on Fridays. The third one is torture! Back-to-back, quasi-fasting, no meat two days in a row?! Gaaahhh...Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-88810347181520115722011-12-04T13:49:00.001-05:002011-12-04T13:50:12.811-05:00Apps!If you have an iPod/iTouch/iPad, hopefully you've downloaded some of the Catholic apps out there. I have an iTouch and have downloaded a couple of apps, the iConfess (very nice!), one about St Joseph (okay), iBreviary (I use this often) and a Rosary app which isn't very special. <br />
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According to <a href="http://clevelandpriest.blogspot.com/2011/11/tuesday-quote-of-week-ccxxxviii.html">Father V</a>, a new Marian app will be launched on December 8th by the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception (National Shrine of The Divine Mercy, Stockbridge, MA). <a href="http://thedivinemercy.org/app/">Details here</a>. I'm looking forward to getting it and will post more here after I check it out.Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-46749471900007225472011-03-16T20:10:00.001-04:002011-03-16T20:10:55.553-04:00So happy...we get to keep the house!I haven't mentioned on the blog why I'm down in South Carolina when my husband is in Massachusetts but we'd both been out of work for two years and this job came up and I had to work! We fell behind on mortgage payments last summer and just couldn't get caught up. Luckily our bank negotiated a loan modification for us and we'll be able to keep the house!<br />
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Deo gratias!<br />
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Boy, will I be saying prayers of thanksgiving tonight!Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-32299841141416046912011-03-16T19:42:00.001-04:002011-03-16T19:43:30.333-04:00The ColosseumThis is beautiful. This makes me realize that I need to read more of the Church Fathers and learn Catholic history.<br />
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I'm sure you're seeing all sorts of suggestions/recommendations on other blogs but here's a recommendation for a great prayer book which would be wonderful to have even if Lent wasn't barreling down on us. <br />
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Blessed Be God by Fathers Callan and McHugh.<br />
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I got this book a week ago and I can't stop picking it up. It's small in dimension but it's a real prayer book with thin pages like missals of old so even with 700+ pages, it is still relatively light-weight. It has daily prayers, prayers for the Day of the Week, Month of the Year, novenas, devotions, etc. They're all beautiful prayers. Most of them flow very well, there are a few which have words like 'livest and reignest' in them so those feels a little clunky when you're saying them. But the book is full of jewels of Catholic worship from long ago. It was originally published in 1959.Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-66969203342210157432011-02-21T21:00:00.002-05:002011-02-21T21:00:00.879-05:00Rome Sweet Home<div style="background-color: transparent; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.762389650568366" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love conversion stories and have always enjoyed listening to Dr Scott Hahn, a famous convert, who brings complex theological issues down to a level that even *I* can understand so I thought the book by he and his wife, Kimberly, Rome Sweet Home, would be a happy story.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Well, it didn’t start out that way! I knew they had a happy ending because both they and their children made it into the Catholic Church many years ago but the book covered the whole process of their discovery of the fullness of Truth of the Catholic Church. First Kimberly made the discovery that the Church was correct about contraception (this book was written in the early 1990s by the way). Then Scott questioned one tenet of Protestantism, sola fide, and for him, that started unraveling the whole ball of yarn. He fought his conversion every step of the way, at least in the beginning and Kimberly, while being a supportive wife, fought the idea and prayed and read books and prayed some more.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, in the book, they mention a talk that Scott gave to a group of Catholics. It became known as "The Tape" and can be found <a href="http://www.catholicity.com/cds/hahn.html">here</a>.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.stjosephcolumbia.org/">at St. Joseph's in Columbia, SC</a>Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-15721410328658826982011-02-08T08:00:00.004-05:002011-02-08T08:00:05.347-05:00Tuesday is Quote DayImitation is the sincerest form of flattery. No, that's not the quote of the day but just my way of flattering <a href="http://happycatholic.blogspot.com/">Happy Catholic</a>. I really don't know how she gets it all done every day. She blogs frequently, she reviews (and reads!) lots of books, she does podcasts, she has a full-time job... I'm getting tired just listing all the stuff.<br />
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Anyways, here is today's quote...<br />
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<blockquote>The whole trouble is that -- literally -- we do not know what is good for us; and what makes the trouble still worse is that we think we do. We have our own plans for our happiness, and too often we merely regard God as somebody who will help us to accomplish them. The true state of affairs is just the opposite. God has His plans for our happiness, and He is waiting for us to help Him to accomplish them. And let us be quite clear about it: We cannot improve on God's plans.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote>This Tremendous Lover, <a href="https://www.avemariapress.com/author/178/M-Eugene-Boylan-OCR/">M. Eugene Boylan, O.C.R.</a></blockquote>Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-65130916427313649012011-02-05T19:00:00.001-05:002011-02-05T19:00:00.346-05:00A Catholic ExamThis was developed by Matthew the Seminarian, the blogger formerly<br />
known as Moneybags, (I'd love to know the story behind that name) of A<br />
Catholic Life.<br />
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It's tough! Post your score below... And good luck!Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-15401590991404850052011-02-03T14:31:00.000-05:002011-02-03T14:31:29.956-05:00Some housekeeping...Blogspot/Blogger has added several new features/doo-dads/templates for blogs so I'll be taking a look at how I can jazz up this blog. Check back soon!Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-16585743640895935082011-02-02T13:08:00.002-05:002011-02-02T13:14:11.705-05:00My favorite blogs (no longer publishing)These are some of the blogs I used to follow regularly. I wish they still posted entries but maybe their creative juices ran dry...<br />
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<a href="http://somanydevotions.blogspot.com/">So Many Devotions...So Little Time</a> <br />
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<a href="http://dustofthetime.blogspot.com/">Dust of the Time</a> <br />
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<a href="http://thewindowshowsitall.blogspot.com/">Holy Cards for your Inspiration</a>Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-68504992688239519232011-01-30T14:49:00.000-05:002011-01-30T14:49:53.642-05:00Hello again...I just discovered, via another blog, how to determine how many Google reader subscribers a blog has and I have 14. That's so sweet! I have the time to blog again and it's been quite exciting around here as I'll describe in my next post.<br />
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Stay tuned (and thanks for sticking around)!Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-79651692986001335652009-12-01T19:08:00.005-05:002009-12-01T19:15:13.997-05:00More Advent Stuff!I always forget how many important dates there are in December... Luckily, G. Thomas Fitzpatrick doesn't! Here's a list of the dates from his <a href="http://rectaratio.blogspot.com/2009_11_29_archive.html#1083805964287402569">post</a>... <br /><br />Important feasts celebrated during December include:<br /><br />1st St. Edmund Campion<br />3rd St. Francis Xavier<br />4th St. Barbara<br />6th St. Nicholas<br />7th St. Ambrose<br />8th The Immaculate Conception<br />9th Ven Fulton Sheen<br />12th Our Lady of Guadalupe<br />13th St. Lucy<br />16th St. Adelaide<br />21st St. Thomas the Apostle and St. Peter Canisius<br />22nd St. Frances Xavier Cabrini<br />23rd St. John Cantius<br />24th Christmas Eve and Adam & Eve<br />25th Christmas<br />26th St. Stephen<br />27th St. John the Apostle<br />28th Holy Innocents<br />29th St. Thomas a Becket<br /><br />And as previously <a href="http://aquietcatholic.blogspot.com/2009/11/advent-starts-this-sunday.html">mentioned</a>, this year's Advent's Embertide is the 16th, 18th and 19th of December.Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-57495397672729089282009-11-24T20:59:00.001-05:002009-11-24T21:01:17.447-05:00Advent starts this Sunday!Buy your Advent candles this week!<br /><br />Also, the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday) are the days of Advent Embertide.Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-73258454369204981572009-11-01T12:31:00.002-05:002009-11-01T12:37:16.207-05:00Room Blessings!I just stumbled across this blog by the Chaplin of the Newman Center at George Washington University. GWU is blessed to have this priest. I hope he's there for a long time. I'm going to start follwing his blog (swell, add another to the list of 100+ blogs I already follow) because my daughter will be heading off to college next year and I'd like to get good ideas for bringing her back to the Faith.<br /><br />Anyways, here's Father Greg's idea, <a href="http://gwcatholicforum.blogspot.com/2009/10/gw-room-blessings.html">room blessings</a>...<br /><br /><blockquote>One of the things that that means is that no matter what happened in your room before you began living there, grace now dwells there as a result of a room blessing. It's certainly scary to think of what might have happened in your room in the past several years before you got there - blasphemy against God or the Church, things of the occult (witchcraft, wicca, ouija boards, tarot cards, etc.), alcohol or drug abuse, impure sexual activity, pornography, contraception, self-injury (cutting), inappropriate language or jokes, pirating of materials (videos, music, software), gossip, etc. These sins aren't exclusive to college dorm rooms, of course; Catholics everywhere should have their homes and apartments blessed. But, everyone here knows that sin is all around us...and, serious sin at that. So, the prudent and practical GW Catholic student approaches his or her room as being a place where serious sin might have happened, and so he or she wants to eradicate all of that with a blessing by a priest.</blockquote>Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-30433902600655634152009-10-30T10:18:00.003-04:002009-10-30T10:23:16.185-04:00Beads of the DeadSounds ominous, eh? Well basically, it's a <a href="http://rectaratio.blogspot.com/2009_10_25_archive.html#8258757497539210504">form of the rosary</a> said for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.<br /><br />This is from Thomas Fitzpatrick's blog, Recta Ratio which I don't visit nearly often enough.Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-39646880875049628512009-10-30T10:16:00.002-04:002009-10-30T10:18:51.767-04:00I know, I know!I apologize for not blogging in months! I'll be picking up my virtual pen again. <br /><br />Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-16430674078107284242009-03-18T10:22:00.002-04:002009-03-18T10:39:58.815-04:00Henry Poole Is HereI rented <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029120/">this movie</a> this past weekend. For some reason, it never appeared in the Boston-area theatres so I had to wait till it came out on DVD. I greatly enjoyed it but felt it moved a little too slowly for my tastes. It wasn't till at least half-way through the movie that we were told the reason why he wasn't "going to be around very long". The characters were all delightful, especially little Millie.<br /><br />If you're not familiar with the plot, here's the synopsis from IMDB...<br /><br /><blockquote>HENRY POOLE is HERE is a comedic drama about a disillusioned man who goes hiding in placid suburbia only to discover he cannot escape the forces of hope. Returning to the middleclass neighborhood where he grew up, Henry chooses to live in indulgent isolation. Real life, however, refuses to cooperate with his plans. Nosy neighbors interrupt him with curious visits and prying questions. Then the situation escalates as a stain on Henry's stucco wall is seen to have miraculous powers. His last-ditch hideout becomes a shrine; his backyard turns into an arena for passionate debate about faith and destiny. Seeking anonymous oblivion, cynical Henry Poole instead finds himself right at the center of the human comedy. A modern-day fable, director Mark Pellington's new film investigates the unexpected wonders of the everyday. A faithless man finds hope. A hopeless man finds love. Whether backyard miracles are real or triggered by hope and belief, their personal effects are permanent. </blockquote><br /><br />I might be tempted to buy this movie.Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-63159197555475854642009-03-18T09:58:00.003-04:002009-03-18T10:21:55.510-04:00Material CooperationSince Cardinal O'Malley is evaluating whether Catholic hospitals in Massachusetts can do abortion, a.k.a. "family planning" referrals in order to win a health insurance contract with the state, let's look at some definitions/discussions on Material Cooperation.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ascensionhealth.org/ethics/public/key_principles/cooperation.asp">Principles of Formal and Material Cooperation</a><br /><br /><blockquote>Mediate Material Cooperation. Mediate material cooperation occurs when the cooperator participates in circumstances that are not essential to the commission of an action, such that the action could occur even without this cooperation. Mediate material cooperation in an immoral act might be justifiable under three basic conditions:<br /> <br /><br /> 1. If there is a proportionately serious reason for the cooperation (i.e., for the sake of protecting an important good or for avoiding a worse harm); the graver the evil the more serious a reason required for the cooperation;<br /> <br /> 2. The importance of the reason for cooperation must be proportionate to the causal proximity of the cooperator’s action to the action of the principal agent (the distinction between proximate and remote);<br /> <br /> 3. <span style="font-weight:bold;">The danger of scandal (i.e., leading others into doing evil, leading others into error, or spreading confusion) must be avoided.</span></blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=285604">Remote Material Cooperation With Intrinsic Evil<br /></a><br /><br />I wish that Cardinal O'Malley learned from <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9A0DE1DD153EF933A25750C0A960948260&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">Cardinal O'Connor</a> about this type of situation.Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-12357147642244593082009-03-16T14:35:00.003-04:002009-03-16T14:47:51.831-04:00The March for Life is like "a poor man's World Youth Day"?Excuse me?!<br /><br />This statement is from the latest entry in <a href="http://www.cardinalseansblog.org/2009/03/13/symposium-on-adolescent-catechesis/">Cardinal Sean's blog</a>...<br /><br /><blockquote>I told the principals that I realize there will always be a limited number of people able to go to World Youth Day due to the travel and the expense but, in a sense, the March for Life is something of “a poor man’s World Youth Day.”<br /><br />Although we do not have the joy of having the Holy Father present in Washington, the young people who go get to experience the witness of hundreds of thousands of people dedicated to their Catholic faith, and particularly the thousands upon thousands of young people that have become a growing presence each year. Many of them have been inspired to live their faith more fully after experiencing the March for Life so I urged the principals to try to be as creative as possible in finding ways to enable the largest number of their students to attend each year.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />Cardinal Sean was speaking to a meeting of the Catholic High School principals in the Archdiocese of Boston. His words encouraged me to speak to the principal of a high school that I'm thinking of sending my daughter to *but* it bothered me that he missed the opportunity to state the message of why it was important <span style="font-weight:bold;">for Life</span> for young people to attend the March. My daughter attended it for the first time this year and she found it incredibly inspiring!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">But it's like "a poor man's World Youth Day"?</span><br /><br />Wow! Thanks Cardinal Sean...<br /><br />Is the March for Life just a photo-op for him?Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-49551112114848171812009-03-14T12:10:00.006-04:002009-03-14T12:27:26.940-04:00A Call to Arms!There seems to be some confusion from Cardinal O'Malley as to whether the Pope, Cardinal's, Bishops, Priests and lay people can respond to a woman who wants to discuss abortion by giving her abortion as an option, providing her with instructions on how to obtain that abortion and a phone number to a 24 hour hotline, calling her a taxi to get her to the abortions and permitting Planned Parenthood to monitor these new Catholic standards of the Gospel of Life with a personal Planned representative to monitor conversations between the healthcare workers and the woman asking for an abortion at a Catholic facility to ensure compliance.<br /><br />When Catholics found out the details of how the Cardinal's plan would work at the level of Catholic healthcare providers and patients seeking abortions and distributed the information, the Cardinal sent out the following:<br /><br /><blockquote>To be perfectly clear, Caritas Christi will never do anything to promote abortions, to direct any patients to providers of abortion or in any way to participate in actions that are contrary to Catholic moral teaching and anyone who suggests otherwise is doing a great disservice to the Catholic Church. We are committed to the Gospel of Life and no arrangement will be entered into unless it is completely in accord with Church teaching.</blockquote><br /><br />However, Planned Parenthood made Caritas put their promises in writing and then released the content of those promises to the Boston Globe:<br /><br />From the Globe:<br /><br />The Connector Authority board, which oversees the Commonwealth Care program, voted unanimously in favor of the joint venture proposed by Centene Corp., a St. Louis-based health organization, and Caritas Christi Health Care Network.<br />The vote followed several closed-door sessions in which officials from Centene and Caritas, the minority partner in the joint venture, assured regulators that women will have "ready access" to <span style="font-style:italic;">family planning and reproductive services</span>, an issue that sparked concerns from abortion foes and reproductive rights activists.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Among the written assurances are a pledge that medical staff operating under the Centene-Caritas insurance plan, known as Commonwealth Family Health Plan, will inform women of their healthcare options, including abortion. The insurers will also provide a toll-free customer service line, available around the clock, to inform women abou t where they can get contraception, sterilization, and other family planning services not offered in the immediate setting. In an emergency, a service representative will arrange transportation to the nearest appropriate facility, officials said.</span><br />The regulators promised to watch closely. "We will certainly monitor their performance ," said Jon Kingsdale, the authority's executive director. "We will not allow them to start up or continue if they are not in compliance."<br />As a measure of the underlying tensions, four board members emphasized the need for oversight.<br /><br />"I remain somewhat concerned about implementation," said Nonnie Burnes, state commissioner of insurance and a former Planned Parenthood board member. "I am willing to support this as long as we have some way to monitor this" in doctor's offices and other healthcare facilities.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Cardinal had to stop saying that there would be no abortion referrals and instead a new statement essentially saying he was ignorant of whether forcing Catholics to inform women about abortion, providing them with instructions and 24 hour hotline abortion referral service, sending her by taxi to get the abortion and permitting doctors and nurses to be monitored by Planned Parenthood passed the muster of the Gospel of Life and is waiting on the opinion of our faithful National Catholic Bioethics Center to see if this is honest to God Catholic credo.</span><br /><br />There's a simple formula to get to that answer. If the Pope can't do it and Cardinal's and priests can't do it - neither can Catholic physicians or any other heatlhcare worker. Further physicians take a civil oath not to do any harm - and sending people by taxicab to be killed violates that oath. <br /><br /><br />The National Catholic Bioethics Center must give their opinion confidentially and it is the Cardinal's responsibility to release that opinion. A week has gone by and in that week, the Cardinal permitted Caritas to enter into the contract.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">THIS IS FOCA. FOCA is here. FOCA is being put in by Cardinal O'Malley.<br /></span><br />Please do not sweep this under the rug where the rapes of our children used to reside. This is murder and when a Cardinal is trying to implement it, we have the duty to step up into the public square and say this is outrageous and wrong - - just as we do with Pelosi, Sebelius and Obama.<br /><br />We are not a cult. Release the details to the public so that they may act upon it and stop this abomination.<br /><br />Boston needs your help TODAY. Please help us by getting into the public square what is going on and encouraging people to contact the Nuncio and Vatican officials.<br /><br />Copied below is the email addresses, phone numbers, etc for contacting the Papal Nuncio and Vatican offices...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">His Excellency Pietro Sambi<br />Apostolic Nuncio<br />3339 Massachusets Avenue NW<br />Washington, DC 20008-3687<br />USA<br />202-333-7121<br />202-337-4036 FAX<br />email: nuntiususa@nuntiususa.org<br /></span><br /><br />His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI PP<br />Apostolic Palace<br />Via Del Pellegrino<br />Citta Del Vaticano 00120<br />Vatican City State<br />011.3906.69.88.10.22<br />011.3906.69.88.53.73 FAX<br />av@pccs.va<br />email: BenedictXVI@vatican.va<br /><br />His Eminence Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone<br />Cardinal Secretary of State<br />Secretariat of State<br />Apostolic Palace<br />Vatican City 00120<br />The Vatican<br />11 39 06 6988 3438<br />011 39 06 6988 5088 FAX<br /><br />His Eminence William Cardinal Levada, S.T.D.<br />Cardinal Prefect<br />Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith<br />Secretary - Fr. Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, SJ<br />Piazza del S. Uffizio 11<br />00193 Rome<br />Italy<br />email: cdf@cfaith.va<br />011 39 06 6988 3357<br />011.3906.69.88.34.13<br />011-39-0696100596 FAX<br />011.3906.69.88.34.09 FAX<br />cdf@cfaith.va<br /><br />His Eminence Claudio Cardinal Hummes<br />Cardinal Prefect<br />Congregation For the Clergy<br />Piazza Della Città<br />Leonina I<br />00193 Rome<br />Italy<br />011 39 06 6988 4151<br />011 39 06 6988 4845 FAX<br />Secretary: Most Rev. Archbishop Csaba Ternyak<br /><br />Rev. Msgr. Arthur Calkins<br />Assistant to President Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos<br />Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei"<br />Piazza Pio XII 3<br />00193 Rome<br />Italy<br />011.3906.69.88.41.51<br />011.3906.69.88.48.45 FAX<br /><br />His Eminence Cardinal Antonelli<br />President<br />Pontifical Council For the Family<br />Piazza S. Calisto 16<br />00153 Roma, Piazza S. Calisto, 16<br />011.3906.69.88.72.43<br />011.3906.69.88.72.72 FAX<br /><br />His Eminence Franc Cardinal Rode<br />Prefect<br />The Congregation For Institutes of Consecrated Life and For Societies of Apostolic Life<br />Piazza Pio XII 3<br />00193 Rome<br />Italy<br />011.3906.69.88.41.28<br />011.3906.69.88.45.26 FAX<br />Secretary: Most Rev. Archbishop Piergiorgio Silvano Nesti, C.P.<br /><br />His Eminence Cardinal Francis Arinze<br />Prefect of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Roman Curia<br />Mailing Address:<br />Palazzo delle Congregazioni, 00193 Roma, Piazza Pio XII, 10<br />Telephone: 06.69.88.43.16; 06.69.88.43.18<br />Fax: 06.69.88.34.99<br /><br /><br />Most Reverend Albert Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith Patabendige Don<br />Secretary<br />Congregation for Divine Worship & Discipline of the Sacraments<br />Piazza Pio XII 10,<br />00193 Rome<br />Italy<br />011 39 06 6988 4316<br />011 39 06 6988 3499 FAX<br />cultdiv@ccdds.va<br /><br />His Eminence Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re<br />Cardinal Prefect<br />Congregation For Bishops<br />Piazza Pio XII #10<br />00193 Rome<br />Italy<br />011 39 06 6988 4217<br />011 39 06 6988 4300 FAX<br />011-39-0669-885303 FAX<br />Secretary: Most Rev. Archbishop Antonio Maria Veglio<br /><br />(<a href="http://paramedicgoldengirl.blogspot.com/2007/03/addresses-for-vatican-correspondence.html">source</a>)Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-40759374606705244592009-02-18T19:23:00.003-05:002009-02-18T19:28:16.790-05:00A Prayer RequestPlease pray for my daughter, for wisdom to make a good decision over the next few days.Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20381046.post-68649748370361942182009-02-10T13:07:00.003-05:002009-02-10T13:13:15.431-05:00My Life Would S*** Without YouI can't embed the video but it's at this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bap-oZI-Grc">link</a>...<br /><br />Enjoy!<br /><br />Guess this means you're sorry<br />You're standing at my door<br />Guess this means you take back<br />All you said before<br />Like how much you wanted<br />Anyone but me<br />Said you'd never come back<br />But here you are again<br /><br />Cuz we belong together, yeah<br />Forever united here somehow, yeah<br />You got a piece of me<br />And honestly,<br />My life would suck without you<br /><br />Maybe I was stupid for telling you goodbye<br />Maybe I was wrong for tryin' to pick a fight<br />I know that I've got issues<br />But you're pretty messed up too<br />Either way, I found out I'm nothing without you<br /><br />Cuz we belong together, yeah<br />Forever united here somehow, yeah<br />You got a piece of me<br />And honestly,<br />My life would suck without you<br /><br />Being with you is so disfunctional<br />I really shouldn't miss you<br />But I can’t let you go<br />Oh yeah<br /><br />Cuz we belong together, yeah<br />Forever united here somehow, yeah<br />You got a piece of me<br />And honestly,<br />My life would suck without you<br /><br />Cuz we belong together, yeah<br />Forever united here somehow, yeah<br />You got a piece of me<br />And honestly,<br />My life (my life) would suck (would suck) without youLynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970851228593550726noreply@blogger.com0