Reader Fran C. submitted this wonderful link to a performance of the song “To Believe”
It’s hard to believe that the singer is such a young girl.
Day: January 31, 2012
Mexicans Address Manners At Mass
Mexicans Address Manners At Mass This appeared in Sunday’s, Jan. 29, bulletin of Saints Peter and Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church in Clifton Heights Pa.
A priest in Mexico City is recommending Catholics turn off their cell phones, dress appropriately and arrive on time in order to participate more fully in the Mass.
In an article entitled “Good Manners In God’s House,” published by the Archdiocese of Mexico City’s News Service on Jan. 16, Father Sergio Roman said Mexican Catholics should remember where they are when they attend Mass on Sundays.
“Don’t smoke, don’t eat or drink at church. Don’t chew gun or stick it under the pews. Don’t chatter with others. Don’t pray your own personal prayers out loud,” the priest wrote.
“Take a bath, remove your hats, dress properly, because the Mass is a celebration. Respect the postures called for by the liturgy,” he added. “Give up your seat for an elderly person or for a woman. If you dose off at least don’t snore. Mind your manners!”
Fr. Roman also responded to complaints about babies crying during the Mass, saying that while sometimes parents are at fault for not taking their babies out of the church, “We cannot prohibit families with children from attending Mass.”
To do so would be to betray “the love the church proclaims for the family.” However, we can teach mothers and fathers to take them outside for a few minutes until they calm down,” he said.
“My sacristan has a basket of lollipops which he discretely hands out to children who are crying,” the priest noted. “Little by little, children will understand that the Mass requires that they be on their best behavior.”
Fr. Roman underscored that in almost every parish there is a liturgy team made up of lay people who volunteer to serve the congregation, and he invited Mexican Catholics to participate as lectors, ushers and assistants at their local parishes.
The Mass is your Mass. Look at it this way so that you can experience it more deeply,” he said.
One suspects that there are a whole lot of American parishes saying, “gee I wish we had these problems.”
Mexicans Address Manners At Mass
Freshman Rep. Plans To Tackle Pa. Pension Bubble
Warren Kampf, a Republican who is serving his first term as state representative from the 157th District, reportedly has a plan to deal with the public employees pension funds which are short about $30 billion, a circumstance that is expected to cause massive tax increases and/or enormous reductions in services next year or soon after.
This underfunding, by law, has to be made up by government.
Kampf is proposing on introducing legislation that would shift all new state and public school employees into a defined contribution, 401-K type plan, which would free government from having to make good any shortfalls in expectations.
For new employees anyway.
For the old ones? No.
So would this mean the pension bubble problem has been solved? Even a little bit?
Let’s just say we are trying to be positive about this and clapping our hands when we find a penny in the dog poop.
How A Pig Farmer Handled The Mosque Next Door
Let’s say you have pig farm.
Let’s say some Muslims buy the land next to you for a mosque and strongly suggest that you move your pig farm.
How do you handle it?
Why, with Friday night pig races.
Here’s a report from Fox News on how just that thing occurred in Texas.
An oldie (2008) but goodie.
Faith Ryan Whittlesey, Whatever Happened To?
Remember Faith Ryan Whittlesey, the Delaware County councilwoman and 166th District state representative in the 1970s who became a high ranking staffer in the Reagan Administration and eventually ambassador to Switzerland?
Well she just wrote this column for Newsmax.com vigorously defending Newt Gingrich against the charges being levied that he was somehow anti-Reagan.
