Good thought:

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Thanksgiving Day Dinner at St Joseph's

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Happy Thanksgiving Day to you all.

May almighty God bless you, the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit:

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Ave Maria:

He watches! He protects.

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Outdoor statue of Jesus survives destruction of Philippine Typhoon:
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Oh my gosh!

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What Makes a Body Beautiful.....

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It made no sense.
People would see the old woman—frail and bent, her face lined with a thousand wrinkles.
They would talk to her, look her in the eye, then walk away, invariably saying the same thing: “She’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.”
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Again, it made no sense.
At least not by the standards of every major fashion magazine.
The woman wasn’t long and lean. Her lips weren’t pouty and her eyelashes didn’t bat. She wasn’t hot. She wasn’t sexy.
She wasn’t Gwyneth Paltrow.
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But she was beautiful.
And everyone who met Blessed Teresa of Calcutta believed her to be so.
Why?
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Because, as John Paul II wrote in The Theology of the Body, “the body expresses the person.”
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In other words, through Mother Teresa’s body, people saw her soul, a soul alive with love and transformed by grace. In her eyes, they saw mercy. In her hands, they saw compassion. In her shoulders, stooped and bent, they saw humility.
And in her whole person, they saw God. Through her mercy, compassion, and humility, they saw his mercy, compassion, and humility. Through herlove, they saw his love. Through her strength, his strength.
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They saw all that because, as I explain in These Beautiful Bones: An Everyday Theology of the Body, that’s what the body does. It makes visible the truths of our invisible soul, and it makes visible the truths about our invisible God. It communicates who we are to the world as it images the Creator of that world. What makes it beautiful is how well it does that, how perfectly it images the God who formed it.
Which is to say, what makes a body beautiful is how well it loves.
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AMen.

Pope Francis Effect? New American Leadership!

NOAH .... is coming soon!

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Totally Confused:

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I never know which way I should be going.

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Caden ... my (great) Nephew!

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On the Road to Being a Priest...

Laugh a Little:

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Bible Groaners

Q. What kind of man was Boaz before he married?
A. Ruthless

Q. What do they call pastors in Germany?
A. German Shepherds.

Q. Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?
A. Noah. He was floating his stock while everyone else was in liquidation.

Q. What kind of motor vehicles are in the Bible?
A. Jehovah drove Adam and Eve out of the Garden in a Fury. David's Triumph was heard throughout the land. Honda, because the apostles were all in one Accord.

Q. What excuse did Adam give to his children as to why he no longer lived in Eden?
A. Your mother ate us out of house and home.

Q. What's the phone number of the Garden of Eden?
A. ADAM-8-1-2

Q. Which servant of God was the most flagrant lawbreaker in the Bible?
A. Moses. He broke all 10 commandments at once.

Q. Which area of Palestine was especially wealthy?
A. The area around Jordan. The banks were always overflowing.




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Veterans' Day

Blog:

My Blog has been down for a week or so... internal difficulties.  I hope to be able to return soon.

Thanks for waiting.