Wednesday, February 28 - Push!

Jonah 3:1-10
The word of the Lord was addressed to Jonah: “Up!” he said, “Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to them as I told you to.” Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was a city great beyond compare: it [...]

The Mass: Pre & Post Vatican II

I attended the first part of a talk on comparing the celebration of the Eucharist Pre-Vatican II and Post-Vatican II. The talk was conducted by Father Paul Staes, CICM, who celebrated his 45th sacerdotal anniversary last year. He was ordained in 1961, before the Second Vatican Council. So unlike a number [...]

The sexualization of girls

Today’s issue of ZENIT has a few interesting articles. This one is most interesting to me.

The Sexualization of Girls
Report Chronicles Damage Caused

By Father John Flynn
ROME, FEB. 26, 2007 (Zenit.org).- An unhealthy sexualization is putting young and adolescent girls increasingly at risk, concludes a report published Feb. 19 by the American [...]

Tuesday, February 27 - Making Your Prayers Godfriendly

Isaiah 55:10-11
Thus says the Lord:
As the rain and the snow come down from the heavens and do not return without watering the earth, making it yield and giving growth to provide seed for the sower and bread for the eating, so the word that goes from my mouth does not [...]

Solving the car park problem at churches

I’m taking a break from some categorization work that I stumbled into while tidying up a certain website. Been at it for the last four hours, I think, after watching Battle Royale over the net. Have been wanting to watch it ever since a friend caught it over the net during [...]

What I learnt today

I learnt that it is important to make your website Googlefriendly, so that more people will come to know of your website through the Google search engine. Google ranks the pages that its search engine bots comes across.

The more user friendly your web page editor was, the less your attention your [...]

Monday, February 26 - Preparing for the final exam

Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18
The Lord spoke to Moses; he said: “Speak to the whole community of the sons of Israel and say to them: ‘Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
‘You must not steal nor deal deceitfully or fraudulently with your neighbour. You must not swear falsely by [...]

Sunday, February 25 - Fine Print

Deuteronomy 26:4-10
Moses said to the people: “The priest shall take the pannier from your hand and lay it before the altar of the Lord your God. Then, in the sight of the Lord your God, you must make this pronouncement:
‘My father was a wandering Aramaean. He went down into [...]

Vatican official acknowledges liturgical crisis

All who are interested in the Church’s liturgy are currently wondering whether Pope Benedict XVI will soon issue a motu proprio allowing the celebration of the Tridentine Mass, and, if he does, what it will say.
A moto proprio is a papal rescript (document that is issued not on the initiative of [...]

Saturday, February 24 - Go!

Isaiah 58:9-14
The Lord says this:
If you do away with the yoke,
the clenched fist, the wicked word,
if you give your bread to the hungry,
and relief to the oppressed,
your light will rise in the darkness,
and your shadows become like noon.
The Lord will always guide you,
giving you relief in desert places.
He will give strength to your [...]