Nominate the Bioethics International blog!

Here is a great blog that needs your nomination!

(You can nominate here; nomination is done by adding a "comment" and stating that you nominate it).

Project 365!!!

And if making a list of 101 goals isn't your thing...you could try this idea.

Vatican Seeking Spiritual Moms for Priests

A good friend, Jessica, sent this out a few days ago.

Dearest ladies,

I hope your Advent has been filled with blessings .... the Christ is almost here!

In reading Zenit the other day I found this ...http://www.zenit.org/article-21253?l=english

The Congregation for the Clergy is looking for spiritual moms for priests. Please, please, please pray about and consider adopting a priest or seminarian that you know. As women, we have been given great gifts to nurture others and to model ourselves after the Blessed Virgin Mary. If you would like to participate, I would recommend that you write to the Congregation for the Clergy and see what sort of help is needed.

Our priests desperately need our help and this is a great way to spread the love. Have a blessed
Christmas.

Love,
Jessica

Would You Like To Talk About It?

This morning while outside of a Planned Parenthood, the following could be heard:

Person driving by: "PRO-CHOICE. YOU SUCK."

My friend, Laura: "Would you like to talk about it?"

Person driving by: "NO!"

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Person who pulls over: "How many have you adopted?"

Myself and Laura: "None." (Note: I have my doubts we're even old enough to adopt...)

Person who pulls over: "Then none of you'all have the right to be out here!"

Laura: "Would you like to talk about it?"

Person who pulls over: "No!"

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Young guy driving by: "F*#k you!"

Myself and others: (Kept praying).

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Lots of anger. Not much dialog. : (

Baby in A Box

Clean Up CVS

Here is some info on a great new campaign to clean up CVS

Very Cute Video

"A Homeschool Family"

Chrismukkah

What do you get when you combine Christmas, and Hanukah?

Chrismukkah!

But seriously, are we stepping onto the Tolerance Train or have we completely lost any and all reverence for each others holidays?

What is with the trend to smush all of the holidays into one? We can't actually smush the holidays into one holiday, so why smush the words?

Unless...

unless we aren't thinking about the meanings of the separate holidays anyway and therefore the words are...just words.

I just did a quick search and am a little startled to find that the Chrismukkah trend is quite real.

Here's a site for you to check out. http://www.chrismukkah.com/

Here's a quote from the Wikipedia entry on Chrismukkah

USA Today has described it as "[t]he newest faux holiday that companies are using to make a buck this season".

Hmm...I'm not sure what to think. My gut reaction though is that we're better off celebrating two distinct holidays.

Trying to combine them will only serve to water down both.

Do people who are Jewish really want to water-down the Miracle of Lights?

Do people who are Christian really want to water down the birth of Christ?

Reasonable Resolutions

It's about that time...


the time to start thinking about new year's resolutions.


At times I've taken this process quite seriously.


Freshman year of high school a friend and I resolved to learn sign language. Lo and behold we signed up for real sign language lessons. There we were, the only "kids" in the class. We sat among parents learning how to sign in order to communicate with their new deaf baby. Since we were younger than other people in class we picked up on the signs with ease, no doubt frustrating others in class who had more serious reasons for learning.


When I turned 20 I made the resolution to be fluent in Spanish by the time I'm 30. I'm half way there (both in age and ability.) In fact, I'm in Spanish class every Thursday night.


So what is it going to be come January 1st? What do I need to address? Here's what I'm thinking:


1. Ban myself from the computer at least 1 day a week, likely to be Sunday.

2. Get out of bed the first time I hear the alarm go off.

3. Keep the gas in my car above a 1/4 of a tank.

4. Hmm...I can't think of any more at the moment.

What are your resolutions?

Please Note.

I will publish all reasonable comments if the person commenting includes his or her name.

No anonymous comments will be published.

I figure, if I have the guts to put my name out there with controversial opinions, so can you!

The way my parents raised me...

Some people ask about my upbringing...

Here's an image for you:

One day when I was a child it was a bit rainy.

My parents conferenced with each other on how to occupy myself and my brothers.

What did they come up with?

That we should visit the grave of Robert Frost!

So there my brothers and I were, tromping around Frost's grave, being forced to recite poems as my mother pointed out birch trees and whatnot.

People, is that normal?!

Did anyone else's parents bring them to the graves of dead poets (or the sites of Emily Dickenson, Mark Twain, etc.?) and make them do grave rubbings "just for fun" on rainy days!?

Christmas Tree or Holiday Tree?

Roe IQ Test

This website has a 20 question survey that tests your Roe IQ! It's great!

Help David Dufresne!

A good friend of mine, David Dufresne, has entered the seminary and is currently seeking financial help with a specific evangelization opportunity. His mailing address is at the end of this blog post. Let me know if you'd like his email address.

Please note that I am intentionally deleting all references to the country to which he will hopefully be able to evangelize in. Email me if you'd like further details. Places where there should be a country name I have put "-----." The reason for this is because it has become known for blogs and websites to be blocked from this country if the powers that be in such country deem the blog/website to be contrary to what they would like their citizens to be exposed to. All the more reason to get David there!

Here is a letter from David:

Dear family and friends,

It is Providence that I am writing you on the Memorial of St. Francis Xavier. He is a great Jesuit saint from the 1500's who had a great desire to convert -----. After converting nearly all of Japan (before the Emperor there started to kill all the Catholics), he set sail for the Mainland and died en route. This summer, I have been offered the incredible opportunity to GO TO ----- and help EVANGELIZE! In some small sense I will carry on the work of Christ as envisioned by St. Francis Xavier! The goal is to print and pass out millions of Bibles, lead youth groups, rallies...spread the Gospel in -----! Nearly all ----- are taught English in school so there is virtually no language barrier. I would be going with an experienced Catholic group that has gone to ----- for the last 14 years. This group is so excited because ----- has to lift some of its bans on religious freedom in order to host the "games." This allows the group to be able to print millions of Bibles IN ----- itself.

I have permission from my Director of Vocations to go this summer on the condition that this does not put me in a financial constraint.

In order to go, I need $3,000. This covers the cost of my airfare, lodging, food, and printing hundreds of Bibles for me to personally pass out.

If you donated just $10 and got just two friends to do the same I would exceed my goal.

I need to let the group know if they can count on me ASAP.

Therefore, COULD YOU PLEASE EMAIL ME AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN PLEDGE $10 OR MORE?

All I need right now is an idea if this is possible so I can let the group know. If you wish to pledge, I will write back with the details.

Either way, please pray for the success of this great effort.

Thank you!!

David Dufresne
c/o Pontifical College Josephinum
7625 N. High St.Columbus, OH 43235

Most Holy Redeemer Parish, Hadley, MA

According to this website:

There are 47 abortion places...

in Massachusetts.

"Waiting Too Long"

This has got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Foxnews.com is sporting an article with the title, "Waiting Too Long to Have Sex Linked to Sexual Dysfunction Later in Life, Study Says."

Here is the blurb:

Having sex at early age has long been linked to a laundry list of health problems from an increased risk of sexual disease to an increased risk of cancer.

But now, Columbia University and New York state researchers say waiting too long to have sex may carry its own risks, according to an ABCnews.com report.

People who lose their virginity between the ages of 21 to 23 are more likely to suffer sexual dysfunction problems later in life, according to a study from Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute's HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies.

The study, which is will appear in the January 2008 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, found that men who lose their virginity in their 20's seemed more likely to have problems becoming sexually aroused and reaching orgasm.

But the researchers pointed out that men who started having sex early were also at an increased risk for sexual dysfunction and said further research is needed to determine if a causal interpretation can be made.

WHAT THE !%$!*?

"Late" is age 21-23?

The world has gone mad.