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12:47am |
Updated status on Facebook.
Deacon is home with the kids. School is closed. Luckily we. Have power.
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10:25am |
Posted a tweet on Twitter.
Stayed home today with the kids. Luckily we hand power all day.
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10:27am |
Posted a tweet on Twitter.
Putting up the Christmas tree with the family. Choinki stoja.
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11:30am |
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12:50pm |
Updated status on Facebook.
Deacon has finished putting up the Christmas tree and assorted decorations with the family. Już choinka stoi.
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Here a portion of the antiphon is sung in Latin. I like the way this video was set up. with the falling snow, symbolic of washing, and the whiteness of the snow recalling our desire to be renewed and washed clean, Very appropriate as part of our Advent preparation.
In PNCC usage the Asperges is performed prior to the principal Holy Mass on Sundays
With hyssop sprinkle me,
O Lord, and I shall be cleansed. Wash me, and I shall be whiter, whiter than the snow.
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your great mercy. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
With hyssop sprinkle me, O Lord, and I shall be cleansed. Wash me, and I shall be whiter, whiter than the snow.P. Show us Your mercy, Lord. [Alleluia]
R. And grant us Your salvation. [Alleluia]P. Lord, hear our prayer.
R. And let our cry come to You.P. The Lord be with you.
R. And also with you.P. Let Us Pray
Father, we call upon You to abide with Your people who are assembled here. Clease us of our sins and make us aware of the promise of Your Son that where two or three are gathered together in His name, He is with them. Through this Holy Eucharist we celebrate make us worthy to sit at His table in the kingdom of heaven.
We ask this through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord.R. Amen.
Pokropisz mię.
Panie hyzopem, a będę oczyszczony: obmyjesz mnie, a jako śnieg będę wybielony.
Zmiłuj się nademną, Boże, według wielkiego miłosierdzia Twego. Chwała Ojcu i Synowi i Duchowi Świętemu, jak była na początku, teraz i zawsze i na wieki wieków. Amen.
Pokropisz mię Panie hyzopem, a będę oczyszczony: obmyjesz mnie, a jako śnieg będę wybielony.K. Okaż nam Panie miłosierdzie Twoje.
O. I daj nam zbawienie Twoje.K. Panie wysłuchaj modlitwy nasze.
O. A wołanie nasze niech do Ciebie przyjdzie.K. Pan z wami.
O. I z duchem twoim.Módlmy się
Wysłuchaj nas, Panie Święty, Ojcze Wszechmocny, wieczny Boże; i racz zesłać świętego anioła Twego z niebios, aby strzegł, osłaniał i bronił wszystkich zgromadzonych w tym przybytku. Niechaj ta święta ofiara, której będziemy świadkami i uczestnikami, umocni w nas wiarę w obecność między nami Jezusa Chrystusa, który powiedział, że gdzie dwu, albo trzech zbierze się w imię Jego, On jest pomiędzy nimi, niech rozpali w sercu żar świętej miłości i wzmoże gorliwość w spełnianiu obowiązków względem Ciebie, Ojcze najłaskawszy, Kościoła Chrystusowego, Ameryki, Polski i wszystkich ludzi bez wyjątku. Przez Jezusa Chrystusa Pana naszego.
O. Amen.
But how hard it is to condemn to penance for life one who even afterwards keeps the commandments of the Lord, let Him teach us Himself Who has not refused forgiveness. Even to those who do not keep His commandments, as you read in the Psalm: —If they profane My statutes and keep not My commandments, I will visit their offences with the rod and their sins with scourges, but My mercy will I not take from them.— So, then, He promises mercy to all.
Yet that we may not think that this mercy is without judgment, there is a distinction made between those who have paid continual obedience to God’s commandments, and those who at some time, either by error or by compulsion, have fallen. And that you may not think that it is only our arguments which press you, consider the decision of Christ, Who said: —If the servant knew his Lord’s will and did it not, he shall be beaten with many stripes, but if he knew it not, he shall be beaten with few stripes.— Each, then, if he believes, is received, for God —chasteneth every son whom He receiveth,— and him whom He chasteneth He does not give over unto death, for it is written: —The Lord hath chastened me sore, but He hath not given me over unto death.— — Book I, Chapter XII.
From ChristianNewsWire: In God We Trust’ to Oppose Attempt to Place Atheist Sign in Washington D.C.
The national advocacy group In God We Trust today pledged to fight any attempt to place a controversial atheist sign in Washington, D.C. The sign attacks religion and that is now on display in Olympia, Washington, Madison, Wisconsin and Springfield, Illinois.
The signs from the Freedom from Religion Foundation reads:
“At this season of the Winter Solstice, may reason prevail.
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell.
There is only our natural world.
Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”“In God We Trust will oppose any effort to place these signs in any state capital or in any government location in Washington, D.C.,” promises Bishop Council Nedd, the organization’s chairman. “These signs have nothing in common with a menorah, a nativity scene or a Christmas tree. They are an attempt by anti-religious bigots to equate a belief in God with enslavement and to ridicule the majority of Americans who believe in God.”
“Why do these zealots have the right to post signs on public property attacking their countrymen?” Nedd asks…
Besides the errors in logic in this group’s argument, there is the issue of hypocrisy. Weren’t these the same folks who advocated, all but a few short months ago, regarding pastors’ rights to direct voting from the pulpit, to say whatever they please from the pulpit without government constraint? Groups like this one advocate free speech when it suits their purpose but are quick to quash others rights. Bishop Council Nedd asks, “Why do these zealots have a right…?” For exactly the same reasons you claim to have a right.
Now, do I agree with the “Freedom from Religion” folks? Not at all! At the same time I fully support their right to say whatever they wish, on equal footing with other groups. The Young Fogey often points to the difference between living in a secular state versus a secularist state as in this post. The government is doing as it should – it is treating all groups as equitably as possible. The ‘Freedom from Religion’ folks are secularist, and they have every right to that message.
I am confident enough in my faith and in our Lord and Savior so as to know that His message will prevail. I do not need the government nor ‘In God We Trust’ to defend me, or the message of the Gospel. I do not need to classify rights based on faith because my rights come from my faith. Faith is Christian witness. The victories of the world are fleeting. We await heavenly victory.