Galatians 6:17

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"I bear on my body the marks of Jesus." 

Many folks are talking about our new Holy Father's choice of name, but mainly in relation to his austerity and love of the "least of these".

Saint Francis was also the first to bear the suffering of the stigmata, and so our new Pope, in this  
self-centered media-zombie Obama-fanboy anti-God world, 
may also bear such pain . . .for love of Christ and love of us.

May God bless him, and our Lady watch over him.

Blind leading the Blind

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"I go to church,  not every week" , 

"I can't remember a single sermon"

MSNBC's resident bigot* Chris Matthews 
explaining that he is a bad Catholic 
who never pays attention, 
yet is pretentious enough 
to lecture the Church 
that it needs to be 
as trendy as he is . . .ugh!

* yes, I am aware that most of the folks at MSNBC are bigots
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The Passing of the Keys (O:

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To Deny the Pope is to Deny Christ

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Isaiah 22:
I will clothe him with your robe,
gird him with your sash,
confer on him your authority.
He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and to the house of Judah.f
I will place the key* of the House of David on his shoulder;
what he opens, no one will shut,
what he shuts, no one will open.g
I will fix him as a peg in a firm place,
a seat of honor for his ancestral house;

Matthew 16
Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood* has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. 
And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church,* and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.
l I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven.*
Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven;
and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
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Cain or Abel?

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As I was about to receive the Eucharist today 
I found myself pondering Cain and Abel and acceptable sacrifice
If it is truly Christ and truly a sacrifice, 
then we please God as Abel did, 
but if it is only a symbol, a false sacrifice, 
than are we not Cain?
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The 95 Theses : Revised Edition

Real Hope and Change

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The Media Pundits all say the Church needs "change" 

but they do not understand
we are the Church of change!

Through the Church 

a sinner can change into a Saint

through the Church 

the hopeless change into the hopeful

and through the Church 

the unlovable change into the loved

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Just Do Do It

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Those who can

Do

Those who can't

work for ABC News*

*O.K. to substitue WaPo, CNN, or even Fox News

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Mainstream Media Chooses a Pope

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Ivar Arosenius 1878-1909 "En hemlighet"

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Lenten Art Quiz

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Can you list all the fulfilled Prophecies depicted in Peter Paul Rubens
"The Incarnation as the Fulfillment of all the Prophecies" ?

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not with flesh and blood

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I was pondering whether
the media was the pawn of the White House,
or whether Obama was a puppet of mainstream media;
but then I remembered Ephesians 6:12
and realized they are equally guided by the same puppeteer,
but as the cords are tied to their feet
and pulled from below,
those strings are quite easy to go unnoticed
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An Inconvenient Truth

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"For God to Bless America,

in Her present state,

would require Him first

to apologize

to Sodom and Gomorarrah"

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and I'm only givin' up TV (O;

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"The difficulty of explaining 

“why I am Catholic”
is that there are 10,000 reasons
all amounting to one reason:
that Catholicism is true."
G.K. Chesterton

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Child of God or Pawn of the Abortion Industry

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"Early feminism 
championed to make 

American society and government
afford women 
the same equal dignity 

given them by God.

Planned Parenthood's  
pseudo feminism
turns women into sex toys,
mothers into murderers,
and  
robs the dignity 

of BOTH 

men and women"
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