Merry Christmas Mark, to you and all your family.
Merry Christmas and Peace,
Dan
A blessed Christmastide and New Year to you and all your loved ones, Mark. Keep fighting the good fight!
That is my very favorite Christmas poem of all. I once ran across a bunch of beautiful, stapled booklets made of it and illustrated with woodcuts IIRC. I bought a ton of them and handed them out to everyone at Christmastime.
To quote Bill Stabosz, every year at this time, "This is the best Christmas ever!"
Blessings to you and yours, Mark.
Rae
Merry Christmas, Mark - from a faithful lurker. Keep up the all the good work!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, House of Shea and fellow combox warriors and lurkers!
Merry Christmas everyone.
From the land of sunshine at this time of year. 
God bless all.
A Christmas Poem
Oh, to have been a shepherd or a king
and to have heard those angels sing
or to have seen that star so bright
upon that holy Christmas night.
But Christmas transcends both time and place
and we can share in that night’s grace
when like those humble ones back then
we heed God’s call and proclaim, “Amen.”
That's the poem I put in my christmas cards---love it! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to Mark & family, and to all readers of CAEI!
May Our Lady obtain many blessings for you this Christmas season.
Merry Christmas, Mark.
Nice one, Sir. That's the poem I printed out and put in all my cards this year too.
So apt when even in the rich countries we are literally losing our homes! Homelessness was one of Chesty's great themes (e.g. "The Homelessness of Jones") and it is beautiful to reflect that the Mystery which is our true "home" became a Man to make us desire our destiny even in, within and through this life of "exile".
Happy Christ-Mass!
Memo to: My subtenants in This World, aka all children of Adam
From: Satan
Re: Homelessness
I am the Number One Homeless Creature in all the universe. I hate all of you because, in the end, you will all have a real home to go to, if you want to.
And what really gets under my preternatural skin, is that none of you deserve a home. All of the homeless are homeless because of their own inefficiences, which my Landlord calls "sins". My Landlord understands nothing about economics.
How in Enemy's name can any cosmic economy be sustained on 100 percent "debt forgiveness"? At the rate the Landlord is going, He's going to become bankrupt. And THEN what the hell is He going to live on?
My spies tell me the Enemy plans for himself AND all of his creatures to live on "charity", eternally. But as my spies lie all the time, I don't believe them.
Sincerely yours,
Satan
Merry Christmas Mark to you and your family.
Merry Christmas to all of my combox compadres...I've not been around lately and I have missed the reading and occasional postings; but I have had a postion change at work which demands a lot of my time and puts me on the road. I am thankful I have a job, especially when I hear so many people do not...which is tough especially at this time of year.
I also have been recovering from the post-election hangover as I am sure many of you long time combox warriors have too. I just had to walk a different path for a while....I will make my return after 1 January 2009.
Buon Natale e un Buono Anno Nuovo!
I'd like to offer this story on my application that brings the prayer on iPhone.
I believe that prayer is Christian and Catholic from spreading. You wonder why you can publish the news and if you can spread it to your friends on the blog.
thanks
fr. Paolo Padrini
Sacred texts: Vatican embraces iTunes prayer book
5 days ago
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is endorsing new technology that brings the book of daily prayers used by priests straight onto iPhones.
The Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications is embracing the iBreviary, an iTunes application created by a technologically savvy Italian priest, the Rev. Paolo Padrini, and an Italian Web designer.
The application includes the Breviary prayer book — in Italian, English, Spanish, French and Latin and, in the near future, Portuguese and German. Another section includes the prayers of the daily Mass, and a third contains various other prayers.
After a free trial period in which the iBreviary was downloaded approximately 10,000 times in Italy, an official version was released earlier this month, Padrini said.
The application costs euro0.79 ($1.10), while upgrades will be free. Padrini's proceeds are going to charity.
Monsignor Paul Tighe, secretary of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications, praised the new application Monday, saying the Church "is learning to use the new technologies primarily as a tool or as a mean of evangelizing, as a way of being able to share its own message with the world."
Pope Benedict XVI, a classical music lover who was reportedly given an iPod in 2006, has sought to reach out to young people through new media. During last summer's World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, he sent out mobile phone text messages citing scripture to thousands of registered pilgrims — signed with the tagline "BXVI."
This world is wild as an old wives' tale,
And strange the plain things are,
The earth is enough and the air is enough
For our wonder and our war;
But our rest is as far as the fire-drake swings...
San Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer stated that oeace is not rest but victory in war against evil.
Now, thing on this current war:
In a previous post on other blog I was accused of “drinking”, for establishing a parallelism between:
1) USCCB reneges (bi-locates) Rome’s clear condemnation of abortion doers, covering up the STILL ON!!!! distribution of the Eucharist, to their intellectual-formal authors (lawmakers), and asks your $$$.
2) USAID reneges of this ample-clear evidence: condoms promote AIDS + teen pregnancies, and keeps asking for your billions of tax-dollars.
Now The Black Comedy of Kwanzaa (see The Curt Jester), adds YET ANOTHER story of censorship, with a humorous perspective, to what I see as a MAJOR problem in our Catholic media, to be addressed in order to avoid splitting Catholics who STILL think (thanks to USCCB, not Rome), that Biden, Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry, etc., Holy Communions are OK.
To see the parallel with your USAID tax dollars, please look this stuff from my friend Harvard’s Professor E. Green:
http://www.northbynorthwestern.c...7/south-africa/
Cordially
Sorry for mu typos:
oeace is peace, and thing is think.
Great poem. At my Catholic school's Christmas party, one of the (young!) novice read this and broke down a number of times during, he was so moved.
Fitting label "Old Ornaments", reminiscent of the "little flowers" of saints, etc., etc., etc. Pray for G.K. Chesterton, and ask him to pray for us!
God bless,
Aaron Magnan
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2009!
“Let's resolve this year to create a peaceful presence wherever we go…”
“We are called to be “missionaries of forgiveness and reconciliation…”
Christmas time continues…
Jesus loves you.
Luisa Veyan S.
Lima-Peru
http://
levantateysalacaminar.pod...r.podomatic.com
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