VIGIL OF THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Feast of the Miraculous Medal of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1830)
Feast of St. Maximinus (4th Century), Bishop
ANNOUNCEMENT: His Holiness Pope NBC-TV has announced today that the family being together during the dinner hour increases self-esteem of children, helps to reduce the risk of typical problems among children and more.
Well, DAH!
The Judeo-Christian world has known this for 6000 years yet today's scientists seem to think they discovered the holy grail that the family dinner is actually beneficial to the family.
Well, DAH!
Your miserable servant,
Brother Bubba
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THURSDAY OF THE THIRTY-FIRST WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME
Feast of St. Charles Borromeo (1584), Bishop, Patron of Seminarians
Dear Beloved:
We have truly won a victory over evil in this week's U.S. Election. President Bush has won a second term and the 27 year reign of the arch-liberal Tom Daschle (who's hometown is just 40 miles from me) has been ousted. Praise God.
What is even more wonderous is that the primary reason for the way the people voted was on the issue of morality and traditional values. Praise God!
As to be exepcted, the liberals are going balistic with prognostations of the end of the world. There has already developed a serious case of a form of MAD COW DISEASE called MAD LIBERAL DISEASE. As is recommended with Mad Cow Disease, we need to recall and throw out all the rotten liberal meat so that it will not infect our people any longer.
If there is any doubt about how the liberals have gone mad, I post here today's message from William Donohue from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, who has listed quotes from the liberal media:
RELIGIOUS BIGOTS EXPLODE AFTER ELECTION
Catholic League president William Donohue says the following examples, taken from today's
newspapers and Internet sites, prove we need to build more asylums:
*In the Wichita Eagle, Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press wonders if President Bush understands that "he was not chosen god, bishop, rabbi or high priest?"
*The publisher of Harper's magazine, John R. MacArthur, blasts both President Bush and Senator Kerry for advertising "their subservience to Jesus Christ and the Christian god, without the least concern about whether it might offend me" and others like him.
*Ex-seminarian Garry Wills writes in the New York Times, "Can a people that believes more fervently in the Virgin Birth than in evolution still be called an Enlightened nation?" He ends by saying that "moral zealots" will scare moderate Republicans with their "jihads."
*Maureen Dowd, a New York Times columnist who hates Bush, says the President "ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq."
*Dowd's colleague, Thomas Friedman, accuses Bush's base of wanting "to extend the boundaries of religion" and of promoting "intolerance."
*Without providing one example, Margaret Carlson opines in the Los Angeles Times that Catholic bishops "demonized" Kerry's supporters by warning them "they could go to hell just for voting for him."
*Sheryl McCarthy of Newsday accuses Bush of "pandering to people's fears, petty interests and prejudices" against gays and others.
*Sidney Blumenthal, writing in Salon.com, nervously observes that the new senate majority is "more theocratic than Republican."
*In the same spot, Sean Wilentz embarrasses his fellow Princeton faculty by saying, "religious fanaticism" has "seized control of the federal government."
All I can say is that the liberals (another word for big babies) are obviously worried that they are being left behind by a society that is finally realizing that liberalism has failed them.
Praise God.
Your miserable servant,
Brother Bubba
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TUESDAY OF THE THIRTY-FIRST WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME
All Souls Day
Dear Beloved:
Yesterday I randomly took a book off my bookshelf to browse. I found an old newspaper clipping tucked among the pages. It was the Protestant publication, Pulpit Helps, for December 1982. The clipping itself was a little article from the Abingdon Disciple, called How to Be Unhappy:
HOW TO BE UNHAPPY ONE NEED ONLY.....
1. Develop a negative attitude. A negative attitude is a great guarantee of misery. The negative attitude of the people of Israel was revealed in the early chapters of Genesis when Moses led them out of Egypt. Their negative attitudes were demonstrated in the crisis of the Red Sea, their food, their water, and their meat. Every time we sow negatives, we reap a harvest of negatives.
2. Develop the "I" personality. How many times do we use "I" in a two-minute conversation? If more than once, we must watch out for this personality flaw!
"Not I, but Christ liveth in me" (Gal 2:20b). When we constantly do nothing but think about ourselves, what we are going to do, what fun we are going to have, etc., we are preparing for unhappiness.
3. Develop an unforgiving spirit. The Bible says, "And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you." (Eph 4:32). We are to forgive not once, nor twice, but an infinite number of times. An unforgiving heart guarantees unhappiness.
4. Gossip about other people. A gossiping person is a very insecure person. Puritan Christians in early America tarred and feathered the town gossips. The Bible is not silent in this area.
Actually, happiness is something which we receive as a by-product of what we're doing with our lives. by kicking the addiction of a negative attitude, the "I" personality, an unforgiving spirit and gossip habit, and remembering we, who have been "born again" are a "new creation", the Holy Spirit will lead us into new relationships which are divine. Happiness is the by-product of doing what God suggests we ought to do.
Your miserable servant,
Brother Bubba
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