The Roman Catholic

Tag:No TagsThis came in my email today.
After watching sales falling off for three straight months at Kentucky Fried Chicken, the Colonel calls up the Pope and asks for a favour.
The Pope says, “What can I do? “The Colonel says, “I need you to change the daily prayer from, ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ […]

Tag:bible, prayer, quotes, verses

Got this in my email yesterday and I think it will come in handy.
These are more effective than 911. Call when . . .
You are sad, phone John 14
You have sinned, phone Psalm 51
You are facing danger, phone Psalm 91
People have failed […]

Tag:easter, eve, faith, Mary, sinIn Genesis we read how Eve was seduced by the Devil’s empty promises of becoming God. In her enthusiasm to eat the forbidden fruit she got Adam involved and pulled him into sin as well and consequently both injured communion with God. From this story, I’ve heard numerous times from my […]

Tag:fortune, raphael, testament, wattles, wealth, willIn 2004 I attended a financial seminar that taught participants on how to become rich by investing in stocks and real estate. It was an exhilarating seminar as I had never been trained, from kindergarten to an MBA education, on such techniques.
Immediately after the seminar I purchased a condominium unit […]

Tag:cancer, death, healing, prayerToday I read with emphathy Maurice Blumberg’s account of his expereince surrounding his wife’s death and this spurred me to also contriubute my experience with my first wife’s passing ten years ago.
In early 1996 my wife was diagnosed with cancer of the breast and she subsequently underwent surgery to remove the lump […]

Tag:Christ, jesus, joseph, Mary, passion, tombLast night I watched Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ” together with my wife. As usual it was an emotional two hours. Watching the movie always makes it easier to appreciate and picture the events of Holy Thursday and Good Friday that we read about in the Gospels.
After the movie, […]

Tag:blood, cross, Good Friday, sinsThis came in my email a few days ago and I think it’s appropriate today being Good Friday to share with you.
 One day a while back, a man, his heart heavy with  grief, was walking in the woods. As he thought about his life this day,  he knew many things were not right. […]

Tag:genesis, geoengineering, global warmingOne of Time Magazine’s recent issues was dedicated to efforts that we can employ to save the Earth from destruction due to environmental issues. One of the ideas that we could apprarently apply is to “rearrange the heavens”.
This isn’t an April’s Fool joke. This is Plan B to end carbon emisssions if […]

Tag:Christ, palm, passion, sin, soul, sundayOn Palm Sunday, my wife and I attended Mass at 6:45am as we had a birthday bash to attend on Saturday evening (and missed the Saturday sunset Mass) and I had to attend a medical conference on Sunday that would take up almost the morning and afternoon.
We had reached Church […]

Tag:birthrate, christian, westWe know now that native Europeans are in the doldrums when it comes to replacing it’s population. There will soon be more elderly people than children in several of the EU countries. There is also the fear that the immigrants in these countries will be responsible for sustaining the population. This translates into […]