Te Deum

The Mary Month of May

Sharing a few of the "Marys" about our home...

Do you have a favorite Mary about your home?

Prayers needed immediately

After just recently dealing with her daughter's brain surgery (originally deemed inoperable, but nevertheless successful, thanks be to God Almighty), Julie's large, home-schooled family now has to deal with Child Protective Services wanting to "investigate" on the 23rd (tomorrow). The reason? A large family. Read Julie's post here, and pray for her family, and for all homeschoolers.

Obama Poised to Cede U.S. Sovereignty--Please View!

This video lasts 4 minutes. Please watch it.

It is Lord Christopher Monckton, a former UK cabinet minister speaking just days ago (Oct. 13, 2009) about the details of the "climate treaty" that the world's leaders will all be voting on in Copenhagen in December of this year.

That treaty will hugely impact ALL of our lives, yet how many of us know what's IN that treaty?

Ought we prepare our children for martyrdom?

If you can, go see Europe's shrines and holy places while they are still there.

Another reason to homeschool your kids (funny!)...

Patrice at Rural Revolution offered this glimpse into why our country is in such bad shape!

No surprises here

Well, the total lack of respect for human life has to come to this: culling the population as one would a flock of chickens. The old, the sick, those who are not "productive"...the only difference is that we encourage the procreation of livestock animals.

"God plus one is an army"

With many thanks to Fr. Bill Casey, CPM and to John, who does all the great video and editing work. If you enjoyed this clip, take a look at what else the Fathers of Mercy have to offer on their website and support their missions.

The mad scientists are at it again.

Here they go, delving into further uses for embryonic stem cells. I just want to throw up...

A scary future for America

My friend, Marilyn, has been writing a few politically thoughtful posts the last couple of days, and I was especially impressed with this link she offered to an article published by Stanislav Mishin in the Russian newspaper Pravda. I sent it on to a number of people, and my friend Jennifer in South Carolina sent me another amazing link: a 1985 interview with Yuri Bezminov that details this decades-long slide into Marxist Leninism. It is astounding that this interview took place over 20 years ago...

Is this what our future looks like in this country?

Canadian Missionaries evicted from their home after distributing pro-life materials.

Stuff like this really steams me...

This article from the LA Times (where else...?) really irks me. Well, not the article, but it's subject, which is a class called "Spirituality for Kids" and has been permitted in some LA Elementary public schools during the day or after school. Can't mention God's name in a public school, but you can teach New Age garbage and say it hasn't a thing to do with religion...

Party like it's 1773...

Concerned about the government spending that is spinning out of control? A debt our great-grandchildren will be paying off? All the insane things the government is doing with our money?

April 15th this year is TEA Party Day. The organization Taxed Enough Already is organizing nation-wide rallies to protest government misuse of our tax dollars. On their site you can find the rally that will be taking place nearest you and find out what you can do to help.

I expect it will get as much mainstream media coverage as the annual pro-life march in D.C. does every year (which is to say, hardly anything), but that doesn't mean it isn't worth it.

Feels like Lent...

Well, Lent got off to a good start for us this year. The good news: we actually got to go to the early Mass for the Ash Wednesday service. The bad news: we were able to do this because Bret has joined the great (and growing) ranks of the unemployed.

We sort of knew this was coming. His hours at the cabinet shop had been dwindling down for the last few weeks.

Guess we'll have to announce to the kids at dinner time that due to hard economic times, we are going to have to let a few of them go [hee hee...Bret and I do like to mess with the kids. What's the fun in parenthood if you can't have a little fun now and then, eh?]

God has only recently--in the last few months--given me the gift of trust. It was hard-won for a late convert to religion like myself. I feel pretty peaceful, which isn't to say that I am not harassing St. Joseph with my constant petitions, but that is more for the sake of Bret than for myself. God has a plan, and it is for our good, whether in this world or the next. I'm okay with that.

Still, put in a good word for us when you talk to St. Joseph, eh?

Funding birth control to cut costs

Fresh from the Drudge Report (thank you, John):

PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY
Sun Jan 25 2009 22:13:43 ET

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic "stimulus" package, claiming "contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."

Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, "Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom," seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.

The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC's THIS WEEK.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?

PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children's health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?

PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.

Developing...

Why on earth are our politicians so short-sighted? A "Demographic Winter" is not by any means a solution to a failing economy. If anything, it will make euthanasia the next logical step, as how will a reduced workforce support an aging population? It's all downhill, folks...

No time wasted

I know we all know the new president's agenda, but here it is again in black and white: the White House website as updated by our new administration. For a peek at all the proposals under "civil rights", look here. I'd mouth off here, but it might be constituted as a hate crime...

Urgent--Please sign C-FAM's petition

The Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute is sponsoring an important petition. On December 10th, pro-abortion groups will present petitions asking the United Nations General Assembly to make abortion a universally recognized human right. C-FAM's alternate petition calls for government to interpret the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as protecting the unborn child from abortion. They need at least 100,000 signatures by December 10th, the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Please go to their website and sign the petition.

And most of all, pray.

Heaven help us--the Obama Youth?

As if a program of socialism, promotion of abortion and the teary-eyed hordes of emotional Obama-worshippers are not enough to send shivers up our spines, now we hear of our president-elect's plans for a youth corp. Participation would be mandatory. Okay, I am thoroughly creeped...

Petitions to Promote Life

Danette of A Crocus in the Valley has posted some very important links to petitions. The first is to fight the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) which our president-elect has promised to sign into law during his first 100 days in office. The other it to protest our tax dollars going to fund Planned Parenthood. You can find these links here.

Change, but not necessarily unity...

Very sad. And for once I am at a loss for words. Just read about what occurred at the school where Paul, of Alive and Young, works on the morning after the election. One hopes that there can be some tiny speck of good to come from an administration that will expand funding for the destruction of its future citizens, but I can't even find that speck. I see no good.