We're trying, dear!
Guess this is why St. Josemaria Escriva said:
Being children you will have no cares: children quickly forget what troubles
them and return to their games. With abandonment, therefore, you will not have
to worry, since you will rest in the Father.
– The Way, #864
Now, if I could just lock this in my mind and heart so that I can avoid worry and fear:I really need to commit the whole quote, but especially the last line (that I've highlighted) to memory!As soon as you truly abandon yourself in the Lord, you will know how to be content with whatever happens. You will not lose your peace if your undertakings do not turn out the way you hoped, even if you have put everything into them, and used all the means necessary. For they will have turned out the way God wants them to.
– St. Josemaria Escriva, Furrow, #860
I agree, you are saying nearly all the truth... Therefore you are not truthful.
And she knew this back in the 16th Century .... maybe we should pay attention here in the 21st Century!Disorder in society is the result of disorder in the family.
"Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." - Schindler's List"Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
He also said: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
Further thoughts on freedom and the responsibilities that go with being truly free:
"Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so that their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them." - Susan B. Anthony
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - the Declaration of Independence
"The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government." - Thomas Jefferson
"The right to life is the most fundamental of all rights, since a person deprived of life has no other rights."- Avery Dulles, S.J.
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - George Bernard Shaw
"Freedom is not so much a birthright, as it is an achievement. We are born with freedom of choice, but the way we use our choices makes us slaves or free men." - Fulton Sheen
"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors.There is no other." - Carl Schurz
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." - William Hazlitt
"There is no true freedom where life is not welcomed and loved; and there is no fullness of life except in freedom."- Pope John Paul II
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." - G.K. Chesterton
Remember, as with all gifts from God -- freedom brings responsibility ... a responsibility we pray the new Administration, and the whole country, will embrace with gusto! That's change you can count on!
Sister Miriam Joseph, writing on classical education; [note: sometimes her name is written "Sr. Mariam Joseph"]
"Education is the highest of arts in the sense that it imposes forms not on matter, as do the other arts, but on minds."
He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
yes, you will forget to teach them something, but if you teach them to love
learning, when they come across that something, they'll be able to TEACH
THEMSELVES so relax!
If one yields ground on any single point of Catholic doctrine, one will
later have to yield later in another, and again in another, and so on until such
surrenders come to be something normal and acceptable. And when one gets used to rejecting dogma bit by bit, the final result will be the repudiation of it
altogether.
-- author unknown (unfortunately!)The average man eats in a hurry and gets dyspepsia. He walks in a
hurry and gets apoplexy. He talks in a hurry and begins to stutter.
He does business in a hurry and becomes bankrupt. He votes in a hurry and
produces corruption. He marries in a hurry and gets a divorce. He
trains his children in a hurry and develops spendthrifts and delinquents.
He makes his will in a hurry and leaves a legal contest. He dies in a
hurry and goes to the devil.
And his tribe steadily increases.
MORAL? Slow down.
as quoted in Warriner's English Grammar and Composition, Harcourt Brace 1977, pg 305-306.
Those whose hearts are pure are temples of the Holy Spirit.Ingredients for Cookies:
Heat the corn syrup in a saucepan. Stir in the sugar, molasses, ginger, lemon rind, and baking soda.
In a large bowl, whip the cream until almost stiff.
Stir the syrup mixture gradually into the cream. Beat at low speed with an electric mixer for 4 to 5 minutes (about twice as long if you’re doing by a hand using a whisk or spoon). Add 4 cups of the flour, mixing well with a spoon. Then gradually add enough of the remaining flour to make a soft, pliable dough.
Knead dough for 2 or 3 minutes.
Wrap the dough well in waxed paper or plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough out about 1/4 inch thick. Cut with fancy cutters, such as animals and people; or just slice 1/4 inch thick rounds (and call them "eyes"!).
Place the cookies on a lightly buttered cookie sheet. Bake at 275 degrees for about 20 minutes or until the cookies are golden brown.
Ice when cool.
Ingredients for icing:
White of an egg
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp lemon juice
Beat the white until frothy. Add 1 cup sugar and lemon juice. If the icing is too thick, add more lemon juice, if too thin, add more sugar. Can be colored with food coloring.
Yield: about 4 dozen cookies
Santa Lucia Crown
From: Cooking with the Saints by Ernst Schuegraf
Crown Ingredients:
Pour half the warm water into a large bowl. Sprinkle in the yeast; stir until dissolved. Add remaining water, warm milk, sugar, butter, salt, saffron and half the flour; blend well. Sit in 2 eggs and enough remaining flour to make a soft dough. Add more flour if the dough is too sticky.
Knead on a lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning to grease top. Cover; let rise in warm, draft-free place until doubled in size – about 1 hour.
Punch down down. Remove dough to lightly floured surface; reserve 1/3 of dought for top of crown. Divide remaining dough into 3 equal pieces; roll each into a rope. Braid ropes. Place braid on greased baking sheet. Form into a circle, pinching ends together to seal.
Make top braid with reserved dough. Cover braids with cloth. Let both braids rise till double – about an hour.
Lightly beat an egg and brush on braids.
Bake in 375 over for 15 minutes for smaller braid, 25 minutes for larger (cover larger braid with foil for last 10 minutes of baking to avoid darkening).
Let cool on wire racks.
Icing Ingredients:
1 cup powdered sugar
4 tsp milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
Red and green glace/candied cherries (optional)
Make icing by mixing powdered sugar, milk and vanilla in a small bowl. Stir until smooth. Using icing as “glue” place smaller braid atop larger braid. Drizzle icing over all. Decorate with glace cherries if desired.
Serves 12
Now if anyone says that this duty of general enlightenment is in itself too exacting and oppressive, I can understand the view. I can only answer that our race has thought it worth while to cast this burden on women in order to keep common-sense in the world. But when people begin to talk about this domestic duty as not merely difficult but trivial and dreary, I simply give up the question.
For I cannot with the utmost energy of imagination conceive what they mean. When domesticity, for instance, is called drudgery, all the difficulty arises from a double meaning in the word. If drudgery only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home, as a man might drudge at the Cathedral of Amiens or drudge behind a gun at Trafalgar. But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colorless and of small import to the soul, then as I say, I give it up; I do not know what the words mean.
To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area -- deciding sales, banquets, labours, and holidays; to be Whiteley within a certain area -- providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes, and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area -- teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene: I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.
I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.
When you feel the assaults of passion
and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.
– St. Paul of the Cross
(1798-1850)An Italian noble, Vincent was the founder of the
Pious Society of Missions (Pallottines). He devoted his life to the poor and
penitents, and started the special observance at Rome of the Octave of the
Epiphany.
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