Thank you God
A place to visit as we are finishing up the day and thanking God for all the blessings that we have been given.
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New Film on John Paul II now available on Internet
For 9.95 you can watch a new film about Pope John Paul II on the internet. The film highlights his visit to the Holy Land in March of 2000. You can also purchase the DVD from the site.
I watched the trailer and it looks like it is a great documentary.
See for your self at www.holyfatherholyland.com.
More fun from the Net
Here is a great site to get new “skins” for your Yahoo Messenger.
They also have sounds, animations and other resources for Catholics on the internet.
Kansas City Priest Band
I just had to link to this story about a priest band from Kansas City. After all, one of the priest is from my parish.
Be sure to visit Catholic.org to read more about this talented group.Top MP3 Downloads
Prayer of St. Frances (with Matt Maher)
Gretchen HarrisAmazing
JanelleJesus Wept
Mary K. ShanahanNever Lose Faith
Barry RussoShelter Me, O God
Veronica MorrisseyThe Fragarance of Christ
Alma DeRojasfrom the Catholic Music Network
I am e3
evangelizing everyday everywhere
I found this website that can help each us to share our faith. It is a great community building activity for parish gatherings, committee meetings and anywhere that you want to share your faith.
I am e3 is a set of 24 cards (23 story cards and one
instruction card). Each story card has a faith account taken from a
real-life situation. Each person reads a card, shares it with the others and then shares their own story. There are questions on the card to help you get started telling your story.
Check out the samples here.
Free Catholic Resources
Catholic Heritage Curricula is offering free curricula and resources at their website. They have free study guides, a free “Heroes of the Holocaust” series and much more. Here is an excerpt to get your interest.
The Nun Who Took on Billy the Kidby Katie O’Brien
Did you know that one of the most dangerous outlaws of the West was convinced not to murder four doctors by none other than a Catholic nun? Did you know that the same nun prevented the lynching of a man by a huge town mob?
The story of this great Catholic sister begins on January 23, 1850, when Rose Maria Segale was born in the small Italian village of Cicagna. When she was four years old, she and her family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Throughout her early years she knew she wanted to become a nun and told her father that as soon as she was old enough she would like to join the Sisters of Charity. At age sixteen she entered the novitiate, becoming Sister Blandina. Her sister Maria Maddelena refused several marriage proposals and decided to follow in the footsteps of her younger sister, and became Sister Justina.
She was assigned to teach in Steubenville and Dayton, Ohio for a short time when in 1872 she received word from the Motherhouse that she was to proceed to Trinidad for missionary work. Sister Blandina was thrilled at this opportunity to work somewhere, she thought, on an island off the coast of Venezuela or near Cuba somewhere. But when Sister Blandina boarded the train she realized that the Trinidad to which she was going was out in the western part of the United States in Colorado and not a tropical island.
She traveled alone and reached her destination on December 9, 1872. She was only twenty-two years old. What she found when she got to Trinidad was a town that was often frequented by outlaws. Lynching was a common practice, and law was often determined not by the sheriff but by the mob. In one such instance, a man had shot another man, fatally wounding him. The mob had gathered around the house of the wounded man and as soon as he died, they were planning on going to the jailhouse where the man who shot him was being kept, drag him from the cell, and lynch him. The prisoner’s son was the father of one of Sister Blandina’s students. (more)
Here are a select few of the titles:
Heroes of Poland
Heroes of Austria
The U.S.S. Franklin’s Hero Priest
Father of Thousands of Boys
Three Famous Catholic Grandsons
…every tiniest pressure leaves a mark…
I ran across this article on GODSPY today and thought that is made a alot of sense for this website. The sentiment expressed in this reading are exactly why I started this blog to identify entertainment for the Catholic family. The article is an excerpted from Pope John Paul II’s message for the XIII World Communications Days in 1979. It is even more relevant now with additional entertainment and communication messages being available to our children. In addition to the theaters and televisions around in 1979, today’s families are bombarded with messages on their computers and cell phones. How many of us have checked to see what the “premium message” charges on our child’s cell phone bill consist of?
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea” (Mt. 18: 6)
