Notre Damned?

The debacle at Notre Dame is shameful. What kind of message does this send to the unbeliever. A College that claims to be Catholic blatantly disobeys it's bishops and and magisterium in giving a public platform to a pro- abortionist. The darkness has overwhelmed that university when it's priest are arrested while protesting the culture of death.

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Testing my mobile link to my blog. Ain't technology fun?
-pax et bonum

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Charter Cable Giveaway

Charter is creating new bundle offers for more ways to save on home entertainment.

Check out the Charter's Free Gift Card Sweepstakes
during the month of May.

Visit www.charter.com/giftcards/ to enter for a chance to win a $5,000 gift card grand prize or four weekly prizes of a $1,000 gift card. Winners can mix and match gift cards in $500 increments from popular brands.
The contest is open to anyone and no purchase is necessary.

Any customer who orders anything online at Charter.com throughout May is automatically entered to win and will receive $75 or $150 in gift cards depending on their bundle selection. The contest is part of the easy-to-use website, www.charter.com. Customers can useit to custom build the service bundle that meets their needs. Bundling services saves customers money and gives them access to the services they need. Bundles include a cable. phone and internet package for 100 dollars a month, cable and internet for 75 dollars a month and high speed internet only at 25 dollars a month.

for thoose who are twittering ( and who isn't?) you can keep up with the latest from Charter and to get valuable deals and access to great sweepstakes, Follow Charter on Twitter at www.twitter.com/chartercom

Charter has been creating a lot of buzz around its online contests. In April it gave away an HDTV a day, including a grand prize of a home theater system and one year of free Charter Digital Cable® service with HD programming. And last year it gave away laptops and Xbox 360 game systems and one customer drove away a 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid.I would say that a trip to their website often is a bonus in entertainment value no matter how you look at it.

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The Sacrifice and the Priest

From today's Office Of Readings:

From a sermon by Saint Peter Chrysologus, bishop

Each one of us is called to be both a sacrifice to God and his priest

I appeal to you by the mercy of God. This appeal is made by Paul, or rather, it is made by God through Paul, because of God’s desire to be loved rather than feared, to be a father rather than a Lord. God appeals to us in his mercy to avoid having to punish us in his severity.

Listen to the Lord’s appeal: In me, I want you to see your own body, your members, your heart, your bones, your blood. You may fear what is divine, but why not love what is human? You may run away from me as the Lord, but why not run to me as your father? Perhaps you are filled with shame for causing my bitter passion. Do not be afraid. This cross inflicts a mortal injury, not on me, but on death. These nails no longer pain me, but only deepen your love for me. I do not cry out because of these wounds, but through them I draw you into my heart. My body was stretched on the cross as a symbol, not of how much I suffered, but of my all-embracing love. I count it no less to shed my blood: it is the price I have paid for your ransom. Come, then, return to me and learn to know me as your father, who repays good for evil, love for injury, and boundless charity for piercing wounds.

Listen now to what the Apostle urges us to do. I appeal to you, he says, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice. By this exhortation of his, Paul has raised all men to priestly status.

How marvellous is the priesthood of the Christian, for he is both the victim that is offered on his own behalf, and the priest who makes the offering. He does not need to go beyond himself to seek what he is to immolate to God: with himself and in himself he brings the sacrifice he is to offer God for himself. The victim remains and the priest remains, always one and the same. Immolated, the victim still lives: the priest who immolates cannot kill. Truly it is an amazing sacrifice in which a body is offered without being slain and blood is offered without being shed.

The Apostle says: I appeal to you by the mercy of God to present your bodies as a living sacrifice. Brethren, this sacrifice follows the pattern of Christ’s sacrifice by which he gave his body as a living immolation for the life of the world. He really made his body a living sacrifice, because, though slain, he continues to live. In such a victim death receives its ransom, but the victim remains alive.
Death itself suffers the punishment. This is why death for the martyrs is actually a birth, and their end a beginning. Their execution is the door to life, and those who were thought to have been blotted out from the earth shine brilliantly in heaven.
Paul says: I appeal to you by the mercy of God to present your bodies as a sacrifice, living and holy. The prophet said the same thing: Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but you have prepared a body for me. Each of us is called to be both a sacrifice to God and his priest. Do not forfeit what divine authority confers on you. Put on the garment of holiness, gird yourself with the belt of chastity. Let Christ be your helmet, let the cross on your forehead be your unfailing protection.

Your breastplate should be the knowledge of God that he himself has given you. Keep burning continually the sweet smelling incense of prayer. Take up the sword of the Spirit. Let your heart be an altar. Then, with full confidence in God, present your body for sacrifice. God desires not death, but faith; God thirsts not for blood, but for self-surrender; God is appeased not by slaughter, but by the offering of your free will.

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The Good Shepherd

John 10:1-10

Jesus said: ‘I tell you most solemnly, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but gets in some other way is a thief and a brigand. The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the flock; the gatekeeper lets him in, the sheep hear his voice, one by one he calls his own sheep and leads them out. When he has brought out his flock, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow because they know his voice. They never follow a stranger but run away from him: they do not recognise the voice of strangers.’ Jesus told them this parable but they failed to understand what he meant by telling it to them.

So Jesus spoke to them again:
‘I tell you most solemnly,
I am the gate of the sheepfold.
All others who have come
are thieves and brigands;
but the sheep took no notice of them.
I am the gate.
Anyone who enters through me will be safe:
he will go freely in and out
and be sure of finding pasture.
The thief comes
only to steal and kill and destroy.
I have come
so that they may have life and have it to the full.’



The allusion to the thief and robber is relatively clear. Both Augustine and Chrysostom say this scripture is speaking of the Antichrist and false Christs which are here already and will come to steal from the flock christ shepherds. Those who enter by the "gate" will be safe. The scriptures say Christ's sheep will take no notice of them.

This begs the question of how so many get deceived. Is it that they don't really know the voice of the shepherd? Or is it that the one who comes to steal, kill, and destroy has mad skills. Or that we are at times too confident in our ability to follow the shepherd? Perhaps its a mix of them all:

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