Friday, December 23, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Come and See – Salesian Sisters
During the Christmas break we are having one of our “Come and See” opportunities. I was wondering if you could post the following information in this Sunday’s bulletin:
The Salesian Sisters wanted us to let everyone know about their Come & See Weekend...
Come and See – Salesian Sisters (Daughters of Mary Help of Christians)
Who: Single Catholic women ages 18-30
Where: San Antonio, Texas
When: January 6-8, 2012
For more information contact Sr. Jeanette Palasota FMA at palasota@hotmail.com www.salesiansisterswest.org
The Salesian Sisters wanted us to let everyone know about their Come & See Weekend...
Come and See – Salesian Sisters (Daughters of Mary Help of Christians)
Who: Single Catholic women ages 18-30
Where: San Antonio, Texas
When: January 6-8, 2012
For more information contact Sr. Jeanette Palasota FMA at palasota@hotmail.com www.salesiansisterswest.org
Monday, November 21, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Day at the Monastery
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
This is a great movie. Watch it and then share it with your friends. Lots of good questions. You can go to http://www.180movie.com/ to find out more information.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Podcasts
Living out here in the middle of the Pineywoods, we have to travel to get anywhere. One of the things I like to do is find podcasts that can help me build up my spiritual life. Here are a few to look over that you can download to learn more about your faith.
Saint Joseph Communications — Podcast Center
Jimmy Akins Podcasts
iPadre Podcasts
Word on Fire - Fr. Barron (He also has some interesting videos on You Tube...)
Rosary Podcasts
Saint Joseph Communications — Podcast Center
Jimmy Akins Podcasts
iPadre Podcasts
Word on Fire - Fr. Barron (He also has some interesting videos on You Tube...)
Rosary Podcasts
Friday, August 19, 2011
I got this message from Corp Prayer Resources yesterday. Please say a prayer for rain here in Texas.
Dear Intercessors.....
My brother is an electrical engineer in East Texas where he manages/oversees an electric plant, and said this week that the Texas electrical plants with cooling ponds are watching the lake levels as they cannot operate without adequate water to cool the equipment. His plant is 90 days out from closure and there is at least one plant in Texas that is only 30 days away from closure without divine intervention of rain. And once the plant closes, it is quite a process to get it up and on line again.....so our rain problems are now critical for another reason.
BUT, God keeps bringing this song to me...
Our beloved Father,
please come down and meet us,we are waiting on Your touch...
Open up the heavens,shower down Your presence,we respond to Your great love...
We won't be satisfied with anything ordinary,we won't be satisfied at all...
Open up the sky, fall down like rain,
We don't want blessings, we want You!!
Open up the sky, fall down like fire,
We don't want anything, but You !
We won't be satisfied with anything ordinary, we won't be satisfied at all...
I believe this should be our prayer...desperate for HIM. He is our all in all. He is our answer.
Can I make a suggestion? play this at your prayer meetings, use this link to play in your own prayer time....let's get this cry from our hearts deep down in our souls, spirits, minds, very beings...WE DON'T WANT ANYTHING BUT YOU !!!
Dear Intercessors.....
My brother is an electrical engineer in East Texas where he manages/oversees an electric plant, and said this week that the Texas electrical plants with cooling ponds are watching the lake levels as they cannot operate without adequate water to cool the equipment. His plant is 90 days out from closure and there is at least one plant in Texas that is only 30 days away from closure without divine intervention of rain. And once the plant closes, it is quite a process to get it up and on line again.....so our rain problems are now critical for another reason.
BUT, God keeps bringing this song to me...
Our beloved Father,
please come down and meet us,we are waiting on Your touch...
Open up the heavens,shower down Your presence,we respond to Your great love...
We won't be satisfied with anything ordinary,we won't be satisfied at all...
Open up the sky, fall down like rain,
We don't want blessings, we want You!!
Open up the sky, fall down like fire,
We don't want anything, but You !
We won't be satisfied with anything ordinary, we won't be satisfied at all...
I believe this should be our prayer...desperate for HIM. He is our all in all. He is our answer.
Can I make a suggestion? play this at your prayer meetings, use this link to play in your own prayer time....let's get this cry from our hearts deep down in our souls, spirits, minds, very beings...WE DON'T WANT ANYTHING BUT YOU !!!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Summertime is here in Nac!
With summer here, spending time in the water sounds like a great idea! So, maybe we should consider what to wear... or not to wear. I found a very interesting article on swim-wear ... How do you want to be viewed?
Friday, May 20, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
A Special Report (in recognition of Coerced Abortion Awareness Week)
by Elliot Institute
Most abortions are unwanted or coerced. Many are forced.
From deceptive or coercive counseling to job and housing discrimination, pregnancy- or abortion-related violence or even homicide – the leading killer of pregnant women – abortion endangers women and children.
After abortion, women are further at risk as most suffer symptoms of trauma, death rates are nearly 4 times higher, and, in the first year after abortion, suicide rates are 6 times higher.
Abortion is endangering, maiming and killing women, too:
* When his wife refused to abort, her husband jumped on her stomach until their baby died . . .
* A daughter was pushed into an abortion clinic at gunpoint by her mother . . .
* Outside a parking garage, a physician shouted, “I’m giving you an abortion!” as he injected the mother of his child with an abortifacient drug . . .
* A school counselor ridiculed the student and put her on the weekly bus to the abortion clinic . . .
* A homeless woman was denied shelter until she had an abortion . . .
* A 13-year-old was returned to her molester after he took her in for a cover-up abortion . . .
* A waitress was fired after refusing to abort ...
Read entire report (Warning: Report contains descriptions of violence to women and children)
by Elliot Institute
Most abortions are unwanted or coerced. Many are forced.
From deceptive or coercive counseling to job and housing discrimination, pregnancy- or abortion-related violence or even homicide – the leading killer of pregnant women – abortion endangers women and children.
After abortion, women are further at risk as most suffer symptoms of trauma, death rates are nearly 4 times higher, and, in the first year after abortion, suicide rates are 6 times higher.
Abortion is endangering, maiming and killing women, too:
* When his wife refused to abort, her husband jumped on her stomach until their baby died . . .
* A daughter was pushed into an abortion clinic at gunpoint by her mother . . .
* Outside a parking garage, a physician shouted, “I’m giving you an abortion!” as he injected the mother of his child with an abortifacient drug . . .
* A school counselor ridiculed the student and put her on the weekly bus to the abortion clinic . . .
* A homeless woman was denied shelter until she had an abortion . . .
* A 13-year-old was returned to her molester after he took her in for a cover-up abortion . . .
* A waitress was fired after refusing to abort ...
Read entire report (Warning: Report contains descriptions of violence to women and children)
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Splinters From the Cross
Little headaches, little heartaches
Little griefs of every day,
Littler trials and vexations,
How they throng around our way!
One great cross, immense and heavy,
So it seems to our weak will,
Might be born with resignation,
But these many small ones kill.
Yet all life is formed of small things,
Little leaves, make up the trees,
Many tiny drops of water
Blending, make the mighty seas,
Let us not then by impatience
Mar the beauty of the whole,
But for love of Jesus bear all
In the silence of our soul,
Asking Him for grace sufficient
To sustain us through each loss,
And to treasure each small offering
As a splinter from His Cross.
- Author Unknown
Laetare Sunday is coming up. Midway of Lent. Let us rejoice and be glad, Christ died for our sins.
Little headaches, little heartaches
Little griefs of every day,
Littler trials and vexations,
How they throng around our way!
One great cross, immense and heavy,
So it seems to our weak will,
Might be born with resignation,
But these many small ones kill.
Yet all life is formed of small things,
Little leaves, make up the trees,
Many tiny drops of water
Blending, make the mighty seas,
Let us not then by impatience
Mar the beauty of the whole,
But for love of Jesus bear all
In the silence of our soul,
Asking Him for grace sufficient
To sustain us through each loss,
And to treasure each small offering
As a splinter from His Cross.
- Author Unknown
Laetare Sunday is coming up. Midway of Lent. Let us rejoice and be glad, Christ died for our sins.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Pray for Peace
Thousands of Christians have been forced to flee their homes in Western Ethiopia after Muslim extremists set fire to roughly 50 churches and dozens of Christian homes.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/24/thousands-christians-displaced-ethiopia-muslim-extremists-torch-churches-homes-2057387870/#ixzz1Huu1apQT
(AINA) -- A group of Muslims attacked Ayman Anwar Mitri, a 45 year old Christian Coptic man in the Upper Egyptian town of Qena, cutting off his ear. The Muslims claimed they were applying Sharia law. Read more:www.aina.org/news/20110325223845.htm
Two Christians gunned down by armed Muslims outside Church in Pakistan. Read more:
www.asianews.it/news-en/Two-Christians-gunned-down-by-armed-Muslims-outside-Church-in-Pakistan-21097.html
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/24/thousands-christians-displaced-ethiopia-muslim-extremists-torch-churches-homes-2057387870/#ixzz1Huu1apQT
(AINA) -- A group of Muslims attacked Ayman Anwar Mitri, a 45 year old Christian Coptic man in the Upper Egyptian town of Qena, cutting off his ear. The Muslims claimed they were applying Sharia law. Read more:www.aina.org/news/20110325223845.htm
Two Christians gunned down by armed Muslims outside Church in Pakistan. Read more:
www.asianews.it/news-en/Two-Christians-gunned-down-by-armed-Muslims-outside-Church-in-Pakistan-21097.html
Friday, March 25, 2011
Saint Joseph Communications — Podcast Center
Saint Joseph Communications — Podcast Center
You can listen to all sorts of talks here, like Scott Hahn's Healing Power of Confession and others. Nice for Lent.
You can listen to all sorts of talks here, like Scott Hahn's Healing Power of Confession and others. Nice for Lent.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Budgeting
Since we had Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace class last semester, I thought this was an interesting way to explain our national budget in simple terms.
“Financial advisor Dave Ramsey put forth an interesting scenario recently on his nationally syndicated radio call-in program. Taking a hypothetical phone call from John Q. Public and his wife, We the People, in one brief illustration Ramsey demonstrated that no one in Washington, D.C., is really serious about cutting spending.
Ramsey has a way of boiling large numbers down to their essence and showing us the absurdity of our debt crisis. In his radio example, his callers — “John” and “We” — are earning $58,000 a year. However, they are spending $75,000 a year. More importantly, they have credit card debt totaling $327,000. In fact, $10,000 of the family’s income goes just to pay interest on those credit cards.“Now, what would you expect my advice to this couple to be?” Ramsey asked his radio audience. He then proceeded to say that if he followed the current model of “cuts” being proposed in Washington, his recommendation would be that they reduce their annual expenditures by a mere $3,000 — all the way down to $72,000.Ramsey has a way of boiling large numbers down to their essence and showing us the absurdity of our debt crisis. In his radio example, his callers — “John” and “We” — are earning $58,000 a year. However, they are spending $75,000 a year. More importantly, they have credit card debt totaling $327,000. In fact, $10,000 of the family’s income goes just to pay interest on those credit cards.
Ramsey has calculated that these numbers are in exact proportion to the actions of our federal government in dealing with our deficit. However, instead of terms like “billions” and “trillions,” to which no one can relate, Ramsey has reduced the numbers to one we can all comprehend. Anyone with a brain can figure out that a family making $58,000 and spending $75,000, with $327,000 in credit card debt, is headed for bankruptcy — or worse."
Go here for the rest of the article by Doug Patton - http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/34650?amp
“Financial advisor Dave Ramsey put forth an interesting scenario recently on his nationally syndicated radio call-in program. Taking a hypothetical phone call from John Q. Public and his wife, We the People, in one brief illustration Ramsey demonstrated that no one in Washington, D.C., is really serious about cutting spending.
Ramsey has a way of boiling large numbers down to their essence and showing us the absurdity of our debt crisis. In his radio example, his callers — “John” and “We” — are earning $58,000 a year. However, they are spending $75,000 a year. More importantly, they have credit card debt totaling $327,000. In fact, $10,000 of the family’s income goes just to pay interest on those credit cards.“Now, what would you expect my advice to this couple to be?” Ramsey asked his radio audience. He then proceeded to say that if he followed the current model of “cuts” being proposed in Washington, his recommendation would be that they reduce their annual expenditures by a mere $3,000 — all the way down to $72,000.Ramsey has a way of boiling large numbers down to their essence and showing us the absurdity of our debt crisis. In his radio example, his callers — “John” and “We” — are earning $58,000 a year. However, they are spending $75,000 a year. More importantly, they have credit card debt totaling $327,000. In fact, $10,000 of the family’s income goes just to pay interest on those credit cards.
Ramsey has calculated that these numbers are in exact proportion to the actions of our federal government in dealing with our deficit. However, instead of terms like “billions” and “trillions,” to which no one can relate, Ramsey has reduced the numbers to one we can all comprehend. Anyone with a brain can figure out that a family making $58,000 and spending $75,000, with $327,000 in credit card debt, is headed for bankruptcy — or worse."
Go here for the rest of the article by Doug Patton - http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/34650?amp
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Spur of the moment Potluck for visiting FOCUS Coordinators
This week-end, the Vigils, a young couple who well may be the FOCUS coordinators for our campus beginning Fall 2011, will be coming to Nacogdoches to visit. The Vigils have five children and will be visiting here this coming Friday afternoon and Saturday. We would appreciate a terrific turnout of our Leadership Committee members, faculty, staff, students that are around, community (including Man Club), families, etc. for this Friday, March 18 at 6:00 pm potluck dinner! Everyone is welcome and encouraged to introduce yourselves to this family.
The FOCUS "Fellowship of Catholic University Students" program is one of the most coveted Catholic programs in the U.S. right now. Many universities are trying to get to the top of the list in order to have the privilege of having four FOCUS missionaries on their college campuses. The program has a known track record of successfully evangelizing the Gospel to college students. Fr. Paul's efforts have been successful in raising funds (some of you have helped with this), and his attendance at a conference with 10 of our students has put us in a favorable position for this wonderful opportunity. Please come and meet the Vigils and support this new chapter in our SFA campus ministry!
Please REPLY to Kim by tomorrow (Wednesday) evening 8 pm with what you intend to bring. If you are unable to bring food or drink, that's OK, just let us know that you plan to attend and bring yourselves!
Blessings,
Linda Parr
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