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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