Ocean Kayaker: Christmas 2011

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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Merry Birth of Jesus Day

Monday, December 19, 2011

"Catholics Come Home"- A New Website

This is a new website aimed at bringing fallen away Catholics back to church, and much more.

"At Catholics Come Home, we are dedicated to presenting the honest truth about even very difficult subjects. We want to share with you the beautiful, historical and miraculous aspects of the Catholic Church. People who have taken the time to explore our site are surprised to find out that there is much more to Catholicism than they ever realized."

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Sundays are for Beauty: The Carol of the Bells

Have a Beautiful Sunday.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Where's The Line To See Jesus?

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

H/T: rkwlsn

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Thomas Sowell: Christmas Books This Year

The inestimable Thomas Sowell recommended several new books that would make excellent Christmas gifts this year, in a piece on National Review Online yesterday.

Included in his recommendations: a biography of Stan Musial, Ann Coulter's new one: "Demonic," which practically predicated the "Occupy" movement, and new offerings by his friend, Walter Williams, and one of his favorite writers, Theodore Dalrymple.

You can read about all his recommendations by clicking on the link below:

Christmas Books - Thomas Sowell - National Review Online

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Happy Feast of St. Nicholas!

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Occupy The Mall

Friday, November 25, 2011

Occupy The Food Court

Occupy Macy's Philadelphia

Transubstantiation

The Catechism of the Catholic Church: 1376: The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: “Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation.”

Pope Benedict XVI

The more vigorously the primacy was displayed, the more the question came up about the extent and and limits of [papal] authority, which of course, as such, had never been considered. After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the pope really could do anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting on the mandate of an ecumenical council. Eventually, the idea of the givenness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will, faded from the public consciousness of the West. In fact, the First Vatican Council had in no way defined the pope as an absolute monarch. On the contrary, it presented him as the guarantor of obedience to the revealed Word. The pope's authority is bound to the Tradition of faith. … The authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred Tradition.

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