A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, September 14, 2011 – Pope St Gregory the Great

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The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels.

The Early Church Fathers, Sunday, September 11, 2011 – St. Augustine

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I promised you [new Christians], who have now been baptized, a sermon in which I would explain the sacrament of the Lord's table, which you now look upon and of which you last night were made participants. You ought to know that you have received what you are going to receive, and what you ought to receive daily. That bread which you see on the altar having been sanctified by the word of God is the body of Christ, That chalice, or rather, what is in that chalice, having been sanctified by the word of God, is the blood of Christ (Sermons 227 [A.D. 411]).

Founders Friday, Friday, September 9, 2011 – Alexander Hamilton

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To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable. Good and wise men, in all ages, have embraced a very dissimilar theory. They have supposed that the deity, from the relations we stand in to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is indispensably obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature....Upon this law depend the natural rights of mankind.

A Word on Wednesday, Wednesday, September 7, 2011 – Fulton J. Sheen

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"The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order."

The Early Church Fathers, Sunday, September 4, 2011 – St Ignatius of Antioch

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Follow your bishop, every one of you, as obediently as Jesus Christ followed the Father. Obey your clergy too as you would the apostles; give your deacons the same reverence that you would to a command of God. Make sure that no step affecting the Church is ever taken by anyone without the bishop’s sanction. The sole Eucharist you should consider valid is one that is celebrated by the bishop himself, or by some person authorized by him. Where the bishop is to be seen, there let all his people be; just as, wherever Jesus Christ is present, there is the Catholic Church (Letter to the Smyrneans 8:2 [A.D. 110]).

New Blogger SUCKS

UPDATE

After I posted this, I noticed the option to switch back to the old format, which I have done.  Now everything seems back to normal.  I hope they don't make the new version mandatory at some time or other.



Blogger has come out with a new version, which, quite honestly, sucks.  It's unstable, difficult to work with and may necessitate my looking for some new outlet with which to publish this blog.  Or may spell the end of it, I don't know which,  In any case, they either need to fix this thing or I'm history.  There are some things that just aren't worth putting up with a lot of frustration, this is one of them.

I began to blog because it was fun and something of an outlet, and also as an avenue for exploration of all the myriad of things that go through my mind from day to day.  Mostly because it was somewhat fun and entertaining.  This version is NOT fun.

So, there's one rant for today.

Founders Friday, Friday, September 02, 2011 – Elbridge Gerry

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Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.