Independence Day, 2007 - THE GIPPER

“Isn’t our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our [...]

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Independence Day, 2007 - FOR THE RECORD

“When I got to Dr. Warren’s house, I found he had sent an express by land to Lexington — a Mr. William Dawes. The Sunday before, by desire of Dr. Warren, I had been to Lexington, to Mesrs. Hancock and Adams, who were at the Rev. Mr. [Jonas] Clark’s. I returned at night [...]

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Independence Day, 2007 - OUR FAVORITE FOUNDING FATHER

As we celebrate the 231st birthday of the United States of America, we honor our country and the ideals of our nation’s founding. Rarely, though, do we give sufficient contemplation to the Founders, who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to declare the united colonies free and independent states, with the separate [...]

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TEXAS TROOPER VS NEW YORK LAWYER

The lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy. He thinks that he is smarter than the deputy because he is a lawyer from New York and is certain that he has a better education than any cop from Houston, Texas.
He decides to prove this to himself and have some [...]

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THE ATHEIST

A young lady came home from a date, rather sad.
She told her mother, “Anthony proposed to me an hour ago.”
“Then why are you so sad?” her mother asked.
“Because he also told me he is an atheist. Mom, he doesn’t even believe there’s a Hell.”
Her mother replied, “Marry him anyway.  Between the two of us, we’ll [...]

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LETTER TO PARISHIONERS OF HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH

My dear friends,
We have been together for some time now, over seven years. I came to the rectory on Easter Sunday, 2000. Father Murray had moved out and had said his last Mass that morning before going on vacation. We were about twice the size we are now, with the grandchildren of many parishioners in [...]

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THE POWER OF BEER

A man is waiting for his wife to give birth. The doctor comes in and informs the dad that his son was born without torso, arms or legs. The son is just a head! But the dad loves his son and raises him as well as he can, with love and compassion.
After 18 years, the [...]

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A REMNANT REFLECTION

Cleaning up some files I found a single page of what must have been a longer text that I composed.  It went back almost seven years, to when I first came to the Church of the Holy Spirit.  My father had just passed away.  Although incomplete and definitely a rough draft, I am going to [...]

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PRIESTS, NUNS, SISTERS, BROTHERS, MONKS

The UK have some great resources online to encourage vocations. Here are a few links:
CARTOON VOCATION STORIES
http://www.calledtoday.com/index.htm
DRESS THE PRIEST FOR MASS
http://www.ukpriest.org/interact_fuzzy.htm
VIDEO ABOUT A PRIEST’S LIFE IN WESTMINSTER
http://www.itistime.org.uk/
There is no reason why we cannot do the same in the States. Maybe we could even have a video database with priests and religious from various communities and [...]

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DOCTORS, LAWYERS & GUNS

Since I have already offered one politically incorrect joke, here is another one.  My apologies ahead of time to doctors, lawyers and gunslingers…   
 Facts to ponder:
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.
(B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.
Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health and [...]

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BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!

A mother took her five-year-old son with her to the bank on a busy lunchtime. They got behind a very fat woman wearing a business suit complete with pager.
As they waited patiently, the little boy said loudly, “Gee, she’s fat!”
The mother bent down and whispered in the little boy’s ear to be quiet.
A couple of [...]

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CAN WEBSITE RATINGS BE TRUSTED?

Because the following words came up in an automated site review, this is the rating the site was given: 

abortion (26x)
death (13x)
rape (7x)
sex (5x)
kill (3x)
murder (2x)

I even got in trouble for a Latin word (deleted here) with a nasty English equivalent. 
This site sometimes deals with certain serious questions and I suspect the automated rating system cannot [...]

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