Prayer for the new president

God of power and might, wisdom and justice,through you authority is rightly administered,laws are enacted, and judgment is decreed. Assist with your spirit of counsel and fortitudethe President and other government leaders of these United States.May they always seek the ways of righteousness, justice and mercy. Grant that they may be enabled by your powerful protectionto lead our country with honesty and integrity. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

God Bless Our President and God Bless the United States of America!

Prayer for vocations

O Holy Spirit, Spirit of wisdom and divine love, impart Your knowledge, understanding, and counsel to youth that they may know the vocation wherein they can best serve God. Give them courage and strength to follow God's holy will. Guide their uncertain steps, strengthen their resolutions, shield their chastity, fashion their minds, conquer their hearts, and lead them to the vineyards where they will labor in God's holy service. Amen.

Twilight review by Anne

From a literary standpoint: The way Stephenie Meyer writes Bellas viewpoint really annoyed me. It's like Bella is telling you everything thats going through her head, but changing it a little. I never felt totally absorbed into the book or characters. I just felt that I was reading a book. Bella also annoyed me. I'm not sure what it was - she didn't seem very whiny to me as some people have complained of, but I just didn't care for her that well. She was really pretty boring. What I did like was that I could easily relate to her clumsiness, lack of sports skills and car knowledge lol I got so sick of hearing some things over and over again. How Bellas teammates acted in gym, and Edward's brilliance for example. I mean, she describes "He flashed his blinding white smile" and then all I can picture is a floating white mouth! Aside from that though, I found myself laughing out loud many times at Edwards comments - and some of Bella's too. About the time Edward and Bella took their first exscursion through the woods, I got more interested. From a moral viewpoint: Bella is pretty unselfish. She goes to live with her Dad, even though she hates his town, so that her Mom can be with her new husband. She takes very good care of her Dad. You can also tell she wants to have a better relationship with him. She does keep her relationship with Edward hidden from him at first, but tells hi mat Edwards urging. She's respectful of Billy even though he's telling her to stay away from the guy she loves madly. Edward does watch her every night while she sleeps, and then sleeps in the same bed with her after he tells her, but they don't do anything wrong. As to the wisdom of this, that's up to you. As far as their chastity goes, I wouldn't say it's so much that they are waiting till marriage (if they do so) to have sex, but the fact that Edward doesn't want to harm Bella by doing so. But it's a good analogy. Edwards family are all but one very kind to Bella, even if though don't all think Edward and Bella should have a relationship. And they also risk their lives for her sake.

Hello again...

Alas, we have hardly been good blog-keepers. Most heartfelt apologies!
So, when you are disappointed here, go to one of the blogs on the sidebar. They are mostly kept by smart, interesting people who post on some kind of regular basis and can be expected to have interesting posts. :-P
(btw Katie, why can't I add to the blogroll? you did something. fix it. now)

So..... any ideas what we should post about? This place needs livening up. I'm inclined to do that by singing "CE-LE-BRAAA-TION!!" and get everybody dancing but.... well maybe something different. AHA! Twilight! I'm a genius. No, I haven't read or seen Twilight but Katie has! I'm thinking some reviews, by different people (including Katie). I see it now.... Twilight: To Read Or Not To Read?

Where would you people be without me? I'm going to go get permission from girls I know who have read it and have written some sort of moral review.
See ya'll!
-KatieK

Fight FOCA!!

Hello Everyone,

Most of you probably know about the FOCA, but for those who don't, here's a brief summary:

If you are opposed to abortion then there is bad news on the horizon. For those of you who do not know, the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is set to be signed if congress passes it on January 21-22 of 2009. The FOCA is the next sick chapter in the book of abortion. If made a law then all limitations on abortion will be lifted which will result in the following:

1) All hospitals, including Catholic hospitals will be required to perform abortions upon request. If this happens Bishops vow to close down all Catholic hospitals, more then 30% of all hospitals in the United States.

2) Partial birth abortions would be legal and have no limitations.

3) All U.S. tax payers would be funding abortions.

4) Parental notification will no longer be required.

5) The number of abortions will increase by a minimum of 100,000 annually.

Perhaps most importantly the government will now have control in the issue of abortion. This could result in a future amendment that would force women by law to have abortions in certain situations (rape, down syndrome babies, etc) and could even regulate how many children women are allowed to have.

Please go to Fight FOCA and sign the petition. It's a horrible thing. This goes BEYOND pro-choice. If you support this, you are supporting the right to take away a woman's choice. Isn't that pro-choice? That each person makes their own choice for their life? Not the government? This would squash all of that.