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Monthly Archives: September 2023
Mary alone remained
September 24
“Mary alone remained completely faithful even to the end.”
-Emil Neubert
Perseverance
September 23
“To be courageous is sometimes hard; but to persevere to the very end is a hundred times harder.”
-Emil Neubert
Content
September 22
“Mary did not preach; she did not write; she did not found churches or apostolic works. She was content to pray and to suffer.”
-Emil Neubert
Can a Magnet Really Cure What Ails You?
SH writes: “I am interested in knowing if magnet therapy is new age? Such as wearing a magnet braclet or using magents. Also what about magentic hematite jewelry? Thank you for your help.”
Courage!
September 21
“Come near to your heavenly Mother. She will teach you the courage which makes militants for Christ.
-Emil Neubert
Vanity and jealousy
September 20
“How many flourishing works has vanity or jealousy rendered sterile!”
-Emil Neubert
Internal Unrest at Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood, St. Paul, MN (Image courtesy of Wikicommons images, Fibonacci Blue CC BY 2.0)
More than a year after the Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, the rank and file inside Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) have been left worried and uncertain after the company laid off workers and is talking about restructuring “to better serve” those most in need in post-Roe America.
The Evil Eye
BP writes: “My cousin has an evil eye in his house. It is occult and can be dangerous, right?”
Consider your gifts
September 19
“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, ‘Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,’ that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single organ, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘ have no need of you,’ nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’ On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so adjusted the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior part, that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.”
-1 Corinthians 12: 12-28
