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Open prayer offering

Posted: March 2, 2010 by datechguy in catholic
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Every now and again I’ve mentioned a cause that is worthy of prayer and asked for you to join in.

As you might have noticed I did a little post on the Rosary and the 30 prayer intentions that you can offer during it. It occurs to me that a few readers out there might have issues that they want some prayers said for.

So I’m putting out an open call: If anyone has a prayer intention, personal or otherwise that they would like me to incorporate into my daily Rosary just leave the intentions in comments below. If it is an intention that you don’t want made public the click here and e-mail me and I’ll pray on it privately.

I also invite any readers who see an intention in comments that they believe worthy to join in, every little bit helps.

All Pancakes are local…

Posted: February 28, 2010 by datechguy in catholic, local stuff, personal
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Now that things are sort of back to normal it’s back to the end of the month church breakfasts. We have them the last weekend of each month. You might remember this church from Robert Stacy’s articles at the American Spectator:

That was a lot of people over two masses but that wouldn’t happen without the people who do the heavy lifting at the 8 a.m mass…

They put up with people like me…

And at the 10:30 mass.


One of the great things about something like this is how it is an equalizer. At a coffee in like this there are no rich or poor, or old or young parishioners, there are just all the people in the same church who are part of a single community. In a time when people don’t even know their next door neighbors this is something that we could use more of.

If you don’t have something like this at your parish consider starting one.

Update: One small clarification, there was also food served after Saturday’s 4 p.m. mass including soups and meats.

There seems to be some confusion here concerning CPAC and homosexuality etc…

Posted: February 28, 2010 by datechguy in catholic, personal
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Most of it is in the form of running gags so let me make my own positions clear, these are positions I have articulated in the past and they haven’t changed:

I do not favor gay marriage, I believe that to redefine the institution of marriage is an excessive in narcissism.

I DO believe that a legal/social contract to allow gay couples inheritance, medical rights nearly identical to marriage is more than acceptable.

I’ve already written recently on the subject of Homosexuality and sin, I’ve quoted the Catechism of the Catholic Church at length. I stand behind every word, including the words that point out that some people use other people homosexuality as a way to prop themselves up in their own righteousness.

As far as gays in the military I have written on that too here. I think the democrats have played gays for fools.

The bottom line is I am a practicing Catholic in full communion with Rome and my position on these issues reflect it, nobody is going to change that.

You will note that I absolutely adored Cynthia Yockey, I am be proud to call her a friend even as we disagree on some of these issues. I see no contradiction in this. I have friends who are gay, I have friends who are pro choice, At the planned parenthood meeting I had friends wearing stickers for the other side. I’m certainly not going to throw them under the bus either. I am a sinner, she is a sinner we all are sinners, when you start thinking that you are better than other folks you are setting yourself up for a fall.

Just as there is no reason why we can’t get along socially politically we should be willing and happy to corporate with Gay conservatives whenever we can. Their orientation should not be any hindrance when it comes to issues that are in common and there are many. Particularly for religious conservatives there should be no reason why we can’t work together and appear together at the same conferences. That doesn’t require or preclude us to change our religious beliefs, on the contrary we should be unafraid to express them, but a Christian belief also requires christian charity.

You can never have too many friends and I intend to make and keep as many as I can in life and I’m certainly not going to let political disagreement get in the way.

Answer: Because The Rosary allows you up meet up to 30 prayer intentions via one session

Posted: February 28, 2010 by datechguy in catholic
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Q: Why for my money is the Rosary the best prayer out there bar none?

If you are a New Englander you might remember that old beer commercial jingle: “Schaefer is the one beer to have when you’re having more than one” In much the same way the Holy Rosary is an Excellent Prayer when you have multiple prayer intentions of varying importance that you want to pray for.

You can Offer the full rosary for an intention, you can offer an individual set of mysteries for a different intention and you can offer a single decade for an intention. You can offer the “Hail Holy Queen” at the end of a set of mysteries for yet another intention and if you pray it they way I do, you can even offer closing prayers (I go backwards back to the cross) for a particular intention. (I always offer the closing prayers for the Holy Father and his prayer intentions).

Even if you are offering just a single set of Mysteries that still allows for 9 different intentions (10 if you offer one for the opening prayers, I never do, I keep them as simple prayers of praise). That’s a lot of people you can handle on a single type of prayer.

Just to diagram it out Here is an Example of a Full rosary with prayer intentions (more…)

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