Evening Roundup - Ember Saturday - Missa 'Intret Oratio' - Commem: St. Peter Damian, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor - February 23rd, 2013

Catholic Answers >> What in the World is Going on in This Sunday's First Reading? (Jim Blackburn)
Catholic World Report - Blog >> From Temptation to Transfiguration (Carl E. Olson)
Daily Meditations with Fr. Alfonse >> Mt 5:43-48 Be Different
Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> Dark clouds over Lent
National Review Online (Wesley J. Smith) >> Belgium to OK Euthanizing Children Because Happening Anyway
On This Rock (Father John Hollowell) >> Benedict the White
Sic Semper Tyrannis (Knight of the Immaculata) >> The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail
Te Deum laudamus! (Diane M. Korzeniewski, OCDS) >> {UPDATED} Holy See takes aim at reports, "often unverifiable or not verifiable"
V for Victory! (Anita Moore, O.P., Esq.) >> Roman Collars, Iron Men
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Bp. Sheridan: the Fishwrap is “an embarrassment to the Catholic Church”
Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> Vatiwar: For the Italians, Retreat Week Becomes "Fight Club"

Prayer for the Holy Father

V. Orémus pro Pontífice nostro Francisco.
R. Dóminus consérvet eum, et vivifícet eum, et beátum fáciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in ánimam inimicórum eius (Ps 40,3).

Pater Noster… Ave Maria…

Deus, ómnium fidélium pastor et rector, fámulum tuum Franciscum, quem pastórem Ecclésiæ tuæ præésse voluísti, propítius réspice: da ei, quæsumus, verbo et exémplo, quibus præest, profícere: ut ad vitam, una cum grege sibi crédito, pervéniat sempitérnam. Per Christum, Dóminum nostrum. Amen.

Favorite Verses & Quotes...

"Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
——2 Philippians 5-11 (Ignatius, RSV)

"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd."
——Flannery O'Connor

"Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."
——Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."
——Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

"[In the apse of the Cathedral of Cefalù] the great subject is Christ in Judgment, the Heroic Face that dominates all the nave from above. He holds in His right hand the Open Book of record, His left is raised for acquittal or sentence .... [The nave contains] the noblest motto yet found for the Judge and Redeemer and Brother of mankind ... Factus homo factor hominis factique redemptor / Judico corporeus corpora corda Deus ... And it means, "I, having been made man, and being the Maker of Man, and the Redeemer of what I made, judge in bodily form the bodies and the hearts of man: for I am God."
——"The Essential Belloc", Rev. C. John McCloskey, Scott J. Bloch & Brian Robertson, Editors; Saint Benedict Press.Com, ISBN 978-1-935302-36-0; page 79, --TD, "Cefalù"

"If a government were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years there’d be a shortage of sand”.
——Milton Friedman

"In the end, I have decided to begin using a particular phrase in response to questions about my expressed dismay at this madness: “Because I am not a protestant.” The implication is clear. Here’s how it looks in a real dialogue: “Why don’t you hold hands at the Our Father?” “Because I am not a protestant.”
——Dan Burke, National Catholic Register