DOS PALOS, Calif. (AP) — A canal that delivers vital water supplies from Northern California to Southern California is sinking in places. So are stretches of a riverbed undergoing historic restoration. On farms, well casings pop up like mushrooms as the ground around them drops.
Four years of drought and heavy reliance on pumping of groundwater have made the land sink faster than ever up and down the Central Valley, requiring repairs to infrastructure that experts say are costing billions of dollars. MORE
100,000 flee flooding in South America – Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina have been hit with heavy rains brought on by El Niño. ‘Lack of infastructure’ »
South California wildfire burns 1,200 acres (And this is winter time) – More than 600 firefighters battled the blaze in coastal Ventura County, 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Major highway closed »
Heat Wave Hits East Coast, Texas Faces Rain and Flooding … Continue reading →
Vol 8 Issue 52 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward KrierDecember 26, 2015 ~ Saint Stephen, opn!
1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (48)
2. Saint John the Apostle (Bauer)
3. Saint John the Apostle(Butler)
4. Christ in the Home (23)
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
May the New Year bring renewed fervor in our faith. As we live in a world that is ever more in darkness we must all the more walk in the light of the Truth. We cannot excuse ourselves that we cannot live our faith, rather we must understand that nothing has changed—only our attitude of not taking it serious and therefore excusing ourselves from living that faith. Continue reading →
There are a number of people in Church history that I have a lot of respect for. Some of those come from the time of the Council of Nicaea. One of those men is Athanasius, who stood firm in the doctrine of the Trinity. When it seemed all of the Roman Empire was following the heretic Arius, who denied that God was manifest in the flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, a colleague of his told him, “The whole world is against you!” However, Athanasius declared, “Then it is Athanasius against the world.” Another is one that is rarely mentioned, even though his battle was against the same heresy and against the same heretic. His name is St. Nicholas. MORE
Think you can coexist with the Muslim community? Then you probably haven’t heard what this western Islamic religious leader has to say about the horror that is… saying “Merry Christmas.”
In fact, he says that saying Merry Christmas “is worse than fornication and drinking alcohol and killing someone, because you are approving of the biggest crime ever committed by the children of Adam’s sin.” MORE
The Environment Agency (EA) have issued 15 severe warnings in Lancashire and Yorkshire as forecasters warned up to 4.7 inches (120mm) of rain could fall in some areas.
The Met Office also issued two severe weather warnings, meaning danger to life, for the two counties.
The severe flood warnings – the EA’s highest level of warning – are for two locations on the River Ribble at Ribchester and three locations on the River Calder at Whalley. MORE
Children are more likely to be diagnosed with autism if their mothers took antidepressants during pregnancy, a new study shows.
In the new study, women who took antidepressants in the last six months of pregnancy were 87% more likely to have a child later diagnosed with autism. Doctors saw no increase in autism rates in women who took medication for depression in the first three months of pregnancy, according to the study, published online Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. MORE
On March 7, 2015, Pope Francis celebrated Mass in the Roman parish of All Saints. He went there for the fiftieth anniversary of the first Mass celebrated in Italian by Paul VI in that very church.
Commenting on the Gospel of St. John in which Jesus chases the merchants from the Temple, the pope dwelt upon the expression: “you shall not make my Father’s house a house of trade” (John 2:16). For Francis, this refers to “a type of religiosity”: Jesus’ act is an “act of cleansing, of purification”. God “does not appreciate exterior worship performed with material sacrifices and based on personal interests,” he explained. It is “a reference to authentic worship, to a correspondence between liturgy and life; an appeal that applies in every age and even for us today — that correspondence between liturgy and life.” And he insisted: “This is not primarily a doctrine to be understood, or a rite to be performed; naturally it is also this, but in another way, it is essentially different: it is a font of life and of light for our pilgrimage of faith.” Continue reading →
NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (UPI) — Crude oil prices held steady in New York Monday, holding at less than $89 per barrel before the Christmas holiday break.
Traders are focused on the budget impasse in Washington, but no news on the issue on Christmas Eve turned out to be good news — or good enough — and prices held steady.MORE
In 2015, the celebration of the birth of Jesus coincides with the one of Mohammad. This means that in December 24 the complete Arab world will be feasting their prophet’s birth while the Christian world celebrates the vigil and at midnight the birth of Jesus. Continue reading →
Unfortunately, Our Lord will not return in 2016 Grace be with you, in Christ, Joseph
These four things have to happen first before Christ can come back.
The date setting of Easter in April,
The establishment of a papal office in Jerusalem WITH the gathering of the world religions,
The Great Biblical Chastisement, (The faithful will be protected from the fire)
The killing of the two witness, then His return on Pentecost Sunday.
Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will. (Luke 2:14)
Glory be to God on high, and on earth peace to men of good will. We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we adore Thee, we glorify Thee, we give Thee thanks for Thy great glory: O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty! O Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father: Who taketh away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; Who taketh away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; Who sits at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For thou alone art holy, Thou alone art the Lord, Thou alone, O Jesus Christ, art most high, together with the Holy Ghost, + in the glory of God the Father. Amen. (Mass)
May the offering of this festive day be pleasing to you, O God, and may this exchange of gifts, through your bountiful grace, cause us to grow more like Christ, in whom our human nature is united with yours; who lives and reigns with Thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
(Secret of Midnight Mass)
The blessings of the Infant Savior be yours at CHRISTMAS and through each day of the NEW YEAR.
As my gift to you and your loved ones, the traditional Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be offered at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Las Vegas for you during the Christmas Season.
Erin Brockovich writes, “the enormity of the Aliso Canyon gas leak cannot be overstated. Gas is escaping through a ruptured pipe more than 8,000 feet underground, and it shows no signs of stopping,” as according to the California Air Resources Board, methane – a greenhouse gas 72 times more impactful in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide – has been escaping from the Aliso Canyon site with force equivalent “to a volcanic eruption” for about two months now. MORE
This is the terrifying moment fierce winds that have claimed the lives of six people in the last 24 hours toppled a truck on a highway in Mississippi. MORE
DOS PALOS, Calif. (AP) — A canal that delivers vital water supplies from Northern California to Southern California is sinking in places. So are stretches of a riverbed undergoing historic restoration. On farms, well casings pop up like mushrooms as the ground around them drops.
