Last January, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a State of Emergency following projections of severe drought. State bureaucrats and local officials jumped into action and mandated any number of water conservation tactics. While some have been relatively successful, most will do nothing. In fact, it appears that despite the drought, water use may have actually increased in the past year. MORE
“We used to have 250 people come for a novena,” said Aleida Lopez, who spent almost 50 years worshiping at nearby St. Emeric’s Church until it closed and merged last year with St. Brigid’s, forming the parish of St. Brigid-St. Emeric. “The whole parish used to show up. But people get turned off by the closing of parishes. They get cold hearts and lose the faith. Or they move away.” MORE
Dear St Michael’s Customers,
Vol 7 Issue 46 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
November 15, 2014 ~ Saint Albert the Great, opn!
1.Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost—Benedict Baur, O.S.B.
2.Saint Gertrude
3.The Christian Family (27)
4.Articles and notices
Ngo Dinh Diem was born on January 3, 1901. He was a certified anti-communist nationalist and the first President of the Republic of Vietnam. His elder brother [Traditional Catholic] Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục was the leading Catholic figure in Vietnam.
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This picture was taken over Iceland very recently. To me it looks like it could be of Baphomet but then it could be anything! Hope it is not a sign of eldritch things to come! A portent of doom for us all.. We all know what is happening around the world..
Four dimensional scans show that Leo David Hargreaves, five months, has been smiling since before he was born, and he hasn’t stopped since.
Little bundle of joy Leo David Hargreaves could just be the cheeriest baby in the country, according to his parents. Not only does the five month-old smile all the time, he’s been smiling since before he was born. MORE
In our mist of filming a documentary we had a moment to have a deep conversation with Father Courtney Edward Krier. We ask him a simple question “What does it mean to be Human?” and in this short film we hear his humbling answer. MORE
“The Lord never says that the Kingdom of God is a show,” said Pope Francis Thursday. “It’s a party! But it is different. And a party is beautiful, of course. A big party. And Heaven will be a party.”
In his homily during Mass at the chapel in his Saint Martha residence, Francis contrasted the idea of show or spectacle—where people go to see and be seen—with the idea of a feast or party, where people rejoice together. MORE
Archbishop Flavio Calle Zapata, of Ibagué, Colombia, has instructed local parishes to offer an exorcism prayer because of the alarming increase in suicides in his archdiocese.
During the year 2014, seventy people have committed suicide in the region, and violence has also been on the rise.
Last Sunday, the archdiocese sponsored a “day of exorcism.” The Archbishop said that in today’s world “there is a culture of permissiveness” and what disturbs us “is that Satanism has also spread among our young people.” MORE
Reverend Franklin Graham, son of world renowned evangelist Billy Graham, said the Muslim prayer service on Friday at the Washington National Cathedral, an Episcopal church established under a charter granted by Congress more than 100 years ago, is “sad to see” because the church should only open its door for worship of “the One True God of the Bible.” MORE
“Taxifornia” author James Lacy discusses the massive sums of money California is spending to remove birds from blocking Bay Bridge with Stuart Varney on Fox Business. MORE
The New Jersey state Assembly on Thursday passed a measure that would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients, modeled after the Oregon law that allowed a 29-year-old woman suffering from brain cancer to end her life. MORE
This list of 55 preparedness items (or categories) purposely avoids some of the preps that you might expect to see and is not intended to be a list of essentials or to be all-inclusive in any way. In fact, the list is intended to get you thinking ‘outside-the-box’ about your own needs for preps – to think of things beyond that of just rice-and-beans, bullets and band-aids. MORE
Next Monday, work will begin to renovate Vatican restrooms for pilgrims, but Pope Francis has also given instructions for showers to be installed where Rome’s homeless can wash.
Bishop Konrad Krajewski, or “Don Conrado” as he is familiarly known, is the Pope’s “almoner,” the person in charge of distributing alms on the Pope’s behalf. He recounts that it was a Sardinian homeless man named Franco who brought home the need for washing facilities. MORE