Articles For Heart Mind Soul

  Hail and blessed be the hour and moment  in which the Son of God  was born of the most pure Virgin Mary,  at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold.  In that hour, vouchsafe,  O my God to hear my prayer  and grant my desires,  through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ,  and of His Blessed Mother.  Amen.

    "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.  It's a love without end, amen." - George Strait   When former President George H.W. Bush passed away late in 2018, his son, former President George W. Bush, invited country singer George Strait to sing his famous song, "A Father's Love" at the funeral.  As a man who dealt successfully with his past troubles concerning addiction, President George W. Bush was intimately familiar with both kinds of the fatherly love sung about by Mr. Strait, the constant, patient, and undying love of both his father on Earth, and his Almighty Father in heaven. Moved by the music and touched both by God's love and his own deceased father's, President Bush was overcome with tears.     How is a father's love like that of God the Father?  As fathers, or perhaps even as "father figures", what are our responsibilities toward the young lives God entrusts with our care?  Given such an a...

  It was a red wave for Republicans, except for Trump?  Trump’s candidacy incited a near takeover of Pelosi’s House, survived tons of China, elitist deep state cash, and will hold the Senate if we demand, and have an honest Georgia election. Are you OK with Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg spending $350 million, paying election officials and workers in swing States to make certain Trump was removed?  Do you think it’s right to only hear one side of every national issue?  You can’t google the other side until the fine print on page 39.  MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times are the arbiters of truth, shrewdly packaged in shrill, gorilla dust propaganda.  One can’t even blue bird Twitter a message, not fitting the elitist dreams of our controllers, getting richer by the second in hog heaven.  Woo Pig Sooie!!  Amazon is really big, working with China, manufacturing...

  ABC123: My grandmother tells me about the past when there were special days that people would celebrate throughout the year. XYZ789: I have no one to tell me about the way things were before. ABC123: She told me that there were “months” with beautiful names. She recited a poem: “Thirty days has September, April, June and November; all the rest have thirty-one, Except for February which has twenty-eight, except in a leap year when it has twenty-nine!” XYZ789: September, April, June, November and February. Those are beautiful names. ABC123: I like the name April. XYZ789: I like the name November, it rhymes with remember. ABC123: Let’s have those as our secret names. When we’re together we’ll call each other by those names. XYZ789: Okay April, I like that idea. April: Well November, I’m glad you like that idea. November: Why did things change? April: My grandmother said that there was something called COVID-19, and the Great Reset that did away with a lot of th...

My Jesus, my Friend, walk with me today. Hand in hand, guide me to learn and to know what is good. Arm in arm, help me to grow in my faith and in love for others. Side by side, stay by me to protect me and show me Your ways. Heart to heart, help me to pray and to be all that you want me to be. Thank you, Jesus, for the special love You have for me. Amen

“I believe in God, not a Catholic God.” – Pope Francis, 2013 “If someone (a priest) is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” – Pope Francis, 2013 Perhaps no dogma of the Church is as misunderstood as that of Papal Infallibility.  Varying groups of people believe various things about it, and yet almost nobody who raises the issue truly understands it or gets it right.  The non-Catholic will say in his ignorance, “Those Catholics think the Pope is infallible, but we know that all men are sinners, so infallibility is a lie.”  Some Catholics even accept the premise of this ignorant interpretation, namely that the Pope is personally infallible, and the logical consequences of this are disastrous for the Church.  Liberal/progressive Catholics on one extreme will pounce upon every privately expressed opinion of Pope Francis and take it for some new absolute dogma of the faith.  On the other extreme, reactionary elements within the Chu...

  Thankful for: NOT living in Washington State where Democratic Governor Jay Inslee cracked down on indoor gatherings during the Thanksgiving holiday, noting that gathering with those outside their home were banned unless everyone quarantined for two weeks and tested negative for the virus. Like if the tests were so reliable, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk informed the public that in one day he was tested four times for COVID-19; two came back that were positive and two were negative . Being in quarantine for two weeks is not very holiday-like. So much for celebrating Thanksgiving in the spirit of sharing and getting together with family from far and near, might as well have had a virtual Thanksgiving.   Thankful for: NOT living in New York State where Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo decreed a gathering limit not to exceed ten people to celebrate Thanksgiving. What if their Thanksgiving gathering included more than ten people, who would draw the short sticks and be ...

Life wins “bigly”! Life wins as Louisiana voters approved The Love Life Amendment to their state constitution, declaring there’s no right to kill babies in abortions. This election brought forth an astonishing number of newly elected Pro-Life women to the U.S. House of Representatives, 17 so far in races that have been called. There probably will be more Pro-Life women going to Congress because at this time there are still 5 races yet to be called and another will be a run-off. These young women represent various states including the “blue states” of New York and California. Ten out of the 17 won their seat by defeating their pro-abortion opponents who had previously held Congressional office. Pro-Life women are boldly smashing the myth that abortion is a women’s right, because for these women, and the men and women whom they represent the issue of life is a pre-eminent issue that resounds lovingly in their hearts and minds. Election Day was a big win for Pro-Life candidates ...