July 2011
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The medicalization of emotions
means that addictions, compulsions, and other harmful mental conditions are no longer considered sins. They have been freed from blame and some or most of their sufferers from responsibility. This is a great advantage, but it comes at the cost of a loss of vital spiritual and psychological involvement, the exercise of free will, and the necessity of essential long-term contact between one human...
Value vs. Value
keepsdiary:
Prayers for another family
Please pray for another family: 2 young daughters, and a mother named Maria. They struggle so much already, just to live and make it in this world, single mom and all — and now Maria has cancer. We’ll have to persevere, see what happens.
Please remember them to Jesus.
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Because I think such a mechanistic approach is all...
I’ve found myself drawn into battles for which I have only the blunted sword of my own experience and the support of other people who’ve recovered and of those few doctors and therapists who have been relying on their own efforts and the efforts of their patients to do this essential, spiritual, psychological work. I am not against the use of psychotropic medication, but only as a way...
Hell's Kitchen →
fathershane:
Great article in today’s Wall Street Journal about the Sisters of Life.
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Babies Recognize Mom's Voice from the Womb
by Lee Dye,
That’s one of the key findings of an ongoing research project by Canadian and Chinese researchers who are studying infant development. The research suggests that while still in the womb, our brains were learning speech patterns and laying the groundwork for language acquisition.
“Before birth, the brain is being set up to learn language,” says Barbara Kisilevsky, a...
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As psychiatry became less of a spiritual quest and more of a medical issue involving a “progressive brain disorder,” the idea of schizophrenia being treatable and, given the right conditions, curable has been lost in the popular and medical establishment-promulgated idea of the brain as an organ unable to involve itself in its own repair. The brain disorder idea gives a great break to...
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Watchadeeperbeauty:
cuppboard:
Jennifer Fulwiler from ConversionDiary.com talks about her journey from atheism to Catholicism
Love her so much.
“… How is it that a smart person… could believe in God??”
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to be Loved, a whole life long.
Prayers for my family.
Especially my 12-year-old sister, Emily. She may be alone in a horrible environment, and she is having it very, very tough right now. Please pray that Our Mother protects her.
Soon,
I will not be using my tumblr anymore as a mortification for Christ.
If anyone at all thinks they would want to keep in contact, message me and we can exchange e-mail addresses. :]
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Nestle, Pepsi, & Kraft Own Your Life
Given the previous post, I’ve decided to give a run-down of major products owned by the monopolies Nestle, Pepsi, and Kraft that people might not be aware of. It can be overwhelming to have to look through all 3 lists (especially Kraft’s which isn’t so user-friendly), and it will still be overwhelming just to read the list of major products they own.
This will make it more...
Company Using Aborted Fetal Cells in Flavors... →
badwolfcomplex:
You might remember this post I did a while back about how PepsiCo is using aborted fetal cells to develop its junk food products. Well, the boycott is in full swing. Pro-life individuals and major pro-life groups across the nation, as well as people of goodwill everywhere who are disgusted by using dead babies to develop junk food, are putting pressure on PepsiCo to sever their...
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“At some thoughts a man stands perplexed, above all at the sight of human sin,...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via crypte)
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“I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a...”
– Sara Teasdale, I Am Not Yours (via thefutureoftheworldhangsonyes)
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animals in cars →
getoutoftherecat:
i worked on behalf of the ASPCA last summer where we heard about this happening quite often, and today my husband and i pulled up at target to discover a parking authority officer calling in about a dog locked up in a car in 90+ degree heat. the animal did eventually get taken out of the car, but i can only imagine how miserable he was inside - tongue hanging out all the way,...
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“And the wind shall say: “Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument...”
– T.S. Eliot (“Choruses from the Rock”)
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“I don’t know what God is.
I don’t know what death is.
But I believe they have...”
– Mary Oliver, excerpts from “Sometimes” in Red Bird: Poems (via proustitute)
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Pride makes everyone into ‘God,’ and you have no objective truth. The antidote is humility. If God humbled himself, who are we not to humble ourselves? Remember that humility leads to obedience, which leads to life. Pride leads to disobedience and death.
—Fr. John Corapi, May 1 2010.
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God Banned in the Cemetery
Please care.
A petition via America Needs Fatima:
In a very shocking development, the use of the names of God and Jesus are banned at the Houston National Cemetery, the 2nd largest in America, where 70,000 veterans are buried.
According to local volunteer and veteran’s groups that work at the cemetery, the Houston National Cemetery has told veterans and volunteers alike that they can no...
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“And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did...”
– Raymond Carver | “Late Fragment” (via evoketheforms)
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Before anyone becomes scandalized,
or even after:
The FIRST question we should all be ask, before any other, is what about me? Where do I stand? When it comes right down to it, how do I fare against the tempter? How have I fared? None of us are righteous save for God’s grace. We are all broken with festering wounds. We all bite the One who tries to clean them.
Kyrie Eleison means Lord have mercy, on us. Every mass we must...
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Father Corapi
Lord have mercy on us, indeed.
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
– G.K. Chesterton (via borderlinepretty)
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“Let me share with you something that I have learned in my experience with...”
– Archbishop Robert Carlson (St. Louis) 