On Father’s Day last year, 200 Catholic moms in Texas surprised their husbands as they arrived for Mass by dressing them all in matching polos—a gift the dads only realized they had in common when they showed up at church.
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I just saw the public discussion about Vance, not baptizing his children as infants.
To my Catholic Brothers and sisters, you should schedule a baptism as soon as possible for your kids.
One reason among many is the spiritual protection of your child. When we trace the cross on their head and claim the child for Christ, every demon, every angel can see that mark.
It matters.
For my brother priests, I beg you
in the name of Jesus, stop prohibiting baptism until parents jump through hoops.
I buried an infant this week whose pastor refused baptism for them. Enough with trying to control and protect yourself from feeling used.
Enough with the nonsense of “protecting the sacrament”.
Jesus doesn’t need you to protect him, but he does need you to protect the souls of these little ones.
If parents come to you seeking baptism for their child, you do it.
My father is a man.
Of course I mean that biologically, but I mean it also in every sense of the word.
When I was 16 and got my first real job, I remember waking up at 5 AM & feeling so proud of myself for getting up so early to go to work.
When I got downstairs, dad was getting out of his chair and putting his Bible down.
He wasn’t starting his prayer at 5AM, he was finishing it.
It’s now many years later, and he has lived with me for the last 7 years.
No matter the circumstances, no matter his feelings, no matter how broken & wore down his body, he starts his day with scripture and prayer.
He worships God, he honored my mother, he sacrificed for us kids.
He understood that God not only gave him his biological children to care for, God gave him a lot of others.
In his years with mom, they took in 38 people to live with them for various measures of time.
He did this because people needed help and we could give it.
We weren’t able to give it because we were rich, but because he taught us how to sacrifice.
He didn’t spend a lot of time telling anyone how to be a man or a husband or a father.
He had no podcast, he wrote no articles about “submission” or “headship”. He didn’t need to run around flexing and defining his power.
His primary means of teaching was by his quiet, strong example.
My mom, his wife, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and the last three years of her life were the most challenging of his life and many of his children.
He never left her side. He served her with all of his heart, soul, mind and strength.
She is with the Lord now and he mourns her, but mourns her as a man with hope.
He knows that one day, the love of Christ, which conquers all things will destroy death itself.
He will see her again.
He will see God, face-to-face and live.
Until that day, I will honor him and strive to be like him every day of my life.
Happy Father’s Day dad.
#fathersday #talkedtotheboss
Golda explained it best.
This land was named “Palestine” by the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago, after crushing a Jewish revolt, as an attempt to erase Jewish identity and invoke the memory of the long-defeated Philistines.
For centuries, the region was ruled by the Ottomans and later the British. There was never an independent Arab state here called Palestine.
Golda Meir put it plainly:
“East and West Bank was Palestine. I’m a Palestinian. From ’21 to ’48, I carried a Palestinian passport. There was no such thing here as Jews, Arabs, and Palestinians. There were Jews and Arabs.”
Golda Meir, Former Prime Minister of Israel
Image credit: Willem van de Poll. CC BY-SA 3.0. Color added.
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