MOVIES: FILMING BATMAN "DARK KNIGHT" IN CHICAGO

LIFE: INDIANA CHICKEN

                                

LIFE: ST. THERESE RETREAT HOUSE CHAPEL, COLUMBUS, OH

Very knightly.

LIFE: OHIO STATE FLAG

Sr. Susan "Vanna" Miriam demonstrates that the Ohio State flag is the only state flag NOT in a rectangle.

LIFE: "THE PEORIA 6"

Peoria, IL, seminarians visit. Bishop Fulton Sheen is from Peoria, IL, and the rumor mill has it that the "Peoria 6" are going to Rochester, NY, to steal his bones and bring them back to Peoria. Where they belong.

LIFE: NATIONAL CATHOLIC WOMEN'S CONVENTION

Sr. Susan Miriam at our booth--National Catholic Women's Convention in beautiful downtown Columbus, OH!

Pretty city, friendly folks. Go Buckeyes!

LIFE: WHAT IS THEOLOGY OF THE BODY?

Theology of the Body is going to God through desire.

Theology of the Body is going to God through the desires He gave us.

Theology of the Body is not the repression or indulgence of desires, but the redemption of desires.

 

LIFE: THE HIGHEST PROFESSION

I had to re-read John Paul II's "On Human Work, Laborem Exercens" for a project, and it became evident to me that everyone is ultimately working for the family, even those of us with no children, because we are working for the future. What is the future? Children. Where do children come from, where are they raised? The family.

"All professions serve the highest profession: homemaking." --C. S. Lewis

(It's the OLDEST profession, too.)

LIFE: NON-CRABBY WOMEN OF FAITH

So, I attended this luncheon of the "Non-Crabby Women of Faith"* with a German Monsignor Schmidt who converted two real-life princesses to Jesus. One is German, one Italian. The Italian, who is a Borgia(!), wrote a best-selling book in Europe called "With New Eyes," that I and my partner in crime, Sheila Liaugminas, are going to strong-arm him into getting into English.

When one of the women asked Monsignor: "How do we bring Jesus to the world when we leave Mass?" He said, get this, "The family table. All of life should be liturgy. If the Mass is the heavenly banquet, so should our family table be, also for all those who join us at it (hospitality)." He said: "You should use your fine china for your family several times a week. Celebrate." Wow.

Linda Weaver, our amazing hostess and evangelizer par excellence, said: "If evangelizing is inviting people to the heavenly banquet...then I'm God's party planner!"
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*We're not allowed to complain about our lives, the Church or anything! Only positive energy. Like Jesus who was always "yes."

LIFE: WHAT IS THEOLOGY OF THE BODY?

Theology of the Body circumvents cynicism, suspicion and bad memories about the male-female relationship to show us what is possible.

 

"The status of the male-female relationship is irredeemable." --Leonard Cohen

LIFE: WHAT IS THEOLOGY OF THE BODY?

Theology of the Body is a vision of God's vision of the human body.

PHILOSOPHY: MOTHER TERESA

It has been revealed that Mother Teresa experienced--for most of her life--the same feeling of darkness and abandonment that many atheists feel.
This incredible woman had one mission on earth: to the poorest of the poor, and now from heaven a mission to those in doubt and darkness.
I hope that just in the way she also raised awareness of the poorest of the poor, she will raise awareness of the plight of atheists.
I have never been completely without faith (I believed in the creator-watchmaker-God-of-the-Deists until I was 15), but in my teenage years before I met a personal God--Father, Son and Holy Spirit--my life was very dark, and I would never want to go back there.
Fr. Cantalamessa, preacher to the papal household, posits that atheists may be the souls "dearest to the heart of God."

LIFE: THEOLOGY OF THE BODY INSTITUTE--August 2007

Can you find Christopher West?

LIFE: WHY HIM?

Why was John Paul II the one who developed the Theology of the Body? Was he just the right person at the right time like Elvis and the world was ready for rock and roll?

Yes.

LIFE: WHO WAS JOHN PAUL II?

John Paul II was one of the greatest saints who ever walked the earth and we'll be unpacking his legacy for centuries.

LIFE: WHAT IS THEOLOGY OF THE BODY?

Theology of the Body is a "theological timebomb" that will "effect every article of the Creed." --George Weigel (official biographer of JPII)

LIFE: WHAT IS THEOLOGY OF THE BODY?

Theology of the Body is what everyone was looking for in the 60's.

LIFE: WHAT IS THEOLOGY OF THE BODY?

Theology of the Body is healing for all bodies.

Theology of the Body is the healing of human sexuality, male and female.

Theology of the Body is the restoration of the original plan for the male-female relationship.

LIFE: WHAT IS THEOLOGY OF THE BODY?

Theology of the Body is the long-awaited answer to Descartes.

LIFE: WHY IS THEOLOGY OF THE BODY SO DIFFICULT?

Because it's so simple. We're complicated, God's not.