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Wednesday, June 29, 2005
This Kind Of Freaks Me Out:
"Scientists have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.
Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.
The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.
But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock."
It just doesn't seem right.
posted by drchrist, 17:22 | link | comments (7)
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Moving
I'm loading up the truck and headed to my parish today. Hopefully after I get settled in I will have some time to do a little bit more blogging.
posted by drchrist, 10:13 | link | comments (4)
Saturday, June 25, 2005
New Blog
Check out this new blog by a friend of mine. He is a seminarian for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, and is exceptionally bright. He also is quite informed on matters liturgical, in fact he was the cantor for my first Mass an did a wonderful job with the gregorian Chant. I think you will find his blog to be worth reading regularly.
posted by drchrist, 14:59 | link | comments (2)
Friday, June 24, 2005
And We're Back...
Well, all of us pilgrims made it back to the USA safe and sound. It was a wonderful time.
I had the wonderful privelege to say Mass at Rue Du Bac in Paris where Mary appeared and gave us the Miraculous Medal, the grotto where Mary appeared in Lourdes, St. Peter's Basilica, The Church where St. Lawrence, St. Steven and St. Justin are buried, and over the body of Bl. Aloysius Guanella in Como, Italy.
We had excellent seats for the Wednesday audience with the Holy Father, and yes, I did get very, very, close to him...so close that I shook his hand...pictures with hopefully be forthcoming.
Tomorrow will make a little trip to Sioux Falls to take some of my stuff to the rectory and partake in a going away/retirement party for the outgoing pastor.
Keep me in your prayers during this time of transition.
posted by drchrist, 18:43 | link | comments (4)
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
And They're Off...
Tomorrow morning me, two chaperones, and 10 youth are leaving for a two week pilgrimage to Paris, Lourdes, Rome, and Como, Italy. Know that you will be in my prayers and please keep us in your prayers as well.
posted by drchrist, 21:42 | link | comments (10)
Consistency: via The Curt Jester
Consistency
- Crucifix in a jar of urine - Art to be protected.
- Elephant dung on a picture of the Madonna - Art to be protected.
- Accidental urine over spray on a Koran via an air duct - High crime to be denounced by the major media.
The soldier who did this and who was subsequently relieved and sent to guard the gate instead should have claimed he was a performance artist.
posted by drchrist, 12:11 | link | comments (5)
Maybe This Will Please Joe London
One of the constant and erroneous complaints of Joe London is that the Church separates the body and soul saying that the body is evil and the soul is good.
Pope Benedict said this the other day, "the human being has been created in the image and likeness of God and God Himself is Love. Thus, the vocation to love is what makes man the authentic image of God. ... From this basic link between God and man comes another: the indissoluble link between spirit and body."
"The totality of man," he continues, "includes the dimension of time and man's 'yes' ... means 'always', it is the space of fidelity. Only within it can one grow in faith." He adds that "the greatest expression of freedom ... is the capacity to choose a definitive gift in which freedom, giving of itself, fully finds itself. Concretely, the personal and reciprocal 'yes' between a man and a woman ... is destined to the gift of a new life" and it is also a "public 'yes' with which the spouses take on the public responsibility of fidelity."
Benedict XVI underscored that "the various forms of dissolving marriages today, as well as the free unions and the 'trial marriages', including pseudo-marriage between people of the same sex, are, rather, expressions of an anarchical freedom, which passes itself off, wrongly, for a true liberation of man. Such pseudo-freedom is based on making the body banal, which inevitably includes making man banal."
Notice the part about the indissoluble link between spirit and body and the part about the human being (body and soul) being created in the image and likeness of God. Thus both the body and the soul are good and not evil.
I am also very pleased that the Holy Father goes on to speak about true freedom as it relates to marriage. Something that needs to be addressed in a world filled with "anarchical freedom," or freedom that leads to an "anything goes" mentality. This world needs to know the true freedom that comes from imitating Christ.
posted by drchrist, 12:06 | link | comments (6)
Ordination Pictures
The procession:
The calling of the candidates:
The promise of obedience:
The prostration and litany of the saints:
Prayer of Consecration (for some odd reason there is no picture of the bishop laying hands on my head on the diocesan website):
Being vested:
The Annointing of my hands (notice my hand is wrapped - you liturgists will recognize that...)
After Mass:
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Saturday, June 04, 2005
Argus Leader Article
Last night I mentioned that I was interviewed for an article in the local Sioux Falls Newspaper, so here it is.
posted by drchrist, 09:20 | link | comments (4)
Friday, June 03, 2005
New Blog Title
You know, I was quite shocked...earlier today before the ordination I was being interviewed by a report for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader and the last questions was this: "So, have you decided on a title for you blog yet?" I must admit that it was quite a surprise that the reporter even knew about it. Of course I told her I had and since the paper wouldn't come out until tomorrow I told her that my blog would be called "White Around the Collar: The Meandering Mind of a Prarie Priest."
More later about the ordination, and the photo's are not on the diocesan website yet. When they are up I will post them here. Now it is time for me to get some much needed rest.
posted by drchrist, 21:50 | link | comments (22)
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Ordination
Well folks, time is flying and only two days until I am a priest. Please keep me in your prayers. You won't see any posts until after the ordination on Friday night. Then hopefully I will have some photos and a new blog title.
posted by drchrist, 09:50 | link | comments (11)
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