Pictures for Reflection

Good and evil often coexist in the world.

When you stop learning, you stop growing. A good teacher is always a good learner.

The last one took the basket with the egg in it..

Nepalese students going to school

Titanic -Little Known story

The Titanic remembered and a little-known story told

This weekend marks the centenary of the sinking of RMS Titanic on her maiden voyage. The little-known story of her strong links with Catholic life in Liverpool, where she was designed and registered, is now revealed.

 

At 11.40pm on April 14, one hundred years ago, RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg 375 miles south of Newfoundland as she sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.

A Mom's Dictionary

A Mom's Dictionary
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ADULTS: Group of people Mom longs to communicate with after several hours of talking in small words about topics like "who touched who first"
AIRPLANE: What Mom impersonates to get a 1-yr.-old to eat strained beets.
ALIEN: What Mom would suspect had invaded her house if she spotted a child- sized creature cleaning up after itself.
APPLE: Nutritious lunch time dessert which children will trade for cupcakes.

Diabetes - A Plan for Cure

The Diabetes Cure

by Dr. Stefan Ripich, ND, CNP
and Jim Healthy

HOW THIS PLAN WORKS

 Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. HELEN KELLER

 TOMORROW, you‘ll begin The 30-Day Diabetes Cure. I hope you‘ve found these introductory chapters helpful in understanding diabetes and what it takes to reverse it. Today, I offer an overview of my 30-day plan so you know exactly what to expect. First, let me briefly explain how I've structured The 30-Day Diabetes Cure into three distinct phases...

 PHASE ONE: BLOOD SUGAR "BOOT CAMP"

Divine Mercy Sunday - Easter 2 A

Readings

First Reading: Acts 2: 42-47

Second Reading: 1 Peter 1: 3-9

Gospel: John 20: 19-31

Anecdotes

1.    I spoke as a brother”: A Timemagazine issue in 1984 presented a startling cover. It pictured a prison cellwhere two men sat on metal folding chairs, facing each other, up close andpersonal. They spoke quietly so as to keep others from hearing theconversation. The young man was Mehmet Ali Agca, the pope’s would-be assassin;the other man was Pope John Paul II, the intended victim. The pope held thehand that had held the gun and shot the bullet which tore into the pope’s body.John Paul wanted this scene to be shown around a world filled with nucleararsenals and unforgiving hatreds. This was a living icon of mercy. The pope hadbeen preaching forgiveness and reconciliation constantly. His deed with AliAgca spoke a thousand words. He embraced his enemy and pardoned him. At the endof their 20-minute meeting, Ali Agca raised the pope’s hand to his forehead asa sign of respect. John Paul shook Ali Agca’s hand tenderly. When the pope leftthe cell he said, “I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who hasmy complete trust.” This is an example of God’s divine mercy, the same divinemercy to which St. Faustina bore obedient witness. (http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/ac0308.asp)

Easter 2 A -Doubting Thomas

John 20:19-31 - "Thomas" John 20:19-31 - "Touched" by Leonard Sweet If I were to mention the names of certain disciples to you and ask you to write down the first word that comes into your mind, it is unlikely you would come up with the same words. If I were to mention the name of Judas many of you would write down the word "betray" but not all of you. If I were to mention Simon Peter, some of you would write down the word "faith," but not all of you. If I were to mention the names of James and John, some of you would write down the phrase "Sons of Thunder," but not all of you. But when I mention the word Thomas, there is little question about the word most everyone would write down. It would be the word doubt. Indeed, so closely have we associated Thomas with this word, that we have coined a phrase to describe him: "Doubting Thomas."

Diabetes - All about it

Diabetes is the Fastest Growing Disease in the World Today!

According to the Centers for Disease Control:

• Diabetes is an epidemic.
  
• 17 million Americans have diabetes . . .
  with 5.9 million completely unaware that they even have the disease.
  
• Diabetes is the 5th leading cause of death in the United States . . .
  with over 200,000 deaths each year from diabetes-related complications.
  
• Among U.S. adults, diagnosed diabetes increased 49% from 1990 to 2000.
  Similar increases are expected in the next decade and beyond.

Good Friday Meditations

Good Friday Meditations by Ken Gardiner

This section contains four of the hour-long meditations and a three hour-long meditation which I have used over the years. One is based on the seven words from the cross, and others see the events of Good Friday through the eyes and thoughts of those who were there.

Group A

The cross imagined through the eyes of Peter, Mary the Mother of Jesus and every individual involved in this meditation.
Group A: Click

Group B

Three meditations on the verse:
And sitting down, they kept watch over him there. (Matt. 27:36)
Group B Click

Group C

Identifying ourselves with those who were standing round the cross.
Group C Click

Group D

Imagining the thoughts of Christ between his arrest and trial; The thoughts of Simon of Cyrene who carried the cross, Our own response.
Group D Click

A 3 Hour Service

Meditations based on the seven words from the cross.
A 3 Hour Service Click

Good Friday and Easter

Sermons for Good Friday and Easter John 18 : 1-19:42 - "Good Friday: The Three Crosses" John 20:1-9 - "Why I Believe in The Resurrection" Mark 16:1-8 - "Be Hatched or Go Bad" by Leonard Sweet _________________________________________ The Three Crosses The Cross. It struck fear in the hearts of the world. It was Rome's means of controlling the people. According to Roman custom, the penalty of crucifixion was always preceded by scourging; after this preliminary punishment, the condemned person had to carry the cross, or at least the transverse beam of it, to the place of execution, exposed to the jibes and insults of the people. On arrival at the place of execution the cross was uplifted. Soon the sufferer, entirely naked, was bound to it with cords. He was then, fastened with four nails to the wood of the cross. Finally, a placard called the titulus bearing the name of the condemned man and his sentence, was placed at the top of the cross. Slaves were crucified outside of Rome in a place called Sessorium, beyond the Esquiline Gate; their execution was entrusted to the carnifex servorum (the place of the hangman). Eventually this wretched locality became a forest of crosses, while the bodies of the victims were the pray of vultures and other rapacious birds. It often happened that the condemned man did not die of hunger or thirst, but lingered on the cross for several days. To shorten his punishment therefore, and lessen his terrible sufferings, his legs were sometimes broken. This custom, exceptional among the Romans, was common with the Jews. In this way it was possible to take down the corpse on the very evening of the execution. Among the Romans, though, the corpse could not be taken down, unless such removal had been specially authorized in the sentence of death. The corpse might also be buried if the sentence permitted. It is remarkable that all of this the Bible records with the simple words, "And they crucified Him." (Mark 15:24).

5 Monkeys and Banana Experiment

One Lesson How Monkeys Are Teaching Us to Work Smarter

 

There was an interesting experiment conducted years ago using monkeys and bananas.
The researchers placed five monkeys in a room with a ladder and a some bananas at the top of it. It didn’t take long before one of the monkeys saw the bananas and decided to climb the ladder.


As soon as the monkey reached the banana, all five monkeys were showered with cold water.