Easter Humour - Still

Humor for Easter

cartoon courtesy of www.reverendfun.com

Nothing is certain except vat and taxes?!?

Lasting Palm Sunday Impressions
My wife planned an activity for our two and one-half year old daughter during the week following Palm Sunday. After having her cut and paste brightly colored construction paper coats and palm branches on a picture of Jesus riding into Jerusalem, she spread coats in our hallway, and the three of us walked over them, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" A couple of days later, we reminded Jamie that the following Sunday was Easter. "Do you know what that means?" her mother asked. "Yes!" Jamie chirped enthusiastically. "We're going to church, and Jesus is going to come and walk on our coats!"

Easter 4 B Good Shepherd

Readings
First Reading: Acts 4: 8-12

Second Reading: 1 John 3: 1-2

Gospel: John 10: 11-18
 

Anecdotes

1) Pope John Paul II, the good shepherd. The most beautiful and meaningful comment on the life and the legacy of Pope John PaulII was made by the famous televangelist Billy Graham. In a TV Interview he said: “He lived like his Master the Good Shepherd and he died like his Master the Good Shepherd.” In today’s gospel, Jesus claims that he is the Good Shepherd and explains what he does for his sheep.

 

Diabetes - More Information

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.

Cure for Type II Diabetes

The Cure for Type II Diabetes

WARNING If you are already on insulin, absolutely do not stop taking insulin, and do not stop measuring your glucose levels, without your doctor's permission. What Causes Type II Diabetes Type 2 diabetes can be cured!! But before understanding any cure for type 2 diabetes, it is first necessary to understand the cause of type 2 diabetes. First of all, being overweight does NOT cause type 2 diabetes!!! Scientists generate a lot of data, but frequently have no clue how to interpret the data. The reason there is a high statistical correlation between being overweight and having type 2 diabetes is that the same thing that causes type 2 diabetes also causes some people to be overweight. For example, bad fats (such as in margarine) are what cause type 2 diabetes, and bad fats can also cause a person to be overweight. Thus the statistical correlation is not a "causal" relationship, but rater a "common cause" relationship. It is extremely rare when a scientist discusses "common cause" statistical correlations because they get paid to sell drugs. Let me repeat: being overweight does NOT cause type 2 diabetes. Here is more information about what really causes type 2 diabetes:

Education - Reducing Stress - Successful Experiment

Tackling Truancy, Suspensions, and Stress

With levels of violence and poverty rising around them, San Francisco middle school students find social and emotional healing -- and a new readiness to learn -- in a bold program of daily meditation.

By Mariko Nobori

With levels of violence and poverty rising around them, San Francisco middle school students find social and emotional healing -- and a new readiness to learn -- in a bold program of daily meditation.

Principal James Dierke (left) took an unconventional, impactful step by implementing the Quiet Time program in his school. Students (right) opt to be trained in meditation and practice it twice each day during Quiet Time.

Credit: Daniel Jarvis

Death of Innocents - Easter Reflection

Death of innocents a call to renewal By Fr. Joseph Brown

A worshipper holds a rosary as she prays during Easter Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2011. (CNS/Reuters/Saad Shalash)

Commentary
"I believe, Lord. Help my unbelief."
As this Lenten season draws to a close, I seem suffocated with the death of innocents, from Afghanistan to Florida. It wounds my spirit, but it can no longer shock me, this pouring out of the blood of the blameless, wherever we find violence valorized and guns made holy.

Catholic Social Teaching

Surprise! Catholic social teaching is the church's best-kept secret

by Tony Magliano

• Making a Difference

The Catholic church has a very big secret. It is so powerful, challenging and relevant that if every bishop, priest, deacon, religious and layperson was committed to communicating and implementing this secret, it would turn society upside-down and literally transform the world.
However, revealing its contents and tirelessly urging the full application of its message would surely cause great controversy. The church would come under fierce attack from both conservatives and liberals for being naïve and acting outside acceptable ecclesial boundaries.

Did Jesus PROHIBIT women - NCR Discussion

Did Jesus PROHIBIT women

Submitted by Petrus Romanus (not verified) on Apr. 18, 2012.

Did Jesus PROHIBIT women priests and bishops by "not choosing" women, or by "not including" women to be apostles? And if so, did Jesus PROHIBIT women priests and bishops for ALL times and in ALL places?
Not everyone so thinks, or believes, including many current members of the Roman church, some of whom are priests and bishops. These brave and intrepid believers know that if they must be considered "disobedient," it should rather be to the pope and his curia rather than to Jesus and God.
The evidence for a prohibition by Jesus is weak and underwhelming, even if it can be said to exist at all. This leaves "tradition," such as it is, and the voice of current Roman church authority, all male and thoroughly clerical, as "the voice of God."
Could all this change with the election of a new pope? And if not the next pope, how about the one after the next one? [By that time, will change by or from the Vatican make any difference?]

Daniel's Prayer - A Style to Imitate

Daniel’s Repentant Heart !!!

Daniel, a righteous man, had such devotion that you would not expect to find him repenting.
Daniel’s heart, however, was sensitive to sin and also he identified with the people’s sins.
“O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. . . . We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled. . . . Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land” (Daniel 9:8, 5-6).

Student Training - Vision

Training in vision centered life can prevent students from violence and suicide

If schools can help teenagers formulate a vision for their lives, set goals and focus on these goals, they would neither indulge in violence nor commit suicide.

 

By Varghese Alengaden
Indore: Teachers in India seem to be at the receiving end of violence these days. Every other day, media channels report students from around the country attacking teachers, even killing some of them.

The nation was shocked in early February when a ninth grader stabbed to death his teacher in a Salesian school in Chennai, southern India. The 15-year-old was reportedly angry that the teacher had informed his parents about his poor academic performance.