Tag Archive | Father

Father Flood Cartoon for 5th Sunday of Easter (C)

Apr27

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I cannot identify with the Cartoon, because my idea of a priest is not worldly. I don’t think a cruise of people running around half clothed is good for anybody’s soul, much less, a priests.

My two cents worth.

My parish priest; wrote/mailed bulletin, cleaned Old Saint What-cha-ma-call-it’s, shoveled snow, taught 12 grades of Catechism Class, visited the sick and dying (he didn’t send someone else to do his job), cooked for himself, had confessions every Saturday, and if a priest came; he’d put him to work hearing Confessions during Mass. My parish priest taught Adult Inquiry Class, had the Stations of the Cross, May Crowning, Roller Skating Parties 2x a Year for all 12 Grades, and he had 40 Hours of Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament.

My parish priest was not a “playboy priest” and I wouldn’t have liked him, if he was.

My parish priest only took one week vacation, a year.

So?

I even turned down a “prize I won to take a cruise.”

That’s how strongly I feel about it. I know the dangers of not dressing modestly on the beach or any where’s else.

I want to go to heaven. Messing up is not on my agenda.

However, to be fair, maybe Catholic Cruises are modest cruises, but the way people are – listening to a homily – then doing whatever they like – is not my idea of a good Catholic.

Perhaps, these cruises are Catholicism Lite (which is evil) instead of Catholic Light.

Modern day priests tippy toe around morality – not wanting to rile their MEAL TICKETS too much.

Those kinds of priests will not go to heaven. God spews out lukewarm people.

Christ said so: in the Bible, somewhere’s.

Father Kapaun likely to be Awarded ‘Medal of Honor’

Jul5

20120705-024105.jpg Father Kapaun (R) helping to carry a soldier off the battlefield during the Korean War

Father Emil Kapaun, a Kansas priest and chaplain, likely will be awarded the Medal of Honor in the next few weeks or months for gallantry during the Korean War, Congressional officials said Thursday.

Both houses of Congress passed the Defense Authorization bill this week, which included language that waived a requirement that a Medal of Honor winner must have performed the heroic actions within the past two years to be considered for the honor. Kapaun’s heroics took place in 1950 and 1951, on battlefields and then in prison camps in North Korea.

‘Greatest man’

Kapaun, a priest and a U.S. Army chaplain, died in a North Korean prison camp in May 1951.

Before that, according to fellow soldiers, he dragged wounded soldiers through gunfire to safety, then rallied soldiers captured like himself to survive torture and starvation in frigid winter prison camps near the Chinese border. By the time he died, from weakness and disease, he had starved to what looked like a near skeleton, in part because he regularly gave his meager rations to hungry fellow prisoners.

Kapaun, after his death, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross — the Army’s second-highest award for valor — for his many heroic acts in battle before his capture. Fellow soldiers said then and now that it wasn’t fair, and wasn’t enough for what he’d done for his country. The Medal of Honor is the military’s highest award.

Dowe called Kapaun “the greatest man I have ever known.”

Kapaun grew up a farm boy near Pilsen, in Marion County, and served there as a parish priest before joining the Army. He was a chaplain in World War II and in many battles in Korea before he was captured at the battle of Unsan.

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Michael Landon The Father I Knew (1999)

Jul3

I watched this movie last night, since it was so hot and muggy. It was a good movie.

I can IDENTIFY what Michael Landon Jr and his sister Lesley Landon went through, from a fractured family. July 1, 2012 was 21st Anniversary of Michael Landon’s death from terminal cancer. RIP.

Sad Abortion Video

Jun17

I did not learn until I was in my 40′s that My Dad threatened My Mom with a Coat Hanger. He wanted to abort one of my sisters. My Mom saved My Sister’s Life. Thanks Mom. You should have left Dad. He did not like me either. I was religious, and well he just had to take me down a peg or two. You should have left him, and then I wouldn’t have been born to have known the pain, I’ve been through. You should have had a clue, when you didn’t put out, while engaged to be married, and he cheated on you before you married, that that would be his signature pattern. I wish you had married a man who respected you. Then, maybe he would have respected his 5 daughters, too. You let him drive you and us to the edge, but I never jumped, because I know I have a Father in Heaven who loves me very much. I just wish you would have valued yourself more, and found a man who would value you and us girls. RIP Mom. RIP Dad. I hope you made it. If you did, it was only because I was praying for you. God bless you Dad. God bless you Grandpa. I forgive you all for not being saints or consistently good. There are millions of people with mixed emotions about Mother’s Day, but with me more so, Father’s Day. Seven times seventy, is the only profound thing I can think of right now. And, thanks Mom. Sis isn’t perfect, but I am glad you fought for her life, Mom. Thanks.