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"A State with No Republicans!"

Some interesting data on the 'state' of, the State of Illinois ... There are more people on welfare in Illinois than there are people working. Chicago pays the highest wages to teachers than anywhere else in the U.S. . Their average pay is $110,000/year. Their pensions average 80-90% of their income. Wow, are Illinois and Chicago great or what? Be sure to read till the end. I've never heard it explained better. Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago ?

Body count: In the last six months, 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago .. 221 killed in Iraq ; AND Chicago has one of the strictest gun laws in the entire US.

Here's the Chicago chain of command:

President: Barack Hussein Obama •; Senator: Dick Durbin • House Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr. • Governor: Pat Quinn • House leader: Mike Madigan • Atty. Gen.: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike) • Mayor: Rahm Emanuel • The leadership in Illinois - all Democrats. •

Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago . • Of course, they're all blaming each other. • Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any! •;

Let us get ALL the facts out while we are at it:

Chicago school syCan't blame Republicans; there aren't any!

State pension fund $78 Billion in debt, worst in country. Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any!

Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in country. Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any!

This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois . And he is going to 'fix' Washington politics for us?

George Ryan is no longer Governor, he is in prison

He was replaced by Rob Blagojevich who is, by the way, also in prison. stem rated one of the worst in the country. And Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned, .. and, that's right, he and his wife are both in prison.

The Land of Lincoln , where our Governors and Representatives make our license plates. What?

As long as they keep providing entitlements to the population of Chicago, nothing is going to change, except the state will go bankrupt before the country does.

"Anybody who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.

Don’t forget Detroit , another great example of a Democratic empire…;

Every weekend there are 4-5 murders in the Harrisburg York areas of PA. When they show the perp and the victim 4 of the 5 are black. It’s time the black community leaders work their own neighborhoods although these leaders would have nothing to complain about and even worse no financial gain.

:Is God The Problem With American Politics?

YES!!!!

The complete absence of God in the Democrat political party is a major problem.”

100% correct. The Democratic Party contains many Devil’s disciples led by who we know, Examples include keeping God from their platform and their endorsement of abortion

THE DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM
Pope Benedict XVI
A conversation with Peter Seewald

In his futuristic novel Brave New World, the British author Aldous Huxley had predicted in 1932 that falsification would be the decisive element of modernity. In a false reality with its false truth – or the absence of truth altogether – nothing, in the final analysis, is important any more.There is no truth, there is no standpoint. Today, in fact, truth is regarded as far too subjective a concept for us to find therein a universally valid standard. The distinction between genuine and fake seems to have been abolished. Everything is to some extent negotiable. Is that the relativism against which you were warning so urgently?

THE SAME APPLIES TO ABORTION SUPPORTERS OR THOSE WHO LOOK THE OTHER WAY.

From the Catechism

Latæ and Ferendæ Sententiæ

Excommunication, especially a jure, is either latæ or ferendæ sententiæ. The first is incurred as soon as the offence is committed and by reason of theoffence itself (eo ipso) without intervention of any ecclesiastical judge; it is recognized in the terms used by the legislator, for instance: “the culprit will be excommunicated at once, by the fact itself [statim, ipso facto]”. The second is indeed foreseen by the law as a penalty, but is inflicted on the culprit only by a judicial sentence; in other words, the delinquent is rather threatened than visited with the penalty, and incurs it only when the judge has summoned him before his tribunal, declared him guilty, and punished him according to the terms of the law. It is recognized when the law contains these or similar words: “under pain of excommunication”; “the culprit will be excommunicated”.

In effect they ex themselves

The Harrisburg 7 INCLUDING THE BERRIGANS

http://todaysthedayhbg.com/the-harrisburg-7-2/

I KNEW THE ‘70s WERE SCREWED WHEN I SAT THROUGH A HOMILY ABOUT SUPPORTING THE BERRIGANS,

The Berrigan brothers—Daniel, a Jesuit priest, and Philip, of the Josephite order—led the antiwar and antidraft movements during the Vietnam War. Philip served in the U.S. Army in World War II, becoming a priest in 1955. Daniel, the intellectual and theologian, ordained in 1952, complements his brother’s activism, acquired in assignments to black parishes in New Orleans and Baltimore.

In May 1968, the two brothers, along with seven other Catholic protesters, burned the records of the Catonsville, Maryland, draft board with homemade napalm. Their arrest, trial, and sentence to 3 years in prison propelled the Berrigans to national prominence. They helped found the Catholic resistance movement: estimates for draft board raids range from 53 to 250. Having lost their appeals, Philip reported to jail, in April 1970, but Daniel became a fugitive.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/daniel-berrigan#ixzz389ENYKpY

CAN LAYPEOPLE GIVE THE HOMILY?

No. The Code of Canon Law states,

Among the forms of preaching the homily is preeminent; it is a part of the liturgy itself and is reserved to a priest or to a deacon; in the homily the mysteries of faith and the norms of Christian living are to be expounded from the sacred text throughout the course of the liturgical year. Whenever a congregation is present a homily is to be given at all Sunday Masses and at Masses celebrated on holy days of obligation; it cannot be omitted without a serious reason. (canon 767)

Furthermore, the instruction Inaestimabile Donum, issued by the Sacred Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship and approved by Pope John Paul II on April 17, 1980 also condemns the practice you describe. Among the liturgical abuses condemned in the foreword of this document is “homilies given by lay people.” Under the section on the Mass, subsection 3 states that “The purpose of the homily is to explain to the faithful the Word of God proclaimed in the readings, and to apply its message to the present. Accordingly the homily is to be given by the priest or the deacon.”

GENERAL INSTRUCTION OF THE ROMAN MISSAL
INSTITUTIO GENERALIS MISSALIS ROMANI
A Witness to Unchanged Faith (2 - 5)
A Witness to Unbroken Tradition (6 - 9)
Accommodation to New Conditions (10 - 15)

The Homily

65. The homily is part of the Liturgy and is strongly recommended,[63] for it is necessary for the nurturing of the Christian life. It should be an exposition of some aspect of the readings from Sacred Scripture or of another text from the Ordinary or from the Proper of the Mass of the day and should take into account both the mystery being celebrated and the particular needs of the listeners.[64]

66. The homily should ordinarily be given by the priest celebrant himself. He may entrust it to a con-celebrating priest or occasionally, according to circumstances, to the deacon, but never to a lay person.[65] In particular cases and for a just cause, the homily may even be given by a Bishop or a priest who is present at the celebration but cannot con-celebrate.

There is to be a homily on Sundays and holy days of obligation at all Masses that are celebrated with the participation of a congregation; it may not be omitted without a serious reason. It is recommended on other days, especially on the weekdays of Advent, Lent, and the Easter Season, as well as on other festive days and occasions when the people come to church in greater numbers.[66]

After the homily a brief period of silence is appropriately observed.

AMEN!!!!

MORE!

I AM ACTIVE IN PRO LIFE AND IT WOULD AMAZE YOU IF YOU KNEW HOW MANY IN THE PEWS ON SUNDAY THINK IT IS A POLITICAL ISSUE

I HAVE HAD THE LAY PRINCIPAL OF OUR SCHOOL TELL ME SHE DOESN’T WANT THE KIDS TO “PROTEST”

I BELIEVE THE AVERAGE CATHOLIC, TODAY, DOESN’T KNOW WHAT SIN IS. WHEN DID YOU LAST HEAR A HOMILY ABOUT SIN? AND WHY DO PRIESTS RECEIVE UNSIGNED LETTERS OR EMAILS PROTESTING HOMILIES ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

THE WORD IS AS SKEWED AS THE PARISHIONER WHO IS PART OF THOSE PARISHIONERS WHO DO NOT MAKE UP THE CONFESSIONAL LINE ON SAT.

150 GO UP FOR THE EUCHARIST ON SUNDAY. I JUST WONDER HOW MANY OF THEM ARE IN THE STATE OF GRACE? 3-4 ON LINE ON SATURDAY GOING TO CONFESSION AND 150 RECEIVE.

AND I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHEWED GUM WHILE RECEIVING. I ATTENDED MASS ON PENTECOST A FEW YEARS AGO. IMAGINE? NO ONE KNEW THE ANSWER TO WHAT PENTECOST MEANT TO THE CHURCH. THE AVERAGE CATHOLIC WOULD BE CHEWED UP AND SPIT OUT IF THEY WERE CALLED ON FOR APOLOGETICS

I GREW UP IN THE 1930S AND 1940S. WE KNEW OUR CATECHISM. ST PAUL WOULD BE HAVING FITS IF HE WERE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE TODAY

PRAYER FOR PRIESS

GOD our FATHER,
WHO wills that all men be saved
And come to the knowledge of YOUR Truth:
We beg you to send
Laborers into YOUR harvest,
And grant them grace to speak YOUR Word
With all boldness; so that YOUR Word
May spread and be glorified,
And all nations may know YOU,
The only GOD, and HIM WHOM YOU have sent,
JESUS CHRIST YOUR SON, Our LORD. Amen.

AND TO THINK I PLAYED BASEBALL WITH HIS FATHER. THIS COUMO’S GRAND PARENTS MUST TURN IN THEIR GRAVE.

IN THE MID TO LATE 195OS THE BISHOPS OF THE U.S. RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS ON WHAT TO DO IF THE U.S WAS TAKEN OVER BY COMMUNISM.

I REMEMBER S HOMILY NY A LOCAL PRIEST DEFENDING THE
Harrisburg Seven.

I CERTAINLY NEVER WENT BACK FOR ADDITIONAL TUTELAGE

“The Harrisburg Seven were a group of religious anti-war activists, led by Philip Berrigan, charged in 1971 in a failed conspiracy case in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, located at Harrisburg. The “Seven” were Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth McAlister, Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, Eqbal Ahmad, Anthony Scoblick, and Mary Cain Scoblick.[1]

The group was unsuccessfully prosecuted for alleged criminal plots during the Vietnam War era. Six of the seven were Roman Catholic nuns or priests. The seventh, Ahmad, was a Pakistani journalist, American-trained political scientist, and self-described “odd man out” of the group.[2] Haverford College physics professor William C. Davidon was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case. In 1970, the group attracted government attention when Berrigan, then imprisoned, and McAlister were caught trading letters that alluded to kidnapping National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and blowing up steam tunnels.[3]”