Digest of Today's Posts
(Digest of Weekend's Posts (22 October 2006))
posted by Pro Ecclesia 10:59 PM
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Monday, October 23, 2006
(Digest of Weekend's Posts (22 October 2006))
About Me
- Name: Pro Ecclesia
- Location: Ohio, United States
A convert to the Catholic Church who became Catholic because of a belief in and devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. * A graduate of Baylor University and the University of Virginia School of Law. * Former Mayor of the Town of Columbia, Virginia. * Married with four children: two boys and two girls. * Primary interests include the Catholic Church, family, Early American History, and law/politics * Primary purpose of this blog is fostering enlightened discussion about the roles played by the institutions of religion, family, and state in our daily lives. * Under the protection of St. Thomas More, martyr, and patron of lawyers, judges, civil servants, politicians, statesmen, and large families (not to mention troubled marriages).
Thomas More, counselor of law and patron of statesmen, merry martyr and most human of saints:
Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be able in argument, accurate in analysis, keen in study, correct in conclusion, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, trustworthy with confidences, courageous in court. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients' tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul.
Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain -- their good servant, and God's first. AMEN.
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Prayer to St. Thomas More for Lawyers and Judges
Dear Scholar and Martyr, it was not the King of England but you who were the true Defender of the Faith. Like Christ unjustly condemned, neither promises nor threats could make you accept a civil ruler as head of the Christian Church.
Perfect in your honesty and love of truth, grant that lawyers and judges may imitate you and achieve true justice for all people. AMEN.
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"Give me the Grace Good Lord, to set the world at naught; to set my mind fast upon Thee and not to hang upon the blast of men's mouths. To be content to be solitary. Not to long for worldly company but utterly to cast off the world and rid my mind of the business thereof."
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Litany of St. Thomas More, Martyr and Patron Saint of Statesmen, Politicians and Lawyers
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"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
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"What does it avail to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by Faith, but also know by Reason: what does it avail that you know Him if you think little of Him?"
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"The things that we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labour for."
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1 Comments:
Jay, I am sorry to hear that any conservative Catholic blogger would be ripping on Santorum, shame on Mark Shea.
If tomorow Santorum's car hit my dog I'd cover the story up myself so as not to cost him any votes, that election is that close and that important.
As for my boy, Stephen Colbert, or as I like to call him St. Stephen (haha) I'll bet his "Say" was more chairitable than Shea's.
Also, sad as it may be to say, Colbert is one of the best friends we Catholics have in the media-world, sure that might not be saying much at all, but it does earn him a lot of slack, and benifit of the doubt from me.
He has nothing to gain from the fact that he never rips on the Church, and he especailly has nothing to gain by his occasional displays of genuine faith, and he does bring a lot more faith into his workplace than I have ever into the classroom.
The world loves an anti-Catholic funnyman, and somone with Colbert's inside expereince being Catholic could harp on the Church all day long, ala Dennis Leary, George Carlin, Dane Cook, and others.
Likewise, if Colbert wanted to rip on Santorum, he could have went-to-town on that. Most liberals have such a passionate hatered for the guy that it is impossible to mask.
My roomate, who is a liberal democrat, saw the part of Colbert where he talked about Lord of the Rings and Santorum, and I asked him, "do you think he was mocking Santorum?" and my roomate said "I think he was supporting him in a low-key way."
Anyway, the only way to really settle this will be when Colbert himself speaks publically and openly about his faith (which if he did tomorow he'd probably lose his job.) Some day I am sure he will though, till then I'll joust the windmills in defense of his good name!
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