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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
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5 Ways to Become a Grounded Woman
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Women secure and solidify all that is good—sustaining, nourishing, cherishing the best of what it means to be human.
A few weeks ago, a new ad popped up on my Instagram feed. Grounding sheets. I didn’t know what they were, but now, after a feed flooded with posts about them, I have a pretty good idea. They are meant to connect a sleeper with the earth’s natural energy frequency, hence “grounding.” Who wouldn’t want to connect with the ground, the earth, dirt, something solid, ordered, natural, and life-promoting?
The desire for what is ordered and solid isn’t limited to just sheets or glamping but splashes into our personal relationships. We need grounded men, but perhaps more urgently, we need grounded women.
It is hard to find a grounded woman today. I started looking at women with a careful eye over a decade ago while doing research. Tragically, women today have been robbed of the ideals that facilitate groundedness, specifically, humility. The word itself comes from the Latin word for earth, humus. Women have lost a sense of where and how we are meant to live because we have been told our best life is as an individual, focused on ourselves, instead of in a family, serving and raising others. The idea of grounding, however, of earth, humility, steadiness, are of vital importance.
Scripture tells us that in marriage, men are to leave father and mother and cleave to their wife. As theologian David Meconi has pointed out, “No one clings to that which is unsettled.” To recommend that a man anchor himself to the weak and flighty is foolish, at best. Meconi continues, “Movement towards the feminine suggests that she and her innate capacities are the center of culture toward which man must move. She secures and solidifies all that is good—sustaining, nourishing, cherishing the best of what it means to be human.” A wife is meant to be grounding, a steady character around whom a life can safely be built, not just to get by or for a collection of people to live together under the same roof, but for a family to truly flourish.
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5 Ways to Become a Grounded Woman
Women secure and solidify all that is good—sustaining, nourishing, cherishing the best of what it means to be human.
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What 12 Great Saints Revealed About the End Times
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Heaven does not leave us without hope and help in the latter times. Scriptures, saints, and and heavenly apparitions give clear direction.
Last time we saw a small bit of the ominous warning about the arrival of the Antichrist and end of times. The Catechism tells us the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, must go through the passion as Our Lord did.
We saw how in 1976 in America while still Cardinal Wojtyla, St. John Paul II warned: “It is, therefore, in God's Plan, and it must be a trial which the Church must take up, and face courageously..."
In the midst of this, St. Pius X observed in his encyclical E Supremi that “the victory will ever be with God…Of this we are assured in the holy books by God Himself...”
Because we know the outcome, there’s no reason to fret whenever the signs unfold. God does not leave us without hope. Does not Jesus tell us, "When these things begin to happen, stand erect and hold your head high, for your deliverance is near at hand" (Luke 21:28).
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Last time we saw a small bit of the ominous warning about the arrival of the Antichrist and end of times. The Catechism tells us the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, must go through the passion as Our Lord did.
We saw how in 1976 in America while still Cardinal Wojtyla, St. John Paul II warned: “It is, therefore, in God's Plan, and it must be a trial which the Church must take up, and face courageously..."
In the midst of this, St. Pius X observed in his encyclical E Supremi that “the victory will ever be with God…Of this we are assured in the holy books by God Himself...”
Because we know the outcome, there’s no reason to fret whenever the signs unfold. God does not leave us without hope. Does not Jesus tell us, "When these things begin to happen, stand erect and hold your head high, for your deliverance is near at hand" (Luke 21:28).
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What 12 Great Saints Revealed About the End Times
Heaven does not leave us without hope and help in the latter times. Scriptures, saints, and and heavenly apparitions give clear direction.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance attends Mass at Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, attended a private Mass celebrated by Franciscan monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Thursday during a three-day diplomatic trip to Israel.
Vance, the nation’s second Catholic vice president, met with a group of bishops and went to confession prior to Mass, according to the White House Pool Report.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was constructed in the early fourth century during the reign of Constantine the Great, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. It is jointly operated by the Catholic Church, the Greek Orthodox Church, and four Oriental Orthodox churches.
According to tradition, the church is built on the site of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. It is a premier pilgrimage destination for Christians who visit the Holy Land.
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Vance, the nation’s second Catholic vice president, met with a group of bishops and went to confession prior to Mass, according to the White House Pool Report.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre was constructed in the early fourth century during the reign of Constantine the Great, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. It is jointly operated by the Catholic Church, the Greek Orthodox Church, and four Oriental Orthodox churches.
According to tradition, the church is built on the site of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion, burial, and resurrection. It is a premier pilgrimage destination for Christians who visit the Holy Land.
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JD Vance attends Mass at Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, attended a private Mass celebrated by Franciscan monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem Thursday.
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In Virginia, a Founding Father’s Catholic daughter is laid to rest after 185 years
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Nearly two centuries after her death, the daughter of American Founding Father James Monroe has been laid to rest in Richmond, Virginia, joining her family’s historic burial plot in the city’s famed Hollywood Cemetery.
The Diocese of Richmond held Eliza Monroe Hay’s reinterment at the top of Hollywood Cemetery overlooking the James River on Oct. 23. Hay, who died in 1840, converted to Catholicism several years before her death.
State Sen. Bryce Reeves, who worked with the Eliza Project to repatriate Hay’s remains, said she was “far more than the daughter of a president.”
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The Diocese of Richmond held Eliza Monroe Hay’s reinterment at the top of Hollywood Cemetery overlooking the James River on Oct. 23. Hay, who died in 1840, converted to Catholicism several years before her death.
State Sen. Bryce Reeves, who worked with the Eliza Project to repatriate Hay’s remains, said she was “far more than the daughter of a president.”
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In Virginia, Founding Father’s Catholic daughter laid to rest after 185 years
The Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, held Eliza Monroe Hay’s reinterment at the top of Hollywood Cemetery overlooking the James River on Oct. 23.
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Rare First Temple-era Assyrian inscription found in Jerusalem confirms connection with ancient Judah
- By Michie
Historical evidence showing communication between the Assyrian Empire and the king of Judah has been discovered next to the Western Wall during an Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) excavation in cooperation with the City of David Foundation.
The whole land of Israel is a bit like a giant time capsule, with treasures buried underground from the past that transport the finders back to bygone eras. The information we gain from archeological discoveries gives a great deal of insight into Israel’s history, often proving provocative and surprising.
The small pottery shard, measuring just 2.5 centimeters, bearing a cuneiform inscription in the Akkadian language was discovered during the IAA excavation and deciphered by Dr. Filip Vukosavović and Dr. Anat Cohen-Weinberger together with Dr. Peter Zilberg of Bar-Ilan University. According to the Assyriologists, the words form a complaint about a delayed payment expected by the Assyrian Empire from the king of Judah.
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The whole land of Israel is a bit like a giant time capsule, with treasures buried underground from the past that transport the finders back to bygone eras. The information we gain from archeological discoveries gives a great deal of insight into Israel’s history, often proving provocative and surprising.
The small pottery shard, measuring just 2.5 centimeters, bearing a cuneiform inscription in the Akkadian language was discovered during the IAA excavation and deciphered by Dr. Filip Vukosavović and Dr. Anat Cohen-Weinberger together with Dr. Peter Zilberg of Bar-Ilan University. According to the Assyriologists, the words form a complaint about a delayed payment expected by the Assyrian Empire from the king of Judah.
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Rare First Temple-era Assyrian inscription found in Jerusalem confirms connection with ancient Judah
Historical evidence showing communication between the Assyrian Empire and the king of Judah has been discovered next to the Western Wall during an Israel Antiquities Authority IAA excavation in
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