Oktoberfest September 17-Oct. 3. Raise a stein
to Oktoberfest. This annual, 16-day celebration of all
thing’s beer kicks off in late September in Munich. Can’t make it to Germany?
Bring your taste for brewski to these US Oktoberfest events.
Oktoberfest[1]
Remember no carousing or
drunkenness!!!
Oktoberfest is a 16-day
folk festival celebrated in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is also the
world’s largest Volksfest, which are German events that combine beer festivals with traveling funfairs.
Oktoberfest first emerged on October 12, 1910 when King Ludwig I married
Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Citizens of Munich celebrated the
marriage in fields leading to the city gates. These fields were named
‘Theresienwiese’ in honor of the Princess. The wedding celebrations ended
on October 17th with horse races and until 1960, horse races were held
annually. Eventually, carnivals, amusement rides, food booths, beer tents and
parades were all added to the celebrations. Today, Oktoberfest is still held
annually at the Theresienwiese fairgrounds in Munich although there are no
longer any horse races. Oktoberfest celebrations have also spread
globally, becoming synonymous with beer and German culture. This festival
usually starts on the third weekend of September and ends on the first weekend
of October.
Oktoberfest Facts
·
According to tradition, beer tents at the
Oktoberfest can only sell beer that has been brewed in Munich. The beer
has to adhere to the Bavarian Purity Requirements called Reinheitsgebot.
The six breweries allowed at the Oktoberfest include:
1) Augustiner
2) Hacker Pschorr
3) Hofbräu
4) Löwenbräu
5) Paulaner
6) Spaten
·
Since Oktoberfest is still held on the
Theresienweise, locals refer to Oktoberfest as Wies'n.
·
Beer served at the Oktoberfest is poured in mugs
called Maß. A Maß is made of clear glass, so that the consumer can see
whether the Maß is full or not. Maß also contains a calibration mark to
which beer must be filled and the calibration mark has to amount to 1-liter.
If a Maß is not completely filled, or the calibration mark falls below
the true 1 liter position, or if there is no calibration mark, then the seller
can be prosecuted for committing fraud. Verein gegen betrügerisches
Einschenken is a Munich-based organization that monitors whether glasses
are being completely filled or not.
·
Traditional German clothing for Oktoberfest
includes a Sennerhut. Sennerhut is a woollen hat that may have symbols of
a person’s hometown, or is embroidered with bright flowers. For a measure
of good luck, some people add goat hair on the hat. Men traditionally
wear Lederhosen, which are leather breeches, while women wear Dirndl. A
dirndl is a dress that consists of a bodice, blouse, skirt and apron.
·
In 2015, 5,900,000 visitors attended Oktoberfest
in Munich, Germany. Approximately 7.3 million liters of beer was consumed
and the average 1-litre mug of beer cost approximately 10.22 euros ($12).
Oktoberfest Top Events and Things
to Do
·
Attend the real Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany.
·
Try the only beer that adheres to Bavarian
Purity Requirements (Reinheitsgebot), and which is sold at the
Oktoberfest, including:
1) Augustiner
2) Hacker Pschorr
3) Hofbräu
4) Löwenbräu
5) Paulaner
6) Spaten
·
Try traditional Oktoberfest food:
1) Bavarian Brez’n, a soft pretzel that is served with sausage and mustards
2) Sausages including Bratwurst, Weisswurst, or Currywurst
3) Slow roasted ox
4) Rotisserie chicken
5) Schweinshaxe which is a pickled ham served with sauerkraut and mashed
potatoes
·
Celebrate Oktoberfest at beer gardens in the
United States. Here are some recommendations:
1) Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2) Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan
3) Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California
4) Fremont Brewing Company in Seattle, Washington
5) Draught House Pub & Brewery in Austin, Texas
6) Frankford Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
7) Radegast Hall & Biergarten in Brooklyn, New York
8) Cisco Brewers in Nantucket, Massachusetts
9) Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens in San Diego, California
10) Der Biergarten in Atlanta, Georgia
11) Rhein Haus in Seattle, Washington
12) Wurstküche in Los Angeles, California
Host an
Oktoberfest party. Try different German beers and Oktoberfest dishes
including sausages and soft pretzels and even dress up in traditional
Oktoberfest clothing called Tracht , including a dirndl for women
and a lederhosen for men
ST. HILDEGARDE-CONSTITUTION DAY
2 Corinthians, chapter 12, verse 20-21
20 For I FEAR that when I come I may find you not such as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish; that there may be rivalry, jealousy, fury, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder. 21 I fear that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and licentiousness they practiced.
In the gospel Christ warns us much like Paul. Jesus said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes and accept greetings in the marketplaces, seats of honor in synagogues, and places of honor at banquets. They devour the houses of widows and, as a pretext, recite lengthy prayers. They will receive a very severe condemnation.”
Although Paul exhorts the Corinthians, but I can hear Christ saying this same warning to modern man; the same warning has been repeated by Mary at Fatima. Change your hearts.
Pure hearts want to live the Shema Yisrael which Christ Himself practiced:
Hear, O
Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; and you shall love the Lord your God
with all your Heart, and with all your soul, and with your entire mind, and
with all your strength.
Strengthening
the mind, heart and soul[1]
Dr. Daniel Amen a noted Psychiatrist tells us; our thoughts are often negative and seem to at times come automatically severely limiting a person’s ability to enjoy his or her life. How you think “moment-by-moment” plays a large role in how you feel (a deep limbic system function). Negative thoughts may cause you to feel internal discomfort or pain and they often cause you to behave in ways that alienate you from other people. Hopeful thoughts, on the other hand, influence positive behaviors and lead people to feel good about themselves and be more effective in their day-to-day lives. Hopeful thoughts also are involved in helping people connect with others. Healing the deep limbic system requires a person to heal their moment-to-moment thought patterns. Most people do not understand how important thoughts are and leave the development of thought patterns to random chance. Did you know that every thought you have sends electrical signals throughout your brain? Thoughts have actual physical properties. They are real! They have significant influence on every cell in your body. When your mind is burdened with many negative thoughts, it affects your deep limbic system and causes deep limbic problems (irritability, moodiness, depression, etc.). Teaching yourself to control and direct thoughts in a positive way is one of the most effective ways to feel better. Here are the actual step-by-step “thinking” principles that I use in my psychotherapy practice to help my patients heal their deep limbic systems.
STEP #1 KNOW that every time you have a thought,
your brain releases chemicals. That’s how our brain works…you have a thought,
your brain releases chemicals, an electrical transmission goes across your
brain and you become aware of what you’re thinking. Thoughts are real, and they
have a real impact on how you feel and how you behave.
STEP #2 Every time you have an angry
thought, an unkind thought, a sad thought, or a cranky thought, your brain
releases negative chemicals that make your body feel bad (and activate your
deep limbic system). Think about the last time you were mad. How did your body
feel? When most people are angry their muscles become tense, their hearts beat
faster, their hands start to sweat, and they may even begin to feel a little
dizzy. Your body reacts to every negative thought you have.
STEP #3 Every time you have a good thought,
a happy thought, a hopeful thought or a kind thought, your brain releases
chemicals that make your body feel good (and cools your deep limbic system).
Think about the last time you had a really happy thought. How did you feel
inside your body? When most people are happy their muscles relax, their hearts
beat slower, their hands become dry and they breathe slower. Your body also
reacts to your good thoughts.
STEP #4 Your body reacts to every thought
you have. We know this from polygraphs or lie detector tests. During a lie
detector test, a person is hooked up to equipment that measures: hand
temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, muscle tension and how
much the hands sweat. The tester then asks questions, like “Did you do that
thing?” If the person did the bad thing his body is likely to have a “stress”
response and it is likely to react in the following ways: hands get colder,
heart goes faster, blood pressure goes up, breathing gets faster, muscles get
tight and hands sweat more. Almost immediately, his body reacts to what he
thinks, whether he says anything or not. Remember, the deep limbic system is
responsible for translating our emotional state into physical feelings of
relaxation or tension. Now the opposite is also true. If he did not do the
thing the tester asked about it is likely that his body will experience a
“relaxation” response and react in the following ways: hands will become
warmer, heart rate will slow, blood pressure goes down, breathing becomes
slower and deeper, muscles become more relaxed and hands become drier. Again,
almost immediately, your body reacts to what you think. This not only happens
when you’re asked about telling the truth, your body reacts to every thought
you have, whether it is about work, friends, family or anything else.
STEP #5 Thoughts are very powerful. They
can make your mind and your body feel good or they can make you feel bad. Every
cell in your body is affected by every thought you have. That is why when
people get emotionally upset, they actually develop physical symptoms, such as
headaches or stomach aches. Some physicians think that people who have a lot of
negative thoughts are more likely to get cancer. If you can think about good
things you will feel better. Think of your body like an “ecosystem.” An
ecosystem contains everything in the environment like the water, the land, the
cars, the people, the animals, the vegetation, the houses, the landfills, etc.
A negative thought is like pollution to your system.
STEP #6 Unless you think about your
thoughts they are automatic or “they just happen.” Since they just happen, they
are not necessarily correct. Your thoughts do not always tell the truth.
Sometimes they even lie to you. I once treated a college student who thought he
was stupid, because he didn’t do well on tests. When his IQ (intelligence
level) was tested, however, we discovered that he was close to a genius! You
don’t have to believe every thought that goes through your head. It’s important to think about your thoughts
to see if they help you or they hurt you. Unfortunately, if you never challenge
your thoughts you just “believe them” as if they were true.
STEP #7 You can train your thoughts to be
positive and hopeful or you can just allow them to be negative and upset you.
Once you learn about your thoughts, you can choose to think good thoughts and
feel good or you can choose to think bad thoughts and feel lousy. That’s right,
it’s up to you! You can learn how to change your thoughts and you can learn to
change the way you feel. One way to learn how to change your thoughts is to
notice them when they are negative and talk back to them. If you can correct
negative thoughts, you take away their power over you. When you just think a negative
thought without challenging it, your mind believes it and your body reacts to
it.
STEP #8 As I mentioned above, negative
thoughts are mostly automatic or they “just happen.” That is why I call these
thoughts “Automatic Negative Thoughts” or ANTs. Think of these negative
thoughts that invade your mind like ants that bother a couple at a picnic. One
negative thought, like one ant at a picnic, is not a big problem. Two or three
negative thoughts, like two or three ants at a picnic, becomes more irritating.
Ten or twenty negative thoughts, like ten or twenty ants at a picnic, may cause
the couple to pick up and leave the picnic. Whenever you notice these automatic
negative thoughts or ANTs you need to crush them, or they’ll ruin your
relationships, your self-esteem and your personal power. One way to crush these
ANTs is to write them down and talk back to them. For example, if you think,
“My husband never listens to me,” write it down. Then write down a rational
response; something like “He’s not listening to me now, maybe he’s distracted
by something else. He often listens to me.” When you write down negative
thoughts and talk back to them, you take away their power and help yourself
feel better. Some people tell me they have trouble talking back to these negative
thoughts because they feel that they are lying to themselves. Initially, they
believe that the thoughts that go through their mind are the truth. Remember,
thoughts sometimes lie to you. It’s important
to check them out before you just believe them!
Here are nine different ways that your thoughts lie to you
to make situations out to be worse than they really are. Think of these nine
ways as different species or types of ANTs (automatic negative thoughts). When
you can identify the type of ANT, you begin to take away the power it has over
you. I have designated some of these ANTs as red, because these ANTs are
particularly harmful to you. Notice and exterminate ANTs whenever possible.
ANT #1: “Always or Never Thinking” This happens when
you think something that happened will “always” repeat itself. For example, if
your partner is irritable and she gets upset you might think to yourself,
“She’s always yelling at me,” even though she yells only once in a while. But
just the thought “She’s always yelling at me” is so negative that it makes you
feel sad and upset. It activates your limbic system. Whenever you think in
words like always, never, no one, everyone, every time, everything those are
examples of “always” thinking and usually wrong. Here are some examples of
“always” thinking: “He’s always putting me down.” “No one will ever call me.”
“I’ll never get a raise.” “Everyone takes advantage of me.” “You turn away
every time I touch you.”
“My children never listen to me.” “Always thinking” ANTs are very common. Watch
out for them.
ANT #2 (red
ANT): “Focusing on the Negative” This occurs when your thoughts only see
the bad in a situation and ignore any of the good parts that might happen. For
example, I have treated several professional speakers for depression. After
their presentations they had the audience fill out an evaluation form. If l00
of them were returned and 2 of them were terrible, but 90 of them were
outstanding, which ones do you think they focused on? Only the negative ones! I
taught them to focus on the ones they liked a lot more than the ones they
didn’t like. It’s important to learn
from others, but in a balanced, positive way. Your deep limbic system can learn
a powerful lesson from the Disney movie, “Pollyanna.” In the movie, Pollyanna
came to live with her aunt after her missionary parents died. Even though she
had lost her parents she was able to help many “negative people” with her
attitude. She introduced them to the “glad game,” to look for things to be glad
about in any situation. Her father had taught her this game after she
experienced a disappointment. She had always wanted a doll, but her parents
never had enough money to buy it for her. Her father sent a request for a
second-hand doll to his missionary sponsors. By mistake, they sent her a pair
of crutches. “What is there to be glad about crutches?” they thought. Then they
decided they could be glad because they didn’t have to use them. This very
simple game changed the attitudes and lives of many people in the movie.
Pollyanna especially affected the minister. Before she came to town he preached
hellfire and damnation, and he did not seem to be very happy. Pollyanna told
him that her father said that the Bible had 800 “Glad Passages,” and that if
God mentioned being glad that many times, it must be because He wants us to
think that way. Focusing on the negative in situations will make you feel bad.
Playing the glad game or looking for the positive will help you feel better.
ANT #3 (red ANT): “Fortune Telling” This is where
you predict the worst possible outcome to a situation. For example, before you
discuss an important issue with your partner you predict that he or she won’t
be interested in what you have to say. Just having this thought will make you
feel tense. I call “fortune telling” red ANTs because when you predict bad
things you can make them happen.
ANT #4 (red ANT): “Mind Reading” This happens when
you believe that you know what another person is thinking even when they
haven’t told you. Mind reading is a common cause of trouble between people. I
tell my wife, “Please don’t read my mind, I have enough trouble reading it
myself!” You know that you are mind reading when you have thoughts such as,
“She’s mad at me. He doesn’t like me. They were talking about me.” I tell
people that a negative look from someone else may be nothing more than they are
constipated! You don’t know. You can’t read anyone else’s mind. You never know what others are really
thinking. Even in intimate relationships, you cannot read your partner’s mind.
When there are things you don’t understand, clarify them and stay away from
mind reading ANTs. They are very infectious.
ANT #5: “Thinking with Your Feelings” This occurs
when you believe your negative feelings without ever questioning them. Feelings
are very complex, and, often based on powerful memories from the past. Feelings
sometimes lie to you. Feelings are not about truth. They are about feelings.
But many people believe their feelings even though they have no evidence for
them. “Thinking with your feelings” thoughts usually start with the words “I
feel.” For example, “I feel like you don’t love me. I feel stupid. I feel like
a failure. I feel nobody will ever trust me.” Whenever you have a strong
negative feeling, check it out. Look for the evidence behind the feeling. Do
you have real reasons to feel that way? Or, are your feelings based on events
or things from the past?
ANT #6: “Guilt Beatings” Guilt is not a helpful
emotion, especially for your deep limbic system. In fact, guilt often causes
you to do those things that you don’t want to do. Guilt beatings happen when
you think with words like “should, must, ought or have to.” Here are some examples:
“I ought to spend more time at home. I must spend more time with my kids. I
should have sex more often. I have to organize my office.” Because of human
nature, whenever we think that we “must” do something, no matter what it is, we
don’t want to do it. It is better to replace “guilt beatings” with phrases like
“I want to do this…It fits with my goals to do that…It would be helpful to do
this….” So, in the examples above, it would be helpful to change those phrases
to “I want to spend more time at home. It’s in our best interest for my kids
and I to spend more time together. I want to please my spouse by making
wonderful love with him (or her) because he (or she) is important to me. It’s in my best interest to organize my office.”
Get rid of this unnecessary emotional turbulence that holds you back from
achieving the goals you want.
ANT #7: “Labeling” Whenever you attach a negative
label to yourself or to someone else, you stop your ability to take a clear
look at the situation. Some examples of negative labels that people use are
“jerk, frigid, arrogant and irresponsible.” Negative labels are very harmful,
because whenever you call yourself or someone else a jerk or arrogant you lump
that person in your mind with all of the “jerks” or “arrogant people” that
you’ve ever known, and you become unable to deal with them in a reasonable way.
Stay away from negative labels.
ANT #8: “Personalization” Personalization occurs
when innocuous events are taken to have personal meaning. “My boss didn’t talk
to me this morning. She must be mad at me.” Or, one feels he or she is the
cause of all the bad things that happen, “My son got into an accident with the
car. I should have spent more time teaching him to drive. It must be my fault.”
There are many other reasons for behavior besides the negative explanations an
abnormal limbic system picks out. For example, your boss may not have talked to
you because she was preoccupied, upset or in a hurry. You never fully know why
people do what they do. Try not to personalize their behavior.
ANT #9 (the most poisonous red ANT): “Blame” Blame
is very harmful. When you blame something or someone else for the problems in
your life, you become a victim of circumstances and you cannot do anything to
change your situation. Many relationships are ruined by people who blame their
partners when things go wrong. They take little responsibility for their
problems. When something goes wrong at home or at work, they try to find
someone to blame. They rarely admit their own problems. Typically, you’ll hear
statements from them like: “It wasn’t my fault that….” “That wouldn’t have
happened if you had….” “How was I supposed to know….” “It’s your fault that….”
The bottom line statement goes something like this: “If only you had done
something differently, I wouldn’t be in the predicament I’m in. It’s your
fault, and I’m not responsible.” Whenever you blame someone else for the
problems in your life, you become powerless to change anything. The “Blame
Game” hurts your personal sense of power. Stay away from blaming thoughts and
take personal responsibility to change the problems you have.
Summary of A.N.T. Species:
- “Always”
thinking: thinking in words like always, never, no one, everyone, every
time, everything.
- Focusing
on the negative: only seeing the bad in a situation.
- Fortune
telling: predicting the worst possible outcome to a situation.
- Mind
reading: believing that you know what another person is thinking, even
though they haven’t told you.
- Thinking
with your feelings: believing negative feelings without ever questioning
them.
- Guilt
beatings: thinking in words like “should, must, ought or have to.”
- Labeling:
attaching a negative label to yourself or to someone else.
- Personalization:
innocuous events are taken to have personal
meaning.
- Blame:
blaming someone else for your own problems.
Selichot[2]
Selichot
(Hebrew: סליחות)
means 'sorry/forgiveness prayers'. Selichot are recited from the Sunday
before the Jewish New Year until the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).
Selichot are aimed for both the individual and communities to atone their
sins between man and God. They are intended for Jews to reflect on their
actions of the past year and to refrain from committing the same sins in the
next New Year.
Selichot
Facts
· For many Orthodox Jews, Selichot prayers
are added to the daily cycle of religious services. Selichot are recited
before normal daily shacharit (morning prayers) service. They add about
45 minutes to the regular daily service in a typical service.
· A fundamental part of selichot
service is the repeated recitation of the Thirteen Attributes, a list of God's
thirteen attributes of mercy that were revealed to Moses after the sin of the
golden calf (Ex 34:6-7): Ha-shem [1], Ha-shem [2], God [3], merciful [4], and
gracious [5], long-suffering [6], abundant in goodness [7] and truth [8],
keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation [9], forgiving iniquity [10] and
transgression [11] and sin [12], who cleanses [13].
· This is the season to begin the
process of asking forgiveness for wrongs done to other people. According
to Jewish tradition, God cannot forgive us for sins committed against another
person until we have first obtained forgiveness from the person we have
wronged.
· Many of the Selichot prayers are in
the form of a main Selichah (forgiveness) prayer and a Pizmon (chorus), which
is repeated after each changing Selichah prayer. Some of these Selichot have
cantorial music for the Selichah and a repeating tune for the chorus.
Selichot
Top Events and Things to Do
· Consider your position in life and
ask God for forgiveness. Use this time to reset your daily habits and think how
to change them to the better.
· Use this period of time to forgive
others and as well as ask others for forgiveness. This is often most difficult
to do between life partners, parents and children.
· Many people visit cemeteries at
this time, because the awe-inspiring nature of this time makes us reflect on
our own life, death, and mortality. Consider visiting the graves of your
ancestors, soldiers, or anyone who may have made a positive impact on society.
· Attend to a Selichot prayer
ceremony or watch one on YouTube. A popular Selichot rendition is by Yitzchak Meir Helfgot.
Preaching God's Forgiveness[3]
Much has been written about the great challenges the Church
faces in contemporary culture. The great modern "isms" confront a us
daily—relativism, individualism, and consumerism, to name a few.
·
″Relativism holds that absolute truth and
enduring values are illusory.
·
″Individualism gives "strong
emphasis [to] the individual and individual choice, which often eclipses the
sense of community or of the common good."
·
″Consumerism puts "focus on material
satisfaction to the detriment of spiritual values".
Given this cultural climate, it is hardly surprising that
there is a lack of a sense of sin and a dropping rate of participation in
Church life. In fact, the heart of every person in Christ must be about the
heart of Jesus Christ, and the central mystery of his life, the Paschal
Mystery: "The person and mission of Jesus, culminated in his Death and
Resurrection, this is ultimately the central content of all the
Scriptures". People of God can understand their own lives properly and be
able to see their own experience in the light of the Death and Resurrection of
Jesus". In a culture often dominated by relativism, individualism, and
consumerism, the proclamation of the salvation of Christ is truly Good News. It
allows people to see there is another way; it paves the way for conversion; it
brings hope. God can open up a space in the human heart, a space that he alone
can fill. Christ is about calling persons back to fruitful participation in the
Sacrament of Penance, especially if it has been years since their last confession.
St. Hildegarde[4]
Called the "Sibyl of the Rhine," Hildegard of Bingen became the most
famous mystic and prophet of her time. Her writings and music are still found
in all major bookstores, and no woman saint is more popular in her native
Germany. When she was eight, she was placed in a convent, where she later
became abbess. She was a biblical exegete, visionary, preacher, composer, and
herbalist, who corresponded with the major royalty and church leaders of her
day, including four popes. Her greatest vision came when she was forty-two,
which is recorded in her famous Scrivias, or Know the Ways of the Lord,
a treatise whose magnificence rivals William Blake's visionary work.
Hildegard's spiritual writings found approval during her lifetime, and her
lectures on the spiritual life drew crowds from all over Europe. She wrote
prolifically, on topics as varied as history and drama, politics and liturgical
poetry. Her monastery joyfully sang the praises she wrote. During the last year
of her life, when she was eighty-one, she entered into a conflict with
ecclesiastical authorities because she allowed a young man who had been
excommunicated to be buried in her abbey cemetery, and her convent was placed
under interdict. It is probably that, for this reason, Hildegard was never
formally canonized, although she is found in all major saints' books and her
cult was approved locally because of so many miracles reported at her tomb.
— Excerpted from Women
Saints, Madonna Sophia Compton
Things to Do:
·
Learn
more about St.
Hildegarde.
·
Visit
Hildegard's
Medieval Garden
·
St.
Hildegard was a composer, visit this page to read more.
· Read St. Hildegard of Bingen: A Visionary for All Time
Constitution Day[5]
Constitution Day commemorates the adoption of the United States Constitution and celebrates the citizens of the United States. The Constitution was written because the existing charter of government, known as the Articles of Confederation, had resulted in creating a weak and ineffective central government. The Constitution defines the supreme law of the United States, with each article of the constitution pertaining to aspects such as the congress, president, judicial system, interrelationship between the state and federal government and process of amendments to the Constitution. James Madison, Oliver Ellsworth, Nathaniel Gorham, Alexander Hamilton, William Johnson, Rufus King, Gouverneur Morris, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington wrote the Constitution. Constitution Day originally began in 1939 with the suggestion of a holiday to celebrate American Citizenship. President Harry Truman then declared that the third Sunday of May become I am American Day. A decade later, 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower changed the date to coincide with the signing of the Constitution and renamed it Citizenship Day. Constitution or Citizenship Day is observed annually on September 17th, the same day as the US Constitution was signed in 1787.
Constitution Day Top Events and Things to Do
·
To learn more about judicial system, read the
Constitution of the United States. The Constitution
is only a few pages in length and well-organized.
·
Visit the National Museum of American History to
view displays about the heritage of the United States. Displays include those
related to the political, social, cultural, scientific and military history of
the United States, including the Constitution. The museum is located in
Washington D.C.
·
The United States Declaration of Independence
and the United States Constitution were debated and accepted at the floors of
Independence Hall, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Visit Independence
National Historical Park in Philadelphia, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage
Site.
·
Visit the National Constitution Center in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It offers a range of activities for kids and
adults, videos and educational
material about the U.S. Constitution.
·
Watch documentaries relating to the United
States Constitution including Constitution USA with Peter Sagal
(2013), The Constitution Project (The Documentary Group, 2014),
and The United States Constitution (2007).
Catechism
of the Catholic Church
PART TWO: THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN MYSTERY
SECTION TWO-THE SEVEN SACRAMENTS OF THE CHURCH
Article 7-THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
II. The Celebration of Marriage
1621 In
the Latin Rite the celebration of marriage between two Catholic faithful
normally takes place during Holy Mass, because of the connection of all the
sacraments with the Paschal mystery of Christ. In the Eucharist the
memorial of the New Covenant is realized, the New Covenant in which Christ has
united himself for ever to the Church, his beloved bride for whom he gave
himself up. It is therefore fitting that the spouses should seal their
consent to give themselves to each other through the offering of their own
lives by uniting it to the offering of Christ for his Church made present in
the Eucharistic sacrifice, and by receiving the Eucharist so that,
communicating in the same Body and the same Blood of Christ, they may form but
"one body" in Christ.
1622
"Inasmuch as it is a sacramental action of sanctification, the liturgical
celebration of marriage . . . must be, per se, valid, worthy, and
fruitful." It is therefore appropriate for the bride and groom to
prepare themselves for the celebration of their marriage by receiving the
sacrament of penance.
1623 In
the Latin Church, it is ordinarily understood that the spouses, as ministers of
Christ's grace, mutually confer upon each other the sacrament of Matrimony by
expressing their consent before the Church. In the Eastern liturgies the
minister of this sacrament (which is called "Crowning") is the priest
or bishop who, after receiving the mutual consent of the spouses, successively
crowns the bridegroom and the bride as a sign of the marriage covenant.
1624 The
various liturgies abound in prayers of blessing and epiclesis asking God's
grace and blessing on the new couple, especially the bride. In the epiclesis of
this sacrament the spouses receive the Holy Spirit as the communion of love of
Christ and the Church. The Holy Spirit is the seal of their covenant, the
ever available source of their love and the strength to renew their fidelity.
Daily
Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: Individuals
with Mental Illness
· Saturday Litany of the Hours
Invoking the Aid of Mother Mary
·
Religion
in the Home for Preschool: September
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
[3]http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/how-we-teach/catechesis/catechetical-sunday/sacramental-forgiveness/for-the-pastor-guthrie.cfm
[4]https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2020-09-17
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