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Tomorrow is International Mermaid Day
o
Sad is the world
that believes in Mermaids but refuses to believe in the Resurrection. Most
people believe what they want and are Not In Church (NIC).
Something on A Stick Day[3]
No, we are not talking about mops or brooms (although we are very thankful for them, of course!) but Something on A Stick Day is all about celebrating foods we love to eat – that just happen to come on a stick! Who doesn’t love relaxed finger food that you can pick up by the stick and eat? So, whether it’s a toffee apple, camp-fire sausage, cheese cubes on a toothpick, ice cream bar, lollipop or other lovely treats, feel free to indulge in them on this day! Or why not try the favorite American food on a stick if you can – the famous corn dog? What about planning an entire meal of a starter, main course and dessert all on sticks? Easy, informal, and fun – and very little cleaning up to do afterwards! What a great theme for a dinner party to have on Something on a Stick Day!
Shaslik[4]
Is a traditional seasoned grilled meat on a stick for the Feast of St. Bart. While stationed in Belgium many years ago with my young daughter Nicole there were none of the American fast food places in close vicinity, but there were frites stands. Nicole loved Belgium frites, which are “French Fries” with an attitude. We used to joke that someday we will open our own Frite stand and on the placard, we would proudly proclaim the name of our stand, “DICK AND NIC’S FRITES AND SHASLIKS”.
NIC’s Corner
Taste and see that the LORD is good;
blessed is the stalwart one who takes refuge in him.
. (Psalm 34:9)
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· Get an indulgence
Nehemiah's a Hebrew
cupbearer to Artaxerxes, who allows him to return to Jerusalem to help set
things in order and rebuild the city. Gentile leaders from different provinces
(specifically, leaders of the Ammonites, Samaritans, and Arabs) try to derail
the rebuilding project, but thanks to some military readiness, Nehemiah and his
workers successfully speed-build the walls of the city. After this, Nehemiah
reads the riot act to Israelite officials and nobles who have been oppressing
the poor, charging ridiculous interest on loans, and forcing the people to pawn
their land in order to eat. He successfully evades charges of rebellion against
the Persian king drummed up by his enemies, and has Ezra give everyone a crash
course on the Laws of Moses. The surviving Jews return from exile to repopulate
Jerusalem, and Nehemiah—who's come back from a trip to the Persian capital in
Susa—shapes up the backsliding Jews, breaks up more interfaith marriages, and
saves the day. And he's the first to admit it.
MARCH
28 Friday of the third week of
Lent
Nehemiah, Chapter 2, Verse 1-3
1 In
the month Nisan of the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when the wine was in
my charge, I took some and offered it to the king. Because I had never before
been sad in his presence, 2 the king asked me, “Why do you look
sad? If you are not sick, you must be sad at heart.” Though I was seized with
great FEAR, 3
I answered the king: “May the king live forever! How
could I not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins,
and its gates consumed by fire?”
Here
the God of God’s moves the heart of a great and powerful King toward Nehemiah
like He did with Joseph the many years before when he was sold into slavery by
his brothers. Our God is a God of love and life and desires only to nurture our
souls.
25 Ways to Nurture Your Soul[1]
1.
Take walks in nature and notice everything.
2.
Engage in creative art eg. create a scrapbook from your favorite photos.
3.
Sing in the shower, the car, the bedroom, anywhere!
4.
Listen to soothing music.
5.
Put on some music and dance.
6.
Read a good fictional book.
7.
Savor every bite of your meal.
8.
Meditate in serene surroundings.
9.
Soak in a bubble bath. Today is Nation
Hot tub day.
10.
Go on a relaxing vacation.
11.
Bake a cake.
12.
Visit a museum or an art gallery.
13.
Watch a comedy. Laugh!
14.
Write poetry.
15.
Do a random act of kindness.
16.
Daydream.
17.
Play the violin or any musical instrument.
18.
Connect with your romantic partner via an engaging conversation over tea.
19.
Connect with God.
20.
Make peace with the person you just fought with.
21.
Volunteer your services to a non-profit organization and not just via a
monetary donation.
22.
Play with your kids.
23.
Journal or write creatively.
24.
Say yes to a new adventure!
25. Find every reason to celebrate and feel the joy when you do!
Friday of the third week of Lent
Prayer.
LOOK down on our fasts, we
beseech Thee, O Lord, with merciful favor, that, as we abstain from food in
body, so we may fast from vice in mind. Amen.
EPISTLE. Numbers xx. 2-13.
In those days, the children of Israel
came together against Moses and Aaron: and making a sedition, they said: Would
God we had perished among our brethren before the Lord. Why have you brought
out the Church of the Lord into the wilderness, that both we and our cattle
should die? Why have you made us come up out of Egypt, and have brought us into
this wretched place which cannot be sowed, nor bringeth forth figs, nor vines,
nor pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink? And Moses and Aaron
leaving the multitude, went into the tabernacle of the covenant, and fell flat
upon the ground, and cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord God, hear the cry of
this people, and open to them Thy treasure, a fountain of living water, that
being satisfied they may cease to murmur. And the glory of the Lord appeared
over them. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Take the rod, and assemble the
people together, thon and Aaron thy brother, and speak to the rock before them,
and it shall yield waters. And when thou hast brought forth water out of the
rock, all the multitude and their cattle shall drink. Moses therefore took the
rod, which was before the Lord, as He had commanded him. And having gathered
together the multitude before the rock, he said to them: Hear, ye rebellious
and incredulous: Can we bring you forth water out of this rock? And when Moses
had lifted up his hand, and struck the rock twice with the rod, there came
forth water in great abundance, so that the people and their cattle drank. And
the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: Because you have not believed Me, to sanctify
Me before the children of Israel, you shall not bring these
people into the land which I will give them. This is the water of
contradiction, where the children of Israel strove with words against the Lord,
and He was sanctified in them.
GOSPEL.
At that time Jesus came to a city of Samaria which is called Sichar; near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with His journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus Him: saith to her: Give Me to drink. For His disciples were gone into the city to buy meats. Then that Samaritan woman saith to How dost Thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans. Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and Who He is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water. The woman saith to Him: Sir, Thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep:
from whence then hast Thou living water?
Art Thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus answered, and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again; but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him shall not thirst forever: but the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water springing up into life everlasting. The woman saith to Him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw. Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, I have no husband: for thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly. The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that Thou art a prophet. Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore. Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe Me, that the hour cometh when you shall neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem adore the Father. You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore Him. God is a spirit, and they that adore Him must adore Him in spirit and in truth. The woman saith to Him: I know that the Messias cometh (Who is called Christ): therefore when He is come, He will tell us all things. Jesus saith to her: I am He Who am speaking with thee. And immediately His disciples came: and they wondered that He talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest Thou, or why talkest Thou with her? The woman therefore left her water-pot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there: Come, and see a man Who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not He the Christ?
They went therefore out of the city, and came unto Him. In the
meantime, the disciples prayed Him, saying: Rabbi, eat. But He said to them: I
have meat to eat which you know not. The disciples therefore said one to
another: Hath any man brought Him to eat? Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do
the will of Him that sent Me, that I may perfect His work. Do not you say.
there are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold I say to you,
lift up your eyes, and see the countries, for they are white already to
harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
For in this is the saying true: that it is one man that soweth, and it is another
that reapeth. I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labor, others
have labored, and you have entered into their Now of that city many of the
Samaritans believed in Him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told
me all things whatsoever I have done. So when the Samaritans were come to Him,
they desired Him that He would tarry there. And He abode there two days. And
many more believed in Him because of His own word. And they said to the woman:
We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard Him, and know
that this is indeed the Savior of the world.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Day
285 2201-2206
PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST
SECTION TWO-THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
CHAPTER
TWO-YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF
ARTICLE 4-THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT
I. The Family in God's Plan
The nature of the family
2201 The
conjugal community is established upon the consent of the spouses. Marriage and
the family are ordered to the good of the spouses and to the procreation and
education of children. The love of the spouses and the begetting of children
create among members of the same family personal relationships and primordial
responsibilities.
2202 A man and
a woman united in marriage, together with their children, form a family. This
institution is prior to any recognition by public authority, which has an
obligation to recognize it. It should be considered the normal reference point
by which the different forms of family relationship are to be evaluated.
2203 In
creating man and woman, God instituted the human family and endowed it with its
fundamental constitution. Its members are persons equal in dignity. For the
common good of its members and of society, the family necessarily has manifold
responsibilities, rights, and duties.
The Christian family
2204 "The
Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial
communion, and for this reason it can and should be called a domestic
church." It is a community of faith, hope, and charity; it assumes
singular importance in the Church, as is evident in the New Testament.
2205 The
Christian family is a communion of persons, a sign and image of the communion
of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit. In the procreation and education
of children it reflects the Father's work of creation. It is called to partake
of the prayer and sacrifice of Christ. Daily prayer and the reading of the Word
of God strengthen it in charity. the Christian family has an evangelizing and
missionary task.
2206 The
relationships within the family bring an affinity of feelings, affections and
interests, arising above all from the members' respect for one another. The
family is a privileged community called to achieve a "sharing of thought
and common deliberation by the spouses as well as their eager cooperation as
parents in the children's upbringing."
Fitness Friday-Cardio[2]
Recognizing that God, the Father created man on Friday the 6th day
I propose in this blog to have an entry that shares on how to recreate and
renew yourself in strength, mind, soul and heart.
Is interval training more effective than steady-state cardio
training for fat loss?
·
Exercise combined with diet modifications has been shown to
be more effective than either alone for promoting weight loss.
·
Establishing exercise habits during the weight loss phase can help
prevent weight regain and yo-yo dieting down the road. One of the most
common excuses for lack of exercise is a lack of time.
·
These results show that the type of cardio performed for fat loss
(intervals vs. steady state) probably doesn’t matter as much as the number of
calories burned in the exercise session. Moreover, the overall amount of fat
loss is small.
·
Focus should be placed on how the exercise session impacts other
areas of life, such as appetite, food intake, and leisure-time physical
activity.
·
Focus should also be placed on whether you can see yourself
sticking with your chosen exercise modality for the long-term.
·
Exercise may not be all that for fat loss, but it certainly
impacts fitness and health improvement. As such, all forms of exercise should
be encouraged despite their relatively minimal contribution to fat loss.
·
Strength training is especially important for developing lean body
mass.
·
High-intensity training such as interval endurance training
appears to be more effective at reducing inflammation and increasing insulin
sensitivity than lower-intensity training such as steady-state cardio.
Evidence has shown that exercise has additional benefits on health that warrant its inclusion in daily life, such as reducing inflammation and increasing insulin sensitivity. Moreover, high-intensity exercise appears to be more effective than lower intensity exercise at inducing these beneficial changes, which might be one reason to prefer interval training over steady-state even if fat loss would be similar. Ultimately, though, adherence is key. Thus, enjoyment and personal preferences when it comes to exercise are what’s most important
PRAYERS AND TEACHINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Great Commandment
The
Ten Commandments are fulfilled in Jesus' Great Commandment: “You shall
love...God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and
with all your strength.... You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mark
12:30-31)
The New Commandment
Before
his death on the cross, Jesus gave his disciples a new commandment: “Love one
another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another” (John
13:34).
Daily
Devotions
·
Unite in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: Binding and
suppressing the Devils Evil Works
·
Litany of the Most Precious
Blood of Jesus
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Make
reparations to the Holy Face
[1] https://www.evelynlim.com/25-ways-to-nurture-your-soul/
[2]https://examine.com/nutrition/be-the-tortoise-or-the-hare-it-doesnt-matter-for-fat-loss/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blog-101717
[3]https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/something-on-a-stick-day/
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