Glory To Jesus, Honour To Mary! All The Real Catholics Please Stand Up!

LMAO
ebos, in fact i don realise say 'you no well'!!! 

bill me? no probs i can pay now in cedis

billions only, that's chicken feed. when i do you will have trillions to deal with not billions

I believe they get the names of the people who spot them.

Why are republicans such hypocrites?



Thank you, we appreciate that.

Um people I no sabi igbo o, just wan put that one out dere.

Today's Saint

St. Gregory the Great (540?-604) 

Coming events cast their shadows before: Gregory was the prefect of Rome before he was 30. After five years in office he resigned, founded six monasteries on his Sicilian estate and became a Benedictine monk in his own home at Rome.

Ordained a priest, he became one of the pope's seven deacons, and also served six years in the East as papal nuncio in Constantinople. He was recalled to become abbot, and at the age of 50 was elected pope by the clergy and people of Rome.

He was direct and firm. He removed unworthy priests from office, forbade taking money for many services, emptied the papal treasury to ransom prisoners of the Lombards and to care for persecuted Jews and the victims of plague and famine. He was very concerned about the conversion of England, sending 40 monks from his own monastery. He is known for his reform of the liturgy, for strengthening respect for doctrine. Whether he was largely responsible for the revision of "Gregorian" chant is disputed.

Gregory lived in a time of perpetual strife with invading Lombards and difficult relations with the East. When Rome itself was under attack, it was he who went to interview the Lombard king.

An Anglican historian has written: "It is impossible to conceive what would have been the confusion, the lawlessness, the chaotic state of the Middle Ages without the medieval papacy; and of the medieval papacy, the real father is Gregory the Great."

His book, Pastoral Care, on the duties and qualities of a bishop, was read for centuries after his death. He described bishops mainly as physicians whose main duties were preaching and the enforcement of discipline. In his own down-to-earth preaching, Gregory was skilled at applying the daily gospel to the needs of his listeners. Called "the Great," Gregory has been given a place with Augustine, Ambrose and Jerome as one of the four key doctors of the Western Church.

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"Perhaps it is not after all so difficult for a man to part with his possessions, but it is certainly most difficult for him to part with himself. To renounce what one has is a minor thing; but to renounce what one is, that is asking a lot" (St. Gregory, Homilies on the Gospels).
 

I found this interesting.

The Tale of the Cracked Pot

A water bearer had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house.



Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.



After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream.

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"I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you. I have been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts," the pot said.



The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you've watered them.



"For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house."



Moral: Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are, and look for the good in them.



Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. Remember to appreciate all the different people in your life!

Today's Saint

St. Rose of Viterbo (1233-1251) 
 
Rose achieved sainthood in only 18 years of life. Even as a child Rose had a great desire to pray and to aid the poor. While still very young, she began a life of penance in her parents’ house. She was as generous to the poor as she was strict with herself. At the age of 10 she became a Secular Franciscan and soon began preaching in the streets about sin and the sufferings of Jesus.

Viterbo, her native city, was then in revolt against the pope. When Rose took the pope’s side against the emperor, she and her family were exiled from the city. When the pope’s side won in Viterbo, Rose was allowed to return. Her attempt at age 15 to found a religious community failed, and she returned to a life of prayer and penance in her father’s home, where she died in 1251. Rose was canonized in 1457.

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Rose's dying words to her parents were: "I die with joy, for I desire to be united to my God. Live so as not to fear death. For those who live well in the world, death is not frightening, but sweet and precious."
 

hey peeps,
what's kicking?
i've been 'under the table' all day . . . sometimes i just wish i don't have to work! but then, i remember that to work is to pray! abi no bi so!

@lady,
i listened to Gov sarah palin's speech this morning and men i was impressed! in fact, for some minutes i became a republican . . . 
but i mean, she's tight!

carl, you haven't performed today oo as usual, hope notin mega!
 

you are more than right my sis. keep working and remember the thousands who are out of work for a reason or the other.

Oby, that was so beautiful, thank you for that.



Her resume looks good, but when you poke deeper you will find hypocrisy written all over her. I liked her at first and what seh stood for until I realise she i sno different from the others who do the opposite of what they say. She makes the whole abstinence issue look bad. She wants abstinence to be taught in school, yet her underage, unwed daughter is pregnant. All people are saying is look what abstinence talk does, she gives us a bad name.
She is always holding everyone to a higher standard, but she doesn't want to be held to the same standard. It sickens me.
She wants girls and women who get pregnant to keep their children, yet she cut the funding for the program that helps these ladies keep their children.
I don't understand the republican mentality.
The mentality of the republicans sicken me.

I liked her at first but doing my research on her led me to disappointment. I didn't listen to her speech I was at praise and worship at the time, but I heard the commentators talk about her speech, and I hear she dissed community workers. That made me upset, I am a community worker, when things go wrong, I buckle down and volunteer to help make it right, and here she is making fun of the community workers. They said she pissed off a lot of firemen, police officers, and the likes last night.

She needs to be careful dissing Obama on that issue, because it will be detrimental to her. Obama gave up wall street for main street, and he reformed his neighbourhood, and organised community workers and got benefits for them, that is his golden egg. She needs not touch that. It will backfire a lot.


Amen, and a great day to you too.
I got off to a slow start, I missed my first class today 

ehya sorry. hope you have been able to speed up a bit now.

take care.

I hear say Lagosians derived the name “Badagry” when some white men be wan reach agreement for that place, but every agreement they reach turned to be bad agreement.  Na him the white people come say any agreement here na “Bad agree,”  but Lagosians turnam from “Bad agree” to “Badagry.”

please, na true?  Just heard it in Lagos.  I know say una go don hear the story.  Carlosein na you go fit explain better.

Think say u be Lagosian and na only you fit put me clear

Lindiwe or  - all na one and same.   
Me no be a Republican, what's my own with the parties, but i feel McCain is a better candiate.  However, I still wish Obama goodluck.

Today's Saint
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) 

 
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the tiny woman recognized throughout the world for her work among the poorest of the poor, was beatified October 19, 2003. Among those present were hundreds of Missionaries of Charity, the Order she founded in 1950 as a diocesan religious community. Today the congregation also includes contemplative sisters and brothers and an order of priests.

Speaking in a strained, weary voice at the beatification Mass, Pope John Paul II declared her blessed, prompting waves of applause before the 300,000 pilgrims in St. Peter's Square. In his homily, read by an aide for the aging pope, the Holy Father called Mother Teresa “one of the most relevant personalities of our age” and “an icon of the Good Samaritan.” Her life, he said, was “a bold proclamation of the gospel.”

Mother Teresa's beatification, just over six years after her death, was part of an expedited process put into effect by Pope John Paul II. Like so many others around the world, he found her love for the Eucharist, for prayer and for the poor a model for all to emulate.

Born to Albanian parents in what is now Skopje, Macedonia (then part of the Ottoman Empire), Gonxha (Agnes) Bojaxhiu was the youngest of the three children who survived. For a time, the family lived comfortably, and her father's construction business thrived. But life changed overnight following his unexpected death.

During her years in public school Agnes participated in a Catholic sodality and showed a strong interest in the foreign missions. At age 18 she entered the Loreto Sisters of Dublin. It was 1928 when she said goodbye to her mother for the final time and made her way to a new land and a new life. The following year she was sent to the Loreto novitiate in Darjeeling, India. There she chose the name Teresa and prepared for a life of service. She was assigned to a high school for girls in Calcutta, where she taught history and geography to the daughters of the wealthy. But she could not escape the realities around her—the poverty, the suffering, the overwhelming numbers of destitute people.

In 1946, while riding a train to Darjeeling to make a retreat, Sister Teresa heard what she later explained as “a call within a call. The message was clear. I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them.” She also heard a call to give up her life with the Sisters of Loreto and, instead, to “follow Christ into the slums to serve him among the poorest of the poor.”

After receiving permission to leave Loreto, establish a new religious community and undertake her new work, she took a nursing course for several months. She returned to Calcutta, where she lived in the slums and opened a school for poor children. Dressed in a white sari and sandals (the ordinary dress of an Indian woman) she soon began getting to know her neighbors—especially the poor and sick—and getting to know their needs through visits.

The work was exhausting, but she was not alone for long. Volunteers who came to join her in the work, some of them former students, became the core of the Missionaries of Charity. Other helped by donating food, clothing, supplies, the use of buildings. In 1952 the city of Calcutta gave Mother Teresa a former hostel, which became a home for the dying and the destitute. As the Order expanded, services were also offered to orphans, abandoned children, alcoholics, the aging and street people.

For the next four decades Mother Teresa worked tirelessly on behalf of the poor. Her love knew no bounds. Nor did her energy, as she crisscrossed the globe pleading for support and inviting others to see the face of Jesus in the poorest of the poor. In 1979 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On September 5, 1997, God called her home.

QUOTE:
Jesus is the life I want to live, the light I want to reflect, the way to the Father, the love I want to express, the Joy i want share, the Pease I want to sow around me.  Jesus is everything to me.  BLESSED TERESA OF CALCUTTA.
 

No vex o, but na him mak you call me wicked boy?  If say na wicked man, at least, e for sound well 4 my ear. this wicked boy no be yam at all.  I don removam



Wetin be this now?