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This is the Liturgy of the Word from today’s Mass at EWTN.

At daily Mass, there are two readings from the Bible separated by a Responsorial Psalm. On Sundays, there is an extra reading. The readings for today are posted @ http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/030714.cfm.

At the end of the first reading, the Lector sings, Verbum Dòmini (This is the word of the Lord). The Congregation answers, Deo gratias (Thanks be to God). [All of these Latin/English things can be done in either language.]

The Responsorial Psalm can be read or sung. If you want to participate, today’s words are, “A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.”

Before the Gospel reading, there is a short prayer of joy. Glory and Praise, Alleluia, something like that. Then,

• Priest: Dòminus vobìscum. (The Lord be with you.)
• Congregation: Et cum spiritu tuo. (And also with you.)
• Priest: Lèctio sancti Evangèlii secùndum N. (A reading from the holy gospel according to Saint N.)
• Congregation: Glòria tibi, Domine. (Glory to you, Lord.)

Before reading, the Priest makes a sign of the cross on the Gospel, then on his forehead, lips and chest. The Congregation does the same to forehead, lips and chest. The silent prayer said with this action is, “May the Word of the Lord be in my mind, on my lips and in my heart.”

• After the reading, the Priest says or sings, Verbum Dòmini (This is the gospel of the Lord).
• Congregation: Laus tibi, Christe (Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ).

After the readings, the Priest presents a homily – i.e., a meditation about how to apply the daily readings in our lives outside church.

In today’s Mass, Father Leonard talks a lot about fasting.

FYI: During Lent, healthy Catholics 18-59 who are not pregnant or nursing are required to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. According to U.S. bishops, fasting consists of only eating one full meal. Snacks are allowed around the times of the skipped meals.

Healthy Catholics 14 and older are supposed to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays throughout Lent. (Eggs, milk products and condiments made from animal fat are permitted.)

During Lent, the vestments are purple for penance. On the fourth Sunday of Lent, which is known as Laetare (Rejoice) Sunday, the priest wears pink if the parish owns a set of pink vestments. During Lent, we focus on Jesus’ sacrifice and our sinfulness, but on Laetare Sunday, we kind of lighten the somber mood for a bit cuz, after all, we know there’s a happy ending, right?

There’s a good run down of the parts of the Mass and when you’re supposed to stand, sit, kneel, sing, put your offering in the basket (and why) @ http://bustedhalo.com/googling-god/mass-class/whats-happening-in-the-mass. The full English and Latin Order of the Mass is posted @ http://www.latinliturgy.com/id18.htm.

The video starts after the Opening and Penitential Prayers and stops before the recitation of the Creed, which is a kind of bullet point statement of Catholic doctrines. After the Creed there is a time for Intercessory Prayer, then the Liturgy of the Eucharist followed by the Closing Prayers. On Sundays, there generally are four hymns or songs added during the Processional, Collection, Communion, and Recessional.

Tissue alert. Fred Rogers received a Lifetime Achievement Award during the 1997 Daytime Emmys. Instead of making the speech about himself and his accomplishments, Mr. Rogers says something incredibly heartwarming that cements him as one of the best neighbors ever.

FYI: Tim Robbins is 6′ 5″ tall.

They thought they knew their tough, “Just learn the stuff; it’s not my job to make school fun for you” math teacher.

They didn’t. Feeling like mankind just sucks? Watch this one. It’ll help.

On the Road: A tough teacher’s alter ego

The Piano Guys made this amazing video combining Vivaldi’s Winter and Let It Go (from the Disney movie Frozen) and shot inside an Ice Castle. Below are links to the Piano Guys music video, then their source material, then a video of the shooting of the Piano Guys video and a link to the place where 3 of the 4 were filmed. It’s a fun package! Enjoy!

ICE VIDEO The Piano Guys: Let It Go and Vivaldi’s Winter

Vivaldi’s Winter (Itzhak Perlman)

ICE VIDEO Let It Go from Frozen by Alex Boyé and Children’s Choir

ICE VIDEO: Behind the scenes making The Piano Guys: Let It Go and Vivaldi’s Winter

ICE VIDEOS were filmed @ http://www.icecastles.com/

H/t bluebirdofbitterness

Today’s Democratic Party stands with Communists and against the Constitution

In response to something he says at the end of this video, I’d just like to mention that our dentist is an immigrant from Russia.

The last time I was in the chair, she asked about the girls. I mentioned one of them was deployed to Iraq.

She stopped working on me and looked out the window as her eyes welled up. “Thank you for her service. I love this country!”

God established the Feast of Booths (aka, Tabernacles, Sukkot, In-gathering) as a SEVEN day holiday that lasts EIGHT days. Sukkot (pron sue-COAT) refers to the temporary dwellings (aka, tabernacles, booths) that the Jews were commanded to live in in memory of the period of wandering.

Leviticus 23 says,

33 The LORD said to Moses: 34 Tell the Israelites: The fifteenth day of this seventh month is the LORD’s feast of Booths, which shall continue for seven days. 35 On the first day, a declared holy day, you shall do no heavy work.

36 For seven days you shall offer an oblation to the LORD, and on the eighth day you will have a declared holy day. You shall offer an oblation to the LORD. It is the festival closing. You shall do no heavy work.

37 These, therefore, are the festivals of the LORD which you shall declare holy days, in order to offer as an oblation to the LORD burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and libations, as prescribed for each day, 38 in addition to the LORD’s sabbaths, your donations, your various votive offerings, and the voluntary offerings that you present to the LORD.

39 On the fifteenth day, then, of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the LORD for a whole week. The first and the eighth day shall be days of rest.

40 On the first day you shall gather fruit of majestic trees, branches of palms, and boughs of leafy trees and valley willows. Then for a week you shall make merry before the LORD, your God. 41 You shall keep this feast of the LORD for one whole week in the year. By perpetual statute throughout your generations in the seventh month of the year, you shall keep it.

42 You shall dwell in booths for seven days; every native-born Israelite shall dwell in booths, 43 that your descendants may realize that, when I led the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, I made them dwell in booths. I, the LORD, am your God.

I think the Eighth Day is a fore-shadowing of the last 2000 years when God gathered in the Gentiles and of the time after Jesus whips Satan’s butt at Armageddon when God will gather in all the people He ever made for Final Judgment.

If he wasn’t always bragging and tweeting like he’s so PERFECT at EVERYTHING, I wouldn’t care.

The Best QB Throwing Mechanics Video Ever Made

His golf form is poor in very similar ways.

Source:

H/t zmalfoy

http://www.wikihow.com/Throw-a-Football

Starting about 1964, Paul Harvey published and broadcast variations on this famous meditation. It’s interesting to read the 1964 version (below) while listening to the 1996 version (below).

Paul Harvey’s “If I were the Devil” (probably 1996 version) [3:22]

If I Were the Devil by Paul Harvey

If I were the Prince of Darkness I would want to engulf the whole earth in darkness.

I’d have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree.

So I should set about however necessary, to take over the United States.

I would begin with a campaign of whispers.

With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whispers to you as I whispered to Eve, “Do as you please.”

To the young I would whisper “The Bible is a myth.” I would convince them that “man created God,” instead of the other way around. I would confide that “what is bad is good and what is good is square.”

In the ears of the young married I would whisper that work is debasing, that cocktail parties are good for you. I would caution them not to be “extreme” in religion, in patriotism, in moral conduct.

And the old I would teach to pray — to say after me — “Our father which are in Washington.”

Then I’d get organized.

I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull, uninteresting.

I’d threaten TV with dirtier movies, and vice-versa.

I’d infiltrate unions and urge more loafing, less work. Idle hands usually work for me.

I’d peddle narcotics to whom I could, I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction, I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.

If I were the Devil, I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions; let those run wild.

I’d designate an atheist to front for me before the highest courts and I’d get preachers to say, “She’s right.”

With flattery and promises of power I would get the courts to vote against God and in favor of pornography.

Thus I would evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, then from the Houses of Congress.

Then in his own churches I’d substitute psychology for religion and deify science.

If I were Satan I’d make the symbol of Easter an egg

And the symbol of Christmas a bottle.

If I were the Devil I’d take from those who have and give to those who wanted until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. Then my police state would force everybody back to work.

Then I would separate families, putting children in uniform, women in coal mines and objectors in slave-labor camps.

If I were Satan I’d just keep doing what I’m doing and the whole world go to hell as sure as the Devil.

1964 version @ http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/devil.asp

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I have no idea how to start this; the only other time I can recall a video-only post was for Christmas music in 2012.
I posted the Cowboy Kid youtube from the Doritos ‘Crash the Superbowl’ contest. It is one of the five finalists.
Here are three of the others:

I have no idea what possessed me to do this. Boredom,maybe;perhaps I just wanted to give you an emotional outlet. At 30-90 seconds,none of them call for you to invest much time. Who knows? You might like one or two.