Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 1292

How Good and Pleasant it is When Brothers Dwell Together in Unity

Robert George and Cornel West, not exactly political bedfellows, join togther in agreement that porn on campus is just a really bad idea.

Praise Report

A reader writes:

I had asked for prayers for my sweet 9 year old American Eskimo dog, Snowy, who's been diagnosed with nephritis. Well, after a week of back and forth to the vet and the animal hospital, she's back at home on a regimen of pills and subcutaneous fluids to keep her hydrated and happy. We still don't know if her kidney disease is acute or chronic, but we have her home, she is wagging and peppy once again and we are grateful for every day she is with us.

Thank you and thank all your readers for sending prayers our way. We are very grateful.

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ. Thanks, St. Francis!

Calloo Callay!

Six PP Clinics are Shutting Their Doors in Minnesota August 1

Another Atheist....

tries to replace God and winds up just cribbing from him and producing a Cliff's Notes version of Scripture.

C.S. Lewis...

College!

This kid has a lot of courage

The comments on the Youtube page tell you everything you need to know about what a gift the sacrament of confession is. Bear your soul in humble contrition to the howling mob of strangers and they will eat you alive, call you a liar, and psychoanlayze you with all the gentleness of a meat cleaver. The internet is the agora, not the sanctuary. Never come to it expecting to find mercy, grace, kindness or love. Those things belong to Jesus, not this world. I hope the kid has somebody in his life to give him the merciful answer his contrition cries out for.

My Friend Sheila writes...

After only 9 days of fund raising for our almost 5 year old son, Joshua to go to camp, we are already at 52% of your goal with your dear readers making up for half the donors (currently, totaling $1085)! Joshua is signed up and we are prepared to make the payment the week before he goes to DIR/Floortime Summer Camp on July 18th. Here is a little blurb about the focus of the camp, which helps kids like Joshua with autism:

"The camp space is set up with a variety of toys such as a dollhouse, home center, cars, trains, dress up, and arts and crafts. During the three-hour camp, there will be opportunities for inside and outside time, and snack/lunch time (bring your own snack/lunch). The focus of the camp is for the campers to engage in "free play" with their peers. The camp is not structured in the sense of the therapists & aides teaching skills, rather by embracing the DIR/Floortime approach we support the children with appropriate affect, gesture, language & sensory support that is sensitive to each individual child to facilitate their ability to share attention with one another, to engage & be engaged, to read & respond to one another's invitation to play & to sustain interactions during spontaneous play thus supporting their functional emotional developmental capacities."

If anyone wants to check out more of Joshua's story, and link to the ChipIn page, they can go to our blog: www.raisingautisticchildren.com. We will also take donations by check and people can send me a message and I'll give them our mailing address.

Thanks, again. We are so grateful for your friendship and the willingness of our brothers and sisters in Christ to join us in this journey to help Joshua navigate this life with autism, and, Lord willing, we can see him succeed in defeating this condition.

If you can pitch in, that would be great. Josh is a sweet kid and his family are good people.

Succinct Prayer Request

A reader writes:

Need a better paying job.

Father, give my reader a better paying job. We ask that through Christ our Lord. Mother Mary and St. Joseph the Worker, pray for this person. Amen!

New Blog!

Jacqueline Parkes in the UK has a new blog called Heart Speaks unto Heart.

Check thou it out!

Ah Peace!

You may have noticed that all the Corapi comments are gone and you can't post to those entries.

I decided that between my time, people's need to engage in all sorts of non sequiturs and speculation and the sheer ambient sense of degrading signal to noise ratio, my time won out. I don't have time to monitor the craziness, so I made the craziness go away. Sorry. Can't be everywhere at once.