Out of Order
Pius XII feared the fragmentation, “layer by layer,” of human sexuality. Therefore, he denounced the divorce of the unitive aspect of sexual intercourse, which united husband and wife in a profoundly personal way, from the procreative end that invoked God’s creative hand. He denounced procreation without personal love because it disparaged the physical and interpersonal dimensions of sexual union that God Himself had created. He denounced sexual union that negated the possibility of procreation for a more complex reason. As he stated, he feared the “deplorable consequences” that would happen if the secondary end of marriage—the good of the act of intercourse for the spouses—was no longer “subordinated” to the primary end which is to honor the generative implications of the sexual act.
By subordinating the secondary end of sexual union to the primary end, Pius XII was merely restating a long and firmly-held tradition. The 1917 Code of Canon Law, canon 1013, provided: “The primary purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children. The secondary purpose is mutual support and a remedy for concupiscence.”
The Holy Father was not suggesting, nor did he hold, that one end is superior or more excellent than the other. He simply affirmed that the integrity of the marital act demands an ordination of one part to the other. To reject this order is to violate the integrity of the act. This notion of order, how one thing naturally leads to another, is what our fragmented world has great difficulty in comprehending. Yet for many, contraception, which separates the two ends of the marital act from each other, seems to unlock a door of freedom. How could “deplorable consequences” spring from an act of freedom?
As order is disrupted, meaning becomes eroded. Marriage and sexual union between husband and wife are matters of such incomparable importance that one must be extremely wary of what dire consequences or altered meanings might follow upon the disruption of their natural purposes.
In farming, the order of planting, cultivating, and harvesting is established by nature and cannot be altered. To say that planting is subordinated to harvesting is to say that the latter fulfills the purpose of the former. But it is also to say that harvesting gives meaning to planting. Can one separate the two ends of marital union without radically altering their meanings?
http://www.cuf.org/LayWitness/online_view.asp?lwID=670
I wonder how long it is going to be before most realize that we must have things in order BEFORE our lives go on correctly!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Contraception and the Trivialization of Sex Part 1 of 4
Ok, here is an artical from the CUF website. I have separated it into 4 parts for slow people like me who can only read a paragraph or 2 at a time!
Contraception and the Trivialization of Sex
Donald DeMarco .
From the Jul/Aug 1999 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine
The experience of fragmentation has shaped the artistic and moral sensibility of our age. World Wars I and II, and all the innumerable regional wars that followed, have brought to modern consciousness a world that has been shattered and ripped to pieces. Order has yielded to disorder, continuity has been replaced by discontinuity, cosmos has given way to chaos. We now live in the atomic age, the age of anxiety, a post-Christian world in which God is presumed to be dead. Families are uprooted, industrialized labor is piecemeal, ethics is devoid of universal norms. University educators routinely teach that meaning, religion, law, and morality have all been deconstructed. In the words of the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Prominent psychologists speak of our “collective death wish,” while philosophers harp incessantly about the problem of alienation. And sociologists decry the rapidly diminishing number of face-to-face relationships within society. Pope John Paul II diagnoses the contemporary climate as a “culture of death.” Back in 1941, Pope Pius XII was deeply concerned about the effect a climate of fragmentation would have on attitudes toward human sexuality. In retrospect, his words were remarkably prophetic: “[T]here are two tendencies to be avoided: first, the one which, in examining the constituent elements of the act of generation, considers only the primary end of marriage, as though the secondary end did not exist, or were not the finis operis established by the Creator of nature Himself; and second, the one which gives the secondary end a place of equal principality, detaching it from its essential subordination to the primary end—a view which would lead by logical necessity to deplorable consequences.” http://www.cuf.org/LayWitness/online_view.asp?lwID=670
Contraception and the Trivialization of Sex
Donald DeMarco .
From the Jul/Aug 1999 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine
The experience of fragmentation has shaped the artistic and moral sensibility of our age. World Wars I and II, and all the innumerable regional wars that followed, have brought to modern consciousness a world that has been shattered and ripped to pieces. Order has yielded to disorder, continuity has been replaced by discontinuity, cosmos has given way to chaos. We now live in the atomic age, the age of anxiety, a post-Christian world in which God is presumed to be dead. Families are uprooted, industrialized labor is piecemeal, ethics is devoid of universal norms. University educators routinely teach that meaning, religion, law, and morality have all been deconstructed. In the words of the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Prominent psychologists speak of our “collective death wish,” while philosophers harp incessantly about the problem of alienation. And sociologists decry the rapidly diminishing number of face-to-face relationships within society. Pope John Paul II diagnoses the contemporary climate as a “culture of death.” Back in 1941, Pope Pius XII was deeply concerned about the effect a climate of fragmentation would have on attitudes toward human sexuality. In retrospect, his words were remarkably prophetic: “[T]here are two tendencies to be avoided: first, the one which, in examining the constituent elements of the act of generation, considers only the primary end of marriage, as though the secondary end did not exist, or were not the finis operis established by the Creator of nature Himself; and second, the one which gives the secondary end a place of equal principality, detaching it from its essential subordination to the primary end—a view which would lead by logical necessity to deplorable consequences.” http://www.cuf.org/LayWitness/online_view.asp?lwID=670
Saturday, May 26, 2007
My dear young friend By Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand
Here is a letter from Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand to try and let girls know they are more important than what the world tends to say they are.
My dear young friend:
I know that young girls like secrets, and I am going to share one with you. God has chosen your sex for you; He made you to be a girl. You know that girls today are often told by feminists that the Church is "sexist" and has "discriminated" against them from the very beginning. She is accused of having treated them as "inferior", less talented, less gifted, made to be man’s servants. She has denied them power in the Church, and prohibited them from receiving the highest honor, to be ordained to the priesthood and so on.
No doubt, you have heard this siren song, because the media are good when it comes to spreading this negative message. And this is why, to rebut these false claims, I would like to make you realize that women – far from being discriminated against – have been granted a unique place by God in the work of redemption. The beauty of their mission is already hinted at in the Old Testament, but it finds its fulfillment only in the New, that is in the sweet Mother of our Savior; in Mary, the gentle Maid of Nazareth who was chosen from all eternity to be the Mother of the Redeemer.
Let us take off our "secular" eyeglasses, and then we shall be able to see that women, far from being "discriminated" against, are in many ways privileged. And this is the "secret" I wish to share with you. The body of every little girl born into this world is mysteriously sealed by what is properly called the "veil of virginity". That is to say, a "secret" is entrusted to her body, and a secret is always "veiled". According to Christian teaching, this veil closes the entrance to a mysterious garden which belongs to God in a special way, and for this reason cannot be entered into except with His express permission, the permission that God grants spouses in the Sacrament of Matrimony. Any little girl aware of this "mystery" will feel that her body is to be modestly clothed, so that its secret will be hidden from lewd looks.
Little girls, of course, grow up. How beautiful when a bride can say to her husband on their wedding night, "I have kept this garden virginal for you, and now, with God’s permission I am giving you its key, knowing that you will enter into it with reverence".
Moreover, when a wife conceives a few hours after her husband has embraced her, God creates the child’s soul in her body, (as you certainly know, neither husband nor wife can produce the human soul; God alone can create it.) In other words, there is a personal "contact" between God and the woman which, once again, gives to the female body a note of sacredness. Don’t forget that He whom the whole universe cannot contain, was "hidden" in the womb of the Holy Virgin for nine months. Once you realize this, you will be awe-filled for the double mystery that God has confided to you: to conceive a human being made to God’s image and likeness, and to give birth to it in pain and anguish. Do not forget that it was also in pain and anguish that Christ re-opened for us the gates of paradise – which had been shut by sin. To women has been granted the awesome privilege of nobly suffering so that a new human being, made to God’s image and likeness, might come into the world. Meditate upon this for a moment, and you will feel a deep reverence for your body. It belongs to God, and is not a "play thing" that you can dispose of as you please.
If you ever study pagan art, you will discover that it pays tribute to the male reproductive organ, representing it in various sculptures and paintings as a symbol of strength, virility, creativity, power. But from the very moment that the Catholic Church became a recognized religion, she fought relentlessly against this pagan cult. But the Church introduced a prayer uttered millions of times every single day in which the female organ par excellence, the "womb" is mentioned. "Blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus". I am sure, my dear young friend, that if you meditate on this, you will understand that it is a privilege to be born a woman, and will respect the mystery that God has put in the female body.
Thank God that He has made you to be born a woman; I am sure now that you understand that it is a great privilege.
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand
My dear young friend:
I know that young girls like secrets, and I am going to share one with you. God has chosen your sex for you; He made you to be a girl. You know that girls today are often told by feminists that the Church is "sexist" and has "discriminated" against them from the very beginning. She is accused of having treated them as "inferior", less talented, less gifted, made to be man’s servants. She has denied them power in the Church, and prohibited them from receiving the highest honor, to be ordained to the priesthood and so on.
No doubt, you have heard this siren song, because the media are good when it comes to spreading this negative message. And this is why, to rebut these false claims, I would like to make you realize that women – far from being discriminated against – have been granted a unique place by God in the work of redemption. The beauty of their mission is already hinted at in the Old Testament, but it finds its fulfillment only in the New, that is in the sweet Mother of our Savior; in Mary, the gentle Maid of Nazareth who was chosen from all eternity to be the Mother of the Redeemer.
Let us take off our "secular" eyeglasses, and then we shall be able to see that women, far from being "discriminated" against, are in many ways privileged. And this is the "secret" I wish to share with you. The body of every little girl born into this world is mysteriously sealed by what is properly called the "veil of virginity". That is to say, a "secret" is entrusted to her body, and a secret is always "veiled". According to Christian teaching, this veil closes the entrance to a mysterious garden which belongs to God in a special way, and for this reason cannot be entered into except with His express permission, the permission that God grants spouses in the Sacrament of Matrimony. Any little girl aware of this "mystery" will feel that her body is to be modestly clothed, so that its secret will be hidden from lewd looks.
Little girls, of course, grow up. How beautiful when a bride can say to her husband on their wedding night, "I have kept this garden virginal for you, and now, with God’s permission I am giving you its key, knowing that you will enter into it with reverence".
Moreover, when a wife conceives a few hours after her husband has embraced her, God creates the child’s soul in her body, (as you certainly know, neither husband nor wife can produce the human soul; God alone can create it.) In other words, there is a personal "contact" between God and the woman which, once again, gives to the female body a note of sacredness. Don’t forget that He whom the whole universe cannot contain, was "hidden" in the womb of the Holy Virgin for nine months. Once you realize this, you will be awe-filled for the double mystery that God has confided to you: to conceive a human being made to God’s image and likeness, and to give birth to it in pain and anguish. Do not forget that it was also in pain and anguish that Christ re-opened for us the gates of paradise – which had been shut by sin. To women has been granted the awesome privilege of nobly suffering so that a new human being, made to God’s image and likeness, might come into the world. Meditate upon this for a moment, and you will feel a deep reverence for your body. It belongs to God, and is not a "play thing" that you can dispose of as you please.
If you ever study pagan art, you will discover that it pays tribute to the male reproductive organ, representing it in various sculptures and paintings as a symbol of strength, virility, creativity, power. But from the very moment that the Catholic Church became a recognized religion, she fought relentlessly against this pagan cult. But the Church introduced a prayer uttered millions of times every single day in which the female organ par excellence, the "womb" is mentioned. "Blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus". I am sure, my dear young friend, that if you meditate on this, you will understand that it is a privilege to be born a woman, and will respect the mystery that God has put in the female body.
Thank God that He has made you to be born a woman; I am sure now that you understand that it is a great privilege.
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Dirty Sheets
Several of my "friends" have been posting about Sex. They have been discussing the religious since of what is it made for. Simply just procreation or is there more to it than that. I have posted ideas on their sites so I will leave it at that. However, what about the idea of how do we keep our young people from making the dreaded mistakes I and many others have made?
Here is something interesting to say the least. We were talking at work and no one in the conversation waited till their wedding night for their first sexual encounter. Even fewer had only one partner in their life time. Now I am not sure if the remarried people have had it limited to the spouses. Most seemed to think that you had to "test" the product before purchase, like a car. However, I responded it is more like sheets! NO ONE WANTS SHEETS SOMEONE ELSE HAS TRIED. Now some got upset that I referred to them as "dirty sheets;" however, that is how I feel so that is what I say!
Now as things change in my life they are puzzled why I would bother trying to be more chase now! I guess chastity is just something our current world just does not understand.
Just to let everyone know, I will be making posts every few days on this topic so there are plenty of chances to see my opinions and the ideas I chose to give.
Here is something interesting to say the least. We were talking at work and no one in the conversation waited till their wedding night for their first sexual encounter. Even fewer had only one partner in their life time. Now I am not sure if the remarried people have had it limited to the spouses. Most seemed to think that you had to "test" the product before purchase, like a car. However, I responded it is more like sheets! NO ONE WANTS SHEETS SOMEONE ELSE HAS TRIED. Now some got upset that I referred to them as "dirty sheets;" however, that is how I feel so that is what I say!
Now as things change in my life they are puzzled why I would bother trying to be more chase now! I guess chastity is just something our current world just does not understand.
Just to let everyone know, I will be making posts every few days on this topic so there are plenty of chances to see my opinions and the ideas I chose to give.
Friday, May 18, 2007
How this is done!
I have found that there are people out there that do not know how to post to this blog. I will make it easy for you!
All you have to do is click comment... leave your comment... put the letters and numbers in the box. Then you click "other" if you do not have a blog. Then you and leave me your name! That is all I need. I do not require people to have a blog to post. You can also place yourself under Anonymous!
All you have to do is click comment... leave your comment... put the letters and numbers in the box. Then you click "other" if you do not have a blog. Then you and leave me your name! That is all I need. I do not require people to have a blog to post. You can also place yourself under Anonymous!
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Divine Mercy
Well I wanted to put a post out there, even if no one in the word is going to read this. I also wanted to post a pic; however, my laptop will not connect to the internet so I do not have access to my pics. Anway, how much do you know about the Divine Mercy?
Well here is some information...
Background of the Divine Mercy Devotion
From the diary of a young Polish nun, a special devotionbegan spreading throughout the world in the 1930s. Themessage is nothing new, but is a reminder of what theChurch has always taught through scripture and tradition:that God is merciful and forgiving and that we, too, mustshow mercy and forgiveness. But in the Divine Mercydevotion, the message takes on a powerful new focus,calling people to a deeper understanding that God’s love isunlimited and available to everyone — especially thegreatest sinners.
The message and devotion to Jesus as The Divine Mercyis based on the writings of Saint Faustina Kowalska, anuneducated Polish nun who, in obedience to her spiritualdirector, wrote a diary of about 600 pages recording therevelations she received about God’s mercy. Even beforeher death in 1938, the devotion to The Divine Mercy hadbegun to spread.
The message of mercy is that God loves us — all of us —no matter how great our sins. He wants us to recognize thatHis mercy is greater than our sins, so that we will call uponHim with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us toothers. Thus, all will come to share His joy. It is a messagewe can call to mind simply by remembering ABC.
A — Ask for His Mercy. God wants us to approachHim in prayer constantly, repenting of our sins andasking Him to pour His mercy out upon us and uponthe whole world.
B — Be merciful. God wants us to receive His mercyand let it flow through us to others. He wants us toextend love and forgiveness to others just as He doesto us.
C — Completely trust in Jesus. God wants us to knowthat the graces of His mercy are dependent upon ourtrust. The more we trust in Jesus, the more we willreceive.
The Divine Mercy Devotion
Devotion to The Divine Mercy involves a total commitment toGod as Mercy. It is a decision to trust completely in Him, toaccept His mercy with thanksgiving, and to be merciful asHe is merciful.
The devotional practices proposed in the diary of SaintFaustina and set forth in this website are completely inaccordance with the teachings of the Church and are firmlyrooted in the Gospel message of our Merciful Savior.Properly understood and implemented, they will help usgrow as genuine followers of Christ.
Merciful Heart
There are two scriptural verses that we should keep in mindas we involve ourselves in these devotional practices:
1. "This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts arefar from me" (Is 29:13);
2. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy" (Mt5:7).
It's an ironic and somewhat frightening fact that many of themost religious people of Christ's time (people who wereactively practicing their religion and eagerly awaiting thepromised Messiah) were not able to recognize Him whenHe came.
The Pharisees, to whom Christ was speaking in the firstquotation above, were very devoted to the prayers, rules,and rituals of their religion; but over the years, these outerobservances had become so important in themselves thattheir real meaning had been lost. The Pharisees performedall the prescribed sacrifices, said all the right prayers, fastedregularly, and talked a lot of about God, but none of it hadtouched their hearts. As a result, they had no relationshipwith God, they were not living the way He wanted them tolive, and they were not prepared for the coming of Jesus.
When we look at the image of the Merciful Savior, or pausefor prayer at three o'clock, or pray the Chaplet — are thesethings drawing us closer to the real sacramental life of theChurch and allowing Jesus to transform our hearts? Or havethey just become religious habits? In our daily lives are wegrowing more and more as people of mercy? Or are we justgiving "lip service" to God's mercy?
Living the Message of Mercy
The devotional practices revealed through Saint Faustinawere given to us as "vessels of mercy" through which God'slove can be poured out upon the world, but they are notsufficient unto themselves. It's not enough for us to hang TheDivine Mercy image in our homes, pray the Chaplet everyday at three o'clock, and receive Holy Communion on thefirst Sunday after Easter. We also have to show mercy to ourneighbors. Putting mercy into action is not an option of theDivine Mercy Devotion; it's a requirement!
Our Lord strongly speaks about this to SaintFaustina:
I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out oflove for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors alwaysand everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try toexcuse yourself from it (Diary, 742).
Like the gospel command, "Be merciful, just as your Fatheris merciful," this demand that we show mercy to ourneighbors "always and everywhere" seems impossible tofulfill. But the Lord assures us that it is possible. "When asoul approaches Me with trust," He explains, "I fill it with suchan abundance of graces that it cannot contain them withinitself, but radiates them to other souls" (Diary, 1074).
How do we "radiate" God's mercy to others? By our actions,our words, and our prayers. "In these three degrees," he tellsSister Faustina, "is contained the fullness of mercy" (Diary742). We have all been called to this threefold practice ofmercy, but we are not all called in the same way. We need toask the Lord, who understands our individual personalitiesand situation, to help us recognize the various ways we caneach show His mercy in our daily lives.
By asking for the Lord's mercy, trusting in His mercy, andsincerely trying to live His mercy in our lives, we can assurethat we will never hear Him say of us, "Their hearts are farfrom Me," but rather that wonderful promise, "Blessed arethe merciful, for they shall obtain mercy."
It is our hope that you will continue to read and reread theinformation on this website and make the prayers, attitudes,and practices presented a real part of your life, so that youmay come to trust completely in God and live each dayimmersed in His merciful love — thus fulfilling the Lord'scommand to let your life "shine before people, so that theywill see the good things you do and praise your Father inHeaven" (Mt 5:16).
http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/backgr.htm
Well here is some information...
Background of the Divine Mercy Devotion
From the diary of a young Polish nun, a special devotionbegan spreading throughout the world in the 1930s. Themessage is nothing new, but is a reminder of what theChurch has always taught through scripture and tradition:that God is merciful and forgiving and that we, too, mustshow mercy and forgiveness. But in the Divine Mercydevotion, the message takes on a powerful new focus,calling people to a deeper understanding that God’s love isunlimited and available to everyone — especially thegreatest sinners.
The message and devotion to Jesus as The Divine Mercyis based on the writings of Saint Faustina Kowalska, anuneducated Polish nun who, in obedience to her spiritualdirector, wrote a diary of about 600 pages recording therevelations she received about God’s mercy. Even beforeher death in 1938, the devotion to The Divine Mercy hadbegun to spread.
The message of mercy is that God loves us — all of us —no matter how great our sins. He wants us to recognize thatHis mercy is greater than our sins, so that we will call uponHim with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us toothers. Thus, all will come to share His joy. It is a messagewe can call to mind simply by remembering ABC.
A — Ask for His Mercy. God wants us to approachHim in prayer constantly, repenting of our sins andasking Him to pour His mercy out upon us and uponthe whole world.
B — Be merciful. God wants us to receive His mercyand let it flow through us to others. He wants us toextend love and forgiveness to others just as He doesto us.
C — Completely trust in Jesus. God wants us to knowthat the graces of His mercy are dependent upon ourtrust. The more we trust in Jesus, the more we willreceive.
The Divine Mercy Devotion
Devotion to The Divine Mercy involves a total commitment toGod as Mercy. It is a decision to trust completely in Him, toaccept His mercy with thanksgiving, and to be merciful asHe is merciful.
The devotional practices proposed in the diary of SaintFaustina and set forth in this website are completely inaccordance with the teachings of the Church and are firmlyrooted in the Gospel message of our Merciful Savior.Properly understood and implemented, they will help usgrow as genuine followers of Christ.
Merciful Heart
There are two scriptural verses that we should keep in mindas we involve ourselves in these devotional practices:
1. "This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts arefar from me" (Is 29:13);
2. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy" (Mt5:7).
It's an ironic and somewhat frightening fact that many of themost religious people of Christ's time (people who wereactively practicing their religion and eagerly awaiting thepromised Messiah) were not able to recognize Him whenHe came.
The Pharisees, to whom Christ was speaking in the firstquotation above, were very devoted to the prayers, rules,and rituals of their religion; but over the years, these outerobservances had become so important in themselves thattheir real meaning had been lost. The Pharisees performedall the prescribed sacrifices, said all the right prayers, fastedregularly, and talked a lot of about God, but none of it hadtouched their hearts. As a result, they had no relationshipwith God, they were not living the way He wanted them tolive, and they were not prepared for the coming of Jesus.
When we look at the image of the Merciful Savior, or pausefor prayer at three o'clock, or pray the Chaplet — are thesethings drawing us closer to the real sacramental life of theChurch and allowing Jesus to transform our hearts? Or havethey just become religious habits? In our daily lives are wegrowing more and more as people of mercy? Or are we justgiving "lip service" to God's mercy?
Living the Message of Mercy
The devotional practices revealed through Saint Faustinawere given to us as "vessels of mercy" through which God'slove can be poured out upon the world, but they are notsufficient unto themselves. It's not enough for us to hang TheDivine Mercy image in our homes, pray the Chaplet everyday at three o'clock, and receive Holy Communion on thefirst Sunday after Easter. We also have to show mercy to ourneighbors. Putting mercy into action is not an option of theDivine Mercy Devotion; it's a requirement!
Our Lord strongly speaks about this to SaintFaustina:
I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out oflove for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors alwaysand everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try toexcuse yourself from it (Diary, 742).
Like the gospel command, "Be merciful, just as your Fatheris merciful," this demand that we show mercy to ourneighbors "always and everywhere" seems impossible tofulfill. But the Lord assures us that it is possible. "When asoul approaches Me with trust," He explains, "I fill it with suchan abundance of graces that it cannot contain them withinitself, but radiates them to other souls" (Diary, 1074).
How do we "radiate" God's mercy to others? By our actions,our words, and our prayers. "In these three degrees," he tellsSister Faustina, "is contained the fullness of mercy" (Diary742). We have all been called to this threefold practice ofmercy, but we are not all called in the same way. We need toask the Lord, who understands our individual personalitiesand situation, to help us recognize the various ways we caneach show His mercy in our daily lives.
By asking for the Lord's mercy, trusting in His mercy, andsincerely trying to live His mercy in our lives, we can assurethat we will never hear Him say of us, "Their hearts are farfrom Me," but rather that wonderful promise, "Blessed arethe merciful, for they shall obtain mercy."
It is our hope that you will continue to read and reread theinformation on this website and make the prayers, attitudes,and practices presented a real part of your life, so that youmay come to trust completely in God and live each dayimmersed in His merciful love — thus fulfilling the Lord'scommand to let your life "shine before people, so that theywill see the good things you do and praise your Father inHeaven" (Mt 5:16).
http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/mercy/backgr.htm
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