tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166156322024-03-07T00:48:36.022-06:00Quicunque vult...“Quicunque vult salvus esse, ante omnia opus est, ut teneat catholicam fidem.”
“Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith.”
The Creed of AthanasiusEmily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.comBlogger205125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-91373971801910042402011-09-03T17:34:00.000-05:002011-09-03T17:34:03.935-05:00We Have Met the Enemy. . .
“The Help” is undoubtedly a fascinating and excellent movie
based on one of the darkest periods of this nation’s recent past. Yet if the
only thing we take from it is how far we’ve come from those days of racial
prejudice and how much better off we are than those Southern women with the
effrontery to treat others with disdain, then it’s time to give ourselves
another think.
Peter didn’t Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-49088190210381115502011-06-25T16:07:00.002-05:002011-06-25T18:55:30.675-05:00Of Fixable and Treatable
We’ve been down this road before—back surgery. Yet, here we go again. A graft didn’t heal properly so one of the screws holding the hardware is loose. Painful doesn’t quite describe it for some days.
I’m not a painkiller taker. I learned the hard way that those things can create more problems than they alleviate. So I’ll opt for whatever keeps me comfortable even if I’m not pain-free.
That’s Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-31136276016371118262011-06-24T11:36:00.000-05:002011-06-24T11:36:20.733-05:00Of Billboards and FoundationsSo abortion is a personal matter—a woman’s rights issue? Right? Greg Fulz doesn’t think so. If he’s correct, that his girlfriend did have an abortion against his wishes for the welfare of his own child, then hasn’t he as much right to speak up as any father would?
Oh, that’s right. It’s a privacy matter, not a social one. The billboard proves the irony in that argument! It was a social event thatEmily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-73529193288595425222011-06-23T12:30:00.000-05:002011-06-23T12:30:25.570-05:00From Here to ThereDidn't take us long. Just a few more aches and pains than usual. But we're pros at it on the one hand and older than other times on the other hand. We're settled in to our new home in Arkansas. The tags are on the cars and the icons are hanging all throughout the house. I'm not traditional when it comes to hanging icons. As far as I'm concerned, they belong anywhere, to be seen by anyone at Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-81310695249556794122010-12-30T13:30:00.002-06:002011-01-02T22:31:00.177-06:00Of Commercials and HeartstringsWatching TV last night was nearly heartbreaking. Re-runs were elsewhere, so we consigned ourselves to the near-harmlessness of the Hallmark Channel. We haven’t advanced to the age of satellite TV. We can’t reconcile ourselves to the notion of 287 channels and still nothing worthwhile to watch. We still pay for nothing more than the basic level of cable. Again, why have so many channels with Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-90221162154005763182010-11-07T01:42:00.000-05:002010-11-07T01:42:16.582-05:00Prayer as VocationMy mom wonders what to do with herself. She’s nearing her eightieth birthday, but age isn’t her problem. Her body is giving out on her. Her arthritic scoliosis is advanced. The pain meds have ceased working as they ought. Last week she fell backwards. It takes time for anyone to heal from such an injury, even more so for one such as she. She once asked her doctor what her prognosis was. “Grim. Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-14967486406000871842010-10-26T10:37:00.001-05:002010-10-26T10:38:18.987-05:00The Sticky SideNow here’s the sticky side of the bumper sticker,
“Why should God bless us when we’ve kicked HIM out of our schools?”
Orthodox priest Alexander Schmemann wrote, “Just as Christianity can– and must–be considered the end of religion, so the Christian liturgy in general, and the Eucharist in particular are indeed the end of a cult, of the ‘sacred’ religious act isolated from, and opposed to, the ‘Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-50407735284348908602010-10-25T09:42:00.000-05:002010-10-25T09:42:35.669-05:00Catechetical Bumper StickersThe new front door arrived and was hung Friday, so I spent Saturday painting it. That meant the kitchen was closed for that evening’s meal. John found that appealing. He enjoys pizza. Picking up pizza would an exercise in receiving daily bread two ways that evening.
The car in the lane in front of me had a very interesting bumper sticker.“Why should God bless us when we’ve kicked HIM out of our Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-68368268314844842102010-10-18T14:55:00.002-05:002010-10-18T18:41:30.129-05:00Dr. G and Catechetical Lessons Learned
Lately I'm enjoying Discovery Health Channel's show Dr. G, Medical Examiner. "Dr. G" is Jan C. Garavalia, M.D., chief examiner for the District Nine Medical Examiner's Office in Florida This covers Orange and Osceola Counties. I'm not a fan of the slasher movie genre, so that's not what attracts me to the show. What holds my attention is the numerous ways bodies die. While it is appointed to Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-2905010357511280162010-10-16T19:53:00.003-05:002010-10-17T07:33:54.954-05:00Questions and Catechesis“If churches do not aim to help children, youth and adults become sensitive, compassionate persons who possess the knowledge, attitudes and capacity to act responsibly alone and institutionally in relation to the changing needs of society, we will have failed our children, ourselves - and God . . . To facilitate the development of this kind of persons, the community of faith needs to meet at Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-4673692102250490782010-10-06T15:43:00.003-05:002010-10-07T12:35:31.481-05:00Grades and Shades of FeminismTwo items of note recently circulated through Facebook. The first was the video testimony of a saline abortion survivor, Gianna Jessen. The second was a newspaper article by Rebecca Walker, the daughter of Alice Walker the author of The Color Purple. Both bore witness to the backlash effects of feminism. It would have been easy to pass of either woman as the victim of radical-feminism.
Let’s beEmily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-12693206144042248082010-09-17T07:54:00.002-05:002010-09-17T07:56:26.749-05:00A Bit From WaltherLet us picture to ourselves as vividly as we can the situation that would have been created in the early Church, when errorists like Arius, Nestorius, and Pelagius arose, if men like Athanasius, Cyril, and Augustine had not earnestly opposed them. As far back as in the fourth and fifth centuries the Church would have lost the primary article of the Christian faith; the foundation would have been Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-31959725335623480052010-09-10T11:22:00.004-05:002010-09-10T13:11:07.020-05:00Of Rust and TattoosI just tried to salvage the front door to our house. I'd started noticing rust coming through the paint a while back, but with all my other concerns couldn't do anything about it. I'm finally well enough to do something. So I stripped it of all its extraneous hardware. Numbers were placed elsewhere. They're more noticeable in their new location anyway. The door knocker I packed away. That meant IEmily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-61197449822393953112010-08-30T19:37:00.003-05:002010-08-31T13:50:05.897-05:00A Bit from Luther Based on Luke 2:42-52This is a Gospel that presents to us an example of the holy cross, showing us what experiences those who have to pass who are Christians, and how they ought to bear their sorrow. For he who desires to be a Christian must expect to help to bear the cross. For God will place him between the spurs and thoroughly test him that he may be humble and no one will come to Christ without suffering. Of thisEmily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-4882373259124741842010-08-28T14:04:00.004-05:002010-08-28T17:29:50.620-05:00Timing Among the Non-Peripheral ThingsTwo years ago this past July a friend of mine opened her house to my granddaughter and me for a couple days. They were on their last leg of a trip to Europe. We were in town for a wedding and the Higher Things Conference. I was busy preparing a welcome home dinner for her when I suddenly had a tightening in my chest and pain in my right jaw. I did what any right thinking person would do. I Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-77419242510707267232010-08-23T12:29:00.005-05:002010-08-23T14:08:57.156-05:00Disclaimers on AltarsA good friend reminded me that this altar does have a disclaimer over it. The last photo didn't reveal it. This one does. Here the "Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus" is clearly visible. After all, it doesn't say "Hagios, Hagios, Hagios." (Thanks, Dave.) Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-51770218391928152752010-08-21T09:11:00.009-05:002010-08-21T09:47:18.612-05:00Sitting Solidly on an Inerrant Two-Legged StoolIn a recent entry on his blog, (The Inerrancy of Scripture: The Fifty Years’ War . . . and Counting) Paul McCain praised the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dr. Albert Mohler, and his blog. McCain urged his readers “I recommend you add [Mohler’s blog] to your regular blog reading.” What apparently excited McCain about this particular blog entry was the topic, inerrancy. Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-32861084636153316902010-07-26T08:21:00.002-05:002010-07-26T08:24:18.083-05:00A Bit MoreThere is another truly wonderful bit to pull from that icon of Adam I like so much. Just as the Ancient of Days calls Adam to life with His breath of life and gives him a name and vocation, standing by his side as he fulfills it, so too the Ancient of Days calls us to life in Baptism. We then are all “Little Christs,” growing from His vine going about our vocations with Him beside and in us. We Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-34199663271061580212010-07-24T08:22:00.013-05:002010-07-27T07:05:22.757-05:00Adding Woman to the NarrativeOne of my favorite icons depicts the Ancient of Days bringing Adam to life in the upper right portion, while Adam is naming the animals with God by his side in the lower, major portion of the work. The former work preceded the latter; God’s single work of breathing life into the clay that would become Adam is prior to Adam’s given work of naming the animals. Adam’s features are evocative of thoseEmily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-14798691426154147332010-07-13T12:34:00.011-05:002010-07-14T22:23:16.418-05:00Honesty in ChoicesMany thanks to my good friend the Rev. Mark Schlamann for alerting me to this blog posting. My position has long been “return to the source,” and here is a prime example of why this should always be done in the case of feminism. In his blog article Albert Mohler identifies the problem as this, according to Antonia Senior: If you are willing to die for a cause, you must be prepared to kill for it,Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-21198270881526798322010-05-02T12:42:00.000-05:002010-05-02T12:43:05.286-05:00Honesty and Fathers Part 2“Why can’t anyone just get over the fact that I’m not perfect?!”Bingo! That’s the whole point, buddy! That’s where we can start to rejoice. If even our repentance is that for which we must finally repent, then we must at last admit that we are, as Luther would say, beggars before God. Then, and only then do we have Christ as our Savior and God as our Father. For, it is through His Son that God Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-55568408861046834212010-05-01T07:16:00.000-05:002010-05-01T07:17:12.438-05:00Honesty and FathersIt was a light week as far as attendance goes. One was on vacation, and another was battling the “bug.” On another day one has difficulties with her eyes. On one day even I was absent for pre-surgical work ups. So it wasn’t a week for introducing new material. I had to keep up with the Math lessons, though. We did that in the morning, reviewed History in the afternoon, and then watched some Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-26126422506472473622010-04-24T10:05:00.002-05:002010-04-24T17:55:54.885-05:00Offenses and CelebrationsHe wanted to chatter about this-n-that. I’d asked him to get to his work. So I reminded him that his work needed his attention more than I needed his.“I’m sorry if I offended you!” He said with as much attitude as a nine-year-old could muster. So the manipulation war was on. That’s what it was. The focus was now on me for what I was doing and feeling. At first I was going to slough it off, “YouEmily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-38438007726728556062010-04-03T12:34:00.005-05:002010-04-03T13:16:49.312-05:00Pains and DecisionsSeveral weeks ago I made a radical discovery: the drugs prescribed to treat my various physical conditions were actually my worst enemies. If Satan hadn’t enough slings and arrows in his arsenal on his own with which to assail me, he now had several man-made ones to rip through my soul and mind.My body reads pain as depression. That is my first sign of a major migraine. I have what is known as Emily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16615632.post-38283487142033880912010-01-30T09:11:00.012-06:002010-02-01T06:27:28.492-06:00Tebow and Elbows and JaneI don’t follow football, so I don’t know a Tebow from an elbow. I’m told he has a great one, and that football is better by far because of it. So Tebow and I don’t have much in common except elbows. More precisely, Pam Tebow and I have not a lot in common except a couple: we’re both mothers of children with great elbows who’s doctors recommended they brought into the world.I don't know why GloriaEmily Carderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09708684928525213539noreply@blogger.com0