A Prayer for Independence Day
God our Creator, your gifts are countless and your goodness infinite. As we celebrate Independence Day, we come before you with hearts filled with gratitude. We thank you in particular for the gifts of liberty and independence and a country that is filled with natural beauty. We pray that the boundaries of nations will not set limits to our love and the challenge of the gospel to respond to the needs of our suffering brothers and sisters. ...
You can read or pray the rest of it in this week's e-pistle. Alternately, you can spend a moment this Independence Day being thankful -- to God our Father perhaps -- for the Catholic American heroes who have contributed to the greatness of our country. One of my favorites is Archbishop John F. Noll, founder of Our Sunday Visitor and author of the classic Father Smith Instructs Jackson. OSV posted an excerpt from its Patriotic Leaders of the Church that tells you more about the man. Another favorite is New York's Archbishop "Dagger John" Hughes, who defended Irish-Catholic immigrants from Nativist terrorism in the nineteenth century.
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The inclusive language compulsive disorder that has debilitated seemingly otherwise healthy minds has mercifully been limited to those who wear the mantle of progressivism. It pops up at Chicago parishes, now and then, among priests who also have problems with drifting homiletics.
Today, while shopping at a very busy supermarket, the Marine Corps hymn was playing in the Muzak system. It struck me that we who shopped did so only because of the mortal sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of men (an some women) who gave their lives so that this country could, indeed, be one country under God (the Father). May their souls rest in peace and may those who suffer still the scars and wounds find peace and know dignity.
--John Hetman
ok, now WHO is asking you all to pray this? your soon to be former pastor? the archdiocese? the parish secretary? WHO WHO?!!
The Liturgeist.
It is interesting you should post this today. Due to family members who still dwell on the other side of the Tiber, I try to keep up with the doings of the Episcopal Church. I ran across this from the Episcopal Church web site last night.
Christians believe in one God, whom we understand to exist in three “persons,” traditionally referred to as “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” The three “persons” of the Trinity are God, who created all things, Jesus Christ, his fully human—and at the same time, fully divine—son, and the Holy Spirit of God who gives life to all things and moves through all living things. Contemporary language now acknowledges other images of the Trinity, such as “Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier,” but the Trinity remains: One God in three persons.
My question is: Is a baptism done under the form "I baptize you in the name of the Creator, the Redeemer, and the Sanctifier" a valid baptism?
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