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February 7 - Mary, Mother of Saints, Mother of All
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Comment
from Understand the Times:
Unbiblical
Roman Catholic heresy...
Motherhood and
abortion are two topics often viewed as separate. In fact, we
tend to focus almost exclusively on the child when condemning
the act. However, maternal love seen as an absolute value must
not be absent when addressing the tragedy of killing the unborn.
For children to be safe from harm, nothing must come between
mothers and their children.
As Catholics, we have a special knowledge of what having a
mother means. Maternal love surrounds us, engulfs us, and
consoles us in our churches, our homes and in our prayers.
Our heavenly mother listens and
speaks to us, and comforts us in many guises. She is present to
us under many names, such as Mother of Mercy, Mother of Help,
Mother of Divine Grace, and many more. Her splendid iconography
is omnipresent like the crucifix, her love shining forth through
the radiance of her face. Yet her loving presence is always
gentle. We know that she is always our last resort.
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February 10 - Francis: "When at Mass, don't look at your watch counting down the minutes till it's over"
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Mass offers the opportunity to
rediscover the real presence of God and enter into the mystery of the Lord. This
was Francis' message at today's mass in St. Martha's House.
"The Lord speaks to His people in
many ways: through the prophets, the priests, the Sacred Scriptures.
But with the theophanies, He speaks in another way, "different from the Word: it
is another presence, closer, without mediation, near. It is His presence."
"This, he explained,
happens in the liturgical celebration. The liturgical
celebration is not a social act, a good social act; it is not a gathering of the
faithful to pray together. It is something else. In the liturgy, God is
present," but it is a closer presence. In the Mass, in fact, "the presence of
the Lord is real, truly real." "When we celebrate the Mass,
we don't accomplish a representation of the Last Supper: no,
it is not a representation. It is something else: it is the Last Supper itself.
It is to really live once more the Passion and the redeeming Death of the Lord.
It is a theophany: the Lord is made present on the altar to be offered to the
Father for the salvation of the world."
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We hope the Weekly News In Review has been a
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Sincerely,
Roger Oakland
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Scientists worldwide
are creating bizarre human-animal hybrids that
could wreak havoc on society. In the past ten years alone, unforgettable
advances in the field of genetic modification have left researchers and
on-lookers stunned.
We live in a world where the security of our
finances is just as important of a concern as the security of our homes.
Identity theft, fraudulent payments, and accidental misuse of funds are all
realities in our fast paced economy.
The former chief economist at
the World Bank, Justin Yifu Lin, is
advising the Chinese government that the time has come for a single
global currency. Lin, who is also a professor at
Peking University, says that the U.S.
dollar "is the root cause of global financial and economic crises" and
that moving to a "global super-currency" will bring much needed
stability to the global financial system. And
considering how recklessly the Federal Reserve has been pumping money
into the global financial system and how recklessly the U.S. government
has been going into debt, it is hard to argue with his logic. Why would
anyone want to trust the United States to continue to run things after
how badly we have abused our position? The United States has greatly
benefited from having the de facto reserve currency of the planet for
the past several decades, but now that
era is coming to an end. In fact, the central bank of China has already
announced that it will no longer be stockpiling more U.S. dollars. The
rest of the world is getting tired of playing our game. Our debt is
wildly out of control and we are creating money as if there was no
tomorrow. As the rest of the world starts moving away from the U.S.
dollar, global power is going to shift even more to the East, and that
is going to have very serious consequences for ordinary Americans.
These
credit cards are dinosaurs. Every credit card in the U.S.
will be replaced by October 2015
with new cards that contain the chip-and-PIN technology that
the rest of the world has had for years,
according to the Wall Street Journal.
Have you ever seen someone
wearing Google Glass out at the bar? Like a real person at a
real bar actually wearing Google Glass? If so, you know how
absolutely ridiculous they look. Which may be the only
factor we have that will stop this:
Revelations of National Security Agency surveillance
programs have prompted
state lawmakers around the United States to propose
bills to curtail the powers of law enforcement to
monitor and track citizens.
Goode Intelligence predicts that
by the end of 2015 there will be 619 million people using biometrics on their
mobile devices. This not only refers to fingerprint biometrics but other
modalities including voice, eye, facial and behavioural biometrics.
The Department of Homeland
Security is set to activate a national
license plate tracking system that will be shared with law enforcement,
allowing DHS officers to take photos of any license plate using their
smartphone and upload it to a database which will include a "hot list" of
"target vehicles".
