New Catholics - Good Friday service has a collection each year which directly benefits the Church in the Holy Land, including medical care, education, upkeep of the holy sites, etc.
War has limited & stretched their resources.
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"Sometimes to find the light, we must first touch the darkness."
The main alter of my parish church, St. Mary's of Greenville, stripped on Holy Thursday night to commemorate the Passion of Christ.
The story of Good Friday is in one sense the most typical story of all: an authoritarian regime putting to death anyone who dares dissent, religious leaders more concerned with their own power than the truth, people eager to spit on anyone who calls out their hypocrisy.
Yet, it is also the strangest story of all: how an unjust act led to …
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Notes have become the playground of my writing. Sometimes an article gets started and then gets revised as I fine tune what I’m trying to say. The picture in this case is one that I took when I was at Christ The Good Shepherd in Saginaw, MI. One of many pictures I have in my collection.
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As the standard of living drops in America, more and more Americans are becoming fascists. This was probably planned over 50 years ago. First, ship the jobs and manufacturing plants to other countries, then import as many union busting immigrants as possible, then loot and steal and borrow and obstruct and blame it on the socialists. Anyone who opposes regulating capitalism and keeping money out of politics, is an enemy to the nation and God.
I would agree with your comment except "union busting immigrants"that sounds like it is taken from the right wing play book. Immigrants are not union busting. Either they are unskillled who do jobs that Americans won't or can't do for the wages the employers are willing to pay (you should have watched Last Week Tonight, last night. Or they are well educated and members of the upper class, like most Indian Americans (Nimrata Nikki Haley,. Dinesh D'Souza or Mehmet Oz, or Piers Morgan who migrate …
The reason I use the term, "union busting immigrants", is because I want to remind the right wing Reagan supporters of Ronald Reagan's stance on unions and his determination to bust the unions. We must never let the right forget that Reaganomics is what has almost solely destroyed America, especially free trade in the trickle down. I have always supported zero population growth and at the time was very opposed to free trade, I supported fair trade and no population growth and I was right. It's a little late for the religious to be concerned about global warming now and most aren't concerned anyway.
