Do You Remember When In A Catholic Church One Could Hear A Cotton Ball Fall To The Floor?

It was pre-Vatican 11 when I was in Catholic Kindergarten & First Grade at St Mathias Catholic School on North Broad in New Orleans.

Little girls were not allowed to step even close to...certainly not onto or over the Church threshold of doorway without a veil upon her head.

And the Dominican Nuns would wack us behind our knees with a yard stick if we did not properly genuflect when & where they said we should.

And the priests about to go out of St Josephs of Ponchatoula who will be replaced by Diocesan FR Paul McDuffie on July 7, 2013 are of the same....Dominicans!

Folks including the Dominican Nuns & other educational teachers just like everyone else spoke with a New Orleans accent sounding more like: "NU Owlwwwwwwwwwwwwwwlinz" in that part.

And though I did not even learn my name until 5th Grade...see:   www.OhLetMeLiveLetMeLIveLetMeBeBorn.blogspot.com

Although in 1965-66 nor in 1966-67  I did not understand what the word Catholic was are meant...  all girls & boys knew we were "CAT-LICKS" because the nuns said so!

And girls and boys would not even dare bring chewing gum to school and what child would dare talk in line along the way....

Certainly not once in the church sanctuary!

One thing I can say I have heard my entire life from both protestants or self professed atheists...

For my experience has always been every that atheist like the devil Satan himself knows God exists...

Saying God does not exist in their own minds gives them the freedom of responsibility of living by the 10 Commandments and some even think licenses them to abuse others infringing upon their basic inalienable human rights.

And so I have heard folks who have large laundry lists against even the truly devout Catholics...not just the fakey flakey "Imitation Flavored" ones say:

" One thing I can say for the Catholics is you really know when you are in a Catholic Church!" 

This referred to the once was reverence in all Catholic Churches.

If these same people entered a Catholic Church today they would find disrespect for HIS Holy Sanctuary often even by the Ordained Priests and Deacons....some like St Joseph of Ponchatoula's Deacon Doctor MJ "Dutch" Schanzbach routinely speaks with profanity and on the eve of St Patrick's Day...Saturday Vigil Holy Mass at 5PM spoke profanity as part of his homily somehow expecting enthusiastic laughter but thank God did not receive the up roar of laughter he hoped for...only a sparse number laughed...though shockingly he did not shorten his homily after his brash choice of words...he actually seemed to lengthen it as if he was justifying himself!

This particular Saturday evening Holy Mass the Knights of Columbus had their Quarterly Communion so most of them were in their ceremonial dress costumes including hats with feather flumes & swords in sheaths...

Which though we know is handed down by tradition from long ago..
Jesus said:  "Put away the sword for thode who live by the sword shall die by the sword."

This is also the regular Holy Mass that the local Family Court Judge Katherine Yeargain assists at along with her Knight of Columbus husband John Yeargain.

Wonder what she thought of the Deacon Doctor's foul mouth jokes...I know she was not laughing!

We all know that the only salvation or justification anyone can receive is through the cross, blood and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Many to most folks cackle in HIS Holy Sanctuary no different than if they were in the neighborhood Pub Bar...or their own living room.

Very Sadly they do this even immediately following Holy Mass which means mere minutes after receiving our Lord's Body they have forgotten Who it is they just received!

They actually steal from themselves and others the very best part...the short period when our Lord is the absolute closest to us...the moment when HE is the readiest to heal our bodies of all malformities, diseases, and solve the greatest complications of our lives.

Let us pray that our new Pope Francis together with our Lord Himself will bring back the reverence lost in just a few decades.

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

: FrCharles Okeke updated his status: "Lauds (Almost all fled the Adoration/Benediction) At the Ador...

As I keep saying:  Many push away from themselves their heart's greatest desires without recognizing HIM in the breaking of bread with others..

 

They ask with their hands clinched in fists to fight and press off opportunities to give and thus with their hands and hearts closed in either hostility or self-justified self righteousness....

 

With same action cut themselves off from friendship and God's blessings..their greatest heat's desire!

 

Date: Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:44 AM
Subject: FrCharles Okeke updated his status: "Lauds (Almost all fled the Adoration/Benediction) At the Ador...
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facebook FrCharles Okeke FrCharles Okeke updated his status: "Lauds (Almost all fled the Adoration/Benediction) At the Adoration/Benediction that followed the the Vigil Mass of the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (New Year Eve), Matthew 26: 40 kept coming to mind: "When he (Jesus) returned to his disciples he found them asleep. He said to Peter, "So you could not keep watch with me for one hour?" At the Exposition of the Holy Eucharist, almost the entire congregation literally ran for the exit as if fleeing from the Lord. Of over 300 people that attended the vigil mass, just about fifteen remained for the Benediction. So sad. But despite such glitch, the Church is set to bloom in the years to come and is bound to be victorious in the end. May the Lord bless and keep us; may the Lord let His face shine upon us and be gracious to us; may the Lord look kindly upon us and give us peace in the year to come. Here's wishing all my facebook friends a blessed New Year." You are receiving this email because you've listed FrCharles Okeke as a close friend. Change Close Friend Notifications. View Post This message was sent to estherstephanadacan@gmail.com. If you don't want to receive these emails from Facebook in the future, please unsubscribe. Facebook, Inc., Attention: Department 415, PO Box 10005, Palo Alto, CA 94303

Wearing a Very Sexy Pale Blue Swanky Sexy Sweater, Stephanie W Told RCIA Class They Should War What They Would Wear to See Jesus!

Iroically Stephanie W Religious Educator at ST Joseph CAtholic....
Wore very sexy clothing as she taught new Catholics what they should wear to Holy Mass!

Vulgarity continues!

William & I have been thoroughly amused at the crazy behaviors of those who cut themselves loose...

Simply hilariously funny all that we had been folks do in both the Bohnigs and Winn-Dixie parking lots to catch a glimpse of the couple everyone is talking about...

He walks her in and asks for a sample which he blesses and breaks and shares with her.  Then orders either only 2 or 4 slices of low salt turkey or occasionally ham...

with a deli salad and a sack of rolls...unless they bought the rolls the night before.

They like to hear my dearest call me:  "My Sweetie-Pie" as he tenderly protectively walks me through the parking lot to our van shielding arrogant male gaukers from approaching me with their hands.

But these men & women who wish to have us as friends...they must change how they dress first before we will ever entertain conversation...

Instead of introducing themselves from a natural distance of a few feet away...

They have forced their way by confrontation...

Mary Ernst tried bull dozing us over with her shopping cart in the Bohnigs Super-Market and the big giant RED-Headed Roly-Poly always dressed in royal purple...at least one of her garments... has tried backing over me with her metallic colored small car.....more times than I am able to keep tract of....

But her venomous attacks come only once a week before the 5PM Vigil Mass!

I can understand why she is full of such rage...

She set her self up to be grumpy always by driving a vehicle that which the roof or ceiling is not tall enough for her.

She's a big big chunky woman...TALL but her gigantic abdomen weighs her UHGggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg...

Actually dragging her upper body down several inches crunching over her stomach...

Honestly....I am surprised she can rise up to or for any occasion at all...

But why she didn't buy herself a taller car...

But frustrates herself even more each time she ever goes out doors.

I cannot ever imagine her choosing to walk instead of drive and ride....

Soon and very soon....she and the rest...if they change not their aggressive revengeful behavior against us or against any one within our presence they will eventually be caught on EstherStephanada's Camera!

And the only mercy they will be shown is to made the "Uncovered Villain on the BLOGS 5, 6, or 10PM NEWS"

Cameras ROLL'N

Our Words and Actions Do Matter Always...We Create Our Enviroment Ourselves....So Never Complain to Anyone But Yourself!

Regardless what your circumstances are...

For many things are out of our control.

 

We can accept that which we cannot change while choosing to speak only kind words that do not divide but lift high and heal...

Pure kind words that heal body soul and mind regardless how snoody and grumpy a rough stiff-necked one is to you you cany-can -can stead of returning his our her own jealous hardboiled..carborator chewing vulgarity back.

 

You can simply say as I have to such a prune:  "Sory you feel so bad...hope your better soon!"

But never let such a snot drag you down from the clouds where you have flown upon HIS Holy Wings of fire...

 

Remember every man woman and child was created in the unique image of Almighty God and each one was given the ability to love...for love is what we were created for....and let not those who refuse to receive your love and return it...never let one of these grumpy grump bumps an a log get you down.

 

Tell them to wear blue without being blue..that if you do in spite of their behavior towards you....then they can wear blue without being blue or stewed and can change their grumps to a cheery mood and be included more often any where any time...

 

For a cheerful love giving one without an angry jealous spirit...

Is always more than welcomed but always sought after for their joy & laughter not only instantly fills any room...

But spills out into each one who in turn spills and spreads it in just as many directions an all have much affection for such a one who choose to never be blue nor let any lemon sour-graper

poison their dispostion, but rather simply blesses their day and moves onto meet and greet those who walk in shoes of peace and never folly.

 

Interesting That Truck Stop Bathrooms Are Cleaner Than Those of Saint Anselm of Madi sonville Louisiana....Home to Millionaires!

Our Lord has been requiring us to experience first hand ourselves all things that former inmates/former prisoners will encounter and need help to rise above... after they successfully complete www.TheCarpentersFriend.com programs and are released into society.

Being that each rent we have attempted to live in both in Charlotte, Concord, and Kannapolis North Carolina...from "Grace Properties on Kings Highway in Shreveport to Villas of Hammond in Hammond Louisiana have all turned out to be very unsafe....  For example...

In Villas of Hammond we actually had to fight off Knights of Columbus males who sought to fraternize with me attempting to avoid my husband.

And my William likewise could not sit and use the community computer unless I joined him....otherwise disgruntled angry divorced females would attack him worse than the males after me.

We were even propositioned by married Catholics...certainly they are Catholic in "Name only" for Our Lord said:  "Only those who do the wil of my heavenly father will I acknowledge before HIM!  AWAY FROM ME YOU EVIL DOERS...  I DO NOT KNOW YOU!"

We have camped in many parks...in Tickfaw the same week my Aunt Joan Carroll Cruz died and was buried, we were intimidated by someone haven removed the fly from top of our tent, so we have done some travelling, slept in several different environments....always laying down on our cots in our extended van....which has been far safer and more comfortable than the tent or any rents we have tried living in across this great country.

Amazing that in Truck Stops from Louisiana to Florida, Minnesota & New York...the truckers are more respectable than Catholics of ST Gabriel Charlotte NC, ST James of Concord, or ST Anselm of Madisonville....

Where after the Saturday & Sunday Masses whether Sunday night or Monday morning...the bathroom floors are always covered with wadded up paper towels and even "feminine products" and other shocking filth!

Yet in Trucker Stops across the United States...bathrooms are always immaculate clean!  And do not erroneously think that the cleaning crew spends more work hours in keeping it that way!

NO!   William has found the male trucker bathrooms in the same respected condition that I have found the female ones.

Yes Jesus came as a sign of contradiction...Did HE NOT?

My father and others often used the saying as I grew up... Not only:  "She talks like a sailor!"   But also: "She sounds like a trucker to me!"

But the truckers both male & female have more honor & respect for others and themselves than the "St Anselm Galla" billionaires of Madisonville and ST Gabriel of Charlotte who sit themselves on thrones above others and never accompany their children into bathrooms.who wear their clothes vulgarly sinfully tight...causing some good hearted men's consciences to shutter just to look up at the altar as readings are read...

So this week William made a profound statement.

"God wants us to experience everything the former inmates will have to endure after their release."

Society has a whole has always been harsh and unforgiving...the very lack of compassion that has actually caused some of these inmates to commit their first crimes...

When young men cannot find jobs; when folks pound the pavement seeking employment but n one will give them he opportunity to work and to serve...

These folks still get hungry.  These folks still need shelter and basic necessities.

When they cannot find their way...usually they return to the same streets that captured them into crime the first time.

So now we The Carpenters Friend are being shown by God to "Enlarge the horizons of our dreams!" 

Just as God enlarged the territory of Jabez...

God yearns to give you and I...each man woman and child who ever calls on HIM infinitely more than we can ask think dream or imagine.

It is not enough to merely teach inmates carpentry or welding and to help place them into jobs and follow them.

We must anticipate every possible stumbling block that could possibly stand in the way of their successful transition into their communities.

William & I with Jeremiah eyes are visioning The Carpenters Friend as much more than a training program...

For just as few will hire former inmates, often no different than William & I...our families not approving of our work...

Not all inmates have families yearning to take them back into their hearts and homes upon their release.

We must teach them, then after release provide dormitory style apartments with cafeteria.  So after they work hard all day on their jobs, they can return home where they will have neighbors who are either like themselves recovering from a past...which all folks no matter who you are....all folks have a past that has not been perfect.

Only folks who are not afraid to say who they once were and where they once was...only these can sing:  "I WAS ONCE LOST, NOW I AM FOUND....  I WAS BLIND & NOW I SEE!"

Only these can be used in an extraordinary way by GOD...

And we The Carpenters Friend are determined to help them travel down the narrow path through the narrow gate.

Catholic Church is Universal Yet Holy Mother Church Fragments Herself

Most Folks know that the Holy Catholic Church is the only Christian Church that can trace its roots all the way back to Jesus Christ Himself for it is the church HE began.

"Catholic" translates to:  "universal". Regardless if one goes to Mass in their home town or in Rome it is the same.

Yet here in the United States Catholic Archdioceses require that Catholics register in the Catholic Parish they attend.  This is for financial purposes in that now days there is such thing as "Diocesan Priests" who are not at all "Sacrificially Suffering Servants" in the sense Our Lord was and how all Catholic Priests were at one time.

Diocesan Priests receive salaries, medical benefits and  401 K retirement  no different than is they were President of Ford, Chrysler or Wal-Mart Companies.... based upon how much you give to their parish churches collection basket.

There was a time that all priests were content to serve simply trusting God to meet their needs.
Still today priests brothers and nuns who are in Orders...not Diocesans receive a meager monthly stipend but typically that $20.00 a month stipend they give to someone in need knowing God places on the heart of another who will drop off what ever they need that they lack as they need it.

And so the sad truth is many Diocesan Priests lack the true spirit of the priesthood and notice who gives what
and treats them differently...and not as they should.  Thank heaven this is not so of all Diocesan Priests but for it to be true of even one...

It is one too many.