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Labels: Bible, Faith and Family, Families, Pro-Life, Sex, Theology
posted by Pro Ecclesia 10:26 AM
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A convert to the Catholic Church who became Catholic because of a belief in and devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. * A graduate of Baylor University and the University of Virginia School of Law. * Former Mayor of the Town of Columbia, Virginia. * Married with four children: two boys and two girls. * Primary interests include the Catholic Church, family, Early American History, and law/politics * Primary purpose of this blog is fostering enlightened discussion about the roles played by the institutions of religion, family, and state in our daily lives. * Under the protection of St. Thomas More, martyr, and patron of lawyers, judges, civil servants, politicians, statesmen, and large families (not to mention troubled marriages).
Thomas More, counselor of law and patron of statesmen, merry martyr and most human of saints:
Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be able in argument, accurate in analysis, keen in study, correct in conclusion, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, trustworthy with confidences, courageous in court. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients' tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul.
Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain -- their good servant, and God's first. AMEN.
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Prayer to St. Thomas More for Lawyers and Judges
Dear Scholar and Martyr, it was not the King of England but you who were the true Defender of the Faith. Like Christ unjustly condemned, neither promises nor threats could make you accept a civil ruler as head of the Christian Church.
Perfect in your honesty and love of truth, grant that lawyers and judges may imitate you and achieve true justice for all people. AMEN.
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"Give me the Grace Good Lord, to set the world at naught; to set my mind fast upon Thee and not to hang upon the blast of men's mouths. To be content to be solitary. Not to long for worldly company but utterly to cast off the world and rid my mind of the business thereof."
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Litany of St. Thomas More, Martyr and Patron Saint of Statesmen, Politicians and Lawyers
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"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
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"What does it avail to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by Faith, but also know by Reason: what does it avail that you know Him if you think little of Him?"
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"The things that we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labour for."
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4 Comments:
Beware of any Catholic who comes bearing what he says is some new understanding or marital relations.
Ummm, where'd anyone ever get the idea that the Church was ever opposed to married couples fully enjoying the right use of their marital privileges?
Sorry, this is a kind of slander against the Church of the past. And Hugh Hefner? The guy is a deviant who in a rightly ordered society would be thrown in jail for pushing pornography.
I'm glad the guy is orthodox so far as contraception is concerned; but his "discovery" that sex is really great is something that the Church has been familiar with from the beginning, and has always defended against extremes of either kind, be it puritanism or libertinism.
West has the right idea, but it seems to me that in the interest of selling a few extra books, he's going out of his way to produce a few outrageous sound bites. Hugh Hefner a hero? Song of Songs as a guide for oral sex?
It's a shame because, as I said, he's on to something. The underlying message is in fact something to build upon. It's pity that he's wrapping his message in such hyperbole.
He stays with the bounds of having sex open to life and as an expression of love. However, statements like, "Christians must complete the sexual revolution." can be misunderstood. He might have meant it as when the Lord said, "He came not to do away with the Law but to bring it to completion" meaning to perfect it by going beyond legalism. With the sexual revolution, to complete it would mean to purify it and to elevate it as an selfless expression of love instead of a license to exploit every bit of sensual pleasure.
Beware any Catholic who makes his living from reinterpreting aspects of the Faith.
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