Merry Christmas!

Hodie Christus natus est:
Hodie Salvator apparuit:
Hodie in terra canunt Angeli,
laetantur Archangeli
Hodie exsultant justi, dicentes:
Gloria in excelsis Deo,
Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.
Alleluia.


Merry Christmas!

Abortion

Fumare has a couple of great abortion-related posts. Check them out!

Abortion and Down Syndrome

What Has This World Come To?

Amazing Weekend

This past weekend was absolutely amazing. Saturday morning the religious group I'm a part of at school, the Frassati Society, went to pray at a local abortion mill with our campus chaplain. Before heading off, we were going to have Father say Mass. However, the local Vietnamese Catholic community has Mass in our chapel on Saturday mornings, so we attened their Mass. It was very interesting to hear Mass in Vietnamese. I've heard Mass in Latin, Italian, and Spanish before, but I understand a little of those languages. Vietnamese is completely foreign to me.

We stood outside in the street at the abortion mill. It was freezing cold and raining, but all of that seemed secondary to the good we hoped we were doing. After Mass, we went to a local McDonald's for breakfast, where Father met the relatives of a young lady from Honduras, who had recently been murdered along with her 3-year old daughter. Another child, an infant, was not harmed. Father got the adress of the young woman's mother and, after finding the house, we prayed a couple of decades of the rosary with the grieving family members.

Then Sunday, I receieved absolution in the Sacrament of Penance, and received Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist. Weekends don't get much better than this.

UPDATE: Monday night we went to the funeral home with Father to pray the rosary. Father has arranged for a Mexican priest to celebrate a funeral Mass for the woman and child. Please pray for the repose of their souls.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace.

Eternal rest grant unto them, oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace.

Advent

O come, O come Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel.
That mourns in lonely exile here,
Until the Son of God appear.

Rejoice, rejoice, O Israel
To thee shall come Emmanuel

O come thou root of Jesse free
Thine own from Satan's tyranny.
From depths of hell thy people save
And give them victr'y o'er the grave.

Rejoice, rejoice, O Israel
To thee shall come Emmanuel


I hope everyone has a blessed and fruitful Advent season.