The Weekly Bulletin of the Catholic Community at the Family Foundation School
Pauca Verba (a few words)
Number 48 – November 15, 2009
“Boys do what they want to do while men do what they have to do.”
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A female staff member tells of doctor saying to her once: “You’d make a good mistress.” Not, “a good mother,” not “a good wife.” Young woman, what or who are you becoming?
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Want to turn your life into something new? Start at once to practice love, compassion and kindness around here. You’ll start to feel VERY happy.
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Dan Spencer, an Advisory Board Member of the Anti-Pornography Initiative in Kansas City, said to an audience of men: “It is the single largest battle, in my opinion – the battle of pornography. There are men in this audience here – and not just one or two – who are addicted to pornography. This sexual ‘Katrina’ is destroying homes, families, men, our society, our Church. This is enormous.”
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On Smiling
A smile costs nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it, and none is so poor but that he can be made rich by it. A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in business, and is the confirmation of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and it is natures’ best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. (Anonymous)
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The First Sunday of Advent is November 29. Then there are three Saturdays with very beautiful Masses between that first Sunday and Christmas night. We keep those special early Saturday morning Masses in a very beautiful way here. Each is called the Rorate Mass because the first line of the Mass in Latin says, “Rorate, caeli, desuper, et nubes pluant justum: aperiatur terra, et germinet Salvatorem.” which translates, “Drop down dew, ye heavens from above, and let the clouds rain the just one: let the earth be opened and bud forth a Saviour.”
We meet in the darkness and carry lighted candles up the hill to the chapel. Get it? Up and out of darkness into light! Mass is celebrated by candle-light. Chris Belyea tells that coming to these Masses was a turning point in his life. He wanted to be part of this community of happy believers. Weeks later he helped to build the snow-altar in an ice-blizzard for the feast of the Epiphany. Get ready!
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Greeting to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Hail, holy Lady!
Most holy Queen,
Mary, Mother of God,
yet a virgin forever!
Chosen by the most high holy Father in Heaven
and by him with his most holy beloved Son
and the Spirit Paraclete consecrated!
You in whom there was and there is all the
fullness of grace and everything good!
Hail, his palace!
Hail, his tabernacle!
Hail, his home!
Hail, his vesture!
Hail, his handmaiden!
Hail, his mother
And hail, too all you holy virtues,
which by the grace and light of the Holy Spirit
are infused into the hearts of the faithful
to make of the faithless, faithful children of God!
Saint Francis of Assisi
