Heard 2 wonderful Nuns talk at Mass this evening about the Sisters of Providence and the great work that they do. Sister Lucy and Sister Mary. Inspiring. So why is the Vatican pointing their boys club laser/microscope on one of the few things that makes me proud to be a Catholic - our wonderful committed Nuns who do such great work at such sacrifice? Like the beautiful and holy Virgin Mary.
Do they want to drive out the few remaining Nuns and make it a complete Male cluster-f..., er mess-up. So many bigger problems in the Catholic Church that need to be addresed and this is what Pope Benedict and the questionable Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith are up to. Really? Come on?
What keeps me going is that at my church I know I am part of a wonderful faith community that puts up with all the Archdiosece and Vatican bullshit and archaic rules and still makes me feel closer to grace.
When I take communion at Mass every week I know in my heart I am part of something bigger and far more important than Cardinal George and/or Pope Benedict and the very concerning Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
I just hope I am worthy of the Late Cardinal Bernadin, and all of our Saints and Martys, many of whom were Nuns (and women) that understood far better than me what Christ's words really mean.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
I am going to do two 100 mile bike rides in September (North Shore Century and Apple Cider Century) on behalf of the SmileTrain, an outstanding organization that provides cleft lip and palate surgeries for children in need. Please sponsor me. More details at the following website:
People are always amazed that my son Charlie was born with a cleft lip and palate because he is such a handsome (and in my unbiased opinion, also a wonderful) young adult. Charlie, and our entire family, benefitted from the fantastic doctors at the Rush Hospital Craniofacial Center, particularly Drs. John Curtin, John Polley and Alvaro Figueroa.
Our whole family is grateful that Charlie (pictured above with his sisters) was able to get the medical help he needed, but also saddened that so many children with cleft lips and palates do not. That is why I am riding to support The SmileTrain.
Help me and needy children by sponsoring me on my September bike rides.
The Tour de France ended over two weeks ago and I am still going through withdrawals. The 09 Tour was an awesome sporting event with following highlights:
· Contadour was amazing (too amazing?)
· Cavendish, the Manx Missile -Cav and Team Columbia were the stars of the 09 TdF
· The Contadour – Lance rivarly (09 just a start, 2010 TdF gonna be a grudge match)
· Nicki Sorensen bringing home a stage win for bike-crazy country of Denmark (Grandmother whom I never met and my mom barely knew (GM died when Mom was a baby) was born in Denmark; makes Danish my main ethnicity)
· Great Tour for France (a country I used to dislike but now thoroughly admire (when you’re right, you’re right (ie, Iraq, food, wine)) with wonderful stage wins, ie, the gritty Thomas Voelkler and young Brice Feillul
· George Hincapie (Team Columbia) getting screwed out of yellow by Garmin (Garmin – Columbia up there with OSU-Michigan as far as rivalries) and Astana (yup, still blame Astana, pulled too hard and too long at the lead).
· Phil and Paul – best sports announcers there are, ‘nuff said
· Paul Sherwin’s daily African proverbs (ie, “A roaring lion catches no prey”)
· Fabian Cancellara took prologue and was in yellow for a couple of days. Fabby and Roger Federer (Wimbeldon champ) gave Switzerland a brief domination of world sports and Fabby got my wife and daughters interested in the TdF (apparently they consider him a “hottie”).
Our vacation coincided with the 2nd week of the Tour which, since the vaca consisted of biking, beach and hanging out at a nice condo, worked out very well. Except the condo’s cable did not get Versus (premium channel?). Fortunately I figured out the Versus stream, which was not really intuitive (poorly constructed site by Versus this year) and watched some great stages in a streaming mode.
I biked in the morning, generally got home in time to watch some of the TdF and then posted about the TdF stage and read some biking friend’s posts on fb (fb definitely improved the TdF experience for me and certainly bewildered most of my nonbiking fb friends).
Cannot wait for 2010, in the meantime the Spanish Vuelta and Tours of Ireland and Missouri will have to do.
· Contadour was amazing (too amazing?)
· Cavendish, the Manx Missile -Cav and Team Columbia were the stars of the 09 TdF
· The Contadour – Lance rivarly (09 just a start, 2010 TdF gonna be a grudge match)
· Nicki Sorensen bringing home a stage win for bike-crazy country of Denmark (Grandmother whom I never met and my mom barely knew (GM died when Mom was a baby) was born in Denmark; makes Danish my main ethnicity)
· Great Tour for France (a country I used to dislike but now thoroughly admire (when you’re right, you’re right (ie, Iraq, food, wine)) with wonderful stage wins, ie, the gritty Thomas Voelkler and young Brice Feillul
· George Hincapie (Team Columbia) getting screwed out of yellow by Garmin (Garmin – Columbia up there with OSU-Michigan as far as rivalries) and Astana (yup, still blame Astana, pulled too hard and too long at the lead).
· Phil and Paul – best sports announcers there are, ‘nuff said
· Paul Sherwin’s daily African proverbs (ie, “A roaring lion catches no prey”)
· Fabian Cancellara took prologue and was in yellow for a couple of days. Fabby and Roger Federer (Wimbeldon champ) gave Switzerland a brief domination of world sports and Fabby got my wife and daughters interested in the TdF (apparently they consider him a “hottie”).
Our vacation coincided with the 2nd week of the Tour which, since the vaca consisted of biking, beach and hanging out at a nice condo, worked out very well. Except the condo’s cable did not get Versus (premium channel?). Fortunately I figured out the Versus stream, which was not really intuitive (poorly constructed site by Versus this year) and watched some great stages in a streaming mode.
I biked in the morning, generally got home in time to watch some of the TdF and then posted about the TdF stage and read some biking friend’s posts on fb (fb definitely improved the TdF experience for me and certainly bewildered most of my nonbiking fb friends).
Cannot wait for 2010, in the meantime the Spanish Vuelta and Tours of Ireland and Missouri will have to do.
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