Die Buchwalds

Just found this lovely post from After Abortion which links to an interesting article. All I have to say about it is that marketing can be a scary thing.

Posted in Catholicism,Life | By Amy at 5:14 pm | Comments(0)

Call this a mini-carnival, if you will…
‘Tis the season, I suppose, to talk about life issues. I read about them on a daily basis, and if somebody asked, I’d tell them what I thought, but for the most part, I don’t dwell too much… until January rolls around. Then I start to think about The Trip. I dread it, and yet, somehow, I live for it. I’m speaking, of course, of the annual March for Life held in Washington, DC, on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade (or the Monday following, as it will be this year).

I offer some of my personal thoughts, a few prayer requests, and some other timely bloggings:

This will be my 10th march and Matt’s first. We’ll be travelling with the group from Beloved Disciple. The short & sweet summary is that we will leave Sunday at 11:30pm, arriving Monday at 7ish at the Basilica for Mass (broadcast live on EWTN) followed by the journey to the Elipse for the Rally and March. Afterwards, we’ll travel home, arriving back at the church at 11:30pm on Monday night. A whirl-wind journey, but worth every minute. I’m excited to be able to finally share this day with Matt so that he’ll see first hand why it’s so important to me. In some ways, it’s more of a pilgrimage than a political effort. I think a large part of that comes from being so surrounded by other people of faith – and not just fellow Catholics. There are so many other faith groups represented, it’s an amazing experience to see so many different types of people from all walks of life join together for the same cause.

Father Tharp, of Ragemonkey fame, has a guest column published at Crisis Magazine’s website. He expresses how this effort has touched his life very very personally. On Sunday, everyone should pop over to the blog & wish him a Happy Birthday.

Funky Dung at Ales Rarus posts some important information for college students who might be looking for a way to get involved in the March. He also advertises for a rally held this evening. I regret not pointing to his post sooner.

Everyone should read these two blogs often: After Abortion and The S.I.C.L.E Cell

Lastly, a few prayer requests. Please pray for a woman whose body is not giving her doctors enough clear answers to confirm or deny a pregnancy, for a woman who recently had an abortion for the sixth time, and for a woman who is “on the fence”, so to speak. Pray also for all expectant mothers and fathers and those hoping to soon become expectant mothers and fathers.

edited to add: I just discovered that Cardinal Egan will not be principal celebrant at the Mass again this year as I had previously thought. We get Cardinal McCarrick, instead.

Posted in Catholicism,Life | By Amy at 10:03 pm | Comments(0)

…as usual.
Funky Dung writes today about his dislike of trolls. Mr. Buchwald & I agree whole-heartedly. Matt’s been getting a little taste of first hand experience over at Nuklear LORD where he serves as co-sysop. The trolling on the forums is not very fun, or family friendly and it’s really annoying. I’ve concluded that trolls are male only and have not met any women, aside from possibly their mothers. The latest troll alleges that he’s wasted time editing one of our pictures with PhotoShop & circulated it online. Let the scavenger hunt begin! Or not.

*start Nuke-plug* While I’m on the subject of LORD, if you’re looking for a fun, text-based way to waste a few minutes on every day, though, we recommend playing the game. *end Nuke-plug*

Posted in Housekeeping | By Amy at 11:32 pm | Comments(1)

Tonight’s RCIA session was A Short Course on Paul. Two word summary: Paul rocks. I mean, really, I knew a lot of the New Testament was his letters to the early Christian communities, but until tonight I’d never seen so much of the good stuff put together in one spot. Talking about all that good stuff sent us in some interesting directions & brought up some wonderful questions and thoughts.
My favorite mini-discussion of the evening was about salvation. Paul talks about salvation as a gift. It was brought up that protestants like to point this out to Catholics and say “See? It’s a gift! You don’t have to earn it!” Paul does, though, also talk about working out our salvation. The presenter explained it as faith, which comes from grace (a gift from God), worked out in love. Another in class made the analogy that yes, it’s a gift, but you can’t just leave it in the box and put it on the shelf. You have to take it out & use it. She looked at it from the perspective of a child receiving a gift… if the child doesn’t use the gift and it sits, still in its packaging, mom will take it back to Wal-Mart.

Posted in Catholicism | By Amy at 10:03 pm | Comments(0)

2. I don’t like leftovers. My theory is that if there are more people, it will be easier to cook & have less leftover food.

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