My Bible Favorites ~ Feast of the Holy Family ~ Honor Thy Parents

In this reading, the bible tells children not to grieve their fathers... and in turn... their mothers will be happy.

On the Feast of the Holy Family (this Sunday, 2012 Dec 12) there are 2 options for the 1st Reading and this was the 1st Option.

It'll be nice to go to church as a family... especially this Feast of the Holy Family.

Note that Sirach = Ecclesiasticus.

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Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph 

1st Reading:

Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 or 

Ecclesiasticus 3:2-6, 12-14

God sets a father in honor over his children;

a mother's authority he confirms over her sons.

Whoever honors his father atones for sins,

and preserves himself from them.

When he prays, he is heard;

he stores up riches who reveres his mother.

Whoever honors his father is gladdened by children,

and, when he prays, is heard.

Whoever reveres his father will live a long life;

he who obeys his father brings comfort to his mother.

My son, take care of your father when he is old;

grieve him not as long as he lives.

Even if his mind fail, be considerate of him;

revile him not all the days of his life;

kindness to a father will not be forgotten,

firmly planted against the debt of your sins

--a house raised in justice to you.

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Note: Not necessary to read here on wards. For reference only.

Here's the whole... 

Mass Readings and Responsorial Pslam...

for the Feast of the Holy Family.

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..... http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/123012.cfm USCCB »  Bible »  Daily Readings December 30, 2012 « December 29  |  December 31 » Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Lectionary: 17 Reading 1 Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 God sets a father in honor over his children; a mother's authority he confirms over her sons. Whoever honors his father atones for sins, and preserves himself from them. When he prays, he is heard; he stores up riches who reveres his mother. Whoever honors his father is gladdened by children, and, when he prays, is heard. Whoever reveres his father will live a long life; he who obeys his father brings comfort to his mother. My son, take care of your father when he is old; grieve him not as long as he lives. Even if his mind fail, be considerate of him; revile him not all the days of his life; kindness to a father will not be forgotten, firmly planted against the debt of your sins --a house raised in justice to you. Or 1Sm 1:20-22, 24-28 In those days Hannah conceived, and at the end of her term bore a son whom she called Samuel, since she had asked the LORD for him. The next time her husband Elkanah was going up with the rest of his household to offer the customary sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vows, Hannah did not go, explaining to her husband, "Once the child is weaned, I will take him to appear before the LORD and to remain there forever; I will offer him as a perpetual nazirite." Once Samuel was weaned, Hannah brought him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and presented him at the temple of the LORD in Shiloh. After the boy's father had sacrificed the young bull, Hannah, his mother, approached Eli and said: "Pardon, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood near you here, praying to the LORD. I prayed for this child, and the LORD granted my request. Now I, in turn, give him to the LORD; as long as he lives, he shall be dedicated to the LORD." Hannah left Samuel there. Responsorial Psalm Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5. R. (cf. 1) Blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways. Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways! For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; blessed shall you be, and favored. R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the recesses of your home; your children like olive plants around your table. R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways. Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD. The LORD bless you from Zion: may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways. Or Ps 84:2-3, 5-6, 9-10. R. (cf. 5a) Blessed are they who dwell in your house, O Lord. How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. R. Blessed are they who dwell in your house, O Lord. Happy they who dwell in your house! Continually they praise you. Happy the men whose strength you are! Their hearts are set upon the pilgrimage. R. Blessed are they who dwell in your house, O Lord. O LORD of hosts, hear our prayer; hearken, O God of Jacob! O God, behold our shield, and look upon the face of your anointed. R. Blessed are they who dwell in your house, O Lord. Reading 2 Col 3:12-21 Brothers and sisters: Put on, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection. And let the peace of Christ control your hearts, the peace into which you were also called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as in all wisdom you teach and admonish one another, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Wives, be subordinate to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and avoid any bitterness toward them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they may not become discouraged. Or Col 3:12-17 Brothers and sisters: Put on, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection. And let the peace of Christ control your hearts, the peace into which you were also called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as in all wisdom you teach and admonish one another, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Or1 Jn 3:1-2, 21-24 Beloved: See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. And so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God and receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. And his commandment is this: we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he commanded us. Those who keep his commandments remain in him, and he in them, and the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit he gave us. GospelLk 2:41-52 Each year Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions, and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety." And he said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" But they did not understand what he said to them. He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart. And Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and favor before God and man. Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States, second typical edition, Copyright © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; Psalm refrain © 1968, 1981, 1997, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved. Neither this work nor any part of it may be reproduced, distributed, performed or displayed in any medium, including electronic or digital, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

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Good ~ Hazel Nut Chocolate ~ Hanuta Minis ~ from Germany

My colleague just came back from Germany. This tastes like a higher quality Ferrero Rocher.

 

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Today's Comic Strips

The ones I like...

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Today's Comic Strips ~ 2012 Nov 26, 1012hrs

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Cockroach ~ Catch the cockroach for chance to win a New iPad!

Warning! this "game" will download a
Virus to your computer. If you see this "game"...
Do Not Play it.

What you see below in this Blog Post... is
safe because I have managed to disable it.

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Title: Cockroach ~ Catch the cockroach for chance to win a New iPad!
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Recipe ~ Aloo Gobi (an Indian Potato Cauliflower) Dish

Recipe

~ Aloo Gobi

~ Indian Potato Cauliflower Dish

Aloo = Potato

Gobi = Cauliflower

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Aloo Gobi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloo_gobi

Aloo Gobi (Hindi: आलू गोभी)(Urdu: آلو گوبی‎), also spelled as 'alu gobi' or 'aloo gobhi' and 'alu gawbi' ) is a dry Indian, Nepali and Pakistani cuisine dish made with potatoes (aloo), cauliflower(gob(h)i) and Indian spices. It is yellowish in color, due to the use of turmeric, and occasionally contains kalonji and curry leaves. Other common ingredients include garlic, ginger, onion, coriander stalks, tomato, peas, and cumin. A number of variations and similar dishes exist, but the name remains the same.

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Motivational Poster ~ This man is 74 years old, what is your excuse?

This man is 74 years old, 

what... is... your excuse?

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Quote ~ If you want something...

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If you want something in life you've never had, 

you'll have to do something you've never done.

~ JD Houston

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Another Reason To Love ~ "Mild Personality Disorder" ~ by PGA

As I read some articles while surfing the internet, I started to think of the problems husbands & wives have with each other, old parents with their grown-up children, and basically the problems people have with each other in general. The answer, for me at least, are in these words... "Mild Personality Disorder". It does not explain much, but it does help... explain to me... and it helps me understand, although explaining it will be difficult. I don't know if this explanation will help others as well.

All of us have, to some degree, a personality disorder of some kind... not necessarily significant enough to be admitted to a Mental Institution, but a "Mild Personality Disorder" just the same. This means, we will never be able to fully understand each other. All we can do is to continue loving each other, with this understanding that we all have a "mild" personality disorder that prevents us from being the person that our loved ones expect of us... and we... of our loved ones.

It is through unpleasantness that we really understand the meaning of what it means to love. For if everything was nice & smooth... loving would be too easy... and we are not really tested on what it really means to love.

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I thought it was very funny when I first saw it.

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Batman (Bat Man) ~ Gone Cuckoo

Click on picture to enlarge.

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Buah Keluak

I love this nut. I love this dish.

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Joke ~ The Difference between Complete and Finished

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Joke ~ The Difference between Complete and Finished

No English dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference between the two words.

In a recently held linguistic competition held in London, England attended by the best in the world, Samsundar Balgobin, a Guyanese man was the clear winner with a standing ovation lasting over 5 minutes.

Here is his answer which made him receive an invitation to dine with the Queen afterwards who decided to call him after the contest. He won a trip to travel the world in style and a case of 25 year old Eldorado rum for his answer.

His final question was this…

How to explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED in a way that is easy to understand.

Some people say there is no difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED.

Here is his astute answer…

When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE. 

And when you marry the wrong woman, you are FINISHED. 

And when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!

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Words For Teenagers ~ by a Judge to a Principal, John Tapene

Read the different views...

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Words For Teenagers ~ by a Judge to a Principal, John Tapene

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Here's one view...

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..... http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=295828847184561 http://www.facebook.com/alvinfrichard/posts/428899953830804 http://www.facebook.com/EnterArena/posts/367930049968478 This needs to be passed around.... The more teens read it, the more they may, just MAY grow up a little.....  This goes for some Adults who act like teens, they need to grow up too!  If you find this offensive, GOOD! If the cap fits... Wear it!! ;) {"Northland College (NZ) principal John Tapene has offered the following words from a judge who regularly deals with youth. "Always we hear the cry from teenagers 'What can we do, where can we go?'  My answer is, "Go home, mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons, and after you've finished, read a book. Your town does not owe you recreational facilities and your parents do not owe you fun.  The world does not owe you a living, you owe the world something. You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war, in poverty or sick and lonely again." In other words, grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone, not a wishbone. Start behaving like a responsible person. You are important and you are needed. It's too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday. Someday is now and that somebody is you."}

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But wait... here's an opposing view... which I thought was quite good.

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..... Words for teenagers meme Posted on 11 August, 2012 http://eclipsenow.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/words-for-teenagers-meme/ There's this Facebook meme doing the rounds called "Word's for teenagers". At first I thought it had some good points. Sure it's a Judge having a rant, so I made some allowances for it being a little intolerant. Especially of youth. Especially as he has to convict them all the time. Then I thought about it some more. Now, while we ALL know some teenagers that probably need this rant (below) tatooed onto their foreheads, I'm still troubled by it. Disturbed in fact. {"Northland College (NZ) principal John Tapene has offered the following words from a judge who regularly deals with youth. "Always we hear the cry from teenagers 'What can we do, where can we go?'  My answer is, "Go home, mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons, and after you've finished, read a book. Your town does not owe you recreational facilities and your parents do not owe you fun.  The world does not owe you a living, you owe the world something. You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war, in poverty or sick and lonely again." In other words, grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone, not a wishbone. Start behaving like a responsible person. You are important and you are needed. It's too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday. Someday is now and that somebody is you."} The problem is that it's one big finger pointing at the bored kid who acted out in some socially unacceptable fashion, and that big finger just says it's YOUR FAULT! And no doubt many things are their fault. But here's something the Judge doesn't have:- • Peer pressure that is so overwhelming it feels like the end of the world when your group turns their back on you for being uncool. • Raging hormones that tell you the world is fine one moment, and falling apart the next. • Massive identity questions, and every corporation in the world eagerly trying to shape your identity moving forward into the future. The Judge knows who he is. This (hypothetical) kid... • • does not know who he is,  • • has never earned a serious pay-cheque or  • • balanced the books or  • • had to say no to a door to door salesman or  • • maybe even kissed a girl yet. But worse than all this basic life development stuff is the fact that today is an era crying out for role models that actually inspire kids. Who do they turn to? Action heroes? Comic book stereotypes? With divorce rates as high as they are, marriage and parenthood are probably not being modelled. With alcoholism and gambling and TV addiction and substance abuse as high as they are in the adult population these kids are meant to look up to… is it any wonder kids today look for the easy quick fix, and long for entertainment and escape? Because they are on the run. They're on the run from themselves and their identity problems, from their parent's divorce, from their parent's generation failing to solve global problems like global warming and energy security and saving the tiger and whales and fresh water supplies and poverty and malaria and everything else we see on the messed up TV every night.  So while the Judge certainly can point his finger at this hypothetical kid, there's a finger pointing right back, asking who this Judge is and what he's done to help make this world a place the kid actually wants to belong to. Because when you think about what the last 2 generations have done to this kid's future, with global warming and peak oil and biodiversity loss and rainforest destruction and bland suburban sprawl robbing the kid of any real connection to his neighbourhood, then isn't this really a case of the pot calling the kettle black?

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Reading Vs Computer Software

Hahah! Was tickled by this...

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I've learnt that... it's called reading,
It's how people install new
software into their brains.

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a prayer, a poem, a blessing...

an Irish Blessing

~ May there always be work for your hands to do

~ May your purse always hold a coin or two
~ May the sun always shine on your windowpane
~ May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain
~ May the hand of a friend always be near you
~ May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you

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Trust

If you cannot trust your own family, how to trust your friend?

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