Archive for 2010

October: The Month of the Rosary

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

The Seven Day Bible Rosary

A visitor to our website writes:
      “I was so pleased to meet you at the Mass at the Bible Institute last week. I have admired the Seven Day Bible Rosary and wanted to meet the person who wrote it. I am a convert. I guess since I didn’t learn of the Blessed Virgin as a young person, I didn’t have a knowledge or a relationship with her. My Community started the Preparation for Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary in union with St.Joseph. There is a lot of information about Mary, and I was having a really hard time with it because I was so used to praying to Jesus. I asked God to help me have a devotion to Mary–to love her as He wished me to — and as I was searching the Presentation Ministry web site I discovered the Seven Day Bible Rosary. I downloaded it, printed it out, and put it in a notebook. As I began to pray it– it has helped me so much– because I have trouble with distractions whern I’m praying the Rosary. The Biblical verses between each Hail Mary help me keep my mind on what I’m praying and I feel a real closeness growing with Mother Mary. The Lord has answered my prayer.
      I want to thank you for what I consider a marvelous help in my spiritual life.”

The Seven Day Bible Rosary can be downloaded for free.

Teaching the Tradition Against Unnatural Birth Control

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

The primary responsibility for convincing people not to use unnatural methods of birth control falls on the bishops and their priests.  The Nicene Creed is professed on 52 Sundays and a few other major feast days every year.  That provides priests with 52+ occasions on which to preach the acceptance of Catholic teaching on love and sex, as well as every other matter.  The same Holy Spirit who guided the bishops at Nicea guided the Tradition against contraceptive behaviors, guided the affirmation of Pius XI in Casti Connubii in 1930, guided the affirmation of Paul VI in 1968, and continues to guide the Church today.  Theology and science can uphold and explain the teaching, but only the well founded belief in the Spirit-led Magisterium provides the certainty required for action.

John F. Kippley
Sex and the Marriage Covenant

Eco-Breastfeeding and Theology of the Body

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

A mother writes:  I read Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood about a year ago and it brought so much peace as it reaffirmed my beliefs about the importance of this bond. Lately I have been trying to research my vocation as wife and mother so that I can cooperate fully with God in my vocation.
I have been saddened by books by good Catholic authors, but they seem to be folks who have children sleeping through the night soon after birth, a modern common parenting theme. This seemed to influence their parenting advice which I didn’t feel fully comfortable with. In my continued research regarding my vocation I was excited to come across works on Theology of the Body and felt this should also be explored with regards to breastfeeding.
I began to read some articles on this theology and ran across a stumbling block that caused me to research more. But after tears and frantic research, I pulled out Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood again and here Sheila so eloquently put into words all that God had led my heart to in my search to resolve this issue. And it seems to boil down to this: that an interpretation of the Theology of the Body which is not applied to Ecological Breastfeeding is certainly incomplete.

Sheila Kippley
Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood