
My son turns one today! What a blessing he has been. It’s amazing to watch him learn and see how he grows. This first year went fast and slow all at the same time.
What an awesome responsibility God gives us to raise His children. I will say it was nearly impossible for me to understand the Father’s love until I became a father myself. Thank You Lord.
Update: “The Years Go Fast. The Days Go Slow”

So I just finalized my list of penance items for Lent. Pray for me that I can accomplish them and grow from them.
1. 1 hour of TV per week
2. No Coke (all pop)
3. Coffee only 1 day per week
4. No reading news articles on my Blackberry (this could be the most difficult of the bunch as I’ve developed a habit of reading the news on my blackberry throughout the day – I promise to say a quick prayer when I grab for my vice, which should increase my prayer life a ton)
5. Restart a Morning Rosary
Now that I have a child TV is pretty much a luxury so I don’t think it will be that hard. Although I am going to allow myself to bank my hour for the week and use it a later time during lent. After all the Final Four starts April 3rd with Easter being April 4th.
My wife threw in vaccuming once a week and I asked her to do 30 minutes of spiritual reading or prayer every other day.
From the Catholic League
OBAMAS WOULD LIKE TO NEUTER CHRISTMAS
December 7, 2009
In yesterday’s New York Times, there was an article about White House social secretary Desirée Rogers. In it, reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote: “When former social secretaries gave a luncheon to welcome Ms. Rogers earlier this year, one participant said, she surprised them by suggesting the Obamas were planning a ‘non-religious Christmas….’”
This same participant said that “the Obamas did not intend to put the manger scene on display” (this was confirmed by the White House). Indeed, as Stolberg wrote, “there had been internal discussions about making Christmas more inclusive and whether to display the crèche.”
Catholic League president Bill Donohue addressed this issue today:
Unlike almost all Americans—including atheists—the Obamas do not give their children Christmas gifts. We know this because Barack bragged about this last year to People magazine. So it should come as no big surprise that he and his wife would like to neuter Christmas in the White House. That’s their natural step—to ban the public display of Christian symbols. Have any doubts? Last April, Georgetown University was ordered to put a drape over the name of Jesus as a condition of the president speaking there.
If the Obamas want to deprive their children of celebrating Christmas, that is their business. It is the business of the public to hold them accountable for the way they celebrate Christmas in the White House. We know one thing for sure: no other administration ever entertained internal discussions on whether to display a nativity scene in the White House.
Our president needs much prayer!
All I can say is keep flexing
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May you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving. May we all say a prayer of thanks for the blessings God has given us. We live in a free nation may we pray and work to allow it to remain so.
God Bless
Five years ago today my wife and I were married. It was a great day. It was one of those days I could live over and over. While at the time neither of us had a job we have come a long way. We honeymooned in Rome and then on the island of St. John with our friends. One of the greatest blessings our our life was that our marriage was blessed by none other than Pope John Paul II.

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Bishop Approves Needle Distribution
SAY WHAT?
“I understand there will be questions, but this is common sense,” says Sister Maureen Joyce, CEO of Catholic Charities.
Okay folks, in my mind this is just plain wrong. Is this not cooperating with evil? Are they going to hand out condoms next? I think Bishop Hubbard needs to hear from the folks in the pew and from his brother bishops.
Howard J. Hubbard, Bishop of Albany
Tel: (518) 453-6611
Fax: (518) 453-6795