Pipe Dreams. Dogma of a Catholic Dad.: Family

Thursday, December 1, 2011

New Family Advent Tradition

I know it just looks like a Log, but there was a significant amount of work that went into it, especially considering I don't use power tools.

This will be a new Advent tradition for me and the boy's every year, it is inexpensive and fun. We cut the log, chisel any knots off the bottom, plane it flat, so it doesn't roll, then drill the holes with a good old brace and bit. Quality time together, that can be offered up as penance (in the spirit of Advent) and it also builds tradition and work ethic. I was reminded of St Joseph and a young Jesus when I was showing my son how to use the wood plane.

Paul Kemp Jr.
Devoted Husband, Loving Father,Hockey Fanatic, Passionate Catholic.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Jaffe Memo-Manifesto of War on the Family

Flashback to 1969, the beginnings of an unholy alliance between Planned Parenthood and the United States Government, and so the seeds of war are planted. A war on Women, Men, Christian values and The American family.
US government officials asked Planned Parenthood to produce some suggestions for overpopulation. And so was borne the Jaffe Memo (pun intended) the document spelled out their "solutions." These "solutions are outlined over at the blog of Abby Johnson, the former clinic director for Planned Parenthood turned advocate for the pro-life movement.
The recommendations are disturbing, disgusting and horrific to say the least. It recommends eliminating tax deductions for children, forced sterilization through water treatment, promoting homosexuality, federal payments to those who do not have children, forced abortions and sterilizations...to name a few. As we all know these things are enforced policy in Communist China, and although not necessarily law in the US, have had and continue to keep a tight strangle hold on the modern family in American culture. This evil is choking the life out of the family as we know it.

“O Glorious Prince of the heavenly host, St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in the battle and in the terrible warfare that we are waging against the principalities and powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, against the evil spirits. Come to the aid of man, whom Almighty God created immortal, made in His own image and likeness, and redeemed at a great price from the tyranny of Satan. Amen.

Paul Kemp Jr.
Devoted Husband, Loving Father,Hockey Fanatic, Passionate Catholic.

References:
http://cantuar.blogspot.com
http://www.abbyjohnson.org/2011/11/jaffe-memo-no-more-babies/
http://www.abbyjohnson.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/jaffememo.pdf

Athanasian Creed:

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Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholic Faith is this, that we worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity. Neither confounding the Persons, nor dividing the Substance. For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Ghost is all One, the Glory Equal, the Majesty Co-Eternal. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Ghost. The Father Uncreate, the Son Uncreate, and the Holy Ghost Uncreate. The Father Incomprehensible, the Son Incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost Incomprehensible. The Father Eternal, the Son Eternal, and the Holy Ghost Eternal and yet they are not Three Eternals but One Eternal. As also there are not Three Uncreated, nor Three Incomprehensibles, but One Uncreated, and One Uncomprehensible. So likewise the Father is Almighty, the Son Almighty, and the Holy Ghost Almighty. And yet they are not Three Almighties but One Almighty.

So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not Three Gods, but One God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Ghost Lord. And yet not Three Lords but One Lord. For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords. The Father is made of none, neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone; not made, nor created, but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father, and of the Son neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.

So there is One Father, not Three Fathers; one Son, not Three Sons; One Holy Ghost, not Three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is afore or after Other, None is greater or less than Another, but the whole Three Persons are Co-eternal together, and Co-equal. So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity, is to be worshipped. He therefore that will be saved, must thus think of the Trinity.

Furthermore, it is necessary to everlasting Salvation, that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the right Faith is, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man.

God, of the substance of the Father, begotten before the worlds; and Man, of the substance of His mother, born into the world. Perfect God and Perfect Man, of a reasonable Soul and human Flesh subsisting. Equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and inferior to the Father as touching His Manhood. Who, although He be God and Man, yet He is not two, but One Christ. One, not by conversion of the Godhead into Flesh, but by taking of the Manhood into God. One altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by Unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one Man, so God and Man is one Christ. Who suffered for our salvation, descended into Hell, rose again the third day from the dead. He ascended into Heaven, He sitteth on the right hand of the Father, God Almighty, from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies, and shall give account for their own works. And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting, and they that have done evil into everlasting fire. This is the Catholic Faith, which except a man believe faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved.