The CatholiCity Message

Volume VII, Number 7 – May 5, 2003

Dear CatholiCity Citizen,

Easter Greetings. We're all over the map today. Let's roll!

1. BODY BLOW
We've never been as excited about a new free audio release as we are about the one we're preparing right now at the Mary Foundation. As always, CatholiCity Citizens are going to have first dibs–and have dibs this month.

We'll give you some hints. Theological Time Bomb. Go West Young Man. It all has to do with the themes we've been sharing with you all year. Keep your eye on your inbox, friends.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often."
Cardinal Newman

2. PREDIGESTED
We often wonder if the folks at McDonald's ever actually eat their own hamburgers. We do like those steak, egg, and cheese bagels, though.

JOKE OF THE WEEK
Little Tommy goes into the confessional and begins, "Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I was with a loose woman."

"Tell me, Tommy," Father McBride says through the screen kindly, "who is this young lady?"

"I'd rather not say, Father."

"I'm going to find out one way or another, so you might as well tell me. Was it Maureen McGillicuddy?"

"Father, I really don't think I should say..."

"Was it Ellen Smith?"

"Father, please, I'm not sure I should tell you."

"Was it Bonnie Heywood?"

"Father, my lips are sealed."

"Very well then, Tommy. I'll give you absolution, but I'm very disappointed in your silence, and I'm afraid that as your penance, I cannot allow you to serve as altar boy for two months."

"Yes, Father."

When Tommy leaves the confessional, he is greeted by his friend Billy, who is waiting in line. "So, how did it go, Tommy?" Billy asks.

"Excellent," Tommy replies excitedly. "I got a two month vacation and three good leads."

3. GETTING THE JUMP ON MAY 11
Here is a poem about our mom:

Beauty to beauty's lover
No tombstone nor volume
exists that could cover
the lovely, loving depths
of my dearest, my mother.

Happy Mother's Day, Mom, and to all the moms reading this.

4. OUTNUMBERED
PriestsforLife has set up a database of all 700 abortions clinics in the U.S. and lined them up with the 17,000 parishes nearby. They are providing prayers for Catholics at those parishes to give merit the grace needed to reduce abortions and close the mills. More info here to get your parish involved:

http://www.priestsforlife.org/mills/

5. THE RUB
There's no explaining it. For all our life, since we were little, we've been lucky. Things go our way. We don't try for this. How can anyone learn to be lucky? Even apparent disasters turn out to be blessings in disguise. It just happened again in April. No need to go into the details. It's not positive thinking, either.

And strangely enough, we've always found that people who know us have things start going their way, too, even strangers who bump into us along the way. It's good to know someone who is lucky. Luck is like a magnet–it rubs off with enough rubbing. Has it started for you, yet?

Practically every Little League team we were on won the championship–even though we were the worst player. It's uncanny. Now you're in. Just a matter of time. We don't cause it–we know that for sure. It just happens. And we like it. And if it stops happening, that's fine with us. We never asked to be lucky. Our brother is luckier than we are. Maybe it rubbed off him onto us.

6. GOLF AND LIGHT
We don't like golf. Sorry. We do like when we get that extra hour of daylight. Spring forward!

Next time you hear from us, we'll tell you about the new free recording from the Mary Foundation. Lock on. Go to town. Let's all 70,000 of us end with a prayer, one of our favorites...our morning offering, in fact...

"Dear Lord, we don't know what will happen to us today. We only know that nothing will happen that was not foreseen by You and directed to our greater good from all eternity. We adore your holy and unfathomable plans and submit to them will all our hearts for love of You, the pope, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Amen."

And Amen. Wishing you good fortune...

With Christ,

Your Friends at CatholiCity