The CatholiCity Message
Volume II, Number 37 – October 1, 1998
Dear CatholiCity Citizen,
It's the Feast of Saint Therese of Lisieux. The Red Sox have a fighting chance to beat the Indians. The world is all right.
1. BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
This week, let's all pray one Our Father right now. 10,000 Our Fathers changes the world forever. The intention: For grace for all CatholiCity Citizens who are taking care of disabled parents or relatives. For all CatholiCity Citizens who need to find employment. Next week, we can pray the Glory Be. "Our Father, Who art in heaven..."
2. PATRON SAINT OF SELLING BIG STUFF
About seven years ago, we know a man who needed desperately to sell a car. He put an ad in the paper. He had been in the habit before dinner of reading a brief summary from the lives of the saints, and was working our way through the saints listed in the first Eucharistic Prayer of the Mass. The night before the ad came out, the saint was Sixtus I, pope and martyr. At the time, he figured Sixtus wasn't getting much "action" in heaven. So he asked the saint to help sell his car. At 6 am the next day, he got a call and sure enough, the car was sold 45 minutes later. Since then, he told his friends, who have asked Sixtus to hlep sell other cars–and one friend even sold a house. Give Pope Saint Sixtus a try for the big stuff. One of our first popes, he was tortured and murdered by the Romans–part of the papal job description at the time. Compared to that, our big stuff must look like small stuff to him.
3. PIERCED BY A SWORD TRIVIA QUESTION
What was Karl Slinger's middle name? We'll announce the answer next week.
4. AWESOME EVOLUTION
No, we're not getting into the Creationism/Darwinism thing. We were struck this week by the Coming Home Journal. What started as a simple two page newsletter to help Protestant-Ministers- Considering-Becoming-Catholic has evolved into a premier apologetics bimonthly magazine with tremendous, well-written, charitable articles explaining and defending the Catholic Church. Almost all the writers are former Protestant ministers. We count Marcus Grodi, one of the co-founders of Coming Home, as a friend to CatholiCity, and we know these brave converts need donations to continue supporting ministers "making the transition" to Catholicism. For a gift of $25 a year, you get the Coming Home Journal. Tell 'em CatholiCity sent ya. Contact them at:
5. ENGLISH IS A CRAZY LANGUAGE
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger nor apple or pine in pineapple. We ship by truck, park in the driveway, drive on the parkway, sit in the stands. We have noses that run and feet that smell. We can be "pretty ugly." Houses burn up as they burn down.
6. THANKS MOM
For life.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"His power is made perfect in our weakness."
Saint Paul, 2 Corinthians 12:9
Until next week, we remain yours...
Yours in Christ,
Your Friends at CatholiCity
