Our Lady of Fatima, High Church Baptist

This is the email I recieved:

Today begins the ninth of the apparition of the Virgin of Fatima : When you receive the email say a Hail Mary and ask for a special favour
"Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
(your request)
Please do not break the Novena, send it to 12 people you think deserve justice, peace, love, health, prosperity and truth.

Okay, that's nice, I have nothing against a Novena. The prayer is wrong, there is a prescribed prayer for each day to be followed by three Hail Marys, three Our Fathers and three Glory be's.

The only thing that puzzles me is why this email is forwarded to me by someone who is a dyed in the wool Baptist and always has been?

Good Friday

And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots:

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,

They parted my garments among them,

and upon my vesture did they cast lots.
And sitting down they watched him there;
And set up over his head his accusation written,
THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Book Burning in Shreveport

Excerpt:
About 30 people gathered for a regional revival Friday night that included a book burning as a statement to reach out to local residents.
"It is allowed for Harry Potter to be taught in our schools, but not the Bible," International House of Prayer pastor James Crawford said during the Shreveport Regional Unity of Faith Revival.
That is one reason pastors from several denominations and races ripped pages from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Those and pages from a pornographic magazine were put into a burn pit and set afire as praises bellowed from the congregation.
"As I tore the pages, I felt a generational curse of immorality and perversion breaking off my family," Adriane Banks said. "I felt it."
The book burning was a statement to reach out to people in Shreveport-Bossier City against sin, Crawford said.
"This is powerful. God looks down and sees humble hearts. That is the reality of what we're doing."
Crawford said recent natural disasters are a wake-up call.

Why did The Times publish this story? Thirty people? The Times puts this on the front page as a 'news story'? Thirty people out of a Shreveport/Bossier population of over 350,000?
What do these people hope to accomplish other than drawing a comparison to the Spanish Conquistadors or the Nazis?
I admit that I'm prejudiced; I love Harry Potter. I bought my grandson all seven of the books and, of course, read them as soon as he got through with them.
The Times also had to include the Hagee-esque remark about 'natural disasters' being a warning. God bless the people of New Orleans who have had to listen to this shit (oops, just slipped out) for the last three years from so-called 'Christians'.

Sort of reminds one of the SPOOF SITE Landover Baptist where they deal with the same subject:

The burning of books is nothing new to True Christians®. We invented the practice over two-thousand years ago as a way to promote our faith in the Lord Jesus. In the early days of Christianity, when new believers in Christ were converted, they were naturally moved by the Holy Spirit to grab as many books as they could and pitch them into a fire. Unlike the sissy "Jesus is Love" fake-Christians (whom both the Lord Jesus and we loathe) we have running around today, the early followers of Christ were never ashamed to burn books.

The New Bishop of Shreveport

(Msgr. Duca says mass with Fr. Mangum and Msgr. Provenza in the Chapel of St. Michael the Archangel at St. John Berchman's Cathedral)

Msgr. Michael Duca will be ordained Bishop and installed as the Chief Shepherd of the Diocese of Shreveport in a ceremonial Mass on Monday, May 19th at noon at the Shreveport Convention Center. The ceremony will be attended by the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, as well as other bishops and of course, friends and family of the new bishop.





Next Sunday, May 25th, the new bishop will be
received at his Cathedral at the 11 AM mass.


Ordination live web cast

Cardinal Egan Presides over Mass in Shreveport

Edward Cardinal Egan, the Archbishop of New York, presided over a Red Mass today at Holy Trinity Church in Shreveport. The last Cardinal to visit Shreveport was Cardinal Cushing of Boston in 1968. The Red Mass, held for the legal profession, was attended by most area attorneys and judges, as well as ministers of other faiths and members of the lay public.

Egan presided over the Mass, and also served as its principal celebrant.

Describing the law as “a splendid calling” and contrasting that with the view of it as a profession, he said people must be inclined to “love the law and embrace it,” just as they must discharge it “so civilization may progress in a manner worthy of the children of God.”

The event was ecumenical, with concluding prayers by ministers from a variety of fellow Christian beliefs, including the Rev. Brady L. Blade Sr., Ben Songy, Barbara Jarrell and Durell Tuberville.

Source: The Times

Holy Trinity was built in 1896 and is a landmark in downtown Shreveport.

The Angel at the Empty Tomb

Angel sitting at the empty tomb.

Stained glass window from St John Berchman's Cathedral on Jordan Street in Shreveport.

Nothing could better express Easter Sunday for Christians.

Nun to be Deported

With up to 20,000,000 illegal immigrants in the country, the Department of Homeland Security - specifically ICE - has a full plate when it comes to rounding up and deporting undesirables from our shores. What better place to start than right here in Northwest Louisiana?
Sister Cristina Angelini says she sometimes misses her hometown near the Adriatic Sea in Italy, but not enough to return before her God-ordained mission is complete. She may not get that opportunity.
Angelini, a nun with Shreveport's Our Lady of Sorrow congregation, says she may be deported March 26 although she has supplied U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services with proper documentation. She is legally here and is director of E. Renzi Child Development Center on Overton Brooks Road. Parents of children who go there are calling for a congressmen to intervene. The 39-year-old, who also worked as a librarian at St. Joseph Catholic School in Shreveport, has been in the United States since 2001 on a five-year visa for religious workers. She says she applied for permanent residence — known as a green card — in 2005. A USCIS letter told her she must go, she says, but an e-mail said her application is moving through."It's kind of frustrating because we're trying not to do anything against the law," she said Wednesday.

Story in The Times