Saint Bernadette SoubirousOriginally uploaded by ukok.
This is an image of my Patron Saint. She too was chronically asthmatic and oft thought of as insane…I’m in good company then ;)
to be continued…
God Bless.
Entries from April 2005
April 29, 2005
Saint Bernadette Soubirous
April 29, 2005
The Father’s Name, pretentious ?
I noticed mention of my blog on another site yesterday, apparantly I have the most ‘pretentiously’ named blog in the world! I’m sure that God won’t mind that a blog entitled “In the Name of the Father” got slated, and I sure don’t.
Further comment on ‘In Nomine Patris’, alluded that my colour choice for highlighting [...]
April 26, 2005
Get your hankies out for this
A tribute E-Card in rememberance of Pope John Paul II (The Great). Get your kleenex ready.
God Bless.
April 26, 2005
Benedict XVI Prayed That Someone Else Be Elected
LATEST FROM ZENIT
“I Asked God to Spare Me This Fate,” He Tells Countrymen VATICAN CITY, APRIL 25, 2005 (Zenit.org).
- Benedict XVI says that he prayed during the conclave for the cardinals to elect someone stronger than he to the papacy.The new Pope added, however, that after he was elected, he accepted it with an inevitable [...]
April 23, 2005
The House of Babel
We live in the house of Babel, where many voices are spoken but no one understands what the others are saying. Or more correctly, no one wants to listen to what anyone else is saying. My son doesn’t want to hear his sister shrieking ‘GET OUT!”, when he attempts to sneak into her room to [...]
April 21, 2005
Saintly Excerpts of Faith
The more we have denied ourselves during the day, the nearer are we each evening to the Heart of Our Lord ~ St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
April 21, 2005
Pope Benedict XVI’s First Statement
Thanks be to God for the Shepherd that He has given to us. The dissenters are unhappy…rejoice!!!
Romans 16:17-18
Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark them who make dissensions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned and avoid them.
For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly: and [...]
April 20, 2005
Papa Ratzi !!!!
I don’t think that I will ever tire of contemplating this joyous Servant of the servants of God that has taken fo himself the name of Pope Benedict XVI…I love him already!
Viva Il Papa!
God Bless
April 19, 2005
Habemus Papam!
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger…has been elected as the Pope of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church!
He has taken the name Pope Benedict XVI
Long live the Holy Father!
God Bless.
Edited to add….just after we heard the news we rushed off to Mass, I was unexpectedly interviewed by a news reporter as we left Mass…I was bubbling with [...]
April 19, 2005
Keeper of the Keys.
Keeper of the Keys.Originally uploaded by ukok.
Before I became Catholic I was an ignorant protestant(not that protestants other than I, usually are ignorant). Ignorant not only in regard to non spiritual matters, but about that pertaining to religion. As far as I was aware whichsoever ‘church’ I belonged to could validly claim to be [...]
April 18, 2005
Bravo Insight Scoop!
Complete English Translation of Cardinal Ratzinger’s PreConclave Homily
April 18, 2005
Cardinal Ratzinger gave the Cardinals a ZINGER of a homily!
As the Cardinals assembled this morning for Mass, prior to the conclave…they were not perhaps expecting Cardinal Ratzinger to deliver yet another poignant homily ~
“Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism”
“Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and ’swept along by every [...]
April 18, 2005
Interesting Resource for Information on the Conclave.
Resource on the Conclave/Voting proceedures and other Information pertaining to the election of the next pope
God Bless.
April 17, 2005
Pope John Paul II ~ Requiescat in pace
Tomorrow the meeting of the Cardinals begins, in which during their gathering together our next Pope will be elected….speculation is rife as to whom the words will be spoken, “Do you accept your cananonical election as Supreme Pontiff” ?..personally, I don’t much care for speculation of any description…particularly not in regard to whom the Holy [...]
April 16, 2005
The Crucifix at the Holy Father’s Funeral Mass
The Crucifix at the Holy Father’s Funeral MassOriginally uploaded by ukok.
April 16, 2005
Zenit Update on Events From Rome
Read Zenit for yourself
Briefing on Pope’s Testament and Date of Conclave
“The date of the start of the conclave has been fixed for April 18. In the morning, probably at 10 o’clock, the Votive Mass “Pro Eligendo Papa” will be celebrated in the Vatican basilica, and the cardinals will enter the conclave in the early afternoon [...]
April 12, 2005
Pro- Life or Pro-Death, There is NO in Between
Baby in Womb Originally uploaded by ukok.
Amazingly, some women still believe that they are carrying a ‘blob’ when they abort their babies…personally, I hope that I will never forget what it feels like to have a baby in my womb, to feel him or her arching [...]
April 11, 2005
Hatted Holy Men
Hatted Holy menOriginally uploaded by ukok.
…looking out over a sea of people in St. Peter’s Square.
God Bless.
April 11, 2005
Cardinal Ratzinger Elevates the Sacred Host at Funeral Mass of Holy Father
The Eucharistic Host held highOriginally uploaded by ukok.
“Take this, all of you, and eat it: this is my body which will be given up for you” (cf. Mk 26:26; Lk 22:19; 1 Cor 11:24).
April 10, 2005
Deacon Paul Moss, aged 28…
The gospel was sung by Originally uploaded by ukok.
This is a picture of Deacon Paul Moss. Deacon Paul Moss is currently in seminary in Rome, but he originates from my own fair country of England.
You may think him familiar, that is because you will probably [...]
April 9, 2005
Startling Cardinal Ratzinger Image
This accidental double exposure was taken as I snapped away at televised images of the Funeral of the Holy Father…it sent shivers down my spine when I downloaded all my digital images and came across this…Cardinal Ratzinger image meshed with the image of Crucifix to reveal startling results!
God Bless.
p.s. having lot’s of trouble finding somewhere [...]
April 8, 2005
Cardinal Ratzinger’s Homily at the Pope’s Funeral
‘Follow me’ are the opening words of a homily that conjures in my mind the words to a hymn of the same title….Christ calls the fishermen to become fishers of men…they heed the words of the Lord, will we?
God bless.
April 8, 2005
The Pope’s Funeral
As we sat down to watch the funeral Mass for the Holy Father, it struck me how amidst our grief and loss, we are a united people. Regardless of our diversity and adherence to differing beliefs whether religious or political, there is a good within us that unfailingly acknowledges the good within others. It is [...]
April 7, 2005
Terri’s before and after responses
Terri’s before and after responses Originally uploaded by ukok.
On the eve of the funeral of our beloved Pope John Paul II, I recall the recent loss of both our former spiritual Shepherd and Terri Schindler Schiavo, who was horrifically (though legally) murdered at the insistance of [...]
April 7, 2005
Washington Post
Has a great selection of photographs of Pope John Paul II. check it out.









