The Queen visits Salisbury, we visit Peppa Pig World, and we talk more about Caitie, the Rosary and prayer in general.  Also, does Jesus want you for a sunbeam?

This week’s 60 Second Saint is St Joseph of Cupertino.

Links:

http://www.peppapigworld.co.uk/

http://catholiclane.com/did-jesus-really-sin/

The Rosary:

http://jimmyakin.com/2012/04/video-is-the-rosary-just-vain-repetitions.html

Holy Homework answer taken from ‘Catholicism for Dummies’.

End Music “He Will Be There”, by Scott Wilder, available through www.musicalley.com

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I just thought I’d let you know that, at the moment, there’s no ‘Just A Catholic dad’ podcast this week. This weekend was a holiday weekend in the UK, so we decided to have a bit of family time. If I get the chance later this week, I’ll try to put one out, but failing that, the next episode will be recorded next Monday evening.

Have a great week,

God Bless,

Sean.

Q14 If the Government persists in pursuing this ill-advised policy, I cannot see what justification there would be for retaining civil partnerships. If there is to be no quantitative difference between marriage and civil partnerships, it makes no sense to retain them. This betrays yet again the Government’s muddled thinking and juvenile understanding of the sociological and historical meaning of marriage.

Q15 There is no benefit to the private sector. The main effect will be the further diminution of the importance to society of the traditional role of mother and father, man and woman, in the raising of children and the furtherence of mankind, and in the understanding of the complimentarity of men and women – that they are created equal but inherently different and are special because of that fact, not in spite of it. In many areas of society, males are incapable of understanding their roles as men and fathers, and live in a sort of quasi-teenager world of casual hook-ups, children with different partners and X-Boxes. They no longer feel needed in the rearing and education of their children. The move to same-sex marriage will only exacerbate this situation by further clouding the idea of manhood and fatherhood.

Q16 On the point of not compelling religious organisations to hold same-sex marriages, the Government’s assurances that religious groups would not face litigation are, as the Home Office well knows, worthless and disingenuous. Recent legal precedent, along with the previous Labour Government’s decision to incorporate Human Rights law into all lawmaking means that such groups will face legal challenge and, given the UK Courts’ record on the worth of religious freedom, will lose. This is a dangerous road to go down and will force law-abiding citizens to make a choice between State-imposed unacceptable and oppressive legislation and their deeply held moral and religious beliefs. This current agenda is being driven by a relatively small but very vocal and influential minority, but the stated aim of removing a perceived discrimination will be replaced by another discrimination, of much greater oppressiveness.

A Krispy Kreme loving fox, another Rosary Crisis and should I move Caitie up a level in her prayer life?  Also, a look back at the last episode of Catholic Pilot.

This week’s 60 Second Saint is St Osmund, kindly sent in by Kevin Cox.

Links:

The Roman Missal 1962 – www.baroniuspress.com

Stuttering Is Cool – http://stutteringiscool.com

Holy Homework – http://tutorfidelis.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/truths-of-the-catholic-faith/

The Krispy Kreme Doughnut loving Fox:

http://youtu.be/GCLaLQmJCnk

http://youtu.be/cwSuNMIqoLw

End Music “Jesus of Mercy”, by Paul Lisney, available through www.musicalley.com

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Caribbean travel stress, Caitie’s swimming progress, how should you vacation in Lent, and a final Lenten prayer report. All in JACD 73…..

This week’s 60 Second Saint is St George; thanks to Tom Brodell.

Links:

Opus Dei:

http://www.opusdei.org/ http://www.opusdeiblogs.org/

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1184078,00.html

http://explorefaith.org/books/opusdei.html

Christianity In Modern Britain:

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2012/03/23/cameron-supports-same-sex-marriage-and-opposes-our-right-to-wear-the-cross-is-this-the-most-aggressively-atheistic-government-in-our-history/#.T286lI2eV-k.facebook

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/07/catholic-cardinal-christians-wear-crosses

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A fast-talking episode, so brace yourself! Sean’s first attempt at uStreaming the podcast, Caitie learns a lesson about friendship and a question from a friend about Opus Dei.

This week’s 60 Second Saint is St Elphege.

Links:
http://acatholiclife.blogspot.com/2006/02/five-types-of-prayer.html

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Air-controller-involved-in-2nd-potential-collision-3395079.php

End Music “Woman By The Well”, by John Leligdon, available through www.musicalley.com

Catholic News taken from ‘The Universe’ www.catholicuniverse.com

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Due to the Easter Holidays, the next Just A Catholic Dad is due to be recorded until the 17th April.  Please keep sending your feedback in, although I’m going to be offline for most of the time and spending some time with my family.  Until then, have a holy Eastertide, and we’ll meet up again in April.

God Bless

Sean, Nicki and Caitie

This week’s 60 Second Saint is St Therese of Liseux by Rebecca.

Links:

Redefinition Of Marriage:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9157029/Gay-marriage-is-not-a-human-right-according-to-European-ruling.html

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2012/03/23/cameron-supports-same-sex-marriage-and-opposes-our-right-to-wear-the-cross-is-this-the-most-aggressively-atheistic-government-in-our-history/

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(To put the letter into context, the correspondent began from the supposition that marriage was a public declaration of commitment to each other and that denial of marriage to same-sex couples would be the same as denying marriage to coloured people. He cited as an example that the Christmas tree was a pagan symbol adopted for Christmas, but that just as we do not allow pagans to define what a Christmas tree is, so should Christians not be allowed to define what marriage is (go figure!). He then painted people opposed to the redefinition of marriage as religious bigots or homophobes and guilty of discrimination. He finished with the claim that opposing the redefinition of marriage was gross discrimination and should be consigned to the dustbin of history! It was impossible to reply to all his meandering inaccuracies, so I had to keep the reply very focussed. I did the best I could!).

‘Mr XXX’s assertion that opposition to redefining marriage to include gay relationships is discriminatory would be valid if marriage was just a public declaration of commitment between two people, but it’s not, and he starts from a false assumption leading to false comparisons. Throughout history, the reality is that ‘marriage unites a man and a woman with each other and any children born from their union’. This second definition reflects the reality that it takes one man and one woman to form a complete human unit for the continuation of society. It is written into our very nature as human beings and male and female compliment and facilitate each other in this reality.

Although Christians do indeed have a sacramental view of marriage, the motivation for opposing redefining marriage to accommodate same-sex couples is not intended to deprive them of benefits or diminish them in any way, it is to protect and promote the reality of marriage as the foundation of the family, the first and original cell of society. Our headlong rush into redefining something so fundamental, with so little complexity of thought, with the proponents selling such a diminished view of what marriage is and ignoring the critical element of procreation and children will have far-reaching and possibly disastrous consequences in the future. Alas, this is unlikely to carry much weight in this “You have, we want and if you oppose us you are discriminating homophobes or religious bigots” climate.‘

St Serpahia, St Rosalia, St Laurence Justinian, St Wilfrida of Wilton, St Hubert, St Albert The Great, St John of The Cross, St John of Damascus, St Lucy, St George St Josemaria Escriva, St John Fisher, St Monica, St Joseph, St Anselm of Canterbury, St Notker The Stammerer, SS Romanus and Lupicinus, St Maud, St Benedict of Nursia, St Gontran, St Anicetus, St James The Less, St Brendan, St Jean Baptiste de Rossi, St Anthony of Padua, St Cecilia, St Bertha, St Camillus of Lellis, SS Thea and Valentina, St Alphonsus, SS Adrian and Natalie, St Theodore of Canterbury, SS Cosmos and Damien, St Gerard, Abbott, St Cainnech, St Brother Andre, St Joan of Arc, St Willibrord, St Felix of Valois, St Joseph, St Nicholas, St Elizabeth Ann Seaton, St John Neumann, St Benedict, St Veronica Giuliani, St Katherine Drexel, St Michael, St Sebastian, St Padre Pio, St Barbara.

Phew!! So if your favourite saint hasn’t been featured yet, why not record one in an MP3/MP4 file or a use the old fashioned writing method of around 230 words. send it to me and I’ll do the rest!

Just a reminder, unless a sudden window of opportunity arises, there’ll be no JACD recorded this week.

God Bless

Sean