Women will be honored Aug. 14 at 5:45 pm Mass in Sacred Heart Church in Roseville, MI.
They should be.
In church and society women do so much.
At home, for example, women are mothers who are closest to their children.
My own mother cared for seven of us, including two sets of twins.
That'a a load, in addition to a lot of work. It's a full-time job, in fact. Homemakers are like that.
Woman are the backbone of the Catholic Church. Without all the good they do and show, who knows where we'd be.
More mothers, additional woman in higher positions of power would enhance the Church, and, perhaps even see greater protection of children from predators. After all, women will defend their children no end. Even the animal world depicts females making the males stay outside the feeding circle until the mother and children are fed first.
Honoring women.
We do it everyday, don't with?
With respect, appreciation, and more, we show honor them.
One day, Aug. 14th, lifts them up in pride and praise.
A reception will follow the Mass that honors all woman in the lower level of the church at 18430 Utica Road at Gratiot.
All are welcome.
Join clergy like Revs. Lawrence Jackson and Richard Welsh who are planning this event, among others, along Barbara Robinson, minister of music at St. Michael Church in Sterling Heights, MI., and General Motors Chorus sunger, Bob Gillenkirk, singing the classic hymn, "Ave Maria."
Welcome women with me at the doors of the historic ediface.
Honor.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Picnic Memories Pour Out
They are few but there are some of picnics growing up.
Because they were different, picnic engaged all seven of us kids on Detroit's east side.
My parents packed stuff, and, we carried the buckets and tiny shovels for the sand.
Such thoughts pour out these days as Mohamed Abbass, Shimone and Dorit Edut, David Kasbow,
Melissa, among others, prepare for the interfaith picnic Sunday, Aug. 5th near the children's play ar of the historic jewel in Detroit's crown, Belle Isle at Jefferson and East Grand Boulevard.
The buzz has begun.
People are calling. Some are making reservations.
One gal wants to hand out samples of her salads in her dishware for sale.
Soccer, volleyball, board games, ethnic dancing, a food festival, and more, are among the line-up of activites for young and older alike.
They'll all come.
Jewish, Christian, Muslim and more.
A picnic basket, hot dogs, hamburgers, relish, chips. . .
And, a diverse group of people from metropolitan Detroit.
A urban and suburban unity picnic from 12 noon until 4 pm August 5th with a worship service at
12:30 for all.
I won't miss it.
Join me.
Because they were different, picnic engaged all seven of us kids on Detroit's east side.
My parents packed stuff, and, we carried the buckets and tiny shovels for the sand.
Such thoughts pour out these days as Mohamed Abbass, Shimone and Dorit Edut, David Kasbow,
Melissa, among others, prepare for the interfaith picnic Sunday, Aug. 5th near the children's play ar of the historic jewel in Detroit's crown, Belle Isle at Jefferson and East Grand Boulevard.
The buzz has begun.
People are calling. Some are making reservations.
One gal wants to hand out samples of her salads in her dishware for sale.
Soccer, volleyball, board games, ethnic dancing, a food festival, and more, are among the line-up of activites for young and older alike.
They'll all come.
Jewish, Christian, Muslim and more.
A picnic basket, hot dogs, hamburgers, relish, chips. . .
And, a diverse group of people from metropolitan Detroit.
A urban and suburban unity picnic from 12 noon until 4 pm August 5th with a worship service at
12:30 for all.
I won't miss it.
Join me.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Rising Together for the Children of this Nation
I must admit I am ashamed of the silence on changing gun laws to prevent further carnage of our children in America.
In my self, I have sensed a silence I do not like. Cold cruelty I cannot tolerate. The cruelty we show toward each other must be faced. A restlessness stirs within me over the need for gun control laws.
Thinking only of myself, what I have, is far from what greatness is all about.
The silence of our President, our churches and synagogues, our selves, and our sisters and brothers is disturbing.
Because our second amendment allows for guns is no reason to back down and be silent. The context there had no idea of the massive arsenal at our disposal of high-tech weapons.
We can expect more of each other as Americans.
These childen are our brothers and sisters. We are tied together.
While Japan, and other nations do not allow guns from the start, we claim a right to them.
No wonder we are in the situation we are.
We must rise together NOW before the next massacre, and the NEXT one. And, the one after that.
In union we must press our leaders to change the gun laws now, so help us God!
In my self, I have sensed a silence I do not like. Cold cruelty I cannot tolerate. The cruelty we show toward each other must be faced. A restlessness stirs within me over the need for gun control laws.
Thinking only of myself, what I have, is far from what greatness is all about.
The silence of our President, our churches and synagogues, our selves, and our sisters and brothers is disturbing.
Because our second amendment allows for guns is no reason to back down and be silent. The context there had no idea of the massive arsenal at our disposal of high-tech weapons.
We can expect more of each other as Americans.
These childen are our brothers and sisters. We are tied together.
While Japan, and other nations do not allow guns from the start, we claim a right to them.
No wonder we are in the situation we are.
We must rise together NOW before the next massacre, and the NEXT one. And, the one after that.
In union we must press our leaders to change the gun laws now, so help us God!
Underground Church
A little church.
That's what Alcoholics Anonymous seems to be each day as the self-help groups meet regularly, even daily, downstairs in churches across this nation.
And, they never seem to have enough chairs.
That's a good thing. Unlike the upstairs Sunday church that has plenty of pews and fewer people these days. One has to wonder why.
Participants in the downstairs church tell stories. They get down, deep and honest in the telling.
After all, they have only "up" to go after falling flat on their face, in many cases.
The upstairs church does recount the story, also, and centers on Jesus.
But downstairs, people tell of the Twelve Steps in their own lives, up and close. Even personal.
They tell of how alcohol, or other drugs, ravaged their lives and made them unmanageable.
And, of how a Power greater than themselves could restore them to sanity.
That's it!
After all, like the insanity of attachment disorders, even to guns, one goes under unless she or he gets help.
Ever since the '40s people have been meeting downstairs to purge and cleanse themselves of the evils of alcohol and other drugs, addictions and attachment disorders.
That's when these famous twelve steps were organized as means to healing and hope amid living ravaged lives.
Once, a woman told me that she found her way to the upstairs church after attending a 12-step meeting downstairs.
She reconnected with her Catholic roots.
Pleased and on the way to recovery, she had good news to share as she practiced the principles and twelve steps of Alchoholics Anonymous.
"A parachute has to be open to work," she told me, "After all, a mind only works if it is open," she concluded.
That's what Alcoholics Anonymous seems to be each day as the self-help groups meet regularly, even daily, downstairs in churches across this nation.
And, they never seem to have enough chairs.
That's a good thing. Unlike the upstairs Sunday church that has plenty of pews and fewer people these days. One has to wonder why.
Participants in the downstairs church tell stories. They get down, deep and honest in the telling.
After all, they have only "up" to go after falling flat on their face, in many cases.
The upstairs church does recount the story, also, and centers on Jesus.
But downstairs, people tell of the Twelve Steps in their own lives, up and close. Even personal.
They tell of how alcohol, or other drugs, ravaged their lives and made them unmanageable.
And, of how a Power greater than themselves could restore them to sanity.
That's it!
After all, like the insanity of attachment disorders, even to guns, one goes under unless she or he gets help.
Ever since the '40s people have been meeting downstairs to purge and cleanse themselves of the evils of alcohol and other drugs, addictions and attachment disorders.
That's when these famous twelve steps were organized as means to healing and hope amid living ravaged lives.
Once, a woman told me that she found her way to the upstairs church after attending a 12-step meeting downstairs.
She reconnected with her Catholic roots.
Pleased and on the way to recovery, she had good news to share as she practiced the principles and twelve steps of Alchoholics Anonymous.
"A parachute has to be open to work," she told me, "After all, a mind only works if it is open," she concluded.
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