in honor of St Francis I include a picture of the Raven that perches every morning during Holy Mass outside the chapel window at the Missionaries of Charity Motherhouse in Calcutta. He looks through the window during Mass and sometimes sings with the sisters. October. Happy and Blessed Feast of St. Francis, the patron of our fair City. October is my favorite month, with so many wonderous feasts: St. Therese (Oct 1), the Guardian Angels (Oct 2), St. Francis (Oct 4), St. Faustina (Oct 5), the Holy Rosary (Oct 7), St. Luke (Oct 18), the North American Martyrs (Oct 19), and St. John Paul II (Oct 22), among many others. The weather turned in San Francisco last week—goodbye fog and hello Indian Summer. And of course, Fleet Week! Friends will perch on a bluff overlooking the Golden Gate to see the parade of ships enter the harbor this week, and climb to the roof of a downtown church on Saturday to see the Blue Angels soar and dip in the limitless azure above San Francisco. October is a month to be grateful to God (what month isn’t?)!
Our New Mothers And then there are the new babies in my parish. Liz & Paolo, Mahta & Adam, and Johanna & David are all preparing to bring their children into the light of day. Many families have just had babies as well, such as Valerie & Andy, Jamila & Andy, and Rachel & Spencer. Wonderful it is to baptize so many children here in the heart of the City. Rachel coordinates our “Stella Maris” Mom’s Group, which meets every third Saturday. Our lovely young mothers gather for breakfast and a book discussion while their husbands preside over strollers in the schoolyard.
They Lied to Us. For fifty years, the nasty negativity of the so-called “sexual revolution” has been telling us that children enslave women. To support its claim that sterility liberates society, Paul Erlich published The Population Bomb in 1968. “The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” he wrote. “In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death….” Erlich described world population as a “Bomb” in the years we all lived in dread of the real Bomb (the hydrogen bomb). Erlich was dead wrong, although some “experts” still reference his theories with a straight face. Instead, many nations now face a “demographic winter” such that the Japanese and French governments (in a panic) are paying women to have babies. Even the government knows that children are not the problem but the solution. “Saying there are too many children in the world,” wrote Mother Teresa, “is like saying there are too many flowers in the field.” Christ promised that, as our Loving Father provides for the birds and the flowers, He will provide for us. Do we, children of the “sexual revolution,” believe in God or His promises?
Our New Mothers And then there are the new babies in my parish. Liz & Paolo, Mahta & Adam, and Johanna & David are all preparing to bring their children into the light of day. Many families have just had babies as well, such as Valerie & Andy, Jamila & Andy, and Rachel & Spencer. Wonderful it is to baptize so many children here in the heart of the City. Rachel coordinates our “Stella Maris” Mom’s Group, which meets every third Saturday. Our lovely young mothers gather for breakfast and a book discussion while their husbands preside over strollers in the schoolyard.
They Lied to Us. For fifty years, the nasty negativity of the so-called “sexual revolution” has been telling us that children enslave women. To support its claim that sterility liberates society, Paul Erlich published The Population Bomb in 1968. “The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” he wrote. “In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death….” Erlich described world population as a “Bomb” in the years we all lived in dread of the real Bomb (the hydrogen bomb). Erlich was dead wrong, although some “experts” still reference his theories with a straight face. Instead, many nations now face a “demographic winter” such that the Japanese and French governments (in a panic) are paying women to have babies. Even the government knows that children are not the problem but the solution. “Saying there are too many children in the world,” wrote Mother Teresa, “is like saying there are too many flowers in the field.” Christ promised that, as our Loving Father provides for the birds and the flowers, He will provide for us. Do we, children of the “sexual revolution,” believe in God or His promises?
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