From America Needs Fatima:

An individual put 40 videos on YouTube showing Consecrated Hosts being stepped on, burned, stapled, smoked and nailed to a stick. He even fed the Holy Eucharist to ducks and flushed It down the toilet. Horrific!On his site, the blasphemer says:

“From now on, one Eucharist desecration a day, and each day a different method. If they want blasphem[y], we'll give 'em blasphem[y].”

Since I know you would like to stop these desecrations, I urge you to send your Stop Host Desecration e-petition to YouTube. GO HERE NOW to send your email petition.To make this petition effective, I need to mobilize over 100,000 Catholics immediately. So please send your best gift to help me spread this petition to 100,000 Catholics over the Internet today. If thousands of Catholics speak up, I think YouTube will pull the 40 desecration videos, because YouTube policy says:We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech … And desecrating the Holy Eucharist is “hate speech,” in my book.

Please send YouTube your STOP HOST DESECRATION petition today. GO HERE NOW to send your email petition.

God bless you!
Robert E. Ritchie
Executive Director

The Catholic Vote

I've heard recently that the Catholic vote could make or break this election. If Catholics voted true to their faith, they would not be voting for Obama. Nothing comes before innocent human life. I'm speaking of the pre-born babies here. I'll get back to this later.

I also want to point something out that I keep hearing arguments on. I hear arguments for the innocent lives being lost in the war and that we need to end this war and that's what's important. I understand that there is a war going on and those soldier's lives are very important too - I'm not saying they are not. BUT, there is a difference between a soldier and a pre-born baby. Those soldiers have a choice. They chose to place their lives in harms way to protect their country. This is such an honorable thing to do. Praise God we have true American heroes who are willing to sacrifice their lives for this country and all it stands for. I'll be the first to thank them. But, that is not in the same league as a baby who has "0" choice in the matter of life or death. Unfortunately, these babies lives are sacrificed for their own parents' selfish reasons. Nothing they had a had a choice in.

Back to Catholics who need to be true to their faith. Morally, a Cathlic can not vote for someone who thinks that murdering an innocent baby is a choice. Are you kidding me? It is incredibly obsurd. Let me see... what was that commandment from God again? Oh yeah... it is number five (or number six for the Protestants), "you shall not kill". Mark my words, if we continue on this route, it will soon be a choice as to whether or not we should keep our aged parents alive due to "quality of life". It's coming. If we have no respect for the life of a little child, how can we have respect for the life of an old, very dependant human? It all boils down to sanctity of human life. The sanctity of human life is the root of all things. Once we have that respect, everything else will naturally fall into place. The domino effect. Voting for life is a Catholic's moral obligation. Peace be with you.

My Lord and My God!

Today is the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle. As I contemplated St Thomas (or "Doubting Thomas") and his famous words this morning at Mass, it hit me at what grace I have received - unlike Doubting Thomas, I have not seen God, but I have such enormous faith and trust in Him and His Church. No need for an explanation. A gift that can only be given by God Himself. I then thanked God with all my heart for the gift of His Church and the gift of the Eucharist. It always boggles my mind at how we can actually receive Jesus - Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity - into our own bodies. Jesus is actually present in us physically. It is at this time that I am always in awe of God. There have been so many times that I can really feel Him. It is such a calming peace that comes over me - even with the kids tugging on me and whispering "Are we done yet?", I am able to savor those few minutes of paradise on earth. I found a beautiful quote from one of our Early Church Fathers, John Chrysostom, that is a wonderful meditation on faith and the Eucharist: "Let us then in everything believe God, and gainsay Him in nothing, though what is said seem to be contrary to our thoughts and senses, but let His word be of higher authority than both reasonings and sight. Thus let us do in the mysteries also, not looking at the things set before us, but keeping in mind His sayings. For His word cannot deceive, but our senses are easily beguiled. That hath never failed, but this in most things goeth wrong. Since then the word saith, 'This is my body,' let us both be persuaded and believe, and look at it with the eyes of the mind. For Christ hath given nothing sensible, but though in things sensible yet all to be perceived by the mind. So also in baptism, the gift is bestowed by a sensible thing, that is, by water; but that which is done is perceived by the mind, the birth, I mean, and the renewal. For if thou hadst been incorporeal, He would have delivered thee the incorporeal gifts bare; but because the soul hath been locked up in a body, He delivers thee the things that the mind perceives, in things sensible. How many now say, I would wish to see His form, the mark, His clothes, His shoes. Lo! Thou seest Him, Thou touchest Him, thou eatest Him. And thou indeed desirest to see His clothes, but He giveth Himself to thee not to see only, but also to touch and eat and receive within thee." John Chrysostom, Gospel of Matthew, Homily 82 (A.D. 370).

I also love the quote from Justin Martyr where we first here of the Early Fathers speak of Transubstantiation by using the word "tansmutation": "For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh." Justin Martyr, First Apology, 66 (A.D. 110-165).

Meditating on the Eucharist is such an enlightening experience. If you haven't read it yet, I highly suggest the book titled "Lamb's Supper" by Scott Hahn. Dr. Hahn always makes the scriptures come alive and with this particular book, you'll grow in a deeper appreciation for the Mass and Eucharist.