Archive for April 2nd, 2006
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2006Among Aesop’s fables can be found a good selection of tales that provide important insights and illustrate the virtues needed for successful financial management. Take for example the oft-heard adage,”Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg.” This is taken from a tale that shows the importance of contentment and gratitude in […]
Prayers Before and After Receiving Holy Communion
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006We should take care to prepare our souls to receive the Lord before Holy Communion. St. Ignatius of Antioch, writing about 107 A.D. referred to the Eucharist the medicine of immortality, the antidote against death, enabling us to live forever in Jesus Christ. St. Paul reminds us that “as often as you eat […]
Quotations about Mothers III
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their […]
What Human Needs Are
Sunday, April 2nd, 2006“Human needs are a powerful source of explanation of human behavior and social interaction. All individuals have needs that they strive to satisfy, either by using the system, ‘acting on the fringes’ or acting as a reformist or revolutionary. Given this condition, social systems must be responsive to individual needs, or be subject to instability […]
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