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2015-01-06T10:38:25-05:00

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When Spring Came, I Cut My Fig Tree Down. Then, God Took Over…

Last updated on: January 6, 2015 at 10:38 am By Frank Weathers

A couple of years back, I shared a post here about my love of figs and how my experience with a fig tree kinda, sorta, mirrored the parable found in Luke’s gospel. Remember it? Good times. Two seasons later, in May of this year, I had to cut it down. (more…) Read more

2017-01-24T17:12:03-05:00

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Because I Don’t Deserve The Graces That Have Been Bestowed Upon Me, Including Folks Reading This Blog

Last updated on: January 24, 2017 at 5:12 pm By Frank Weathers

You’ll probably want to stop checking in on my blog now, seeing as I don’t have any deep thoughts to offer on whatever the various concerns of the day might be. Yes, you would be justified in removing my blog from your RSS feed, your blogroll, etc. I really don’t deserve to have folks reading my thoughts at all, when you get right down to it. Joe Six-Pack? Who aspires to such a pedestrian title? (more…) Read more

2017-01-24T17:12:03-05:00

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Want To Hear Christian Joy? Listen To The Singing In Kirkuk Cathedral…

Last updated on: January 24, 2017 at 5:12 pm By Frank Weathers

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The little video below comes via Natalia Trouiller’s Facebook page. She is accompanying the delegation of French bishops that is visiting Iraq right now. Here are the people we are praying and fasting for tomorrow. Roll clip! (more…) Read more

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2017-01-24T17:12:04-05:00

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My Favorite Tracks From Sam Rocha’s Album, “Late To Love”

Last updated on: January 24, 2017 at 5:12 pm By Frank Weathers

Long time readers of YIMCatholic know that I’ve got a thing for music. Once was, I ran posts to start the week off every Monday with selections of whatever turned my fancy. Rock & roll; classical; Jesus going mainstream; you name it. I even built a Pandora station, or four. The thing is? I have no idea why I like the music I do. But when I do like it, I tend to share it with you in posts either dedicated... Read more

2017-01-24T17:12:04-05:00

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Source of Global Climate Change Found (And It Almost Killed Us All)!

Last updated on: January 24, 2017 at 5:12 pm By Frank Weathers

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The New York Post, and a few other news outlets, are now running the story that the solar flare that occurred in July 2012 (pictured below) almost took us back to the Stone Age. Maybe it would have, maybe it wouldn’t have. Either way, what I said on September 17, 2012 still applies. And try as we might, it’s completely beyond our control… Smart folks explain, (more…) Read more

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2015-02-10T15:49:10-05:00

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Psalm 119, The Hebrew Letter נ (Nun), And A Prayer

Last updated on: February 10, 2015 at 3:49 pm By Frank Weathers

As Christians around the globe adopt the Arabic letter ن‎ (nun) as their profile pictures on social media, in solidarity with our persecuted brothers and sisters in Iraq and Syria, I was led to read Psalm 119. Truth be told, it was unintentional. I had seen somewhere that Psalm 117 was the shortest of the psalms, and went to look it up in The Catholic Youth Bible. A blurb on the page told me that the 119th psalm was the longest,... Read more

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2017-01-24T17:12:04-05:00

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Meriam Ibrahim Meets Pope Francis In Rome

Last updated on: January 24, 2017 at 5:12 pm By Frank Weathers

And she receives a blessing from il Papa. Vatican Radio has the story. Meriam Ibrahim, the woman who was sentenced to death in Sudan for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, arrived Thursday in Italy and met with Pope Francis in the Casa Santa Marta. During the meeting, she was accompanied by her family: Husband Daniel Wani, Martin (a year and a half), and Maya, born in prison two months ago. (more…) Read more

2015-02-10T15:30:20-05:00

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Protesters In Baghdad: “I am Christian, Sunni, Shiite, Kurd, Mandean,Yazidi, and I am Iraqi”

Last updated on: February 10, 2015 at 3:30 pm By Frank Weathers

ISIS thugs may attempt to kill and intimidate their way to power, but that will fail as long as folks defy them like these great souls are doing. The following story comes to us via Dina al-Shibeeb of Al Arabiya News, because the Western media is turning a blind eye to genocidal tendencies occurring in our former live-fire exercise /diplomatic playground. Tell it, Dina. (more…) Read more

2017-01-24T17:12:05-05:00

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Praying For All Aboard Malaysia Flight 17, And Mourning Their Loss, In My Own, Feeble, Way

Last updated on: January 24, 2017 at 5:12 pm By Frank Weathers

I heard the news the other day about Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashing in Ukraine. And then the world learned that it had been shot down by a surface-to-air missile. What a senseless tragedy. I went outside on a break from work, and looking up into the sky I saw what you see in the photograph above. That’s what an airliner cruising at 33,000 feet looks like. (more…) Read more

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2017-01-24T17:12:06-05:00

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The Truth About S. 2578 From A Career Politician, With An Assist From Malcolm Muggeridge and James Madison

Last updated on: January 24, 2017 at 5:12 pm By Frank Weathers

It didn’t fail. Rebecca Hamilton, my blog neighbor, and soon to be retired Democrat pol, explains it simply, and succinctly. (more…) Read more

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