06 7 / 2012
10 Things We Could Do If We Didn’t Love Porn So Much
So, all together, US adults and teens spend 11.4 billion man-hours per year oninternet pornography alone.
We also spend over $13.3 billion on pornography in the United States every year. And that number is even a few years old.
Here area a few other things we could do with that same time and money:
With that same amount of time (man-hours) we could…
- Build the Empire State building…1,628 times.
- Visit every single one of the 1.5 million U.S. nursing home residents, every single day of the year, for 20 hours a day…and still have free time left over.
- Visit every single one of the 2 million prisoners in the United States, every single day, two people at a time, for 8 hours.
- Have every single person (310 million) in the U.S. spend an extra 36 hours in prayer.
- Spend 3 extra hours per week with each and every one of the 75 million teens and children in the United States.
With that same amount of money we could…
- Provide, prepare and serve 7 billion school lunches. That’s enough to feed over 38 million students every school day of the year.
- Pay for 1.9 million four-year college degrees.
- Build 190,000 Habitat for Humanity homes…in Orange County, CA. Or we could build 7.25 million of them in India.
- Give $13.3 million to one thousand different charities each.
- Feed 1 billion people a meal…70 times.
(Source: scripturesketches, via diedformelivingforhim)
20 6 / 2012
01 1 / 2012
”Brothers and sisters:
When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son,
born of a woman, born under the law,
to ransom those under the law,
so that we might receive adoption as sons.
As proof that you are sons,
God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts,
crying out, “Abba, Father!”
So you are no longer a slave but a son,
and if a son then also an heir, through God.” Gal 4:4-7
Just as Jesus entered the world through Mary to reach us, let us enter this new year through Mary to reach Him!
Happy New Year! Happy Feast of Mary, Mother of God!
28 12 / 2011
This is my very good friend and brother in Christ.
Please take the time to listen, this is so inspiring.
Original song written by Michael Villanueva
Dedicated to my brothers in the Priestly Discernment Program
Lyrics:
LORD, I turn my eyes to You.
LORD, you make my heart brand new.
Take my life and make it Yours,
Nail my hands upon this cross.
Make me strong for I am weak.
May it be Your heart I seek.
And though I may stumble and fall,
I give you rights to take it all.
Chorus: I’m sinking and falling,
I don’t know what to do.
But You’ll lead me… completely
LORD, You’ll see me through
The storm.
To myself, I’m called to die,
It’s only then that I can fly
To your throne with angel’s song,
with my life I’ll sing along.
For it’s all that I can give.
A life for You I long to live.
And with it all that I can do,
Is sing a simple, “I love you.”
Chorus
You make all things, all things come together
for those who love, You Lord.
Chorus
24 12 / 2011
On the occasion of his ordination to the priesthood, Norbert said,
“O Priest! You are not yourself because you are God. You are not of yourself because you are the servant and minister of Christ. You are not your own because you are the spouse of the Church. You are not yourself because you are the mediator between God and man. You are not from yourself because you are nothing. What then are you? Nothing and everything. O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: ‘He saved others, himself he cannot save!’”
I love him.
23 12 / 2011
“There are not over a 100 people in the U.S. that hate the Catholic Church, there are millions however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, quite a different thing.”
-Servant of God Fulton J. Sheen
(via definitionofbrotherhood)
23 12 / 2011
"May you be content knowing you are a child of God. Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love."
(via fathershane)
