Posts Tagged ‘Church’

Ending the Year Right

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

It has been a few weeks since I lasted posted a blog entry, but I do hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that 2010 is even better for you than 2009. This posting is going to be just to give some updates on things going on in my life. I have been well, but very busy. I did have a good Christmas, even though I missed Christmas Mass. I was planning on going to midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, well I guess technically it would have been Christmas day, but they didn’t have it this year. I know my parents used to go to it often, but for some reason this year they did not have it. We do have a new priest, maybe he just did not want to have a midnight Mass. I did make it to Mass on Sunday, which was nice. I did wake up late and ended up having to go to another Church than I normally go too. I ended up at a church on the other side of town, which I have never been to. It was a very nice service and I think I will check out the other Catholic churches in the area. I think there are nine Catholic churches in my city. I am now planning to attend a few other Catholic churches just to see how they are. I now have attended Mass at three churches in my city. I will keep you posted on how this goes.

Other than that, I really have not been up to very much. I am thinking of attending an anxiety group soon. This group focuses on helping people deal with their anxiety. I found out about this in the church bulletin for the church I went to this last Sunday. This group is held in a city about 40 minutes from where I live. This is a long drive, but this group is much cheaper (including gas money) than paying a private psychology to help me with this issue. I figure it will not hurt anything to give this group an attempt to help me with this issue.

The Great Prayer Project – End Abortion is going well. The website is 90% completed and the sign up date for this project begins January 1st. Everything is set up and ready to rock and roll for the sign up phase of this project. I just have a few add-ons that I would like to add to the website prior to the time we have scheduled for praying to begin to end abortion. I do hope that you take the time starting January 1st to stop by this website, sign up for a 20 minute time slot to pray to end abortion.

I have also started work on Gay Catholic Information. I want to focus this website on providing resources and information about how one can live their life as being a gay Catholic. I want to provide information on topics like what the Bible says about being, what the Catholic Church teaches on homosexuality as well as providing examples of how individuals are living a successful life as a gay Catholic. If you have any ideas, suggestions or want to help out with this website, please send me an email or leave a comment below.

Beside those two websites, I have also started work on Only A Part – Gay Catholic Social Network. This is going to be a social networking website for gay Catholic. I think it is long overdue that there is a place for individuals who are gay and Catholic to have a place to meet and interact with others. I feel that it is important to provide a safe place for people to meet others and find friendship and understanding that I feel is something that can be very difficult for someone that is gay and Catholic.

As you can see that I have been very busy lately. I plan on continuing to work on all three of these projects in the upcoming year. If you have any suggestions or comments about any of these projects I am working on, please feel free to contacting me (use the contact page) or by leaving a comment below.

Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan Speaks of Gays and Hell

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Today I was surfing around the Internet and came across an interesting article about a statement by Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan of Mexico. According to the Brisbane Times, an Australian newspaper, Cardinal Barragan stated “Transsexuals and homosexuals will never enter the kingdom of heaven and it is not me who says this, but St Paul”. He later said, “People are not born homosexual, they become homosexual, for different reasons: education issues or because they did not develop their own identity during adolescence. Perhaps they aren’t guilty but by acting against the dignity of the body they will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven”.
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Did Jesus Encounter a Gay Couple?

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

A few years ago I purchased a book called What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak, Ph.D. The book is written in a gay friendly manner and explains some alternative thinking to what the Catholic Church teaches on the subject of homosexuality. Mr. Daniel A. Helminiak is a respected theologian and Roman Catholic priest (Taken from the back of the book). I’m not writing this article to question the Catholic Church teachings on Homosexuality, I’m writing it to get others perceptive on what Mr. Helminiak wrote on this topic.
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