Virginia is for Tow Trucks

There is an organized scam in Virginia. Tow truck drivers, the police, and apartment managers are all involved. In Virginia, on the Coast in Newport News, Virginia Beach, and other places, if you park in an apartment complex, if you are visiting a friend, and park in guest parking, your car will be towed. I would suggest that if you do have to park in one of these places in Virginia, that you not leave your car unattended or one of these legal thieves will steal your car. This is an organized scam and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it. Even if a practice is legal, that does not make it ethical or moral. One thing I can do is to boycott any town that allows this practice. I can buy nothing from these towns, nor will I recommend that anyone visit them. So I suggest that if you are thinking about going to Virginia on vacation, pass. Go somewhere else. There are plenty of honest places to enjoy. Do not visit or stay in such a place like Virginia that supports oppressors.

Uncertain

I am in a spiritual desert. I have absolutely no spiritual growth, and I have no idea how to proceed. I am totally clueless. If I were a holy person, I would think I was in the Dark Night of the Soul, but that is not the case. All I know to do is to pray the Rosary. Tomorrow I will try to start the Liturgy of the Hours.

Sin In My Life

I have a firm grasp of the obvious.
The following comments are obvious to all.
Sin is personal.
Sin is evil.
When I sin I separate myself from God.
When I sin, it is like dropping a pebble in a puddle.
It causes ripples.
My sin affects those in my life.
My sinful deeds can potentially hurt others.
It can hurt those most who are nearest and dearest to me.
Should I need another reason to not sin?
When I sin, I confess to God, and God forgives me.
Even though God has forgiven me, God's justice requires Temporal Punishment due to sin.
I will suffer in this life for my sin, even though God loves me and forgives me.
A mature person should avoid sin and occasions of sin.
No one is perfect, when I fall in my struggle against sin, I get up, dust myself off, and continue my walk with God.

My Rosaries

I was reading another blog and saw a neat thing, a posting of favorite rosaries. Well here are my favorite rosaries, I hardly ever go anywhere without them.

This rosary I carry in my left front pants pocket, I bought the cord rosary in Wichita at one of the yearly Midwest Catholic Conferences, I changed the Crucifix and added a medal of St Benedict, I received from St Merinad Archabbey. I use this rosary when I am in a church alone.

If you see me praying the rosary in public, this mission rosary is the one I am likely to be using. I carry it in my right rear pants pocket, and it is my favorite. I used to make mission rosaries, and the first time I prayed the rosary was using a mission rosary.

I am a Redneck by nature, but am Roman Catholic by the grace of God. I love pocket t-shirts and always wear one instead of a regular t-shirt. This rosary is in the t-shirt pocket. I usually use this rosary when I am in bed at night before I go to sleep, I bought it from the Missouri Province of the Jesuits, it is a good well made rosary.

I have been reading "Rosary: Mysteries, Meditations, and the Telling of the Beads" by Kevin Orlin Johnson. Ph.D. It says that even though the Divine Office was prayed, people also prayed the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I was looking in our library this morning and found a copy that I thought had either been lost in a fire or when we moved to Texas. I plan to start this devotion along with the Liturgy of the Hours. As a novice at the LOTH, I have to constantly remind myself to pray it and not to merely read it. Hopefully with experience will come spiritual growth.

I finished a science fiction book last night and have decided to try to not read any books that are not beneficial for my spiritual growth until after the first of the year. I found "The Shoes of the Fisherman" by Morris West in the library also, this book may be questionable as an aid to growth, but I am going to start reading it for my recreational reading.

Pray for me.

Marquis

Hmmm

CCC 116 Vocab

Exegesis: ex·ege·sis (ek′sə jē′sis), noun pl. exegeses -·ses′ (-sēz′), explanation, critical analysis, or interpretation of a word, literary passage, etc., esp. in the Bible

CCC 82 Vocab

Ecclesial: ec·cle·sial (e klē′zē əl, i-), adjective, of or pertaining to a church