Philosophy, theology, gardening, cooking, roast pig, prime rib or a nice ribeye steak, and seafood,a good cigar. Oh yeah, strangling the pet cat for not catching enough gophers.
Pope Benedict! Viva el Papa! And St. Ignatius of Antioch 35-107AD Who wrote this.........“Where the bishop appears, there let the people be, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.†........For those that claim that the Catholic Church did not exist back then, you're in for a shock if you read the Church Fathers, unless of course your church discourages you from reading them. If they do, ask why? ------------------------------------------------------------ -------“It follows after commendation of the Trinity, 'The Holy Church.' God is pointed out, and His temple. 'For the temple of God is holy,' says the Apostle, 'which (temple) are ye.' This same is the holy Church, the one Church, the true Church, the Catholic Church, fighting against all heresies: fight, it can: be fought down, it cannot. As for heresies, they went all out of it, like as unprofitable branches pruned from the vine: but itself abideth in its root, in its Vine, in its charity. 'The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.'†ST. AUGUSTINE, Sermon to the Catechumens on the Creed, 6:14 (A.D. 377).
I like jazz, classical and a little bit of everything else as long as it's good to me, and not loud! (I don't like people yelling about some personal issue.)
The Song of Bernadette, The Passion, any movie with morals (no vulgarity or sensless violence). I also don't like movies that pit "good vs. evil" NO SUCH thing! It has to be holy vs. evil. Being "good" doesn't defeat evil!
I don't watch too many TV programs since they stink and cater to pagans. There's alot of "dumbing-down" and anti-Christian bias so I do not patronize those folks. But I do watch Fox News, the Food Network, and EWTN.
The Bible, the Catechism, and others too numerous to mention here. Remember, Jesus founded a teaching Church. The canon of the Bible came from the Church since Jesus never comanded anyone to write anything down. Everyone who picks up a Bible acknowledges the authority of the Catholic Church. "I would not believe in the Gospel myself if the authority of the Catholic Church did not influence me to do so." St. Augustine Against the letter of Mani, 5,6, 397 A.D.
My Son Phillip on his M-1 Tank! My Son Phillip in Iraq. He has that dog's puppy in is arms. My son Luis in Iraq before the bomb blew up his vehicle. He escaped serious injury by ducking into that turret!Luis (at bottom) ready for Iraq. My lovely daughter Anna. Luis getting ready to come home after a job well done!In Matthew 26:26, JESUS said, "Take and eat; THIS IS MY BODY." In Matthew 26:27-28 Jesus said, "All of you drink of this; FOR THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW COVENANT, WHICH IS BEING SHED FOR MANY UNTO THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS."St. Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on Matthew, 26:27, 428AD "He states demonstratively: 'This is My Body,' and 'This is My Blood', lest you might suppose the things you see are a figure. Rather, by some secret of the all-powerful GOD the things seen are transformed into the Body and Blood of Christ, truly offered in a sacrifice in which we, as participants, receive the life-giving and sanctifying power of Christ."St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans, 7:3, 106AD "I desire the bread of GOD, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ."St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures, 22(Mystagogic 4)6, 350AD "Do not, therefore, regard the Bread and the Wine as simply that; for they are, according to the Masters declaration, the Body and Blood of Christ." St. Gregory of Nyssa, The Great Catechism, 37, 383AD "Rightly then, do we believe that the bread consecrated by the Word of GOD has been made over into the Body of GOD the Word." St. Ambrose of Milan, The Sacraments, 4:4:14, 390AD "You may perhaps say: "My bread is ordinary." But that bread is bread before the words of the Sacraments; where the consecration has entered in, the bread becomes the Flesh of Christ."