“On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, eleven pipers piping ...”The Eleven Pipers used their 2020 year away from the index to raise prices by more than 7 percent (to $2,943.93). The return of live music performance may well be worth it to your true love.
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The end of Christmastide draws near, but is still with us. And yet, as we began to notice over the weekend, the trees are already being taken down to sit on the curb, and commercials for "holiday sales" might alreday be fading into the realm of yesterday's news. Meanwhile ...
Today is the feast of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the foundress of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph, the mother of the Nation's parochial school system, and patroness of Catholic schools. Raised to the altar by Pope Paul VI in 1975, she was the first native-born American to be so recognized. From the original motherhouse in Emmitsburg, Maryland, a branch house was established out west, known today as the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, based at Mount Saint Joseph-on-the-Ohio, on the city's once-predominantly-Catholic west side. This order did much, not only to build the parochial school system in this part of the Midwest through their teaching apostolate, but the health care system as well, through the establishment of Good Samaritan Hospital in 1852.
Concerning the role of women Religious and the health care apostolate, much has changed in recent years, to say the least. In light of certain health care legislation signed into law in the United States, and the capitulation by certain "leaders" of women religious orders, in forcing others to cooperate in acts against the Gospel of Life, let us pause for a moment to consider the irony.
And hope for a restoration of common sense, not to mention the Gospel of Life, to the issue.
See all twelve days in progress at the "xmas12days2021-2022" label.
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