“On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, eleven pipers piping ...”If you’d like to hear a piper pipe, get ready to pay for it. A tight labor market means a 6.2% increase in the cost for these musicians (to $3,207.38).
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The end of Twelvetide draws near, but is still with us. And yet, as the workweek returns to normal, the party is effectively over. Trees are being taken down to sit on the curb, and commercials for "holiday sales" are already fading away. 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 honored.From the original motherhouse in Emmitsburg, Maryland, a branch house was established out west, its occupants 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 its 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 American health care legislation signed into law in recent years, and the capitulation by certain "leaders" of women religious orders (those few of the old guard still alive), 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 return of the Gospel of Life to the issue.
See all twelve days in progress at the "xmas12days2023-2024" label.
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