St. Fiacre - Patron Saint of Hemorrhoids & Herbs

St. Fiacre (d. 670) was raised in an Irish monastery and became known for his holiness, which caused others to flock to him. Desiring solitude, he left for France. He established a hermitage and asked for land to grow a garden and healing herbs, a science which he studied in the monastery. The local bishop gave him as much land as he could entrench, so Fiacre walked around the perimeter of a plot of land, dragging his shovel behind him. The land was miraculously cleared and the soil entrenched wherever the spade touched.

He lived a life of great mortification in prayer, fasting, keeping vigils, and the manual labor of the garden. Disciples gathered around him and soon formed a monastery.

St. Fiacre built an oratory in honor of the Virgin Mary, a hospice in which he received strangers, and a cell to live in.

His fame for performing miracles became widespread, and his garden in San-Fiacre in France became a place of pilgrimage for centuries for those seeking healing.  He was especially effective against a tumor once called le fic de S. Fiacre and which we now call hemorrhoids.

St. Fiacre is best known as the patron of gardeners and florists.

His feast day is August 30th.

St. Fiacre's Curse - Go Sit On A Rock

Hemorrhoids were called "Saint Fiacre's illness" in the Middle Ages and he may have suffered from them himself. It is said that one day he sat sorrowfully on a stone and that stone softened providing him relief of the sort that can be obtained with remarkable hemzem.

There is also a somewhat different version of how St. Fiacre became the patron saint of hemorrhoids and how hemorrhoids were known as St. Fiacre's Curse. When St. Fiacre first arrived in Meaux, it is said, Bishop Faro decided to give him land but didn't much care for him. So he gave St. Fiacre a particularly small shovel and told him he could have all the land he could clear in a single day. St. Fiacre went to work and toiled so hard to maximize his holding that he developed a severe case of prolapsed hemorrhoids. He then sat on a stone and prayed, seeking guidance, and a resolution to his situation. Miraculously his hemorrhoids vanished and legend has it that the imprint of his hemorrhoids remain on the stone to this day. Legend also has it that any hemorrhoid sufferer who sits on the stone and prays today will be cured. St. Fiacre lived in Breuil until his death in 670 and his relics are installed in Meaux cathedral.

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Philosophy of Ambiguity

The Philosophy of Ambiguity

FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THE PHILOSOPHY OF AMBIGUITY,

AS WELL AS THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF ENGLISH:

DON'T SWEAT THE PETTY THINGS AND DON'T PET THE SWEATY THINGS.

ONE TEQUILA, TWO TEQUILA, THREE TEQUILA, FLOOR.

ATHEISM IS A NON-PROPHET ORGANIZATION.

IF MAN EVOLVED FROM MONKEYS AND APES,

WHY DO WE STILL HAVE MONKEYS AND APES?

I WENT TO A BOOKSTORE AND ASKED THE SALESWOMAN,

"WHERE'S THE SELF- HELP SECTION?"

SHE SAID IF SHE TOLD ME, IT WOULD DEFEAT THE PURPOSE.

WHAT IF THERE WERE NO HYPOTHETICAL QUESTIONS?

IF A DEAF CHILD SIGNS SWEAR WORDS,

DOES HIS MOTHER WASH HIS HANDS WITH SOAP?

IF SOMEONE WITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES THREATENS TO KILL HIMSELF,

IS IT CONSIDERED A HOSTAGE SITUATION?

IS THERE ANOTHER WORD FOR SYNONYM?

WHERE DO FOREST RANGERS GO TO "GET AWAY FROM IT ALL?" 

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU SEE AN

ENDANGERED ANIMAL EATING AN ENDANGERED PLANT?

IF A PARSLEY FARMER IS SUED, CAN THEY GARNISH HIS WAGES?

WOULD A FLY WITHOUT WINGS BE CALLED A WALK?

WHY DO THEY LOCK GAS STATION BATHROOMS?

ARE THEY AFRAID SOMEONE WILL CLEAN THEM? 

IF A TURTLE DOESN'T HAVE A SHELL, IS HE HOMELESS OR NAKED?

CAN VEGETARIANS EAT ANIMAL CRACKERS?

IF THE POLICE ARREST A MIME,

DO THEY TELL HIM HE HAS THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT?

WHY DO THEY PUT BRAILLE ON THE DRIVE-THROUGH BANK MACHINES?

HOW DO THEY GET DEER TO CROSS THE ROAD

ONLY AT THOSE YELLOW ROAD SIGNS?

WHAT WAS THE BEST THING BEFORE SLICED BREAD?

ONE NICE THING ABOUT EGOTISTS: THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE.

DOES THE LITTLE MERMAID WEAR AN ALGEBRA?

DO INFANTS ENJOY INFANCY AS MUCH AS ADULTS ENJOY ADULTERY?

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A CIVIL WAR?

IF ONE SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMER DROWNS,

DO THE REST DROWN TOO?

IF YOU ATE BOTH PASTA AND ANTIPASTO,

WOULD YOU STILL BE HUNGRY?

IF YOU TRY TO FAIL, AND SUCCEED,
WHICH HAVE YOU DONE?

WHOSE CRUEL IDEA WAS IT FOR THE WORD
'LISP' TO HAVE 'S' IN IT?

WHY ARE HEMORRHOIDS CALLED "HEMORRHOIDS"

INSTEAD OF "ASSTEROIDS"?

WHY IS IT CALLED TOURIST SEASON IF WE CAN'T SHOOT AT THEM?

WHY IS THERE AN EXPIRATION DATE ON SOUR CREAM? 

IF YOU SPIN AN ORIENTAL PERSON IN A CIRCLE THREE TIMES,

DO THEY BECOME DISORIENTED?

CAN AN ATHEIST GET INSURANCE AGAINST ACTS OF GOD?

Wake up! The cancer is at your door.

“Wake up! The cancer is at your door. They will destroy you.

We, the Christians of the Middle East are the only group that has seen the face of evil: Islam”.

“There’s No Such Thing as Moderate Islam”: An Iraqi Priest Describes the Christian Genocide

Padre Douglas al Bazi recounts the Christian Genocide in Iraq

Rome. “Please, if there’s anyone who still thinks ISIS doesn’t represent Islam, know that they are wrong. ISIS represents Islam one hundred percent.” Father Douglas al Bazi, an Iraqi Catholic parish priest in Erbil, raised his voice during an intervention at the Meeting in Rimini, with a choice of words – in a provocative way and in hard tones – that few had ventured to use so far. . .

Read the article @ http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/08/theres-no-such-thing-as-moderate-islam.html#more

The Sword In The Stone - The Real Excaliber

Did you know that there really is a sword in the stone and that it was put there by the first person to be declared a saint by a formal process?

See the pictures @ http://www.churchpop.com/2014/08/14/the-real-sword-in-the-stone-belonged-to-the-rccs-first-official-saint/

In the small Italian town of Chiusdino, there’s a small chapel near Saint Galgano Abbey known as Montesiepi chapel. And inside you’ll find a big slab of stone in the floor with the handle of a sword sticking out of it.

How did it get there? Well the story goes that in the 12th century there was a knight named Galgano Guidotti who, toward the end of his life, decided to retire as a hermit. He then had two mystical visions: in the first, the Archangel Michael said he would personally protect him; and in the second, he met the Twelve Apostles and God himself. When the second vision ended, he decided to commemorate the place with a cross. Since he had no other materials, he stuck his sword into the ground as a cross. Immediately, the ground hardened up around it and it’s been stuck there ever since.

Just four years after his death, Pope Lucius III started a formal canonization process that ended with Guidotti being declared a saint – the first such person to be declared a saint by a formal process of the Roman Catholic Church.

Apparently “countless people have tried to steal the sword. In the chapel you can see what are said to be the mummified hands of a thief that tried to remove the sword and was then suddenly slaughtered by wild wolves.”

Though the sword is in Italy, some people think it may have influenced the English legend of King Arthur.

Socialist Utopia

Socialism is a philosophy of failure,

the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,

its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

-- Winston Churchill

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever see. Unfortunately, most voters don't know these.

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them; and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

 

Can you think of any reason for not sharing this?

Neither could I...

Where does Carbon Dioxide really come from?

Where does Carbon Dioxide really come from and what does it really do? Ian Rutherford Plimer   is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, professor of mining geology at the  University of  Adelaide, and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies. He has published 130 scientific papers, six books and edited the Encyclopedia of Geology. Born 12 February 1946 (age 67) Residence Australia Nationality Australian Fields Earth Science   , Geology, Mining Engineering Institutions University of New England   , University of Newcastle,University of Melbourne, University of Adelaide Alma mater University of New South Wales   , Macquarie University Thesis The pipe deposits of tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth in eastern Australia    (1976) Notable awards Eureka Prize   (1995, 2002), Centenary Medal (2003), Clarke Medal  < SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: black">(2004)   Where Does the Carbon Dioxide Really Come From? Professor Ian Plimer could not have said it better!   If you've read his book you will agree; this is a good summary.   PLIMER: "Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland . Since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet - all of you. Of course, you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress - its that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans and all animal life. I know....it's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kids "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cent light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs.....   well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days. The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes, FOUR DAYS  - by that volcano in Iceland which has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon.  And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud at any one time - EVERY DAY. I don't really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt. Pinatubo erupted in the  Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in all its years on earth.   Yes, folks, Mt. Pinatubo was active for over one year - think about it.   Of course, I shouldn't spoil this 'touchy-feely tree-hugging' moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keeps happening despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change. And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud, but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year. Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you, on the basis of the bogus 'human-caused' climate-change scenario.   Hey, isn't it interesting how they don't mention 'Global Warming' anymore, but just "Climate Change"   - you know why? It's because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming bull**** artists got caught with their pants down. And, just keep in mind that you might yet be stuck with an Emissions Trading Scheme - that whopping new tax - imposed on you that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer. It won't stop any volcanoes from erupting, that's for sure. But, hey, relax...give the world a hug and have a nice day!"

WAL-MART VS THE MORONS

 WAL-MART VS.  THE MORONS..
(NOT A JOKE)  

 
This is quite interesting.

  Even if you do not forward it, read it all the  way to the end...
1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!
3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.
  4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco
+ K-Mart combined.

 
  5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private employer, and most speak English.
    6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.
7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.
    8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.
 
  9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

  10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.
11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)
12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.

  You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.

    This should be read and understood by all Americans!! Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!

 
  To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature
It is now official that the majority of you are corrupt and ineffective:
  a..
The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 237 years to get it right and it is broke.
b..
Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 77 years to get it right and it is broke.
  c..
Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 74 years to get it right and
it is broke.
d..
War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 48 years to get it right; $1
trillion of our money is confiscated each year and
transferred to "the poor"
and they only want more.
  e..
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 47 years to get it right and they are broke
  f..
Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 42
years to get it right and it is broke.
g..
The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000
employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 35 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.

  You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved down our
throats while overspending our tax dollars.

  AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??

 
Keep this circulating.  Maybe it will end up in the e-mails of some of our elected politicians. We know they never read anything but maybe their staff will clue them in on how Americans feel.

  We have lost our minds to "Political Correctness"

  We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.

  In the last months we have provided billions of dollars in aid to Haiti, Chile, Japan, Turkey, Pakistan, Palestine and likely soon to Iran.
  Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no extra aid nor do they get any special breaks, but our leaders give billions of dollars in aid to illegal immigrants many of which are criminals and roam loose in our society. Now, it is estimated that 90,000 illegal alien children under the age of 16 will be in our country by the end of the year.
We will feed them, provide health and education and they will get everything a hard working American citizen gets - just for crossing the border illegally.
Obama is proposing we give millions of dollars to El Salvador, Hondouras and Guatamala to "help" the children. Do you really think this money is going to get to the children that really need it?
Meanwhile, Mexico is charging for allowing them to pass through Mexico to get to the US border, paid for by the drug cartels. They are keeping the Border Guards busy changing diapers while the drug lords funnel tons of drugs into the US to turn our children into zombies.

  In GITMO, the 147 Muslim terrorists have one doctor for every prisoner, a state-of-the art hospital system, are provided Korans, prayer rugs, food approved by the Koran, and additional perks.
Our Veterans die waiting to see a VA doctor while the directors get bonuses.

 



 
AND Congress wants to freeze Social Security payments ...

 
You do  know that Congress voted themselves a pay raise for 2013???
Google this--it's true!!!

 


99% of people
won't forward this.

  I'm one of the
1% -- I Just Did

Why Obama Wants Iran To Have Nukes

Very interesting article from a former Muslim.

So, Obama wants the Sunni Muslims to restore their Islamic Caliphate that they lost in 1924 at the hands of European (white, colonial)  powers.

He knows this will mean that the Caliphate led by Sunnis will want to fight and conquer their moral enemies the Shiite Muslims led by Iran.

To stabilize the situation, Iran must have nukes and will do anything to obtain them to counter the threat from a Sunni Caliphate.  

So, Obama, who is sympathetic to Muslims, would like to see a Sunni Caliphate and a Shiite Caliphate where everyone gets what they want.

What could go wrong with that?

http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/08/16/ex-muslim-gives-astonishing-warning-to-america-about-obamas-true-intentions-behind-a-nuclear-iran/

How Very True

SO TRUE,  LOVED THIS ONE!!

HOW VERY TRUE!

My mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and
spread butter on bread on the same cutting board with the same knife
and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax
paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't
remember getting e. Coli


Almost all of us would have rather gone
swimming in the lake or at the beach instead of a  pristine pool (talk
about boring), no beach closures then.


We  all took PE ..... And risked permanent
injury with a pair of Dunlop sandshoes instead of having
cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in
light reflectors that cost as much as a small car. I can't recall any
injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.


We got the cane for doing something wrong at
school, they used to call it discipline yet we all grew up to accept
the rules and to honor & respect those older than us.


We had 50 kids in our class and we all
learned to read and write, do math and spell almost all the words
needed to write a grammatically correct letter......., FUNNY THAT!!


We all said prayers in school irrespective of
our religion, sang the national anthem and no one got upset.


Staying in detention after school caught all
sorts of negative attention we wish we hadn't  got.


I thought that I was supposed to accomplish
something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.


I just can't  recall how bored we were
without computers, Play Station, Nintendo,  X-box or 270 digital TV
cable stations. We weren't!!


Oh yeah .... And where was the antibiotics
and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!


We played "King of the Hill" on piles of
gravel left on vacant building sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled
out the bottle of iodine and then we got our backside spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10 day dose of
antibiotics and then mum calls the lawyer to sue the contractor for
leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a  threat.


To top it off, not a single person I knew had
ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could
we possibly have known that?


We never needed to get into group therapy
and/or anger management classes. We were obviously so duped by so many
societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country
wasn't taking Prozac!


How did we ever survive?


LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA.


AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED.


WOULDN'T TRADE  IT FOR ANYTHING!


Pass this to someone and  remember that
life's most simple pleasures are very often the  best.


AAAAh, those WERE the  days!!!!

With The Old Breed

It will make all your problems seem so petty in comparison to what he and his fellow Marines endured in WWII.

On the 70th Anniversary of VJ Day, Eugene B. Sledge Puts Your First World Problems Into Perspective

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2015/08/14/on-the-70th-anniversary-of-vj-day-eugene-b-sledge-puts-your-first-world-problems-into-perspective/?utm_content=buffer8ce94&utm_medium=social&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_campaign=buffer

USA Trade Deficit Now Over $43 Billion - Only Trump Seems Concerned

The trade figures just came in for June. The trade deficit shot to $43.8 billion. Take out the $20 billion surplus in services, it was a $64 billion deficit in goods, pointing to a 2015 trade deficit of $750 billion in things Americans make with their hands, tools, machines.

This has been going on since Bush 41. And the correlation between these trade deficits and the trade deals our elites have negotiated is absolute. Trump says our negotiators have been getting their clocks cleaned by the Japanese, Chinese and Mexicans.

Is Donald Trump wrong when he says we are losing our country and that something must be done about this?

Or are free trade and open borders now articles of faith, defined dogma, denial of which gets you excommunicated from the Republican Party?

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/gop-elites-plot-to-purge-trump/#PvvMDbIoIHr4FzZQ.99

Over 42 Million Immigrants - What Could Go Wrong?

On Thursday, the Census Bureau revealed that a record 42.1 million immigrants, here legally and illegally, are in the U.S., a population explosion being driven by Mexicans still flooding across the border.

Is it “racism” to ask if Americans approve of this historic change in the composition and character of the country they love?

Is it “anti-immigrant” to ask whether there is a correlation between this massive infusion of unskilled and semi-skilled labor from the Third World, and the stagnant and falling wages of native-born Americans?

Is it “hateful” for Donald Trump to say he will do something about this?

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/gop-elites-plot-to-purge-trump/#PvvMDbIoIHr4FzZQ.99

Hilarious video about Hillary and her emails!

 Klintonerdämmerung:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prls6Iz3B3E

How to get to heaven from Ireland

(A true story from an Irish Sunday School Teacher)

I was testing children in my Dublin Sunday school class to see
if they understood the concept of getting to heaven.


'I asked them, ' If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage
sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me
into heaven?'


'NO!' the children answered.


'If I cleaned the church every day, tended the garden, and kept
everything tidy, would that get me into heaven?'


Again, the answer was 'NO!'


'If I gave sweets to all the children, and loved my husband,
would that get me into heaven?'


Again, they all answered 'NO!'


I was just bursting with pride for them. I continued, 'Then
how can I get into heaven?'



A little boy shouted out: 'YUV GOTTA BE FOOKN' DEAD.'


It's a curious race, the Irish, but it does bring a tear to the
eye, doesn't it?

The Origin of Celtic Dancing

B​e sure to watch all the way through...the music changes. 

Absolutely TOO cute for words!​  Bet they slept well that night!

THIS SHOULD PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE. Irish Twins https://www.facebook.com/AntonioPacelliLtd/videos/10153175276137631/

Relatively Speaking

From:  ChurchMilitant.com . . .

True or False:  How many of these statements do you agree with?

The only freedom ... is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual.

Nobody is subordinate to anyone else in what he thinks, what he does with his body, and what he believes. It's all relative to oneself.

Do whatever you want as long as you don't do something to someone without his consent. 

Rape is wrong but fornication is all right because mutual consent is the only standard for judging moral actions.

A person should be free to do whatever he or she wants with his or her body.

Contraception doesn't do something to someone without his consent and is acceptable while abortion does do something to another and is not acceptable.

Everyone has a right to worship however they wish.

There are no objective truths about morality. Therefore, you decide your moral standards for yourself; it's all relative to oneself.

All religions are equally valid and will get you to heaven.

Not one religion has all the truths and all the answers.

No religion should be able to dictate that followers believe each and every doctrine of that religion.

The individual should be able to decide which doctrines and religious beliefs of their religion to follow.

Individual autonomy means you should be allowed to decide how you want to practice your faith.

Each of these statements support Moral Relativism.

Relativism comes from Enlightenment philosophers, including John Stuart Mill, the father of modern liberalism. Liberalism is the belief that people should be free to do whatever they like with as few constraints as possible. In other words, nobody is subordinate to anyone else in what he thinks, what he does with his body, and what he believes. It's all relative to you.  Mill knew very well that his philosophy wouldn't work unless people didn't care about morality. In the same work, he says, "Religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized, except where religious indifference ... has added its weight to the scale."  Mill's principles are exactly how people today think about morality: Do whatever you want as long as you don't do something to someone without his consent. 

Sadly, many people today think that everyone has a right to worship how they wish. No, they don't.

Religion does matter because God does exist, and not all religions worship Him. Some worship false gods. Nobody has a right to spread falsehoods about God, human sexuality or any other moral issue.

A society that embraces moral relativism and religious pluralism (all religions are equally valid) has already embraced atheism.

http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/relativism-leads-to-no-god

The Big Finish

The end of the Requiem Mass with the big send-off “Lux Aeterna”

V.  Sanctus & Benedictus

Sanctus – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOeJDwfDeLQ

Benedictus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R670fUlExA

VI. Agnus Dei - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZpFa7iDwBI
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem sempiternam.	Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant them eternal rest. Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, Grant them eternal rest. Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant them eternal rest forever.

VII. Communion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O6mgPdzzEE
Lux aeterna
Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine, cum sanctis tuis in aeternum, quia pius es. Requiem aeternum dona eis, Domine, et Lux perpetua luceat eis, cum Sanctus tuis in aeternum, quia pius es.	Let eternal light shine on them, Lord, as with Your saints in eternity, because You are merciful. Grant them eternal rest, Lord, and let perpetual light shine on them, as with Your saints in eternity, because You are merciful.

http://www.stmatthews.com/choir/mozartsrequiem.htm

I Offer You the Offertory

We don’t play music like this during the presentation of the offerings during the Mass I attend, but it would be a nice improvement.

IV. Offertory of the Requiem Mass
Domine Jesu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAFWHHstbJI
Domine Jesu Christe, Rex gloriae, libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum de poenis inferni et de profundo lacu. Libera eas de ore leonis, ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum.  Sed signifer sanctus Michael repraesentet eas in lucem sanctam.   Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus.	Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory, liberate the souls of the faithful, departed from the pains of hell and from the bottomless pit. Deliver them from the lion's mouth, lest hell swallow them up, lest they fall into darkness.   Let the standard-bearer, holy Michael, bring them into holy light.   Which was promised to Abraham and his descendants.
2. Hostias - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcIRhWVhri0
Hostias et preces tibi, Domine, laudis offerimus. Tu sucipe pro animabus illis, quaram hodie memoriam facimus. Fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam, Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus.	Sacrifices and prayers of praise, Lord, we offer to You. Receive them in behalf of those souls we commemorate today. And let them, Lord, pass from death to life, which was promised to Abraham and his descendants.

Music from "Amadeus"

Mozart does the Requiem Mass.   You may recognize some of these from the movie, “Amadeus.”

I like Dies Irae, Confutatis, and Lacrimosa.   Can you identify the scenes in the movie where these songs were played?

Make sure these songs are played at my Requiem Mass so we can both enjoy the music.   Thanks much!

III. Sequence of the Mass for the Deceased
Dies irae - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_HErMwHag
Dies irae, dies illa Solvet saeclum in favilla, teste David cum Sibylla. Quantus tremor est futurus, quando judex est venturus, cuncta stricte discussurus!	Day of wrath, day of anger will dissolve the world in ashes, as foretold by David and the Sibyl. Great trembling there will be when the Judge descends from heaven to examine all things closely.
2. Tuba mirum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8AGJYmSkz0
Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum.	The trumpet will send its wondrous sound throughout earth's sepulchres and gather all before the throne.
Mors stupebit et natura, cum resurget creatura, judicanti responsura. Liber scriptus proferetur, in quo totum continetur, unde mundus judicetur.	Death and nature will be astounded, when all creation rises again, to answer the judgement. A book will be brought forth, in which all will be written, by which the world will be judged.
Judex ergo cum sedebit, quidquid latet, apparebit, nil inultum remanebit.	When the judge takes his place, what is hidden will be revealed, nothing will remain unavenged.
Quid sum miser tunc dicturus? quem patronum rogaturus, cum vix justus sit securus?	What shall a wretch like me say? Who shall intercede for me, when the just ones need mercy?
3. Rex tremendae - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPyUU9jNIJ0
Rex tremendae majestatis, qui salvandos savas gratis, salve me, fons pietatis.	King of tremendous majesty, who freely saves those worthy ones, save me, source of mercy.
4. Recordare - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcKW8qAPxd0
Recordare, Jesu pie, quod sum causa tuae viae; ne me perdas illa die.  Quaerens me, sedisti lassus, redemisti crucem passus; tantus labor non sit cassus.  Juste judex ultionis, donum fac remissionis ante diem rationis.  Ingemisco, tamquam reus: culpa rubet vultus meus; supplicanti parce, Deus. Qui Mariam absolvisti, et latronem exaudisti, mihi quoque spem dedisti.  Preces meae non sunt dignae, sed tu, bonus, fac benigne, ne perenni cremer igne.  Inter oves locum praesta, Et ab haedis me sequestra, Statuens in parte dextra.	Remember, kind Jesus, my salvation caused your suffering; do not forsake me on that day.  Faint and weary you have sought me, redeemed me, suffering on the cross; may such great effort not be in vain.  Righteous judge of vengeance, grant me the gift of absolution before the day of retribution.  I moan as one who is guilty: owning my shame with a red face; suppliant before you, Lord.  You, who absolved Mary, and listened to the thief, give me hope also.  My prayers are unworthy, but, good Lord, have mercy, and rescue me from eternal fire.  Provide me a place among the sheep, and separate me from the goats, guiding me to Your right hand.
5. Confutatis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyznWgDqIuA
Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis, voca me cum benedictus.  Oro supplex et acclinis, cor contritum quasi cinis, gere curam mei finis.	When the accused are confounded, and doomed to flames of woe, call me among the blessed.  I kneel with submissive heart, my contrition is like ashes, help me in my final condition.
6. Lacrimosa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wGLDVEXK5M
Lacrimosa dies illa, qua resurget ex favilla judicandus homo reus. Huic ergo parce, Deus, pie Jesu Domine, dona eis requiem. Amen.	That day of tears and mourning, when from the ashes shall arise, all humanity to be judged. Spare us by your mercy, Lord, gentle Lord Jesus, grant them eternal rest. Amen.