- ADAM’S ALE So how does your home stack up as a domestic church?
1. Could you be caught in prayer in your home?
2. Do those who live in your house ever pray together – even grace? Do the heads of the house offer blessings?
3. Are Christian/Catholic ideals in manner, speech, and action upheld, fostered and honored?
4. Is Mass and regular confession a priority in scheduling?
5. Do images, shows, stories, or any other manner of media invited into your living room through television, computers, and other electronic or print media noble or at least not scandalous?
6. Are the poor served in some fashion from your home? (For example donations to charitable organizations etc.)
7. Is the liturgical calendar celebrated in your home in anyway? (For example – does Christmas really seem Christ centered? Do you recognize your feast day?)
8. Is the faith ever discussed (even the weekend’s homily)?
9. Does your house show any sign of housing a people of faith? (For example – is there a crucifix well displayed and honored or do you have a holy water font?)
10. Has your house been blessed or given a patron?
11. Are there resources for learning or being inspired about the faith? Do you a book blessings and use it?
12. Is your home a place of love and joy?
tags: Catholic domestic church - Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech by Erica Goldson – Annotated Wow! tags: pubicschool education
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The saddest
part is that the majority of students don’t have the opportunity
to reflect as I did. The majority of students are put through the
same brainwashing techniques in order to create a complacent labor
force working in the interests of large corporations and secretive
government, and worst of all, they are completely unaware of it.
I will never be able to turn back these 18 years. I can’t run away
to another country with an education system meant to enlighten rather
than condition. This part of my life is over, and I want to make
sure that no other child will have his or her potential suppressed
by powers meant to exploit and control. We are human beings. We
are thinkers, dreamers, explorers, artists, writers, engineers.
We are anything we want to be – but only if we have an educational
system that supports us rather than holds us down. A tree can grow,
but only if its roots are given a healthy foundation. -
For those of
you out there that must continue to sit in desks and yield to the
authoritarian ideologies of instructors, do not be disheartened.
You still have the opportunity to stand up, ask questions, be critical,
and create your own perspective. Demand a setting that will provide
you with intellectual capabilities that allow you to expand your
mind instead of directing it. Demand that you be interested in class.
Demand that the excuse, “You have to learn this for the test”
is not good enough for you. Education is an excellent tool, if used
properly, but focus more on learning rather than getting good grades. -
For those of
you that work within the system that I am condemning, I do not mean
to insult; I intend to motivate. You have the power to change the
incompetencies of this system. I know that you did not become a
teacher or administrator to see your students bored. You cannot
accept the authority of the governing bodies that tell you what
to teach, how to teach it, and that you will be punished if you
do not comply. Our potential is at stake.
For those of
you that are now leaving this establishment, I say, do not forget
what went on in these classrooms. Do not abandon those that come
after you. We are the new future and we are not going to let tradition
stand. We will break down the walls of corruption to let a garden
of knowledge grow throughout America. Once educated properly, we
will have the power to do anything, and best of all, we will only
use that power for good, for we will be cultivated and wise. We
will not accept anything at face value. We will ask questions, and
we will demand truth.
So, here I
stand. I am not standing here as valedictorian by myself. I was
molded by my environment, by all of my peers who are sitting here
watching me. I couldn’t have accomplished this without all of you.
It was all of you who truly made me the person I am today. It was
all of you who were my competition, yet my backbone. In that way,
we are all valedictorians.
I am now supposed
to say farewell to this institution, those who maintain it, and
those who stand with me and behind me, but I hope this farewell
is more of a “see you later” when we are all working together
to rear a pedagogic movement. But first, let’s go get those pieces
of paper that tell us that we’re smart enough to do so!
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