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You speak my language. Do I?

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All around the world, everywhere I go No one understands me No one knows what I'm trying to say Everywhere I go no one understands me They look at me when I talk to them And they scratch their head They go, "What's he trying to say?" But you… you speak my language But you… you speak my language Yeah! Yes! All around the world, everywhere I go No one understands me No one knows what I'm trying to say Even in my home town My friends make me write it down They look at me when I talk to them And they shrug their shoulders They go, "What's he talking about? But you… you speak my language... . - lyrics from You Speak My Language by Morphine At Thesaurus.com, a simple search for synonyms of the words 'liberal' and 'conservative' yields results that are telling, though not surprising. Of course, Thesaurus.com is not alone in its sin-onymic contortions. Other sites parrot the same newspeak. Under liberal, do note the synonym in position four in co...

TRUE PARTICIPATION IN THE MASS

"I was gathered into the offering of the Son to the Father. I participated in the self-offering of God today."

FEATURED SCRIPTURE | Revelation 7:9-12

AFTER this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.”

THE GOLDEN ARROW

May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.

FEATURED QUOTE

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. ― Thomas Sowell