Let’s clear the dust of our hearts

Last Saturday, I was helping to clear the church when I faced a lateral door that seemed abandoned. It was completely dusty, but it was possible to note its beauty despite the dirt. I knew, once cleaned, the door will recover its beauty. Perhaps none could notice this beauty in a lateral door but for me it was important.

While I was cleaning the door I started to imagine what the bystanders used to think when seeing the church door in such bad condition and I worried about the bad impression made on them by the parish community.

It’s incredible how God talks to us using anything, including a door. In this moment, I have in my mind a stranger analogy and I started to think: “If the parishioners’ hearts condition is the same of the door, the situation is critical.”

I know how stranger is to compare the heart to a door, but the conclusion is overwhelming. How many times have we abandoned our hearts and we left them dusty, losing its beauty? Sometimes it is in the smaller and more hidden part of our being where we leave the dust cumulating and the spiderwebs taking over. How great and fatal negligence, that takes out the life beauty.

The reconciliation sacrament is the tool offered by the Church to clean our lives. But make attention to the little things, because the little hidden sins are like dust grains cumulating in our hearts and separating us from God.

Certainly, it was not a torn or an incident that lets that door in such bad condition, but it was after many neglecting years, cumulating one dust grain at time, then the door finished dusty. For our souls is the same, the grace is lost one little sin at time. So, we need to be careful in our quotidian life.

Gianna Jessen: An abortion survivor

The Obameter: Evaluating the Obama’s administration

It’s sure, the Obama’s administration will be one of the most demanded. It has just begun and there is already a web tool to evaluate the compliance with his campaign promisses. This tool is named Obameter, and classifies all the 509 Obama’s promisses as: no action, in the works or stalled. When an action is completed, it’s classified as: kept, compromise, or broken. The progress of the promisse compliance is also tracked. The tool is avaiable in: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/ .

Who you are? You are the Catholic Church!

The Big Bang Theory: 4 nerds and a hot girl, a secret for the sucess.

An egocentric theorical physicist (Leonard), a libertine engineer (Howard), an indian who has “some” problems with girls (Rajesh) and a experimental physicist (Leonard) in love by his hot blond neighbour (Penny), this is the secret of The Big Bang Theory’s sucess. This american serie from CBS with its inteligent jokes and its so cliché subject has colected fans around the world. Watching it will be the certainty of many laughters. After the second season beginning, I’m really convinced that it is a promissing story.

Listening the theme song we can have an idea about the hight level jokes found in the episodes.

See more in http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/