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University of St Thomas, Veritas Bookstore and Foundation for Life are proud to announce an uncoming free conference on Humanae Vitae featuring Dr Janet E. Smith, Fr Anthony Giampetro CSB, Jennifer Kimball BEL, and Dr Martha Garza, to be held Friday and Saturday, November 21 and 22 2008 at the University of St Thomas. (Directions to UST)

Schedule of Events:

Nov 21 Friday 7:30-9:00pm Cullen Hall: Fr Anthony Giampetro CSB: “Sexuality, Catholicism, and Politics–We’ve come a long way, are we happy here?”

Nov 22 Saturday 8:30am-9:45am Scanlan Room: Jennifer Kimball BEL: “Contraception and Assisted Reproductive Technology: The gateway to a eugenic culture”

Nov 22 Saturday 10:15am-11:45am Scanlan Room: Dr. Janet E. Smith: “Pope John Paul II on Humanae Vitae.”

Nov 22 Saturday 12:00-1:15pm Scanlan Room: Lunch $10 (Please reserve a place for lunch!)

Nov 22 Saturday 1:30pm-3:00pm Scanlan Room: Dr. Janet E. Smith: “Humanae Vitae: Marriage, Fertility, and the Problem of Homosexuality.”

Nov 22 Saturday 3:30pm-5:00pm Scanlan Room: Dr. Martha Garza: “The Culture of Life vs The Culture of Death: Real Life Experiences, a Physician’s Perspective.” and Mike and Mary Ellen Van Hort of the Couple to Couple League.

Please register for the events which you plan to attend, and also for lunch so that enough lunches are ordered.

To register of for more information contact: Valerie Hall 713-525-2163, hallvl@stthom.edu

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We invite you to join the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants in a
peaceful and prayerful Mass and Rosary on Saturday, November 15, 2008.
Mass will begin at 8:00 a.m. at St. Monica Catholic Church, 8421 W.
Montgomery Road St., 77088.  Adoration will begin at 9:00 a.m.  A Rosary
Procession to AAfordable Women’s Clinic, 7007 N. Freeway will follow.
Please see the attached flyer for further information.  If you cannot
join us on Saturday, please remember us and all individuals whose lives
we touch that day in your prayers.

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A special treat from Veritas to you: the Pauline Rosary, as preached by Father Matthias.

Download the Joyful mysteries here.

Father Matthias is a wonderful preacher with a rich voice.  Listen and follow along with him as he offers meditation on the words of St Paul.   Pope Benedict XVI has declared this to be the “Year of St Paul.”  What better way to reach the heart of Catholic prayer with St Paul’s message than this Pauline rosary?

We will be adding the remaining sets of mysteries over the coming weeks.

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St. Peter’s is heading up the Hope Kitchen brought to the island by St. Vincent de Paul of Houston.  Folks are working very hard to set up and run this valuable community asset, especially at this difficult time.  However, MANY MORE VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED to help out.  There are two shifts per day:  9:30 am until 2:30 pm, and 2:30 pm until 7:30 pm…Seven days a week.   The site is located on the corner of 25th and Ave H, in Galveston.

At least 20 volunteers are needed at all times to be of service to the poorer neighbors, as well as any others who are now in need.  Counselors will be available; a chapel for prayer and rest; a kitchen offering a full meal each day, plus snacks and water as needed; and several large tents with new and gently used clothing for folks of all ages, even some doggie toys for needy pets.

If anyone can help out on one or more days a week during one shift or another or even for just 2 or 3 hours occasionally, the community would be deeply grateful.  Although a volunteer orientation meeting took place today about the jobs and how to best do them, “on the job training” will be provided to those who couldn’t attend the meeting.

If you cannot volunteer at this time, please let others know, so they may help.  Feel free to forward this email to as many as possible.

It is very important that we show Galveston that Catholics care and are involved in helping others. Please send this info to all the folks you know.  Please come by during the working hours or call Miriam Dell’Olio, 409-939-4700, or 409-740-3800, for more info.

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The NCR posted a fantastic interview with our Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, by John Allen.  Please take the time to read it, and read your Bible!

“Allen: So a Biblical imagination is alive and well in Texas?

Daniel Cardinal DiNardo: It is absolutely alive … it may be crazy sometimes, but it’s alive and well. I don’t see that in the Northeast. I really don’t see it. I don’t see it among our leaders, I don’t see it among some of the university people, and I don’t even see it among all of our Catholics. But when you go south of the Mason/Dixon line and get into the Bible Belt, it’s still there. The Biblical vocabulary and imagination is alive.”

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End of Life conference in San Antonio.  Please check the PDF for more information

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“I am the light of the world, whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”  John 8:12

O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God and Sun of Light, watch over and protect this diocese of Galveston-Houston.  So many of our brothers and sisters have no one to turn to in their affliction.  A great storm has ravaged our area and commanded our attention.

And yet we thank you already for the gift of Divine Sunshine, the Holy Spirit, who has already come to the aid of our weakness and warmed so many hearts to give even when they have little and to help when they themselves are in need.  

We know Dear Lord, that nothing can separate us from Your Love in Christ: neither anquish, nor hunger, nor nakedness, persecution, tribulation, or devastation.  No, if we follow the Light of Life, we conquer overwhelmingly all adversity with the faith that assures us that You always work for the greater Good.

Lord, in this time of testing, grant us humility to recognize that all trials in this life are ultimately the result of moral failure-failure to follow you Ten Commandments of love.  Houston is the abortion capital of Texas.  The largest abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere is being built right here in our diocese in addition to 13 other abortion clinics.  We have more adult bookstores and pornagraphic distribution centers, together with strip clubs, than New York City.  Galveston has been known to be not simply an authentic place of refreshment and recreation, but also the sight of much licentious partying and carousing.

Still we do not pretend to know your Mind, Lord.  It could be for some, all, or none of these sins that you allowed the storm to afflict us.  We don’t believe that you correct your children so violently every time we break a commandment.  Perhaps the cross this storm has brought was only for our greater sanctification.  

As Job says, we receive good things from the Lord, should we not also receive bad.  The book of Hebrews reminds us that God chastises every son He loves to draw them closer to the Truth.  

We love you Lord, and though we do not know why we have been afflicted with this storm we know that you provide for all and only allow evil to bring about a greater good.  

May  all of us who remain without power, remember that light comes not from man but from the Lord.  Sun of Justice, Sun of Wisdom, Sun of Mercy, shine upon us and we shall be saved.  Amen

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Baptized as a new creature in Christ when she was two months old-on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes-Marisa has had a strong development in the catholic faith.  She graduated from the University of St. Thomas with a major in English and a minor in Theology to better prepare herself to homeschool her three children.  Soon she volunteered to head up the CCE program and youth outreach apostolate at St. Charles Borromeo.  After 15 years of service at St. Charles she became the Director for Religious Education at Holy Rosary Parish in downtown Houston where she still teaches young and old about Jesus.  Veritas is fortunate to have someone as experienced as Marisa is in handing on the Faith!

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People often ask for book recommendations from the staff at the store. Over the years we’ve compiled a long list of authors that seem to come up time and time again. In time, we’d like to review all (or at least most) of these authors, but in the meantime, THE LIST:

All the Popes
All the Saints
Anscar Vonier
Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
Benjamin Wiker
Blessed Columbia Marmion
C.S. Lewis
Christoph Cardinal Shonborn
David Currie
Evelyn Waugh
Father Benedict Groeschel
Father John Hardon
Father Mitch Pacwa
Father William Most
Fr. Adrian Fortesque
Fr. Frederick Copleston
Francis Cardinal Arinze
Francis Xavier Cardinal Nguyen
Frank Sheed
G.K. Chesterton
Gabriele Marcelle
Harry Crocker III
Hellair Belloc
Henri de Lubac
Ignacio Larranaga
Janet Smith
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Joseph Pearce
Josef Pieper
Karl Keating
Mike Aquilina
Peter Kreeft
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope John Paul II
Pope John XXIII
Pope Paul VI
Pope Pius XI
Pope Pius XII
Ralph Martin
Ramero Cantalamessa
Romano Guardini
Scott Hahn
Sir Thomas More
St. Alphonsus de Ligouri
St. Athanasius
St. Augustine
St. Basil
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Catherine of Sienna
St. Francis de Sales
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. John Chrysostom
St. John of the Cross
St. Peter Julian Eymard
St. Teresa of Avila
St. Therese of Lisieux
St. Thomas Aquinas
Steve Ray
Tim Gray
Tim Staples
Warren Carroll

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