Recommended links.

I really wish I had time to comment more on each of these not-very-related links.

Sister Mary Martha dispenses advice to a godparent Godparent who asks, "[M]y godchildren aren’t going to Mass any more and aren’t learning about their faith. I’m concerned about this, but unsure what to do, as I live hundreds of miles away, so can’t take them myself, and don’t really feel as though I should tell their parents what to do. Do you have any advice for me on being a good Godparent to the children of a lapsed Catholic?"

CJ responds to a line about "appropriately draped nursing" in a churchy magazine:  "If you ever want to push my buttons with a nuclear-powered cattle prod, you can just call me up and read that sentence to me.  It is wrong in so many ways I can’t even count them, though I’m certainly going to give it a try…." (link to CJ giving it a try)  I share in her rant — it ought to be acceptable for a young baby to nurse in a church pew.  (Thank goodness for magazines to warn us that we should be ‘appropriately draped’ when nursing in public!  Otherwise I know I’d have gotten in the habit of stripping to the waist every time the baby cried.)

Finally, Amy has a thread about why substitutions like "Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier" for the Name of the Triune God just don’t cut it.  The comments on the thread are fantastic, much worth reading, and I’m not just saying that because one is from me.  I particularly like the insight that, as much as the words "Father," "Son," "Holy Spirit," we need to consider the introductory "…in the name of the…"  Fruitful meditation, that.