Lent is an Invitation and a Means to Transfiguration
Published March 1, 2010 | 
By Deacon Keith Fournier, 2/26/2010, Catholic Online
Through our Lenten observance we are empowered to begin living our lives differently now.
This One who came from eternity and took upon Himself the limitations of time, was about to open the portal of eternity.
CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) – “Jesus took Peter, John, and James and went up the mountain to pray. While he was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling white. And behold, two men were conversing with him, Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of his exodus that he was going to accomplish in Jerusalem. ” (Luke 9)
Why, on the second Sunday of Lent does the Church offer us an account of the Transfiguration?
The inclusion of this account is an ancient practice. We also hear the account on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Whether during Lent or on its own Feast, it is meant to focus us on the “end” of the Christian life and vocation. We will all be transfigured, as the Lord Himself was transfigured, when our redemption is complete in the Resurrection of the Body. Then, we will live in the new heaven and new earth. This reality is meant to affect the way we live our lives now. It also opens up another aspect of the purpose of our ascetical practices during these forty days.
From the earliest centuries, the Christian Church emphasized the centrality of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Our experience of our life in the Lord – and in His Church – is only the beginning of what is to come in the kingdom. Our life is already a participation in that new reality. The Church, in the words of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, is a “seed of the kingdom” to come. Our life within the Church is a participation in the eternal realities of the life to come in a new heaven and a new earth – but it begins in the here and now.
The Transfiguration invites us to reflect on what that can mean for us right now. This event on the Mountain was meant to strengthen the faith of these three disciples. They were about to witness the events that would lead their Lord and Master along what would appear to be an ignominious path, up Golgotha´s lonely hill, to be crucified, a fate reserved for common criminals. Their own faith would be shaken, tested and tried. He loved all who were His own in this world (John 13:1). He wanted to encourage them.
However, this One who came from eternity and took upon Himself the limitations of time, was about to open the portal of eternity. He would reveal to Peter, James and John the eternal now of His own glory. He was doing so much more than simply encouraging them. He was showing them who He was – and who they would become in Him. He was revealing to them what had already begun; and giving them a vision that would forever change the way they viewed themselves, their daily lives and their mission, after He would return to the Father.
As they lived their lives no longer for themselves but for Him they began to undergo their own trials and walked the way to their own transfiguration. This is the path of all who bear His name. We entered through the waters of the womb of Holy Baptism into the life of the Church which is His Body. We are “in process”, works “in progress”. We are being re-created and transfigured in Him. He has brought heaven to earth and earth to heaven, through the Paschal mystery. Oh, I know, this is “heavy” stuff as we used to say. But it is the Gospel message and the Catholic faith.
On that Mountain, Jesus revealed before mortal eyes the Transcendent Truth of who He is – and who Peter, James and John …and each one of us – will become in Him. They were invited to exercise their freedom and embrace the path that He had prepared. So are we, right now. He was grounding them in the eternal Truth, and opening up for the countless millions who would hear this story from their faithful witness a glimpse of the Glory that is to come as we also choose Him in our daily lives.
Peter would later write of this experience: “His divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes for life and devotion, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and power. Through these, he has bestowed on us the precious and very great promises, so that through them you may come to share in the divine nature, after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, virtue with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with devotion, devotion with mutual affection, mutual affection with love….
We did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received honor and glory from God the Father when that unique declaration came to him from the majestic glory, “This is my Son, my beloved, with whom I am well pleased.” We ourselves heard this voice come from heaven while we were with him on the holy mountain.” (2 Peter 1)
The Christian vocation is a “participation in the Divine Nature.” We are being transfigured in Christ. This transfiguration will only be complete when the entire person, including the body, is fully redeemed and transformed. The effects of the transfiguration involve the entire created order; it too will finally be reconstituted in Jesus Christ and handed back to the Father. The followers of Jesus, the Transfigured One, now walk in His Way and are being transformed into His likeness.
The Beloved Disciple John used this event of the Transfiguration as a “hermeneutic”, a lens through which he gave the early Christians a deeper insight into their difficulties, struggles and mission. In his first Letter to the early Churches, he encouraged them to persevere and live differently by referring to the event that occurred on that Mountain. He encouraged them to not be surprised or discouraged that the “world” did not recognize them, but rather to persevere in love through holding the vision of a transfigured life before them:
“See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure.” (1 John 3)
The Lord Jesus has shown us the way up the mountain. He has invited us into a new way of living in Him through living within the communion of the Church. Living in that Church we are invited to go into the world and invite all men and women, through the waters of the womb of Baptism, into the new communion of love where they can begin the process of conversion and transfiguration. Born again, we are all invited to join with Peter, James and John and cry out in our day: “It is good for us to be here.”
As we reflect on the Transfiguration of Jesus on this Second Sunday of Lent, let us enter more deeply into the mystery by living in the Transfiguration now. It truly is good for us to be here. Let us draw encouragement from the account of the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ and respond to the invitations of grace in our daily lives in order to grow more fully into the Image and likeness of Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord revealing His Transfigured glory to a world waiting to be born anew.
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LifeNews.com Headlines
Published March 1, 2010 | SOURCE: http://www.lifenews.com/
OBAMA TO PUSH PRO-ABORTION HEALTH CARE BILL: IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT VOTE US OUT
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — After a health care summit that saw him hear how Americans don’t want to pay for abortions had Nancy Pelosi misleading attendees about abortion funding, President Barack Obama plans to push the pro-abortion health care bill. And he has a message for Americans who don’t like it: vote us out.
OBAMA’S CHANGES TO SENATE HEALTH CARE BILL INLCUDE RATIONING VIA PRICE CONTROLS
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Burke Balch, J.D., director of the National Right to Life Committee’s Powell Center for Medical Ethics, says the Obama health care plan has more rationing problems than he found at fist glance. Balch explains: “The February 22, 2010, Obama Administration health care proposal imposes premium price controls on ALL insurance plans, not just those for Medicare-eligible senior citizens.
PRO-LIFE ADVOCATES ACCUSE PLANNED PARENTHOOD CEO OF LYING ABOUT ABORTION VIDEO
Milwaukee, WI (LifeNews.com) — After an undercover video released last Tuesday showed staff at their Milwaukee abortion clinic agreeing to cover up the sexual abuse of a purportedly 14-year-old girl by her 31-year- old “boyfriend,” Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin says they “were unable to make any report” of the suspected abuse because the girl would not give the clinic any identifying information.
ABORTION PRACTITIONER IN FROZEN DEAD BABIES CASE HAS MORE VIOLATIONS, PROBLEMS
Philadelphia, PA (LifeNews.com) — The abortion practitioner who received national attention recently when local officials found dozens of apparently late-term unborn children who were killed in abortions as long as 30 years ago isn’t involved in an isolated case. Pro-life groups say abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell has a long history of problems.
ABORTION PRACTITIONER ON 40 DAYS FOR LIFE: PRAYING TO END ABORTION DOESN’T WORK
Fayetteville, AR (LifeNews.com) — An Arkansas-based abortion practitioner’s take on the international 40 Days for Life campaign is sure to draw guffaws from pro-life advocates. William Harrison says people engaging in the campaign to raise awareness of the problem of abortion centers is ineffective.
PRO-ABORTION GROUP ENDORSES OBAMA NOMINEE TIMOTHY BLACK FOR FEDERAL JUDGE
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — The pro-abortion group NARAL has endorsed a nominee President Barack Obama put forward for a federal judgeship in Ohio. Obama has selected Timothy Black, a magistrate judge in the Southern District of Ohio since 2004, for the District Court Bench for the Southern District of Ohio.
CONGRESSMAN SAYS ABORTION MORE DEVASTATING THAN SLAVERY FOR BLACK AMERICANS
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — A republican member of Congress has released a new video showing him talking about the status of abortion in the United States. Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona republican, is generating controversy by saying that abortion has been more devastating for the black community than slavery.
Rep. Paul Ryan: Pelosi Doesn’t Have the Votes on Health Care
Published March 1, 2010 |
Ryan on Pelosi: “I wouldn’t count her out. She is very good at muscling votes.”
FOUNDER’S QUOTE DAILY
Published March 1, 2010 | | “The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of its political cares.”
–Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 12 |
Obama’s Perverse Priorities
Published March 1, 2010 | By Jed Babbin, Human Events, 3/01/2010
When Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind) announced his retirement, the media revived their drumbeat that our government is broken. As the indispensable Brent Bozell pointed out last week, Democrats and the media only complain of broken government when the liberals can’t get their agenda enacted.
The problem isn’t that our government isn’t working: it’s that President Obama’s agenda is entirely perverse. It reverses the essential order of priorities, devoting the energy of government exclusively to his plans to revolutionize our country.
Since last June, congress and the White House have been consumed by President Obama’s plan to impose government control on our healthcare system. With time outs for the occasional earthquake or celebrity scandal, their attention has been drawn from more important issues, and of our most precious asset — time — nine months have been wasted and cannot be recovered.
Consider the new CNN poll on the manufactured healthcare “crisis.” Released February 27th the poll shows that 48% of Americans believe that the massive 2,000-plus page legislation should be scrapped and that Congress should start over. Add to that the poll’s finding that 25% believe that Congress should stop working on healthcare altogether and you have 73% of Americans proving once again that Americans are usually smarter than the people they elect to lead them.
If there were a healthcare crisis which required a solution, those numbers would be reversed. But voters know that our economy – now suffering an oxymoronic “jobless recovery” – is a much bigger problem. As are Iran, Afghanistan, China and a lot of the world’s other puzzle pieces.
Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid have created their own healthcare crisis by having invested so much time on the legislation. They can’t put it on the back burner now without admitting that the Tea Partiers and Republicans have won. So at least until the Easter recess on March 29, they’re going to waste even more time on it. Obama insists that they do.
Why, with all the other problems we face, does the president insist that this is the most urgent matter he and Congress must deal with?
The answer is in two parts. First is the president’s revolutionary agenda which aims to change America, not fix its problems. Obama is not your grandfather’s president: he came to office with a radical agenda and nothing is capable of diverting him from it, regardless of the urgency. Second is the pent-up liberal anger that voices itself in Nancy Pelosi’s war against our intelligence agencies and her (and the president’s) willingness to sacrifice the so-called “Blue Dog” Democrats in order to achieve Obama’s agenda.
A great admirer of Winston Churchill, my father always told me that the world has a lot of moving parts and just because our attention is consumed by one, we cannot afford to ignore the rest. Yet we are.
Obama’s agenda has two defining characteristics: increased government control of the economy resulting, intentionally, in reduction of personal freedoms; and bringing about the end of America’s position as a superpower by reducing our defenses and alienating our allies.
From the moment of his inauguration, Obama has pursued a consistent agenda. His “stimulus” package failed to bring down unemployment while spending almost $1 trillion. Nationalization of GM and Chrysler isn’t saving either company, though the only privately-owned American automaker — Ford — is reporting profits. The financial sector remains largely under government control and Obama wants to increase the intervention in the financial markets by imposing more government controls on banks. Continue reading
American Optimism Based on People Not Politicians
Published March 1, 2010 | 
By Terry Paulson, Townhall.com, March 01, 2010
The basic assumption in Washington seems to be that politicians must do something—pass a bill, add a new regulation or create a new entitlement—in order for America to get better. President Obama agonizes, “I spend every waking hour, when I’m talking to my economic team, about how we are going to put people back to work.”
What if government leaving people alone is better than doing something that just makes matters worse? What if letting Americans be free to handle their own problems and earn their own rewards is better than watching government politicians micromanage something they know nothing about?
Congress recently passed legislation to fine airlines for leaving people on runways too long, only to find that now airlines prematurely cancel more flights in the face of pending bad weather to avoid possible fines. Cancelations leave more flyers stranded with no plane to fly in. Congress “cares” enough to make matters worse.
Give me a “Do Nothing…Get Out of the Way” Congress! There has never been a major government entitlement that has cut costs or cost anywhere near what politicians said it would cost. The unintended consequences of bigger government are more complexity, more regulations, more rules, more bureaucracy, more taxes, more uncertainty, and less motivation to take responsibility for one’s own life.
Politicians pass a stimulus package to kick start the economy and create jobs, but confess that identifying the jobs created and saved is an “inexact science.” Jobs are obviously a very “lagging indicator.” President Obama may look good telling people the wonderful things he’s doing to fix things, but his results are a clear disaster—the 3 million jobs lost since he took office are hard to hide.
In trying to make capitalism “fairer,” liberals are destroying what makes free-enterprise work. Taking risks and earning rewards drives economic progress and job creation. Government is taking away risk by funding the failure of companies “too big to fail,” taking away the risk of becoming obsolete by paying for extended unemployment benefits. Such “caring” stalls progress. Why run a company well when the government will cover for your mistakes? Why learn a new skill when someone else will pay you for not working?
For government to “create” jobs, it confiscates taxpayer money, siphons off funds to sustain its growing, parasitic bureaucracy, and gives back a few “very expensive” jobs. As Dr. Kenneth McFarland used to say, “Government aid is much like giving yourself a blood transfusion by taking blood from your right arm and putting it back in your left while watching half of your blood leak out in between.”
Such excessive spending has side effects—a jobless recovery, exploding deficits, and anticipated devaluation and inflation. Why? The taxes paid and the debt created takes needed money out of the private sector. The resulting uncertainty in the cost of doing business keeps businesses on the sidelines, afraid to hire or expand. The only thing that is growing is our government.
President Obama’s preoccupation with Washington “fixing” the economy and healthcare is standing in the way of unleashing America’s collective ingenuity and entrepreneurship. America’s strength is its people. The last, best hope of this nation is its people, not our politicians and president. You want a real stimulus? Cut the capital gains taxes, get rid of the death tax, and cut payroll taxes. Give people more control over their own earned money and let small businesses do what they do best—react to their markets and create what customers want…not what government mandates!
There is some hope that more and more Americans are beginning to understand where true hope and change come from. According to USA Today’s optimism survey, what makes Americans optimistic about our country’s long-term future is our belief in the strength and will of our people. That belief outweighs our confidence in President Obama, 35% to 5%. Our belief in the American Dream anchors our culture in true hope and change.
Both Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama came to the Presidency in a time of economic distress on the wings of a message of optimism. One man chose to believe in the American people, limited spending, cut taxes and unleashed the power and potential of American capitalism that helped usher in over twenty years of prosperity and pride. The other came to power promising hope and change, but his optimism was based on a belief in government’s ability to meet the needs of citizens with stimulus packages, bailouts, jobs bills, and cash for clunkers. The result—we face the biggest deficit and debt in history, sustained unemployment and the promise of stagflation looming on the horizon.
Ronald Reagan had no stimulus packages. He gave us his secret in 1992: “I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears, to your confidence, rather than your doubts.” President Obama doesn’t understand that America’s strength comes not from politicians but from workers, leaders and private sector entrepreneurs who keep the dream alive. We don’t need another jobs bill or entitlement program; we need a president who still believes in Americans.
Parachutes, Punches & Puppets
Published March 1, 2010 | By Steve Breen
By Brian Farrington
By Michael Ramirez
Boehner Tells Obama to His Face That His Health-Care Proposal Uses Tax Dollars for Abortion; Obama Dismisses Boehner’s Statement as ‘Talking Points’
Published March 1, 2010 | By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer, CNSNews, February 25, 2010
House Minority Leader John Boehner appears with a copy of the Democrats’ version of the health care bill during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told President Barack Obama to his face at Thursday’s health care summit that the president’s new health care proposal, which is based on the bill approved by the Senate, would allow taxpayer-funding of health plans that cover abortion. The president did not respond directly to Boehner’s direct charge, but suggested that all that Boehner said was merely the “standard talking points” and Democrats would ”profoundly disagree” with many of them.
Boehner also criticized the president’s plan for creating “a new entitlement program that will bankrupt our country” and “an employer mandate … that says that employers, you’ve got to provide health insurance to the American people, or you’re going to pay this tax.”
On the abortion issue, Boehner told Obama: “For 30 years, we’ve had a federal law that says that we’re not going to have taxpayer funding of
abortions. We’ve had this debate in the House. It was a very serious debate. But in the House, the House spoke. And the House upheld the language we have had in law for 30 years, that there will be no taxpayer funding of abortions. This bill that we have before us–and there was no reference to that issue in your outline, Mr. President—begins, for the first time in 30 years allows for the taxpayer-funding of abortions.So, Mr. President, what we’ve been saying for a long time is let’s scrap the bill. Let’s start with a clean sheet of paper on those things that we can agree with.”In response, Obama did not directly address Boehner’s flat assertion that Obama’s proposal would use tax dollars for abortions. Instead, he accused the Republican leader of wasting the group’s time with talking points.
“John, you know, the challenge I have here–and this has happened periodically–is we’re having, every so often, we have a pretty good conversation trying to get on some specifics, and then we go back to, you know, the standard talking points that Democrats and Republicans have had for the last year,” said Obama. ”And that doesn’t drive us to an agreement on issues. There are so many things that you just said that people on this side would profoundly disagree with–and I would have to say, you know, based on my analysis, just aren’t true–that I think that the conversation would start bogging down pretty quick.”
Boehner was the lone legislator to bring up abortion at the event, even though it has been a major issue in the health care reform debate. In the House health care bill that passed in November of last year, an
amendment sponsored by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) was included that specifically prohibits the use of federal funds for health plans that cover abortion. A similar amendment sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) was not allowed to be included in the proposed Senate bill.In a letter to the president dated Feb. 24, Boehner asked that Stupak be invited to take part in the health care summit.
President Barack Obama speaks in the White House press briefing room on Feb. 9, 2010. (AP File Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Stupak told CNSNews.com that he had not expected to be invited to the summit because the decision on who attended was up to the president and party leadership, and many of his colleagues had done more work than he had on health care issues.
He also said his absence does not dilute his resolve to make sure that pro-life taxpayers are not forced to pay for abortion.
“It’s very clear where I stand,” Stupak told CNSNews.com.
He said he could not say how the debate on federally funded abortion would go moving forward because the president’s plan is only a proposal and not legislation.
“It’s hard to know when there is no language before you,” Stupak said.
Thirty eight members of Congress took part in the summit, 17 Republican and 21 Democrats. C-SPAN televised the six-hour “bipartisan” debate, which unfolded mostly along party lines.
In previewing the event, Obama said the group would be debating four topics: controlling costs, insurance reform, reducing the deficit and expanding coverage.
GOSPEL & MEDITATION: Forgiveness from the Heart
Published March 1, 2010 | Father Andrew Mulcahey, LC - Luke 6: 36-38
Jesus said to his disciples: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.”
Introductory Prayer: Dear Jesus, too often I compare myself with others. It´s easy for me to find or imagine my superiority to them. I ignore you and your great goodness. I forget that everything I have comes from you and that I can´t claim the credit for any quality and virtue, although I would like to. I wish to keep this truth in mind and to have an attitude of genuine humility in my heart. Here I am, Lord, to know and love you more through prayer.
Petition: Lord, help me to forgive from the heart.
1. The True Battlefield Although it is difficult, we can usually bring ourselves around to excuse an injustice we have suffered. We forget about what happened, and we try to move forward. However, it is more difficult for us to forgive when we look into our offender’s heart and refuse to turn a blind eye to the goodness that is there. Our hearts are a battleground for good and evil, and to forgive is to be willing to help both the offender and ourselves overcome the logic of evil. It is to wager on the side of good and to trust that goodness is ultimately more attractive to the human heart than the idol of evil. Christ always looked into the heart and wagered on the side of good.
2. Turning the Other Cheek “For if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them” (Luke 6:32). Christian forgiveness involves waiving our claim to damages. It means turning the other cheek. It means giving up our cloak as well. Yet all this is relatively easy in comparison to giving over our good name, to proceeding in charity even when we will be misunderstood. Even here, we must waive our claim to damages, willingly die in the furrow, and patiently await the Father to raise us up again.
3. Going the Entire Distance The Christian ethic is positive. It does not consist merely in not doing bad things but in doing good things; building up positively. We change the world little by not doing things. Christ was not satisfied with that. He gave up his tunic, he gave up his good name, and he gave up everything—to the last drop of his blood. So often we feel good about ourselves because we measure up to our neighbor; but it is not our neighbor with whom we must compare ourselves. It is God with whom we must compare ourselves, and he has shown us how to be fruitful: by paying our ransom with his own blood. In forgiveness and mercy, his generosity is without measure.
Conversation with Christ: Dear Jesus, help me to seek perfection in loving you and my neighbor constantly. I want to travel the path of generous love because it is your path, and you are the source of all my happiness.
Resolution: I will be the first to offer an apology or a solution to build unity in my home and workplace.
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ST. DAVID OF WALES
Published March 1, 2010 | CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY, MARCH 01, 2010
St. David is the patron saint of Wales and perhaps the most famous of British saints. Ironically, we have little reliable information about him.
It is known that he became a priest, engaged in missionary work and founded many monasteries, including his principal abbey in southwestern Wales. Many stories and legends sprang up about David and his Welsh monks. Their austerity was extreme. They worked in silence without the help of animals to till the soil and their food was limited to bread, vegetables and water.
In about the year 550, David attended a synod where his eloquence impressed his fellow monks to such a degree that he was elected primate of the region. The Episcopal See was moved to Mynyw, where he had his monastery (now called St. David’s). He ruled his diocese until he had reached a very old age. His last words to his monks and subjects were: “Be joyful, brothers and sisters. Keep your faith, and do the little things that you have seen and heard with me.”
St. David is pictured standing on a mound with a dove on his shoulder. The legend is that once while he was preaching a dove descended to his shoulder and the earth rose to lift him high above the people so that he could be heard. Over 50 churches in South Wales were dedicated to him in pre-Reformation days.
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Putting the Vision Back in Supervision
By Mary Kochan, Catholic Exchange, March 1st, 2010
It’s been about year since the shocking statistics on teen sex were all over the news. But after the wailing and gnashing, the to-hell-in-a-hand basket moaning, and the calls from this sector for more sex education while another sector rails that that is what got us into this mess — then what? After a year to fall into complacency, these latest stats have become the new normal — until another half a decade goes by and we are shocked by even worse statistics.Here is the statistic I want to see. I want to know how many teens are having sex while their parents watch. I’m going to bet that the percentage is pretty low.So, I am going to draw the conclusion from these statistics that parents are not watching their kids.
Supervision means watching over, as in eyes on, not as in overlooking. It means having the object of supervision in your line of sight. It means keeping said object of supervision in sight. I hate to belabor the obvious — another word that has to do with sight (“to SEE the way”), but it is time someone said to parents that the reason your youngsters are having sex is because you are failing to supervise — to watch — them……. ENTIRE ARTICLE FOUND AT:http://catholicexchange.com/2010/03/01/127608/rgia.