NaProTechnology Naturally Addresses Infertility Issues 7 PM Thursday March 14

• Learn how NaProTechnology Naturally Addresses Infertility Issues


• NaProTechnology is a Major Breakthrough in Monitoring and Maintaining a Woman's Reproductive and Gynecological Health.


• Local physicians who have practiced NaProTechnology for a combined 37 years will explain the science & methodology behind it.


• Hear from real women who have experienced real solutions.


• Click Here to Read a St. Louis Review article

Featuring

• Richard Brennan, M.D., ObGyn


• Michael Dixon, M.D., ObGyn & Credo Advisory Board Member


• Patrick Yeung, M.D., ObGyn


• Mrs. Jennifer Brinker (Click Here for a Story)


• ... and more

Thursday, March 14, 2013
7 pm to 8:30 pm
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Parish Center
4900 Ringer Road (Click Here for Map & Directions)
Oakville, MO 63129
No Charge – Light Refreshments
RSVP requested but not required
To RSVP & for more information please contact:
Patsy Kalbac (Click Here to E-mail), 314-894-2384,

Reviewed: Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child by Anthony Esolen

Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
By Anthony Esolen
ISI Books 2010. Xiii + 237 pp.
Reviewed by Robert E Hurley, M.D.

Editor's Note: Anthony Esolen will be Credo's St. Joseph Dinner speaker in St. Louis 14-April-2013 with a talk titled Fatherhood and Freedom. For a preview of his wit, watch this interview on Fox & Friends where he pranks the anchors. Listen to Esolen but watch the male anchor.

“Don’t buy this book – unless you like non-stop wit, energetic writing, fresh insight, and abundant wisdom about how to shape a good life for your children, and maybe even yourself.” -- Robert Royal, President, Faith and Reason Institute

Day of Recollection

Mark your calendars for the 2012 Credo Day of Recollection: Saturday, March 2^nd, 2013. We return this year to the Chapel of St.  Anselm at the Oratory of Ss. Gregory and Augustine in Creve Coeur, located on the grounds of The Abbey, at 530 Mason Rd.

The Rev. Ambrose Bennett, O.S.B. will give two conferences, and Credo's spiritual advisor, the Rev. Brian Harrison , O.S. will be the homilist at Holy Mass. We believe you will be inspired by our Day of Recollection Speakers. Take advantage of this opportunity to help make this coming Lent one of your most efficacious.

Click Here to Register by Monday, February 25th. Seating is limited to 80.

$25 per person. Lunch is included.

If you need a flyer for your church, school, Catholic Bookstore, or anything else, click here.

Celebrating the New Mass in Latin

This Sunday, February 10^th, at 9:00 a.m., St. Mary of Victories (map and directions) will celebrate a special Mass, sung in Latin and English in the ordinary form (Novus Ordo), to mark the first five years of continuous Sunday celebration of Holy Mass in this form. St. Mary's is currently the only church in the St. Louis Archdiocese offering a public Sunday Latin Mass in the ordinary form, and no other parish in the Archdiocese has ever offered it on a regular basis for anything like this period of time.

This Mass with Gregorian chants will be celebrated with the priest facing versus orientem during the Liturgy of the Eucharist (second half of Mass) at our beautiful high altar. Communicants have the option of receiving the Host either kneeling along the altar rail in the traditional style, or standing in the aisle, following the more usual modern practice.

Fr. Harrison and everyone at St. Mary's warmly invite you to join us for this occasion, and thus experience the nearest thing now available to the form of Eucharistic celebration that the Fathers of Vatcian II had in mind when they promulgated the Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy.

Brunch will be served in the church hall free of charge straight after the Mass, thanks to the ladies of our community.

Below you can read the full text of an article about this Mass which was published in a slightly abbreviated form in last Friday's St Louis Review (in the "Viewpoints" section, p. 25).

Saint Thomas More a Model for Our Time

[caption id="attachment_1676" align="alignleft" width="143"] Hilaire Belloc[/caption]

It strikes me that we have in Saint Thomas More a model for our time. The question we face is similar: shall religion be supreme or shall temporal opinion? What is the extent of the accommodation that may be reached? Has truth itself a claim on our very lives? And have we the courage of Saint Thomas More to act entirely without support? Read this talk given by Hilaire Belloc in July of 1929, before Thomas More was raised to the altars, at the More Memorial Exhibition, and then let us in these days invoke the patronage of Saint Thomas More, earning it, so to speak, by our own actions, and lending him a support in posterity he has not found in England, France, or elsewhere in the ruin of Christendom.

This was delivered as a speech and has the quality of spoken word. Further, it had sentence structures more complex than we are used to and was given by an Englishman, not an American. My advice to you is to read it aloud in full voice so you will slow down and pay attention to how it sounds. At the very least, imagine you are reading aloud, moving your lips. I found it in a book compiled by Patrick Cahill titled Hilaire Belloc One Thing and Another A Miscellany from His Uncollected Essays, Hollis & Carter, 1955. In turn Cahill found it in The Fame of Blessed Thomas More, Sheed & Ward, 1929.

The Witness to Abstract Truth

by Hilaire Belloc

I come to speak to you to-day upon the Blessed Thomas More, and I come to speak of him under one aspect alone; for what one man can say in the few brief moments of a public address should not, upon such a subject, touch more than one aspect, lest his audience be confused. But that aspect is surely the chief one in connection with such a name.