tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53186542024-03-19T00:13:27.570-04:00Still Running Off at the Keyboard A Catholic perspective on the world by Carrie Tomko...Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comBlogger4868125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-21390553280476791602009-04-06T19:59:00.004-04:002009-04-06T20:42:06.613-04:00 CARRIE'S LAST POST It is with heavy hearts that my father, Aunt Carol and I write this. Over the last several days, Carrie's health had been declining. Yesterday (Sunday), Carrie's family surrounded her; she was aware of their presence and they were able to say goodbye and to her tell her it was OK to let go. Today (Monday), Carrie was resting peacefully and at about 2:20 pm, God called her Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-19109562924873967892009-04-01T14:53:00.003-04:002009-04-01T23:17:40.598-04:00Carrie continues to rest at home with the help of hospice, a home health aid, her sister-inlaw (Carol) and her husband (me). She continues to slide toward a final resting and will be deeply missed. She has received the sacraments of Holy Communion and Anointing of the Sick on multiple occasions over the last few weeks.We wish to thank you for your prayers and support and request that these Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-60884312508302758992009-03-26T19:10:00.003-04:002009-03-26T19:19:26.929-04:00 CANCER JOURNAL UPDATE Carrie is coming home from the hospital late tomorrow morning. My dad has been reading your posts to her in the hospital and says she really perks up when he does so. Someone asked about how to send well wishes/cards. If possible, I think electronic cards are best. Several sites will do it for free such as Smilebox (but that requires a download). You can send cards/Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-71793754672851622462009-03-25T06:13:00.002-04:002009-03-25T06:14:32.041-04:00 CANCER JOURNAL UPDATE Thank you all for your kind words and prayers, I know it will brighten her day to hear how much you care for her!Carrie is to be released from the hospital on Thursday or Friday. They are trying to get her pain back under control first.Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-81290751308764132162009-03-23T20:25:00.007-04:002009-03-23T20:42:54.460-04:00 CANCER JOURNAL UPDATE This is Carrie's daughter. She is no longer able to put up posts herself but wanted to update everyone on her situation.Since my mom's last post everyday tasks have become more and more challenging. On the 9th, she was walking while hanging onto her bed when she blacked out and fell. Thankfully she didn't break anything! Shortly afterwards, she decided to enroll in a Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-2578450806658800272009-02-27T10:07:00.002-05:002009-02-27T10:21:02.423-05:00CANCER JOURNAL - UpdateI was in the hospital four days and am now at home and going for radiation treatments on my brain every day...a brain that does not function normally yet, making blogging nearly impossible. My feet still will not go where I try to put them, so I can't do much. Hopefully by the end of the treatments that will change. I'm halfway through them.Hubby's aunt was supposed to Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-55528431422484177722009-02-20T11:32:00.002-05:002009-02-20T11:35:39.369-05:00THINGS GET A LITTLE MORE COMPLICATEDWe learned that my husband's 96-year-old aunt was taken by ambulence to the hospital around 10:30 p.m. last night. She has pneumonia and doesn't sound good on the phone.Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-51711162680985316432009-02-18T11:48:00.002-05:002009-02-18T12:26:30.475-05:00CANCER JOURNAL - The Caregiver's RoleA couple of years ago my husband underwent back surgery which included spinal fusion, and rods and screws in his back in order to treat spinal stenosis and keep him on his feet. During that time I was his chief caregiver and had continued to be up until the present crisis. He needed help with anything that required bending over. He no longer has my help and Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-41345781907159058542009-02-17T13:50:00.000-05:002009-02-17T13:52:14.644-05:00CANCER JOURNAL - The Communion of SaintsEvery time we recite the creed, we say that we believe in the "Communion of Saints", but what is that?Since I suspect that most of us haven't thought much about it, I thought I'd write some of the insights I've learned recently in the midst of this battle.Cancer inevitably makes one address death directly. I am surrounded by people I love who love me, and Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-59674937307116269702009-02-16T17:05:00.002-05:002009-02-16T17:35:00.759-05:00CANCER JOURNAL - Home from the HospitalIt seems I've gotten one more reprieve. I came home around noon. When I left for the hospital last Friday, I took a look around the house and didn't expect to see it again.This latest episode began when I went in for a radiation treatment on my right hip. I walked into a wall in the long hallway from the waiting room back to the treatment room with a Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-33444382868581120072009-02-14T10:49:00.000-05:002009-02-14T10:51:39.099-05:00 CANCER JOURNAL-unexpected developments Carrie's in the hospital, please say a prayer for her. The cancer situation has worsened.Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-51761519424527073992009-02-04T09:44:00.001-05:002009-02-04T09:46:00.609-05:00PUTTING THE BLOG TO SLEEP TEMPORARILYWhat with daily trips to the hospital for radiation and some other activities in the real world, I'm getting too far behind, so it's time to take a break. I'm going to stop blogging until the end of the month.Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-44764417144653400962009-02-03T09:17:00.002-05:002009-02-03T10:06:53.651-05:00TIMELINE OF THE AUTHENTIC TRADITIONby Jonathan SellersVienna. 1782Moses Dobruschka (now Franz Thomas von Schoenfeld) moved to Vienna. He was one of the founders of the "Asiatische Brüeder," a masonic lodge with predominantly Jewish members, and formulated its doctrines. -- Encyclopaedia Judaica, Vol. 6, cols. 143-4. This is the same person who was appointed by Jacob Frank as his successor. This Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-40953408716330613562009-02-02T10:09:00.002-05:002009-02-02T10:14:43.224-05:00MAKING OUR KIDS PAY FOR OUR MISTAKESThe idea has reached a new low. LifeSite reports:January 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Hundreds of millions of the nearly $1 trillion price tag on President Obama's economic stimulus bill is expected to go to contraception and the abortion industry.Last week, during consideration of the congressional Democrats’ spending bill by the House Energy & Commerce Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-22467744634462296742009-02-02T09:46:00.002-05:002009-02-02T09:49:47.430-05:00POLISH NATIONAL CHURCH MAY BUY TWO CLOSED CATHOLIC CHURCHESMore than a century ago, Catholic communities of Polish-Americans around the country, including Buffalo, broke with the Roman Catholic Church in disputes over property and lay governance.Now, two recently closed Roman Catholic churches are being considered for use as worship sites by the Polish National Catholic Church, a denomination Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-18142150371264577602009-02-02T08:46:00.002-05:002009-02-02T09:39:09.402-05:00TIMELINE OF THE AUTHENTIC TRADITIONby Jonathan SellersFrom the year 1769:In Conjugial Love, Swedenborg's experience seemed to merge Yogic with Kabbalistic practice.Also in Conjugial Love, Swedenborg described a secret mystical society, in which "spirits from Asia" teach inititiates how to meditate on emblems of love"works of art and some small images as though cast in silver" that represent "the Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-49363736715299586542009-02-01T05:04:00.002-05:002009-02-01T05:11:08.998-05:00STUDY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEDThe Vatican has begun a first-ever comprehensive study of women's religious orders in the United States, four decades into a steep decline in the number of Roman Catholic sisters and nuns in the country.The study, ordered by a Vatican congregation in December and announced Friday in Washington, will examine "the quality of the life" of 59,000 members in more thanCarriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-76687530588621989422009-01-31T12:57:00.001-05:002009-01-31T13:00:49.396-05:00THE HOLOCAUSE DENIAL HOT POTATO IS GETTING HOTTERFrom the Washington Post:Fifty Catholic members of Congress have written Pope Benedict XVI, asking him to directly reject the views of British-born Bishop Richard Williamson, who has denied the scale of the Holocaust. Benedict last week reinstated Williamson and three other bishops who have rejected the church's teachings from the second Vatican Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-91845780266452690452009-01-31T12:06:00.002-05:002009-01-31T12:31:55.492-05:00TIMELINE OF THE AUTHENTIC TRADITIONby Jonathan SellersUnder the year 1766 there is an interesting passage that might explain how Catharism came to the Languedoc:It is worth mentioning here, that the story concerning the Qadosh Fathers, or the Thebaid Solitaries, or the Knights of the Morning Star, came from Tschoudy's L'Etoile Flamboyante. -- that in the time of Solomon's Temple, the Qadosh Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-12349904560506923822009-01-30T17:35:00.002-05:002009-01-30T17:40:17.389-05:00CONSTANCE CUMBEY'S RADIO PROGRAM IS SLATED TO PRESENT AN INTERESTING GUEST ON TUESDAYCheck out her summary and then click the link to read what Tom Fife has to say on the subject of Barak Obama. Then, before you dismiss everything he tells as alarmist, remember Saul Alinsky.Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-49678826839974345742009-01-30T10:22:00.002-05:002009-01-30T10:24:16.281-05:00OH BOY! NOW THERE ARE TWO!In news link posted at NOR:Fr. Floriano AbrahamowiczIn the wake of a global furor triggered by Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to lift the excommunication of four traditionalist Catholic bishops, including one who cast doubt on the Holocaust, another leader in the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X has questioned whether the Nazis used gas chambers for anything other Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-10879496963786091242009-01-30T10:04:00.003-05:002009-01-30T10:19:23.683-05:00ANGLICAN SCHISM TO BE HEALED ?From The Record:History may be in the making. It appears Rome is on the brink of welcoming close to half a million members of the Traditional Anglican Communion into membership of the Roman Catholic Church, writes Anthony Barich. Such a move would be the most historic development in Anglican-Catholic relations in the last 500 years. But it may also be a prelude to a Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-49174898656878194372009-01-30T08:52:00.002-05:002009-01-30T09:54:26.336-05:00TIMELINE OF THE AUTHENTIC TRADITIONFrom the year 1740:Podolia. In Poland, Kabbalah broke out with renewed energy; fresh Zadikkim and Ba'al Shems arose, the most noted of these being Israel of Podolia, known as Ba'al Shem Tov, or by the initial letters of his name, Besht, who founded his sect of Hasidim at this time. Besht, whilst opposing bigoted Rabbinism and claiming the Zohar as his Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-28063701617361193972009-01-29T08:48:00.002-05:002009-01-29T09:04:33.057-05:00FROM JONATHAN SELLERS TIMELINE OF THE AUTHENTIC TRADITIONThe year is 1738 and the first Catholic condemnation of Freemasonry has been issued by Pope Clement XII:Pope Clement XII issued a papal bull condemning and excommunicating all Freemasons, whom he pronounced, "Enemies of the Roman Church." It has never been altogether clear why they should have been regarded as such -- especially as many of Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-75130621293824678692009-01-29T08:38:00.003-05:002009-01-29T09:07:22.395-05:00CHIEF RABBINATE OF JERUSALEM RESPONDS TO WILLIAMSON REINSTATEMENTThe Chief Rabbinate of Israel says it has suspended ties with the Vatican following the pope's decision to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust denier.Chief Rabbinate Director-General Oded Weiner wrote in a letter to Vatican officials that because of Pope Benedict's decision to reinstate Britain's Bishop Richard Williamson "Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.com