God's mercy is pouring out right now.

Just announced from the pulpit at mass this morning, TODAY:

8AM today to 8AM tomorrow

March 3, 2016

This is a first, 24 HOUR CONFESSION happening at four local churches here in Southern Cal:

Here are the churches:

Saint Louise De Marilac, Covina

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Saint Frances of Rome, Azusa

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Immaculate Conception, Monrovia

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Nativity Church, El Monte

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Please check with the church before you go, some of them may start from 12P today to 12P tomorrow.

I'm on my way to work, I will post my reflection on this later in the day.  Please tweet this link and post on facebook and encourage everyone you know in the area to get to confession and take advantage of the pouring of out Gods mercy on this Lent.

God bless you.

Reflection on sin during Lent

I recently learned from Deacon Shane Cuda at a Cursillo retreat that sin is simply ... "a failure to love."

I wanted to reflect a bit more on this today, which is a day of lent when we are called to prepare ourselves for the resurrection of Jesus and the conquering of sin on Easter.

Sin, therefore, is not by its nature, at first, an act of commission, but rather it is, at first, an act of omission since it begins with a failure to love.

Listen to the Gospel: Matthew 22:36-37

“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment."

When you examine your conscience today ask yourself how you have failed to love and thus sinned and then go ask ask God for forgiveness so he can make you clean.

Sync Mail, Calendars AND Contacts from Google to Your iOS Device

When setting up accounts on an iOS device, never use the "GMail" option -- it is worthless.

How to Manage Shared Contacts on a Google Domain

If you are frustrated with all the third party shared contact solutions and you have not mastered this essential function on your own domain yet, then you must read this article. The first thing I am going to do is to describe exactly what is going on. Once you understand how Google intended it to work, you will know your best option to solve the issue for your domain.

First, the basics. Google domain contacts can be shared and you don’t need a third party app.

Chromebook Hack to Disable Sleep Mode

The steps in this article will prevent the screen from dimming in a short time and it will keep the WiFi alive and connected when the lid is closed thus saving you a ton of time if  you need your WiFi to survive all day.

First, switch to developer mode using the toggle switch on your device and reboot.

Starvation Versus Cachexia: Knowing the Difference

After doing some research on this subject, I decided to prepare a table that highlights the difference between these very different situations.

	Starvation	Cachexia
Definition	The state of being hungry when no food is available.	Loss of body mass that cannot be reversed nutritionally.
Feeling "hungry"	Yes	No
Resting metabolism	Decreased	Increased
Food intake	None	Low to normal
Reversable with nutrition	Yes	No
Presence of pathology	No	Yes

Bibliographically Challenged No More

What if researchers could just spend time doing research and not looking for stuff in their own collection by searching, stacking, printing, sorting, filing, saving, indexing, and an all the other creative things they do. Well they can! In fact, I've done quite a few years of "research" in this very area myself and now I am going to share my knowledge with you on this highly important subject.