My name is Christian Bowers. This site is about my cooking and eating habits, in and around Austin, TX.
All the pictures of prepared food on this site were cooked by me, photographed by me and eaten by me, my wife and friends. This site is a rolling record of my food interests, food successes and food failures. I have been cooking daily for friends and family since 1997 and appreciate the creative process of assembling a meal and how it brings people together.
I prefer to cook, but I have done other things.
The Troubled Years
As a child, I wandered across the United States. Attending primary and secondary schools in California (Quiche), Texas (Chicken Fried Steak), North Carolina (Pulled Pork), and New Jersey (Pizza).
More Serious Years
1990 – 1994: B.A. Brooks Institute of Photography; Industrial Photography and Color Theory
1994 – 1999: Founding and managing partner Coupralux LLC
2000 – current: Consulting services in the Advertising and Marketing field.
2008 – current: Founding partner in Executive Plant Leasing
… and, every day, contributing to the Austin Food Journal. Keeping current on new restaurants, farmers’ market updates, interviews with local chefs, happy hour deals around town, Austin food related events and cooking at home for my family.
Monday, September 17, 2007 Communion in the hand? Several articles, excerpts and links.... Pope Benedict to Catholics: Kneel and Receive on the Tongue Only Pope Benedict XVI does not want the faithful receiving Communion in their hand nor does he want them standing to receive Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. According to Vatican liturgist, Monsignor Guido Marini, the pope is trying to set the stage for the whole church as to the proper norm for receiving Communion for which reason communicants at his papal Masses are now asked to kneel and receive on the tongue. The Holy Father's reasoning is simple: "We Christians kneel before the Blessed Sacrament because, therein, we know and believe to be the presence of the One True God." (May 22, 2008) According to the pope the entire Church should kneel in adoration before God in the Eucharist. "Kneeling in adoration before the Eucharist is the most valid and radical remedy against the idolatries of yesterday and today" (May 22, 2008) The pope's action is in accord with the Church's 2000 year tradition and is being done in order to foster a renewed love and respect for the Eucharist which presently is being mocked and treated with contempt. The various trends and innovations of our time (guitar liturgy, altar girls, lay ministers, Communion in the hand) have worked together to destroy our regard for the Eucharist, thus advancing the spiritual death of the church. After all, the Eucharist is the very life and heartbeat of the Mystical Body around which the entire Church must revolve. Kneeling also coincides with the Church's centuries old ordinance that only the consecrated hands of a priest touch the Body of Christ in Holy Communion. "To priests alone has been given power to consecrate and administer to the faithful, the Holy Eucharist." (Council of Trent) This teaching is beautifully expressed by St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica: "Because out of reverence towards this sacrament, nothing touches it, but what is consecrated; hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priest's hands, for touching this sacrament." It is for reason that Pope Paul VI in his May 1969 pastoral letter to the world's bishops reaffirmed the http://ecceagnusdei.blogspot.com/ (2 of 337) [9/8/2009 3:42:51 PM]?Church's teaching on the reception of Communion, stating that: "This method on the tongue must be retained." (Memoriale Domini) This came in response to the bishops of Holland who started Communion in the hand in defiance of the centuries old decree from the Council of Rouen (650 A.D.) where this practice was condemned as sacrilegious. "Do not put the Eucharist in the hands of any layperson, but only in their mouths." To date this prohibition has never been overturned legally. Today Communion in the hand is carried on illegally and has become a major tool of the enemy to destory the Faith throughout the world. For this practice serves no other purpose than to warp our conception of Jesus Christ and nourish a contempt for the sacred mysteries. It's no wonder St. Basil referred to Communion in the hand as "a grave fault." That is to say, Communion in the hand is not tied with Catholic tradition. This practice was first introduced to the Church by the heretical Arians of the 4th century as a means of expressing their belief that Christ was not divine. Unfortunately, it has served to express the same in our time and has been at the very heart of the present heresy and desecration that is rampant throughout the universal Church. If we have 'abuse' problems today it is because we're abusing the Sacrament - it's backfiring on us! Thanks to Communion in the hand, members of satanic cults are now given easy access to come into the Church and take the Host so that they bring it back to their covens where it is abused and brutalized in the ritualistic Black Mass to Satan. They crush the Host under their shoes as a mockery to the living God, and we assist it with our casual practice? Amongst themselves the satanists declare that Communion in the hand is the greatest thing that ever happened to them, and we do nothing to stop it? Hence, the Holy Father is doing his part to try to purge the Church of abuse and we as members of Christ are called upon to assist him. For your encouragement we include the following quotation from Cardinal Llovera, the new prefect for the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments speaking to Life Site News on July 22, 2009: "It is the mission of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Sacraments to work to promote Pope Benedict's emphasis on the traditional practices of liturgy, such as reception of Communion on the tongue while kneeling." Also worth considering is the recent decree from Cardinal Caffarra, the Archbishop of Bologna Italy, forbidding the practice of Communion in the hand: "Many cases of profanation of the Eucharist have occurred, profiting by the possibility to receive the consecrated Bread on one's palm of the hand... Considering the frequency in which cases of irreverent behavior in the act of receiving the Eucharist have been reported, we dispose that starting from today in the Metropolitan Church of St. Peter, in the Basilica of St. Petronius and in the Shrine of the Holy Virgin of St. Luke in Bologna the faithful are to receive the consecrated Bread only from the hands of the Minister directly on the tongue." (from his decree on the reception of the Eucharist, issued April 27, 2009) Technically all bishops and clergy are bound to follow the Holy Father's directive on this issue, but in the meantime the faithful are not obliged to wait for the approval of their bishop in order to kneel for God. The directives of the Holy Father are not subject to the veto or scrutiny of the bishops and therefore all pastors and laity have a right and duty to put these directives into practice for the edification of their communities. Our Lady's Workers of Southern California Semper Fidelis http://ecceagnusdei.blogspot.com/ (3 of 337) [9/8/2009 3:42:51 PM]
On 7 April, the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held hearings on “A Review of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program” (OFF). (1) The context was alleged OFF-related corruption. Among the witnesses was US Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador John Negroponte. Below is selective analysis, and later urls and select excerpts. Negroponte’s statements should be placed in the context of US/UK officials in the post-invasion period aggressively distorting the history of economic sanctions (hereafter “sanctions”) on Iraq. This history included the US/UK role in maintaining sanctions in the face of the credibly, overwhelmingly documented primary role that sanctions had played in Iraq’s humanitarian crisis.
All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...
A billion dollars...A hundred billion dollars... Eight hundred billion dollars... One TRILLION dollars... What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slighty fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.
A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.
Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.
While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...
And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...
Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing so much about. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.
You ready for this? It's pretty surprising. Go ahead... Scroll down...
You ready pretty surprising?... Go ahead...Scroll down... Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $10 trillion dollars ...
With the 2.3 trillion, 25% of the pentagons budget $8,000.00 for each of US, 307 Million citizens $9.2 Trillion Pentagons Anual budget... Free lunch? Manifest Destany? ... “*8 out of 10 of the global population live on less than $10 a day..."
(And notice those pallets are double stacked.)
So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars" ... that's what they're talking about...
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” –John Locke“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have... a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.” –John Adams"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." –Benjamin Franklin"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." –John Adams"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." -Thomas Jefferson"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." –John Adams“We have not yet begun to fight!” –Captain John Paul JonesAnd last, but not least, in the undying words of Captain Samuel Lawrence, our MOTTO:
“NEVER GIVE UP THE SHIP!”
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FYI Water Demand Has Tripled AsThe World's Population Skyrockets-Bloomberg Analysis and discussion with Earth Water Global Co-Founder Cameron O'Mara. (Venture) 4 Water Demand Has Tripled As The World's Population Skyrockets- Bloomberg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZnPHfYaJqE
