tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82787831217525411992023-11-15T22:06:16.631-08:00The Deacon's LibraryA Review column and resource for Deacons in the Roman Catholic Church. A place for reviews, recommendations, homily ideas, and community for Deacons throughout the world.Deacon Rick Bauerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02267764479490721007noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278783121752541199.post-72921435163018706862011-06-11T05:45:00.000-07:002011-06-11T05:47:58.621-07:00Homily for Pentecost Sunday, 2011: "As the Father Sends Me, So Send I You"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br />
<div lang="en-US" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-indent: 18pt;"><sup style="color: black;">19</sup><span style="color: black;"> When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” </span><sup style="color: black;">20</sup><span style="color: black;"> After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. </span><sup style="color: black;">21</sup><span style="color: black;"> Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” </span><sup style="color: black;">22</sup><span style="color: black;"> When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. </span><sup style="color: black;">23</sup><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” </span></span><span lang="en-US">John 20:19–23</span> (NRSVCE)<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
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Let’s listen again to the words of Jesus 'Peace be with you " and “As the Father sent me, so I am sending you”, for they are a message as timely in our lives today as they were when Jesus first spoke them, for they speak to a need in our lives as pronounced today as it was on that first resurrection evening.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; line-height: 115%;"><br />
The scene is electric with anticipation</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">. These remaining disciples had locked themselves into this room, and the scripture explains ‘For fear of the Jews.’ In spite of the rumor of Jesus’ resurrection, these disciples still feared that they too would be crucified.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; line-height: 115%;">Imagine what was on their hearts that evening</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">. Doubt, fear, flickers of faith and hope, but probably more than anything else, a lot of disappointment and guilt. Each had proclaimed an unswerving loyalty to Jesus; each had failed miserably. A servant girl had been Peter's undoing; others had fled when the arresting party approached Gethsemane. They could not even remain awake to pray with Jesus! You could not paint a bleaker portrait of failure if you tried.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Such an atmosphere makes the words of Jesus all the more powerful, as he speaks to the need of the hour. <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">He will give them His peace; he will breathe on them the promised Holy Spirit; He will commission them to be sent in a way that was similar to Christ</span>. Jesus gives his peace to those who are most in need of it. Instead of condemnation for their failures, they are forgiven and formed with a new mission. A new start, a new name, a new mission; what encouragement by Jesus!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Jesus' first words to them were words of love and forgiveness- ‘Peace be with you!" They were the prime need of the hour. The second words? “As the Father sent me, so I am sending you.” In other words, “I have a mission for you.” We read of the power and conviction of these apostles in our first reading today. <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">They would not change their minds, they would not be ashamed, and they would not change the subject. And they turned the world upside down in one generation</span>.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; line-height: 115%;">What about us?</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> There are many Christians—and even entire churches—who sit today in "upper rooms" of doubt and discouragement, not locked out by anyone else, but locked in from the inside, for fear of confronting their disappointments or failures. Or perhaps it’s never ever stepping out and trusting God and deciding to be a serious Christian instead of a social believer, a cafeteria Catholic. Maybe we have had great dreams and hopes, only to see them dashed by failure, by opposition, or by sin from within. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Or perhaps, we are ashamed of our church.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> The clergy scandals, the guilt, the shame we feel when someone starts attacking the thousands—the millions of good priests and the good works and the overwhelmingly ethical foundation of our church—but we are ashamed. We have no words to speak.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
And Jesus comes to us in our Upper Rooms today. We again need to listen, to hear the words of Jesus. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
‘Peace be with you! As the Father sent me, I am sending you.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; line-height: 115%;"><br />
These are not words of only comfort without responsibility</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">, for Jesus immediately links his peace with the Father's mission: ‘As the Father has sent me, I am sending you. "Neither are Jesus' words dull and onerous duty without inner comfort and peace. The two—<b><i>peace and mission</i></b>—are inseparable. To claim inner spiritual peace without living and sharing that peace with others is only selfishness; to get all involved in church activities and miss the genuine peace of Christ is to invite spiritual bankruptcy. Christ’s peace and His mission are both necessary and inseparable.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
For each of these disciples, Christ’s peace and His commissioning—being send out as the Father had sent out Christ—meant a radical reorienting of life, of purpose, of mission, and of sacrifice. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Another thing about these 11 that we can relate to—there were some changes in their group, as they sat in the Upper Room.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Jesus was no longer there. They had to forge new relationships, they had to step out, they had to rely on the Holy Spirit—same with us….maybe our favorite priest from a few years ago is not here. Maybe our favorite deacon is gone. <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">Maybe the singing is different, maybe things have changed……what am I going to do? Complain, be afraid, hold back—imagine these guys….”<b><i>Well, when Jesus was here he would have paved the parking lot this way……”</i></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Like the apostles, we have to take what we have learned from Jesus, from that priest, from that deacon, and do the very best thing that would make them proud—<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">put it into practice in a new situation.</span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; line-height: 115%;">And God will be with us. He will transform us, He will strengthen us, He will come to journey with us. He will not leave us embarrassed; He will not leave us unashamed.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> We will partake of his heavenly manna in the Sacrament in a few minutes; He will give us strength for the journey. And we will never be the same….</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
One of my favorite characters from the world of literature is <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">Don Quixote de La Mancha</span>, a character born in the imagination of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes. I especially like the Broadway adaptation of this powerful story, <i>The Man of La Mancha</i>. You probably know the story. Don Quixote goes off in search of adventure and encounters a woman named Aldonza who is a prostitute. Don Quixote approaches this woman and respectfully calls her “My Lady.” But when Aldonza hears his greeting, she sarcastically responds by saying, “Me a lady? I was born in a ditch by a mother who left me there, naked and cold and too hungry to cry. I never blamed her. I am sure that she left, hoping that I would have the good sense to die. I am no lady. I am only Aldonza.” However, undaunted by her bitter reply, the Man of La Mancha insists, “Your name is not Aldonza. I give you a new name. You are my lady. And I give you the name Dulcinea.” The name Dulcinea is a name that means something sweet and good, essentially everything that Aldonza was not.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
Later in the story, the Man of La Mancha again encounters Aldonza immediately after she has been raped in a barn. When Don Quixote approaches and addresses her as “My Lady,” she screams at him, “Don’t call me a lady! Won’t you look at me! I am only a common prostitute reeking with sweat. A thing men use and forget! I am not a lady. I am Aldonza. I am nothing, nothing at all!” And then, as she runs away, the Man of La Mancha calls out to her twice, “My Lady!” And then he calls out the new name he has given her, “Dulcinea!” </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">At the conclusion of the play, when the Man of La Mancha is on his death bed, a beautiful woman approaches and kneels at his bedside. Don Quixote looks at her and asks, “Who are you?” The woman then stands and announces, “My name, sir, is Dulcinea!” Finally, at the conclusion of the story, the woman named Aldonza who was so filled with self-hate becomes the unashamed Dulcinea, the kind of person that the Man of La Mancha always envisioned she could become.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Having been energized by the peace of Christ, may we be transformed, may we finally own our new name—Christian—and may we transform the world around us with the good news of Christ. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I don’t know about you today, but I am making a decision. I am a part of the fellowship of the Unashamed. I have the Holy Spirit Power. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, and my future is secure. I am finished and done with <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tame visions, mundane talking, chintzy giving, and dwarfed goals.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I no longer need <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">preeminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I don't have to be right, first, tops, recognized, praised, regarded, or rewarded. I now live by presence, learn by faith, love by patience, lift by prayer, and labor by power. </span>My pace is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions few, my Guide reliable, my mission clear. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">I cannot be bought, compromised, deterred, lured away, turned back, diluted, or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And so, we won't <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">give up, back up, let up, or shut up</span> until we've preached up, prayed up, paid up, stored up, and stayed up for the cause of Christ. We are disciples of Jesus Christ. We must go until He returns, give until we drop, preach until all know, and work until He comes. We are disciples. We are the ones who are sent. We are not ashamed. <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">Once we were only men and women; but because of His love today here we stand with a new name—a Christian!</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; line-height: 115%;"> “As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you”… Lord, help us to be sent out on this Pentecost, transformed into your followers with the power of love.” Amen</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">--Rick Bauer </span></span></div></div>Deacon Rick Bauerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02267764479490721007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278783121752541199.post-45611464837518865542010-12-03T12:47:00.000-08:002010-12-03T22:27:18.670-08:00Augustine as Mentor: A Model for Preparing Spiritual Leaders<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyt8RE5stcOl6aZ8VN4RtkvDwX3A4Fy0bdawzG4f0k0jOU3uvzwisISchHAV2hIaqPTBG9H61lIhuJxNcBntgkAUtwKqTASf7tlI3nCyUiBhRsCDEyG0NsX19p_X4_gxWRLkp2p34bPiy/s1600/augustine+as+mentor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyt8RE5stcOl6aZ8VN4RtkvDwX3A4Fy0bdawzG4f0k0jOU3uvzwisISchHAV2hIaqPTBG9H61lIhuJxNcBntgkAUtwKqTASf7tlI3nCyUiBhRsCDEyG0NsX19p_X4_gxWRLkp2p34bPiy/s1600/augustine+as+mentor.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As a former Protestant minister and theologian, it's always gratifying to see men and women who are among our Separated Brethren discover the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. For those brave souls who seek Christ alone, it may be a journey that leads them back to the House of the Father, as it did me some years ago.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In that spirit, I would commend a recent text by Edward Smither, professor of Church History at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, THAT Liberty Baptist.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes, that Liberty BAPTIST.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the preface:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"<i>Augustine as Mentor</i> will help modern-day pastors and spiritual leaders to guide and equip others in such timeless matters of the heart as integrity, humility, faithfulness, personal holiness, spiritual hunger, and service to others."</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Swap our "mentoring" for catechesis or discipling, and you get a sense of what the text addresses. Chapters included "Mentoring in the First Century", "Augustine's Thoughts on Mentoring", "Augustine's Approach to Mentoring", and "Shepherding Shepherds Today."</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The author studiously avoids those aspects of Augustine's teaching that might be in sharp relief with conservative evangelicalism, but that does not keep him from producing a book worth reading; he warns us that "this book does not attempt to evaluate the appropriateness of his [Augustine's] views on theological issues such as predestination, sacramental grace, baptismal regeneration, church polity, papal authority, clerical celibacy, monasticism, relics, miracles, and the Donatist controversy." We may well ask how easily one may separate out all those subjects and have something that it essentially Augustinian in nature, but there seems to be enough that is truly Augustinian remaining as to make it worthwhile to those who would rather pay attention all that this sainted doctor wrote.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the author states in the preface, "Augustine's approach to mentoring will surely provide a practical model for how to mentor others. Finally, for students of church history and followers of Jesus, Augustine's early church model for mentoring ought to give some inspiration and direction for what it means to be a disciple of Jesus and an active participant in his body." Here is a work that unpacks the insights of this great saint so that we may apply them in practical areas in our lives and ministries.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In Him,</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rick Bauer</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Colorado Springs, Colorado</span></div>Deacon Rick Bauerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02267764479490721007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278783121752541199.post-43230665353543262762009-08-16T16:28:00.001-07:002009-08-16T16:38:22.118-07:00"Of the Making of Books There is No End..."Welcome to The Deacon's Library! I hope that you will find this site worth your time, your thoughts, your reflections, and that your life and diaconal ministry will be blessed as a result of being a part of this community.<br /><br />The purpose of the TDL website and community is to identify and discuss publications that are helpful for Deacons in the Roman Catholic Church. Whether works of Theology, Biblical Studies, Apologetics, Ministry, Homiletics, or insights into popular culture, TDL aims to identify those works that could contribute to the intellectual and moral development of men serving in the Diaconate of the Catholic Church.<br /><br />Our tone will be respectful of all, identify the strengths of a particular work and its applicability to parish ministry, and we will in all matters conduct our discourse with the charity that must needs be shown to anyone who has authored a text worth discussing. Guest reviewers are welcome, as they insure a particular breadth of choices for review; insights, comments, and personal reflection is the goal in our discussions.<br /><br />That being said, we dedicate this website to the greater glory of God, for the benefit of the Holy Catholic Church, and for those who labor as deacons among her people. <span style="font-style:italic;">Soli Deo Gloria</span>.<br /><br />Rick BauerDeacon Rick Bauerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02267764479490721007noreply@blogger.com0