Today is Food Share day at the radio station. We will stay on the air for 12 hours from 6am to 6pm and raise money to keep the food banks open in the area. We need to raise about 20k this year as the need is great.

So far this year the food pantry has feed well over 1000 people, that is only for three months! They are on track to feed more than 6,000 people this year. We need your help, I need your help.

I am challenging my readers to call into WESO 970am at 508-909-0970 and donate some fund, give us a dollar give us a can of soup give us anything and pray for us as we move through the day. Call and listen live at www.fatherpeterlive.com

Thanks and when you call tell them you read Fr. Peter’s Blog. Do it!

In my last post I called myself a redneck. Well I decided to look this term up on wikipedia just to see what I was getting myself into. Very Interesting.

Possible Covenanter etymology
The National Covenant and The Solemn League and Covenant (also known as Covenanters) signed documents stating that Scotland desired a Presbyterian Church government, and rejected the Church of England as their official church (no Anglican congregation was ever accepted as the official church in Scotland). In doing so, the Covenanters rejected episcopacy—rule by bishops—the preferred form of church government in England. Many of the Covenanters signed these documents using their own blood, and many in the movement began wearing red pieces of cloth around their neck to signify their position to the public. They were referred to as rednecks.[1]
Large numbers of Scottish Presbyterians migrated from their lowland Scottish home to Ulster (the northern province of Ireland) during the plantation era. In the mid to late 18th century, they emigrated again to North America in considerable numbers, comprising the largest group of immigrants to the American colonies from the British Isles before the American Revolution.[2] This etymological theory holds that since many Scots-Irish Americans and Scottish Americans who settled in Appalachia and the South were Presbyterian, the term redneck was used for them and their descendants.

Possible American etymologies
Another possible contributing source of the term redneck comes from The West Virginia Coal Miners March or the Battle of Blair Mountain when coal miners wore red bandanas around their necks to identify themselves as seeking the opportunity to unionize.

Another contributing theory derives the term from such individuals having a red neck caused by working outdoors in the sunlight over the course of their lifetime. The effect of decades of direct sunlight on the exposed skin of the back of the neck not only reddens fair skin, but renders it leathery and tough, and typically very wrinkled and spotted by late middle age. Similarly, some historians claim that the term redneck originated in 17th century Virginia, because fair-skinned unfree labourers were sunburnt while tending plantation crops.

Much more here