Friday, November 11, 2005
First of all, this is amazing. I, of course, submitted my Polish mug. :)
hat tip: Shrine of the Holy Whapping
Secondly, it was a crazy week! The huuuge retreat here at Loras, Antioch, is this weekend, and everyone and their dog is going on it- so this week was filled with lots of chaos in preparation. I am not on team, nor am I attending the retreat, but I got quite caught up in the hustle and bustle of it nonetheless, as 4 of my roommates are on the team. This weekend will be weird, having only one roommate around (yay for Beth!). :) Anyway, there is my insufficient reason for not blogging all week. If I had time, I'd come up with something better, but I don't (Mass starts soon enough...can't come up with stories when rushing to attend Holy Mass...AFTER Mass, however...) ;) Heh.
So today four of us skipped the class we dislike strongly right down to our very fiber and went for coffee and bagels at Panera. Yum. I drove Rusty out to the restaurant after our holy hour. A few weeks back, when I was with him, he pulled a little kid move (Rusty, we look with our eyes, not our hands!) and pulled my miniature Sacred Heart statue off of my dashboard. Our Lady is still in place, but Our Lord has been dislocated for a few weeks. Anyway, this morning Rusty decided to make amends for his offense. So, he asked me if I had any gum. I did. The cinnamon Orbit kind. So, he chews it enough to get it good and pliable, then balls it up, spits it out, sticks it to my dashboard, and plops the Sacred Heart statue atop it. It actually looks kind of nice, considering it is red gum.
It's probably a heretical offense of some sort and I'll be reminded of it in purgatory, but gosh, we thought it was clever. And now I have the Sacred Heart back to guide me along the road (to holiness?). :) Oh dear...the things we come up with.
Proud moment of the week:
In Spanish class, the professor was trying to get us all to "tisk tisk" at the Church (like he always does...) and made a comment about whether we thought women were allowed equality in the Church. Knowing where he was going with this (and frankly, not wanting to go there), my friend, Alan, and I responded quickly "Yes." He looked at us and stated that it is a topic of debate, and he's really not so...and before he was able to make his bunk explanation about why he thinks the Church is the ruin of society, I state "Read Mulieris Dignitatem". He looks at me puzzled (partially because I spoke Latin and partially because I told him to read...the man who reads the dictionary for fun...), and asks me to repeat myself. So I do. Then he looks at me...stops a second, and says, "Ok." and we moved on.
Yes, that's right. Read. Mulieris. Dignitatem.
That's all it takes. :)
Another proud thing about which I am unashamed:
I have begun listening to Christmas music.
The reruns of EWTN's Religious Catalogue are of Christmas items, and I was in the mood. The way I see it, Christmas music is somewhat foo-fooed at during Advent because we are to have a spirit of preparation and all that jazz (I understand it...don't worry!), so...I'm going to get my Christmas fix before Advent.
Makes sense to me. :)
And the quote of the week is from dear St. Thomas More:
"These modern men, who have sprouted up overnight as "theologians" claiming to know everything...fail to agree among themselves about the great dogmas of the Christian faith. Each of them, whoever he may be, claiming that he has the truth, vanquishes the rest - only to be vanquished by the rest in return. But they are all alike in this way: They oppose the Catholic faith, and they are all conquered by it."
Gosh, I love that.
Enough for now - Mass calls!
As stated by a fifth-grader- "I have learned that the weight of one Mass is greater than anything in the world."
Amen kid!
Caritas et veritas!
hat tip: Shrine of the Holy Whapping
Secondly, it was a crazy week! The huuuge retreat here at Loras, Antioch, is this weekend, and everyone and their dog is going on it- so this week was filled with lots of chaos in preparation. I am not on team, nor am I attending the retreat, but I got quite caught up in the hustle and bustle of it nonetheless, as 4 of my roommates are on the team. This weekend will be weird, having only one roommate around (yay for Beth!). :) Anyway, there is my insufficient reason for not blogging all week. If I had time, I'd come up with something better, but I don't (Mass starts soon enough...can't come up with stories when rushing to attend Holy Mass...AFTER Mass, however...) ;) Heh.
So today four of us skipped the class we dislike strongly right down to our very fiber and went for coffee and bagels at Panera. Yum. I drove Rusty out to the restaurant after our holy hour. A few weeks back, when I was with him, he pulled a little kid move (Rusty, we look with our eyes, not our hands!) and pulled my miniature Sacred Heart statue off of my dashboard. Our Lady is still in place, but Our Lord has been dislocated for a few weeks. Anyway, this morning Rusty decided to make amends for his offense. So, he asked me if I had any gum. I did. The cinnamon Orbit kind. So, he chews it enough to get it good and pliable, then balls it up, spits it out, sticks it to my dashboard, and plops the Sacred Heart statue atop it. It actually looks kind of nice, considering it is red gum.
It's probably a heretical offense of some sort and I'll be reminded of it in purgatory, but gosh, we thought it was clever. And now I have the Sacred Heart back to guide me along the road (to holiness?). :) Oh dear...the things we come up with.
Proud moment of the week:
In Spanish class, the professor was trying to get us all to "tisk tisk" at the Church (like he always does...) and made a comment about whether we thought women were allowed equality in the Church. Knowing where he was going with this (and frankly, not wanting to go there), my friend, Alan, and I responded quickly "Yes." He looked at us and stated that it is a topic of debate, and he's really not so...and before he was able to make his bunk explanation about why he thinks the Church is the ruin of society, I state "Read Mulieris Dignitatem". He looks at me puzzled (partially because I spoke Latin and partially because I told him to read...the man who reads the dictionary for fun...), and asks me to repeat myself. So I do. Then he looks at me...stops a second, and says, "Ok." and we moved on.
Yes, that's right. Read. Mulieris. Dignitatem.
That's all it takes. :)
Another proud thing about which I am unashamed:
I have begun listening to Christmas music.
The reruns of EWTN's Religious Catalogue are of Christmas items, and I was in the mood. The way I see it, Christmas music is somewhat foo-fooed at during Advent because we are to have a spirit of preparation and all that jazz (I understand it...don't worry!), so...I'm going to get my Christmas fix before Advent.
Makes sense to me. :)
And the quote of the week is from dear St. Thomas More:
"These modern men, who have sprouted up overnight as "theologians" claiming to know everything...fail to agree among themselves about the great dogmas of the Christian faith. Each of them, whoever he may be, claiming that he has the truth, vanquishes the rest - only to be vanquished by the rest in return. But they are all alike in this way: They oppose the Catholic faith, and they are all conquered by it."
Gosh, I love that.
Enough for now - Mass calls!
As stated by a fifth-grader- "I have learned that the weight of one Mass is greater than anything in the world."
Amen kid!
Caritas et veritas!
