May 2012
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My appearance on Catholic Answers Live yesterday.
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“Don’t believe the people who say ‘Follow your dream and your life will be...”
– Fr. Shane Johnson
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“There is no sin, not even the most intimate and secret one, the most strictly...”
– Blessed Pope John Paul II
if I could relive this day again
straightawaydangerous:
I wouldn’t.
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I’ll be spending today at Barnes and Noble reading a book… on my Kindle.
That feels kind of sacrilegious.
Anonymous asked: How come you seem to be ignoring the questions about homosexuality that I asked you yesterday?
soldierofthelord asked: *Cute Message Goes Here*
Reblog if you want one of these in your askbox:
A compliment
A story
Why you follow me
If you met me what would you do
A cute message
One thing you want to tell me
One thing you want to know about me
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My Favorite NaNoWriMo Pep Talk
By far, Lemony Snicket’s was the best:
Dear Cohort,
Struggling with your novel? Paralyzed by the fear that it’s nowhere near good enough? Feeling caught in a trap of your own devising? You should probably give up.
For one thing, writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day. Every magazine and newspaper, every hardcover and paperback, every website and most walls near the freeway...
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Camp NaNoWriMo Novel Synopsis
The Courage Letters
While visiting his parents one summer in New York City, James Becker drops in to a local church to go to confession one Saturday afternoon. His penance is anything but normal: “Take a road trip to California, and allow your Guardian Angel to guide you along the way. If you do so faithfully and trust in the Lord on your journey, your love for God will increase greatly and...
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Birds, conversations, and phone calls.
Phil: So what kinds of birds are there in Oregon?
Maria: The chirpy kind.
Phil: *silence*
Maria: Well to be honest I don't know a lot about birds.
Phil: Me either. It was just a conversation starter...but I have to go.
Maria: So you end the conversation with a starter?
Phil: Well it failed.
Maria: Well you could have just said "I have to go, Maria"
Phil: Okay. I have to go.
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My Catholic Road Trip Novel
While many college students will be wasting away their summer by sleeping in past noon, hanging out with friends that they haven’t seen in ages, and going on adventures with their families, I will be writing a Catholic road trip novel. Inspired by Carly, I’ll be joining her this June for a rousing rendition of Camp NaNoWriMo. I’ve won NaNoWriMo twice, and this sounds like a great...
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Being Catholic vs. Being in Communion with the...
thepapists:
There’s a lot of talk about this issue on Tumblr today, so I thought I’d post Fr. Shane’s commentary on the issue:
What makes us Christians is Baptism. It’s the only way that we can draw a clear black/white line between who is or who isn’t Christian.
But things get blurrier after that. Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium talks in terms of communion: You’re in “communion” with the Church in...
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WW: D4 Goings On
My first online game of werewolf has taken an interesting turn.
There are four roles left:
(1) Werewolf (2) Hunter, brutal (when he is lynched/eaten, he kills one other player) (3) Two Villagers
I am a villager, and I’ve been claiming that the entire game. I even made a probability chart showing the most probable sorcerer/wolf/wolf combination, two of which turned out to be accurate.
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If someone rejects a teaching of the Catholic...
stine-key:
A person believes everything in the Nicene Creed, accepts the papacy, apostolic succession, marian dogmas and transubstaniation, but to an unspecified degree does not accept the Church’s teachings on an unspecified number of moral and/or social issues.
Can this person, in good conscience, still call themselves Catholic?
The litmus test of whether a person is Catholic is Baptism....
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To-read list
… by Saturday:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (300 pp.)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (385 pp.)
The Gunslinger by Stephen King (200 pp.)
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My Dashboard is FILLED with monstrances this morning.
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doubleplusgoodful asked: Will you please tell me about the Pro-Sanctity Movement?
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The biggest attacks on Catholicism...
catholicknight:
…appear to be coming from Catholics with no clue.
It is really so disappointing and scary. Those of other religions appear to be somewhat respectful overall. Sadly, the feelings of people who received poor catechesis or who are acting out like immature children when they realize that others don’t approve of them doing whatever they want - even though it is damaging to them and a...
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This summer's theme is health.
I’ll be dieting and continuing to cultivate a fervent and faithful prayer life.
Status updates to follow. Oooh! Suspense!
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the same sex marriage debate: is there a third... →
ephremhiphop:
A brilliantly crafted and provocative piece, which has really got me thinking.
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I just found Roseanne on YouTube.
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Every time I think about shaving my soon-to-be-beard, I appeal to my bearded role models, and they give me hope.
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If baptism should not be denied to those who seek...
Peter would surely not have denied baptism to any one who asked for it. However, I’m quite confident he would have denied baptism to any one who said, “I would like to be baptized. By this I mean I would like to get a spray tan and become an expert at sodoku.” Why? Because the issue here isn’t whether or not to give the man baptism, the issue is that what the man wants...
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I’m sitting in the library.
On the other side of the table is a Korean girl.
She is met by a Korean boy and they begin to speak in English.
I glance up at them one time, and they completely switch to Korean.
#MonolingualPeopleProblems
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WW: D1 "Logic"
Having played several times face-to-face, yesterday I signed up for my first online game of Werewolf.
The basic premise is simple: by night, the werewolves eat one villager. By day, the villagers lynch one among themselves who they think is a werewolf. If all the werewolves die, Team Good wins. If all the villagers, Team Evil wins. There are other roles and rules that complicate things, of...
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Anonymous asked: You sing?!
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Final cram session for my math final tomorrow morning.
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Anonymous asked: I just wanted to thank you for all that you do. You have wisdom beyond your years and make me happy whenever we talk. Thanks again. <3
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The next three days are going to be crazy.
Don’t be surprised if I’m not online at all. Or if I deliberately ignore you. Or fail to respond to your text messages.
I mean no offense and you shouldn’t take it personally. I’m just really trying to survive college, ok?
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Huh...
TYPE YOUR NAME: Phillip
TYPE YOUR NAME WITH YOUR ELBOW: pjhuilklkoiop
TYPE YOUR NAME WITH YOUR CHIN: p;[nhjukikikio
SLAM YOUR FACE ON THE KEYBOARD: About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him-and I didn’t know how potent that part might be-that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love...
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Today’s playlist includes Rascal Flatts and Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls. My musical taste is bitchin’, I know.
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Had an anthropology study sesh this morning.
Cantoring a Confirmation Mass with the Bishop this evening.
Gaming tonight downtown with some friends, Werewolf style.
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From the Rule and Constitutions of the Community...
Excellent practical ways to grow in holiness:
53. The friars are to respond to the grace of God through a life of continuous conversion and self-emptying in order to live a chaste life. We can do this chiefly by fostering:
a) A fervent life of personal and communal prayer;
b) A deep love for the Holy Eucharist;
c) A personal love for and confidence in the Mother of God, devotion to St....
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Spiked: Why I’m coming out... against gay marriage →
A secular progressive argues against same-sex marriage.
Fantastic article.
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To clarify
Apparently, four people read my post earlier today and thought I was at the meth lab. Apart from laughing my head off, I’d like to clarify that I was putting a few hours in at the mathematics lab. If anyone should call me a junkie, let it be known that the Eucharist is my drug of choice.
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Ah, math lab. We meet again.