Archive for April, 2007
I’m done!
And my final’s not even due until Sunday! As a professional slacker and procrastinator, I’m astounded. I was certain I’d be at Doc’s this Sunday diligently typing away while everyone else was outside enjoying the theology club picnic. Yes, my alma matter has a theology club, and we have end of the [...]
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Tags: freedom, grad school, life, personal
Boris Yeltsin 1931-2007
He was probably the foreign leader with the greatest impact on my childhood. I remember when the Soviet Union collapsed, and how things changed.
Most kids don’t hear stories of Solidarity as children (especially not as bedtime stories), but my brother and I were raised knowing that half of our heritage was being oppressed. So when [...]
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Tags: 2007, news, politics
WYD 2008
I can’t afford to pay for all the stuff my parish is doing for WYD. So I decided to volunteer. I really want to go. This would be WYD number 4 for me, and I love going (Rome, Toronto, and Koln previously). I filled out my volunteer registration form. I [...]
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Tags: catholic, life, personal, random, religion, WYD2008
Break Time
I’ve finished the theological methods test, thankfully. All I have to do now is type out q1 because I was forgot what I handwrote at home, and I don’t feel like doing all of it over again. Why on earth would I want to do double work? I don’t know either.
My Trinity and Christology test [...]
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Tags: grad school, hell, life, personal
sundays
Thus begins another summer of what Doc likes to call “church shopping.” Not that I want to leave the Catholic church, (I tried that once, but I know this is where the truth is and couldn’t leave if I tried, but that’s a different post) but preaching isn’t a gift that every pastor has, certainly [...]
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Tags: about me, catholic, Christianity, life, personal, religion, spiritual life
Anslem and philosophical proofs
I have a very high Christology. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Which also means that I am a very high Church Catholic. I like high mass, I like ritual and tradition, and I feel safe within the institution, despite her flaws.
But I didn’t get here from a religious experience; [...]
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Tags: about me, catholic, Christianity, grace, life, personal, religion, spiritual life
prayer and condolences.
I don’t know what to say.
The shooting at Virginia Tech hit harder than I expected it to.
I offer my heartfelt condolences to everyone at VT.
Its very strange to me, I was listening to NPR today, both on the way to my meeting and then to class, and they were talking to students and faculty, and [...]
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Tags: life, news, prayer
on the nature of grace
“Beneficially, therefore did the divine Mercy provide that it should instruct us to hold by faith even those truths that the human reason is able to investigate. In this way, all men would easily be able to have a share in the knowledge of God, and this without uncertainty and error.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa [...]
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papers and such
I should be working on my paper, but I’m taking a break. Too much Thomas Aquinas can make your head spin. And I LIKE philosophical theology and metaphysics. But the paper is supposed to be on the theological side of Aquinas’ arguments, not so much the philosophical side. That was what [...]
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Prayer and degrees.
I’m beginning to think maybe I just can’t pray. Or maybe I don’t know how to pray spontaneously. Is there training in that? I know there’s training to spontaneously lead public prayer. But I haven’t seen an intro to prayer class offered at the seminary, but then I have a serious [...]
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Tags: catholic, Christianity, grad school, MA, personal, prayer, religion, spiritual life, thesis
