Archive for May, 2007
Prayer in the Spirit
“In the same way, the Spirit too comes to the aid of our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes with inexpressible groanings.” (Rom 8:26) This week was mass at St. M’s . Last week was St. B’s. I like the priest at St. M’s, […]
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Tags: catholic, church, grace, mass, personal, prayer, religion
I hate being hit on in church.
I hate being hit on in church. As a note to all the single catholic men out there, mass is not a good time to troll for girls. It’s distracting, and annoying. I was hit on after mass today. And I just knew it was going to happen. I don’t like it, for a couple […]
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Tags: catholic, mass, personal, pet peeves, school
Natural Family Planning
We’re NFP practitioners, of the ‘no kids now’ variety, also of the ‘wing and a prayer’ variety. We’re open to having children, but it’s not something we can do right now. NFP wasn’t our first choice of birth control methods, because of medical reasons on my part. However because of other medical reasons, it became […]
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Tags: catholic, HV, NFP, religion
Patience and strength
That’s what I need today. Patience to believe that tomorrow really will be better, and strength not to cave to all the stress right now. And maybe a good nights sleep that doesn’t include dreams of my apartment being demolished with no warning, as an undergrad. *shudder* its been a bad couple of days. Friday […]
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Tags: cars, catholic, class, family, hell, personal
summer term
I love my class. Patristics is wonderful, and I’m putting all of that work from Trinity and Christology to good use. But I hate summer terms. Thirteen classes, because of Memorial day, and then down to twelve because of a conference. How are we supposed to cover 700 years of patristic theology in twelve classes? […]
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Tags: catholic, freedom, grace, grad school, life, MA
I love going to Small Urban Campus Seminary (SUCS), really I do. I love everything about school. Sometimes, I don’t like doing business near it. The closest gas station, with a decent size convenience selection to SUCS, usually is pretty quiet. I get hit up for change, and hit on, and then I go about […]
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Tags: grad school, hell, life, personal
nothing really, again
I feel like there’s so much to say, but its all stuck in my brain.
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Tags: personal, random
Politicking children
Mickey Mouse isn’t’ supposed to be political. Unless you’re Hamas and you run the TV station that airs Tomorrow’s Pioneers, on al-Aqsa. Interesting. The mouse’s name is Farfur, and apparently he bears striking resemblance to Mr. Mouse. (watch out, Disney’s a stickler for copyright infringement) I understand that it could be an issue of freedom […]
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Tags: free speach, middle east, politics
homilies and homiletics
We were talking about homilies on Monday in class, and how the early fathers usually spoke for up to an hour. Homilies in the US are (apparently supposed to be) between 7 and 15 minutes. Homilies in the Caribbean at least 20, according to the priest in my class, because otherwise the parishoners will run […]
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Tags: catholic, Christianity, church, grad school, homily, personal, religion
weekend wrap up
Well, the theology club picnic was actually on Saturday, which was fine, most of the people who’d been there were still there when I rumbled in at like 8ish. I say rumbled because my car, a 1996 purple Pontiac, nicknamed “The Beast” sounds like a Harley on steroids right now. I left my Trinity & […]
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Tags: grad school, personal
raining on my parade 