04 July 2011
Moving to Wordpress
Yep, I'm making the jump, too. I'm hopping over to Wordpress with a new blog: With Eager Feet. Come visit me!
22 April 2011
Blessed Holy Week!
Hello, readers. I don't even know if you actually do read this. Nonetheless, today begins the Triduum, and I feel a duty to wish all my readers a very blessed Holy Week! Don't forget that Good Friday is a day of fasting and abstinence for all who are physically capable. (Fasting means eating only two small meals, which do not add up to a large meal, and one large meal. Liquids of all types may be consumed throughout the day.) Try to make it to a Stations of the Cross, if you can. Oh! And the Divine Mercy Novena starts today. I put up a post over on Cleansing Fire about it.
If I don't write again (which is highly likely), a Happy Easter to everyone! May you all enjoy the greatest feast day of the liturgical year.
If I don't write again (which is highly likely), a Happy Easter to everyone! May you all enjoy the greatest feast day of the liturgical year.
02 December 2010
I feel sick...
Hello, WHH readers... this blog has been resurrected. This is why.
Another take on this same topic.
I'd love to post something motivational, but I don't think I have the energy. We are at war. We are at war against all the forces of evil in this world. The Church Militant cannot afford to be divided and scattered--especially not in an area where the soldiers are constantly defecting, or they may no longer know for what we fight.
I think I might change the title of my blog sometime... I'll probably be picking it back up next year.
Cheers. I need to go say a Divine Mercy Chaplet. And maybe throw "A Doll's House" across the room--it's frustrating.
Another take on this same topic.
I'd love to post something motivational, but I don't think I have the energy. We are at war. We are at war against all the forces of evil in this world. The Church Militant cannot afford to be divided and scattered--especially not in an area where the soldiers are constantly defecting, or they may no longer know for what we fight.
I think I might change the title of my blog sometime... I'll probably be picking it back up next year.
Cheers. I need to go say a Divine Mercy Chaplet. And maybe throw "A Doll's House" across the room--it's frustrating.
16 October 2010
Rosaries on Parade
I don't think October could make itself my favourite month any more than it already has. Halloween, the birthday of one of my pseudo-brothers, and the month of the Rosary. Hurrah!
Pictured below are two of my almost-dozen rosaries. I have full plans to expand my collection. These two were both made for me by my mum. The one on the left, the blue-with-daisies and clear, is my travel one. None of its beads are precious stones and all the findings are pewter. It lives in my purse, and I brought it to Italy. It was blessed by the pastor at Our Mother of Sorrows. The one on the right (which is in desperate need of polishing, again) was my Christmas present a couple years ago. It is sterling silver and Swarovski crystal (colour: Tanzanite AB, for any beaders) and lives on my bedpost. It was blessed by a priest at my previous parish, some number of miles away. The aforementioned previous parish was Jesuit, though, so I don't know where the priest is stationed now.
(Click on the image to enlarge it.)
All readers: you are henceforth tagged. Post your rosaries on your blogs!
Thank you to The Crescat for this idea.
Pictured below are two of my almost-dozen rosaries. I have full plans to expand my collection. These two were both made for me by my mum. The one on the left, the blue-with-daisies and clear, is my travel one. None of its beads are precious stones and all the findings are pewter. It lives in my purse, and I brought it to Italy. It was blessed by the pastor at Our Mother of Sorrows. The one on the right (which is in desperate need of polishing, again) was my Christmas present a couple years ago. It is sterling silver and Swarovski crystal (colour: Tanzanite AB, for any beaders) and lives on my bedpost. It was blessed by a priest at my previous parish, some number of miles away. The aforementioned previous parish was Jesuit, though, so I don't know where the priest is stationed now.
(Click on the image to enlarge it.)
All readers: you are henceforth tagged. Post your rosaries on your blogs!
Thank you to The Crescat for this idea.
03 October 2010
Still Alive...
Hello, readers... I am still alive, you know. Just posting more over at Cleansing Fire than here--mostly because over there, I don't have to switch Google accounts. =P
Life in the DoR is still heterodox as ever, and it's starting to drive me a little crazy. However, I did get the opportunity to drag Gilbert to a High Mass recently, which was a very excellent experience. There is something very wrong when you go to a Mass in the vernacular and it feels inferior to Latin Mass... both should be equal but different.
Getting down to the nitty-gritty of a new school year, I'm dreading the rest of it. Our first school Mass was so bad that I cried afterward--and I don't cry that easily. Take note: Mass is a sacrifice, not a performance. The focus is on God. Not on your neighbour and how buddy-buddy everyone was. Last time I checked, we were Catholic. This means revering God (the Father), Jesus, and the Holy Spirit as forces beyond our control, benevolent powers who allow us to exist in order to acknowledge His Goodness.
I have some fun little plans for dropping hints to the administration... however, if I publicize them here, then they will know what's going on. =P Let's just say that I need to be anonymous from here on out, since they do not listen to me any more. I figure I can write a little bit more here, on What Happened Here, than over on Cleansing Fire... this has fewer followers, fewer hits, and Gen told me that CF gets hits from Aquinas daily and regularly (and it's not always me accessing from school). I'm sure the school knows I exist on the internet. So I will be much more surreptitious about what I do~
This really is a ramble, isn't it. But! Once I get my driver's license, I'm considering starting a new series called Mass Hopping. I will go to Mass at different churches all over Rochester and at different times and check out the orthodoxy of the church, the size of it, the effectiveness of the homily, etc... how well-dressed the congregation is, all that other fun stuff. ^_^ And then we'll have weekly awards for Best-Dressed Congregation, Best Choir, Best Music, etc. Good things. ^_^ And polite but constructive critiquing of things which bothered me. I am determined to be much more charitable!
IN CONCLUSION:
A few more notes to make before I finish this post.
1. There's a new student blogger--a good friend of mine. Sundry Sentences
2. Vocations Rosary at Saint Thomas the Apostle, Tuesday 2 November 2010 at 7pm. Let's show them some support!
3. My latest research project: Frances Chesterton. I'm hoping to write some biographical work on her eventually... if anyone has any information or sources, I'd be forever grateful for it. ^_^
Life in the DoR is still heterodox as ever, and it's starting to drive me a little crazy. However, I did get the opportunity to drag Gilbert to a High Mass recently, which was a very excellent experience. There is something very wrong when you go to a Mass in the vernacular and it feels inferior to Latin Mass... both should be equal but different.
Getting down to the nitty-gritty of a new school year, I'm dreading the rest of it. Our first school Mass was so bad that I cried afterward--and I don't cry that easily. Take note: Mass is a sacrifice, not a performance. The focus is on God. Not on your neighbour and how buddy-buddy everyone was. Last time I checked, we were Catholic. This means revering God (the Father), Jesus, and the Holy Spirit as forces beyond our control, benevolent powers who allow us to exist in order to acknowledge His Goodness.
I have some fun little plans for dropping hints to the administration... however, if I publicize them here, then they will know what's going on. =P Let's just say that I need to be anonymous from here on out, since they do not listen to me any more. I figure I can write a little bit more here, on What Happened Here, than over on Cleansing Fire... this has fewer followers, fewer hits, and Gen told me that CF gets hits from Aquinas daily and regularly (and it's not always me accessing from school). I'm sure the school knows I exist on the internet. So I will be much more surreptitious about what I do~
This really is a ramble, isn't it. But! Once I get my driver's license, I'm considering starting a new series called Mass Hopping. I will go to Mass at different churches all over Rochester and at different times and check out the orthodoxy of the church, the size of it, the effectiveness of the homily, etc... how well-dressed the congregation is, all that other fun stuff. ^_^ And then we'll have weekly awards for Best-Dressed Congregation, Best Choir, Best Music, etc. Good things. ^_^ And polite but constructive critiquing of things which bothered me. I am determined to be much more charitable!
IN CONCLUSION:
A few more notes to make before I finish this post.
1. There's a new student blogger--a good friend of mine. Sundry Sentences
2. Vocations Rosary at Saint Thomas the Apostle, Tuesday 2 November 2010 at 7pm. Let's show them some support!
3. My latest research project: Frances Chesterton. I'm hoping to write some biographical work on her eventually... if anyone has any information or sources, I'd be forever grateful for it. ^_^
17 June 2010
CAR#3 - Manalive
Originally, I was going to cover this book for Independent Reading. But then we didn't have to do the assignment (yay, no thematic/analytic essay!) and I could truly enjoy reading and annotating this book.
The premise, for those who have yet to read it: Innocent Smith is a man who is determined to not, as he put it, "die while still alive." So... he climbs trees, rescues runaway hats, has picnics on roofs, breaks into his own house... shatters societal conventions while still following the commandments. Leaving home for the sole purpose of returning to it... wooing and recapturing his wife all over again... Mr. Smith has an excellent grasp of living life to the fullest.
I loved this book and highly recommend it to people who love a good story with lots of things which will make you scratch your head and smile.
The premise, for those who have yet to read it: Innocent Smith is a man who is determined to not, as he put it, "die while still alive." So... he climbs trees, rescues runaway hats, has picnics on roofs, breaks into his own house... shatters societal conventions while still following the commandments. Leaving home for the sole purpose of returning to it... wooing and recapturing his wife all over again... Mr. Smith has an excellent grasp of living life to the fullest.
I loved this book and highly recommend it to people who love a good story with lots of things which will make you scratch your head and smile.
16 June 2010
You say "Catholic" like it's a bad thing.
Originally posted on Cleansing Fire, I decided this needed to be fully re-posted here, too.
To my classmates and fellow Catholic school students:
Many of you scoff at my reading. You laugh at me, and consider Catholicism to be "restrictive" and "stuffy." I would like to formally apologize for your utter lack of catechism and teaching in the beauty of the faith. While I am not personally responsible for this, I can do my level best to teach you as much as possible. All I ask is that you listen and try to learn and understand.
Society is, above all, adamantly anti-Catholic. Don't try to deny it, because I don't feel like arguing this now, but I can prove it. You, my friends, by falling into this anti-Catholic trap, are being fed the illusion that you are rebels. Following the "flow" of what is "normal" is not rebelling. It's like being a nonconformist by being Goth and dressing just like aaaaall the rest of the people in that "type."
Next time you laugh at someone who is truly interested in their Catholic faith, stop and think about it. Why are you laughing? Why are you scornful? Because they are so fascinated with two thousand years of tradition (and Tradition), doctrine, history, and practices that it is worthy of mockery? Perhaps you should do well to consider your own beliefs. And remember this: a very wise man once said, "He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative."
Please try to take this to heart. You have my sincerest apologies for growing up in the DoR, and I hope at least one of you passes this on to your friends.
~Ink
To my classmates and fellow Catholic school students:
Many of you scoff at my reading. You laugh at me, and consider Catholicism to be "restrictive" and "stuffy." I would like to formally apologize for your utter lack of catechism and teaching in the beauty of the faith. While I am not personally responsible for this, I can do my level best to teach you as much as possible. All I ask is that you listen and try to learn and understand.
Society is, above all, adamantly anti-Catholic. Don't try to deny it, because I don't feel like arguing this now, but I can prove it. You, my friends, by falling into this anti-Catholic trap, are being fed the illusion that you are rebels. Following the "flow" of what is "normal" is not rebelling. It's like being a nonconformist by being Goth and dressing just like aaaaall the rest of the people in that "type."
Next time you laugh at someone who is truly interested in their Catholic faith, stop and think about it. Why are you laughing? Why are you scornful? Because they are so fascinated with two thousand years of tradition (and Tradition), doctrine, history, and practices that it is worthy of mockery? Perhaps you should do well to consider your own beliefs. And remember this: a very wise man once said, "He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative."
Please try to take this to heart. You have my sincerest apologies for growing up in the DoR, and I hope at least one of you passes this on to your friends.
~Ink
13 June 2010
New Look~
I got bored of my old look, so I spruced it up with staaars~ I love stars. ^_^ What does everyone think?
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