Is My Phylactery Showing?: 2007

Drive-By Blogging

I won't be posting any more until after my exam tomorrow, but here's a story I hadn't heard before. I much more familiar with the scrubbed version of the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Fr. Stephanos, OSB, has a far more interesting version.

As Fr. Corapi is fond of saying, our mama wears combat boots.

I will be getting to the book meme with which Mark at Dominican Idaho so kindly tagged me.

Dec

Lost Bohemians, Weird Al Style

I found this oddity on Cordelia's Shoes, a relatively new blog whose title alludes to one of my favorite Catholic novels.

This one's for you, Julie D.

P.S. I'm beginning to come out of my torpor and have two posts I hope to drop in a day or two... or maybe after my sacred scripture final this Friday.

Dec

My Gloat Post

Okay, I have to admit that I occasionally get a litle jealous when I read of some people who get copies of books gratis to review. I think, well, heck... I could write reviews. But the plain truth is, I burned out on review writing a long time ago. So it would really be all about getting free books, and I guess there's really no advantage to a publisher to do that.

Dec

Still kicking...

I'm still here, and I apologize for not posting more frequently. I've been meaning to post some pictures of the monstrous turkey my wife roasted last weekend (33 pounds). I've also finished my second paper for the semester and am preparing for my final. When I read about Adoro's workload, I feel a little guilty.

The latest class has been very interesting, and I think I've finally decided that my focus should be on sacred scripture.

Nov

God Writes Straight with Crooked Lines

Michael Yon has this story of a neighborhood in Baghdad where Christians and their Muslim neighbors restored a cross on the neighborhood Catholic church and prepared it for the return of their Christian neighbors. The photo Yon posted several days ago was quite stunning, but I have to say that I found this post particularly touching. There are several images of the Muslim neighbors attending Mass in a show of support for their Catholic friends.

Nov

Nuns Having Fun

Hat tip to Matthew at CMR for this clip. It's a group of nuns in habit playing ultimate frisbee.

Well, Title IX was obviously good for something.

UPDATE: Here's the original source, a blog called NunEssential.

Nov

Big Surprise

It seems that my inner European matches my predominantly outer European as well.

Nov

It's not a bad rating for a fledgling theologian...

...but not so good for a former technical writer. The general rule is to aim for an eighth-grade reader if you want a wide audience of people to understand what you're trying to communicate. As they say, don't use a big word when a diminutive one will do. (I have no idea who they are.)

Anyway, I didn't exactly hit the mark for accessibility.

Check the reading level of your blog!

HT to Julie D.

Nov

Snark: Mea Culpa?

This is a good day for the sorrowful mysteries.

I couple of incidents have opened my eyes to a potential character flaw. I won't go into detail, but one was from someone very close, and the other from someone I don't know. What both of these incidents revealed to me is that how I intend to be heard is sometimes not how I come across. This shouldn't be a surprise to me, especially when it comes to written communications via the Internet.

Nov

Is there a JCL in the house?

Of course, I know the answer to that.

Mark, I have a couple of questions on canon law.

Is My Phylactery Showing?

Faithful Catholic or modern-day pharisee? Sometimes I might be a bit of both.