Quick Takes Update

1. UPDATE: God is too good to me sometimes! Friday night there was a summit and at the little reception afterwards two people told me how much my performance of the song touched them. One was saying everything I’d hoped, that he could tell it came from the heart etc… that it meant a lot [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Music, Morals and More Homework!

I have 2 min to class but wanted to pop this up! 1. I haven’t had the best week. Friday night didn’t go quite how I’d hoped and I’d rather not talk about it. Suffice it to say that I guess I gave Glory to God, even if to no one else. I am also [...]

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Praying Along With the Lord

From a commentary on the psalms by Saint Augustine, bishop Jesus Christ prays for us and in us and is the object of our prayers God could give no greater gift to men than to make his Word, through whom he created all things, their head and to join them to him as his members, so [...]

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Relying on God.

This morning did not go very well. My frustration (and the frustration of the people around me) has just been growing all week with this assignment and this morning it was too much for me. I had a good session with DH but when I left for school, even once I got there I was [...]

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It’s Friday!

I’ve just been too busy this week for a Quick Takes post. I’ve been slaving over the one programming assignment we have for networking (I’ve put in some 13 hours this week, and more last week as well.) Bless the Lord it got extended to this Friday (today), it was going to be due Monday. [...]

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Spring!

The spring has sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder wear those birdies is They say the bird is on the wing, but that’s absurd, the wing is on the bird! Sure signs of Spring: April Showers, instead of snow Spring Flowers that start to grow Seeing what emerges from under the snow Dry Grass [...]

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7 Quick Takes – Toddlers, Spiritual Gifts and Speedometers

Pictures to follow but I wanted to get this up before I went away! 1. It has been a pretty good week. The annual Lenten mission took place Sun, Mon and Tues nights, and Tuesday I went to confession. There’s been a lot of God in my life this week, and it makes such a [...]

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Lenten Mission

Mar 9-11 I don’t mean to sound all preachy, this post is just based off the notes I took during the talks. Also, some of the thoughts didn’t fit in very well but I still wanted to include them. Spiritual Dehydration is like teenage/underage drinking, it’s unhealthy. There’s a hole in our souls, and we [...]

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The Spiritual Offering of Prayer

From the treatise On Prayer by Tertullian, priest Prayer is the offering in spirit that has done away with the sacrifices of old. What good do I receive from the multiplicity of your sacrifices? asks God. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams, and I do not want the fat of lambs and [...]

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Recent Posts on Other Blogs

Recent posts I’ve read on other blogs that I wanted to share/remember. Pray in the Midst of Calcutta More Life in my Life God wants us to enjoy the gifts he gives us… A Good Man Life-Long Friends Make the effort to call-I find myself doing that a lot. I’ve thought before it’s a bit [...]

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