June 2011
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How many have seriously thought about religious life or the priesthood?
May 2011
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letsblametherain:
comewhat-comemay:
“Being in love is how you find out you’re alive, right?”
I wonder.
I used to agree with this, which makes me a little bit sad… I think I disagree completely. Sounds like a great way to find your identity in another person, which’ll lead to over-attachment and clinginess in the relationship, which’ll probably push the other person away or enable them to...
The movie "Sister Act"
Why do so many Catholics like this movie?
IMO, although it tries to have an overall pseudo-positive message, it is primarily a movie made by people who know next to nothing about the Catholic faith and the beauty of our religious orders.
While it is certainly not as bad as what else is out there, the “positive” message of the movie is more feel-good than anything else. It misses (and...
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"Would you like me to read? I'll read so you can...
I go to bed only five hours a night. Nothing to do. So if you like, I’ll read you to sleep nights. They say you retain knowledge even when you’re sleeping, if someone whispers it in your ear.”
“Yes.”
“Here.” Far away across town in the night, the faintest whisper of a turned page. “The Book of Job.”
—Fahrenheit 451
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The psychiatrist
wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I’ll show you my collection some day.
—-Fahrenheit 451
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"They want to know what I do with all my time.
I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won’t tell them what. I’ve got them running. And sometimes, I tell you, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?”
“No, I—-“
“You have forgiven me, haven’t you?”
—-Fahrenheit 451
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After great pain a formal feeling comes--
The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs; The stiff Heart questions—was it He that bore? And yesterday—or centuries before? The feet, mechanical, go round A wooden way Of ground, or air, or ought, Regardless grown, A quartz contentment, like a stone.
This is the hour of lead Remembered if outlived, As freezing persons recollect the snow— First chill, then stupor, then the letting...
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allcreatures:
“Almost three weeks after deadly tornadoes tore through Alabama, an incredible story of survival has emerged about a dog that crawled home to its family on two broken legs. Mason, a terrier mix, was picked up and swept away by a tornado. His family searched but could not find him. Then Monday, two and a half weeks later, they came back home to sift through the debris and found...
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Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
—-Dover Beach (continued) from Fahrenheit 451
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The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
—-Dover Beach from Fahrenheit 451
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TEN PERSISTENT LIES AND ONE FACT ABOUT THE... →
approximatelyinfinity:
“YOU CANNOT BE A FAITHFUL CATHOLIC AND REMAIN A ‘RESPECTABLE’MEMBER OF SOCIETY”
Everyone needs to read this. Everyone.
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Take the Hunger IQ test and provide a meal for a... →
dancewmoonlight:
In addition to testing your knowledge, you’ll provide a nutritious meal to a poor child at school, helping them concentrate on their studies instead of their rumbling bellies. Six questions, one happy child. Making a difference has never been so easy. Take a moment now to feed a child. After you’ve taken the quiz, be sure to ask your friends and family to do the same. ...
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aheartwhoseloveisinnocent:
this is my 9 year...
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The Three Temptations of Facebook (and Tumblr) →
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