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Sunday Snippets

I only had two posts this week:
7 Quick Takes
Catholic Pics from Facebook

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Catholic pics from Facebook

Saw these and wanted to share:

H/T to Pater Eddie Dwyer

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7 Quick Takes 28OCT

1. I'm taking my daughter to a birthday party tomorrow at a stable. She'll love riding on the ponies.
2. I need to get better at time management. I keep telling myself that I don't have time to clean my house, but really I don't have time after I'm done watching TV.
3. I'm going to try to get in the habit of reciting the Jesus Prayer: Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.
4. The South cracks me up. Its 70 something during the day, but you still see people dressed like they're about to freeze to death.
5. 65 days till I go on leave!
6. Aid to the Church in Need is raising money for a seminary prep program in Sudan if you're looking for somewhere to give to charity. More info here.
7. Please adopt a Catholic blogger in prayer. If you want leave a note to say which blog/blogger you have adopted in prayer.

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Vince's story

From We Are the 53%

I can't help but be inspired by this story.

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Catholic Planking

h/t to Alive and Young

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Phillipians Post from Facebook

I've had this post stuck in my head since I saw it on Saturday. For some reason every time I read this post I think of John 3:30; "He must increase and I must decrease."


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You know you're a Dad when...

you take off you're shoe and find a Snow White sticker stuck to the bottom of your sock.

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Saints and Scripture Ora et Labora

"Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve." --Colossians 3:23,24

Ora et Labora in today's world.

St Benedict in the rule he wrote for his monks over 1,000 years ago, (It is still used by religious orders to this day) emphasize "ora et labora"; in English "prayer and work". He understood that work can be prayer and he exhorted his monks, as do many abbots today, to make their work into prayer. Its often joked amongst Benedictines and Trappists that the motto of St Benedict is "Ora et labora and some mora labora". The daily prayers of the monks are even described as "opus Dei" or the work of God.
Talents were originally a coin. We have taken that word and used it as a metaphor for those abilities and other blessings from the Lord. Clearly from the Parable of the Talents and the passage above we are to invest these talents in such a way to glorify the Lord God.

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7 Quick Takes 07OCT2011

1. Today is the start of the Greek Festival downtown. The local Greek Orthodox church, Most Holy Trinity, is cooking Greek food, and displaying Greek culture. It'll be a lot of fun and I'm meeting some friends there today to enjoy it with them.
2. I am waiting now to find out what I have to do to begin the process to change my rite of ascription to Melkite Catholic.
3.Today is the first day of my four day weekend. God bless the Army!
4. I personally enjoy heavy metal. After all, God is the one who blessed us with rhythm and creativity to come up with the different forms of music. Granted, much of heavy metal has distasteful and often blasphemous lyrics, but I've really been getting into Cradle Catholic. He has great heavy metal riffs with Latin prayers as the lyrics.
5. The Pope was honored by an Orthodox University the other day.
6. What would the American Catholic have left to post on if you took away the Civil War and American Politics?
7. Glory be to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, both now and always, and unto the ages of ages.

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h/t to Stained Glass Buffalo
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