From Blogthings:
Your Inner European is Italian!
Passionate and colorful.
You show the world what culture really is.
You Are 52% Obsessive
You're somewhat obsessive, especially when it comes to a couple things (like horrifying thoughts or cleanliness).
As long as your quirks aren't interrupting your life, it's all good.
[Author's note: As I prepare my portfolio for an upcoming interview, I am less likely to return comments or e-mails. I will do my best to return them promptly. Thank you for understanding.]
Many of you commented that I need to make a conscious effort to set my will aside and let the power and grace of God's will act through me.
I read these short lines from Psalm 119, 8-9:
Better to take refuge in the Lord than to put one's trust in mortals. Better to take refuge in the Lord than to put one's trust in princes.
In a world of increasing independence, cynicism, hate, intolerance, and moral relativism, I find these two sentences remarkably cheering. In clear erudition we are reminded that we must give ourselves only to one person in life - God. We will give to Caesar what is Caesar's, but we must also give to God what is His.
This gives great strength during moments of fear, stress, and even anger. Anyone can find a way to take their very human emotions and give them to God for help and safe keeping.
Please remember to submit any prayer intentions you have for the upcoming week by noon Monday. I will send out an email to the prayer list Monday afternoon. Information on the prayer list can be found by using the links to the right.
My job hunt continues. I may not be posting much until Monday afternoon; I have a follow-up interview for a one-year position Monday morning.
I hope that more than my own, I will choose God's will.
Laura, of Adventures in Juggling, hosts the Thirsday Thirteen. This meme has many players, is easy, and a way to showcase what is really on your mind.
To play you need only list thirteen items in your journal. Your list can be on any topic you choose. When finished, link your entry back to Laura's journal.
Enjoy!
Thursday Thirteen things I'd like to purchase after finding a new job:
1. A new computer
2. A resuce hybrid 3 wood
3. A new putter
4. A new reel for my fishing rod
5. A new car bra
6. A new pair of blue shorts
7. A watch
8. Wedding Crashers
9. Syriana
10. Tickets to a Yankee game
11. Tickets to a Harrisburg Senators game
12. A harness for my kitties
13. A new strainer
Tag: Thursday Thirteen
From blogthings:
Your Emoticon Is Laughing
You've got a wicked sense of humor. You're everyone's favorite IM buddy... at least today!
If you grew up in dairy or cattle country, or even spent a good bit of your life there, you have probably heard of cattle mutilation and abduction. If you want to become a witness to these abductions simiply visit this site.
I promise that no animals were harmed in the writing of this entry.
Kudos to netgirl for first finding this site.
[Authors Note: I am working through my alerts; I will get to your journals. Please be patient.]
A few readers have asked my impressions about the impending end of the world on 6/6/06. Honestly, I don't think anything will happen because God has too great a sense of humor. He'd probably pinch it on us on some random Thursday.
More importantly, in my faith the book of Revelation speaks of a far more spiritually deep and profound experience than the end of the world. It's the collision of Heaven and Earth...it's Revelation and it's the Mass.
Scott Hahn, a noted theologian and doctrinal expert, has a fabulous book on this subject titled, "The Lamb's Supper." I post two reviews below:
Amazon.com
The Lamb's Supper: The Mass as Heaven on Earth reawakens a surprising ancient view of the Eucharist, as the harbinger of the supernatural drama described by the New Testament book of Revelation. Catholic theologian Scott Hahn thinks that many worshippers receive the sacrament of communion without ever considering its links to the end of the world, the Apocalypse, and the Second Coming. Hahn wants to change our minds; he wants us to know that "The Mass--and I mean every single Mass--is heaven on earth." Literally. So, Hahn declares, "Now heaven has been unveiled for us with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ ... Jesus Christ Himself says to you: 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with Me' (Rv. 3:20)." Hahn's enthusiasm, as evident even from these short quotes, is considerable--and infectious. Furthermore, he delivers his arguments with great levity (demonstrated in chapter titles such as "Oath Meal"), which makes The Lamb's Supper quite a tasty read. --Michael Joseph Gross
From Publishers Weekly
As with his earlier Rome Sweet Home, Hahn's The Lamb's Supper seeks to bring scriptural exegesis and Roman Catholic ritual tradition into fruitful dialogue. The central thrust of this piece is that Catholic liturgy offers the best interpretive paradigm for studying the Book of Revelation. Hahn divides his subject matter into three main sections, considering in turn Scripture in the canon of the Mass, various interpretive approaches to the Book of Revelation and the mutual illumination of the Catholic Mass and John's Apocalypse. Apart from vapid section titles (e.g., "Guided Missal," "Resisting a Rest" and "The Need to Heed the Creed"), which detract from the serious themes presented, Hahn treats the material quite competently, and he is candid in his enthusiasm for both biblical liturgics and liturgical exegesis. Hahn's work is a fine introduction to eucharistic theology for the Catholic layperson, offering a crash course in the history of sacrificial worship in ancient Israel. The book has an ecumenical appeal, especially for Lutherans and Anglicans desiring to better acquaint themselves with Catholic ritual and the New Testament. The only consideration noticeably absent from Hahn's liturgical review of Revelation is whether the doxological splendors of the Mass are marred or made manifest in the hastily prepared English translations of the Latin Rite issued in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. (Oct.)
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