“Bumper” Snicker

My friend, Lauren, shared this on Facebook:



I, of course, commented, and immediately shared it. Got a lot of comments (and hopefully some of the commentors shared); took a look at the original, and the gal Lauren got it from had a lot of interesting comments, too.

Bumper “Snicker”

On a Dodge Neon, parked behind Boulder Creek Hardware:

Sent, via BlackBerry, by AT&T

Good News/Bad News

From Quotes of the Day, today:

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
- Patrick Young

“Tolerance Is Not a Christian Virtue”

From zenit.org earlier this week:

Denver Prelate on the Catholic Political Vocation


Too bad His Excellency didn’t give this talk before the election…

Polytheist Hebrews

In Erynn Laurie’s “Searching for Imbas” blog today:

CR and personal syncretisms


Not that it means much, of course, but I’d never heard of polytheist Hebrews before; the rest of the post was quite interesting, as well.

Interesting Take on Voting Conviction vs Color

From snopes.com’s Update e-mail today:

Huntley Brown -- Why I Can’t Vote for Obama

Dear St. Michael, guard my room.

Posted to Silouan’s blog today:

“A prayer to my guardian angel
“by Father Stephen Freeman

“O Holy Angel, who stand by my wretched soul and my passionate life: do not abandon me, a sinner, neither depart from me because of my lack of self-control. Leave no room for the evil demon to gain control of me through the violence of this mortal body. Strengthen my weak and feeble hand, and instruct me in the path of salvation.…”

A New Saint (to me, at least)

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.

St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Embrace the World

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Now playing: The Robert Shaw Chorale - Away in the Manger
via FoxyTunes

Pause

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.

A life practice from Br. David Steindl-Rast

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Now playing: Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia/Stephen Layton - Ave, dulcissima Maria
via FoxyTunes

True Peace

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

Seek true peace, not upon earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in other things created, but in God alone.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Now playing: Chuck Mangione - Land of Make Believe
via FoxyTunes

Love’s Virtues

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

-St. Teresa of Avila

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Now playing: Sting - Gabriel’s Message
via FoxyTunes

Perseverance vs Conflict

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

The Lord has given me the grace never to fear the conflict, to do my duty no matter what the cost.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Now playing: The Tallis Scholars - Sanctus & Benedictus
via FoxyTunes

Paging Sister Bertrille, Indeed!

What is it with men who want to fly under balloons? I don’t mean hot air balloons, I mean toy balloons. This one’s a priest — he just wanted to get closer to God, I guess. From True’s 27 April 2008 edition:

http://www.thisistrue.com/blog-men_and_balloons.html

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Now playing: Bob Hurd - Third Luminous Mystery: The Proclamation of the Kingdom of God
via FoxyTunes

Posture Not Often Discussed in Deportment Class

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

-Etty Hillesum

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Now playing: Voices of Ascension - Super flumina Babilonis
via FoxyTunes

Thought on Love

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

How sweet is the way of love!

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Now playing: Rescue - I Will Rise
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Inspiration

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

He guides and inspires me every moment of the day. Just when I need it, a new light shines on my problems.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Now playing: Cyprian Consiglio - Third Divertissement: The Visitation
via FoxyTunes

A Blessing

Gratefulness.org’s Word For the Day today:

May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being.

-Apache Blessing

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Now playing: Grateful Dead - Attics of My Life
via FoxyTunes

Going Up

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

It is your arms, Jesus, which are the elevator to carry me to heaven.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Now playing: G. Palestrina - Lamentation 2
via FoxyTunes

Faith

A quote from St Cyril of Jerusalem, whose feast day it is today (thanks to AmericanCatholic.org’s Saint of the Day):

“It is not only among us, who are marked with the name of Christ, that the dignity of faith is great; all the business of the world, even of those outside the Church, is accomplished by faith. By faith, marriage laws join in union persons who were strangers to one another. By faith, agriculture is sustained; for a man does not endure the toil involved unless he believes he will reap a harvest. By faith, seafaring men, entrusting themselves to a tiny wooden craft, exchange the solid element of the land for the unstable motion of the waves. Not only among us does this hold true but also, as I have said, among those outside the fold. For though they do not accept the Scriptures but advance certain doctrines of their own, yet even these they receive on faith” (Catechesis V).

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Now playing: Donald Brinegar Singers - Ubi Caritas et Amor
via FoxyTunes

Silence

Today’s Daily Reflection from the Society of the Little Flower:

Silence does good to the soul.

-St. Therese of Lisieux

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Now playing: Bob Hurd - Fourth Luminous Mystery: The Transfiguration
via FoxyTunes