still alive still

I hope to get a "Peru post" done soon. I just don't know when ... I have limited internet time, so it may be a while.

1. Tolkien's Catholic Imagination

2. The story behind the Memorare

3. C.S. Lewis's Seven Key Ideas

4. St. Teresa of Avila:

There is no such thing as bad weather. All weather is good because it is God’s.

5. A good plan for evangelization via Adam's Ale:

1. Go to the mall (or place where many people gather) and just watch people. See what they are doing, how they dress, what is important to them. What are trends, what is the focus of people, what seems to be driving them.

2. Pick people to pray for. You do not have to tell them. There is nothing wrong with it. It won’t hurt them or you. But it might help.

3. Be friendly. Pull people into your circle of friends.

6. St. John Bosco:

Make frequent visits to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and the devil will be powerless against you.

7. Great post from Adam's Ale:

As a seminarian there was a priest that I looked up to quite a bit. Once I told him how lucky his parishioners were and how loved he must be. To that he responded, “Here is an important lesson for you. Everyone has their detractors. Jesus had his, I have mine, and you will have yours.” It is true. But then again I suppose it is true for everybody.

There is a person who made known their dislike of my pastorate. No big shocker, nobody gets through life unscathed for good or for bad. But then, celebrating a morning Mass I thought I spied the person – not only in attendance at Mass but who would be in my line for Communion.

8. Summers in Steubenville

9. Bishop Zubik (of Pittsburgh) on growing a beard