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1. "River Shiver" - A cool new song from Pomplamoose. Also, check out their rendition of the Angry Birds theme.

2. The ever-entertaining Kevin Heider performing "Book Mountain" with some friends of mine.

3. My former bishop at his installation in Joliet:

“I did not seek to be a bishop, nor am I worthy to be one,” he said in his homily. “This is all someone else’s idea. And, although God may use human instruments, in the end, it is his idea.”

“With Christ Jesus, the ultimate apostle, as the model, nothing central to our faith starts with us: not the Scriptures, not the sacraments, not the doctrines, not the moral principles. Nor can we treat God’s household as though it were our own ...”

4. A beautiful meditation on the Divine Office from Elizabeth Scalia:

Of course, if we offer to be used, we had better mean it, because as we have seen time and again, when you make that offer, Christ will use you until you are completely and wholly used up, until you are nothing more than cinder. Until you can’t be summer anymore and must burst into splendid autumn.

But maybe that’s the point. Being used up is what brings the splendor, but we don’t trust that; we hold ourselves back, insist on maintaining the illusion that we have real control over anything. It is easier to believe in all we see than in what we do not see.

5. A Pilgrim in Poland