Month: November 2011

Save or Shave?

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As I’m sure many of you know, this past month has been “Movember“, also known as “No Shave November“. It is a month in which guys grow facial hair (the more ridiculous the better), using the excuse that they’re raising money for prostate cancer research.

Together with a group of guys from the office in San Diego, I have been participating in Movember. Originally, I planned to not shave at all, but after two weeks the beard was itching and driving me crazy, so I trimmed it back to a ‘tache and a goatee:

 

Now, in the last couple of weeks a handful of friends have said they actually like my new facial furniture and that I should keep it. Others have said that they hate it and that I should get rid of it immediately.

So c’mon Internet…which is it?

Relevant?

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With the beginning of Advent the entire English-speaking part of the Catholic world should now be using the new Roman Missal.

With liturgical form in mind, you often hear Christians arguing about what Sunday worship should look like, generally falling into “Traditional” or “Contemporary” camps. Even within Catholicism you find people with very definite views as to what the Mass should look like, some a little more “interesting” than others… :-/

(The above puppet video is kinda barmy. All I’ll ask is this: how many young people do you see here?)

Saint of 9/11

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Have you ever heard of Fr. Mychal Judge? I hadn’t until I watched “The Saint of 9/11” on Hulu. He was a Franciscan Priest who died with those at the Twin Towers. Click on the image below to watch the documentary in Hulu (US Only).

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