You Only Live Once (YOLO)
(In case you’re not up-to-date with how the kids speak today, you can learn about YOLO here)
Month: August 2012
Update on “Twelve for 2012″…
At the beginning of the year I posted my Twelve for 2012, the twelve books I was going to read this year. I thought I’d post an update on how I’m doing with the list.
Here are the books on the list which I finished:
The Church and the New Media
– Brandon Vogt
I’m Not Being Fed!
– Jeff Cavins
The Passion of Jesus Christ
– John Piper
Father Brown of the Church of Rome
– G.K Chesterton
The Story of Christianity
– Justo Gonzalez
I suppose that it’s no surprise that I was unable to restrict myself to my initial reading list! Yes, that’s right, I’ve been naughty and read some books that weren’t on the list:
The One Thing
– Matthew Kelly
Pillar of Fire and Truth
– Catholic Answers
Quitter
– Jon Acuff
I am currently reading:
How To Listen When God Is Speaking
– Mitch Pacwa, SJ
…and here are the books which I still have yet to read:
Rediscover Catholicism – Matthew Kelly
Godless Delusion – Patrick Madrid & Kenneth Hensley
The Path of Life – Cyprian Smith OSB
Jesus of Nazareth – Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus Among Other Gods – Ravi Zacharias
Philosophy For Dummies – Thomas Morris
So I have six books to read in five months. This means that I have to read at least one book each month until the end of the year. Fortunately, the books on the list which I’ve already read are generally the longer ones. All the remaining books to read, with the exception of Pope Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth, are reasonably short.
Happy Assumption!
This morning, in honour of the Assumption, I reposted my “Biblical Mary” article on Facebook (Matt Fradd wrote on the same topic today – great minds…).
As a follow-up, here’s a video of Scott Hahn speaking about the Assumption. As usual, he packs in a vast amount of material and information, so hang on to your hats…
And for something a little lighter…
Wise Words on Wednesday: Bourne Again Identity
Sunday Lectionary: Are you listening to the words coming out of my mouth?
Once again, in the spirit of regaining more of my free time to engage in other projects, these notes will be fairly terse and to the point…
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time: August 19th, 2012
The Readings this week continue on a similar trajectory to those of recent weeks. In Proverbs we hear how Lady Wisdom has “dressed her meat [and] mixed her wine” and sent out an invitation to all to come eat and drink at her table. In our Responsorial Psalm, the psalmist invites us once again to “Taste and see the goodness of the Lord”. St. Paul continues his moral exhortation to the Ephesians in the Second Reading , commending them to be “filled with the Spirit” rather than wine. Finally, in our Gospel extract, the Lord again affirms that He is “the living bread that came down from heaven” and He promises that “whoever eats this bread will live forever”.
For the last few weeks the Readings have all been about food and drink. Are you hungry yet? Are you spiritually salivating? Are you hungry for holiness? Do you long for the flesh of Christ?
I have no delight in corruptible food, nor in the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, the heavenly bread, the bread of life, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was of the seed of David; and I desire the drink of God, namely His blood, which is incorruptible love and eternal life. – St. Ignatius to the Romans, Chapter 7
Monks of Golgotha
The other week I got sent an email with a link to a documentary about the Catholic Monks which live up in Scotland:
(Thanks to Mr. Masek for this one!)
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