Speaking of time going slowly, this morning at class I thought I would die from boredom! Their were a lot of repetitious and just plain boring questions today that took up most of the class. On top of that the clock was just moving so slow! It felt like the clock was moving slower than usual...when in fact it was...it stopped at 9:30 and just stayed there...I thought something was up! Ugh...well that is over and now I have to do some laundry. Days get rather boring when all you do is go to class and study and never go outside or get much social interaction (seminarians are such a prayerful/studious lot that its hard to find some fodder for procrastination...good thing Thom comes around every so often!).
30 January, 2007
Clocks and REM cycles
Speaking of time going slowly, this morning at class I thought I would die from boredom! Their were a lot of repetitious and just plain boring questions today that took up most of the class. On top of that the clock was just moving so slow! It felt like the clock was moving slower than usual...when in fact it was...it stopped at 9:30 and just stayed there...I thought something was up! Ugh...well that is over and now I have to do some laundry. Days get rather boring when all you do is go to class and study and never go outside or get much social interaction (seminarians are such a prayerful/studious lot that its hard to find some fodder for procrastination...good thing Thom comes around every so often!).
24 January, 2007
Concerning Hobbits
This is the Link to the site...have fun (http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/)!
P.S. From this site you can also generate your elf name...mine is Maeglin Telemnar.
23 January, 2007
Hobbits and Hermits

However...with some running water, central heat, a door and some windows...doesn't look like a bad place to live...could even be called cozy.
19 January, 2007
Lá Breithe Shona An Bolgán
So here I am...still blogging about whatever...and still going, 56 posts later! Thanks to all of you who come and read (and drop comments every now and then)...I would offer you a drink, but you are not here...but have one anyway (good for the heart). Oh!...and UPDATE SOME OF YOU!!!
P.S. Also, just so you know, the title is Happy Birthday to THe Bubble in Irish Gaelic and is pronounced; law bre-heh hunn-ah ahn bowl-gawn.
16 January, 2007
St. Ita
St. Ita was born of Christian parents towards the end of the fifth century. She belonged to the noble tribe of the Decii in County Waterford. All her early biographers favor the pleasant metaphor describing her as the 'Brigid of Munster'. Actually the differences were more striking than the resemblances between those two foremost women saints of the Celtic church (see St. Brigid). Brigid's effective life as a nun was spent in continual movement. When she had made a success of one convent settlement, she moved off to found another. Organization was her bent. Ita did just the opposite. Instead of entering one of Brigid's
convents, she founded another in a district where there was none, at Killeedy, County Limerick. There she remained all her life, courting retirement. Again, there is an emphasis on austerity in Ita's life not found in Brigid's. Ita's mortifications were on a par with those of the greatest contemporary missionaries.
A strongly individualistic character is glimpsed in the legends of Ita. When she decided to settle in Killeedy (cil=church/monastery+Ide=Ita), a chieftain offered her a large grant of land to support the convent. But Ita would accept only four acres, which she cultivated intensively. The convent became known as a training school for little boys, many of whom later became famous churchmen. One of these was St. Brendan, whom Ita accepted in fosterage when he was a year old and kept until he was six. The great Navigator revisited her between his voyages and always deferred to her counsel. He once asked her what were the three clings which God most detested, and she replied: 'A scowling face, obstinacy in wrong-doing, and too great a confidence in the power of money'. St. Mochoemoc, whom because of his beauty she called 'Pulcherius', was another great personage of the Celtic church she fostered in infancy.
Ita died on January 15th, which is now kept as her feast, about the year 570. There is a strong local cult of her in Munster, particularly in Waterford and Limerick, and her name is a popular one for Irish girls. In the middle of the nineteenth century a new move was made in Ireland for the development of her cult, when Bishop Butler of Limerick obtained from Pope Pius IX a special office and mass for her feast.
15 January, 2007
"I have a dream"
Now I honor MLK for all the good work that he did, and the dream that he worked so hard to acheive...but he was basically canonized at the Cathedral this morning. Hymns dedicated to him, red vestments (for a weekday in ordinary time???) denoting "martyrdom," and a full blown solemn liturgy (yea...two readings and a gospel...not just the weekday one...and I don't think it was the reading for the day either...or at least one of them was not), not to mention all the applause after every song the choir sang (they were very good
btw...objectively speaking) like it was some kind of show (I think it was) and the Aztec dancers (where that came from I don't know...the African style Gospel music made sense...but the Aztec dancers???...random???).
Like I said, I have no problem with honoring MLK. I have a problem with shaping an entire mass around him as though he was canonized...not to mention the liturgical "additions." I also don't understand why this huge celebration was planned in a liturgical context when legitimate saints like Kateri Tekawitha, Juan Diego, Elizabeth Seton, the North American Martyrs or blessed Junipero Serra get barely a mention at many masses on their feast days throughout the U.S. At least the Mexicans have it right with the honor that they pay the Virgin of Guadalupe on her feast...somebody has their head on straight.
And speaking of Feasts...I just want to mention the Irish Saint of the day is St. Ita...the teacher of St. Brendan (who discovered America...but I will not go into a tirade about Columbus day...so you don't have to hold your breath). And yes Thom I can go for more than a few sentences without mentioning something Irish...but why would I want to?
13 January, 2007
The Word
I had a wonderful Christmas break and the first week back at Seminary has seen some interesting developments...of I am not sure what kind (maybe regressements...if that is a word?) So this is what I have been doing in a nutshell (and that is not a reference to my head).
- Has a great time getting back together with (the Awesome) friends in Ann Arbor and having a good ol' "ave" time...it was great seeing you and I treasure every moment with you all
- The ride home was uneventful and as always...slightly boring (until I started trying to amuse myself by talking...to myself...and that sort of morphed into a conversation with Candy [my car] about her not liking the parking lot at the Seminary...apparently she can't sleep well either)
- New Year's Eve found me with my family in the early evening and on into the night until 2007 came in. The only problem was that the last two hours of New Years Eve I had to enjoy being with my sleeping family while I issued in the New Year by watching The Incredibles in bed nursing a mug of Hot Chocolate and Baileys and going to sleep around 12:06am
- New Years Day I woke up sick...and am now just getting over that cold
- Tuesday after New Years I had a party at the Chancery of Bishop Walter Hurley and my fellow Grand Rapids seminarians (all of whom are doing great btw) which was uplifting and some good fellowship time
- Chris (the other guy from GR who studies at Sacred Heart with me)
was not there though...which was weird, but then so is he...so what the heck. After the party the Director of Vocations asked me where he was, I had no clue and said that I thought he must have been sick or something, to which I received the response "no...I think something is up"
- Friday found me back at Sacred Heart greeted with a friendly, but terse, note that said that Chris has left the Seminary...Great I thought, he is the one that got me here in the first place, now I am alone, and I got this announcement from a note!
- So here I am the lone Grand Rapids guy in Detroit, the last city in the world I wanted to live in (besides any city in the Middle East, most of Africa, parts of South America bits of Asia and Europe, and most of the countries in North America) and no person to complain about it too except Thom...and I don't want to chew his ear off all the time.
Wow...that ended up way more boring that I anticipated...just in case you got to this point...lol...Some better stuff in the works though friends...Promise!
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