Archive for September, 2005
Friday, September 30th, 2005
Praying the Rosary Is Hard
I mentioned in an earlier post that I have trouble praying the rosary. Quigster challenged me to pray it 2 to 3 times a day for at least a week and give God the chance to “overcome” me with it, which I take to mean in a good way give me interior consolation and [...]
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Friday, September 30th, 2005
September Results for the Vanguard
Today’s the last day in September, so for interest’s sake, here are the top search strings through which people found this blog and my personal website:
Top 20 of 256 Total Search Strings
# Hits Search String
31 vanguard and (piracy or virus or firewall or hack or pin or sab
11 processlogger.exe
11 winmsc32.exe
10 elliot segal
9 catholic courtship
8 danielle [...]
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Thursday, September 29th, 2005
This Is the Place I Take My Stand
I went over to the Kress family’s house tonight after work just to hang out with them. They have five children, ages 3 through 16, and are a Catholic family.
I love to hang out with them and am blessed to be friends with them. I have a lot to learn about what a [...]
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
Future Wife Musical Playlist
The G is in Europe this week, so I’m flying solo at the house tonight. “Somewhere North”, by Caedmon’s Call, started playing through our G-connected iTunes Airport speaker system.
It’s a love song that is kind of slow and a bit melancholic. Well, it gave me the great idea to make an iTunes playlist [...]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
No New Adorers So Far
It’s been a few days since Sunday when the adoration article went out to parishioners at St. Louis, and so far no one has contacted me to sign up for an hour.
Rather than being disappointed, I continue to ask our Blessed Mother to pray that God will inspire someone to sign up, even just one [...]
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
The O’s Have It
I am blessed to be friends with a very dear elderly couple named the O’Sullivans. They are Irish through and through, accents and all, and they are so faithful.
John and Margaret
They go to daily Mass, and Margaret always offers intercession for victims of abortion and preborn babies. They have been in the St. [...]
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Sunday, September 25th, 2005
One Way to Deal with Disappointment
I get disappointed fairly often. I hope for some situation to turn out in a certain way, and if it does not, I feel disappointed to one degree or another.
Disappointment over things out of my control is a waste of time and energy. So, taking wise advice from the My Daily Bread devotional, [...]
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Sunday, September 25th, 2005
La Comunidad del Anillo
Oooh, another language. What can it mean?
It’s “The Fellowship of the Ring” in Spanish! And after over a year of slow and sometimes laborious reading, I completed it, thanks be to God! On my trip to Thailand, I had lots of time to read, and I comprehended much more, until finally I [...]
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Saturday, September 24th, 2005
Promise for Adoration
This is Devin posting on the G’s Macintosh. I just remembered that the parish newsletters are being passed out tomorrow after Sunday Masses at St. Louis, and so many people will be reading the adoration article I wrote, with the invitation to sign up for an hour.
So, I just had a great idea–to make [...]
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Saturday, September 24th, 2005
Overcoming Pornography Addiction
I wrote an article on my personal website about overcoming pornography addiction.
If you are a man who has been struggling with this addiction, you may find some ideas to help you. If you are a woman who has a man in her life (boyfriend, fiancee, husband, son) who has an addiction, go read the [...]
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Saturday, September 24th, 2005
Mitigate the Evil Abortion Pill
I read a catholicexchange.com news headline from catholic world news about the FDA seeking public opinion about whether they should allow the abortion pill (”morning after pill”) to be sold to minors. Tell them not to! (I selected the “Drugs” category from the drop-down box and hit the Go button).
Here is what I [...]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
The Our Father y El Padrenuestro
I know a little Spanish. I can’t speak it nor comprehend it when listening to it well at all, but I can read it quite well, thanks to God and my Spanish copy of the Lord of the Rings books. A while back, I memorized the Our Father in Spanish (called El Padrenuestro).
As [...]
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Friday, September 23rd, 2005
“Looking Back I Can Finally See…
… how failures bring humility–it brings me to my knees, helps me see my need for Thee.”
– Caedmon’s Call, “Lead of Love”
I went to daily Mass this morning at my parish (St. Pio, pray for us!), and I noticed it was bulletin-stuffing day at the parish, as they had the bulletins and the parish newsletter [...]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
St. Joseph’s Staircase
You may have heard of this miraculous staircase built by a mysterious man after a novena to St. Joseph was prayed by the Loretto nuns.
Wouldn’t it just be the coolest thing if it truly was St. Joseph who showed up and built this staircase? I believe that it was. Nothing else explains it [...]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
Houston Traffic Fleeing Rita
Four of my friends evacuated Houston today, and what should have been a 3 hour trip turned into a 12 hour one. Thankfully, they made it safely into Austin (where I live), and they are going to stay until the end of the weekend.
The G’s brother’s family is staying in Houston, and while they [...]
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
The Saltine Challenge
My company kindly bought me and my group lunch today due to our hard work in the past few weeks, and while we were eating someone produced some saltine crackers.
I remembered hearing that the world record for eating saltine crackers in some time period was ridiculously low, so I ran and checked on the internet [...]
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
Book Recommendation: The ABCs of Choosing a Good Wife
The ABCs of Choosing a Good Wife is a great book for men who are looking for their future wives. It gives good advice for what qualities to look for, and what to watch out for, as well as intelligent suggestions on how to court and be chaste in your relationship.
I have actually read [...]
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
Mark Shea’s “By What Authority”
When I was considering becoming Catholic from Baptist, but still had problems with the Church that needed solid answers, I came across a book called “By What Authority”, by Mark Shea. It was the perfect book for me during that time, and it crystallized for me many ideas that were in my mind about [...]
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Monday, September 19th, 2005
Thailand, Part II
I haven’t yet got the pictures developed, but in the meantime here is a description of the second half of my family’s vacation in Thailand. I left off at the end of our time on Ko Phangan–a small island in the gulf of Thailand.
To go to Mass, we had to journey south by boat [...]
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Sunday, September 18th, 2005
Pictures from Iraq
A friend of mine sent me a few pictures from Iraq, and I wanted to post them to encourage our troops and people of good will praying for them. People called Jesus evil, exchanging the truth for a lie, so it should not surprise me to hear the many evil things said of our [...]
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Sunday, September 18th, 2005
Send Your Catholic Children to Texas A&M University
I went to college at Texas A&M University in College Station. If I had not gone to school there, my life would probably have been very different (in a bad way), if I even survived at all.
When I entered A&M as a freshman, I was arrogant and didn’t believe in God–as a matter of [...]
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Saturday, September 17th, 2005
Catholic Churches in Koh Samui and Koh Phangan, Thailand
This post is for fellow Catholics who travel to either one of these islands in Thailand are are wondering if there are any Catholic churches they can go to there. Answer:
Koh Samui: Yes
Koh Phangan: No
In Koh Samui, there are at least two Catholic churches. St. Anna’s is in Nauthon Bay on [...]
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Saturday, September 17th, 2005
Return from Thailand
I have returned from my vacation with my mom to Thailand, where we visited my sister for about two weeks.
It was a grace-filled adventure! Based on the G’s advice, I tried to treat the vacation as a spiritual retreat, and I asked God to help me do that. Well, he answered. When [...]
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Saturday, September 17th, 2005
I Forgive You, the G
The G, I forgive you for not posting very much and APPLAUD you for the veritable barrage of posts you made on the 12th! That bit about Bono kissing his Rosary beads was cool. Sinead O’Connor really is confused and needs God’s grace to work in her heart. I hope she [...]
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Monday, September 12th, 2005
If Sinead O’Connor asks you to apologize, you must be doing something right.
Way to go Bono. From contactmusic.com:
She says, “I wasn’t going to say anything until I saw [Bono] kissing the rosary beads that the Pope gave him.”He put those rosary beads on that microphone (stand) the day the Pope died and went on about how great Catholicism is.
“I think he should apologise for that.”
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Monday, September 12th, 2005
Nano Stress Testing
If you’re a gadget geek like me, you’ve heard of the tremendous feat of engineering which is the iPod nano. I’ve yet to find an excuse to buy one, but I’m looking hard. Apparently it’s quite a rugged piece of hardware: some professional stress testers managed to submit it to a batter of tests including
Sitting [...]
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Monday, September 12th, 2005
Is it a sin to…
get really annoyed when listening to the likes of Senators Schumer and Feinstein during the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts? I am watching the C-SPAN replay of the opening hearings and finding it difficult to feel charitable to Schumer with his condescending tone. Each senator of the Democratic party called for the “protection [...]
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Monday, September 12th, 2005
Letting the D down
Devin’s been in Thailand for a week and a half and he’s posted more than I have. I apologize publicly to the D for my failure. But I’ll try to make up for it.
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Monday, September 12th, 2005
Thailand
Howdy again from Thailand! My family is staying at a very nice hotel on an island called Koh Samui. We will be returning home in four days.
We have been blessed with great weather, kind hospitality, and good health. None of us have gotten sick, thanks be to God. We are buying [...]
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
Smile
As Devin said, I’m supposed to be holding up the fort here while he’s in Thailand. I’ve already let him down, taking so long to post, but I think this one might make up for it.
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Last weekend my family met up at my brother’s house in Pinehurst, Texas; which is outside of Tomball, which is [...]