Archive for January, 2006

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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

St. John Bosco

 
My favorite story of St. Don Bosco–a story that shows how awesome the gifts God gives his saints can be!

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Monday, January 30th, 2006

Riddle Me This

 
Why do Americans adopt babies from other countries–even as far away as China and Russia–instead of adopting babies here in the United States, especially when 3,000 babies are murdered through abortion everyday right here at home?
 
The fact that this riddle is a reality in our country tells you at the very least, that somethin’ just [...]

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Sunday, January 29th, 2006

Adoration Conundrum and an Unscientific Study

 
We have one recurring problem in adoration–not the most important one–but an annoying one nonetheless: People continually take the books that we, the adoration team, buy and make avaiable to the adorers for reading in adoration.
 
We have bought many, many books, clearly marked them as being “St. Louis property, please do not remove”, and [...]

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Friday, January 27th, 2006

Burt Pence and Charlie Teeple: Selling Land for Strip Club to Alex Bharami

 
I have learned about 2 of the 6 men who are selling the land to Alex Bahrami on which the strip club is to be built: Burt Pence and Charlie Teeple (Charles Teeple).
 
I sent them both an email asking them to not sell the land to this twisted man so that he would be [...]

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Friday, January 27th, 2006

Perpetual Fasts and Non-desserts

 
My lovely girlfriend introduced me to the idea of a “perpetual fast” whereby one fasts from something for a particular prayer intention.
 
So for example, I am hoping and praying our Lord will start perpetual adoration at St. Louis parish in Austin when our new chapel is completed (currently about 7 months away), so I decided [...]

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Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Prepare Ye the Way!

 
“Prepare ye the way, for the Lord,
Prepare ye the way, for the Kingdom!”
 
Our company smashed the earnings expectation for the last quarter of ‘05, and so today our stock skyrocketed up almost 12%. Blessed be God for the great jobs He has given us.
 
Whenever our stock goes up a lot like it did today, [...]

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Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Who’s Doing the Dreaming Now?

 
My intelligent and lovely girlfriend reminded me of something we talked about a few days ago that I could write about, and gave me the idea of generally posting about some things we talk about that are not personal in nature and can benefit others. Thanks be to God for our courtship!
 
I woke up [...]

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Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Morpheus Program and Zone Alarm

 
I did Kress computer battle last night and tonight against the evil Morpheus program and various other evil programs it managed to snake onto the system.
 
Finally, right as I began to despair at 8:15 pm, I fixed the Kresses’ computer! Thank you, Jesus.
 
For posterity and future reference, Zone Alarm, a software firewall, [...]

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Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Courtship

 
“Some sweet day!
Some sweet day…
I’m gonna find the way!”
 
Our gracious Lord has blessed me with the gift of courting one of His own daughters, and, needless to say, I am humbled and honored and so thankful.
 
One consequence of this new development in my life is that it is more difficult for me to make posts [...]

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Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Alegria con Los Garcias

 
The G’s entire family came into town and visited for the weekend, and it was a blast! They speak Spanish half the time and English the other half, so I get to listen to Spanish and tried to understand it.
 
The blessings that God gives from having a loving family are amazing. Just being [...]

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Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Women Deserve Better Than Lust

 
Please see the comments from a young girl who appears to be in this twisted industry.

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Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Deep Appreciation

 
One of the Devil’s greatest efforts is spent in convincing each person in the world that nothing is sacred.
 
When someone does start to think something is sacred, or if they already believe it is, he will attack that belief and attempt to persuade them that it really isn’t. For example, human life and human [...]

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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Three Amigos

 
Whiskey and Coke,
Wings ‘n More,
And homemade brownies from one sweet girlfriend…
 
It’s a good night to be alive!

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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

God Rules!

 
I know you don’t need me to tell you that, but there it is.
 
I walked into daily Mass this morning with my three little prayer book-adoration invitation packets and immediately spotted all three of my elderly lady friends whom I intended to give them to!
 
They all quietly thanked me (the Rosary had just [...]

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Monday, January 16th, 2006

Adoration Holy Bribery

 
We have three holes (2.5 hours) in our adoration schedule on Wednesday right now, and so I am praying God will inspire people to fill them, so he won’t be left unadored.
 
I asked all our current adorers to personally invite someone to adoration to fill one of the holes and then I also tried to [...]

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Sunday, January 15th, 2006

Whiskey

 
After dinner tonight (freshly cooked flour tortillas from the G’s uncle’s tortilla shop with cheese, sausage and egg), the G and I had two shots of whiskey that my newly-wedded friend Martin gave to the groomsmen and ushers!
 

 
The picture was really dark and grainy, so I used some Photoshop-like effects to make it look cool.

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Sunday, January 15th, 2006

Alex Bahrami Building Strip Club

 
I have learned that the man who has bought the land and is trying to build a strip club (topless bar) is Alex Bahrami.
 
In his twistedness, he is degrading God’s daughters in slavery to sin, making them the objects of the lusts of men, and giving men a little corner of hell on earth in [...]

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Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Protesting the Strip Club, More Details

 
The G and I went to the neighborhood meeting this morning to find out what we could do to fight the strip club they are trying to build.
 
Unsurprisingly, we were the only two young, single men there, blessed be God. Most of the people involved are women with a few husbands helping. I [...]

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Friday, January 13th, 2006

True Virtue

 
My true virtue is shown, not when I am feeling great spiritually and physically and making lofty promises and lofting promising prayers to God, but when it’s Friday night after a long day of work on short sleep, and I have to spend an hour enduring something the engineer in me finds inefficient.
 
Jesus was there, [...]

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Friday, January 13th, 2006

Go West Young Man

 
“Go West, young man,
(Go West, young man)
When the evil go East,
Go West, young man,
(Go West, young man,)
Find a heart that’s golden…”
 
Yes, many of Michael W. Smith’s 80s songs are pretty cheesy sounding, and even the good ones have that 80s-style synthesized sound, but much of what he sings about is true…

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Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Samuel Alito

 
The G and I watched some of the confirmation hearings for Sam Alito. Unsurprisingly and yet amazingly to me as a person who strives to be honest and give the benefit of the doubt to other human beings, Senator Ted Kennedy ended his time with a slanderous tirade against Sam Alito, basically calling him [...]

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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Protesting Strip Clubs

 
The strip club they are trying to build by our house has got me thinking a bit. You see, there already is one strip club that is only about another mile away up the road from the one threatening to be built.
 
I have thought about going to these places and standing outside and protesting [...]

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Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Takin’ It to the Streets

 
I was cleaning the counters in the kitchen when I noticed the neighborhood newsletter. I picked it up and was about to throw it away without looking at it, since the G and I don’t usually do much in the neighborhood (because we don’t have families).
 
But I glanced at the first article, and it [...]

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Thursday, January 5th, 2006

With Arms Wide Open

 
“…Under the sunlight;
Welcome to this place,
I’ll show you everything…”
 
I can’t wait ’til I am a father, God willing, and get to sing this song to my wife and newborn baby!
May God help me be the man I need to be for that sweet day…

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Thursday, January 5th, 2006

I’m Going Right Out of State

  
…Will return in a few days, please God.
 
In the meantime, go check out this post on some awesome quotes by the saints. It made the blog rounds way back 6 months ago, but I missed the party.
 
One of my favorites:
“Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, [...]

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Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

3 Marlenas

 
“Well I think I’m gonna buy myself a Rolls–maybe a Chevrolet;
One where I can pull that top down, just let my radiooo play;
I’m headin’ out on that highway,
I’m going right out of state,
And I, ain’t lookin’ back ’til I’ve gone,
Right through Heaven’s Gate…”
 
Well, that about says it all right there.

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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Streamlined, Polished Evil

 
I rarely post about abortion, but this abortion mill in Dallas that I found via Amy Welborn’s blog is disgusting enough for me to say something about.
 
They have a well-designed, attractive website, and if I didn’t know they were murdering babies with their “procedures”, I would think they were doing a great service, since “95% [...]

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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Faithful Old Women

 
St. Louis parish, like many others, has many faithful old women who go to daily Mass and pray the Rosary.
 
Years ago, I wouldn’t have been caught dead anywhere with a bunch of old women unless one was my grandmother (may God rest her soul), but as I have mentioned before, times have changed, and I [...]

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Monday, January 2nd, 2006

Drops of Jupiter

 
“Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken!? Your best friend always sticking up for you (even when I know you’re wrong)?
Can you imagine no first dance, freeze-dried romance, five-hour phone conversation? The best soy latte that you ever had, and me?”
 
Those guys from Train really have some cool lyrics. Check out [...]

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Sunday, January 1st, 2006

I Am Really Bad at Crafts

 
I embarked on making a small gift for a friend recently, which I can’t go into detail about because that friend reads this blog, BUT I can at least say that what could have been a relatively easy project turned into a multi-day adventure that involved me going and buying a new printer, trying to [...]

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