Archive for November, 2006
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
The Little Way Store
I have been very remiss in not posting about a wonderful online store for St. Therese holy cards and books [http://www.thelittleway.com/].
The woman who runs the website, Cynthia, also owns a brick-and-mortar store in Salinas, California: Corpus Christi Book+Store, and she is a secular Carmelite!
St. Therese continues to rock the casbah like no one’s business.
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Wedding Photos Have Arrived!
Danielle Rose, Katie’s good friend who took our wedding photos, has completed them and sent them to us! I will be uploading them to this site and to snapfish or a similar site so that you can see them sometime this weekend.
The proofs that Danielle sent to us along with the CDs looked amazing, thanks [...]
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Our New Blog Banner!
Well, it’s not near as good as the Gretencord’s banner, but I have made a new banner for our blog and finished it before dinner is served!
I put it together with Microsoft Paint–perhaps there will be some revisions if I get more time for it.
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Old Friends with New Blogs!
Clarissa and Jesse have a new blog, as do Veronica and Enrique–all part of Gerardo’s extended Garcia family and our friends as well.
Y’all should’ve told me that you had new blogs! I heard about it from Roxanna just last night, and I’m excited about keeping up with you.Â
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Playing Around with the Theme Again
I am trying out some different themes again and am going to create an image for our blog which hopefully will look cool.
Pardon our dust in the meantime!
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Saturday, November 25th, 2006
Christmas Beats Up Thanksgiving…
…and takes over the radio airwaves.
I’m considering writing a letter (okay, an email) to K-LOVE and “The River”–my two sources for “positive and encouraging music” in Austin in which I will tell them that we are not even in Advent yet, much less the Christmas season, so they should stop blaring the 24-7 Christmas music.
Don’t [...]
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
Happy Thanksgiving!
Katie told me to read aloud George Washington’s First Thanksgiving Proclamation, so I did, and wow! how awesome to read our nation’s first president giving thanks to Almighty God so clearly and powerfully.
Many misguided people in our nation today claim that “church and state must be separated” and by that they mean the abolishment [...]
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
A Man Is Not Defined By His Sins
Mark Shea has a good article on CatholicExchange.com today about the false belief that the sins that someone commits shows their “true self”.
He talks about Mel Gibson’s drunken outburst from a few months ago as an example.
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Sunday, November 19th, 2006
Ah, the Compost
I’ve always wanted a compost pile, and now I finally have one!
When I was a boy, my mom got a composting bin, but we just kind of stuck it in the corner of the yard and put leaves in it, which composts slowly–I was impatient and wanted a hot compost pile that would burn up [...]
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Saturday, November 18th, 2006
Guest Toilet Defeated!
Muhahhaha!
I have claimed glorious victory over the guest toilet, which has been out of commission since we moved into our home.
I had to replace the valve coming out of the wall, but when I went to Home Depot this morning, I was confused and unprepared for the 200 different valve types: Was it steel or [...]
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Saturday, November 18th, 2006
Devin and Katie’s First Dance, “It Had to Be You”
I wandered around, but finally found, the somebody who…
Jordan and Tammy just sent us the wedding video of me and Katie’s first dance! I tried to get it to embed in this blog post, but WordPress didn’t like that, so I have posted it on my main site: http://www.heroicvirtuecreations.com/devinrose/Catholicism/MarriageDiscernment.html
Many thanks to everyone who [...]
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
Madame Butterfly
Me and Katie’s first opera together!
We picked up the eldest Hebert girls, who have seen 3 other operas already and were feeling very excited, and drove through dense traffic to UT’s performing arts theater.
The girls saw many of their friends from choir and their homeschooling group, so it was neat for them. Since this [...]
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Thursday, November 16th, 2006
No Wedding Photos or Video Yet
We can’t wait to see them, too! They are in development and in the mail currently, so we hope that in the next few weeks, we will get to see them.
Tonight we are taking the two eldest daughters of the couple who did our marriage preparation to the opera at the University of Texas. [...]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Devin vs. the Toilet
I’ve been locked in mortal combat with the toilet in our guest bathroom for the past month. It leaks from where the water tank sits on top of the bowl, and I have tried almost everything to fix it.
Well, I thought I had the upper hand on it and had gotten in sealed tightly when [...]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
John Kelso: Have You No Shame…
…at long last?
John Kelso writes for the Austin-American Statesman, which is Austin’s biggest newspaper and like most big city newspapers, supports positions and beliefs antithetical to Christianity and the natural law.
Today I bought the Sunday edition and was angry to read his column attacking Texas A&M, our United States military, and Robert Gates, the president [...]
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
New Look
So, I just upgraded our blog to the newest WordPress, which is the software that runs our blog, and, as I am sure you noticed, we have changed our theme to a new one.Â
Many bugs have been fixed, in commenting, in the display, etc., either from the upgrade of Wordpress proper or from the new [...]
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
Call to Mind the Heavy Sufferings of Others…
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…that you may more easily bear the little things you suffer. For nothing, no matter how little, that you suffer for the sake of God, will pass without merit in His sight.
‘The Imitation of Christ
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Father Oliver today during the general intercessions of the Mass asked us to pray for a woman who has a [...]
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
Honeymoon in Pinos Altos
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Katie and I spend our honeymooon in (scenic) Pinos Altos, New Mexico, which is located about an hour north of Deming near Silver City.
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It was such a relaxing time! We had originally planned to honeymoon in Italy right after our wedding, but after talking with our friends James and Shana about their honeymoon plans [...]
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Friday, November 10th, 2006
Gloom and Doom
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That’s what I’ve been feeling since Tuesday’s elections and have heard similar sentiments from others. How could my fellow citizens swallow the PR job by the Democrats? How could they willingly subject themselves to the tyranny of liberalism, where every voice is welcome but the one dissenting?
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Thus, it was good for me to [...]
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Friday, November 10th, 2006
Italia
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Well, it’s official. We’re pilgrimaging to Assisi on January 3-13. We purchased our flights last Sunday, thanks to Devin’s top-notch flight price investigations and are super-excited! This will be our second “honeymoon”, our opportunity to thank Our Lady and St. Joseph in Italy, which, as everyone knows, is their second home, [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Catholic Life, Grapevines and Nature, Love and War by Katie
Friday, November 10th, 2006
The Great Room
Our friend, Zvezdana, suggested that we post a few photos of our “great room”, which is beginning to feel like a full-fledged homey family room. Great idea!
 The view from the hallway:Â
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The view from the front door:
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 The view from the fireplace:
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 The view from the dining room:Â
 We promise photos to come in the weeks ahead, of [...]
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Friday, November 10th, 2006
There And Back Again
During our honeymoon, Katie and I brought along J.R.R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” and read it aloud to each other. When we returned to our new home together in Austin, we continued reading it aloud at night before we went to sleep, and it was such great fun that we decided to keep doing it!
I [...]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Our Beloved Father Oliver at Mass Today
When he was finished with the general intercessions and would usually ask the faithful to offer their prayers aloud:
Father Oliver (in his British Sri Lankan accent): For all the intentions you hold in your hearts and would say if I gave you a chance…we pray to the Lord!
Katie and I laughed, along with many others [...]
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Monday, November 6th, 2006
Should You Believe in All Marian Apparitions?
CatholicExchange.com has a great article today on Marian apparitions–especially ones that the Catholic Church has not yet approved as authentic–which is well worth reading.
The author went to one place where our Blessed Mother was supposed to appear:
At 2:00, the appointed hour, the pilgrims waited eagerly, gazing upward. The overcast sky cleared just a bit as [...]
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Saturday, November 4th, 2006
Our Brave Shepherds
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I received an e-mail yesterday and was so encouraged to read about the bravery of various bishops around the country, who are guiding their flock clearly with regard to Catholic values and the election. They are serving as the successors of the apostles, guarding their flock from evil and working to build a culture [...]
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
It’s Seasonal AND Domestic Around Here
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That’s right. This newly established Rose residence is simply hopping with autumnal spirit, as we move into the days of November–which, everybody knows is the month for turkeys and pilgrims and cornucopias, not Christmas music! Seriously, what ever happened to Christmas starting on the last day of Thanksgiving?
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Well, as an example of [...]
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
All Religions Are the Same (and Evil)
Mark Shea has an excellent article up today at CatholicExchange.com rebutting Rosie O’Donnell’s latest ridiculous comments on how Christianity and Islam are the same:
Recently she announced to a surprised audience, “Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state.”
After all, who can [...]