Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Bee Stuff
Primitive man sought to master the elemental forces of nature–none were fiercer than the bee. Has modern man progressed any further? You decide:
Yes, we got our bee stuff today! (Everything except the suits and the bees themselves.) What you see before you is a hive stand, bottom board and entrance [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Best Of, Grapevines and Nature by Devman
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
First Seeds Planted
Garden update:
Today Katie and I made furrows and mounds in the garden soil to prepare for planting the seeds, and then we planted them!
We fit five rows in our 8 feet of garden width, separating each mound by about 18 inches. Then we sowed five different seed types, one for each row:
Lettuce
Beets
Swiss Chard
Spinach
Basil
I wanted [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Grapevines and Nature by Devman
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Three Examples of Manly Heroism and Virtue
Today is a bonanza of chivalry and manliness after God the Father’s own heart:
St. Gabriel Possenti.
Which brings up the second incident in which St. Gabriel Possenti demonstrated the virtues of Catholic manhood. Again it involved a potential rape, but this time the victims were a couple of young virgins. The perpetrators were two soldiers-turned-brigands who [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Saints and Angels, Theology of the Body by Devman
Monday, February 26th, 2007
Maybe, I Don’t Really Wanna Know…
…how your garden grows,
’cause I just wanna fly…
(Who else but Oasis could come up with such brilliant lyrics?)
Katie and I have started our garden!
1 Comment » - Posted in Grapevines and Nature, Love and War by Devman
Monday, February 26th, 2007
Cool Video on How to Install a Package of Bees
This is exactly what Katie and I will be doing in a month when our bees arrive (except probably not as easily!):Â http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek7dDtZ0lK8.
No Comments » - Posted in Grapevines and Nature by Devman
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Bee Equipment Ordered!
I just placed a large order of bee equipment from Brushy Mountain.
Like many hobbies, beekeeping has its own unique set of rules, customs, problems, costs, and confusions. Beekeeping definitely falls on the more complex side of the bell curve as compared with other hobbies.
For example, I ordered “medium-sized, cut-comb, wax foundation” to insert into the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Grapevines and Nature by Devman
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Great Article on the Miracle Baby
Including humor from Father Benedict Groeschel of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
In the New York Sun.
Then he [Father Groeschel] laughed and continued: “The doctors said I wouldn’t live and I lived. They said I wouldn’t think, and I think. They said I wouldn’t speak, and I speak, They said I wouldn’t walk, and I [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Catholic Life by Devman
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
The Kind of Problem You Want to Have
Well, we started with: “Bless the Lord! 600 people signed up for an hour of adoration!”
Then as the weight hit me of trying to call each person and fill the 168-hour weekly schedule by March 5th, it became “Oh no! 600 people signed up for an hour of adoration. Lord, help us!”
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
My Husband, My Hero
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Devin Shawn Rose is an amazing man. We had our first married tiff last night, and, boy, was it a doozie. We followed all the rules–don’t go to bed angry, use “I” language, dialogue sitting down and facing each other.
Until we lost our tempers, and then we needed a little space to clear our heads, [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Catholic Life, Love and War by Katie
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
George Imirie, Master Beekeeper
I have been learning much on bees and even more about the people considered beekeeping legends, one of whom is George Imirie. Some of his articles have been saved on this website.
Here is an excerpt from one of his writings:
People want to know “what are all these high salaried government scientists have been doing, and [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Grapevines and Nature by Devman
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
I Must See “Bella”
I have never heard of it until this morning when I checked out this post on the American Papist’s blog.
Katie, please add this to my wish-list for a gift.Â
1 Comment » - Posted in Catholic Life by Devman
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Blur! (and then Lent)
These days have been a daze for us.
I had to work all day and evening yesterday, so Katie graciously led the Perpetual Adoration call bank we had. Bless the Lord, at work we figured out what we hope is the last “showstopper” bug for the release. St. Joseph came through again on that [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Catholic Life by Devman
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
21-week old baby survives
The youngest baby known to ever survive such little time in the womb.
1 Comment » - Posted in Catholic Life by Devman
Friday, February 16th, 2007
Good News
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I am, of course, unabashedly proud to be a member of the Catholic lay movement, Regnum Christi. :) But, you don’t have to be in the movement to enjoy this video of the ordination of 55 Legionaries of Christ at St. Mary Major in Rome on December 23, 2006. YKC!
2 Comments » - Posted in Catholic Life, Love and War by Katie
Friday, February 16th, 2007
First Perpetual Adoration Phone Call Bank
…a success!
Thanks to Jesus, we had about 20 members of our adoration team begin calling the 600+ parishioners who signed up for an hour.
They called over 200 people and signed up 150 people for an hour, filling 84 different hour slots (some have multiple people), which is half of the 168 hours in a week!
Katie [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Adoration by Devman
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
I Do Believe, Lord,
…help me overcome my unbelief!
As Katie told you below, the Holy Spirit inspired over 600 parishioners to spend one hour a week with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
I didn’t believe that God would do it, and I feared both that He would inspire so many and that He wouldn’t inspire enough, if you understand me. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Adoration by Devman
Monday, February 12th, 2007
Even the Saints…
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…drink a little too much wine now and then. This, written by St. Augustine about his mother, St. Monica, made me giggle:
“There did steal upon my mother an inclination to wine. For when, in the usual way, she was sent by her parents, as a well-behaved child, to draw wine from the barrel, she would [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Catholic Life, Saints and Angels by Katie
Monday, February 12th, 2007
Adoration Miracle
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I can’t believe that I haven’t blogged in a week! Somehow, I blinked, and a week had passed. A week in which Father Larry Villone came to St. Louis Parish and gave an amazing and grace-filled Adoration kick-off mission. A week in which 600+ St. Louis parishioners signed up for a Holy Hour. It’s truly a miracle.
Devin [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Adoration, Catholic Life, Saints and Angels by Katie
Saturday, February 10th, 2007
Wedding Photos Posted
I finally finished posting a selection of our wedding album.
A cool program called SnagIt helped me resize all of them en masse down from 3 MB each to 50 - 100 KB, so that was a huge help. I hope you enjoy them!
2 Comments » - Posted in Love and War by Devman
Saturday, February 10th, 2007
Perpetual Adoration Kick-off Weekend Is Here
…and Katie and I are going to the airport in 20 minutes to pick up Father Larry Villone!
We have 3,300 invitation cards: 2,000 in English and 1,300 in Spanish. We have 700 little golf pencils, which we will be sharpening this afternoon, and we have said our prayers that God will inspire his children to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Adoration by Devman
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
America, the Beautiful
On days like this, I’m especially glad to live in the United States. Days like today, when I stood in the Rotunda of the Texas Capitol Building and saw around me citizens from different strata of society, holding different beliefs and wearing different skin colors. The one thing all had in common is [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Catholic Life by Katie
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
The Faith and Science of Bees
Nowadays, many people are under the wrong-headed notion that a mutually exclusive relationship exists between faith and science.
At the heart of it, I believe, are the fears of religious people that scientific people are using science to push an atheistic world-view and the fears of scientific people that religious people are using their beliefs to [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Grapevines and Nature by Devman
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
The Human Side of the Catholic Church…
…sometimes aggravates me!
What do I mean by the loaded term “human side of the Catholic Church”?
Well, in this instance I am referring to our efforts to publicize the Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration (PEA) kick-off next weekend when Father Larry Villone from the Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament comes to speak at all the Masses and invite [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Adoration by Devman
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
What’s Goin’ On?
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Ohmygoodness, I haven’t written in a number of days. I’ve hardly had time to catch my breath. I love the way the Lord answers prayers, such that when I asked for a way to use my energy and brain, I find myself with very little time left to do much else. At least I’m not [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Catholic Life by Katie
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Wedding Photos (slowly) Being Posted!
After wrestling for some time with different photo galleries to post our wedding pictures here, I eventually gave up and forgot about it.
But then our friends the Ceys asked us where our promised photos were, so I decided to try again and providentially found a photo gallery that was easy to setup and which my [...]