Archive for March, 2007
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Death on a Friday Afternoon
I’ve been reading “Death on a Friday Afternoon”, by Father Richard John Neuhaus, this Lent, and I wanted to share one of his very insightful thoughts.
The book is a reflection on the 7 last “words’ of Jesus on the Cross, which include “It is finished” and “Behold your son; behold your mother”. On the [...]
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Melted Wax and Starter Strips
After hanging out at Doug’s house and working with his bees, Katie and I came home and were inspired to prepare more for our bees.
The frames that go inside the hive have to have something called “foundation” in them, which is some material, usually wax, with hexagon-shaped imprints on it, that the bees then [...]
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Hands-on Bee Experience!
My coworker, Doug, keeps bees.
Naturally, he and I have become friends over the past few months, and we have been talking often about bees and their keeping.
Well, he invited me and Katie over to his house to give us some on-the-job experience before our bees arrive in two weeks, so on Saturday we packed up [...]
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
So, I’m a Horticultural Airhead…
(This post was made by Katie, but the silly blog thinks it was Devin.)
You see, I received the super fun and creative gift of 80 tulip bulbs from our friend, Jenny Andrews, at my bridal shower last July. I was in the midst of planning a wedding and painting our future home, so I [...]
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
St. Joseph’s Feastday
Thank you all for your kind birthday wishes to me–I am blessed indeed.
I didn’t get to make a post yesterday and missed St. Joseph’s feastday! Fortunately, Katie made up the slack for me. Yesterday, one of our friends from church, a daily Mass goer, passed away.
She had Lou Gehrig’s disease but only acquired it late [...]
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
Birthday Man
Everybody, today is the birthday of Devin Sean Rose! He is 29 years old today, and I am proud to be his wife. Today was the first birthday in his life that he was awakened by a kiss from his wife, the first birthday that he will receive grapevines (it’s okay, he already [...]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Blessed Aggie Weekend
Whoop!
Katie and I spent a truly re-creational weekend in College Station. Just before we left Austin on Saturday, we planted our front yard plants after many weeks of digging up the weeds and ground:
The drive to good ol’ College Station was beautiful, full of vibrantly green grass and trees. We went directly to Messina Hof [...]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Catching Up
I haven’t written in quite a few days. Life has been so busy with work and Adoration and gardening and being a new bride! As all this has been unfolding, my mind has touched many topics. Here’s a brief recap:Â Â Â 1. Why is the media pushing this “global warming” agenda so strongly? What is the strategy [...]
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
Mad About You
“I’m mad about you
You’re mad about me babe…”
–Belinda Carlisle
Katie and I are heading to College Station, Texas tomorrow, home of the Fightin’ Texas Aggies! Whoop!
It will be her first visit there, to the place where I converted from atheism to Jesus Christ and his Church. We can’t wait to see the road lined [...]
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Pope Benedict’s Apostolic Exhortation “Sacramentum Caritatis” and Adoration
I have only read the excerpts from the Catholic New Service summarizing the exhortation, but it looks awesome!
My highlights from the adoration section of the exhortation:
One of the most moving moments of the Synod came when we gathered…for eucharistic adoration. In this act of prayer, and not just in words, the assembly of Bishops wanted [...]
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
First Week of Perpetual Adoration…
…is accomplished!
We now have 560 different adorers on our master schedule.
Over 1,000 people spent time with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament at the adoration chapel this week alone.
The good work continues as our faithful Hourly Captains are calling each adorer to remind them to go to their Holy Hour for the next two weeks. A [...]
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Spinach Row and Front Yard Landscaping
Our garden is growing! Here is the row of spinach plants:
All five types of plant have now broken the soil surface, and we are having to thin them because we I planted multiple seeds per hole, not believing that almost every seed would sprout.
We also finished the lion’s share of front yard tilling today. Here [...]
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Searching for Signs of Some Life
…in our garden, and when Katie got home she showed me this:
Our first plant to break the soil’s surface is in our row of spinach! This little guy is about a centimeter above the ground, but it was enough to get me excited.
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Perpetual Adoration Has Begun
I almost don’t believe it.
Last night, I looked at the clock, which read 10:15 pm, and I said to Katie: “Someone is adoring our Lord right now at St. Louis”. I was so struck to think that at least one person is before our Lord in adoration every single hour of the day, every day [...]
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
Tilling Ground is Hard
That’s what Katie and I have learned this weekend.
“Tilling” for us means digging up the grass and weeds, pulling them out by the roots, and then breaking up the big clay dirt clods. We marked out about 300 square feet of our front yard and began work on it yesterday.
Today, after many hours, we are [...]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Aah, Lent
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I’m having difficulty getting into this Lent. Some years, it’s all around me, and I almost feel inclined to carry around a water bottle, so present is the desert. But, not this year. I’m having to remind myself constantly that this is Lent and am making special efforts to get in in the “spirit of [...]