January 2012
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“Our response to life is different if we have been taught only a definition of...”
– Flannery O’Connor, On the Importance of Stories
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“Our monastery is 4,000 acres. That’s not an unusually large Colorado ranch. We...”
– Father William Meninger, Trappist Monk
And after the audience laughter subsided, the interviewer did the smart thing and followed up with: I hope they’re organic. I hope they’re organic cookies.
So naturally, Father Meninger answered: They are organic and we bless them with our left hands so that...
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“…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like...”
– James Joyce, Ulysses
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“This is simple truth: Tonight you and I, with billions of others, are sitting...”
– Gene Wolfe, Introduction to Endangered Species
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You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes all the rest. The dark embraces everything: shapes and shadows, creatures and me, people, nations - just as they are. It lets me imagine a great presence stirring beside me. I believe in the night.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Manchester Utd could win 50 titles, but they will always be the Rolling Stones...”
– Scott Williams
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CatDog
Chels: We're getting a dog!
Ashtun: Yeah right.
Chels: Mom said so.
Ashtun: What breed?
Chels: Dunno yet.
J: Why don't you just get a cat?
Chels: ...
Ashtun: ...
J, Chels, and Ashtun: WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
December 2011
12 posts
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“The great assumption of literary realism is that ordinary lives are invested...”
– Marilynne Robinson, The Book of Books: What Literature Owes the Bible
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Have Come,: A Christmas Homily →
(The late Fr. Horacio de la Costa, S.J., delivered this five-minute homily at midnight Mass at the Ateneo Law School. Over the years, it has become a “Christmas perennial,” reprinted and re-read by many – Juan L. Mercado)
Christmas is when we celebrate the unexpected; it is the festival of…
Obligatory.
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“Moral neutrality should not be an option. You can’t fight something with...”
– David Cameron, UK prime minister (via fathershane)
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Onto a Vast Plain
You are not surprised at the force of the storm—
you have seen it growing.
The trees flee. Their flight
sets the boulevards streaming. And you know:
he whom they flee is the one
you move toward. All your senses
sing him, as you stand at the window.
The weeks stood still in summer.
The trees’ blood rose. Now you feel
it wants to sink back
into the source of everything. You thought
you could...
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“We learn from the centurion to face Jesus, to keep watch over him, to behold...”
– Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle, Address on the Eucharist (49th International Eucharistic Congress)
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“Could it be that what somehow divides us as a people, as a Church, as a...”
– Fr. Arnel Aquino, SJ, A Homily for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
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Me browsing through my newsfeed
ashtun (reading): Hundreds of Catholics in the northern province of Ilocos Norte yesterday flocked to Laoag city center to see a rumored “image” of the Virgin Mary etched on the wall of an old sinking bell tower. Father Policarpio Albano, parish priest of St William Cathedral, said this could be a reminder to Catholics to strengthen-- [article gets cut and a link appears]
ashtun's brain (filling in the blank): the bell tower.
ashtun (clicking the link and reading the continuation): their faith and become closer to God through constant prayer.
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
– Rosa Luxemburg (via madlangbayan)
November 2011
11 posts
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“The world is full of people who can write only one story…”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
And then there’s me who can’t write anything.
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“Religions do not, in fact, simply supply answers to questions. Or at least they...”
– Thomas Merton, The New Man
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“The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it...”
– Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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“What is love?”
“The total absence of fear,” said the Master....”
– Anthony de Mello, SJ
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“Did it ever strike you how interesting it was that at the end of two thousand...”
– George Weigel, The Achievement of John Paul II: A Retrospective
October 2011
15 posts
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“Don’t worry, I’m not gonna frak it up.”
– John Orloff, on writing the screenplay for Bryan Singer’s upcoming “Battlestar Galactica” movie
ADAMA IS NOT IMPRESSED
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“Of all modern phenomena, the most monstrous and ominous, the most manifestly...”
– G. K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News April 22, 1933 (via gkchestertonquote)
Preach.
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“I’m talking about those things that represent only inconvenience to me, but the...”
– Deirdre Sullivan, Always Go to the Funeral
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FML
Ashtun: Happy Birthday!
Chels: Whatever.
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“I had the opportunity as a goalkeeper to take, probably, at least 4 minutes off...”
– Hope Solo, on losing to Japan at the 2011 World Cup Final
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Why men are in trouble →
Today, 18-to- 34-year-old men spend more time playing video games a day than 12-to- 17-year-old boys. While women are graduating college and finding good jobs, too many men are not going to work, not getting married and not raising families. Women are beginning to take the place of men in many ways. This has led some to ask: do we even need men?
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