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got a last-minute ticket to the Vatican Splendors exhibit last night. considering that at this rate i will never get to the real Vatican, this was a nice chance to see some very cool pieces, including a few that have never been exhibited before. it was especially nice to see pieces from the collection that belonged to Pope John Paul II (his ( Read more... )

spiritual matters: welcome to the year of the rat! the year of the pig (my year) is over (i wasn't especially lucky, but i guess i could have been otherwise hit by a bus). and it ended on ash wednesday, which is good for me: start fresh today. went to mass at the university, which was odd ~ first time at a "triage" mass not in an actual church. ( Read more... )

the weekend is almost here, but that's no relief to my ears since i will be buried in homework during the whole of it. i am trying to visit lj at least once a day and make an update if on nothing else, the reading that i am doing (which may be totally blah to most of you).

i am reading the second book in the Baroque Cycle, King of the Vagabonds ( Read more... )

Mark 4:35-38He saith to them that day ( Read more... )

Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture ( Read more... )

The Story of the Mountain: Mount Saint Mary's College and Seminary by Mary E. Meline & Edward F.X. McSween, published by the Emmitsburg Chronicle, 1911 ( Read more... )

the Christ is risen ~ alleluia!


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