Guys, I know that every year (most years?) I post at length about how much I adore Holy Week and sometimes I go on about Easter Vigil but GUYS IT IS BECAUSE I HEART IT.  If anyone ever wonders, What is the point of (catholic) Christianity anyway? What is the essence of what you believe, Bridey-Bird?, they can either have me ramble on for several ( Read more... )

Heigh-ho!  I've finally gotten around to editing my Small Hope comic!  See it (and the older strips if you have missed them) at My Arms Can Fly.  If you're a regular reader (or not), I added a second layer with charcoals this time around -- let me know if it's better or worse.

Still waiting to hear from the Law School about approving my joint degree ( Read more... )

Last week was Holy Week, the best and worst week of the year!

Worst, because it's always crazy busy, and always at a stressful time. Best, because it's a big fucking deal and church is lovely, and it breaks out the loveliness for Holy Week. Sometimes I think the Puritans had a good thing going with intellectually rigorous sermons adorned by no ( Read more... )

I'd been meaning to write something about the rest of Lent, and Holy Week, and have thus far failed. Probably because life has been crazy busy and kind of stressful. Here are the other remarks from Lent, on the Seven Deadly Sins ( Read more... )

I got me flowers to strew thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree:
But thou wast up by break of day,
And brought'st thy sweets along with thee.



Can there be any day but this,
Though many suns to shine endeavour?
We count three hundred, but we miss:
There is but one, and that one ever.

Plus, bonus lamb:

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Happy Easter ( Read more... )

Another week of Lent gone by! This past week I was focusing on overcoming Sloth. This week, Wrath!

( Thoughts on Sloth and my week )

Slothiness mid-week checklist:

*Go to Compline service - check! did so after going to 20s/30s potluck, doublecheck!
*Attend Dermot's mid-week prayer session - check!
*Go to Stations on Friday - we'll see...
*Don't eff up the kind of pointless no-meat-Friday rule - see above
*Don't turn down any invitations to be social in favor of tumblr - neutral so ( Read more... )

I'm not very good at Lent, in all honesty. But I came up with this idea years ago, and I'm trying it again -- to assign the "Deadly Sins" and primary/cardinal virtues to the weeks of Lent, and work on them. The timing is always a mess, as the season has five and a half weeks -- we're finishing up the first full week -- and 7 doesn't go into 5.5, ( Read more... )

Greetings from Houston in the middle of the night. I'm here with Ximena's family for Christmas, which has been pretty good even with Ximena's writing of a final and my studying for Torts ( Read more... )

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