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[Hover over images for captions] "Sacrifice is usually difficult and irksome. Only love can make it easy; and perfect love can make it a joy. We are willing to give in proportion as we love. And where love is perfect, the sacrifice is complete." (Instruction Before Marriage) I've mentioned before how Husband Mike and I love Canada Geese, and so naturally, we get extra-excited 'round this time of

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Check out this Most Excellent video on the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, who are truly a shining example of what it means to be Franciscan. HDNet World Report - The Funky Friars segment (H/T to Roman Catholic Vocations.)

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Yowza, how time flies -- today is the second anniversary of my permanent profession in the Secular Franciscan Order. Since it's a weekday, I haven't really planned on doing anything special to mark the occasion, but I may stop by my parish's adoration chapel this evening and silently repeat my profession promise. And one of these days, I really will put together a small profession scrapbook; been

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OK, so when I jumped on the Twitter bandwagon last August, I was skeptical -- looked like a lot of boring chatter. And who would possibly be interested in anything I had to "tweet" about, anyway? But after nearly 9 months of twittering, I've changed my tune. First, Twitter is an excellent way to follow trends and listen in on topics of popular conversation (rather like hanging out at a virtual

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This is a couch. This is a couch decimated by The B. Any questions? Updated: Oops, figgered it'd help if I included a link to Part 1. :-P

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My mom-in-law, sister-and-law, and I laughed so hard over this that we were crying. (Husband Mike chuckled.) Hope you enjoy this clever and funny "how-to" guide to cats, too. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to try "cat yodeling" with The B. :-P An Engineer's Guide to Cats

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Even though I'm working 60-hour weeks, may possibly be coming down with a cold, haven't gotten out to exercise in goodness knows how long (:::cringe:::), am pained by ongoing evils in the world, and am dealing with a variety of volunteer-activity-headaches, I am joyful. I know it's obvious to many, but it was only in recent months that I fully grasped that we can actively choose to be joyful, no

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:::gasp!::: An actual blog post! To answer the question the 1.5 readers of this blog may be asking ... No, I haven't fallen off the face o' the Earth, I've just been Insanely Busy with work for the past few weeks and've therefore been unable to post here (it's not gonna get any better in the foreseeable future). In a nutshell: Due to upper management at my company being totally unrealistic and

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Earlier today, one of my secular Franciscan brothers forwarded an email my way, in which folks were urged to ask their legislators to support passage of the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA). On the surface, it sounds like a Good Thing: protecting women and girls from violence, oppression, and abuse. Who wouldn't want to encourage that? However, a closer look at this legislation

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While it's amazing and awesome to be in your own Profession Mass, it's a Totally Different Experience when you're on the other side o' things; namely, making sure everything goes off without a hitch. Which is the situation I found myself in last night, a mere almost-2 years after my own Profession. I'm currently serving on my local fraternity's council, and as the Minister (our Order's term for

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I started typing up a really long honkin' reply to a comment left on my previous post, Josephology: On Joseph and Mary's Marriage, but 'cause it got s'darn long, I figured I might as well make another full post outta it. :-P A frequently-made argument about Joseph and Mary's marital status is by citing Bible passages "proving" they weren't actually married at the time of the Annunciation.

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As Christmas approaches and we contemplate the birth of our Savior, I think it's a good time to clear up the confusion over what led up to His birth -- namely, that Mary wasn't married at the time of the Annunciation. Contrary to popular misunderstanding, Mary was not an "unwed mother" at the moment of the Incarnation, nor was she merely "engaged" to Joseph -- she was truly and legally married

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Well, what a nice surprise -- Steve of Who with the Autumn night gave me the Mathetes Award a few days ago: "Mathetes is the Greek word for disciple, and the role of the disciple (per the Great Commission) it to make more disciples. I'd like to take the opportunity to award five other bloggers with this award and badge for acting in the role of a disciple of Christ. These five all share the

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"God of power and mercy, you blessed the Americas at Tepeyac with the presence of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe. May her prayers help all men and women to accept each other as brothers and sisters. Through your justice present in our hearts may your peace reign in the world. "We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever

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Wohoo! Huzzah and well done, fellow NaBloPoMo-ians! We made it to the last day of November and the end of NaBloPoMo! Looking back over my daily posting efforts, I'm almost pleased with the results; I copped out quite a few times and threw together completely pointless/silly/meaningless stuff Just To Have A Post. And technically, I don't really qualify for having fully completed this year's

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And even more so when the subject is cats. =^..^= Alas, I'm waaay too easily entertained by these silly/cute cat videos on YouTube. (Yeah, you can thank NaBloPoMo for this post.) It's oh so Cute! Cats of YouTube Music Video Overall, pretty cute. Many of the clips here have been floating around the Internets for awhile, but still fun to see. And really, watching sleepy kittens never gets old. :-

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Just the other day, there was a clipping included with one of my Franciscan newsletters that featured tips on how to "keep Christ in Christmas". Lots of good suggestions, so I'm passing some on here, plus a few others I've found elsewhere. And yes, I know that technically, we're not even in Advent (02-24 December) yet, let alone the Christmas season proper (25 December until the Baptism of Our

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I love the inspired hilarity behind I Can Has Cheezburger?, so when I came across a site dedicated to translating the Bible into the language o' LOLcats, I thought it was hilarious. Check it out: LOLCat Bible Translation Project. (Looks like it ain't using the Catholic Bible, tho'.) And if that's not enough, check out LOLCat Church, which puts a religious spin on the whole LOLcats silliness. The

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Cool Find of the Day: The Population Research Institute (PRI) is making excellent use of YouTube to extend the pro-life message to a larger audience, especially about China's "one child" policy. Check out their two cool introductory videos: Population Research Institute: Part I Population Research Institute: Part II

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As kids, most of us wrote letters to Santa, nothing unusual about that. But, did anyone ever write to the Tooth Fairy? I did, though I'd forgotten all about it until a few years ago, when Husband Mike found the letter while we were cleaning out my mom's house. And ... it's Mighty Embarrassing how demanding I was. Though, in my defense (such as it is), I was 10 years old when I wrote it, and I

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While flippin' through the November 2007 issue of Homiletic & Pastoral Review, I was struck by what Fr. Brian Mullady, OP had to say in his "Questions Answered" column about the difference between Church and state. The whole thing is superb, but what grabbed my attention was his reminder that social justice is NOT the point of redemption or of the Church -- salvation is. As a Franciscan, a Way

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Gah! It's about 30 minutes until midnight, and I can't think of anything to write about for today's NaBloPoMo-induced post. Well, actually, I have a few ideas on what to write about, but those ideas would involve some Actual Writing Time and I'm feelin' lazy. :::sigh::: So, instead of thinking ... here's a picture of The B from his first Christmas with us, which was the last appearance of our

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Because I'm addlepated after eating a large dinner full of delicious turkey, turkey gravy (my dad-in-law makes The Bestest Gravy Ever), and all the trimmin's, I don't have enough brainpower to write up a post today. So, instead, The B and I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!

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Not like anyone's ever asked, I just got the idea from my earlier post about the time I left for work an' forgot my Blindingly Tacky Purse at home. (Hey, when you're scrambling for something to post for NaBloPoMo, you take what you can get.) So, I pulled out All The Stuff In My Purse, arranged it in artful :-P little groupings, and took some pictures. And no, I won't inflict a picture of The

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Holy crap! I was perusing various performances of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite on YouTube when I came across one of Stravinsky Hisself conducting "Lullaby and Final Hymn" (1945 version*)! Awesometasticalrific! I'm Seriously Sniffly over this. And hmmm, interesting that Stravinsky conducts sans baton. I asked Husband Mike what he made o' that, and he said it's not a big deal; were he conducting

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