As soldiers drill at peacetime to be ready to fight when war comes, so we discipline ourselves to be ready to obey God’s commands… Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Reminders for Lent: Mortification
In Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Church, Ethics, God, Grace, Holidays, Jesus, Life, Liturgy, Prayer, Religion, Sacraments, Salvation, Spirituality, Theology, Thomism, Values on February 23, 2009 at 03:46Why milestones are milestones
In Birthday, Christianity, Culture, Ethics, God, Grace, Holidays, Language, Life, Liturgy, Love, Philosophy, Religion, Sacraments, Spirituality, Theology, Values on January 6, 2009 at 00:21To call an event a milestone and mark it with some little ritual is to affirm of the meaning of life… Read the rest of this entry »
The (sort-of) semiotics of milestones
In Atheism, Birthday, Christianity, Culture, Faith, God, History, Holidays, Language, Life, Love, Opinion, Personal, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, Thoughts, Values on December 19, 2008 at 05:34To call an act/event a milestone and mark it with some little ritual is an affirmation of the meaningfulness of life… (Revised into a somewhat more readable post here.) Read the rest of this entry »
Roe versus “Roe v. Wade”
In Abortion, Catholicism, Christianity, Conservatism, Conservative, Conversion, Faith, Life, News, Politics, Pro-Choice, Pro-Life, Religion, Spirituality, Thoughts, United States, Values on June 22, 2008 at 12:10CNA reports that Norma McCorvey will appear in a pro-life TV commercial for the first time. As “Jane Roe”, McCorvey initiated the case of Roe vs. Wade Read the rest of this entry »
He is truly risen! On the meaning of Easter
In Catholicism, Christendom, Christianity, Church, Faith, God, Grace, Holidays, Jesus, Life, Philosophy, Religion, Salvation, Spirituality, Theology on March 23, 2008 at 15:47The mystery of the Resurrection is, to modern society, one of the most incomprehensible mysteries of Christianity Read the rest of this entry »
Anamnesis: a poem of despair
In Atheism, Christianity, Faith, God, Life, Literature, Personal, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Religion, Spirituality, Suicide, Theology, Writing on January 28, 2008 at 02:58This poem was supposed to have been my suicide note, yet it was the act of writing it that saved my life Read the rest of this entry »
Clues you’re at a Filipino party (from El Santo)
In Culture, Family, Food, Holidays, Humor, Life, Philippines, Pinoy on December 29, 2007 at 06:03“No one ever comes on time. In fact, if you actually come on time, you’re too early. No one really shows up until one or two hours later” Read the rest of this entry »
Big is beautiful, or, Why divorce is bad for the environment
In Catholicism, Christianity, Conservative, Distributism, Economics, Environment, Family, Life, News, Opinion, Religion, Science, Society, Values on December 12, 2007 at 03:25Science now shows that, in our relentless quest for individual “independence” and “happiness”, we help destroy not only society but also the world itself. Read the rest of this entry »
Protected: The Batasan bombing: a shocking defiance
In Asia, Democracy, Life, Manila, News, Philippines, Pinoy, Politics, Terrorism, Thoughts on November 14, 2007 at 18:11Is there a happily ever after? (Barkings, no. 4)
In Life, Love, Opinion, Personal, Thoughts on October 3, 2007 at 19:28To my friend P__, after she texted that she could no longer imagine a happily ever after:
Me, I think there’s no happily ever after, only home ever after–sometimes happy, sometimes sad, but mostly in-between. Maybe the question is, when it’s in-between, are you home?
Why does doctrine matter? part 1 of 2
In Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Church, Culture, Debate, Faith, God, Humor, Jesus, Life, Logic, Love, Opinion, Personal, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, Thomism, Thoughts on September 29, 2007 at 20:42…Weren’t we just bandying concepts, forming intellectual structures that were fascinating, but in the end, didn’t really matter? Wasn’t Christianity a mere mass of ideas, existing somewhere in a cloud of speculation, but having no link whatsoever with the life we lead? If it’s so real–as indeed, we believed it was–why was it complicated?… Read the rest of this entry »
Why Jack Bauer must die (an imitation of Aquinas), part 3 of 3
In Art, Criticism, Critique, Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Life, Literature, Logic, Media, Medieval, Opinion, Philosophy, Review, Society, Spoilers, Spoof, Television, Thomism, Thoughts, Writing on September 23, 2007 at 01:24Previously on this blog, we discussed why Jack Bauer should be removed from 24. The following continuation was written between 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Jack Bauer must die (an imitation of Aquinas), part 2 of 3
In Art, Blogging, Criticism, Critique, Culture, Debate, Entertainment, Humor, Life, Logic, Media, Medieval, Philosophy, Review, Society, Spoilers, Spoof, Television, Thomism, Thoughts, Writing on September 22, 2007 at 17:10Previously on this blog, we discussed whether we may judge if Jack Bauer should be removed from 24. The following continuation was written between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Jack Bauer must die (an imitation of Aquinas), part 1 of 3
In Art, Criticism, Critique, Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Life, Logic, Media, Medieval, Opinion, Philosophy, Review, Society, Spoilers, Television, Thomism, Thoughts, Writing on September 22, 2007 at 16:40The following was written between 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. Read the rest of this entry »
What’s Latin for ‘blog’?
In Blogging, Christianity, Culture, English, Humor, Language, Latin, Life, Opinion, Personal, Thoughts, Writing on September 22, 2007 at 01:32Question: What are the Latin words for ‘blog’ and ‘blogging’? If there aren’t any as yet, may we use blogis and blogere? Read the rest of this entry »
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