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| Saturday, June 14th, 2036 | | 8:51 pm |
| | Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | | 3:21 pm |
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds" -GKC, The Everlasting Man (1925) | | Monday, June 15th, 2009 | | 11:04 pm |
Quotes from Eugenics and Other Evils by G.K. Chesterton ( Quotes ) | | Sunday, June 14th, 2009 | | 8:07 pm |
Sorry I have not been posting/commenting for a while....I haven't even really been reading LiveJournal that much for the past week, so if I missed anything important, please let me know. (I'll try to check through my friends list tomorrow, assuming I don't forget). Just to let you know I'm still here. Just been busy the past week, so I've only really been checking Facebook (and even that not as much). Planning on getting back into checking LJ starting tomorrow. I hope everyone is doing well! :-) | | Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | | 5:01 pm |
Voice Post
OK, I made a voice post! Didn't really know what to say, but... | | Monday, June 1st, 2009 | | 3:24 pm |
From my Bible reading today: "Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12) I'm disappointed that no one has made me any icons.:-( Please, I'm begging you! lol. (I don't know how to make icons....) Finally, what I posted in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) christianreader (which you should join). ___________________________________ Wow. I read more books in May that I had read in the first four months of the year combined. lol. In any case, I enjoyed all the books I read. :-) ( Books read in May )Books read in May: 12 Books read in 2009: 23 | | Sunday, May 31st, 2009 | | 2:11 pm |
"The love of God has been poured into our hearts by his Spirit living in us, alleluia." Happy Pentecost! :-)Don't have much to update at the moment....(though I would still appreciate it if anyone could please make me some icons with these quotes. Thanks!). Right now I am reading through Thomas Howard's book On Being Catholic. It is very good. :-) ___________________________________ "Some time ago, seated at ease upon a summer evening and taking a serene review of an indefensibly fortunate and happy life, I calculated that I must have committed at least fifty-three murders, and been concerned with hiding about half a hundred corpses for the purpose of the concealment of crimes; hanging one corpse on a hat-peg, bundling another into a postman's bag, decapitating a third and providing it with somebody else's head, and so on through quite a large number of innocent artifices of the kind. It is true that I have enacted most of these atrocities on paper; and I strongly recommend the young student, except in extreme cases, to give expression to his criminal impulses in this form; and not run the risk of spoiling a beautiful and well-proportioned idea by bringing it down to the plane of brute material experiment, where it too often suffers the unforseen imperfections and disappointments of this fallen world, and brings with it various unwelcome and unworthy social and legal consequences. I have explained elsewhere that I once drew up a scientific table of Twenty Ways of Killing a Wife and have managed to preserve them all in their undisturbed artistic completeness, so that it is possible for the artist, after a fashion, to have successfully murdered twenty wives and yet keep the original wife after all; an additional point which is in many cases, and especially my own, not without its advantages. Whereas, for the artist to sacrifice his wife and possibly his neck, for the mere vulgar and theatrical practical presentation of one of these ideal dramas, is to lose, not only this, but all the ideal enjoyment of the other nineteen. This being my strict principle, from which I have never wavered, there has been nothing to cut short the rich accumulation of imaginative corpses; and, as I say, I have already accumulated a good many. My name achieved a certain notoriety as that of a writer of these murderous short stories, commonly called detective stories; certain publishers and magazines have come to count on me for such trifles; and are still kind enough, from time to time, to write to me ordering a new batch of corpses; generally in consignments of eight at a time." -GKC, Autobiography, "The God with the Golden Key" (See also the opening lines of the book) | | Friday, May 29th, 2009 | | 4:36 pm |
I'd like to post a couple of links of writings of a couple of friends that I thought well worth sharing.... The first is a link to papers that my friend Mardi wrote for an Old Testament Survey class that I thought were very well written. :-) Papers(Since that is the link to a tag on her blog, the papers appear in the order of the last posted being at top, and so the papers are in reverse chronological order). I also highly suggest reading her blog. It is my favorite blog, and she is one of the best writers I know of. :-) The second link is to a post written by my friend Dawn that I found very powerfully written, and I will not even attempt to try to summarize here. Just go read it. Now. You will definitely be glad that you did. :-) PostNot really much to say after that link... | | 2:45 am |
icons
I need to make comments tomorrow, since I forgot to make time to do so today (D'oh!)...but I did wish to make a post really quick while I remembered it. Basically, I decided to buy some add-on space for icons. :-). So, that being the case, if anybody would like to make me any icons with the following quotes, I would greatly, greatly appreciate it. Thank-you :-) ___________________________________ "The principle objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts a good argument" -GKC "Gentlemen, gentlemen, I have not yet ceased casting my pearls!" -John Phillimore "The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." -GKC "The Cross and glory went together" -Fulton Sheen "It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged" -GKC "It is in Christ that we find our worth" -Mardi (my friend) "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it" -GKC "Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly" -GKC "Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten" -GKC "Oppression has silenced its thousands, and tolerance its ten thousands" -Me | | Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | | 6:52 pm |
Deo Gratias
"O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever." (Psalm 107:1) Some very good news concerning the situation with my dad. Apparently, he will *not* have to worry about Algebra after all! (Though I'm sure he wished they would have let him know this before he spent all weekend worrying about it.) So thank-you so much for your prayers! I am very, very grateful! :-) ---------------------------------- In other news, I found out today my grades for my first semester. Intro to Computers A Writing 101 A History of the US Through 1865 A General Psychology A | | 1:44 pm |
Right now, I'm reading through Fulton Sheen's book Life of Christ, and I do believe that, outside of obvious exceptions such as the Bible, this is my favorite (non-Chesterton) book of all time. If I tried to quote everything that I loved, I would have to quote the entire book practically, so let me just give one I came across last night: From the chapter "Trial before Pilate" ----------------------------------- ...Pilate evidently caught the idea that moral conduct had something to do with the discovery of truth, so he resorted to pragmatism and utilitarianism, and sneered the question: What is truth? John 18:38 Then he turned his back on truth- better not on it, but on Him Who is Truth. It remained to be seen that tolerance of truth and error in a stroke of broadmindedness leads to intolerance and persecution; "What is truth?" when sneered, is followed up with the second sneer, "What is justice?" Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right. He who was so tolerant of error as to deny an Absolute Truth was the one who would crucify Truth. ___________________________________ Also, from a *different* book (which I haven't read yet), his autobiography Treasure in Clay, I liked this incident: ----------------------------------- "In the early days when I was on national radio, a man came into St Patrick's Cathedral one Monday morning and, not recognising me, said: "Father, I want to go to Confession. I commute from Westchester every day. I had three friends with me - all Protestants. I became very angry and spoke most disparagingly and bitterly of that young priest that is on radio, Dr Fulton Sheen. I just cannot stand him. He drives me crazy. I am afraid that I probably scandalised those men by the way I talked about a priest. So, will you hear my confession?" I said: "My good man, I don't think you committed a serious sin. There are moments in my life when I share exactly the same opinion about Dr Sheen that you do. Go to Communion and reserve your confession for another day." He left very happily, saying: 'It certainly is wonderful to meet a nice priest'" lol. | | Monday, May 25th, 2009 | | 12:09 pm |
Pictures
A rarity. Pictures! (I have a camera now, so...) Though there is only one picture of me. Still, it's an up-to-date one (taken this morning). My old picture was a few years old, so... ( pictures ) | | Sunday, May 24th, 2009 | | 5:31 pm |
Church was very good today, celebrating the feast of the Ascension (transferred in my diocese from Thursday to today). I just finished reading On Christian Doctrine by Saint Augustine (397), and am reading through the Life of Christ by Fulton Sheen. I absolutely loved the former (and I plan on starting to read at least one work by an early Church father every month), and as for the latter, though I have not finished it yet, it looks like it will become my favorite non-Chesterton book of all time (outside of obvious exceptions like the Bible). (I'm also reading through a million other books as well) Once again, thank-you to everyone who is praying for my father. I am very, very grateful. | | Friday, May 22nd, 2009 | | 3:51 pm |
Prayer request
Prayers would be greatly appreciated now...My father (who was also going to be going to school again, and for the past couple months getting prepared for it) just found out that he would have to get a certain grade on the Algebra section of the Compass Test for his program, even though he would not actually use Algebra at all in what he was going to do ....(He was not even warned about this until last week, and it was just confirmed for sure today). He has never had Algebra in his life (he has been studying pre-algebra the past few weeks), and so....he really does not think he can learn it in time. In turn, he is afraid he will not be able to go to school then....which will bring a lot of problems, to put it mildly. So, if you are able to pray, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. | | 1:40 pm |
Copying and pasting...:-) __________________________________ Ask me anything! Stolen from: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) princess_mia"The problem with LiveJournal: We all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you!" | | Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | | 10:09 am |
"It's such a strange world we moderns have created: everything is permissible yet nothing is forgivable." -Kevin. B. (commenter on Mark Shea's blog) ( Conversion ) | | Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 | | 9:04 am |
I'm back
"Let all your things be done with charity." (1 Corinthians 16:14) (Stolen from michaelmichael) Well, last week was my last week of classes, thank-goodness. (Yes, I know. I had *nothing* compared to most people. Still. lol.) I still have one research paper that I have to turn into my English teacher sometime tomorrow. I also had some questions on it in a few details that I might still need to fix (I sent her an email, but I forgot she was supposed to be gone somewhere yesterday, and perhaps today as well; I don't remember. So in the meantime, I just guessed what I was supposed to do, just in case I don't get a reply in time. In any case, prayers would be appreciated! Thanks!). Anyway, once I turn that in tomorrow, I should be done with school till July 1, so that's good. So that means I can get back on LiveJournal! (I had made some posts and comments on LJ during this time, plus spent some more time on Facebook, but....it will be nice to be back on LJ more regularly! And even when I do go back to school in July, it shouldn't keep me off LJ as much as it did this time.) The last couple of days, I also got around to counting my books, and discovered that I have a lot of them. lol. At this moment, I have 1,238 books. That also includes 125 Bibles and 42 New Testaments. :-) (Just to give you an idea, the Bibles alone, not including the New Testament, are by themselves about two and a half times as many as all of my books by and about GKC combined.) Speaking of which, yesterday at the thrift shop I bought six books, including a book by Agatha Christie At Bertram's Hotel, which cost me fifty cents. I have never read anything by her, but I had to buy that novel because in it she mentions GKC. lol. "Now don't you worry Mrs. McCrae," he said in his genial fashion, as he sat down to the meal she had prepared for his arrival. We'll hunt the absent-minded fellow down. Ever heard that story about Chesterton? G.K. Chesterton, you know, the writer. Wired to his wife when he'd gone on a lecture tour 'Am at Crew Station. Where ought I to be?'
He laughed. Mrs. McCrae smiled dutifully. She did not think it was very funny because it was so exactly the sort of thing that Canon Pennyfather might have done. OK, I guess I'll write some more later. Hope everything is doing well. (And if there is anything important that I missed during my absence, please let me know! Thanks!) | | Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 | | 11:51 am |
| | Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 | | 11:23 pm |
Myth-as-Truth, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Conversion of C.S. LewisPlease pray for the priest at my church. Something I had long suspected, but didn't know for sure, I just had confirmed over the weekend. He's a Detroit Lions fan. That is certainly a *very* heavy cross to bear... :-) In other news, I forgot to mention that a few weeks ago I acquired 13 of the volumes of the Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. There are quite a few good books of his included among them, but most of those are on the Internet already. However, one of the things I do have now own (something that is not on the Internet) is all of the newspaper articles he wrote for his weekly column for the Illustrated London News from 1905 to 1928. (He actually wrote for the ILN until his death in 1936, but I do not have the articles for the last 8 years). Except for a few brief periods ("two trips abroad in 1920 and 1921 and a long period in late 1914 and early 1915"), he wrote almost every single week. So now I have every article he wrote for the ILN for 23 years, 52 articles a year (with a few exceptions), articles which averaged about 2,000 words. Needless to say, I have a lot of reading to do. :-) Later, I'll have to post my book list for April that I posted on christianreader (a community you all need to join. :-)) | | 12:59 am |
"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Philippians 4:13) Well, I don't know much about music, but just in case anyone is interested, apparently Chesterton made a "guest appearance" in the music video of "Satellite" by Rickie Lee Jones. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cueOJXcsnHU(Found through the Chesterteens) ____________________________________ From The Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisWhenever they are attending to the Enemy Himself we are defeated, but there are ways of preventing them from doing so. The simplest is to turn their gaze away from Him towards themselves. Keep them watching their own minds and trying to produce feelings there by the action of their own wills. When they meant to ask Him for charity, let them, instead, start trying to manufacture charitable feelings for themselves and not notice that this is what they are doing. When they meant to pray for courage, let them really be trying to feel brave. When they say they are praying for forgiveness, let them be trying to feel forgiven. Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling; and never led them suspect how much success or failure of that kind depends on whether they are well or ill, fresh or tired, at the moment.(Letter IV; emphasis mine) |
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