Welcome
to one of the most awesome weeks ever! (one of the friars on campus declares
that it is his favorite week of the year)
Just
take a look at our lineup of awesome saints:
Monday,
September 29: Feast of the Archangels
Tuesday,
September 30: St. Jerome
Wednesday,
October 1: ST. THERESE!!!!
Thursday,
October 2: Feast of the Guardian Angels
Saturday,
October 4: ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday,
October 5: since it’s a Sunday, she’s not really celebrated, but…ST.
FAUSTINA!!!!!!!!!
I've been off the blog for a bit, so here’s a little update of my life and blessings
from God that I've been rejoicing in!
1.
Turning in my
first Creative Nonfiction Paper. It was 17 full pages of solid research
about veiling and a couple of interviews with women who veil. A ton of fun, but
many hours of work J I loved the feeling of printing
it off and turning it in! Now onto the next paper, a 30ish page style paper,
which I’ll ultimately combine with paper 1 for my final paper in December!
2.
Watching Frisbee
games! Jacob
plays intramurals and it’s super great to watch. My TOB professor is on Jacob’s
team, so I always sit with his family and we watch the game together (and one
of his young daughters and I will crochet together sometimes, which is always super
cute!).
3.
Lots of
classwork. Specifically,
thesis work. Meaning, trying to wrap my head around a super epic mystic (St.
John of the Cross) and his poetry. It’s beautiful, and I love it, but I need to
actually start hammering things out…which is hard when I have senioritis about
my thesis J Also reading tons about
suffering for my Theology of Healing class, which is super awesome! (and it all
applies so much to my household,
Sacrifice of Love, it’s fabulous!) And yup, tons of the Theology of the Body reading.
JPII blows my mind. Like, all the time!!!!!!
4.
Lots of games
with my husband! We
totally love games, and spend many wonderful hours each week playing Risk,
Settlers of Catan, Agricola, Chess, cards, Mario Party, and a little bit of
Melee on the side (I’d like to say over the span of our marriage, I’ve improved
in my Melee playing…which doesn’t mean much, since I’ve never really been
good/into video games J ).
5.
Another blog post up for the Chastity Project! It’s always really exciting for me to
see something that I wrote hit the internet, and I always pray that I can reach
someone out there. If I can ever reach one person, that makes it totally worth
it!
6.
Random fun stuff at school! A little
over a week ago, the American Shakespeare Centre did a fantastic performance of Hamlet. It was hysterical and extremely
sad. Wow. They were super talented! On September 22, one our friends hosted her
yearly “Hobbit Party,” which was (as always) under a large tree in the middle
of campus. We ate apples, mushrooms, and sat under a lantern and little lights
while she read the party scene from The
Fellowship of the Ring. I have to say, sitting under the tree, listening to
her read, was incredibly epic! Also, there was a relic display on September 17,
and that was pretty much EPIC!!!!!! The couple who brought the relics and gave
the talk (they told stories of saints, talked about official documentation, all
that jazz) are from Manhattan, KS, and they were hilarious! Also, they had some super rare relics, like part of the
tablecloth from the Last Supper. And now my chapel veil is a 3rd
class relic of the veil that Mary used to wipe up Jesus’ Blood during the
Passion. Um…yeah…I’ve kind of been freaking out about that J J J J
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| A scene which The Passion depicts, but I never knew it was a true thing-until the relic people brought the piece of the veil-cloth with official documentation! |
8.
Getting into a
new book series! Yes,
this is DANGEROUS when classes are in session! I try not to let this happen to
me during the semester. But, I was talking with a classmate the other day, and
asked her what books she likes. “The Lunar Chronicles,” she said, explaining
how the first one is about a cyborg
Cinderella! Of course, what’s the first image that comes to mind when I hear "cyborg"?
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Bannakaffalatta proud! Bannakaffalatta, that self-sacrificing, adorable
little cyborg in Doctor Who. So of
course I would have to read a book about a cyborg. And add fairy tales into the
mix? Oh yeah! Friday late morning I picked up the first book (Cinder) from the library,
and by the early evening I had finished it. There were a couple elements here and there I wasn't too fond of, but overall, I really liked the book! It was really weird, extremely entertaining, and a great take on Cinderella's story. It made me laugh, and made me-almost-cry. The next two books are being sent to my library right now. Like I said, dangerous… |
9.
And…all the
festivities this week! This is just a great week! Party with my household
for St. Therese, awesome evening talks by different professors, a talent show,
the Transitus (which commemorates the death of St. Francis), the St. Francis
festival…oh yes, I am thrilled! Here’s to an incredibly awesome week!
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