Cell phone vs. Bible

Remember, beginning of July 1, you must use a hand-free headset. & If you are under 18, NO cell phone use at all!!

Another note, I think this apply to internet as well? :p

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I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone? What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?

What if we flipped through it several times a day?
What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?

What if we used it to receive messages from the text?
What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?

What if we gave it to kids as gifts?
What if we used it when we traveled?

What if we used it in case of an emergency?

This is something to make you go... hmmm... where is my Bible? Oh, and one more thing. Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill.

Makes you stop and think "where are our priorities?" And no dropped calls!

Bless Me, Father, for I have sinned

Found this on Christus Vincit Blog. That was me looking smut at the gas station: I drive a almost 10 years old (this Thanksgiving) Toyota compact that still gets about 30 miles per gallon. I drive less than 150 miles per week.

So.. facebook

That's lots of things to do on those page. I've seen some of my friends' pages filled with all these gifts & toys, etc etc etc. Some are interesting (I like creating the rooms), some not so useful. The feature I like the most is "the wall", which allows me to just write bits & pieces, versus composing a full email. I am also finding long lost friends, & some surprises -- like Fr. Paddy, who comes from Irland to our church during summer; my college professor (should I add her to my list?)

I'm fed up with bad church music

I am now on Facebook (Long story, that will be another post). & this is a group I joined. The description is hilarious. I found myself nodding on many points (bold)

This group may be for you...

1. If you are of the opinion that Shine Jesus Shine, Here I Am, Lord, etc. are not the most beautiful church songs ever written.
2. If you think the "Mass of Creation" has had its day.

3. You actually kind of like the idea of singing chant and hymns. Gasp!

4. If you'd rather hear a pipe organ in church than a band or keyboard.

5. If you're dismayed that more than half of the music in many hymnals consists of uninspiring popular music.

6. If praise and worship music just doesn't do it for you.

7. If you think that "Polka Masses" and "Hip Hop Masses" are tacky.

8. If you get a kick out of a congregation trying to count all the sixteenth notes in "Be Not Afraid." I have someone in the CHOIR who does that!!

9. If you're a fan of the the St. Gregory Hymnal, the Hymnal 1940, the Hymnal 1982, "Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Canticles," the Australian Hymnal, the Adoremus Hymnal, or the Liber Cantualis.

10. If you love singing the psalms to Gregorian psalm tones or Anglican chant.

11. If you know what a neume is and can name several types. & most of my friends do as well. :)

12. If you're fed up with cantors drowning out the congregation. Being a cantor myself, I am fed up with people keep complaining I am not loud enough!!

13. If you want to play the chord of death when people cut early during the last hymn. What is "the Chord of Death"?

14. If you want to play the chord of death when the congregation won't sing the last hymn.

15. If you want to play the chord of death because the congregation won't sing ANYTHING.

16. If you know that the official "hymnal" of the Roman Catholic church is the Graduale Romanum, and not Gather. Gather is OK

Join our crusade to stamp out bad church music! No, we don't hate new music. Just bad new music. Let's keep our church music triumphant, sacred, awe-inspiring, worthy, and God-centered.

Lord of All Creations

Yahweh our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the world!
you have crowned him with glory and beauty, made him lord of the works of your hands, put all things under his feet, sheep and cattle, all of them, and even the wild beasts, birds in the sky, fish in the sea, when he makes his way across the ocean. Yahweh our Lord, how majestic your name throughout the world.

This woman found this lion hurt and about to die. She took him home and took care of him. When the lion was better she called the local zoo to come take care of him. This was the reaction she got when she visited the zoo and the lion saw her. It is beautiful.

Nun in garden

For whatever reason, I really like this picture.

Name Changing!

Well, I decided to change the name of the bloggs (double "g", or single?). plural because I also have one @ livejournal. Anyway... I thought, because this really isn't the offical blog or website for the SDCCC, & I am the only one around. The blog name & it's content should reflect the "non-official" status. In addition, this will give me more freedom to post whatever! Ha!