¡Viva Cristo Rey!

text convo between Stephen and Jeff

Jeff:

Regina caeli laetare, alleluia! 
Quia I woke up at 5 this morning, alleluia! 
Resurrexi for some reason, alleluia! 
Ora pro somno Deum, Alleluia!

Stephen (several hours later):

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I didn’t read this properly until just now!

Jeff:

And after 4 hours, I think the appropriate response is: “Gaude et laetare for me too because I’m still half asleep, alleluia!”

"I woke up at 5 AM this morning because the dewfall descended upon me like the dewfall."

My friend Jeff, after sleeping outside in a hammock

#thingsCatholicssay

It's 2pm.

"

I’m as corny as Kansas in August,
I’m as normal as blueberry pie.
No more a smart little girl with no heart,
I have found me a wonderful guy!

I am in a conventional dither,
With a conventional star in my eye.
And you will note there’s a lump in my throat
When I speak of that wonderful guy!

I’m as trite and as gay as a daisy in May,
A cliché comin’ true!
I’m bromidic and bright
As a moon-happy night
Pourin’ light on the dew!

I’m as corny as Kansas in August,
High as a flag on the Fourth of July!
If you’ll excuse an expression I use,
I’m in love, I’m in love,
I’m in love, I’m in love,
I’m in love with a wonderful guy!

“A Wonderful Guy” - South Pacific

"Death is swallowed up in victory.
Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?"

1 Corinthians 15:54-55

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

Gandalf

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."

G.K. Chesterton (via leanunachriost)

(Source: eternallyadoring, via sweetandlovelygirl7)

"

Fiat fiat fiat. Initial potential energy is anathema!

…Unless it’s easier for final potential energy to be anathema!

Stephen

Only in Vanderbilt Catholic…

"If I had any dignity, that would have been humiliating."

Adam Savage

(Source: sparklyfaerie)

"I never have any difficulty believing in miracles, since I experienced the miracle of a change in my own heart."

St. Augustine (via pilesofbooks)

(Source: ephremhiphop, via sweetandlovelygirl7)

"‘Do not be afraid,’ Elijah said to her. ‘Go and do as you propose. But first make me a little cake and bring it to me.’"

1 Kings 17:13

The Bible is funny.

Advice to myself for (at least) the next week:

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where “their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.”

Mark 9:43-48

It does not say, “If your hand causes you to sin, try to compromise with it or see if you can make it work or just pretend it’s not there.” NO. CUT IT OFF. 

Yeah, it’s gonna hurt. Yeah, maybe you’ll miss out on some stuff. But guess what—good feelings and temporary happiness are awesome, but they are not God.

"Younger than springtime, are you.
Softer than starlight, are you.
Warmer than winds of June
Are the gentle lips you gave me.
Gayer than laughter, are you.
Sweeter than music, are you.
Angel and lover, heaven and earth,
Are you to me."

“Younger than Springtime” South Pacific