Tag: Saints

Grad School and Saint Bede

Posted May 24, 2019 in Faith, Life / 0 Comments

Today I am choosing to reflect on the life of the saint whose memorial we celebrate tomorrow. This saint is Saint Bede the Venerable. He lived in the end of the seventh century into the beginning of the eighth century. Bede was a monk who copied books and even authored his own commentaries on Sacred Scripture. He is the patron of scholars. (Franciscan Media)

I really don’t know much about Saint Bede beyond that. Reading the bit about his life that I did to write that opening paragraph, he sounds like he lived a pretty amazing life. As a patron of scholars, I feel like I owe him a big THANK YOU for surviving my graduate school courses. 

Yes, you read that right, I am done with my graduate school courses. I just have to pass my comprehensive exam at the end of the summer and then I will be issued my diploma in December. That comprehensive exam though, I will definitely need Saint Bede and Saint Thomas Aquinas to help me out with that.

I am working on a post about what has been up in my life since I last posted a year ago. Keep an eye out for that as I am hoping to have that ready by the end of the month.

How has your year been going so far?

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{F56} Divine Mercy in My Soul

Posted February 12, 2016 in Faith, Reading / 6 Comments

Divine Mercy in My Soul

I am currently reading Divine Mercy in My Soul, more commonly called The Diary, as part of my Lenten practices. I have read excerpts of The Diary before but this time, I intend to read the whole book. It is a rather large book with over 700 pages! This is primarily a book for spiritual reading and so I suspect that this book will take me quite some time to finish. Hopefully, by Easter (or at least Divine Mercy Sunday), I will be finished with my first reading of The Diary.

From Divine Mercy in My Soul: Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska by Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska (paragraph 56):

From the beginning I have been aware of my weakness. I know very well what I am of myself, because for this purpose Jesus has opened the eyes of my soul;
I am an abyss of misery, and hence I understand that whatever good
there is in my soul consists solely of His holy grace.

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{Review} Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives – The Story of Christmas

Posted December 24, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives – The Story of ChristmasJesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives by Pope Benedict XVI
Series: Jesus of Nazareth
Publisher: Image (2012)
Hardcover (127 pages)
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Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup, 2015 What's In A Name?, Read 2015

Synopsis

New York Times Bestseller! The momentous third and final volume in the Pope’s international bestselling Jesus of Nazareth series, detailing how the stories of Jesus’ infancy and childhood are as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago.
In 2007, Joseph Ratzinger published his first book as Pope Benedict XVI in order “to make known the figure and message of Jesus.” Now, the Pope focuses exclusively on the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ life as a child. The root of these stories is the experience of hope found in the birth of Jesus and the affirmations of surrender and service embodied in his parents, Joseph and Mary. This is a story of longing and seeking, as demonstrated by the Magi searching for the redemption offered by the birth of a new king. It is a story of sacrifice and trusting completely in the wisdom of God as seen in the faith of Simeon, the just and devout man of Jerusalem, when he is in the presence of the Christ child. Ultimately, Jesus’ life and message is a story for today, one that speaks to the restlessness of the human heart searching for the sole truth which alone leads to profound joy.

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