St. Augustine and Worship
I was just reading from St. Augustine’s City of God (quickly becoming one of my favorite books) for my class on the Early Church (without a doubt my favorite class this semester), and came across this beautiful passage (context: Augustine is dealing with the Platonists’ view that the beings we call angels should be worshipped as gods – Augustine refers to them here as “immortal and blessed beings”): [I]f the Platonists … had acquaintance with God, had glorified him as God and given thanks to him and had not ‘dwindled into futility in their thinking’ (Rom 1:21), and had not sometimes sponsored the erro

Pope Benedict XVI’s Prayer Intentions for November
General intention: That all the men and women in the world, especially those who have responsibilities in the field of politics and economics, may never fail in their commitment to safeguard creation. Missionary intention: That believers in the different religions, through the testimony of their lives and fraternal dialogue, may clearly demonstrate that the name of God is a bearer of peace.

What I’m Reading
City of God St. Augustine   We’ve just started reading this for my Introduction to the Early Church class.  I’m pretty excited about it – the first half of the semester was spent on Origen’s Contra Celsum, and the second half will be spent on City of God.  I think I read somewhere that my professor is somewhat of an expert

Archbishops and Baseball
The World Series started yesterday.  Now, baseball isn’t my favorite sport, but I like it more than I used to, and it’s certainly entertaining.  Here’s my issue with this year’s World Series though: I really couldn’t care less who wins.  It’s the Philadelphia Phillies vs. the New York Yankees, and I just don’t care.  I root for the Dodgers.  I really don’t like the Yankees, and the Phillies beat the Dodgers in the NLCS, so I can’t pull for either team.  However, there are a couple of archbishops who are much more interested in the outcome: Cardinal Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, and Arch

Piano Stairs: The Future.
When I’m older and have a house of my own, I’m doing this to the stairs: