Where words fail...

Music can pick up the slack. I'm listening to EWTN Radio right now, and they are playing the piece in my Current Music. We did this song my first semester here in College Chorus. At the time, I didn't really apprciate how beautiful the piece really is. Now, however, it fits perfectly. I'm going to snag the library's copy tomarrow and slap it onto my hard drive. (iTunes may have it, but I don't have enough in checking right now for that kind of thing.)

Just a lot of weird thoughts today, the biggest being "What's next?" I've been asking that question about almost everything these last few weeks. Kicked from the SoE, what's next? Mom doesn't want me to come back to Aquinas if I'm not going to be a teacher, what's next? What do I do with being half-done with college? Now the Pope's gone, what next? What next for the Church? I almost feel bad for the next Holy Father, because he has big shoes to fill. I really hope it's true what I hear, that the cardnals who are electing this next Pope are even more conservative than those who elected the late JPII. I fear some on the fringe of the Church may see John Paul's death as a good thing, because they feel that impediments to whatever, women/married priests, whatever, will be removed with a new Pope. I hope our new Pope is as wonderfully orthodox as JPII, and will stand firm against any and all that may try to attack the Church, seeing this time of transition as a moment of weakness.

I think this post, from a OneRocker, captures things well: http://hombre.diary-x.com/journal.cgi?entry=20050402

OK, my brain hurts and I need to make another round anyway (I'm at work.)

Bis Spater!