Put up or shut up, and other ramblings.

So between the Letter to the Editor in the most recent edition of my campus paper and a question my friend, "Sister" Allie, asked of a finalist for our college president, various LJs of my friends and I are hopping with discussions as to whether or not Aquinas is a Catholic college. Even a friend of mine, a Protestant who has many Catholic friends, sees AQ slipping further and further away from any vestiges of Catholicism.

So a thought just occurred to me. I am not a prophet and I would be scared pee-less if God made me one (unless I got to be one of the cool ones, like Elijah, Elisha, or Ezekiel,) but I was thinking about the rumors flying around about a Universal Indult{sp?} from the Holy Father. I think Christmas or any of the other Holy Days in this season would be prime time for such a document to be made public. Were the Holy Father to go so far as to totally toss out the Novus Ordo, I think that might be enough for AQ to officially break away from the Church. It would be almost impossible to celebrate a Tridentine Rite Mass in our current chapel. (To give an idea of the building, it was originally a stable for horses, and then it was a gymnasium.)

I just wish Bishop Hurley had spine enough to smack the administration here around. The Knights here are planning on appealing to him regarding the school refusing the recognize the Knights of Columbus (while recognizing and funding The Alliance....yeah, the campus is that messed up...) See, the Knights are a horrible organization by AQ standards because they don't admit women or non-Catholics. I'm good friends with the Grand Knight here, though, and one of my friends and I were thinking if we started a Ladies Axillary here (more commonly known as Catholic Daughters of the Americas. An older name is the Daughters of Isabella.) We're hoping that having that group in conjunction with the Knights might appease Senate and co. I was talking with the GK the other night and we were venting on the irony that blatantly anti-Catholic groups can exist on campus but one of the largest Catholic fraternal organizations out there can't. They can't even put the school name in their name, but a student stands for hours at a protest holding a sign that says "Aquinas Students for Choice" and that's OK. This college has been on an overall downward spiral the whole time I've been here, and I think the downward slope has gotten steeper this school year.

Where's my appetite lately? I haven't eaten jack and I'm not hungry at all. No wonder I look like I'm losing weight...(of course, anything positive said about my appearance only applies here; at home, you'd think I'm the Creature from the Black Lagoon for the comments made. Good thing I stopped caring a long time ago about THAT.)

I'm just glad the Theology department here is still orthodox. Still, though, I think they realize they're fighting an uphill battle.

Didn't post this on Live Journal because a) I think I've said my piece there. and b) I have hyper-sensitive friends who go ape if you criticize the Catholicism of Aquinas in the least little way. Overall, I'd say IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A CATHOLIC COLLEGE THAT IS ACTUALLY CATHOLIC, AQUINAS COLLEGE IS NOT FOR YOU!!! (Wish I knew a way to get Google to pick that up in a search on the school...)

Anyway...I should be studying 日本語. It's my first exam of finals week. Blah....and this is the first school year where I have no Theology classes! Sadness!!!

God bless you and Mary keep you! ^_^

Stuffs

jesusfreak84 took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! "Feels the situation is hopeless. Strongly resists ..." Click here to read the rest of the results.

Finnishing with some Advent links:

http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/Advent/index.htm

http://catholicculture.org/lit/overviews/seasons/Advent/

If {religon} = Catholic//then READ

Wow that was the worst fake-code I've ever written! XD XD XD

http://www.lumengentleman.com/content.asp?id=220

Hahahaha....we can't even get Wege to not serve meat on Fridays of Lent!

Wow....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoeQu6BYs4w in case the embedding code doesn't work.

Priceless!

http://rocketgirl.vox.com/library/post/an-open-letter-to-the-spider-lurking-somewhere-in-my-dorm-room.html

Woot!

Essential Classics of Catholic Spirituality

Essential Classics of Catholic Spirituality

The Curt Jester

The Curt Jester

The Cafeteria Is Closed

The Cafeteria Is Closed

The New Liturgical Movement

The New Liturgical Movement

KATH.NET - Katholischer Nachrichtendienst

KATH.NET - Katholischer Nachrichtendienst

Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.

Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.

Words Women Use: - luv_my_em_n_ty’s blog

Words Women Use: - luv_my_em_n_ty’s blog

Oh noes!

Straight rip from LJ, but details removed since this blog is publically viewable.

Just got this IM from Dad:

[23:13:18]*him*: got back from beginner band signup tonight. its on tues & thurs nights now.. only signed up 30 kids. things are not looking good for our beloved band program.




I cleaned up his typos. =-P


Why is this horrid? The band used to be the biggest bragging feature my middle school had. We competed in high-level competitions, and if we didn't win we sure didn't give it away. We went to Super-State when I was in 7th grade. We played high school level music and played it with a vengance and then some. Beginning band signups were a HUGE deal that ate up your Saturday because half of the kids in the school district, 4 elementry schools, were there. Maybe half of those dropped by the time high school rolled around, but dangit the interest was there, and band was considered a legitimate activity by all, as worthy of time, resources, etc. as any sport or academic subject. Then the band's director for 35 years retired. The new guy isn't the worst (though probablly the frutiest director I've met...) but he's still no prize, but according to Dad, it's the new middle school principal who's REALLY driving the program into the ground. This is the same lady (the principal) who ran the "gifted" program in my grade school when I was a kid, and I swear I think they put her there because she didn't have the skills to deal with "lesser" students, ie the non-genius ones. I did some things in ORE, but because of my sister (who's 4 grades behind me,) and I working the way we do, (more or less alone, keep to ourselves, and we tended to do things to how we thought we'd get the most out of it, less focused on the grade,) she really excluded us both from ORE activities when we were kids. Basically, she's one of those educators who does things her way, for her sake more than the students. She doesn't care what the band's done for so many students, the skills it gave us, and..just....grrr!!!! Middle school band was probably one of the best experiences of my young life and to see it in that state REALLY upsets me. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Think of one of the most sacred (outside of things actually religious) things from your childhood, and maybe you'll get an idea of what I'm going off about here. ~_~ Maybe for you it was karate, choir, a sport, whatever.


*Deep breath*

Guten Nacht / Oyasumenasai (methinks I spelled that right; my Japanese book prints some hiragana characters a bit odd and also really flipping small.)

Finding Trans-Intolerance

Finding Trans-Intolerance

Spero News | Lucifer letter to the ACLU

Spero News | Lucifer letter to the ACLU

Stalker.com much?

digg - USB flash drive that steals passwords in seconds

digg - USB flash drive that steals passwords in seconds

Alessandro Ali De Menech

Alessandro Ali De Menech

This child's mother is literally using this blog as a babybook, and the little tyke is SO ADORABLE!!!! ^_^ KAWAII!!!!!!!!

Link dump

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=46225

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7511

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7509 Fine by me; I won't miss it.

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/12006c.asp

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/aug/06083103.html

That'll do for now....