Those are all the titles for a magic trick that a friend taught me. I'd reveal how it's done but that's a big no-no in the world of magic tricks. Instead I will show you a video I found on youtube of the trick.
Solid Ground
You are Peter and on this rock I will build MY church and the gates of hell shall NOT prevail against it. - Matthew 16:18
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Sunday Snippets!!!
Sunday Snippets again! Go to This That and the Other Thing (which is also the name of a card trick I just learned.) and check it out!
My posts weren't really Catholic in nature but they both have poems I wrote (not reall good ones though) so I'm linking to them anyway.
One Hundred Posts!
On My Way Home
My posts weren't really Catholic in nature but they both have poems I wrote (not reall good ones though) so I'm linking to them anyway.
One Hundred Posts!
On My Way Home
On My Way Home and a Poem!
(I'm a poet and i didn't even...oh wait, I did know it.)
Well, I'm coming home from my sailing trip. To celebrate my return, I am posting a poem.
Looking out of my window,
I see the rain as it falls,
I sit and watch in the silence,
and listen to it's call.
It seems to speak in whispers,
Of a world I have never known,
And a girl who is waiting,
As the day draws to a close.
So I leave my post at the window,
my post in that dreary world,
And I go to my love who is waiting,
As the day draws to a close.
This poem was written on my flight from Vancouver to Victoria.
Well, I'm coming home from my sailing trip. To celebrate my return, I am posting a poem.
Looking out of my window,
I see the rain as it falls,
I sit and watch in the silence,
and listen to it's call.
It seems to speak in whispers,
Of a world I have never known,
And a girl who is waiting,
As the day draws to a close.
So I leave my post at the window,
my post in that dreary world,
And I go to my love who is waiting,
As the day draws to a close.
This poem was written on my flight from Vancouver to Victoria.
Monday, March 21, 2011
100 Posts! (and some poetry)
Well, one hundred posts. I think I should throw a party. To celebrate this monumentous occaision, I am posting from a computer in Vancouver. Actually, I'm posting from Vancouver because I'm on my way to Victoria fo a sailing trip. but that's pretty much the same...right? I discovered something today. When I'm over tired, I am really good at making poetry. That or I think I'm really good. Because I was sick and tired of all the snow everywhere, I wrote this poem.
It's in the rhyme scheme AA BB CC
Leaving Edmonton
The snow falls thickly on the ground,
It comes without a single sound,
But though it falls and has before,
I will never see it. No more!
For I am gone, as of today,
The wind shall carry me away.
More poetry on Saturday. (maybe)
It's in the rhyme scheme AA BB CC
Leaving Edmonton
The snow falls thickly on the ground,
It comes without a single sound,
But though it falls and has before,
I will never see it. No more!
For I am gone, as of today,
The wind shall carry me away.
More poetry on Saturday. (maybe)
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Sunday Snippets!
Sunday Snippets again! My posts are again of the number of two. Both posted a couple minutes ago. They are:
WCCHSC
Living Water College of the Arts
Go to This That and the Other Thing and put your blog on the list.
WCCHSC
Living Water College of the Arts
Go to This That and the Other Thing and put your blog on the list.
Living Water College of the Arts
What is Living Water College of the Arts? It is a college currently only offering summer programs, but with the grace of God it will hopefully be a three year degree granting college soon. They currently have three courses about to run: Iconography, Theatre - which I hope to be in - and Classical Painting. Many people had terrific things to say about Living Water.
Archbishop Thomas Colins of the Archdiocese of Toronto said, “The fact that the Living Water College of the Arts is being set up to provide for the spiritual, personal, intellectual and professional growth of students of the Arts, enabling them to give glory to God through their lives and works, is viewed by me as yet another source of hope for the world.”
Mark Mallet, a Canadian singer/songwriter said, “There are schools which teach art, and then are schools who teach artists to become the art. Living Water College is a rare academy which seeks to recover truth and beauty not only by what we paint, write, or perform, but by the spirit which is behind it. I wholeheartedly support the mission and endeavours of this college.”
For more information go to their website: http://www.livingwatercollege.com/
That's all for now.
Archbishop Thomas Colins of the Archdiocese of Toronto said, “The fact that the Living Water College of the Arts is being set up to provide for the spiritual, personal, intellectual and professional growth of students of the Arts, enabling them to give glory to God through their lives and works, is viewed by me as yet another source of hope for the world.”
Mark Mallet, a Canadian singer/songwriter said, “There are schools which teach art, and then are schools who teach artists to become the art. Living Water College is a rare academy which seeks to recover truth and beauty not only by what we paint, write, or perform, but by the spirit which is behind it. I wholeheartedly support the mission and endeavours of this college.”
For more information go to their website: http://www.livingwatercollege.com/
That's all for now.
WCCHSC
Well, my apologies for not posting sooner. My week was very hectic with getting ready for a play tomorrow and also, the Western Canadian Catholic Home-Schooling Conference. The WCCHSC is a conference for Catholic homeschoolers and people who are thinking of homeschooling. There is daily mass, perpetual adoration, and there are confessions on the second day. This year we had a bunch of speakers from the Alberta area. Last year, we had Joseph Pearce come and speak. Next year, we will have Andrew Pudewa the director of the Institute for Excellence in Writing come and speak. If it sounds like I'm wildly promoting this, it's because it is a very great conference to go to. It's not at all related to the fact that I'm on the organizing team there. If it wasn't enough to have mass, adoration, confession, and such great speakers, we also get a lot of vendors selling homeschooling supplies and books. There was also a table for Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy - where I eventually hope to go to - and Living Water College of the Arts - which I will have more about later. I even managed to get ahold of a copy of Unplanned from one of the vendors. Thanks RAnn for the good review of the book.
That's all for now
That's all for now
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Sunday Snippets
It's Sunday Snippets time again. Also, this time I remembered to give the link to the wonderful blog that Sunday Snippets is hosted at. This That and the Other Thing. Go check it out, unless you just came from there, in which case do what you want.
I'm very happy because half of my posts have a religious theme this week. I do only have two posts but that's just a minor detail.
The Fraternity of St. Genesius.
This post is about the Fraternity of St. Genesius, which I just joined today. I'd been meaning to join it for a while but for some weird reason the registration process never worked on my computer. Well, I was at my Grandma and Grandpa's house and I thought maybe it would work on their computer. It did, so now I am a member of the fraternity of St. Genesius. Now, onto what this post was originally going to be about. The Fraternity of St. Genesius is..well..I think I'll just cheat and steal from the website.
The Fraternity of St Genesius was founded on 19th January 2007 in Drogheda, Ireland, and was formally approved as a Catholic Private Association of The Faithful on 27 August of the same year. The Fraternity was founded in response to the calls of the Servant of God, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI for the renewal of culture, and as a means of supporting the men and women of the theatrical and cinematic arts through spiritual accompaniment.
As the Church has always understood, and as iterated by the Second Vatican Council, the Church is missionary by nature and she has a deep concern for all men and women whom she sees as the children of God and who are called to come to know and love him. In response to this, the Church preaches the Gospel in the modern world and looks to every area of human life to see Christ’s presence and then seeks to make that presence known to those who inhabit or work within those areas so they may also recognise the presence of the Lord, know that they are not alone and that they are called to know Christ, to seek his Face, to achieve holiness in their daily lives and be received into his kingdom. It is this teaching which is at the heart of the Fraternity’s mission.
While the Church sends her missionaries to go out into the world to preach and bear witness to the Gospel, she also needs all of her children not only to accompany these missionaries and those to whom they are going through frequent and fervent prayer and through the merits of their sacrifices, but also to become missionaries themselves even within their homes and communities. The Fraternity aims to participate in the fulfilment of both of these expectations. Recognising the challenges and at times difficulties experienced by those who work in the theatrical and cinematic arts, she first of all offers to them the prayers and spiritual support of her members so they may recognise the light which God has entrusted to them for the sake of Christ, the Gospel and the joy of humanity.
While we all know the famous, most of those who work in these areas are unknown and far from wealthy; much of their time is spent looking for work and for many the reality of a career in acting or production may not be realised. Those who are famous have other problems to face as they are forced to live their lives under constant scrutiny and are at times expected to live up to a level of celebrity which may be alien to their deepest desires and hopes, or which may challenge the values they would like to emulate in their lives. The demands of fame may lead them in directions they would not ordinarily like to go or seduces them into a way of living which will ultimately prove fruitless or even destructive. Acknowledging these difficulties, the Church urges the men and women of the theatrical and cinematic arts to see the presence of Jesus Christ in their lives and work and to orientate themselves towards him and his will in order to find the unique dignity of their calling, support in their hardships and indeed the responsibility which has been placed on their shoulders as missionaries of the Gospel themselves: the Fraternity seeks to assist the Church in this pastoral mission through the spiritual offering of her members.
Coupled with this, members of the Fraternity also seek to work for the renewal of culture. Theatre and, most particularly, cinema and the media are the most powerful and influential institutions in the world today and are areas in which the Gospel must also be heard and lived. Both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have emphasized the importance of culture in the world and the proper place it occupies in promoting the Gospel. In this spirit the Fraternity seeks to play its part in the renewal of culture chiefly through prayer and sacrifice, but also in the promotion of Christian culture and ideas. In recent years there has been a renaissance in Christian productions; many fine movies have emerged, some with explicitly Christian themes; and this is to be applauded and supported.
As the Fraternity was being founded it made its own the words of Pope Paul VI given to the men and women of the cultural arts during a Papal Audience in 1967 which reveal the motivation for our prayer and action:
"It is a fact that when you writers and artists are able to reveal in the human condition, however lowly or sad it may be, a spark of goodness, at that very instant a glow of beauty pervades your whole work. We are not asking of you that you should play the part of moralists. We are only asking you to have confidence in your mysterious power of opening up the glorious regions of light that lie behind the mystery of man's life"
Also, just pretend that you read this on Thursday when this was supposed to be posted.
The Fraternity of St Genesius was founded on 19th January 2007 in Drogheda, Ireland, and was formally approved as a Catholic Private Association of The Faithful on 27 August of the same year. The Fraternity was founded in response to the calls of the Servant of God, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI for the renewal of culture, and as a means of supporting the men and women of the theatrical and cinematic arts through spiritual accompaniment.
As the Church has always understood, and as iterated by the Second Vatican Council, the Church is missionary by nature and she has a deep concern for all men and women whom she sees as the children of God and who are called to come to know and love him. In response to this, the Church preaches the Gospel in the modern world and looks to every area of human life to see Christ’s presence and then seeks to make that presence known to those who inhabit or work within those areas so they may also recognise the presence of the Lord, know that they are not alone and that they are called to know Christ, to seek his Face, to achieve holiness in their daily lives and be received into his kingdom. It is this teaching which is at the heart of the Fraternity’s mission.
While the Church sends her missionaries to go out into the world to preach and bear witness to the Gospel, she also needs all of her children not only to accompany these missionaries and those to whom they are going through frequent and fervent prayer and through the merits of their sacrifices, but also to become missionaries themselves even within their homes and communities. The Fraternity aims to participate in the fulfilment of both of these expectations. Recognising the challenges and at times difficulties experienced by those who work in the theatrical and cinematic arts, she first of all offers to them the prayers and spiritual support of her members so they may recognise the light which God has entrusted to them for the sake of Christ, the Gospel and the joy of humanity.
While we all know the famous, most of those who work in these areas are unknown and far from wealthy; much of their time is spent looking for work and for many the reality of a career in acting or production may not be realised. Those who are famous have other problems to face as they are forced to live their lives under constant scrutiny and are at times expected to live up to a level of celebrity which may be alien to their deepest desires and hopes, or which may challenge the values they would like to emulate in their lives. The demands of fame may lead them in directions they would not ordinarily like to go or seduces them into a way of living which will ultimately prove fruitless or even destructive. Acknowledging these difficulties, the Church urges the men and women of the theatrical and cinematic arts to see the presence of Jesus Christ in their lives and work and to orientate themselves towards him and his will in order to find the unique dignity of their calling, support in their hardships and indeed the responsibility which has been placed on their shoulders as missionaries of the Gospel themselves: the Fraternity seeks to assist the Church in this pastoral mission through the spiritual offering of her members.
Coupled with this, members of the Fraternity also seek to work for the renewal of culture. Theatre and, most particularly, cinema and the media are the most powerful and influential institutions in the world today and are areas in which the Gospel must also be heard and lived. Both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have emphasized the importance of culture in the world and the proper place it occupies in promoting the Gospel. In this spirit the Fraternity seeks to play its part in the renewal of culture chiefly through prayer and sacrifice, but also in the promotion of Christian culture and ideas. In recent years there has been a renaissance in Christian productions; many fine movies have emerged, some with explicitly Christian themes; and this is to be applauded and supported.
As the Fraternity was being founded it made its own the words of Pope Paul VI given to the men and women of the cultural arts during a Papal Audience in 1967 which reveal the motivation for our prayer and action:
"It is a fact that when you writers and artists are able to reveal in the human condition, however lowly or sad it may be, a spark of goodness, at that very instant a glow of beauty pervades your whole work. We are not asking of you that you should play the part of moralists. We are only asking you to have confidence in your mysterious power of opening up the glorious regions of light that lie behind the mystery of man's life"
Also, just pretend that you read this on Thursday when this was supposed to be posted.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
A Flash Mob!
I'm really excited, because in three days I am going to do a flash mob at a college here in Edmonton. It is with the people from Edmonton Musical Theatre. We are going to be singing Lean On Me. I'd say what college but then people who go to it might find out.
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