According to the Reap Team (a St. Louis Youth Office ministry teaching about chastity to teens), Archbishop Burke has listened to the Priestie Boyz on the iPod they gave him as a gift for Christmas. Check out the Priestie Boyz' album, Lost in Ecstasy.
Put Lost in Ecstasy on your own iPod (for less than $10!).
In trying to familiarize myself with my new Nikon D40 SLR, I went in and around the Seminary this morning, snapping a few pictures and testing some of the features of the D40. I was extremely pleased with the results, and I'll share some of the pictures with you here. (You can find a lot more of the pictures I took this morning on my Seminary Pictures page).
1/125, f/5.6, ISO 200 (cropped, lightened)
I received the Nikon D40 digital SLR camera I ordered this afternoon, but only had time today to charge the battery, then take a few test pictures, with and without my Vivitar 285 flash and my .66x wide-angle conversion lens [B&H].
As I am reflecting on God's gift of life this day, I also am extremely proud to become an uncle (for the first time!) of the baby in the above ultrasound, whose name is Joseph. He seems to be doing well in the womb, and obviously wants us to know how much he likes soccer by his repeated kicking (so says my sister...).
I think it is important for anyone who calls himself a supporter of God's gift of life to try to educate himself to the greatest extent possible on life issues, and the biological, moral, philosophical and theological reasons for supporting life from natrual conception until natural death.
Two weeks ago, my Canon PowerShot S2 IS died (the shutter would no longer open, even after I performed about six different resuscitation methods). After discovering the cost of repair was a little too high (almost $200!), I thought to myself, "Well, why don't you take a crack at seeing what's wrong?"
Bad idea.
As you may surmise from the above picture, I was able to take apart practically every part of the S2 IS. However, I think I finally decided there was no chance of my repairing the camera, or even putting it back together, after I accidentally broke the itty-bitty microphone wires, then dropped two microscopic screws (until that time, I was carefully documenting where all the screws went...).
There's a new section on Kenrick-Glennon Seminary's website which includes many high-resolution, copyright-free scans of religious and biblical etchings, from many different sources. You can browse through all the pictures and download the original high-res scans to use for anything you'd like!
There's also a section with an online version of the Holy Way of the Cross, with beautiful etchings and meaningful reflections on all fourteen stations, which you can browse online whenever you'd like.