UPDATE: I found this A&E Discussion Board today via Open Book. There is plentiful discussion there concerning the show. Tell me what you think about the show in the comments here. I have yet to watch the first episode, but I had a friend tape it for me (I don't get cable at my home).
I was given the link to this video by my 'Understanding the Weather' professor a week ago, and I thought it was pretty amazing to see a huge steel drum implode so quickly and loudly as it did, simply because of internal and external temperature and pressure differences.
Today all the St. Louis Seminarians, and most of the priests of the St. Louis Archdiocese, celebrated the beginning of Holy Thursday at the New Cathedral at the Chrism Mass celebrated by Archbishop Raymond Burke. I've posted pictures of the event.
From the Sacramentary:
The bishop consecrates the chrism and blesses the other oils.
The newly baptized are anointed and confirmed with the chrism consecrated by the bishop.
Catechumens are prepared and disposed for baptism with the second oil.
The sick are anointed in their illness with the third oil.
I have posted a paper I wrote recently for my Historical Theology class at St. Louis University titled Mary: What Catholics Believe, on my Seminary website. Check it out, and let me know what you think!
"Star Wars Sandpeople spotted at Catholic Seminary!"
"For those stains that are really hard to remove..."
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Recently I recieved an email saying "It seems to me that Mac's are going through a process of self-discovery, something along the lines of, 'Gee... we want a larger market share, so let's go ahead and just do what Microsoft is doing, since we can't keep up...' " The person who emailed me also asked, "Jeff, if you're a Mac person, why don't you see this as selling out to 'The Man'?" To his email, I responded:
Because that's not Apple's strategy. Notice how Apple allows people to install Windows on their Macs, but they do not provide it... and there are a few disabled features if you run Windows (like the video camera and the cool media software.