I have been working on a few different things on my websites, and on updating some pictures on the Cardinal Glennon College website. You probably noticed the new navigation bar at the top of this page - I hope that it will serve to unify the websites under the "Life is a Prayer" umbrella better than my past attempts. In the next month, I will try to place that bar at the top of all the different websites I maintain.
An excellent article on CatholicExchange.com addresses the great grace-giving gifts we have during this Lenten season of prayer and fasting. Indeed, these two spiritual weapons are two of the greatest in a Catholic's arsenal against sin and the Devil. From the article:
Through fasting we can gain that freedom and a deeper spirituality, a greater hunger for God. It is a tool that helps us obtain a closer walk with God. Through God’s grace it has the power to break the effect of concupiscence — the tendency to sin — and brings our flesh under submission. Prayer and fasting are largely overlooked as weapons to conquer addictions. But if you are struggling with persistent sins such as lust or gluttony, fasting is an effective way to help you rid these sins from your life.
Today is the solemnity of St. Joseph (husband of Mary, foster-father of Jesus). Since he is not only a great example for Catholic priesthood (he was probably the most devoted man (besides Jesus) ever to Jesus and to Mary!), but also one of my patron saints, I thought I'd offer his biography to anyone interested, as well as a picture:
I've returned to the seminary, and I have a few blog items to report:
I glanced at my web stats today, and noticed my daily visitors for the week went through the roof on Monday, with over 8,000 unique visitors from digg.com (and 39,000 total on that day)! I'm surprised my .Mac account was able to take that load (there's supposedly a 3 GB/month transfer limit... I hope I don't surpass that this month). The article that was 'dugg' was titled 'how to make a cheap portable greenscreen;' I wrote the article for my Computer Support website. I hope my sites are still up at the end of this month ;-).
I think it's going to be a great season for the Cardinals...
...both the baseball Cardinals and the flying kind alike! I just wonder why the male cardinals (the bright red ones) don't allow the female cardinals (the mostly greyish ones) more time on the feeders; it seems that the female hardly gets a few seeds before the male will fly in to get her off the feeder!