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Teresa of Avila Interior Castle

Saint Teresa of Avila: Online version of Interior Castle

Theresa of Avila

Starting a four week series on Teresa of Avila.

We will be playing a movie in Spanish with English subtitles. It’s sold through Ignatius Press.

 

Teresa’s writings:

• The "Autobiography," written before 1567, under the direction of her confessor, Fr Pedro Ibáñez;
• " El Camino de Perfección", written also before 1567, at the direction of her confessor;
• "Meditations on Song of Songs", 1567, written nominally for her daughters at the convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
• "El Castillo Interior", written in 1577;
• "Relaciones", an extension of the autobiography giving her inner and outer experiences in epistolary form.
• Two smaller works are the "Conceptos del Amor" ("Concepts of Love") and "Exclamaciones". In addition, there are "Las Cartas" (Saragossa, 1671), or her correspondence, of which there are 342 extant letters and 87 fragments of others. St Teresa’s prose is marked by an unaffected grace, an ornate neatness, and charming power of expression, together placing her in the front rank of Spanish prose writers; and her rare poems ("Todas las poesías", Munster, 1854) are distinguished for tenderness of feeling and rhythm of thought.

 

For more information on her writings goto Krishna and Amanda’s Amazon Store

You don’t pay a dime more than you would at Amazon, but we get a small commission that we use for supplies in our class.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Videos

From the Marian Congress in 2009 – http://www.mariancongress.org/en/video/index.html?curClip=mc_aste_en_part1

 

Added to the bible store

http://astore.amazon.com/pertiltheend-20?_encoding=UTF8&node=13

Just added the Study Bible and also the Bible Dictionary to the store.

Prayer to St Pius X

Prayer to St. Pius X

Glorious Pope of the Eucharist, Saint Pius X, you sought "to restore all things in Christ." Obtain for me a true love of Jesus so that I may live only for Him. Help me to acquire a lively fervor and a sincere will to strive for sanctity of life, and that I may avail myself of the riches of the Holy Eucharist in sacrifice and sacrament. By your love for Mary, mother and queen of all, inflame my heart with tender devotion to her.

Blessed model of the priesthood, obtain for us holy, dedicated priests, and increase vocations to the religious life. Dispel confusion and hatred and anxiety, and incline our hearts to peace and concord. so that all nations will place themselves under the sweet reign of Christ. Amen.

Saint Pius X, pray for me

Why be Catholic by a Jewish Businessman Sam Miller

Whole Article

http://www.kofc5253.org/kangaroo_journalism.htm

 

Summary Article

http://mamanash.blogspot.com/2008/03/being-proud-catholic.html

Spamdiculous

Now that I’ve tried the hamdiculous, it’s time for the Spamdiculous. . .

 

Pound of bacon, pound of pork & bacon sausage, jalapenos and the star of the show, TWO cans of SPAM with BACON!!!!

 

Weave the Bacon, and I’d recommend two pounds of bacon, one was stretching it.

Layer on the Jalapenos, seeds and all. I would recommend layering them all parallel so it’s easier to roll.

Spread on the sausage with bacon

I layered the spam on in slabs. I should have cut it into strips to make it easier to roll.

Roll it into a tube. This is where more bacon would make for a tighter weave.

I smoked it with some hickory. You can see that the spam would be better if it was cut into smaller pieces or ground before spreading.

In summary, I didn’t use any BBQ sauce this time. I should have layered the peppers parallel to each other and ground the spam into smaller bits. It tasted really good. I’m chilling it now so I can have slabs for breakfast.

Roman Missal Changes

The USCCB has allowed for us to view, print and prepare for the changes in the Liturgy. http://www.usccb.org/romanmissal/resources.shtml 

 

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Hamdiculous

So, you’ve heard of the bacon explosion, but I now show you the Hamdiculous!
1lb each of Bacon, Pork Sausage with Bacon, Ground Ham and some spice.

Weave the Bacon. Beer is used as a performance enhancing drug when making the Hamdiculous.

Sprinkle the Bacon.

Spread the Sausage with Bacon.

Spread the Ground Ham. I just cut disks.

I added a few medium hot peppers, for more awesomeness. If it’s just a man log, use habaneros.

Roll the log.

Smoke the log with hickory till it hits 165 degrees (or more if you are paranoid). I added a bit of Kansas City BBQ sauce the last hour for more awesomeness.

Slice into the deliciousness!

This was truly delicious off the smoker, but even better the next day with breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, second lunch, and dinner.