A little rant

+JMJ

So... on October 12th Fr. Robert Barron came and gave a great lecture at my uber liberal UCC College. He was talking about the life of John Henry Cardinal Newman and also a bit on the liberal conservative divide there is in the Church today. I recorded the entire thing (over an hour) and I would share with you if I could somehow get it hosted some place, but I am not that web savy. Afterwards, we had an ice cream social that got into some deep discussion. I also found out that I think there is only two Catholics on campus that think that homosexual relations and gay marriage are wrong. I am pretty sure I one of them.

So, a few weeks ago, I was at Mass with my mother and sister and I hadn't been to Mass last Sunday and I knew I could not recieve. My mother was quite mad at me afterwards and gave me that glare and said she wanted to talk to me afterwards. I hadn't done anything wrong (well, at least any worse) and when I explaind that I could not recieve because I was in mortal sin and hadn't confessed, she told me that I take this all too seriously! Recieving the Blessed Sacrament is not a right in any way... it is a gift, and one that we must prepare ourselves to receive always! I wish that we could educate everyone to realize this.

I've also come to realize that I have slowly been secularizing myself and letting myself slip into a bit of lethargy in keeping watch. I have learned that I have been way to loose with my money and now I have to pay about $2,000 for car repairs (my car started smoking as I was driving home this past weekend) plus I owe my mom $165 for towing my car to be fixed. I have maybe just over $2,000 right now, both in savings and in checking. I'm poor... :(

Well, that is about all I have to rant/share with you today. May God bless you all abundantly!

Lord, Thy Will Be Done!