Leo X + Pieta + Las Culebrinas

MASS - (Fr Joseph) — Andrew the Apostle – known as the introducer. 

NO PHILOSOPHY CLASSES — Fr Santos is out of town.

ARTS & IDEAS – (Fr Vallee) — modern philosophers.  Renaissance popes Sixtus IV (Sistine Chapel), Alexander VI (Borgia – nepotism), Julius II (warrior) and Leo X (Medici). Michelangelo’s Pieta.  Our chapel’s murial — zodiac references.

MIAMI DINNER — today Fr Manny took all the Miami seminarians out to dinner to a fancy local Cuban restaurant Las Culebrinas.  Great food and even better desert.

DOTS — “bread shark” — grass smell

must read Bible

I stumbled upon this graphic while looking for a grocery list [it's my new Pre-T house job to keep food stocked].  It instantly reminded me of one of my favorite Scripture passage, that I would teach on the first day of 7th grade Pre-Confirmation classes.  Hebrews 4:12-13 says,

Indeed,the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. ¹³And before him no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes of the one to whom we must render an account.

I also recall a newsflash I read in the Florida Catholic this week about Pope Benedict XVI urging Christians must read the Bible.  He highlighted St Jerome’s famous line, “ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”  — we can never say it enough