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There’s some Sundays where you just look at the readings and ask yourself, “what the heck is this doing here?”, and unsurprisingly, this is one of those Sundays. Right off the bat, we start off with a passage from the Song of Solomon. It may sound familiar—part of it is sometimes read at weddings: “Arise,…
This week, I’ve been working my way through the extended editions of Peter Jackson’s the Hobbit Trilogy. And yes, for those of you wondering, these are the infamous movies, clocking in at 4 hours each, all sourced from one book by J.R.R. Tolkien. I love them, and the book they’re based on. At the conclusion…
I don’t know about you all, but it is Olympic season in my household. I almost never watch TV, let alone follow sports… but as soon as the Olympics roll around every two years, I turn into a sport fanatic, TV-always humming in the background. I love watching favorite events, like gymnastics and soccer, or…
At age 21, I graduated from college, packed up my dorm room, and after storing most of my belongings in the garages of very generous friends, I flew to Boston to begin a service year, living alongside a monastic community. A big part of the internship was just keeping the same schedule that the brothers…
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