Best Commercial Evah!!

I love Honda. I love Honda CRVs. I love Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I love this commercial.

Almost eight years later, I still drive the 2001 Honda CRV I received at age 16 (to get to school and wherever my siblings were/ needed to go), which I now own, thanks to the stars aligning my gracious parents and my college graduation. A new CRV, though? I'm sure I'll need a new car eventually...



Seriously: WAY TO GO HONDA. And Matthew Broderick? You are still awesome.

Bring Sexy Back? Never!

"I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me. I feel uncomfortable. I’d never go out in a mini-skirt. It’s nothing to do with protecting the Hermione image. I wouldn’t do that. Personally, I don’t actually think it’s even that sexy. What’s sexy about saying, ‘I’m here with my boobs out and a short skirt, have a look at everything I’ve got?’ My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder."

-- Emma Watson

You Say That’s Exactly How This Grace Thing Works

Few things make me happier than people finding joy in their vocation.  I heard vocation aptly described a few days ago at my parish's "Ask a Priest!" night.

Vocation is
1. A call from God for a specific purpose
2. An answering of that call
3. The Church's acceptance of that call

Obviously there can be bigger and smaller vocation, which are both important, but Church acceptance is key. For example, one may feel called to be a prostitute, but that goes against Church teaching of honoring one's body and sex as an expression of a sacramental love between a man and a woman. Therefore, prostitution is not a vocation because God would never call a person to something that degrades their humanity. Furthermore, this is a good time to remind the studio audience that the Church does not exist for her own existence, but rather to evangelize the world for Christ and to bring all people into communion with him.

Here are some awesome Dominican novices from a nearby parish playing and singing Mumford & Son's "Roll Away Your Stone" for their Parents' Weekend last October:



I've been a busy bee (hence the Bright Maidens post delay... forgive me!) and am at the airport now, waiting for my plane to Georgia. Please pray for my safe travels!

Ron Paul or Rick Santorum: Whom Should Catholics Choose?

If you're a Catholic and seriously interested/ concerned about this election, please listen to what Tom Woods has to say, as a faithful Catholic and brilliant scholar:



See his website and the original post here.

Fellow Catholics, I know Santorum has a great pro-life record and strong personal morals, but that is not a reason to endorse him as President. We are shooting ourselves in the feet (both) if we remain so inconsistent in our choice of politicians and the issues at hand.

Three Little Pigs in Ye Olde English

We all need to vamp up our vocabularies, and not just for the GRE!



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