HEPCAT--

Listen to more HEPCAT.
That's all.

Some More Books to Brag About & A New Picture of Me!! ♥

The past two weeks or so have seen me inundated with an amazing array of great reading material!
In addition to a shit ton of magazines & journals, I've been blessed with some mighty fine books.

Here is a partial list, which also includes some older books I've yet to read fully.
I did get thoroughly into a book I picked up several weeks ago, "Petrus Romanus: the Final Pope is Here"  by T. Horn & C. Putnam.   Despite it's obvious anti-Catholic bigotry, it's very interesting and an exciting read!

Some Awesome Quotes--

"The Lord has shown that we cannot have the good work of perfect love if we only love those from whom in turn we know the return of mutual love will be paid in kind.  Hence the Lord wishes us to overcome the common law of human love by the law of Gospel love, so that we may show the affection of our love not only toward those who love us but even toward our enemies."

  - St. Chromatius of Aquileia (d. 406)

"It is certainly a finer and more wonderful thing to change the mind of enemies to another way of thinking than to kill them... The mystery [of the Eucharist] requires that we should be innocent not only of violence but of all enmity, however slight, for it is the mystery of peace."

  - St. John Chrysostom (347 - 407)

R.I.P. to my beautiful & awesome Grandmother--

Mi abuela!  An incredibly generous & beautiful woman, who passed away yesterday at the age of 93.
She lived a full & amazing life.  I hope she is reunited with my Papi, who passed away thirty years ago.  And they are both comforted by the amazing beauty of our Lord & Savior, Jesus the Christ.  No regrets and little sadness.  Mostly I feel blessed to have her generosity & love all these years.
Here I'm posting a photo of her when she was a beautiful young heartbreaker in Bogota, Colombia.

My father flew to Bogota this morning.  I wish I could be there for her memorial & funeral, but it's just not possible. I will, however, pray for her soul in front of & with the company of, Jesus Christ tomorrow evening when I spend an hour with Him in front of the Blessed Sacrament at Eucharistic Adoration.  And of course, she is always in my prayers.  R.I.P. abuela.  I love you.  m//r

"UNEARTHED: A SHORT FILM" by Dalang Films // Independent Science Fiction

    [An excellent independent sci-fi film. Great ending!! ♥ m//r]


 

The Pain..... (an original poem & a SOIA song with it...)

.....it still lingers.  It probably won't  ever  go  away.
It's like a blanket I wear around me, all the time.
It's heavy. 
It hurts.
There is no "out."
What do others do?
What do YOU do?
My uncle took his life in 2011.
Some say he didn't end his pain.
He just passed it along to others.
I don't think he had the answer.
Who does?
What is it?
I look in the mirror & I see nothing.
Empty.
The Mirror of Emptiness.
It's gone.
It fled.
It left me behind.
The pain it still lingers.
God knows. 
God knows it still lingers.

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this sums it all up...SOIA  SICK OF IT ALL

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Annunaki Don't Watch this Film!!! (great short documentary movie!!!)