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This morning, I woke up to a beatiful dusting of snow. Pictures can't do justice to the beauty of a fresh snowfall, but I thought I'd offer one anyway:

Also, Jeffery BeBeau of the blog Orate Fratres has posted a few pictures of different seminary chapels. As he says in his posting, "Seminary chapels always seem to be beautiful edifaces; they are designed to be the very heart of seminaries." I couldn't agree more! Check out his post here.

I have added a new section, 'Top Posts,' on my sidebar, linking to some of my past blog posts that were best. I also changed the headlines for stories; instead of SHOUTING IN ALL CAPS, they are now quite tame, 'As a Normal Headline Should Be.' (I have been working on making my site a little more like the ideals outlined on this webpage).

Please pray for my mother, who has been having some back pain and leg pain recently, and for a brother seminarian, whose cousin has recently died.

EDIT: Well, the Steelers won 21-10, but that's okay–as long as the Rams didn't lose...

Some reflections on the Super Bowl (at halftime

• Best Commercial: The FedEx stone-age commercial (although the 'magic fridge' by Budweiser was also fairly funny...).
• Who will win: I still say the Seattle Seahawks (I know, they're losing 7-3... but they will dominate the 2nd half).
• The Halftime Show: I didn't know the point of this year's halftime show was to make it worse than last year's fiasco. Message to media people: The Rolling Stones are dead. They have stopped rolling—a long time ago. If you haven't seen the halftime show, don't watch it (for your own good).

One last observation: It seems that most companies think you need to put a 'token unrealistically attractive woman' in their commercials to make them funny. But, I imagine, the top three commercials (as rated by the public) will be ones without the token unrealistically attractive women.

Sister Eva-Maria, FSGM, of Office of Youth Ministry fame, has recently started a new blog, Stewards of God's Mysteries, in which she discusses vocations to the priesthood. Check it out !

In other news, the priestie boyz have been practicing for Couch Potatoes (our annual Seminary variety show), and the Super Bowl is tonight (my bets are on Seattle - I've never been a fan of Pittsburgh).

A few days ago, some Seminarians and I were watching Finding Forrester, and one of the Seminarians found this website. It amazes me that someone actually paid to register the domain www.yourthemannowdog.com, but it's amusing, nonetheless.

I've started reading Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical, Deus Cartias Est, and it is a very well-written, and very inspirational work! I am overjoyed that our new pope is continuing and developing some of the main issues approached in Pope John Paul II's papacy, especially love (what this encyclical's all about!).

From the second paragraph:

We have come to believe in God's love: in these words the Christian can express the fundamental decision of his life. Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction. (Read more...)