“‘If you knew that on one of the stars there is a flower that wants to be tended by you, the whole sky would be different for you.’ [. ] This flower exists; the Lord is there on that star of ours, and the whole sky is different because we are expected.” #MorningBXVI.

RT @jennfrey: University of Tulsa students have started a petition to save their Honors College and have asked me to share with my follower….

“You think of all of the things you’ve seen.And you wish that you could live in between .And you’re back again.Only different than before”. A fitting song to have played when I arrived in St. Louis, and a fitting song to play as I depart .

RT @chadwifeyeet: “I asked chat gpt” “I asked grok” well I took a blood oath with a yeti priest in Colorado.

And with 19 hours to spare before departure, my dissertation arrived in the mail!

RT @AChillGhost: This is true and it's tragic but on the other hand we do have a twelfth century monastery in Upper Manhattan because we ju….

This would be the song that plays right as I finish the run…

One last run in Forest Park!

RT @jennfrey: I wrote about the lack of administrative support for the liberal arts in @nytimes. The standard story we hear is that student….

RT @FrKilleen287: As someone who went to seminary in New Orleans, I know it’s best to avoid any “blood oaths” whether it’s from a yeti or a….

I can’t put it off any longer—I’ve been holding off until the end to box up my Master and Commander novels, because what if I want to read one of them before I go?

RT @ect_catholic: The next installment of the Catholic Handbooks Series, Natural Philosophy: An Introduction, is now available for pre-orde….

The New York Post is the greatest newspaper in America. No one else can do headlines like this. Just sheer literary brilliance.

RT @BeSaintly: Real ones know about the fourth leg 🔫

Since we were getting to the end of the fiscal year and still had money, I decided to get a new Paschal candle for Catholic Studies. We, uh, definitely got our money’s worth from the old one

RT @SamSykesSwears: Blockbuster was just one part in a multi-step ritual celebrating the end of the working week. Rent a game, get a pizza,….

And, because welcome to Jesuit formation, even though we are coming up on 20 years since entrance, none of us have yet to actually profess final vows.

Of the 11 of us, six took first vows, five are Jesuit priests, one returned to the diocese, and two are priests in other orders (Theatines and Marians of the Immaculate Conception).

Oh man…cleaning out my room, and I found the bio sheet the vocations office made of my novitiate class. (I was one of four teenagers who entered my year, although I was 19 by the time I showed up)

Future theatre kid.

Not quite ready to throw out this sign