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for you are my God, you are the one who feeds me with the everlasting bread of life. I love Sunday mornings, there is something sacred and beautiful about them. Sunday is a day of romance, it is the day where I fall deeper in love with my Savior, and it is the day he [...]
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Ave Maria
This evening at mass I took the body of Christ in my hands and I realized how blessed I am to be able to receive him without fear of harm to myself or my family. I was remarking to a friend that it is sad that I can go to mass [...]
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Tags: Chaldean Catholics, Mother of Sorrows, St Peter's Seminary Baghdad
enchante
enchanté
adj
enchanted (charmé, fasciné, captivé, séduit)
enchanté
adj
enthralled (ravi, séduit, captivé, fasciné, charmé)
enchanté
adj
enraptured (ravi, séduit, captivé, fasciné, charmé)
enchanté
adj
charmed (delighted)
enchanté
(très content)
adj
delighted (greatly pleased)
This has become my favorite new word for the past few days, for the sound and connotation remind in a way of the Holy Spirit, or shall I define, the feeling the overcomes when I am in [...]
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Tags: Beginnings, Holy Spirit
Peace
I am sitting at my new laptop in the mid-morning darkness of a day where the sky is dove grey in a grey dress from H&M sipping my jasmine tea. There is a bunch of lilies in a vase on my desk, fragrancing the room, listening to Tajci, and letting her love for the lord [...]
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Tags: Catholicism, Eucharist, Love, Tajci
Just Dance
Just Dance it’ll be ok…lady gaga croons these words straight into my soul. Sometimes I like to think of my relationship with God like a dance…sometimes we waltz, and sometimes we tango or cha-cha, it all depends on the day or the hour sometimes even the moment. When I sit in front of the tabernacle [...]
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I have my heels on.
I am have a job interview early this morning, and I shall admit I a little nervous and anxious. I want to write for Helen on Campus, which is a magazine, written for the women at Purdue. In my correspondence with the editor, I have gotten the impression she is very friendly. I am just [...]
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Tags: Helen on Campus, Job Interveiw, Purdue
wash my feet
Yesterday was Holy Thursday. Earlier in the day I burst into tears over my hot cocoa because I miss St. Leo’s and my family and it just didn’t seem like holy week without them. My family always goes to chruch on Holy Thursday and it is one of my favorite masses during the liturgical year–because [...]
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now i lay me down to study
Today was horrific, my schedule which is already ridiculous on tuesdays, was further abused with the placement of a math test at 6:30 in the evening. I was up till 2:30 am yesterday and again tonight the clock is ticking away in unmerciful diligence. If I had more energy I would cry. It is on [...]
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a conversation
joel 2:12-”yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning”
i am in a writing mood this afternoon, there is something about sundays, the peacefulness, the ingrained behavior of lounging on the couch back home and reading the washington post magazine, something i confess i still [...]
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