Go to confession

Don't Watch This On A Full Stomach.

The full video is torturous - a kind of Catholic waterboarding:

Deacon Sandy at the Good Shepherd Catholic Church, Menomonee Falls.

True beauty pleases the eye and the mind – but can it help us to become better people?

Beauty has its effect.  It can move us and evoke emotion.  We know beauty when we see it and when we witness by the way we feel.  When beauty is absent do we recognize that we're missing something?  After attending the Tridentine do you feel you're missing something at the NO?

http://aeon.co/magazine/altered-states/can-beauty-help-us-to-become-better-people/

First blog post.  Sharing winter reading.

Flannery O'Connor's Prayer Journal.  This an excellent, short read.  Blunt, humble and honest, O'Connor offers her struggles and wishes.  The young O'Connor asks for God's assistance to write and to pray. 

This amazon link is provided as a link to learn more of the book, not an endorsement of amazon.  Please purchase at a small local book shop.

http://www.amazon.com/A-Prayer-Journal-Flannery-OConnor/dp/0374236917