Rick Steves

Those of you who knew me in undergrad know that I love Rick Steves. It's been 5 years since my last trip to Europe, and with the potential for travel in Europe on my horizon, I thought I'd check out his website again and see some of his updates. (Not to mention, I found out Rick Steve's son is here at ND).

I found the following videos which I thought were delightful, informative, and thought-provoking.

Travel as a Political Act

http://www.youtube.com/ricksteves#p/a/4057D3B4E1FA80B3/0/TJbv4BdrDzs

http://www.youtube.com/ricksteves#p/a/4057D3B4E1FA80B3/1/Wran4i-HLDw

http://www.youtube.com/ricksteves#p/a/4057D3B4E1FA80B3/2/fK6mKEV11bw

Bring on the Incense!

I've always loved the smell of incense at Church. To me- the more the merrier! Apparently, incense has healing properties.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8505251.stm

Bring on the incense!

Thanks for a prof of mine for mentioning this intriguing article.

Great Quote

Along the same lines of my more recent posts, I just got this quote in my inbox, courtesy of E-devotions from FUS:

“Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who asks us to place at the center of our lives love for him and for the people he has loved. It is especially adolescents and young people, who feel within them the pressing call to love, who need to be freed from the widespread prejudice that Christianity, with its commandments and prohibitions, sets too many obstacles in the path of the joy of love and, in particular prevents people from fully enjoying the happiness that men and women find in their love for one another.”

Pope Benedict XVI Family: Spiritual Thoughts Series, USCCB Publishing

Potpourri

This entry is going to be a hodgepodge of sorts.

First, a great quote which I found that relates to my last post:

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it careful round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers ... of love is Hell" (C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves).

Then - YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS!

The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist

are going to be on OPRAH This Tuesday!

http://sistersofmary.org/

MEETS

!!!!!!!!!!!!!