I'm a holy man minus the holiness.--E. M. Forster

(Hat tip to The Ironic Catholic"!)

Sancte Michael Archangele,

Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio;
contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium.
Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur:
tuque, Princeps militiae Caelestis,
satanam aliosque spiritus malignos,
qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo,
divina virtute in infernum detrude.
Amen.

(Hat tip to The American Catholic!)

Saturday, August 25, 2012

RIP Neil Armstrong



I remember this watching in at my grandfather's Summer Bungalow in Massepequa, NY back in 1969! Too bad the era ended SO quickly!!

Réquiem ætérnam dona ei  Dómine; et lux perpétua lúceat ei. Requiéscat in pace. Amen. 

Friday, August 17, 2012

He's out of my life...

Thursday morning my daughter's boyfriend, died in his sleep of heart failure. I first met him on Thanksgiving 2006. It was an Ann Landers moment, where your daughter brings home a person you rather she didn't. I kept my mouth shut while he acted like he shouldn't. I felt like Archie Bunker must've felt when he first met the meathead. (Heck, I had him in my phone as "Carne Cabeza"!)

He did enjoy Thanksgivings with us. I remember a time on the Thanksgiving of 2008 when we played a family football game in the front yard ala the Kennedys. He enjoyed it as did we all.

He was an only child and was 14 years older than my daughter. He wasn't a bad sort, just undisciplined and goofy. At times, he was a pain in the neck. His passing was a shock for someone so young yet it was something you could see coming!

Here's a video of him messing around with dead lifts this past July 4th.


Anyway, I hope he's at some form of peace. I think he wanted to do the Catholic thing, but found it hard.

Réquiem ætérnam dona ei  Dómine; et lux perpétua lúceat ei. Requiéscat in pace. Amen.

(They say death comes in threes. First, my brother-in-law, now him. Who's next?)

Sunday, August 5, 2012

And when I die...

PLEASE do NOT have OLD women being altar servers at any Mass or memorial service for me!!