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  • Marian Consecration day 4 (November 8th)
    Imitation of Christ: Book 3, Chapters 40, 7
    That man has no good of himself, and that he cannot glory in anything
    Lord, what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You visit him? What has man deserved that You should give him Your grace? What cause have I, Lord, to complain if You desert me, or what objection can I have if You do not do what I ask? This I may think and say in all truth: "Lord, I am nothing, of myself I have nothing that is good; I am lacking in all things, and I am ever tending toward nothing. And unless I have Your help and am inwardly strengthened by You, I become quite lukewarm and lax. But You, Lord, are always the same. You remain forever, always good, just, and holy; doing all things rightly, justly, and holily, disposing them wisely.
    I, however, who am more ready to go backward than forward, do not remain always in one state, for I change with the seasons. Yet my condition quickly improves when it pleases You and when You reach forth Your helping hand. For You alone, without human aid, can help me and strengthen me so greatly that my heart shall no more change but be converted and rest solely in You. Hence, if I knew well how to cast aside all earthly consolation, either to attain devotion or because of the necessity which, in the absence of human solace, compels me to seek You alone, then I could deservedly hope for Your grace and rejoice in the gift of new consolation.
    ________
    He who wishes to be too secure in time of peace will often become too dejected and fearful in time of trial. If you were wise enough to remain always humble and small in your own eyes, and to restrain and rule your spirit well, you would not fall so quickly into danger and offense. When a spirit of fervor is enkindled within you, you may well meditate on how you will feel when the fervor leaves.
     
    Prayers
    Veni Creator Spiritus
    Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest,and in our souls take up Thy rest;come with Thy grace and heavenly aidto fill the hearts which Thou hast made.
    O comforter, to Thee we cry,O heavenly gift of God Most High,O fount of life and fire of love,and sweet anointing from above.
    Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known;Thou, finger of God's hand we own;Thou, promise of the Father,Thou Who dost the tongue with power imbue.
    Kindle our sense from above,and make our hearts o'erflow with love;with patience firm and virtue highthe weakness of our flesh supply.
    Far from us drive the foe we dread,and grant us Thy peace instead;so shall we not, with Thee for guide,turn from the path of life aside.
    Oh, may Thy grace on us bestowthe Father and the Son to know;and Thee, through endless times confessed,of both the eternal Spirit blest.
    Now to the Father and the Son,Who rose from death, be glory given,with Thou, O Holy Comforter,henceforth by all in earth and heaven. Amen.
    Ave Maris Stella
    Hail, O Star of the ocean,God's own Mother blest,ever sinless Virgin,gate of heav'nly rest.
    Taking that sweet Ave,which from Gabriel came,peace confirm within us,changing Eve's name.
    Break the sinners' fetters,make our blindness day,Chase all evils from us,for all blessings pray.
    Show thyself a Mother,may the Word divineborn for us thine Infanthear our prayers through thine.
    Virgin all excelling,mildest of the mild,free from guilt preserve usmeek and undefiled.
    Keep our life all spotless,make our way securetill we find in Jesus,joy for evermore.
    Praise to God the Father,honor to the Son,in the Holy Spirit,be the glory one. Amen.
    Magnificat
    My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,my spirit rejoices in God my Saviorfor he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
    From this day all generations will call me blessed:the Almighty has done great things for me,and holy is his Name.
    He has mercy on those who fear himin every generation.
    He has shown the strength of his arm,he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
    He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,and has lifted up the lowly.
    He has filled the hungry with good things,and the rich he has sent away empty.
    He has come to the help of his servant Israelfor he has remembered his promise of mercy,the promise he made to our fathers,to Abraham and his children forever.
    Glory Be
    Glory to the Father, and to the Son,and to the Holy Spirit:as it was in the beginning, is now,and will be forever. Amen.
    6 min
  • Marian Consecration day 3 (November 7th)
    Matthew 7:1—14 
    Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For with the judgment you make you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbor, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.
    Do not profane sacred things
    Do not give what is holy to dogs; and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.
    Effective prayer
    Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a snake? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
    The golden rule
    In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
    The two ways
    Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. For the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who find it.
     
    Prayers
    Veni Creator Spiritus
    Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest,and in our souls take up Thy rest;come with Thy grace and heavenly aidto fill the hearts which Thou hast made.
    O comforter, to Thee we cry,O heavenly gift of God Most High,O fount of life and fire of love,and sweet anointing from above.
    Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known;Thou, finger of God's hand we own;Thou, promise of the Father,Thou Who dost the tongue with power imbue.
    Kindle our sense from above,and make our hearts o'erflow with love;with patience firm and virtue highthe weakness of our flesh supply.
    Far from us drive the foe we dread,and grant us Thy peace instead;so shall we not, with Thee for guide,turn from the path of life aside.
    Oh, may Thy grace on us bestowthe Father and the Son to know;and Thee, through endless times confessed,of both the eternal Spirit blest.
    Now to the Father and the Son,Who rose from death, be glory given,with Thou, O Holy Comforter,henceforth by all in earth and heaven. Amen.
    Ave Maris Stella
    Hail, O Star of the ocean,God's own Mother blest,ever sinless Virgin,gate of heav'nly rest.
    Taking that sweet Ave,which from Gabriel came,peace confirm within us,changing Eve's name.
    Break the sinners' fetters,make our blindness day,Chase all evils from us,for all blessings pray.
    Show thyself a Mother,may the Word divineborn for us thine Infanthear our prayers through thine.
    Virgin all excelling,mildest of the mild,free from guilt preserve usmeek and undefiled.
    Keep our life all spotless,make our way securetill we find in Jesus,joy for evermore.
    Praise to God the Father,honor to the Son,in the Holy Spirit,be the glory one. Amen.
    Magnificat
    My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,my spirit rejoices in God my Saviorfor he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
    From this day all generations will call me blessed:the Almighty has done great things for me,and holy is his Name.
    He has mercy on those who fear himin every generation.
    He has shown the strength of his arm,he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
    He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,and has lifted up the lowly.
    He has filled the hungry with good things,and the rich he has sent away empty.
    He has come to the help of his servant Israelfor he has remembered his promise of mercy,the promise he made to our fathers,to Abraham and his children forever.
    Glory Be
    Glory to the Father, and to the Son,and to the Holy Spirit:as it was in the beginning, is now,and will be forever. Amen.
    6 min
  • Marian Consecration Day 2 (November 6th)
    Matthew 5:48, 6:1—15
    Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
    Prayer in secret
    And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
    How to pray. The Lord's Prayer
    When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.  Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
    Pray then in this way:
    Our Father, who art in heaven,
    hallowed be thy name;
    thy kingdom come,
    thy will be done
    on earth as it is in heaven.
    Give us this day our daily bread,
    and forgive us our trespasses,
    as we forgive those who trespass against us;
    and lead us not into temptation,
    but deliver us from evil.
     
    For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you;  but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
     
    Prayers
    Veni Creator Spiritus
    Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest,and in our souls take up Thy rest;come with Thy grace and heavenly aidto fill the hearts which Thou hast made.
    O comforter, to Thee we cry,O heavenly gift of God Most High,O fount of life and fire of love,and sweet anointing from above.
    Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known;Thou, finger of God's hand we own;Thou, promise of the Father,Thou Who dost the tongue with power imbue.
    Kindle our sense from above,and make our hearts o'erflow with love;with patience firm and virtue highthe weakness of our flesh supply.
    Far from us drive the foe we dread,and grant us Thy peace instead;so shall we not, with Thee for guide,turn from the path of life aside.
    Oh, may Thy grace on us bestowthe Father and the Son to know;and Thee, through endless times confessed,of both the eternal Spirit blest.
    Now to the Father and the Son,Who rose from death, be glory given,with Thou, O Holy Comforter,henceforth by all in earth and heaven. Amen.
    Ave Maris Stella
    Hail, O Star of the ocean,God's own Mother blest,ever sinless Virgin,gate of heav'nly rest.
    Taking that sweet Ave,which from Gabriel came,peace confirm within us,changing Eve's name.
    Break the sinners' fetters,make our blindness day,Chase all evils from us,for all blessings pray.
    Show thyself a Mother,may the Word divineborn for us thine Infanthear our prayers through thine.
    Virgin all excelling,mildest of the mild,free from guilt preserve usmeek and undefiled.
    Keep our life all spotless,make our way securetill we find in Jesus,joy for evermore.
    Praise to God the Father,honor to the Son,in the Holy Spirit,be the glory one. Amen.
    Magnificat
    My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,my spirit rejoices in God my Saviorfor he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
    From this day all generations will call me blessed:the Almighty has done great things for me,and holy is his Name.
    He has mercy on those who fear himin every generation.
    He has shown the strength of his arm,he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
    He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,and has lifted up the lowly.
    He has filled the hungry with good things,and the rich he has sent away empty.
    He has come to the help of his servant Israelfor he has remembered his promise of mercy,the promise he made to our fathers,to Abraham and his children forever.
    Glory Be
    Glory to the Father, and to the Son,and to the Holy Spirit:as it was in the beginning, is now,and will be forever. Amen.
    6 min
  • "Mass is so boring"
    “He has no need, as did the high priests, to offer sacrifice day after day, he did that once for all when he offered himself.”  Well, the natural question might be, then, “what in the world are we doing here offering a sacrifice? 
     
    It continues to be offered because the curtain has not dropped on this world.
     
     
    Assertion 1: we live in this strange in between time.  If the world had ended on Easter Sunday, that would have made sense to me.  Christ resurrects, and that’s the ball game folks.
     
    And yet it didn’t end.  We go on.  We’re still here.
     
    And this world in which we wait has been mapped out, engineered, measured, and digitized and quantified.  Your phone tells you your destination is .9 miles on the left.  We know the chemistry that is behind everything.  The northern lights are solar winds hitting our atmosphere at the right angle.  We have mapped out space and the orbits of the planets.  We know the weather coming our way – we tell ourselves we have subdued the earth.  To a dangerous extent, we believe we are in control
     
    We tell ourselves that we live in a world that has no room for magic nor the unexplainable
     
    But that is a lie. 
     
    The “Fear of the Lord” that we hear about in the first reading is a sort of awe toward God – a belief that God is in control, and if God is in control, then we are not, and if we are not, then the mapping of our world is not definitive.  There ARE, then, things that we can’t explain and there are things that we can’t control
     
    As Catholics, as I preached on All Saints Day, seeking God, seeking that relationship with Jesus is something we are called to do.  And at the same time, one of our most important aspects of our Faith as Catholics is, when really lived, it reminds us about the magical and enchanted nature of the world around us.  We call priests to have them whisper prayers of forgiveness over dying loved ones because we believe it forgives them their sins.  We believe that bread and wine become God.  We believe we have angels watching over us, that we can befriend dead saints from ages past, that we are tempted by demons, that pouring water on someone while saying the right prayer makes a person a son or daughter of God.  We believe that priests can, through prayers, drive out demons.  We have Masses in cemeteries, we have statues that weep, saints that bleed with the wounds of Christ, and believe the Blessed Mother has definitively appeared to people as the sun danced in the sky – to be Catholic is to believe that there is magic in the world.  Awe.  Surprise.  Mystery.
     
    But this…the Mass…is the source and summit of everything we do.  It is a participation in the one sacrifice of Christ.  And so we surround it with incense, music, architecture, vestments, beauty, Scripture, and silence
     
     
    So, then, what about the protest – “Father, that all sounds nice, but I find Mass really boring.”
     
    Here’s what G.K. Chesterton, the great convert to Catholicism said on the subject, and I think this is really important.  ““Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. [UNCLE JOHN]
    …For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”
     
    I would say, then, that if we are bored at Mass, then perhaps that is an indictment on us.  I think to whatever extent I may find myself bored at some particular Mass it is on me, and not something I can blame God for.  Something I need to examine my conscience about, not walk away from Catholicism over.  Perhaps it is my fault. Something I need to change.
     
    Perhaps those who say they are bored at Mass are also people who say they get bored with their spouse – the same old thing every day
     
    Perhaps those who say they are bored at Mass are also people prone to saying they are bored with their job.  Another day.  Another pay check.  Nothing interesting happening here today
     
    Perhaps those who say they are bored at Mass are also people who are bored with their same old kids.  Another day.
     
    Perhaps those who say they are bored at Mass are like some of my DePauw students, who literally have some of the best food in the world – I promise you’ve never seen anything quite like the food at DePauw – I would have been 500 pounds if I ate in their dining room in college – every food of every variety is there and it is all absolutely amazing – and some of them complain that it is always the same.
     
    If you really despise Mass or find it repetitive, are you that way with other things too?
     
    Would you appreciate your spouse, your children, your food, your job, would you appreciate them more if they were taken away?
     
     
    We come here for Mass tonight/today – probably close to the 7,000th of my life and close to the 5,000th of my priesthood – Christ HAS offered himself once perfectly, but the curtain hasn’t dropped on this world just yet. 
     
    Perhaps you struggle in the (quote) “awe of God” department.  Whatever in your life is telling you things are every boring or free of magic and power and infinity, get rid of it.
     
    Jesus tells us that a key to our salvation is becoming like little children.  In participating in this, the one sacrifice of Christ, may we, like children, cry out, over and over, until we depart this world forever – “DO IT AGAIN!”
    11 min
  • 029. Delta XIV Station

    Beyond The Dice is a Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Actual Play Podcast.

    Which takes place in a Cyberpunk world with a Synthwave Soundtrack.

    In this episode our Mercs take on some Boneheads in Delta XIV Station. They also hear from a familiar Cyborg.

    Come on a journey with Luke the DM, Jeff (Gaige), Ben (Cortaine), Peter (Spigs) and Travis (Little Moss) to experience the world of New Ettica.

    If you like Dungeons & Dragons, Akira, Stranger Things, Blade Runner, The Deus Ex video game series, hover cars and other rad stuff then you will love this.

    Special Thanks to NRW Records for allowing the use of 'Crystal Protocol' by Waveshaper.

    Other songs such as 'New Ettica Theme', 'The Corporation', 'DataLoop' by our DM Luke.

     

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    FUGUE Tracks:

    Music by Spaceinvader from Fugue

    Music by El Kirpitch from Fugue

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    1 hr 12 min

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