Conversations with David

I recently had this text-conversation with David.


Me: 1 Thess 5:25

David: 1 Thess 5:28

Me: 1 Thess 5:24; 2 Thess 1:3a

David: Romans 1:12; 1 John 4:19

Me: Romans 8:35; 1 John 5:14

David: Matthew 7:7-11

Me: John 11:41

Me: 3 John 14; Jude 2

David: Philippians 4:19 & 23; 3 John 14

I love having Catholic friends

From Let Me Be Catholic

Emily

While Emily is writing short biographies of the people we're most likely to talk about on this blog, I'm going to give you a short introduction to my co-Author and the person who had the inspiration to start this blog.

So, here we go.


Good looking, witty and intelligent, Emily's friends support her through trials such as living in that other diocese and explaining to her family her life choices (such as donning a mantilla.) Emily shares many of the same æsthetic qualities as her aforementioned friends and, unlike Nicky, Emily is both a girl and especially blond .

What is more, Emily's cry of "That sounds like a great idea!" lead to the formation of our group. Her willingness to come on a bar stroll (it's like a pub crawl on which one only visits classy establishments and does not imbibe alcohol) and our shared ability to miss the last train lead to our unashamed camping out in the SBG Adoration Chapel one Monday night.

Her uncanny ability to be a member of this group and not be male makes her the ideal person to take a turn around the block with, and allows us to share conversations that, well, the others just wouldn't get. It's a girl thing.

A wonderful sister in Christ, we are blessed to have Emily as group-biographer, Official Blogger, especially as she is - hands down - the best Presbytery Kitchen Cleanerer; and I am blessed to have her as a friend.

New Year Resolution

Either

• Sleep more

or

• Spend more time in Adoration

There is no other option.
I may as well spend hours without sleep in His presence, since someone in our group already does this whenever he's in the Chapel. Or Mass. Or praying the Rosary.

Friendship

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."”- C S Lewis

I was going to write a reflection here on the friendships I've developed with the great people I hang out with; I was going to start this reflection with a cool quote from Chesterton or Lewis, for I was sure that they'd have written something amazing on friendship.

I was right. I'm no longer posting a reflection of my own. Rather, here is some copy-pasta from Lewis for you:

Lewis, The Four Loves:

Christ, who said to the disciples "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends "You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauties of all the others. They are no greater than the beauties of a thousand other men; by Friendship God opens our eyes to them. They are, like all beauties, derived from Him, and then, in a good Friendship, increased by Him through the Friendship itself, so that it is His instrument for creating as well as for revealing.

 Ibid.:

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. . . . It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that gives value to survival.