Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Now I know what you must be thinking, my friends, "Your wrong, the day is Sunday and it isn't the 8th yet." Well, your right, but wrong if you think that I have suddenly decided to title my posts by the day/date I am writing them. No, I honestly think that something big is going down this Thursday, December 8th. Why, you might ask? For three reasons:
1) December 8th is a Catholic Holy Day of Obligation (The Immaculate Conception). Now that makes it special in its own right, being a Holy Day and all, but by itself would not be cause to think that anything unusual will happen.
2) It is the day of my Comm 200 final. Again, not really a major event in its own right.
3) Now things get a bit freaky. As some of you know, I prefer to go to the Traditional Latin Mass when I get the opportunity, though I will go to a Novus Ordo Mass to fulfill my Sunday obligation if I have to. Now, I "acquired" a Missal for the Tridentine Rite by claiming one from an up for grabs pile my Freshman year. There was only one marker in it, and really nothing to identify the owner. The marker was a Holy Card from a funeral mass, listing the dead man's (I don't have it with me, so I don't remember his name) death date as the 8th of December, 1994. Now, again this is not something really remarkable, as people die every day, but I never really noticed the date (and had forgotten that it was the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, and thus a Holy Day of Obligation) until today.
I am slightly superstitious, so when all of these types of things happen on the same day I get suspicious of other-worldly activity. Feel free to tell me later that your Thursday was perfectly normal, heck I wouldn't be surprised if mine was other than the final, but who knows what might happen that day?
Anyway, enough of the rambling. Here's your quote:
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future." - Sidney J. Harris
Be well, all, and may any sufferings you have lead you closer to our Lord and Redeemer.