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Happy Sunday Morning

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It’s not just a good morning for me but a happy one as well :) I slept at 4AM then woke up at 10AM. Can I be more hardworking? Hehehe.

So anyway, I feel so good in so many ways. First, I am already intestinally okay which means that I can now go back to my old diet. For breakfast, I’m going to eat bread plus soft drinks. I’m also skipping papaya. The mere sight of it is enough to make me poop. LOL. Sorry for this kadirs post but I’m just so glad that I am now lifting the self-imposed high-fiber diet

Second, I feel that I’ve become a more responsible person in terms of meeting my deadlines. The truth is, there are no deadlines to meet :P I’ve realized that it’s a battle that I can never win. I am a slow writer and I have to accept the fact that I am just torturing myself by taking jobs that are impossible for me to finish within the required turnaround. So now, I am only accepting assignments that I can really finish on time.

Finally, I am on chapter 8 of The Idiot. I wonder how many years will it take me to actually finish the entire book. I read fairly fast but I am reading a lot of reading materials all at the same time. Love and Responsibility is another book that caught my attention. It was written by Pope John Paul the Great. I don’t have a copy of the book yet so I am relying on a website that explains its content. I would like to reflect on it hopefully soon.

Happy blogging :)

edit: I found a PDF copy of the Theology of the Body link I think it’s just a summary or an explanation.

Where did the Bible come from?

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The Bible didn’t just fall from heaven, while a thundering voice from out of nowhere proclaimed “THIS IS GOD’S WORD!”

In 367, St. Athanasius of Alexandria – a great defender of the Divinity of Christ – wrote his “39th Festal Letter” in which he identified what books rightfully belong to the “New Testament.” He did this to protect his followers in Alexandria from believing in the various heresies and errors contained in bogus “holy books”. This was the first time that the “canon” or official list of books of the New Testament was identified. It gained immediate acceptance with most believers.

In the years 393, the Council of Hippo made the first enumeration of all the 73 books (both Old and New Testament) that we Catholics now consider as comprising the Bible. This same list was affirmed 4 years later, in 397, in the Council of Carthage. A few years later, Saint Exuperius of Toulouse wrote to Pope St. Innocent I in a formal letter requesting the list of canonical books. The Pope replied in 405 A.D. with a letter confirming and reaffirming the canon given at Hippo and Carthage. Yet another Council in Carthage, in the year 419, reaffirmed the canon of the Bible given in previous Councils in Hippo and Carthage.

Now, some Born-Again Christians might complain: “But the Catholic Bible has a different Old Testament from the Old Testament that we use!” They’re right: the Catholic Old Testament has 46 books while the Protestant Old Testament has only 39 books.

There is an easy answer to this: the Catholic Old Testament is based upon the Greek Old Testament actually used in the time of Jesus Christ and accepted by all Christians for 1,500 years. The version of the Old Testament used by Protestants (including the “Born Again”), on the other hand, is based on a Hebrew version compiled several decades after Jesus lived and walked on the Earth. It was not accepted as the real Old Testament by any Christian until the founder of Protestantism, Martin Luther, did so in 1521. The differences between the Protestant and Catholic Old Testament also do not change the fact that Born Again Christians accept – without question – the Catholic New Testament.

So, next time someone tries to weaken your Catholic faith by using the Bible, remember: the Bible is a Catholic book.

Original article by Carlos Antonio Palad

Dental affairs and my mom

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I’m scared of dentists. It’s been my phobia since I was a child and I don’t know why. I have to force myself to visit a dental clinic once a year for cleaning. My mother said it should be twice a year but I’m too lazy to do that. The last time was a few weeks after I was victimized by a pickpocket. That was a long time ago. Sometime in July 2011. It’s been 8 months already!

Anyway, my mother just dropped by and said she’s going to drag me to a nearby clinic this Saturday. What a shame. I am a woman and I’m too lazy to take care of my teeth. At least I brush twice a day. My mother said it should be every after meals. But I don’t eat much! So I think it’s okay. I don’t floss. What’s that?

You should see my mother’s teeth. She takes care of herself like she’s never been married and has never had kids before. I can only aspire to be like my mom. She always looks good, feels good, smells good, etc. She wears cologne even when she is just at home. And she’s so smart and witty. I think that’s why she has a flourishing love life.

Maybe if I would start to act more like her, I’d … never mind. I think I should really visit my dentist this coming Saturday and maybe ask for discount dental braces. I think I want to have dental braces. But first, I have to write plenty of articles in order to afford that. LOL. Or maybe I should try to visit my dentist on a regular basis to overcome my fear and then once I am already comfortable with this whole dental thing, I can start thinking about the braces. What do you think?