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Catholic Cadillac!

(drawn and designed by Andrew Williams, sonofmonks.tumblr)

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From a while back

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But you can’t hide.

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Yep

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Never let a theatre make up artist do your wedding...

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I designed this for our Catholic Pipe Smoking Club, the "Thurifers". The Phoenix is a symbol of fire, or Christ's resurrection, and also of Chicago (where my school is) The water references the lake that our school is on, and the latin is taken from Leviticus, meaning "a pleasing/sweet odor to The Lord"

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A new song from this past weekend, called “Dear James”. I wrote the song by writing out several memories and things I wanted to say to my friend James, and then just putting it to music. He will probably think it is really weird I wrote a song about him, but it is representational of several people, so he will hopefully forgive the use of his name and events,

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University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein

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An original song inspired by a book of the same name by Graham Greene. 

Thanks to Phil and Fred for recording me.

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Is this a balanced breakfast?

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A new and bigger version of the previous post.

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Two other class doodles. The circle with the square has the first words from the four gospels, and the animals that represent the four.

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I drew this in class today. The stones are the seven days of creation, and Christ is pointing to the crown, (man's creation) and the tomb, (the seventh day and resurrection), and His hand is in blessings towards the plant (life). The skull is behind him, and the water is flowing to the growing plant. Someone told me that circles in icons mean eternity is meeting earth, and I immediately thought of the portals in Stargate SG1, which actually had seven symbols around it. So these seven symbols of the days of creation are the heavenly Stargate, where God is invading earth, making the two one in Christ.

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Prega per me

I begin an 8 day silent retreat tonight, led by a spiritual director. Please offer a small prayer for me and the other 168 retreatents, as well as our spiritual directors, as we begin this time of prayer. God Bless you.

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"In architecture, columns are people."

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5.13.13 Today I made a chair in the woods, using scrap metal from the junk pile. This made me very happy.

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There is a claim that Christians do not use reason, do not think for themselves or look at evidence, I’ll try here to respond.

Whenever we are children, we trust our parents to tell us the truth because they are the ones who take care of us and look after us. When we are adults, we look at the…

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Okay, but why Christianity and not some other religion? It seems like just about any world religion could prove itself using that same line of reasoning, and they can’t all be right, so what makes Christianity special?

Not to attack or anything. I’m asking out of genuine curiosity.

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Thank you for your question

You are right, that any religion could use the same line of reasoning. The thing that makes Christianity special is that Jesus Christ is alive.

Socrates was a moral teacher, but he died, and stayed dead. Buddha was moral teacher, but he died, and stayed dead. I truly and joyfully acknowledge that other religions do contain truth, even atheism.

Jesus Christ, if he had remained dead, would be the biggest loser in all of history, but we believe that he rose from the dead.

Christianity/Catholicism is different because no other religion offers an actual friendship with God, actually being a daughter or son. While other religions may well offer great moral or spiritual advice, only ours has Jesus Christ, alive.

Again, it is the experience of the person of Jesus that gives us reason to believe, this means it is a real person who really lived, died, and rose. Besides the God of Christianity, no other god or moral teacher can save, because they don’t exist, or they’re dead.

(I know there is a place for acknowledging all religious teachings as having some truth, and I see that they all do. But only one can ultimately be the true one, that God began by first speaking to human beings, and later by becoming a human being. If I didn’t believe Jesus really lives, then I have no reason to be a Christian. “If Jesus Christ did not rise bodily from the dead, then He was a deceiver. “If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”“)

Did Jesus the Nazarene rise from the dead? If not, then disregard all that he said and did, because he would be a madman. If he did rise, this changes everything; the world is not the same kind of place as before.