A theological exegesis on the Beatific Vision

A Bavarian beer tent

Polka Friday style!!!
*A re-post from last year.  Something about this time of year and being German.  La Crosse celebrates Oktoberfest by drinking beer from a company called Anheuser–Busch InBev.  I wish I didn't have to go back down to training so I could complain more.  Waaait for it...

In heaven there is no beer
That's why we drink it here
And when we're gone from here
All our friends will be drinking all the beer!(Everybody sing!)


In heaven there is no beer
That's why we drink it here
And when we're gone from here
All our friends will be drinking all the beer!


Lá lá lá lá lá lá
Lá lá lá lá lá lá
Lá lá lá lá lá lá
Lá lá lá lá lá lá lá lá



Refrain:
Im Himmel gibt's kein Bier,
Drum trinken wir es hier.
Denn sind wir nicht mehr hier,
Dann trinken die andern unser Bier.

Sicher muß der Wein vom Rhein etwas Wunderbares sein.
Sicher ist ein feiner Sekt etwas, was besonders schmeckt.
Sicher ist der Schnaps so scharf, daß man einen heben darf.
Aber heut' seid's gescheit, liebe Leut'.
Refrain:

2. Jeder Mensch hat seinen Tick und seine Eigenart.
Eine fliegt auf glatt rasiert, die and're auf den Bart.
Einer möcht' nur Fußballspiel, dem andern ist das Wurst.
Ich allein gesteh' es ein, ich hab' immer einen Durst.
Refrain:

Note: This video is quite Beardly btw.

Happy Oktoberfest!  Celebrate by NOT going to a Polka Mass.

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, ora pro nobis!

"Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone....I keep thinking of Queen Esther who was taken away from her people precisely because God wanted her to plead with the king on behalf of her nation. I am a very poor and powerless little Esther, but the King who has chosen me is infinitely great and merciful. This is great comfort." - Edith Stein on Carmelite vocation, 1938.

After being transferred to Dutch Carmelite convent from Cologne because of severe persecusion of Jews in Nazi Germany, she wrote in her will these words: "Even now I accept the death that God has prepared for me in complete submission and with joy as being his most holy will for me. I ask the Lord to accept my life and my death ... so that the Lord will be accepted by His people and that His Kingdom may come in glory, for the salvation of Germany and the peace of the world.""

Traditional Carmel