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More or less, the *lucubrations of a 20-year-old Catholic layman and native Seattleite, currently studying at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
Expect stories, commentary and the occasional rant from a meddling pilgrim who, in general, prefers the old wine to the new, Christian culture to the drudgery of modern living, and the papercuts earned from reading smelly old books to the ease (and inhumanity) of gliding through Amazon's Kindle.
Focused primarily on the adventures of being a young American Catholic in college, this web blog is dedicated to the Immaculata, Seat of Wisdom, and entrusted to the patronage of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati.
*lucubration noun
(i) studying by candlelight; nocturnal study or meditation; study in general
(ii) pl. a literary work showing signs of careful elaboration; writing produced by laborious effort or study, especially pedantic or pretentious writing
(iii) from stem of lucere 'to shine'Who?
Often torn between posting on this blog and reading the assigned texts for his university courses, he often resorts to wandering the stacks and checking out books on stigmatic saints and inaccurate but interesting old maps. He is a lover of books, food, art, music, genealogy, dinosaurs, and myriad other things which reveal the one, true, good, and beautiful in life. [Read more here]
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee
Blessed Pier Giorgio, pray for us
Pope Benedict XVI
