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- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Sunday in the Octave of Christmas (N.O. Holy Family) 2023: “What a Fabulous article! Thank you and Merry Christmas Father!”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1208 – Succisa virescit: “Back to the Jeans comment. I think that some men and women have lost their sense of style, fashion, propriety..…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Sunday in the Octave of Christmas (N.O. Holy Family) 2023: “Attendance was good at our FSSP church for the 10:30 AM High Mass with just about every pew taken, many…”
- on CHRISTMASCAzT 2024 – 27 – St. John – Lessons in contrasts: “Your ChristmasCazt today is so inspiring! (Though I did not listen until the 29th).”
- on St. David: Musical Poet King, Prophet, Progenitor of Christ: “One of the verses of the Souther Gospel hymn (but originally Medieval Latin) “Jerusalem, my Happy Home.” There David stands…”
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- on The Burning Babe – A Christmas Day Poem by a English Martyr Saint: “One of my favorites. Always wanted to make it a Christmas card.”
- on 25 Dec 2020: Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD – RIP: “I actually had a chance to use a quote of his (properly accredited to Fr. Foster) when defending the ongoing…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1208 – Succisa virescit: “Beautiful images, Fr. Z. I was Baptist as a child, because that’s where my parents took me. I became a…”
- on St. David: Musical Poet King, Prophet, Progenitor of Christ: “A remembrance of the holy David, king and prophet, who found grace before God as the son of Jesse the…”
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I think we all feel this way sometimes, Fr. Z. It’s those types of tasks that we really are not enthused about and so we keep us procrastinating until the deadline approaches and we have no time left. Then the guillotine blade drops. And yet the saints tell us to do those tasks FIRST with a smile as an offering to God.
The answer to Savage’s question, based on my personal experience of better than half a decade having to use incompetently written software, is a resounding Yes, not only is it possible, it can be downright probable!
Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer
This is my default emotion as a college student.
Panic brings indifference, as if one cannot cope, one gives up. Keep on truckin’….
It is a struggle to refrain from using indifference as a response to the panic many days.
“This is my default emotion as a college student.”
agreed, much so (in fact, that’s exactly how I felt while trying to study for my psychology test last night)
“The answer to Savage’s question, based on my personal experience of better than half a decade having to use incompetently written software, is a resounding Yes, not only is it possible, it can be downright probable!”
As a computer programmer, I try to avoid this at all times while writing software. However, let’s not forget that computer programmers are only human (as well).