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"High Fashion" http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeslifestyle/2012/03/26/why-adults-should-ditch-the-shorts-wear-suits/ The piece above is a perfect compliment to what I had just posted yesterday. This will be a reflection on choice of attire. Like I had said previously, there was a time when I had rejected my jeans and t-shirts. I had fallen in love with the principles that I had learned from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP). Good ideas, at the time. When I was in high school, my old friends and acquaintances can confirm that I went to public high school wearing slacks, button up long sleeves, and ties. I even carried around a brief case rather than a backback. It was a style I was attracted to at the time. I don't know if it helped me with my grades, as I was not the stellar student then. But, after leaving much of what can be described socially as "traditionalism", the jeans and t-shirts came back. I was comforta...

nolite iugum ducere cum infidelibus quae enim participatio iustitiae cum iniquitate aut quae societas luci ad tenebras – II Cor 6.14 This is something I have been struggling with for some time. In the height of my traditionalism I had avoided watching all television, stopped wearing jeans and t-shirts, and stopped listening to popular music. When I began to reject some social aspects of traditionalism I started watching television, popular movies and music again. The jeans and t-shirts came back and a lot of the rest. But, I have noticed since then that when I do encounter some of the more worldly and perverse aspects of the popular media and culture, I still have this disturbing response to them. The first obvious response I noticed was when I had watched the film SAW III. I remember I was not a believer when the first film came out. I was not disgusted by the scenes of torturous murder in there. I later figured it out; I was so desensitized from years of violence in popular films....

  “Lord, I have thought about it and prayed to know Your will. I do not see it clearly, but I am not going to trouble myself any further. I am not going to spend hours racking my brain. I am deciding such and such a thing because, all things carefully considered, it seems to me the best thing to do. And I leave everything in Your hands. I know well that, even if I am mistaken, You will not be displeased with me, for I have acted with good intentions. And if I have made a mistake, I know that You are able to draw good from this error. It will be for me a source of humility and I will learn something from it!”

Buen Camino A Review of the film, The Way I heard about this film due to a blog I read about Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s recommendation: http://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/cardinal-designate-dolans-address-to-pope-benedict-and-the-college-of-cardinals/ This film is not a “Christian” film in the same sense as the film Fireproof or The Passion of the Christ was. I don’t think it was intended for it to be that way. It is a secular film that I think tries to tap into the natural human desire, nay, human need, for the transcendent. From a Catholic perspective, I know what this hunger for the transcendent is; it is called actual grace, calling all men and women to the Truth, which is knowable and attainable through the instruments which Jesus Christ has left behind for the world to come to the knowledge of it. C.S. Lewis used the experience of this hunger for a thing which this world cannot satisfy as a proof for the existence of God. In my opinion, this film can be appreciated by p...