When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, he prayed God's will be done, and asked his disciples to pray they don't enter into temptation.

Today (and over the past few decades, and actually in various ways almost over the last two millennia) the Church -- the Body of Christ -- is going through a Passion, too.

*We also should pray for God's will to be done, and that we don't enter into temptation.*

I keep coming back to this:

*We have to make the rosary part of our daily lives.* It's the perfect "pray without ceasing" kind of prayer. I've been making great use of my ring rosary.

I wish I had known the power of the rosary from childhood -- instead of being ignorantly anti-Catholic and anti-BVM.

But...I was ignorant. God enlightens us in his time.

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Jesus, I trust in you.

Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us.

I very much dislike ads that show smiling people with Band-Aids on their arms.

I would rather send these folks pictures of my smiling healthy family *without* Band-Aids.

The Church as the body of Christ is in agonizing times, going through the Passion.

When Jesus was agonizing in the Garden of Gethsemane, his one request was for his disciples to pray for him so that they would not enter into temptation.

That's what we should do now. In this time -- these confusing times -- we should be constant in prayer, especially union with our Holy Mother. 📿

I bought a new modem and router over the weekend.

We can see all the neighbors' WiFi signals, so I thought it would be appropriate to name ours:

PrayTheRosary!

As Christians, we should be taking up space in society -- might as well take up the electromagnetic spectrum, too.

If you like David Allen's "Getting Things Done" (GTD) system of personal productivity, I recommend checking out

mindwtr.app

It makes the system easy.

It's FOSS and available on all platforms. Also, your info is private stays on your device, though you can sync it if you wish (I sync between GrapheneOS and Linux using Nextcloud/WebDAV).

It's bizarre how some of my nondenominational Christian friends love to talk about how everything comes down to "what Jesus did on the Cross for us" -- but they feel an aversion to seeing a crucifix (a visual representation of Jesus' body on the Cross), because Jesus is no longer dead and hanging from a cross, because is risen! And so they prefer an empty cross in their Christian symbolism.

Also, they're fine with displaying a crèche scene at Christmastime, portraying Jesus as a baby in a manger. But one could say, "Jesus is not a helpless baby in a manger -- he is in heaven, seated at the right hand of God in power and glory!"

Then, if they see a statue of the glorified risen Jesus, some will claim the statue is an idol!

There are sound explanations to offer these people in response to their sincere, good-intentioned objections, but there does come a point when one is tempted to say:

"Come on, dude. Get real. Sober up. Don't be a hard-headed, obstinate goofball."

And then I remember: I was that obstinate person before -- oftentimes worse -- and I was shown patience and mercy.

We should not think of prayer as merely a checklist of requests, asking favors of God.

It is primarily a means to draw closer to God.

And so our best personal method of daily prayer is the most holy rosary.

God makes the best seasonal dessert for us that hits the spot -- and doesn't turn us into type 2 diabetics.

It's pretty awesome to pick this many strawberries each day from a small patch in our back yard.

They are better than anything one could buy at the store.

One of the obvious reasons to pray the daily rosary is that it ensures you intentionally meditate on the gospel for at least 15 minutes every day -- the life, death, and resurrection of our Lord.

I remember 1995 when the two most exciting sounds on a computer were "You got mail!" and the creaking door-hinge sound when a friend from your "Buddy List" logged on.

Within a few years I graduated to Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger. But no one had cooler sound effects than AOL. Although ICQ's "uh-oh!" was pretty iconic.

Just reminiscing.

The internet used to be fun and free, with everyone having homepages.

Now it's a tool of Big Brother, yet so few are willing to use freedom and privacy tech to bring back some of the joy.

Because normies are gonna norm no matter what.

You're a behind-the-times normie if you check your old AOL email daily on webmail after all these years.

But you are cool retro if you use AOL email (along with others) on Thunderbird with PGP encryption.