Ordinary time cake

The latest gathering of fanatical Catholic friends in my apartment involved the conscription of a former Farrell's employee to make dessert. She came up with this:


Mint chip ice cream layered between slices of chocolate cake and topped with dark chocolate mint sauce, caramel sauce, whipped cream and nuts. It was as good as it looks; you may envy me now.

My friends helpfully tried to tie this in to my blog. "The ice cream is green-- St. Patrick!" "It's not March." "Ordinary time!"

So there's our green Ordinary Time dessert. Naturally we ended with Vespers and Compline from our green Ordinary Time breviaries. :)

Dessert last night

A group of us got together for dinner and had this for dessert:



It was tasty Jello, especially the white part, and very firm (maybe that's the Mexican style?) The cross says "Dios es amor" (God is love). We gave the praying hands to the priest among us-- consecrated hands and all. :) This cross supposedly serves 25 people, but six of us nearly polished off the whole thing in one sitting.

It occurred to me as I was preparing to post this that I actually do a lot of photographing and then eating Catholic desserts. You wouldn't expect that would fill out its own category, but I think I have enough of them to make a blog tag! Heck, maybe that can be my blog theme, since I clearly don't have one. "Catholic Desserts." See how neatly it combines two great loves of mine? :)

Nah, I'll stick with Infused Knowledge. Story time! I got this from Reader's Digest, I think. A white family wrote in to say they were raising their kids in the San Diego area and teaching them the proper Spanish pronunciations of the various place names. La Jolla isn't "la JOLLa", it's "la HOYa", and so on. One day in a restaurant one of the younger kids was looking at a menu and asked, "Mom, what's hey-o?" Turned out that for the first time in his life, he was seeing the word Jello.

Turnabout is fair play: I heard of some Mexican-American kids who asked their parents what the English word for "ice cream" is. :)

The Pope and his brother

"Just for one week, Georg. No one will notice."

(From Fr. Longenecker.)

And for more fun see the very awesome Saint Song!

When you're driving into the parking lot way late for Mass...

...there's no better sight than that of the Norbertine father who's supposed to be saying the Mass, rushing through the lot with his white habit flying.

I got parked and veiled faster than he could get vested, and was decorously seated by the time he solemnly entered. Beautiful. :)

Saint Picture Quiz 6

I must confess to lameness about my quizzes; it's been three months since I posted the last one and only now have I gotten around to adding the answers (in the comments section; Athanasius got one and the rest stumped everybody.)

Now I demonstrate my chutzpah by immediately starting a new quiz, and the twist on this one is that I myself don't know the answer. I ran across this picture online, of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and I'm really wondering who the cute Carmelite is, the one who manages to be tonsured without looking bald, and who seems so unconcerned about the sword sticking into him. My own guess is St. John of Cross, chiefly because he and St. Simon Stock are the only male Carmelites I can think of, but also because I wouldn't put it past him to have written some poem about his heart being pierced by love.