LOLSaints

"The Assumption of Mary was the taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her life. The Roman Catholic Church teaches as dogma that Mary, 'having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.' This doctrine was dogmatically and infallibly defined by Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950, in his Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus." (Thanks Wiki!)

Due to some crazy holidays, and a lot of things going on, the Saints were on an unplanned hiatus for some time. Luckily, they're back. Expect more LOLs in the coming weeks (starting tomorrow)!

Can also shoot them out of mai head! Continue Reading »

Playing around with the Drupal Views module a while, I think I've finally come to a better ranking method for the 'Most Popular' section on this website...

Instead of the old way, which was:

1. Filter by number of votes cast, then
2. Filter by the average value of a vote.

I've tweaked the filter to go by:

1. Saint must have more than four votes.
2. Filter by average value of a vote, then
3. Filter by number of votes cast.

I wish I could do some sort of weighting to the sorting rules above, so certain saint images, which have tons of votes, and are at a value of 4.8 rather than 4.9, would display before a saint image that has only a few votes but is positioned at 4.9 or 5.

We shall see... for now, check out the updated listing on the Most Popular LOLSaints of All Time page!

In the prophecy of Joel it was foretold that God would pour out his spirit on all flesh. In Acts 2, Saint Peter explained that the coming of the Holy Spirit was the fulfilment of this prophecy.

The sacrament of baptism is indeed our 'washing instructions'.

More on the book of Joel from the USCCB.

Photo from Wikipedia; painted by Michaelangelo, and located in the Sistine Chapel.