At the time I write this, it has been a little more than a year since I started this blog. That is, since I made the initial investment on a domain name and asked my parish priest for a blessing. I don’t know if it was the circumstances of this past year, or merely my perfectionism, which kept me from making my first post. But the year went by very fast! All the while, I still thought of this website but, up until a few weeks ago, I had no plans on following through with it. What changed?
Or, rather, what manifested itself? ‘Twas a rude reminder on a bank statement, informing me that this website is paid for, for at least another year…
I don’t want it to go to waste… In all honestly, I am accepting this as an opportunity.
I am a full-time medical student just about to enter my second year! I started this blog in that wistful gap of time between learning I had been accepted into an MD program and starting that program. I didn’t know how busy things would be. Still, I really want to make time for this.
I want this blog to be a place where I practice looking at the world through a lens of Catholic faith, because, if I am doing things right, the life I live, the thoughts I have, will always be rooted in my identity as a Catholic. Hence, I look forward to reflecting on a handful of K-Dramas that seamlessly illustrate JP IIs Theology of the Body; writing about the bioethical issues I will undoubtedly encounter as a physician; immersing myself in more theology and philosophy; and, in so doing, further appreciating that beautiful unity of Faith and Reason we have been permitted to know.
As I start this project, I take inspiration from the Life Teen blogs which so nourished my faith as a teenager, from the articles on Aleteia that have somehow made the universality of the Church more concrete to me, and from the insightful takes on films on SDG reviews, which have taught me that every story we watch/read/hear can and should be an opportunity to reflect, seriously, on the human experience and the heart of God.
I pray that, through their intercession, St. Thérèse would help me to do small things with great love and Blessed Carlo would help me to live my life totally for Christ, as an original rather than a photocopy.
Thank you for being here!
In Christ…
HERESEAN (<– my default username :))