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Gina

Jesus, I trust in You

About Me



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My Interests

Jesus Christ. My Faith, Family and Friends. The Catholic Church and Church History,Art, Music, Literature, Psychology, Philosophy, Movies,Theatre,Outdoors/Nature, Running, Hiking, Camping, Going to the Beach, teaching, I'm working on a Masters in Education.

Music:

Ilove all kinds of music: Once Dead:) Rush, U2, Kings X, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, System of A Down, Chris Cornell, Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden(especially with Paul Dianno), Metallica, Foo Fighters, Tool, Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver, Queens of the Stone Age, Incubus, Stavesacre, POD, Audioslave, Muse, The White Stripes, Red Hot Chilli Peppers,Jamiroquai, Judas Priest, The Doors, The Who, AC/DC, Accept, Van Halen, Scorpions, Project 86, He Is Legend, Blindside, The Police, David Bowie, Tori Amos, Bjork

Movies:

My favorite movie is The Shawshank Redemption. I also love Passion of the Christ, The Mission, Big Fish, Gladiator, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars, Pulp Fiction...love the Quentin Tarentino movies, American Beauty, Anything with Johnny Depp!... Blow... Don Juan DeMarco, Good Will Hunting, A Knight's Tale, Love Marlon Brando...On the Waterfront, Sean Penn...She's so Lovely, Love Daniel Day Lewis...Age of Innocence, Hitchcock movies...Psycho, love Jack Nicholson especially The Shining, Robert De Niro.. Goodfellas, Memento, Sixth Sense, Fight Club, American Psycho, Meryl Streep...Sophie's Choice, the Exorcist, Uma Thurman...Les Miserables, Ethan Hawke... Great Expectations, Singles, Reality Bites, Will Ferrell, Jim Carey, Bill Murray, Mike Meyers, love Woody Allen's movies, love Spinal Tap..all the other movies with that cast, Ben Stiller... Flirting with Disaster, Napoleon Dynamite

Books:

The Bible, one of my favorite authors is Amy Tan...I love The Joyluck Club, I love CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, Victor Hugo, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Nathanial Hawthorne, John Steinbeck, I read a lot of the Early Church Fathers... like St. Ignatius, St. Irenaeus and St. Clement etc. also doctors of the church... St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, works of the saints...St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Patrick, St. Francis of Assissi, I like to read about the lives of the Saints and Martyrs, Church history, works by Scott Hahn, I read a lot of nonfiction...interested in abnormal psychology/criminal studies I'm a psych major, books on serial killers...fascinated with that.

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Mary the Mother of Christ, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John the Beloved, St. Polycarp of Smyrna, St. Ignatius of Antioch, St. Clement of Rome, St. Athanasius of Alexandria,St. Justin Martyr, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Patrick, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Monica mother of St. Augustine, St. Catherine of Sienna, St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Francis of Assissi, Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, all the Martyrs of the Church

My Blog

Lent

.. The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio I recently ran across a Caravaggio painting  that I'd never seen before. It  really left an impression on me, so I thought I'd post  it at the begi...
Posted by Gina on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:03:00 PST

Happy New Year

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh   "For I know well the plans I have in mind for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare, and not for woe! plans to give you a future full of hope" Jerem...
Posted by Gina on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 11:36:00 PST

Merry Christmas

Many paintings of Mary and the Christ-child show the two of them in a very  idealistic,  and often regal or majestic pose.  But I really love this one by Caravaggio, because it is so m...
Posted by Gina on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:54:00 PST

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is approaching and I've been thinking about what it  means to truly be grateful in every circumstance.  When we stop to reflect on all of the things that make life so meaningful...
Posted by Gina on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:44:00 PST

New Life

Giorgione "There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end... it leads unto death." (Prov14:12) "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to dest...
Posted by Gina on Wed, 10 May 2006 09:22:00 PST

Easter

The Resurrection of Christ by Michelangelo He Is Risen
Posted by Gina on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 09:24:00 PST

Good Friday

"The Flogging of Our Lord Jesus Christ" by William Bouguereau   My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine;For Thee all the follies of sin I resign.My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art Thou;If e...
Posted by Gina on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 01:38:00 PST

Lent

"We adore you Oh Christ and we praise you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world." The Five Sorrowful Mysteries: First Sorrowful Mystery: The Agony in the Garden "Then they came to a...
Posted by Gina on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 08:59:00 PST

Feb 14

L''amoure by William Bouguereau "Love sought is good...but given unsought is better."-William Shakespeare   "For stern as death is love,relentless as the nether world is devotion;its flames are ...
Posted by Gina on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:31:00 PST

Perfect Love

  I have found this paradox to be true... that if I love until it hurts, there is no longer hurt, but only more love. -Mother Teresa of Calcutta...
Posted by Gina on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:18:00 PST