We had a talent show yesterday at school and one of the kids performed this song by Kenny Loggins. I think the video with Calvin and Hobbes says it best. This is a tribute to all my friends.
Sunny days and starry nights
And lazy afternoons
You’re countin’ castles in the clouds
And hummin’ little tunes
But somehow, right before your eyes
The summer fades away
Everything is different
And everything has changed
People everywhere ‘hunger’ for wholeness:What exactly does it mean to be “whole”?Is it having multiple degrees, a loving partner, or simply being filled with the Spirit? Hunger can mean one of two things; it can mean the need or desire for food or the great need or desire for something.It can be interpreted both ways- one is hungry to fill his or her soul by receiving the gift of the Holy Eucharist.It is also translated as a soul-searching need to fill a void.It can also lead to greed and envy.Any way that it is interpreted; we are always hungry for more.
As many of you know, I graduated with my MA in Pastoral Theology on Mother’s Day.Coincidentally, it was also Pentecost, or the Feast of the Holy Spirit.Earlier in the Lenten Season, Fr. John asked if I would be one of the 12 to have my feet washed, I thought I was being Punk’d.I went and had a manicure and pedicure done (as if it mattered) and really lost the whole symbolism behind why I was “Called.”The Spirit had been guiding me throughout my studies, through the discernment and doubt, and what better day to have graduated than on Pentecost.Going to a Catholic University, they released 100 doves into the air, symbolizing two things- our graduation from LMU and the Spirit guiding us wherever we go.
So I leave you with this, what do you hunger for?Life is not about how many commas you have after your name, or about how much money one has in their bank account, hunger for Christ and you will always be full. A person can have all the money in the world, but without faith-has nothing.One is rich in FAITH alone.
8:00am Mass in Church
8:45am Continental Breakfast
9:00am Opening Prayer, Conference Talk
10:30am Closing Prayer
This event will begin in the Church and then move to the Adult Ed Center. This is the building directly behind the sacristy of the Church, through the iron gates. So mark your calendars now, if you would like to attend. If you have ideas for the topic/focus please send them to me soon.
Meet Opie, the seventh member of our Dominican community. You’ve probably seen him at the office or around the church grounds. It’s just funny how different people have very different opinions of him. He is fun to be around with once you get to know him… or better yet, once HE gets to know YOU.
A professor was asked to give a talk about time management and a busy life schedule working in business. He began by pulling out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed mason jar. He placed the jar on a table in front of him. Then he produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. The students began to whisper and wonder why he was doing something strange, as they’d come to expect him to give a talk about business. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, “Students, is this jar full?”
The students in unison said, “Yes.”
“Really?” responded the professor.
He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel. Then he dumped some gravel in and shook the jar, causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks. He then asked the students once more, “Is the jar full now?” By this time the class was onto him.
“Probably not,” one answered.
“Good!” replied the professor.
He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in and it went into all the paces left between the rocks and gravel. Once more he asked the question, “Is it full now?”
“No” the class answered in unison.
Once again the professor said, “Good!”
Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked up at the class and asked, “Now tell me, what is the point of this illustration?”
One eager beaver raised his hand and said, ”The point is that no matter how full our schedule appears, we still could add more things to it.”
“No,” the professor responded. “The truth this illustration teaches us is that if we don’t get our priorities straight and attend to the biggest things of value to us first, we’ll never fit them in at all! If I were to put the sand, gravel, and water in the jar first, I would not have enough room for the rocks, the biggest of the four.”
What are the rocks in your life?
contributed by ROC
who received it from a student from Cathedral HS
As published in this week’s bulletin, May 18, 2008 We invite families and individuals to sign up for our Chalice, Stole, and Rosary Program. These items and a book of prayers will be traveling throughout the parish households. By signing up you are committing to pray for vocations in the Church for one week. These items symbolize the need for priests, sisters, deacons, nuns, monks and brothers to fully dedicate their lives to the ministry of Christ. These items are presented at the Sunday Mass you attend, and you return them the following Friday. Together, our prayer can make a difference! Sign-ups will be after Mass, in front of the church this week, and in the office at other times. - Fr. John
Prayer and Work… together, hand in hand. Fr. David shared this at Mass yesterday and I share it with you… ‘Pray as if everything depended on God, work as if everything depended on you.’ In parallel, imagine being on a boat with a paddle on each side, one for ‘prayer’, one for ‘work’. You need both to get somewhere. Using only one would cause you to move, but only in circles, stuck on the same spot. I read this illustration somewhere a long time ago. I close with last night’s reading,
(James 2:14-24, 26)
What good is it, my brothers and sisters,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can that faith save him?
If a brother or sister has nothing to wear
and has no food for the day,
and one of you says to them,
“Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,”
but you do not give them the necessities of the body,
what good is it?
So also faith of itself,
if it does not have works, is dead.
Indeed someone might say,
“You have faith and I have works.”
Demonstrate your faith to me without works,
and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works.
You believe that God is one.
You do well.
Even the demons believe that and tremble.
Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless?
Was not Abraham our father justified by works
when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?
You see that faith was active along with his works,
and faith was completed by the works.
Thus the Scripture was fulfilled that says,
Abraham believed God,
and it was credited to him as righteousness,
and he was called the friend of God.
See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
For just as a body without a spirit is dead,
so also faith without works is dead.
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