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So if you missed my post about the Vocations Night on Monday (in conjunction with the Misa De Aguinaldo) then scroll down two posts. =)
But there are a few updates.
If you did not know, individual confessions will be available from 6pm-7pm.
Also... we will be starting some Praise and Worship @ 6:45 pm.
Okay... have a beautiful day (or night).
Last year Lisa posted this video: Advent Conspiracy.
I know we are almost toward the end of Advent... but here is Advent 2.0. Something to reflect on for the next week or so.
And if you haven't seen the original you really should.
So I am pretty excited for the Misa de Aguinaldo on Monday, December 21st. Rence and I will be back at the home parish, celebrating with friends and family, assisting at the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. But in addition to that, in this Year for Priests we get to promote Vocations!
So... come out to the Misa on Monday the 21st, [It is co-sponsored by CYM anyway... so you should be there] and join us in celebrating vocations. At 7pm before the mass begins, we will share with you vocations videos, testimonies, a bit of music, and more. Mass begins at 7:30pm, with a special choir of seminarians who have put together some beautiful music as we await the coming of the Messiah.
I also would like to extend a special invitation for anyone who is discerning a call to religious life, even just a little bit. Even if you only have thought about the possibility and are slightly open to it. Come. Let us pray for you and with you, and let the Holy Spirit reign in all of our lives.
"Rediscover the meaning and pleasure of Christian joy, which is so different from that of the world... [Joy] does not consist in having lots of things, but in feeling loved by the Lord, in letting ourselves be a gift to others, and in loving ourselves...It's necessary to try to live every single day in the way the Nativity represents, that is, with Christ's love, his humility and his poverty."
-- Papa Benedict, Gaudete Sunday 2009
It's been a long weekend.
Finals have me stressed out... It's so cold here that water bottles are freezing in my car... And the storms are so bad I can't run any Advent/Christmas errands.
But... I love puns and wordplay. They keep me sane(r). Enjoy:
Holy Cow!:
STERLING, Conn. - A holy cow in Connecticut, perhaps? Or maybe a divine bovine?
A calf with a white marking on its forehead in the approximate shape of a cross was born last week at a dairy farm in Sterling, a small rustic town on the Rhode Island border. Owner Brad Davis tells WFSB-TV he thinks the marking may be a message from above, though he's still trying to figure out what that message might be.
To set this world spinning the right way round, I think we Catholics might need to do just one thing: Start going to confession again. Then take our kids to confession. Once a month would be OK, once a week even better. Don't believe me? Listen to me brag about my fourth-grade CCD class... there was that amazing, eerie phenomenon of thirty nine-year-old children sitting quietly for half an hour. As each child came out of the sacristy, he or she pulled down the kneeler at their pew and said their penance. Then we walked back to our classrooms. I asked the children if anyone felt worse now than they did before confession. No one raised a hand. Who felt better? Everyone. Every single child.
I know we are well into the Advent Season, but if you are anything like me (whether that's a good thing is debatable), than you have been too busy to really enter into the season. Maybe you are busy with papers, finals, presents, sales, parties, nerf guns, etc. You know what?! Slow down!
Take a minute, watch this video... and as it says "Take Time. Slow Down. Open Up."
http://stcatherinevallejo.org/index.php/2009/12/advent-communal-penance-service/
This Thursday, December 10th at 7:00pm
Generation MTV teens want to rebel and make a name for themselves. What better way to do that than by being holy! There’s no more profound rebellion than the one given by the saints and martyrs.-- Christopher Stefanick, Director of Youth Ministry for the Archdiocese of Denver
As I looked at the sea of teens [at the recent NCYC], joyful to be standing for Jesus Christ and celebrating our ancient faith, I wondered, “If our Lord can change the world with 12, what can he do with 22,000”? Maybe we won’t be a subculture for long.
I will be going to a nocturnal adoration tonight (and I plan to spend significantly more time before the Blessed Sacrament this Advent) so if you have prayer requests, let me know.
I will keep the ones on the prayer request board ----> as part of my intentions, but you can respond with your intentions by commenting here, or email me @ rajderivera@gmail.com if you would prefer.
AMDG.
"When you look at the Crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you then. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now,"
- Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
WOW! The CYMvallejo shop sale has been extended until Thursday: 25% off of all orders over $40.
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