Wednesday, August 27, 2008

An invitation for you

For those of us here in the middle of the ocean.
Here's what is says on the brochure:

Daughters of St. Paul and
The Pauline Cooperators
Present



St. Paul and
His Spirituality
for Today


Where: Pauline Books & Media
(downtown near the Cathedral)

When: Thursday Evening:
September 25, 2008
October 16, 2008
November 20, 2008
January 15, 2009
February 19, 2009
March 19, 2009
April 16, 2009
May 21, 2009
June 18, 2009

Time: 6:00-8:00

Registration fee: $20.00
Registration: September 25, 5:30-6:00 p.m.
or by mail, email, or phone.
Please see registration form.

Topics included:
-Paul's conversion experience
-Who is Jesus for Paul? Who is Jesus for me?
-The Eucharist
-The mystery of sin, death, and resurrection
-Holiness
-The Mystical Body and living in charity


The St. Paul and His Spirituality for Today course combines:
-Reflection of aspects of St. Paul's life and thought as found in Scripture.
-Applications for contemporary spirituality and life as found in the Pauline thought and spirituality of Blessed James Alberione.

The participant is enabled to know Saint Paul better as a person, apostle, and lover of Jesus Christ and to become more like him by living the Pauline spirituality.
The methods used in this course facilitate adult learning and integration the content into personal life. These include PowerPoint presentations, prayer, activities, discussions, study and personal sharing.

"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, thankful for your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.
And I am sure that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ."
(Phil 1:2-5)



For registration forms, please contact my Mom.
Hope to see you there!! :-D

Picture from Patron Saints Index

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Meme

Tagged a loooong time ago by Aunty Esther and earlier today by Mom!! :-)
Sorry for taking so long...

What picture would I use for my holy card, should I make it to sainthood, and of what cause(s) would I want to be patron(ess) of?


I was trying to hide from the camera, and the only way to do it was to play the piano! (I couldn't hide behind Sunny) So while the little ones were playing Mass - in which TJ presided over- Sunny and I banged away at the piano.
It was agreed before this blog started up that no pictures of us would be posted, but Mom said this one's ok.

Um...patroness...birds?

In any case, all my homeschooling buddies are tagged!

Monday, August 18, 2008

Good, Better, Best

Father Marvin is one of our favorite priests and one of the reasons for this is because he actually spends time with us kids...in playing tag!


Yes, he gives good homilies, and his homily today was on the rich young man who kept the commandments but couldn't go farther than that. What he needed to do was well within his reach, but instead he settled for second best.
When one becomes the best he can be, it is not out of pride for what his accomplishments can reach, but for the greater glory of God.

As the saying goes:
"Who I am is God's gift to me.
Who I become is my gift to God."

Friday, August 15, 2008

Feast of the Assumption



Magnificat anima mea Dominum,
et exultavit spiritus meus in Deo salvatore meo,
quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae.
Ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes,
quia fecit mihi magna, qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericordia eius in progenies et progenies
timentibus eum.
Fecit potentiam in brachio suo,
dispersit superbos mente cordi sui;
deposuit potentes de sede
et exaltavit humiles;
esurientes implevit bonis
et divites dimisit inanes.
Suscepit Israel puerum suum,
recordatus misericordiae,
sicut locutus est ad patres nostros,
Abraham et semini eius in saecula.




Picture from Patron Saints Index


UPDATE
Here's a link for the translation: Click here!
Sorry...

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Average Girl?

The BarlowGirl group consists of three sisters who were (and we score again!!) homeschooled! Click here





(found the video on GodTube)

Someone told me that your heart is like a cake for your wedding. If you give a slice to another, what would you have left to present to your true spouse?

Oops, sorry, for posting too many videos.
I think I ate too many oreoes...

Don't be Ordinary! :-)

ok, no more vacation...

I hope every one's summer has been great so far!
It's probably too late to post anything about WYD anymore :-P
So one last post: Don't be ordinary!!! :-D
Get off the safe haven boat of ordinariness...





Haha, that reminds me, who's been watching the olympics?