Virtue
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Skill is knowing how to do it.
Virtue is doing it.
---Thomas Jefferson
~ Tonight is St. Vincent de Paul Society meeting
~ Tomorrow my mom and I are leaving in the morning to go to my grandpa's house.
~ Thursday my mom and I are going out to lunch with a former baby-sitter of mine (Stacia)
Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Aaron's Organ Recital
~ Friday Ruth and I went to Aaron's Organ recital (which was really awesome - he did a wonderful job!).
~ Saturday I met up with Ruth to clean the baptismal and holy water fonts and then when she went to work I ended up helping Maureen pack stuff up in boxes at her mom's house. Later that evening was supposed to be XLT. Tom showed up to join me but it ended up being cancelled so we decided to go to Kate's house for a while.
Father Dan had another plane incident happen (for the other one go back to April 14).
Part of Fr. Dan's homily was about what happened to him on the plane on his recent Italy trip. Once again he was trying to sleep but couldn't because a woman behind him kept on talking and talking and talking, etc. He just knew that the topic of Religion was bound to come up in thier discussion so he said "Lord, you just give the right time to do something and I'll do it". Sure enough the woman said to her seat mate "You know, I don't understand why we have to go to church every Sunday. It's just a bunch of made-up rules by celebate men who can't find anything else better to do."Pretty soon the man next to Fr. Dan turned to him and asked, "Are you a Catholic priest"? (he was of course wearing his priestly outfit). Fr. Dan said, "Why yes I am." The man replied back in a loud voice, "You're a Catholic priest? That's awesome!" Suddenly the talkitive woman just stopped talking when she heard that.The man asked Fr. Dan several questions and one that came up was "why do Catholics worship saints". Of course we as Catholics do not worship saints - we honor them. Fr. Dan's explanation was beautiful! He explained it this way:Jesus has friends and he wants his friends to be friends. Here on earth you can always go to a friend and ask them to pray for you about anything. We as Catholics believe that this friendship doesn't end after we die. That's our relationship with the saints - they are our friends because they are Jesus' friends...and we can always ask them to pray for us.
The man really liked Fr. Dan's explanation and told him that he had never had anyone explain it that well to him. I too love that explanation because of how true it is!
~ So this book I'm reading called "Rome Sweet Home" by Scott Hahn has a beautiful explanation of Mary (FYI this book is about a protestant convert and his wife who also became a convert)."Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine his being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his materpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end."Here is something else I found to be awesome in the book. This is a part where Kimberly (Scott's wife) is studying Catholicism but is having a hard time with the concept of Mary. I took these thoughts to prayer that night and for the first time asked God what he thought about Mary. The phrases that came to my heart were these: 'She's my beloved daughter' , 'my faithful child', 'my beautiful vessel', and 'my ark of the covenant bearing Jesus to the world". "I could not figure out why it was that it seemed to be that Catholics worshiped Mary, even though I knew worship of Mary was clearly condemned by the Church. Then I got an insight: Protestants defined worship as songs, prayers, and a sermon. So when Catholics sang songs to Mary, petitioned Mary in prayer and preached about her, Protestants concluded she was being worshiped. But Catholics defined worship as the sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Jesus, and Catholics would never have offered a sacrifice of Mary nor to Mary on the alter."
I wanted to share that before I head to bed. G'night all!
~ Saturday I met up with Ruth to clean the baptismal and holy water fonts and then when she went to work I ended up helping Maureen pack stuff up in boxes at her mom's house. Later that evening was supposed to be XLT. Tom showed up to join me but it ended up being cancelled so we decided to go to Kate's house for a while.
Father Dan had another plane incident happen (for the other one go back to April 14).
Part of Fr. Dan's homily was about what happened to him on the plane on his recent Italy trip. Once again he was trying to sleep but couldn't because a woman behind him kept on talking and talking and talking, etc. He just knew that the topic of Religion was bound to come up in thier discussion so he said "Lord, you just give the right time to do something and I'll do it". Sure enough the woman said to her seat mate "You know, I don't understand why we have to go to church every Sunday. It's just a bunch of made-up rules by celebate men who can't find anything else better to do."Pretty soon the man next to Fr. Dan turned to him and asked, "Are you a Catholic priest"? (he was of course wearing his priestly outfit). Fr. Dan said, "Why yes I am." The man replied back in a loud voice, "You're a Catholic priest? That's awesome!" Suddenly the talkitive woman just stopped talking when she heard that.The man asked Fr. Dan several questions and one that came up was "why do Catholics worship saints". Of course we as Catholics do not worship saints - we honor them. Fr. Dan's explanation was beautiful! He explained it this way:Jesus has friends and he wants his friends to be friends. Here on earth you can always go to a friend and ask them to pray for you about anything. We as Catholics believe that this friendship doesn't end after we die. That's our relationship with the saints - they are our friends because they are Jesus' friends...and we can always ask them to pray for us.
The man really liked Fr. Dan's explanation and told him that he had never had anyone explain it that well to him. I too love that explanation because of how true it is!
~ So this book I'm reading called "Rome Sweet Home" by Scott Hahn has a beautiful explanation of Mary (FYI this book is about a protestant convert and his wife who also became a convert)."Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine his being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his materpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end."Here is something else I found to be awesome in the book. This is a part where Kimberly (Scott's wife) is studying Catholicism but is having a hard time with the concept of Mary. I took these thoughts to prayer that night and for the first time asked God what he thought about Mary. The phrases that came to my heart were these: 'She's my beloved daughter' , 'my faithful child', 'my beautiful vessel', and 'my ark of the covenant bearing Jesus to the world". "I could not figure out why it was that it seemed to be that Catholics worshiped Mary, even though I knew worship of Mary was clearly condemned by the Church. Then I got an insight: Protestants defined worship as songs, prayers, and a sermon. So when Catholics sang songs to Mary, petitioned Mary in prayer and preached about her, Protestants concluded she was being worshiped. But Catholics defined worship as the sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Jesus, and Catholics would never have offered a sacrifice of Mary nor to Mary on the alter."
I wanted to share that before I head to bed. G'night all!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
House-sitting
~ I've been house-sitting since Sunday. It's been pretty good..although that dog sure has a different personality than Gypsy.
~ Tomorrow is the last day of Summer Prep. I really enjoyed helping out for the two weeks.
~ Tomorrow is the last day of Summer Prep. I really enjoyed helping out for the two weeks.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
3 Things
Three things in life that, once gone, never come back -
1. Time
2. Words
3. Opportunity
Three things in life that can destroy a person -
1. Anger
2. Pride
3. Unforgiveness
Three things in life that you should never lose-
1. Hope
2. Peace
3. Honesty
Three things in life that are most valuable -
1. Love
2. Family & Friends
3. Kindness
Three things in life that are never certain -
1. Fortune
2. Success
3. Dreams
Three things that make a person -
1. Commitment
2. Sincerity
3. Hard work
Three things that are truly constant -
Father - Son - Holy Spirit
1. Time
2. Words
3. Opportunity
Three things in life that can destroy a person -
1. Anger
2. Pride
3. Unforgiveness
Three things in life that you should never lose-
1. Hope
2. Peace
3. Honesty
Three things in life that are most valuable -
1. Love
2. Family & Friends
3. Kindness
Three things in life that are never certain -
1. Fortune
2. Success
3. Dreams
Three things that make a person -
1. Commitment
2. Sincerity
3. Hard work
Three things that are truly constant -
Father - Son - Holy Spirit
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Benjamin has arrived!
I went to bed at 10:30 last night and woke up at 12:30 am from the sound of my phone vibrating. I opened it up to see I received a text message from Uncle Gary (actually it was most likely Aunt Teresa that sent it because he doesn't know how to text) saying "Benjamin has arrived!"
The second one I received was this:
Congrants to my cousin Dan and his wife Amy - the proud parents!
The second one I received was this:
Congrants to my cousin Dan and his wife Amy - the proud parents!
Monday, June 16, 2008
Weekend and pictures from Fathers Day
Saturday I went to Plymouth with Ruth and came back in time to meet up with Theresa, Jessica, and Maureen at St. Thomas. From there we carpooled to Tom's house for the bonfire (which was so much fun!).
I didn't get back home until 2:45 Sunday morning and of course I was busy all day. I had to be at the church before 8 am because it was Ruth's and my turn to pick up the donuts.
Ruth and I ended up going to the 11:45 Mass and filing music for Aaron afterward.
We finally got done around 6:30 just in time for Fathers Day dinner with my parents & brother.
~ I'm volunteering to help out for the Summer Prep Program at Queen of Peace the next 2 weeks.
Pictures from last night:
Luke, Dad, and Mom
Me and Luke -- we found some hair on our stairs and Luke thought it'd be funny to make it look as if I had a mustache.
I didn't get back home until 2:45 Sunday morning and of course I was busy all day. I had to be at the church before 8 am because it was Ruth's and my turn to pick up the donuts.
Ruth and I ended up going to the 11:45 Mass and filing music for Aaron afterward.
We finally got done around 6:30 just in time for Fathers Day dinner with my parents & brother.
~ I'm volunteering to help out for the Summer Prep Program at Queen of Peace the next 2 weeks.
Pictures from last night:
Luke, Dad, and Mom
Me and Luke -- we found some hair on our stairs and Luke thought it'd be funny to make it look as if I had a mustache.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Father Dan's left for Italy
Father Dan left yesterday for Italy. Pray that he has a safe trip there and back. =)
This weekend was pretty good but busy!
~ Friday I met up at Church with Ruth to clean the baptismal and holy water fonts. After that we went to Bible Study and ended up going to McDonalds with Dale, Dale's wife (Shelley), and Sandi. We had a good discussion while we were there.
~ Saturday I met up with Ruth at 10 to go to Knox and we were there until 2ish. We got back just in time to get something to eat before setting up for St. Vincent DePaul Society Food Collection. We stayed to talk to a few people afterwards before getting something for dinner.
This weekend was pretty good but busy!
~ Friday I met up at Church with Ruth to clean the baptismal and holy water fonts. After that we went to Bible Study and ended up going to McDonalds with Dale, Dale's wife (Shelley), and Sandi. We had a good discussion while we were there.
~ Saturday I met up with Ruth at 10 to go to Knox and we were there until 2ish. We got back just in time to get something to eat before setting up for St. Vincent DePaul Society Food Collection. We stayed to talk to a few people afterwards before getting something for dinner.
~ Sunday we went to Mass at 9:30 and went to Syracuse. We were there until 5ish and then headed to St. Vincents for XLT. We didn't get back to pick up my car till around 10 and of course we talked in her van for a while.
~ I have a St. Vincent DePaul meeting for the Food Society tonight
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Tom's house
Tuesday night at the Philly was fun (as usual). Afterwards Tom wanted Jessica and I to see his cats so Jessica, Steve, Will, and I met up at Katie's house where Tom left his truck (Tom and Katie rode their bikes to the Philly).
The 4 of us followed Tom to his house where we got to hang out a while and take a tour - pretty sweet house! Now we know where to go for the Bonfire
Here are a couple pictures from tonight
Steve and Katie
Donald and Tom
The 4 of us followed Tom to his house where we got to hang out a while and take a tour - pretty sweet house! Now we know where to go for the Bonfire
Here are a couple pictures from tonight
Steve and Katie
Donald and Tom
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Blessings in our lives
I got an e-mail with this story attached:
A story was told of two men who were walking in the desert. They had an argument and one of the men slapped the other. The one who had been slapped knelt down and wrote a message in the sand, "Today my best friend slapped me." Then they moved on. They came to an oasis and waded into the water. The man who had previously been slapped began sinking into the mud. The other pulled him out. The man who had been slapped and then saved carved into a stone, "Today my best friend saved me." The other man asked his friend why he had written in the sand that he'd slapped him but carved into stone that he'd saved him. The man replied that whenever something unkind is done to us we should write it in the sand where the winds of forgiveness can easily blow it away; but when something kind and good is done to us we should carve it into stone that we may always remember the blessings in our lives.
We all do things and say things that we don't mean and later regret and we all have weakness and we all make mistakes...we're all in need of the winds of forgiveness to blow our misdeeds away sometimes. And we all have days when monuments of our kindnesses would help us remember the goodness inside of us.
A story was told of two men who were walking in the desert. They had an argument and one of the men slapped the other. The one who had been slapped knelt down and wrote a message in the sand, "Today my best friend slapped me." Then they moved on. They came to an oasis and waded into the water. The man who had previously been slapped began sinking into the mud. The other pulled him out. The man who had been slapped and then saved carved into a stone, "Today my best friend saved me." The other man asked his friend why he had written in the sand that he'd slapped him but carved into stone that he'd saved him. The man replied that whenever something unkind is done to us we should write it in the sand where the winds of forgiveness can easily blow it away; but when something kind and good is done to us we should carve it into stone that we may always remember the blessings in our lives.
We all do things and say things that we don't mean and later regret and we all have weakness and we all make mistakes...we're all in need of the winds of forgiveness to blow our misdeeds away sometimes. And we all have days when monuments of our kindnesses would help us remember the goodness inside of us.
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