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Name: Liz
Interests: The difficulty of explaining "why I am a Catholic" is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true (GKC), The Pillar and bulwark of , Eucharistic Adoration, "supermomma Mary," flying like a donkey, friends! (smile), sketching anything anywhere, looking after the toddler nephews, apologetics, jamming with me irish whistle, languages (voy panimyetcha pruskje?), PODness, silliness, Hopkin's poetry, fields of lilies, 4 am star-gazing, every aspect of Carmel, Mystery...
Expertise: I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this I believe--that unless I believe, I should not understand. -- St. Anselm of Canterbury (try chewing on that one for awhile!)
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Member Since:
9/23/2005
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| God is so good. My soul magnifies Him, my spirit rejoices in Him...
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| Phew. End of the first week of college, and I'm loving it. This is where I'm supposed to be. No doubt about it.  God is good as usual!
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| Ah! Who thought moving 5 minutes away would take so much organization. 
*For SVCers, Bridget will be starting a women's group beginning this thursday to discuss Theology of the Body. It will meet at 7 pm at her apartment.
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| This weekend was the Ultimate Fest. Friday night was for the 18 and older crowd (aka the people who had been volunteered to chaperone on saturday! ). The emphasis of the evening was on discernement with a speaker from Steubenville. Fr. F celebrated Mass, and by some quirkiness in the Church calendar, the reading was Christ's talk about marriage and celibacy for the sake of the Kingdom. After Mass, the Blessed Sacrament was exposed and we had all night Adoration. 
On Saturday we did set up and started with registration...I think over 500 people showed up! Chris Padgett and Bob Rice led praise and worship and gave talks. I got a lot from what they had to say, and if I have time, will write a little more about it. Evening Mass was celebrated by Fr. Bob who gave an incredible homily on the Eucharist...he began with the incredulity of the Jewish audience when Christ gave the command to "eat and drink" of his flesh and blood. Father suggested that perhaps the real question of that audience was not "how" can Christ do this, but "why" would he do it? Because God is love. Because God wishes to enter into a relationship with us that is infinitely more intimate that the most precious human relationship. Fr. talked about how the closest human relationship is that of a husband and wife where the two become one flesh...Christ surpasses that when He comes to us in the Eucharist. St John Eudes says it well...
"He belongs to you, but more than that, he longs to be in you, living and ruling in you, as the head lives and rules in the body. He desires that whatever is in him may live and rule in you; his breth in your breath, his heart in your heart, all the faculties of his soul in the faculties of your soul, so that these words may be fulfilled in you: Glorify God and bear him in your body, that the life of Jesus may be made manifest in you..."
Other than that, I'm going to be an auntie again!!! And one week until school starts!
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| Somedays just have God's love written all over them, ya know? This whole week has been like that. The weather has been fallish, clear...each day is sort of startling for its brilliancy. Tuesday I took a good long hike along Donahue and through St. Vincent's cornfields...approaching the monastery through those cornfields reminded me so much of our treks through various parts of Germany for WYD! Yesterday we met Maggie and the kids at Keystone for a bit of "swimming" (aka the babies paddled about until they got a mouth full of water, were pulled out sputtering, and plunged right back in!). I love kids.
"The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all
things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial. As we
walk the streets and see below us those delightful bulbous heads, three
times too big for the body, which mark these human mushrooms, we ought
always to remember that within every one of these heads there is a new
universe, as new as it was on the seventh day of creation. In each of
those orbs there is a new system of stars, new grass, new cities, a new
sea."-GKC
This morning after Adoration and Mass, I had breakfast with Fr. Jacques and the Mother Superior of a cloistered Dominican convent in Detroit! It was fantastic, and of course my dear godfather already has plans for me to enter right away. Mother said they just celebrated their anniversary, and Perpetual Adoration hasn't stopped in the 100 years that convent has been in existance! Mind boggling! God is so good!
edit: Two excellent articles I read this week
Gentleman, Lover, Monk
http://www.ewtn.com/library/FATHERS/ZGENTLMN.HTM
Modesty in Speech
http://catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=33932
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