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Yes, Katt, the whole weekend was amazing...amazingly hard, amazingly amazing, amazingly provoking, amazingly lots of things....and i definitely share my Cake story...BUT i'm at home b/c i had to take the van back...when i get back to school i'll get out my trusty little notebook and then post....give me a few hours...so, i'm gonna go now so that i can get back and do that...if it doesn't happen tonight it will most definitely happen tomorrow...but i will try my hardest to stay awake long enough to post it....Katt...i didn't get to bed until after 11last night and then got up at 6:45am(i stayed at brandi's) and went to mass at Holy Redeemer....and i haven't stopped since...and i have soccer at 5:45am tomorrow morning--AHHHH!! gotta go but i shall return :D you can count on that one :dancing:

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Diaconia was amazing. I have only one word to describe it.... Oy.

As Mike said on Monday morning, there's nothing like spending a weekend with Jesus and 300 of His scandelous friends!!

From start to beginning the weekend was amazing. An Encounter, in the best way possible. A lot of stuff that I still have to absorb, so much that was provoking, that made me question, that made me ASK!! But, it's amazing how God always answers my begging. Not always as I want, but as He wants. Diaconia was an answer to my begging, to my desire. This movement, these friends are an answer to my begging. Moments that struck me...

The encounter with the Cake was a very memorable moment. DM, you'll have to tell about that... in your freedom, of course. Guissani's video was amazing, and I would encourage anyone who is interested in CL to read the notes from that video. It was a video of Guissani's visit to New York in 1986. It was amazing. He is an amazing man.

My favorite part of the weekend, though, was Sunday night when all the CLU kids went to the bar down the street from the hotel, and sat together and sang songs at the top of our lungs for like 2 hours. I was happy. I belonged.

I hope this makes sense to everyone, and I look forward to continuing this school of community here on Phatmass!!

God Bless!

I would also agree with Mike as well...

Okay, here goes the cake story :cake:

Saturday at the Diaconia was a day full of many thoughts, emotions, confusions, uncertainty, and feelings of inadequateness yet when we sat down for dinner as i ate my cake a bit of a breakthrough happend for me in seeing things in a whole new way than before--i knew what the cake looked like, i knew what the first bite tasted like YET i continued to be shocked as each bite, whether good or bad, was something new--as much as i thought i knew how each bite would taste, each bite was teaching me i really didn't and i had to take another bite--my desire was to take another bite even though i had no idea of what it would be like--just as life, God, CL, friendships, continue to change with each bite or continue to change me in opening my heart to what God has to show me...the struggle is within because you never know what will be next!! it cannot be planned nor expected to the fullest; it must be experienced.....

so, whatcha think??

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Oh so much to say. Definitely meeting the Evansville crew was high on the list of cool things. Don Caron. Don Albacete. Don Pino. 'nuff said. Oh, and Vitadini eating lunch . . . lol . . . I still chuckle when I think about it . . . He's a beast! He ate all the butter balls in front of him with the fork. LOL . . . The CL Choir. amesome. Late nights at Brits Pub.

But the awesomest thing of all was to just be in the Presence with people you hardly know and find you have intense love for. Alfredo, Brooke, Julie, Kathryn, Luca, Tolo, Vince, Mike, Noah, Margei, everyone I'm not mentining cuz I just got tired of typing names . . .

The whole thing was like one big constant movement of my heart, always forward, always deeping my desire, always exalting my "I."

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But the awesomest thing of all was to just be in the Presence with people you hardly know and find you have intense love for.

That is the most amazing thing...part of the mystery of God that allows such intense love for someone.....

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Just got home from GS (well whatever we call it when everyone invades GS). I love when everyone is there, espically because I never actually know when it is going to be. Just driving up and seeing everyone's cars was one of the best things that happened today. Now on to what actually happened.

Listened to an amesome violin piece thanks to Brandon. There were some analogies about how it sounded like life, but I really thought it sounded like a schoolyard. The first half was all up and down and up and down, high and low at a regular pace and that made me think of the classroom, very predictable and usually mundane. Then they were released for recess. The music perked up and the high pitched sounds of the kids were loud and quick. Every once in a while there was a long low sound of teach, ruining the fun. It was a great piece; I love classical music.

Then we talked about Deaconea. It sounded amesome and I wish I could have gone, maybe someday. So at McNasty's I asked Brooke about it and I want to read the manuscript and watch the video and know and experience what they tell me about.

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but I really thought it sounded like a schoolyard.

thats an amesome look on things. I wish i could listen to it again just to see in a new light. maybe we should have him play his pieces 2 or 3 times...... i think he would hate us. I hope he shares with us again next month at "Traces" - or that thing where everybody invades GS.

I really enjoyed CL Traces last night...and i really don't know why. I think Kate really hit it on the nose when when she said she recgonizes something special especially when we all come together. I was just basking in the presence. In all honesty, i was also hoping the building wouldn't start on fire or something, b/c there were so many ppl there that we would have never gotten out of that upper room. i was aslo hoping the floor would continue to hold us up. I don't think that room was built to hold that many people.

at the deaconia, we really talked up Phatmass b/c we enjoy it so much (although i went a-wall for a time) So, I'm hoping we get some new CL ppl here! If you're out there...let us know.

Hey Blazer - I was really glad to meet you. You, as well, were one of the highlights of my weekend. I'll try to be more faithful to my postings at phatmass, really i will.

My begging has grown stronger because of last weekend, and I thank all of you for being a part of that.

When I met Christ, I discovered my Humanity.

I beg that all of us come to live this everyday of our lives. but if you're like me, i'm still trying to understand it better.

Would anybody be willing to share their understanding of this, and how they grew to understand it better through the weekend of the deaconia. It would really help me.

GS is watching a movie (Shadowlands) at HolyR @ 7:30 in youth room. join us if you can. i'll be seeing you around. miss you already.

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So, after all this talk of Diaconia and stuff like that, I thought I would propose that we, as this PHatmass community, read and judge the notes from the video of Guissani's visit to NYC in 1986. If y'all think that's a good idea I will post the notes as soon as I get a chance to type them all in. I really would like to get everyone else's judgement of the things that Guissani said, and by posting the notes we can include everyone, even those who didn't go to Diaconia. Let me know what you guys think.

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Just got home from GS (well whatever we call it when everyone invades GS). I love when everyone is there, espically because I never actually know when it is going to be. Just driving up and seeing everyone's cars was one of the best things that happened today. Now on to what actually happened.

Listened to an amesome violin piece thanks to Brandon. There were some analogies about how it sounded like life, but I really thought it sounded like a schoolyard. The first half was all up and down and up and down, high and low at a regular pace and that made me think of the classroom, very predictable and usually mundane. Then they were released for recess. The music perked up and the high pitched sounds of the kids were loud and quick. Every once in a while there was a long low sound of teach, ruining the fun. It was a great piece; I love classical music.

Then we talked about Deaconea. It sounded amesome and I wish I could have gone, maybe someday. So at McNasty's I asked Brooke about it and I want to read the manuscript and watch the video and know and experience what they tell me about.

You're the bomb track2004...i loved what you got out of what Brandon played...THANK YOU for sharing!!!

i like your "where everybody invades GS"...that was funny...it made me :D

when i get some more of my notes well thought out, i'll share some more, i promise about the weekend and what it meant.....but in ways it was so overwhelming that i'm still trying to figure out some things....so, it may take me little while...i hope you understand :wacko: ......

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I think Y'all were misinformed!

GS is watching a movie (Shadowlands) at HolyR @ 7:30 in youth room. join us if you can. i'll be seeing you around. miss you already.

It's at 7:32 :)

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I think Y'all were misinformed!

It's at 7:32 :)

so, does that mean you're going SallyCat??? and to youth on sunday, you will be there right??? i hope so...b/c then i'll get to see you!! :D

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Well for Sat. I have to work at 4 and my manager is trying to get me to close. I think I will try to put my foot down. As for Sunday I want to go, I will try to go, but I have to leave to go to Snowflake.

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Okay, what does the word HUMANITY mean to you? b/c if you don't understand this word, then you cannot understand "when i met Christ i discovered my humanity"....

I was reading my homework :book: for my missions class today and the word humanity was in the reading...i want to share some sentences with you and see what you think, what does it mean to you, how does it affect you, how does it open your eyes to a newness....if you think its carp, tell me its carp..but i'm just throwing this out b/c i thought it was interesting...but who am i....

"To share in the pain of helpless, even for a short time, is to enter into fellowship of our common humanity. it is to live as Jesus showed us, it is to please the hear of the One we call Father" pg. 107 THE MESSAGE OF MISSION

and also the word OBEDIENCE, what does this word mean to you? how does it affect you? in the reading for today that word was also used...so i will give you some sentences from the book and maybe you can tell me what you take away from it.....

"It is only in concrete encounter with people in life-situations, in obedience to the call of God, rather than in theoretical reflection or the cultures of the world, that we discover the risen Christ in the most unexpected place" pg. 111

this to me means many things...but i want to know what it means to you...I think it has to do with seeing the Presence inside others through experiencing life with them...actually experiencing....recognizing Christ in others....but in order for us to recognize, to see, do you believe there also must be this obedience?? can't wait to hear what you think...even if you think its carp.... :toilet:

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Then we talked about Deaconea. It sounded amesome and I wish I could have gone, maybe someday. So at McNasty's I asked Brooke about it and I want to read the manuscript and watch the video and know and experience what they tell me about.

So, what other questions are you dying to ask? what do you want to know that no one answered? or you weren't satisfied with their answer...What would you like to know more about?.....and just to let you know, i'm still waiting on the email :sadder:

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What did you feel when you were leaving the people you had just met days before? Do you think going there answered more questions or gave you more questions? How has it impacted your life...what changes has it brought?

Did you get my IM?

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