Eddie needs advice... Part Two

[iggy]

[quote name='Extra ecclesiam nulla salus' date='May 31 2005, 05:32 PM'] I made a mistake...
St. John Nepomucene Neumann and John Cardinal Newman are different people.


oops [/quote]
It's all good... it took me a year to realize that; that was only when i was writing letter after letter for fundraising, and every time i wrote it i spelled it the other way. real oops

[the_rev]

Once again some members here at Phatmass are really making me upset. Thank God I won't be here much longer.

[crusader1234]

[quote name='the_rev' date='May 31 2005, 09:17 PM'] Once again some members here at Phatmass are really making me upset. Thank God I won't be here much longer. [/quote]
The advice I gave you was sincere. If you're offended by it, it only backs up my hunch that you're overly invested in this crush.

[lil bull 04]

[quote name='fidei defensor' date='May 31 2005, 04:14 PM']

Just be yourself, and casually say hello, or start up a conversation. [/quote]
do it! do it! do it!

[kaidoh]

to tell you the true am in, am in your shoes right now

[Krush2k2]

Yea this is a forum so with that comes different opinions, you shouldn't be so sensative, people are just giving you thier advice from what you have stated.Why do you state how your leaving Phatmass is only making the site look bad. Its a great site. You want to be a priest maybe right? DO you think Pontifex would leave Phatmass if he received different opinions from diff people? C'mon now be stronger than that, if your not going to be an asset to the site esp with Church Militant status, you shouldnt complain.

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='Extra ecclesiam nulla salus' date='May 31 2005, 05:04 PM'] be like

Im descerning the Catholic Priesthood...but i also want to go out with you.... [/quote]
:rotfl:

[iggy]

[quote name='the_rev' date='May 31 2005, 09:17 PM'] Once again some members here at Phatmass are really making me upset. Thank God I won't be here much longer. [/quote]
I have confusion

[inDEED]

[quote name='Krush2k2' date='May 31 2005, 08:31 PM'] Yea this is a forum so with that comes different opinions, you shouldn't be so sensative, people are just giving you thier advice from what you have stated.Why do you state how your leaving Phatmass is only making the site look bad. Its a great site. You want to be a priest maybe right? DO you think Pontifex would leave Phatmass if he received different opinions from diff people? C'mon now be stronger than that, if your not going to be an asset to the site esp with Church Militant status, you shouldnt complain. [/quote]
indeed...

[Cam42]

[quote name='Extra ecclesiam nulla salus' date='May 31 2005, 05:25 PM'] is the newman center named after Saint John Newman? [/quote]
No...you are confusing two men. You are thinking of St. John Neumann.

This American saint was born in Bohemia in 1811. He was looking forward to being ordained in 1835 when the bishop decided there would be no more ordinations. It is difficult for us to imagine now, but Bohemia was overstocked with priests. John wrote to bishops all over Europe but the story was the same everywhere no one wanted any more bishops. John was sure he was called to be a priest but all the doors to follow that vocation seemed to close in his face.

But John didn't give up. He had learned English by working in a factory with English-speaking workers so he wrote to the bishops in America. Finally, the bishop in New York agreed to ordain him. In order to follow God's call to the priesthood John would have to leave his home forever and travel across the ocean to a new and rugged land.

In New York, John was one of 36 priests for 200,000 Catholics. John's parish in western New York stretched from Lake Ontario to Pennsylvania. His church had no steeple or floor but that didn't matter because John spent most of his time traveling from village to village, climbing mountains to visit the sick, staying in garrets and taverns to teach, and celebrating the Mass at kitchen tables.

Because of the work and the isolation of his parish, John longed for community and so joined the Redemptorists, a congregation of priests and brothers dedicated to helping the poor and most abandoned.

John was appointed bishop of Philadelphia in 1852. As bishop, he was the first to organize a diocesan Catholic school system. A founder of Catholic education in this country, he increased the number of Catholic schools in his diocese from two to 100.

John never lost his love and concern for the people -- something that may have bothered the elite of Philadelphia. On one visit to a rural parish, the parish priest picked him up in a manure wagon. Seated on a plank stretched over the wagon's contents, John joked, "Have you ever s een such an entourage for a bishop!"

The ability to learn languages that had brought him to America led him to learn Spanish, French, Italian, and Dutch so he could hear confessions in at least six languages. When Irish immigration started, he learned Gaelic so well that one Irish woman remarked, "Isn't it grand that we have an Irish bishop!"

Once on a visit to Germany, he came back to the house he was staying in soaked by rain. When his host suggested he change his shoes, John remarked, "The only way I could change my shoes is by putting the left one on the right foot and the right one on the left foot. This is the only pair I own."

John died on January 5, 1860 at the age of 48.


The Newman Centers are named after Ven. John Henry Cardinal Newman.

[url="http://ic.net/%7Eerasmus/RAZ22.HTM#Newman%20Photograph%20and%20Portrait"]Ven. John Henry Cardinal Newman[/url]

[Cam42]

[quote name='the_rev' date='May 31 2005, 04:04 PM'] Ok, since I believe the other advice thread should die, while I'm gone to work tonight, I was wondering if you people could give me advice on one issue.

As you are aware I like this one girl, asked her to homecoming last fall she declined.

Now on Friday we went on a field trip together and we talked just a little, and she gradually kept moving up seats that were closer to me, until she was right behind me.

PMers have told me to approach her and talk along with my own personal friends.

But I have talked to her probably three or four times at most. Now should I just be assertive and start a conversation whereas I'm a complete stranger? Wouldn't it be akward for me to start a conversation with a person with whom I've talked to very little?

What would you do if you were in my shoes? [/quote]
Eddie.....I would walk up to her and start talking. You go to the same school right? You have been interested in her for awhile right?

Talk to her about things that intrest her about the school. That is your common denominator. It is really easy.

If you come off looking like a dork, who cares. If you don't take a chance, you won't get anywhere. Let me put this in a philosophical light.

Renee Descartes was afraid to take a step for fear that the room didn't really exist. Eddie, it seems that you are afraid to talk to this girl (I keep thinking of the little red-headed girl from Charlie Brown) for fear that she won't think that you really exist.

You exist. Take the leap. Talk to her. You can do it. It is fine. You will do well.

Cam

[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='picchick' date='May 31 2005, 05:35 PM'] You know you can always say, "Hey!" then smile then say, "How are you doing?" There is no problem there, it is neutral. [/quote]
Unless you say, "how YOU doin'...?" ala Joey Tribiani from Friends.

[Cam42]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Jun 1 2005, 09:05 AM'] Unless you say, "how YOU doin'...?" ala Joey Tribiani from Friends. [/quote]
Hey....that actually works.....ask hot stuff....he has seen me use and and actually have it work....

LOL