New Post From Last Year

So last year i made a whoopsie and did'nt publish this post until last week even though its dated 19th november. So....

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P.s The Fat Freddys Drop new album is 'Le-jit' (American slang for Legitimate). Yes Americans are allowed colloquialisms too.

University of Wisconsin Outreach

A few days ago our team was rounded up to give support to a
NET speaker (Dave Rinaldi) in Madison, Wisconsin. We were to provide the usual NET
jazz (skits, music, prayer etc) but to a different audience,
university students. How refreshing it was to be around peers who have
made the choice to embrace their faith! We are so much around those
who are bored, indifferent in need of encouragement that it was truely
a treat to see young people with their faith as their life foundation.

For me the past month has been a struggle, prayer has been dry,
temptation strong, but my dear Lord renewed my spirit in this
encounter with the students of the university of Wisconsin. I am also
glad to report the two Chaplins at the uni (both called Fr.Eric) are
rock solid orthodox, opus dei priests on fire with the holy spirit for
the souls that have been entrusted to their care. Their zeal is
expressed in the mere fact that they live with their students.

Every day at 8am the priests lead a holy hour followed by morning
prayer. We participated and during this the lord renewed me with his
holy spirit and the desire for him grew ever strong with urgency. I
wrote this whilst in awe of the blessed sacrament:

"The climax of our faith is stood before us, here and now in this very
room, in all his glory, all his majesty, all his splendor. He comes
before us in silence speaking volumes to the deaf and blind while
conversing with the hearts of those who see. He doesn't push, doesn't
force, he is passive to the senses, he always invites, always listens,
always speaks and never ceases to call us to intimacy. Forming us in
his hands he offers us as share in his creation through birth and the
bread which we form and consecrate with our hands. He loves without needing, cares
without want, he is so powerful and awful that in humility he
continues to take the form of that is fragile, plain, but necessary so
that we may easily understand it's good and not be threatened. He does
not overpower nor consume but offers himself to be consumed. He takes
share in our weakness and further humbles himself to become weaker.
Beauty itself, joy, satisfaction and truth comes now disguised as
indifference but think not that he is dissinterested. His only
interest is love, his only interest is you. "

The Blessed Sacrament is where it is at.

The day and preceeding evening was a great experience and was a redose
of the holy spirit into my heart. So i thank the lord for his ever faithfulness.
This sunday we are attending an orchestral latin high mass, of which none of
our team have ever seen. We are so excited and blessed. Peace out...

From the heart....

Christmas was a difficult time for our team. Thus far we have lost two team members, one of which was before we even began ministry, the other had to leave due to health reasons just before Christmas. I can not adequately describe to you what this process has been like but i will try nonetheless. Being on a team, such as a NET (Team), is very much like being in a family: you cant choose the members and you all have different personalities but you try to love one another regardless.

On a NET team in avery short space of time you come to know your team members as brothers and sisters. Our team became very close over the past few months and when we lost another team member many of us were very emotionally hurt. However since we have had Frankie he has bought a new kind of life to our team; he has bought both joy and a challenge to grow in holiness.

Left to right: Frankie, me, Fr.Gabriel, Juan, Ryan (supervisor) and Brandon

My personal experience thus far has been mostly one of growth. However lately my prayer life has been dry. It seems as if there is no ability on my part to concentrate in prayer. My prayer is mostly overcoming distractions. Most of the distractions are ministry related, but i must also confess that some are due to stupid things like games i have been playing. There is somewhat of a dualism in my being - attachment to the world and disconnection from it.

Today is my day off and I have been putting my prayer off all morning, its strange because i tell myself things like 'You deserve to relax and lounge about' or the complete oposite 'You need to do your laundry, post your blogs, write postcards and letters, eat lunch etc', pretty much any excuse, so i end up doing these but neglect prayer... You know what? To hell with my procrastinations! I am going to the Adoration chapel. God Bless!

Happy New year!

Hey here is a very quick video update of my christmas time! And our New team member! Frankie!