Saturdays

Friends,

Today has been a very good day. Considering that it was given to me by God, it already was a good day but the activities contained within it make it an even better day. I started off the day with Virtus training (the first movie made us all cry), and afterwords spent some time on some homework. Through some miracle (;-)), Physics is actually making sense, just in time for my exam on Thursday.

Tonight was the Knights of Columbus spaghetti feed, which I attended with Justin, a fellow Chuncher. He is in the process of becoming a Brother Knight, so please pray for him. At any rate, the feed was fantastic and Justin and I were able to talk Catholic and it was delightful. Afterwords, we headed over to Hastings and I found Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul II as a used book, as well as the St. Joseph edition Bible (medium sized). Both books had little trinkets left in them by previous owners, which was a nice find.

I have been working on my RE lesson for tomorrow – Jacob deceiving Issac and stealing Esau’s blessing even though God told Isaac to give it to Jacob and NOT Esau. The theme is families and how we are in need of God’s forgiveness as well as reconciliation to Him (through the Cross and the Sacrament) and to each other (by saying “I’m sorry” and “I forgive you”). Right now I am most concerned about getting the characters mixed up in the story. Obviously I am reading and re-reading and re-re-reading the story, and God willing I should be okay. There’s a fun game for the kids to play that reviews the story (hee hee hee) and I want to get to that. Unfortunately, my classes went from … 45 minutes to 30, so I will have to either fly through things or only do the story and explaining it to them and a game that involves reviewing the story. And since my class is Pre-School, I only have about 15 minutes of actual teach-time, the rest being corralling them and such. I thank God so much for my assistant teachers and parents who end up assisting me. I would be entirely lost without them.

At any rate, I am entering midterm season so I would grately appreciate any prayers you can spare for success on exams and papers and such. Furthermore, this weekend I will be going home (so expect no blog posts) and telling my mom about the Benedictines, which might not go so swell. Please pray for her, if you would. The upside about going home is that I can experience either Our Lady of Lourdes parish or the Cathedral parish (St. Ann’s Cathedral). There are also some Poor Clares up there…I might visit the Sisters. We shall see.

I hope everyone’s Saturday has been most fruitful, and that tomorrow we can come together as one Eucharistic family to worship the one Living God.

Pax!