I was up late last night – until 1:30 to be exact – writing responses to my faith formation students’ letters that they wrote last week. This is the first year that I have done this, but I want to send a letter of encouragement home with them this summer. It’s a lot of work, but I’m a little over half way done.
The range of responses to the questions I gave them is wide-ranging. They were told to be brutally honest, that I needed to know where they were in their faith life. They could choose to answer any or all of the following questions:
1) How do I feel about my relationship with God?
2) Do I feel connected to my parish? How and why/not?
3) Has this class changed me? How?
4) I do/don’t look forward to next year (confirmation classes)?
5) Any observations about the parish – suggestions, comments, etc.
There are a few that feel extremely connected with God, and talk to Him all the time. I actually told one girl that I was jealous of her obvious closeness with Him – that girl has it goin’ on! There are more that are looking forward to next year, some so they could just get it over with, but others because they wanted to be closer to God. Some have shared that this year’s class has changed them, but even more say that they retreat made a huge impact on them. (That tells me that we may want to schedule a second retreat next year, hmmmmm.).
What I find sad is that so many of them don’t feel connected to their parish at all. They don’t come to mass, their families don’t participate in anything but faith formation so their children can receive their sacraments. These parents just don’t get it – sacraments mean little without a faith life. Even worse are the kids who don’t care about God. I have more of these than last year. As one kid wrote, “Not lazy, just don’t care.” These families don’t pray at home, attend mass, or engage themselves in any way with a spiritual life. I warn these students that not caring is the most dangerous place to be. God can steer with a moving car, even if it’s going the wrong direction, but he can’t steer a car that doesn’t move at all.
I shall keep these students in my prayers this summer. I hope that each and everyone of them gets what they need this summer, so they can enter their faith formation next year better prepared for their sacrament, but more importantly, so that they can walk closer with God in their lives ahead.
Oh, and I found out that I am someone’s idol. It’s good to rock with the Holy Spirit!
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That ain’t nothin’. I bet Texpat could beat that record.
wagon #89;
😳
#88 mharper42
Here’s the skinny on the woman from Weasel Zippers – Audrey Tomason
#86 darren
It was the Mexican Navy.
Here’s a nutty story:
http://jezebel.com/5799724/hillary-clinton-photoshopped-out-of-situation-room-photo
There was also a woman’s face at the back of the crowd in that famous photo. Read somewhere that she is the Counterterrorism Czar or some such. She’s gone too from the edited photo.
#85 Dooood
I’ve been fed matzoh ball soup up here in restaurants and homes and not one place compares to Alfred Khan’s matzoh ball soup. My mother took me there first when I was about 7 and it is still the best I ever had.
wagon #79;
Good for the US Navy!
If someone could bring back Alfred’s Delicatessen on Stella Link I’d vote for them regardless of party affiliation, odd sexual proclivities, or even past axe murders.
/ I want Alfred’s and Katz’s is not a suitable substitute!
‘Splain the dangers of the debt and deficits to our future where even the VMG’rs understand it and win yourself 100 grand.
#81 CbR
Heh.
Joe Straus for Governor !
Lox & cream cheese on bagels for everyone !
A blackjack table in every dining room !
A roulette wheel for every hot tub !
#78
See your momma showed you how to stir the pot betta n betta.
My My Ol Sarge cannot handle an honest question from me. Avoid avoid. Shame really it was JUST an honest question Sarge.
Well y’all have a nice evening.
I sure am glad the border area is secure and safe.
Joe Straus for President !
A chicken in every pot !
A slot machine in every kitchen !
Wyatt: Whats’ wrong with you?
Doc: Whats’ wrong with me? What have you got?
Quaid’s grody little stubble beard matches you as well.
#56 Jeez! The review is as long as the freaking book!
“I would like to see a scenario in which Republicans in both houses draw a line in the sand,” Lee says as we talk in his Capitol Hill office. “If Democrats do not give us the supermajorities we need in both houses to pass the balanced-budget amendment, we are not going to even come to the table. It is a… Read more »
When kiddo was still in college, I went up for a mother/daughter weekend. She took me to the casino, on the OK border. It was more of an observation exercise than anything for me. I saw a lot of older folks, sitting on chairs, feeding machines. None looked happy ha. I didn’t like the atmosphere. I’m not going to get… Read more »
Out of all the tattoos that have passed through the NBA, Kelly Dwyer expresses discontent with THIS one?
I’m not a gambler, so all I can say is from looking outside in. Atlantic City and Las Vegas do not give me a warm fuzzy feeling about a great place to raise a family. I mean I’ve never head anyone say ” Oh, I want to get married, have kids and live in Vegas ! 😉
Lawrence! Hi hun, I’m fine. Old and sassy ha. I wondered what happened to y’all! I wish we could all get together some time.
#59;
I doubt if Huffintgton Post would boot him.
TexMo #36;
That’ what I wondered. I guess it’s legal on Strauss’ part but not very ethical it seems.
mharper #26;
I’m against gambling primarily for religious reasons. And it is those religious reasons that drive me not to agree to legalize gambling in Texas. I find gambling an idustry that benefits few and destroys many. Having lived in Illinois most my life I cannot tell you anything bewneficial that legalized gambling has brought to that state.
wagonburner #16; A Cleveland man was attacked by a housecat Friday afternoon and the man’s injuries are so severe that he had to be taken by air ambulance to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. From a Tabby cat? At some point during the attack, the man and the cat reportedly were injured by a knife the man was holding. The… Read more »
At another point in the movie, Doc tells Wyatt:
“When you need me, I’ll be there for you.”
AW, I was SO happy to see your posts the other day. I hope you are well.
Today was the last day for 3 of the illegal immigration bills to get out of committee. I know e-verify was one of them. Have any of you head the status?
Cbr, I’ve really been missing my old HS.com handle. I may swich back to it over here if the Hamnster will let me. I’m kinda like the Doc Holliday character in Kevin Costner’s “Wyatt Earp”. The role was well played by Dennis Quaid and at one point shortly after Doc meets Wyatt he tells him: “I’m dying of tuberculosis, I… Read more »
#60 Lorents
HATER !!!
#54 mharper42
Not to worry, he defriended me a couple of weeks ago even though I had never swapped any posts with him. Must not of liked the tone of the cartoon’s I was sharing.
Yeah and you can tell how much sleep I’ve lost over it.
I’ll never buy another GM or Chrysler product for as long as I live. In the last two years, I’ve bought two new Honda Civic sedans for family members. Both of them were purchased within $100 of $18,000 drive out price. They’re a great economical small car, occasionally I even get the chance to drive one of them and they’re… Read more »
#54 TT
So I guess Bobo is missing the abuse he both gave & took on Hammy’s Couch…
Maybe he’s been booted out of whatever blog he attached himself to next?
Given the kind of shenanigans we’re seeing with the Make Joe Straus Even Richer Than He Already Is Bill, and the way that Tea Partiers in general have been treated because of thier efforts to get rid of Establishment Republicans of that stripe, this should come as no surprise. A majority of Republicans said for the first time that a… Read more »
I din’t know that Chevy made a hybrid version of the Malibu. Looks like a lot of other folks didn’t either. Sales of the plugin Chevy Volt actually dropped. GM’s hybrid Chevy Malibu sedan sold — wait for it — five cars. Meanwhile, Chevy sold 24,000 — that’s thousand — gas-fueled Malibu sedans. And it was the Chevy Cruze —… Read more »
Speaking of teh moobie
Well, this is a headline Bob42 would have loved: Pot lobby grows in Washington Story here. For those of you with dyslexia, it does NOT read “Lobby pot grows in Washington”. Which reminds me – on our way back from San Antonio and watching Lovely graduate, we stopped at Buc-ees on I-10. As a woman, I was pleased to see… Read more »
#49 Mharper
DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner!
Mastermind of terror… or a doddery old fool? He is not watching a shopping channel on daytime TV, but old footage of his younger self – waving an AK-47 assault rifle in the Afghani hills, or acting with faux presidential grandeur in one of his jihadist broadcasts. That the Pakistanis subsequently found ‘herbal Viagra’ in Bin Laden’s medicine cabinet sheds… Read more »
50 mharper42 says: May 9, 2011 at 5:04 pm #36 TexMo Why then does the Texas Speaker of the House get to shepherd a bill through that will benefit him personally? Thanks for framing the relevant question! How is this considered legit? Are we supposed to pretend we don’t see any conflict of interest? Its because we were told that… Read more »
#47 Hammy
Now that’s scary. 🙂
(I don’t quite follow the other postings but from what little I looked up, that is good.)
#36 TexMo
Thanks for framing the relevant question! How is this considered legit? Are we supposed to pretend we don’t see any conflict of interest?
#34 TT
Bobo?
More sky-is-falling from the left.
If only it would fall on them and shut them the wiss up.
I know, huh! I’m already feeling more like an objectivist.
Heh. Texmo, look up the bike sharing program in Amsterdam a while back. Within a short time all the bikes disappeared. They’re still finding them in the canals.
That means just talking about it is working.
And I haven’t even seen it yet!
Didn’t look like she had just one—-
Oh wait—-