Family Guy has its on moments and its off moments, but this week's episode was awesome. Here is another great clip
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
A Little Political Humor
For all you other Poli Sci and Scooby Do fans, a treat courtesy of Family Guy:
Friday, October 1, 2010
Goings on in Phoenix.
It has been a while since I gave you all a basic rundown of what has been going on here at the parish, so I figured it is about time to give you a picture of life in the past few weeks.
The most notable element of the past few weeks was the passing of a dear friend of Holy Cross. Dr. Frances Amabisca has been an important part of our Holy Cross community in Phoenix since we arrived here. In fact she has been tutoring Holy Cross religious since Fr. Tom Zurcher was here many years ago and ended with the four sessions she gave me when I first arrived here in July. When I first met Frances in July it was evident that her health was failing and while she had better and worse days which steadily became more and more worse days. When we celebrated Frances' Mass of Christian Burial on September 25, eight Holy Cross religious were present, including four who came in from outside of Phoenix, which was a beautiful testament to the impact that Frances had on Holy Cross here in the valley. She will be dearly missed.
Also in the past few weeks, all our parish programs, the school, RCIA, RICA, RCIC, religious ed, youth group, and the multitude of other groups, ministries, and committees are now on their regular and normal schedules which means that my life has finally found a bit of normalcy, or at least normalcy for parish life. There really is no such thing as normal really at the parish, but a day to day managing of the mini-crises that come up, while trying to get some prep work done for future projects. It is not uncommon for me to walk into the office in the morning with 2 or 3 items on my to do list, get side tracked by a few issues that need immediate attention and then leave the office at night with barely any progress made on the original to do list. So here is a peak of what I've been doing the past few weeks:
I have 3 couples preparing for marriage, so I try to meet with them every three weeks or so to check in on how they are doing and to facilitate a conversation about the FOCCUS inventory. Two of these couples are also in RCIA which adds an interesting dimension to those meetings.
RCIA meets every Tuesday night, so far we have been just in the getting to know you stage, but the kick off picnic is this Sunday and the following Tuesday we start with the first of the in depth presentations. My first presentation is in 2 weeks on the Life of the Saints.
Our Parish does baptisms twice a month, once in English and once in Spanish, however before baptism, parents must register their children for the Sacrament and attend two preparatory classes. I led my first registration night a few weeks ago and on Monday I give my first class.
The new Auxiliary Bishop of Phoenix, Eduardo Nevarres is making his first school visit in the diocese on Monday and it happens to be ours. This has required a little bit of prep and explanation with the students on behalf of Sister and I, hopefully all will go well when he arrives on Monday.
Our major upcoming event at the parish is the Canonization of Blessed Bro Andre which will take place on the 17th of October. We, like many other Holy Cross apostolates are planning to mark the event in style with a live viewing of the canonization (which incidentally is at 1:00 AM here) and a special mass Sunday night with Bishop Olmstead and a reception to follow. This event will be the major focus for the next couple of weeks as we catechize our parishioners and prepare for the special mass. This will be a great day for Holy Cross and we are doing our best to share that joy with all our parishioners. Check out the new Holy Cross website on Bro. Andre at www.brotherandre.org
Finally a brief update on the rectory. Progress has slowed a bit. Construction is finished, plumbing and electrical are completed, and the painting nearly finished, however the house remains un-tiled. Unfortunately there haven't been many parishioners coming forward to help tile the house. Until they do, I fear the progress on the house will be fairly slow. So please pray that some folks might come forward to help us.
On a side note, it is the first Friday of the month, so my monthly reflection has gone up over at the CSC Vocation blog, check it out here.
Also in the past few weeks, all our parish programs, the school, RCIA, RICA, RCIC, religious ed, youth group, and the multitude of other groups, ministries, and committees are now on their regular and normal schedules which means that my life has finally found a bit of normalcy, or at least normalcy for parish life. There really is no such thing as normal really at the parish, but a day to day managing of the mini-crises that come up, while trying to get some prep work done for future projects. It is not uncommon for me to walk into the office in the morning with 2 or 3 items on my to do list, get side tracked by a few issues that need immediate attention and then leave the office at night with barely any progress made on the original to do list. So here is a peak of what I've been doing the past few weeks:
I have 3 couples preparing for marriage, so I try to meet with them every three weeks or so to check in on how they are doing and to facilitate a conversation about the FOCCUS inventory. Two of these couples are also in RCIA which adds an interesting dimension to those meetings.
RCIA meets every Tuesday night, so far we have been just in the getting to know you stage, but the kick off picnic is this Sunday and the following Tuesday we start with the first of the in depth presentations. My first presentation is in 2 weeks on the Life of the Saints.
Our Parish does baptisms twice a month, once in English and once in Spanish, however before baptism, parents must register their children for the Sacrament and attend two preparatory classes. I led my first registration night a few weeks ago and on Monday I give my first class.
Finally a brief update on the rectory. Progress has slowed a bit. Construction is finished, plumbing and electrical are completed, and the painting nearly finished, however the house remains un-tiled. Unfortunately there haven't been many parishioners coming forward to help tile the house. Until they do, I fear the progress on the house will be fairly slow. So please pray that some folks might come forward to help us.
On a side note, it is the first Friday of the month, so my monthly reflection has gone up over at the CSC Vocation blog, check it out here.
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