Uncle Johns

Caramel Apples (State Fair of Texas)
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Hey everyone(everyone's invited)! We're going to Uncle John's tomorrow at 6:00 pm. Meet at my house. No if, buts, whys or anything else! I want a caramel apple, so we're going. Oh, and we can play risk, euchre or whatever afterwards either here or at the Ark.

Dishonor

1. Loss of honor, respect, or reputation.

Contest #9!!!

Birthdays won:
Kenric: 4
Jennifer: 3 3/4
Sarah: 2
Adam: 1/4

What am I thinking right now?

Update From Florida

Hi guys,

Sorry I didn't get a chance to post earlier like I said I would, but I had a lot of studying for midterms.

My last few weeks have been very tiring. I've been studying an awful lot lately, so if my writing is a little off don't hold it against me. I just took two midterms today and I think I did well. I think I aced my math test, and I think i did alright on my histrory test.

as for my academic standings as of just before my midterms they are: A- in Math, A- in Latin, C in Lit, and around a C in History. As you can see I need to get a few of my scores up, but these numbers are only a small percentige of my grades.

Now for the bigest thing on my mind. as you guys may or may not know a Catergory 5 hurricane called Wilma is schedueled to hit Naples on Sunday. it is the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic. It is currently over the Yukatan peninsula in Mexico. I will probably be coming home over the weekend to avoid this hurricane, but I'm not entirely sure. Keep me in your prayers, as I'm a little nervious about all this. And if my luck holds I'll see you guys in a few days.

Thats about it for me.

See ya soon (maybe)

John W.

Contest #8!!!

Updated from Contest #8:

Birthdays won:
Kenric: 4
Jennifer: 3 3/4
Sarah: 2
Adam: 1/4

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Land of Uz.

hey people

what do you think of watching a movie tomorrow night (friday)? here's some of the better choices

Flightplan: PG-13(A-III)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose: PG-13 (A-III)
The Greatest Game Ever Played PG (A-I)
Just Like Heaven: PG-13 (A-III)
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: PG (A-II)
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: G (A-I)

Joke Time!!!

Since two people have already LOVED my two jokes I will tell me all you fortunate people.

1. What is a Chadwick?

2. What did one Chadwick say to the other?

I am sorry, but I didn't post the answers. Maybe you can guess them or something.

Eucharistic Congress

So Friday and Saturday we were at the Eucharistic Congress put on by the Archdiocese of St. Paul/Minneapolis. You can visit the official website of the Eucharistic Congress by clicking here. Your first question is probably, what the heck is a Eucharistic Congress??? Well, the best I can say is that it's a big event that is centered entirely on the Eucharist. I have never been to one before, so I will just tell you the absolutely awesome things that happened over these two days. First, Friday night we had a Eucharistic procession from the state capital in St. Paul to the cathedral. It's only about a half mile, so it's not like it was incredibly far. Anyway, St. Paul Seminary (the major seminary that is also on the campus of St. Thomas University) and the one, the only St. John Vianney Seminary. I can't say enough about how cool Eucharistic processions are!

"Do not be afraid to go out on the streets and into public places, like the first Apostles who preached Christ and the Good News of salvation in the squares of cities, towns and villages. This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel (cf. Rom 1:16). It is the time to preach it from the rooftops (cf. Mt 10:27). Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living, in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern ``metropolis''. It is you who must ``go out into the byroads'' (Mt 22:9) and invite everyone you meet to the banquet which God has prepared for his people. The Gospel must not be kept hidden because of fear or indifference. It was never meant to be hidden away in private. It has to be put on a stand so that people may see its light and give praise to our heavenly Father (cf. Mt 5:15-16)." - JPII

That is one of my favorite quotes ever! Oh, oh cool, you guys HAVE to check out this video by the Archdiocese of New York. It uses part of this quote in it and it's about a Eucharistic procession that went all over the city of New York. Ok, I am going crazy! I have so much to tell you guys. Ahhhh, watch the video!

Ok, so this morning we had mass with several thousand people who registered for the event. It was held where the Minessota Wild (hockey) play. Us guys from Vianney were ushers for communion. Then after that we went to a different part of the arena where they had a bunch of Catholic stores, religious orders, evangelization groups, etc. with tables set up giving away or selling stuff. I bought a few book, and by a few I mean four. Swear to God by Scott Hahn, which I had him sign because he was there as well and gave a talk on the book of Revelation and the Sacrifice of the Mass and if any of you have not read The Lamb's Supper, you've got to, it's awesome. I also bought Crossing the Threshold of Hope by Pope John Paul, I've already read it but I wanted to have it because when you've read a really good book you really want to give it to other people to read, so hopefully somebody comes along that I can give it to. I also bought In the Presence of Our Lord by Fr. Benedict Groeschel, and Peace of Soul by Fulton Sheen. And no, I probably will not have time to read them all during the school year, but maybe I can get through one of them.

Ok, so here is the big part. Our rector, Fr. William Baer, got Jim Caviezel to speak personally to us seminarians before he addressed everyone at the congress. So yeah, I wish you guys could have heard what he had to say. The man is crazy, and so was Christ, and so IS Christ! Christ is the absolute epitamy of a social outcast. I mean, the man did everything contrary to society! So anyway, Caviezal talked to us about, to put it plainly, not being wusses! You might laugh, but it's true! There are entirely too many fluffity-puffity Priests out there who don't want to take Christ to the streets, who are not afraid of letting everyone know that the Catholic Church is the 1 true Church, and, most importantly, are blind to the spiritual battle that is only beginning in our increasingly de-Christianized world. Just today I found out that our stupid school council here at St. Thomas is allowing a "coming-out" day and it is going to take place, on this Catholic campus, this coming Tuesday. Please pray for the people on campus, especially those people who will be protesting and praying for the organizers of the event, and for those people who organized the event. It's satan, and he is stealing souls from God. Fulton Sheen says, in the very first line of Peace of Soul, "Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved..." He could not be more right. It's time we break out of our comfortable lifestyles and bring Christ to the world. Try to save a soul today! You may fail, you may never think that you've succeeded, but just think, if you succeed only once, after trying every day, you have contributed to the Kingdom of God, you have served God in pulling His creation out of Hell! Picture it this way, it could be as simple as giving money to a poor guy who's asking for some change. Just today there was a woman who we talked to on the street in St. Paul who found out we were seminarians and asked us to pray for her four sons who have drifted away from the Church. You would not believe how much joy she had when we promised to pray for them! Do you know why? Because she believes in prayer, and she believes in Hell! Yes, she believes that, through prayer, her sons can be lifted out of Hell and into Heaven. One of the most important things to remember, Caviezel said with regards to being a Priest, and it also goes for anyone who wants to be an evangelizing Catholic (which should be all of us), is to not care about what people think! If one of your friends is doing something stupid, you know, doesn't want to pray with certain people around, is afraid to give witness to Christ when asked why they are Christian, or any other of the numerous situations we face everyday, call them out! Hell is to real to waste time caring what people will think of you if you give witness to Christ.

"If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

This is a cool picture i found. I really has nothing to do with anything. In fact, it is the reverse of how my interview today went. I'm not going to open my wings and soar in life at this time, like a dragonfly snacking on mosquitos, because I bombed my interview. I have come up against the windshield that is interviews. It made me feel dumb, so thats how i feel right now.

once again

yes this is a complaint, although it may develop into something else...
Today some guy in my class ( who may or may not be gay) was telling us that his dad is a homo-phobe. I really hate that term, it is not as though people are afraid of people of the same sex, just because they think it is wrong to sleep with them....
Anyway, moving on, i am loving my drawing class ( jennifer, you need to take one of these). I am learning so much stuff and my drawing skills have improved. I highly recommend them...although some of my classmates never shut up and have sick senses of humor. They are nice to me though, and not nasty like they are too each other. People like me must just stick out. Some girl in design and communication asked me and kenric if we knew each other from church...

PEAS!!!

Peas
Originally uploaded by Kym..

Jennifer! I was in line paying for my food at Taco Bell today because my supper didn't fill me up. Somebody was waiting on the that looked vaguely familiar. Aha. I said, I think I used to go to school with you. What's your name? she asked. She said she remembered me- probably thinking of a few not so pretty memories from middle school. I felt bad, but really wanted to ask her if she was still afraid of peas...ah, at least I was friendly.