New Liturgy? Why not?

Okay, so I was contacted by Fr. Brian the other day and he told me that those with higher authority have deemed it necessary to make me work harder. The new Mass parts will be installed over a long period of time starting September, and not in late Novemeber/Early December as the original plan suggested.

I haven't even gotten the music for the new Mass parts yet. Honestly, I haven't even CHOSEN a new setting for the Mass. I kind of have some but it's hard not having everybody I need to talk with within a reasonable distance. Idk. I'm looking into this new app I've heard about for my phone where everyone get's there own set of numbers and you punch them into the phone and you get to talk to people. It might help with the communication issues.

Okay, so I'm mostly complaining. Honestly, it's not going to be that bad. I still have to choose music for an entire semester's worth of Sunday's, but that'll go by easiily. I also now have to select the songs and contact the choir to get them the MP3's, but that's other easy business to take care of. The part of the Mass I'm really concerned about is having learning the new words to the prayers. Considering I hardly know all the words to the prayers and responses we currently say, I don't see how my little brain is going to handle it.

That's about all I have to say, today. Nothing really all THAT interesting. Oh well.
Peace I leave with you my friends!

Getting ready for SNE and SPO

In a little over a month I'll be on my way to Minnesotta to get ready for another Catholic bootcamp of sorts called the School of New Evangelization. I went last August and had a blast and learned a bunch of new things, but I'm almost feeling like I did the first time. Like I don't know what to expect. It's probably better that way. It usually is works out better to just take it as it comes, so that's what I'm trying to go for this time.

The trip up there is perhaps the most stressful thing to think about. Last time we made the trip anything that could go wrong, did go wrong, and it really got to a lot of people. Ironic that I was in such a good mood almost the whole time, no? That stuff usually gets to me, but I was fine. Shoot, I had almost more fun getting there then actually being there!

Almost.

The difference between SNE this year and last year is that this year we are training to be in a Household sponsered by Saint Paul's Outreach (SPO). I'm assuming that the only real difference is learning to live a Christian lifestyle vs. learning to live a Christian lifestyle among other Christians. In any case, they will be preparing us to live together through the next school year and to keep our faith strong.

I am looking forward to next semester. Although I've had some difficulties with this type of living arrangement before, I really like the guys I'll be living with and I am excited to see what everyone brings to the table. I'm living with seven other guys, and no two of us are even remotely alike, so I'm pumped to get to know the gang and see what we're capable of. We're all Catholic men, we're all college students, and by coming together we share a similarity of purpose in our faith life. Those three things are enough to do some amazing things together, I'm sure of it.

Just a thought...

I haven't posted in a while on this blog, but I updated my guitar blog today and decided I wanted to post to this one as well. And I just had a thought that I decided just now to share. There's something that I've been thinking about for about a year now, and I thought someone else may find these ideas interesting to consider as well.

I have repeatedly asked myself, "How much of this life is at the mercy of my prayer?" What answers to the world's problems are waiting to be solved if only God could hear just one more voice ask, "Please, save us." If I prayed for a particular cause, how significant would that be to moving Him to answer our pleas? If just one more person prayed right now, would Fr. Corappi find his way home? Would someone's addiction to pornography, drugs, alcohol, etc. find that eternal joy they sought, but in the Lord's arms?

If only we prayed just once more for abortion to end, perhaps it would. With just one, full-hearted prayer not a single mother would choose to murder her own blood ever again. By not praying and writing this right now, how much good in the world is not being done because God is simply waiting for my voice?

We can't know the answer to this question, I suppose. It's one question that people have been trying to answer for a long time. How far can a prayer really go in this world? I guess we just have to pray and find out...