Class is over. Brett’s To Do List.
Plan first youth group event for 7th and 8th graders for this Sunday.
Write letters to two vocations prospects. One from Texas!!!
Create PowerPoint presentation about membership and participation in the Church for Youth Ministry class.
Plan skit and lesson ideas for drama club meeting at youth center this Friday.
Chiropractor appointment
Buy Sticky [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 30, 2008
To Do List
September 28, 2008
The Two sons
Here’s a reflection of the Gospel reading this Sunday. The story went that the man had two sons, one said he’d go work in the vineyard and didn’t, while the other said he wouldn’t go work but did. The scribe who Jesus asked who did the father’s will said the one who said no but [...]
September 16, 2008
What a joke!
Here are some of the daily sayings I have gotten used to in religious life, most by Fr. D:
‘You’re gonna burn.’ (usually after someone does something wrong).
‘There better be a god!… or else I quit.’
‘Bye Fr. D, I’m going out.’ – ‘Alright, thanks for leaving.’
‘St. Jude pray for these hopeless souls.’ (Fr. D. as part [...]
September 15, 2008
Symbol of death
As part of a Salesian tradition, one of the directors gives a ‘goodnight’ talk every evening. It was started by St. John Bosco and the thought was to give his boys something good and beneficial to their soul to think about as they went to bed.
Tonight, Fr. D came out with a necklace that he [...]
September 10, 2008
Who can we keep out in the cold?
I think the most famous verse in the Bible these days is “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that [...]
September 4, 2008
The year begins
This summer while I was working at our day camp I was busy enough that I took a vacation from writing, but now I’m taking classes and learning new things and the ideas come out easily. Today I had a class where we will start getting into Catholic doctrine, then I had a class on [...]
September 2, 2008
Real Estate Don Bosco
As great as the past week has been here in the formation house with 19 guys studying to become priests, there has been something missing. Today I realized what that was: Inspiration. Father Franco came back and as we were talking today he was discussing plans for the future. With two more guys added to [...]
