Here is a little piece of encouragement from our beloved Pontiff from the Zenit news story posted at http://zenit.org/article-23749?l=english:
"Benedict XVI says he hopes universities can be the home of an ever increasing witness to the Gospel.
The Pope expressed this wish in a note sent to a European meeting on pastoral ministry in universities, sponsored by the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences. The three-day meeting concluded Sunday in Bucharest.
In his message, the Holy Father expressed his desire that the meeting “promote an evermore living contemplation of Christ, Word of the Father, in such a way as to awaken a growing and generous evangelical witness within universities.”"
Let us continue to rejoice in prayer and thanksgiving as the Parousians continue this mission. May we pray for Holy Mother Church and the intentions of our Holy Father!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, October 22, 2007
WE HAVE RELAUNCHED!
Check out Arrival: The Parousian Weblog, a collaborative effort between Parousians across the country.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
LSU Gets a New Priest!
Daily Reveille on Fr. Jason Palermo
Keep Fr. Palermo in your prayers as he starts his ministry at Christ the King!
Keep Fr. Palermo in your prayers as he starts his ministry at Christ the King!
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Exciting News
Jason Lalonde, who founded the Parousians at the University of Florida, has been approved as a novitate for the Jesuits! The clipping from the announcement reads:
Jason LaLonde (27), born in Lakeland, FL; graduated from the Harrison Center for the Visual and Performing Arts at Lakeland High School; received a B.A. in English and History from Florida State University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Florida; as an undergraduate, produced and hosted opera and classical music programs for public radio; studied flute and piccolo and played in several musical ensembles; as a graduate student, served as VP of Student Development for the MBA Association and consulted for GatorNest Business Consulting; was active in numerous ministries and programs at St. Augustine Catholic Church and Student Center in Gainesville, including serving as a sacristan for daily mass; regularly volunteered at the Gainesville Catholic Worker House and helped manage an organic garden used to teach underprivileged youth to grow and harvest vegetables; most recent job was Senior Marketing Specialist with SumTotal Systems, Inc., a global provider of enterprise-level talent management software; previously worked in arts administration for the Santa Fe Opera (NM) and Sarasota Opera (FL); enjoys SEC football, recreational sports, hiking, fishing, kayaking, cycling, running, weight lifting, classical music, opera, theatre, literature, and cooking for friends; attended the December Discernment retreat; contact info: jason.c.lalonde@gmail.comCongratulations to Jason. Please keep him in your prayers as he goes through the process of becoming a Jesuit.
Monday, June 04, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Prayer Request
Some of you might know that Toby's father has been in the hospital. There are some difficulties with his father's treatment and so prayers are needed. Thanks.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Interview with De Jesus
I hope there is a video of this later, but scrolling through I found an interview of De Jesus by Glen Beck.
The transcript is here.It's toward the end.
A few gems:
The transcript is here.It's toward the end.
A few gems:
BECK: OK. And it`s weird, Jesus said he was going to come back as a thief in the night, and you`ve been arrested for petty theft. But the band that says, "What would Jesus do?" Let me ask you this, you have a Cartier Pasha watch -- I`m a watch collector -- and it`s encrusted in diamonds. I understand that`s a $142,000 watch. You have a 7 Series BMW, an armored Lexus. You live on $130,000 a year, but they say that you live over your lifestyle and your means. You were arrested for heroin and petty theft. Wouldn`t the question really be, what would Jesus not do?
BECK: Jesus, it`s been good to have you on. It really has. We`re out of time. I wanted to ask if you felt a little ripped off by your birthday being on Christmas or if you get the two presents or not, but thank you very much, and we`ll be back in just a minute.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Special Announcement
I wanted to share (& care!) with everybody that I found out tonight that I have been given a job as an opinion columnist with the Daily Reveille!
It's going to be weird posting my own columns to the blog. Thanks for praying for me while this was going on and be sure to keep me and my column in your prayers!
It's going to be weird posting my own columns to the blog. Thanks for praying for me while this was going on and be sure to keep me and my column in your prayers!
Monday, May 07, 2007
And God will make him a cake
H/t to Salve Regina
"...And God will make him a cake
Really powerful pro-life story of a Anglican observing his Catholic daughter carry a baby with a fatal condition to term.
"...And God will make him a cake
Really powerful pro-life story of a Anglican observing his Catholic daughter carry a baby with a fatal condition to term.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Emily Byers's Last Column
Emily Byers on the love of the poor
Emily ends her fantastic run as columnist for the Daily Reveille with a piece about the poor. Be sure to look over her previous columns and thank her for a job well done!
Previous Columns by Emily Byers
Emily ends her fantastic run as columnist for the Daily Reveille with a piece about the poor. Be sure to look over her previous columns and thank her for a job well done!
Previous Columns by Emily Byers
Monday, April 30, 2007
Mother Teresa & the Dark Night of the Soul
The Abandonment of Mother Teresa
Really good article about the spiritual trials Mother Teresa went through.
Really good article about the spiritual trials Mother Teresa went through.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
Exciting Announcements!
Courtesy of Drudge, we now know that Pope Benedict XVI is coming to the US! He will be visiting the UN in New York and speaking there. The dates are still not set but be watching for it. The story is here. New York would make a great Parousian field trip, eh?
However, we have another story to celebrate! Today I received verification that the Parousians have become an official organization at LSU! woohoo! This means we'll get to do lots of cool stuff and receive money from SG (perhaps for a field trip to New York lol). This is pretty good news and has been a while in the making so thanks to everyone who made it happen.
However, we have another story to celebrate! Today I received verification that the Parousians have become an official organization at LSU! woohoo! This means we'll get to do lots of cool stuff and receive money from SG (perhaps for a field trip to New York lol). This is pretty good news and has been a while in the making so thanks to everyone who made it happen.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
How to defend the faith
How to Defend the Catholic Faith
Really good post by Katerina over at Evangelical Catholicism. The big thing I got from this is not letting the easy attacks provoke but be indifferent. I have too much of what like to call the "St. Michael tendency" which is when someone says something stupid, I want to personally cast them into hell by ripping them apart. But that's not "saintly" at all; love instead is the answer.
Really good post by Katerina over at Evangelical Catholicism. The big thing I got from this is not letting the easy attacks provoke but be indifferent. I have too much of what like to call the "St. Michael tendency" which is when someone says something stupid, I want to personally cast them into hell by ripping them apart. But that's not "saintly" at all; love instead is the answer.
Virginia Tech
Fr. Schall on the Virginia Tech Killings
This is a very thoughtful meditation on the impacts of killings at Virginia Tech & all deaths of young people on our faith.
This is a very thoughtful meditation on the impacts of killings at Virginia Tech & all deaths of young people on our faith.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Another Great Showing By the Parousians
Our own Angela Miceli was invited to participate in a panel tonight entitled "Women in Religion." In short, she was supposed to discuss how it is to be a Roman Catholic woman. Other panelists included a Sunni Muslim, an Atheist, and a Wiccan/Buddhist/Unitarian (and no, that's not a joke. She's a Wiccan who loves Buddhist dancing and incorporates it into her spirituality which she uses as a professional youth minister in the Unitarian Church).
This event was sponsored by W.O.W., Women Organizing Women, a very feminist group. As a result, we knew Angela would face some opposition at the panel so we endeavored to try to get as many Catholics to come and support her. We've had success with this already this year, successfully matching VOX (the campus chapter of Planned Parenthood which is incidentally run by the same person) person for person. e
Not only did we duplicate that result, we exceeded it. The room count was, including the Atheist and Unitarian, 11 people against Catholicism. This did include 2 Protestants, so WOW only got about 9 of their people there. We had 15. So that's 6 more people then WOW could get and 4 more people overall in the room. That's assuming some of the people I didn't know were in fact not Catholic.
So the panel started and Angela did not fail to impress the now home crowd. She was obviously the best prepared and most consistent speaker there. A few Parousians asked really intelligent questions to the panel. To be frank, the panel doesn't flow without us there.
This is exactly what we want to do by engaging the community. We helped make the dialogue richer by adding to it the truth of the Catholic faith. We hope to be able to put on some panels of our own next year.
Once again, I was very impressed with the LSU Parousians. Thanks to everyone who managed to come out. Thanks to Mary-Grace & Emily specifically for helping to tell us about the event and inviting people to make sure that we had the turnout we did. And special thanks to Angela and everyone who helped her this week for putting on an incredible defense of the faith.
This event was sponsored by W.O.W., Women Organizing Women, a very feminist group. As a result, we knew Angela would face some opposition at the panel so we endeavored to try to get as many Catholics to come and support her. We've had success with this already this year, successfully matching VOX (the campus chapter of Planned Parenthood which is incidentally run by the same person) person for person. e
Not only did we duplicate that result, we exceeded it. The room count was, including the Atheist and Unitarian, 11 people against Catholicism. This did include 2 Protestants, so WOW only got about 9 of their people there. We had 15. So that's 6 more people then WOW could get and 4 more people overall in the room. That's assuming some of the people I didn't know were in fact not Catholic.
So the panel started and Angela did not fail to impress the now home crowd. She was obviously the best prepared and most consistent speaker there. A few Parousians asked really intelligent questions to the panel. To be frank, the panel doesn't flow without us there.
This is exactly what we want to do by engaging the community. We helped make the dialogue richer by adding to it the truth of the Catholic faith. We hope to be able to put on some panels of our own next year.
Once again, I was very impressed with the LSU Parousians. Thanks to everyone who managed to come out. Thanks to Mary-Grace & Emily specifically for helping to tell us about the event and inviting people to make sure that we had the turnout we did. And special thanks to Angela and everyone who helped her this week for putting on an incredible defense of the faith.
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