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"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and left untried." --G.K. Chesterton
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FALL 2008
Welcome Incoming Students!
Join us for our weekly Mass and free pasta dinner every Thursday @ 5:15 at the Interfaith Center
Student 5:30 pm Mass every Sunday Evening at St. Mary's (Labor Day Weekend-Memorial Day Weekend)
2008-2009 BOOK DISCUSSION with Monks at the Abbey of the Genesee:
Toward God: The Ancient Wisdom of Western Prayer by Michael Casey
(We meet once a month or so, Tuesday Evenings, at the Abbey of the Genesee and take the book chapter by chapter. Begins October 7th. 5:15-7:00 PM. Contact me to register.)
SERVICE TRIP TO BILOXI, FOR CONTINUED KATRINA CLEAN-UP: January 3-January 10, 2009. Newman is throwing their eggs and time and fundraising into the college's January Trip to Biloxi. I am going, and I have gone before and it's well worth it. Go to http://livingstoncares.geneseo.edu to check out the information, deadlines, forms, etc. Contact me with questions or to let me know you are interested, (though you formally register with the college). I will help you with letters to your home parish or relatives for donations to help you reduce your costs, etc. Only 18 spaces are left so contact me soon to talk about your interest. There is an information meeting next Wed. 9/24, during All Student Free at 1:45 in the Gold Leadership Center.
JASON EVERT: "Romance Without Regret" . This takes place at St. Matthew's Church in Livonia, (about a 20 minute drive), on Monday, September 29. Jason Evert is a nationally known speaker on issues of romance, sex and healthy relationships. Contact me if you are interested in attending, (and, if you have a car, if you can drive). I'll arrange carpool. We'll meet at 6:15 at the IFC. Back at 9:00 PM.
Stay tuned for information on Intercollegiate Retreat at Mount Irenaeus!!
Service, Community, Bible Study, Theology, and more, more, more!
**Contact Mike Sauter with questions (sauter@geneseo.edu or, IM screenname: forgottensauter), or check your e-mail for more information, (provided you have joined the mailing list).
If you would like to be put in contact with one of the priests that serve the Newman Community, click (here) to e-mail either Fr. Kamau or Fr. Dillon or call St. Mary's at 243-1100 and ask for a priest.
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Mike's Musings, based on Lectionary
readings of...
September, 2008
"Seeking the Lord and GPS"
Is. 55: 6-9
Isaiah puts it pretty simply in this week's reading, (9/21):
"Seek the Lord.".
Sounds good, one might say, but how?
Last Thanksgiving weekend, I drove around most of the greater NYC area with my brother-in-law, (a resident of Queens). I'd name something I wanted to see, he'd plug it into his GPS navigator and off we'd go. The precision and accuacy of the thing amazed me, (I had been out of the loop of such technology.), but what was most amazing was the "re-orienting" it would do when you, say, couldn't get off at an exit it recommended originally because of excessive traffic.
I knew that day that I was in the presence of some metaphor for the spiritual life, but I never quite returned to the thought to unpack it, as it were....
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