Home Sweet Home

Well I made it. After 11 hours on the road, four on which was in the snow. I got home. It was really nice. It has been nice to get away from the seminary for a little while. Even though I love every minute that I am there it is nice to get out with what I like to call the real people. It has also been nice (and today is only day one) to attend a regular parish mass. My grandmama actually counted and told me that i had been gone now exactly 100 days. WOW!!! I was a little surprised at that. I did not realize that I had been gone that long.

Since only my Dad knew that I was coming home I got to surprise everyone. I think it was good. My Mom was very glad to see me and I was glad to see her, even if she had to work tonight. The good thing is that she has tomorrow off which will be nice. I told them it would not have been Thanksgiving if we had all not been together.

I got a lot of good praying done yesterday while I was on the road. Having the rosary on CD really makes a big difference.

Alright everyone, get your turkeys ready and get the dressing made. Tomorrow is Turkey Day and we all have something to be thankful for. Let us give thanks to God.

Peace to you and your families.

What a Weekend!!

This has been quite the weekend. It has been very busy yet at the same time it has been very nice. We had the seminary Thanksgiving dinner this weekend. I had a really good time. I signed up to cook and got to make southern dressing which most of these people have never had so that ended up working well. It was also neat to hand out with all the guys in the kitchen. It really does become sort of like a family.

Speaking of family I am going home for Thanksgiving and none of my family knows. It is kind of exciting. I hope that they get a surprise when the see me. I assume that they will.

I am suppose to get my loan check in the next week which will make life easy. I will be able to pay off everything that I owe and help my parents some. Which will be nice. Also knowing that I was getting a little money in I went ahead and bought myself a couple of small but very useful Christmas gifts. I got a EEE PC which I am using right now. It is like an oversized cell phone. It is basically a really small 8" laptop. I got it primarily to use in my classes next semester but also going home and stuff it will be much easier to travel than my Mac. I also got a garmin GPS. It will help me get home and back much easier than my first voyage up here.

Other than that nothing much is going on. I did put some more pictures up on the internet so check out the links on the side. Please continue to pray for me and I will pray forall of you.

Peace and Blessings.

Small Graces

God is amazing. It is crazy how I went out to dinner tonight for the sheer fact that I wanted to get away from the seminary. Not that I am not enjoying my experience but since October I have been in a bubble. I mean I truly love it here but like anywhere sometime you just need to get away. Well tonight I went to the Basilica to have some time with Jesus and someone was in there practicing the organ and it was amazing. All my prayers felt as if they were riding these heavenly tunes to heaven straight to God, and then this feeling of such inner peace came over me and I knew again that this was the path that God has chosen for me. It all just feel so right and it makes me so excited. Its like when you get the most amazing gift for Christmas but you had no idea that you even wanted it but in the end it is amazing. I tell people all the time that I cannot believe that I am here and that I should be working or something else but this is where God has me and it is amazing. Thanks be to God. 

On another note, I am going home for thanksgiving. It will be nice. I am ready to get away for a few days and with the fuel prices going down so low there is no need not to. I am not going to tell anyone and let it be a surprise. Maybe they all will get a surprise. Anyway that is what is going on. I have a bunch of stuff going on in the seminary this next week so please pray for me and all seminarians, that we continue to grow in love and holiness, and we all in some way will continue to pray for you. 

Thoughts

Seminary is going. I don't understand or everything but I do not think that I am suppose to. God has a plan and it is all up to him. I am sure that he is teaching me a lesson but there are just so many things I don't understand. Everything will be revealed in time I am sure but the unknown is killing me. Like I have said before it is one of my biggest fears. All I can do is pray for myself and for others. Who knows what life is going to hold years from now or even tomorrow. 

I am excited that one of my Nun friends is coming up tomorrow. It will be nice to see someone from home, and to be able to catch up will be very nice. She too seems excited about coming up here to visit. So it will be very nice. 

Alright that was my update. I know that it was a little pathetic but the best that I can do. Next week we are very busy with many different masses and things like that and then will Thanksgiving the next week it will be nice. I think I am going to go home, but I am not super sure but we will see. 

Continue to pray for me and I for you. 

The People Have Spoken

We live in a democracy. I can respect this. A few days ago Obama was elected as my president. I did not vote for him but over half America did and out of respect for democracy I accept this and will pray for him and the direction of our county. Do I like his policies? No. Am I happy? No. Have I accepted it? I have no choice. In four years we can try again. 

Apparently the people of California do not get this. Proposition 8 passed with a 52% of the vote. That is a simple majority. People who do not support it are doing everything but rioting. Face it folks you lost. Accept it and move on. You do not have to agree with it you do not have to like it and guess what you can try again in four years. We are not Mob-Ruled. In our country it comes down to majority. Its that simple. 

So I am a little upset. CNN still had yet to call it one way or another. Give me a break. This is becoming Madness. It passed in two other states too. I don't even know what to think of it. Just get over it and try again. 

Anyway that is my rant. Just accept it people. To everyone. What is done is done. Now all we can do is pray. Also as christians we can not let people walk over us in the disguise of equality. All people are created equal, and have equal rights. That has never and will never contradict our faith. Remember that and pray that we are Catholics, and all believers come to know and believe that and not be persuaded by others. 

Trying Something New

I am blogging from my iPod. How crazy is that. I doubt that I will do it often but at the same time it's nice to know that I can.

Odd...

Sundays are always emotional roller coasters for me. I sometimes feel that I have no control and don't even know where I am heading and Sundays usually show that to me. This weekend I would say that I had a good time. Friday night was Oktoberfest at the grove and I got to hang out with a priest who I think is really cool. Then we got back to the seminary and I hung out with some guys then yesterday I spend a good bit of time working on some homework that I have due this weekend, then last night I finished working around like Midnight-ish then I hung out. Then today Mass, hang-out, work, then tonight prayers. 

I don't know what is going on. Things just seem out of control if that makes sense. I don't know. I need to go to spiritual direction. The weekends come and things get all crazy. The weeks are always amazing but it is the weekends that get me. So I need to work on it for the next weekend. Which is a free weekend so I can only imagine that it will end up being very similar to this one. So I will have to see. I have got to get control back. Which is really probably not the solution either. I really need to just give the control to God. Which I think is also part of my problem. 

Well I am going to go see Jesus soon so let me get ready. Please continue to pray for me and I will keep you all in my prayers as well. 

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

This Makes Me Feel Good

I found this video on the Catholics Come Home Website. It is a great commercial for the Catholic Church. It makes you not only feel good about being Catholic but it really makes you proud to be catholic. It is a great video. I can only pray that those who are away will see this and hopefully be brought back into Holy Mother Church.