Got Thanks?

I have talk a lot this past year about blessings and trials, and I want to talk about somthing that I would be a miss if i didn't talk about it, since today is thanksgiving and we do have some thing a lot of Countries don't have. Perpetual Freedom. I don't think we can thank our brothers and sisters in uniform enough. I was on facebook and I saw all this people saying what they are thankful for, yet no one said freedom. Does it go with out saying, anymore? I don't think so I think that when people give their lives just to protect millions of people, most they don't even know. Whether it is fire, police, the military (active and vets). I feel like you can't thank them enough. I feel as though Americans forget that freedom isn't free. I am also thankful for other things, health school, love, music, friends, teachers, family, turkey, stuffing, pies, sports, Movies.

To me in America we have an inverted sense of what we should say we are thankful for, people say money and other matiral poss.. To me it doesn't go with out saying that we have to be thankful for freedom and other things.

Facing the Gaints

This is going to be more directed towards men then women...This is one of those blogs where I am going to talk about manly things, facing the snares of sin as a man, being a man, and of course what blog about this would be complete with out talking about pornography. This doesn't mean women stop reading, it just means I am talking to men, so women will get to hear about what men struggle with, in the sense that they will get to know what we struggle with.

Staten is in every dark corner, but also in every religious setting. Even during church he is sitting there, does he want to be there, well the answer is NO. He HATES being there. He doesn't want to sit and hear about how he is losing everyday. At the 1st sin he targeted Eve, the question is why, why did he target the women. Think of what happened she took it to Adam. Then Adam decided to eat the apple.Satan knew he [Adam] would take it from Eve, and eat it.

Since I have grown up, and starting becoming a man I have made one big realization. Being a man is all about making goals and doing the things to get those goals, no matter what it is. Like if you want to be able to stick 25 fireballs in your mouth, then you have to work, start with marshmallows then really work your way up to fireballs (I know it is weird but that is what you have to do, I would know). It is all about making goals, if it is getting an A in math or some other subject you have to make the goal and lean on God, lift it up to him, say if it is your will then it is, just help me do my best and if I fail lst me do my best tomorrow.
The problem with our world is simple, we think being a man comes with virginity, when someone loses it they become a "Man". The real man saves that, I can't say I have been pure,because I haven't I sin, i get temped I can't always stop it, and I am NOT perfect. But the Lord has been my light. He has told me, I am a beloved son of God, and what path I am on is the right course. It wasn't a moment where God came down lighting crash and he was in front of me, he didn't send an angel, or a saint, He told me during the quite of adoration, in the little chapel at 1800 Steese Rd., no not a stuby, not at a retreat but in the quite of a random day I went in to the chapel and was all alone and he told me these things...I know I am not perfect. Becoming a real man isn't easy, it is a very difficult. We face the Giants of sin, everyday and Satan puts these doubts in our mind, you can't pass that, you can do that, one time won't hurt, that felt good, lets do it again, i miss that feeling, that was a great night. He always speaks in the negative, he will tell you that you can't everyday, but you can. Don't let him stop you.

In this world we are very into our sexuality, sex fuels us. But it DOESN'T HAVE TO, it is our job as people to be counter cultural it is really part of us to be that way. Be different start a revolution and RISE UP! This also means in the pornography world, it is a terrible industry but has been fueled since the 1st sin. You are given a choice, what do you want to choose. I can tell you that I deal with this struggle everyday. It is harder in college...sometimes the only thing people talk about is sex, partying "getting some". Some times you just need to walk away, or pray or just take a deep breath and say I love you Jesus. Does this mean we have to loose all of our friends that do those things, well no. Do you have to avoid the Internet, no, it might do more harm then good, Because you might think about it more, and more. Find a buddy, some one that you can lean on, someone to help you to call, to meet with, yeah yeah, I know it sounds like a AA sponsor. Which because it is an addiction it really is. Porn isn't just something you do it is an addiction. If you think about it, it consumes your mind as much as a drug would to a drug addicted. Porn is a drug, the next step is to delete your history and put parental con trolls up on your computer. Use a rubber band and every time you think that you are going to look at that, snap yourself, until it hurts then walk away. Also when you are feeling those temptations do something that doesn't have to do with the computer, whether it is running or playing music (worship), talking to your sponsor, do something. Do what ever you were doing before as long as it doesn't lead to sin.
The next thing to do is to get a devotion to St. Joseph, Mary, and Jesus. PRAY, PRAY PRAY....Some blogs I just do for the readers this one, well it is mostly for me...Sometimes you just need to put it down to beileve Praise God!

~Bobby

3 years and still going

I won't lie this is a big milestone. When I started writing this with still a month to go till the "Big Day". I want to make this BIG, so things that have happened in 3 years.

1. My grammar has gotten better...most of the time
2. We have a new President (whether I agree with him or not he is the President)
3. I can grow a full beard now, and my side burns are awesome...lol
4. Life teen has changed in so many ways, Ms. Sue stepping down, Fr. Thom stepping up, CORE changing, become a BIG family!
5. Big and Rich are taking a break.
6. Tiffany and John have 2 more kids (besides John's from a previous marriage), Matt and Jayme have 2 kids...Jason and Julie have 1 kid...you get where I am going with this.
7. I am a College Freshman Now
8. I made the title shorter instead of bobbyssuperhugecoolblogthings.blogspot.com, what was I thinking.

So we know a lot of things have changed, it is crazy regardless.
I don't really know what to do with this, should I do a bible passage, a random thought, song lyrics. I have done all these things. I spent a long time looking back on old posts, so I have figured it out.

Eccl. 3:1.....not really I think 3 is enough.

Here is the plan, I am going to do a BIG combo of all 3!
1. Bible Passage
2. Worship/pop music song
3. Random thoughts

1 Corinthians 12:4-6
4There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.

When I was writing this I didn't know where to go with it, 1st I thought I could talk about time, and how God is always there, how alpha and omega means so much. But I wasn't feeling it at all. I didn't know what to say, then I checked out Big Kenny's Twitter (yes, I have a twitter), but anyway so I was on twitter and it form a few days ago he said "I am thinking about how important it is to SEVERE!.....in any way Local communities and abroad. We are family! le bk" So that is today's topic, I can't think of anything that fits this better. Service, the Catholic Church calls us to serve, the homeless, the widows, each other. At our spring retreat we did a meal where all you could do is serve the person next to you. You had to make sure there needs were met, whether it be more of something to drink, a napkin, fork...you get it anything. In what became a fun activity, you learn so much about service, now whats my point?.....you have to serve in what ever way you can, if you can help some one in your back yard, then help 'em in your back yard if your arms feel a little longer reach across an ocean, reach across the world! We are each others family!
To look at the bible verses: In life teen if we were taught anything it was to give your gifts and talents, whether it be wighting, drawing, musically, speaking...getting involved was very important, because the Sprite works in all of us, gives us innate qualities that we only have, that we can share, but it is the same sprite in all of us. How many ways can you serve Local: help out your elderly neighbor do stuff in there yard, help out your family around the house...Feed the homeless...(I think you get what I am getting at), but it is all the same GOD! There are different Good works, there are different ways to work but all the same God works in them: it is simple GIVE, GIVE, GIVE...as much as I love blogging I am ministering and serving and the same time, that doesn't mean you go and get your own blog and start blogging. You need to find what is going to work for you! You just have to remember to make it Christ,Cross, and Eucharist Centered!











with lots of love,
Bobby :)

9/11

I can't say I am back...complete but I felt like I needed to blog about today...
If you are reading this today it is in fact 9/11...
I don't think I have ever said anything about it...
I was in 5th grade and I remember one of my friends at the time Steve Flynn told me at lunch, It was right after the prisoners in China were released and came home that Sunday (which I remember vividly watching on TV with my dad before PSR)...and I said it had to be them thats the only possible Country. But where was I, Math In Mr. G's class. He didn't say anything about it the princapal told him not to...so at lunch the teachers were told to just tell us what happened at that's it. When I got home the TV was on and over and over I watched the 2nd tower be hit. It mad me angry I didn't know anything else besides that my Country was attacked! I remember that night when Afghanistan was being bombed and Ireland was doing it....8 years ago...and I think Americans have forgotten the feelings and emotions they felt...I know I haven't I know a lot of the people I talk to haven't! We will never forget...Though it lead to a less then popular war... we have to remember that we got in the war to solve a problem... I i support the war because I don't see that the problem has be solved...

much love
bobby

Hautis

I wanted to throw somthing up quick and simple...I am taking a Hautis from blogging with school fastly approaching and a lot of chanings going on in my life I thought it proper to take one.

I also felt like the content needs work, I have seemed to do about 3 reflections on eccl. 3:1-7, and the vlogs though a blessing I go off in tang. that somtimes have nothing to do what I am blogging about, and some of you say well that is just Bobby Being Bobby, and that is a proper judgement. Also though I do this for fun it is also a minstery none the less so I feel after almost 3 years I need a little break though you all know I have taken little ones and I knew how long they were going to be this one might be longer I don't know yet. I think if I have ever lost readers it wasn't what I was saying, or how I was saying it, it was the fact I stick in my comfort zone and really the process is quite simple, somtimes I see somthing and I say that could be a good blog so I write it down and do it other times they just come to me. One thing I have lost is the Catholic Doc. Though I am 100% Catholic somtimes I just feel like I don't stick to that very well... maybe I am just hyper critical or somthing but this is good bye not forever but just till i learn more, and get a little more concesise...

I love you all~

Bobby~

Seven Spainish angels

I want to call this the holy grail of all Big and Rich performances....I have spent the better half of the past 3 years looking for this video...it is for the 1st outlaws concert in 2005 or so...it is from myspace videos and it is HQ....here you go...blast it!

Big & Rich - CMT Outlaws Seven Spanish Angels

Sanits of the weeks....

1st I am sorry I haven't put a saint of the week up...I just couldn't exactly think of one...so I am going to put 2 up this week and next week we will be back to the classic 1 saint a week:




St. Maria Goretti
Feastday: July 6
Patron of youth, young women, purity, and victims of rape
b: 1890 d: 1902


Born in Corinaldo, Ancona, Italy, on October 16 1890; her farmworker father moved his family to Ferrier di Conca, near Anzio. Her father died of malaria and her mother had to struggle to feed her children.

In 1902 an eighteen-year-old neighbor, Alexander, grabbed her from her steps and tried to rape her. When Maria said that she would rather died than submit, Alexander began stabbing her with a knife.

As she lay in the hospital, she forgave Alexander before she died. Her death didn't end her forgivness, however.Alexander was captured and sentenced to thirty years. He was unrepentant until he had a dream that he was in a garden. Maria was there and gave him flowers. When he woke, he was a changed man, repenting of his crime and living a reformed life. When he was released after 27 years he went directly to Maria's mother to beg her forgiveness, which she gave. "If my daughter can forgive him, who am I to withold forgiveness," she said.

When Maria was declared a saint in 1950, Alexander was there in the St. Peter's crowd to celebrate her canonization. She was canonized by Pope Pius XII in 1950 for her purity as model for youth.

She is called a martyr because she fought against Alexander's attempts at sexual assault. However, the most important aspect of her story is her forgiveness of her attacker -- her concern for her enemy extending even beyond death. Her feast day is July 6. St. Maria Goretti is the patroness of youth and for the victims of rape

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St. John of the Cross
Feastday: December 14


Born in Spain in 1542, John learned the importance of self-sacrificing love from his parents. His father gave up wealth, status, and comfort when he married a weaver's daughter and was disowned by his noble family. After his father died, his mother kept the destitute family together as they wandered homeless in search of work. These were the examples of sacrifice that John followed with his own great love -- God.

When the family finally found work, John still went hungry in the middle of the wealthiest city in Spain. At fourteen, John took a job caring for hospital patients who suffered from incurable diseases and madness. It was out of this poverty and suffering, that John learned to search for beauty and happiness not in the world, but in God.

After John joined the Carmelite order, Saint Teresa of Avila asked him to help her reform movement. John supported her belief that the order should return to its life of prayer. But many Carmelites felt threatened by this reform, and some members of John's own order kidnapped him. He was locked in a cell six feet by ten feet and beaten three times a week by the monks. There was only one tiny window high up near the ceiling. Yet in that unbearable dark, cold, and desolation, his love and faith were like fire and light. He had nothing left but God -- and God brought John his greatest joys in that tiny cell.

After nine months, John escaped by unscrewing the lock on his door and creeping past the guard. Taking only the mystical poetry he had written in his cell, he climbed out a window using a rope made of stirps of blankets. With no idea where he was, he followed a dog to civilization. He hid from pursuers in a convent infirmary where he read his poetry to the nuns. From then on his life was devoted to sharing and explaining his experience of God's love.

His life of poverty and persecution could have produced a bitter cynic. Instead it gave birth to a compassionate mystic, who lived by the beliefs that "Who has ever seen people persuaded to love God by harshness?" and "Where there is no love, put love -- and you will find love."

John left us many books of practical advice on spiritual growth and prayer that are just as relevant today as they were then. These books include:

Ascent of Mount Carmel

Dark Night of the Soul

and A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ

Since joy comes only from God, John believed that someone who seeks happiness in the world is like "a famished person who opens his mouth to satisfy himself with air." He taught that only by breaking the rope of our desires could we fly up to God. Above all, he was concerned for those who suffered dryness or depression in their spiritual life and offered encouragement that God loved them and was leading them deeper into faith.

"What more do you want, o soul! And what else do you search for outside, when within yourself you possess your riches, delights, satisfaction and kingdom -- your beloved whom you desire and seek? Desire him there, adore him there. Do not go in pursuit of him outside yourself. You will only become distracted and you won't find him, or enjoy him more than by seeking him within you." -- Saint John of the Cross

In His Footsteps:
John of the Cross believed it was just as dangerous to get attached to spiritual delights as worldly pleasures. Do you expect to get something -- a good feeling, a sense of God -- from prayer or worship? Do you continue to pray and worship when you feel alone or dry?

Prayer:
Saint John of the Cross, in the darkness of your worst moments, when you were alone and persecuted, you found God. Help me to have faith that God is there especially in the times when God seems absent and far away. Amen

Mighty to save...

This is Michael W. smith singing Mighty to save....we sang it at stuby this past year and I couldn't remeber the song title...until Bob-Rice made a tweet and said I dont' care I am still playing might to save" and it clicked that, that was the song...I love it

How ready are you?

I have been blogging for a long time, and since I started this Bob Rice Spiritual work out it has become a lot more constant, It not only gives me a great spiritual work out but also gives me great ideas on what to say.

Now, We know that we need to be pure, we need to reconcile, we need to Pray (because other wise how are we supposed to communicate with God). So There is now this Second coming of Jesus. He spoke of it in the gospel with a parable:
He proposed another parable to them.
"The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds 10 all through the wheat, and then went off.
When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well.
The slaves of the householder came to him and said, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?'
He answered, 'An enemy has done this.' His slaves said to him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?'

When I read this parable I imagined 2 pictures,
1. The Man Sowing his Field and then his enemy sowing weeds, the harvest of the weeds and grain. Then them burring the weeds.
2. The 2ND coming and the angels "harvesting the people"...Then the "weeds" being sent to the fires of hell.

I started to think how ready am I. Should I be proclaiming the Gospel of the street telling people about Jesus. Should I be in adoration. Praising Our Lord. What would you do?

Picture this: It is the end of the world, we know Jesus is coming back in 24 hours. What are you doing. I know we don't know the time of Christs return but iif we could know what would you do. Its like the ? if you only had 24 hours to live what would you do. I would do a little of everything, I would spend time with my family, I would go to mass/ adoration. I would write on my blog saying Goodbye. I would cuddly with Michelle. I would Go to Confession when the time was closer to death. This would be what I would do. I would also do one last vlog. for the world to see.

But because we never know when it is gonna happen we never will know when our time is small.

Jesus also speaking of the 2nd coming this way in the Gospel of Luke
There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on earth nations will be in dismay, perplexed by the roaring of the sea and the waves.
People will die of fright in anticipation of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
But when these signs begin to happen, stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand."


Jesus is Now telling us what the end of the world will be like. This is a clue but He never tells us a year, or month. It is Just going to happen so the ? I am leaving you with is...

HOW ARE YOU GETTING READY?

St. Maximilian Kolbe

Maximilian was born in 1894 in Poland and became a Franciscan. He contracted tuberculosis and, though he recovered, he remained frail all his life. Before his ordination as a priest, Maximilian founded the Immaculata Movement devoted to Our Lady. After receiving a doctorate in theology, he spread the Movement through a magazine entitled "The Knight of the Immaculata" and helped form a community of 800 men, the largest in the world. Maximilian went to Japan where he built a comparable monastery and then on to India where he furthered the Movement. In 1936 he returned home because of ill health. After the Nazi invasion in 1939, he was imprisoned and released for a time. But in 1941 he was arrested again and sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz.

On July 31, 1941, in reprisal for one prisoner's escape, ten men were chosen to die. Father Kolbe offered himself in place of a young husband and father. And he was the last to die, enduring two weeks of starvation, thirst, and neglect. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1982. His feast day is August 14th.

"If angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion."
- St. Maximilian Kolbe

FORGIVENESS

It's a big word I know, forgiving someone is hard, even your self. Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew has some great words on forgiveness:

Then Peter approaching asked him, "Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?"
Jesus answered, "I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.
(matt 18:20-21)

Now if I do the math right, that is about 490 times you are allowed to be forgiven.
No, thats not what it means, you don't have to keep a book of forgiveness. Jesus just gave Peter a big amount to prove the point that you have to forgive.

Later on in that same chapter he has a parable, to discribe a parable it is like a vlog, just a lot more concesse.

That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who decided to settle accounts with his servants.
When he began the accounting, a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount.
Since he had no way of paying it back, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, his children, and all his property, in payment of the debt.
At that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.'
Moved with compassion the master of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan.
When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a much smaller amount. 22 He seized him and started to choke him, demanding, 'Pay back what you owe.'
Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.'
But he refused. Instead, he had him put in prison until he paid back the debt.
Now when his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were deeply disturbed, and went to their master and reported the whole affair.
His master summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to.
Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had pity on you?'
Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back the whole debt.
So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart." (18:23-35Matt)

This is one of my faviort parables to think I am in this scene, It is a very powerful way of praying and I encourage you pray this way. (Read it and think of a word, then read again what phrase pops out at you then, read it put your self in the scene.)

Well anyway I want to concentrate on the last few verses where it says Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back the whole debt. So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart.

Listen to these words UNLESS YOU FORGIVE YOUR FELLOW HUMAN, GOD WILL SEND YOU TO HELL. That is what I am reading into it. You have to forgive, no matter who it is...even yourself I know it is hard but GOD will FORGIVE you, just go to reconsilation.

Before you listen to the vlog read this quote from a Saint The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Purity

I know I know...tough subject to talk about, it is funny though in 1 aspect, as a man purity is a daily struggle. I am willing to admit to the world, it isn't a secret its how the enemy gets to a man using things like porn, sex, short skits tight clothes. We as men think that, that is normal. We don't want to be counterculture, we go to strip clubs and things...In The Book Of Sirach it says

Go not after your lusts, but keep your desires in check.
If you satisfy your lustful appetites they will make you the sport of your enemies.
Have no joy in the pleasures of a moment which bring on poverty redoubled;
Become not a glutton and a winebibber with nothing in your purse

Pray on this verse if you have problems with sinful stares...then Pray to St. Joesph for purity.

On Bob Rice's Blog he has a 35 day spiritual work out today is about purity and he says "St. Paul, when writing on our sexual behavior, doesn't try to "scare" us into purity. He simply says, "Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?" Sex is more than a physical activity. It is not just a uniting of bodies, but a uniting of souls.

Jesus gives us a high standard to attain. "Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her," He says. Not only premarital sex, but also pornography, masturbation, and lustful fantasies are all sins against our purity. Christ tells us to cut these things out of our lives. (An important note: no saint ever took this passage literally!)

Obviously, you should avoid pornography. But there are a lot of magazines and web sites that are driven by sex- scantly people on the cover, articles that boast “how to have better sex” or “get more sex!” These kind of things have become accepted by our culture... but not by the kingdom of God."

I can't say it much better, by any means...I can say that really Pornography is an addiction, like all addictions the enemy has us in the mind set if it feels good do it, but that shouldn't be our mind set it. But we shouldn't really cut off our hand or cut out our eye. Christ didn't mean for us to take it literally. But what he means is to avoid what leads us to sin, whether it is going online with out parental controls, or being alone...avoid it put your computer in a different room, I know a lot of people who have there computer in there kitchen or living room. I know it is hard though with Cosmo and other magazines promising BETTER SEX, HOW TO HAVE MORE SEX, TOP TEN BEST WAYS TO SPICE UP YOUR SEX LIFE... lets be honest when you get married if that is your call. You will know now to better your life...I once was in confession when a Priest told me when we get married it isn't sex but it is making love...

My last few tips involve our Blessed Mother Mary:
Pray to Mary and Joesph for purity not to lead your boyfriend/girlfriend into sin,
Pray the Rosary...there have been known great miracles to people (a lot of Men) who pray the rosary for purity
Your Mom will never let you down, she will do everything in her power to get you what you pray for
Make it a devotion to be chaste and pure.






Love,
~Bobby

Mary and the Saints

It looks like a Japanesse movie, the way the mouth and talking don't line up lol

1 cor 10:13

Pray for me to have more conecessie Ideas, and words

The New Lay out

This is a more simplier layout, the reason I wanted to change was 1st some of my videos weren't fitting on the screen. I like this the best of all the lay outs that I have had which is about 4-5.
I hope you guys enjoy it.

~Bobby

Why I am Catholic!

I found this video on youtube, I couldn't agree more!

An amazing story!

Have you ever seen this Album cover. It is pretty famous from the 1st Woodstock. and those people on the Cover well they are still together. read this story from yahoo news:

Of all the images snapped during the original Woodstock weekend, one stands above all: a young couple huddled together in a blanket, standing alone in a sea of people lying on wet ground.

It's an enduring image of love, care and protection that earned iconic status through its placement on the cover of the original "Woodstock" album in 1970, as well as on the movie poster.

Forty years later, the couple in the photo - Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, both 60 - remain together. They married two summers after the fabled weekend, and they still live less than an hour's drive from the original concert site of Bethel, N.Y., and within spitting distance of where they both grew up.

Nick Ercoline works for the Orange County, N.Y., Department of Housing. Bobbi is a resident nurse at the elementary school in their hometown of Pine Bush.

The 40th anniversary of the ultimate hippie be-in, this Aug. 15-17, has thrown the Ercolines into the spotlight again - something they never expected or sought.

They say they remember nothing of the original shot, taken by Burk Uzzle. "We weren't striking a pose," Nick says. "We were as surprised as everybody to see that photo on the album cover."

They discovered it while at a friend's house listening to the album and passing around the gatefold jacket. First, Nick recognized the famous yellow butterfly staff in the left corner. "It belonged to this guy Herbie," Nick says. "We latched on to him that day because he was having a very bad experience. He was tripping pretty heavily and he had lost his friends. After I saw that staff I said, 'Hey that's our blanket.' Then I said, 'Hey, that's us.'"

Bobbi, then 20, wasn't overly impressed. "Woodstock was over and done with at that time," she says. "It didn't seem like a big deal. The only thing was that then I had to tell my mother I had gone. She didn't know. But by then, she didn't mind."

The two had arrived in the middle of the weekend, a rare feat given that all main roads were closed by then. "We were local kids, so we knew the back roads," Nick says. "About 5 miles away we abandoned this big white 1965 Chevrolet Impala station wagon."

The two didn't realize the impact their photo had until Woodstock's 20th anniversary, when the world's media began seeking them out. In fact, their memories of the original event have more to do with the scene than the music, because they were too far away to hear or see much.

"I remember the rain, the lack of toilets and the body odor," Bobbi says.

"I also remember an orange haze from the glowing lights of the stage. It was everywhere, lighting up the sky."

The pair had met only three months earlier, over Memorial Day weekend, at the bar where Nick worked. "This waiter brought this beautiful blond in one day and said, 'This is my girlfriend; keep an eye on her,'" Nick explains. "Every night she stood in front of me and we got friendlier and friendlier. Then one weekend he made the mistake of leaving her home while he went to the shore with the guys and he never told her. That was the end of that. And the beginning of this."

Despite all the time gone by, Nick says they still get recognized. "We were in Germany, and right when we walked into the hotel they knew who we were."

As to why their photo was chosen, Nick has a theory. "It's peaceful, which is what the event was about," he says. "And it's an honest representation of a generation. When we look at that photo I don't see Bobbi and me. I see our generation



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2009/07/07/2009-07-07_woodstocks_undercover_lovers_.html#ixzz0Kd6svdSi&C

St. Teresa Of Avila

Less than twenty years before Teresa was born in 1515, Columbus opened up the Western Hemisphere to European colonization. Two years after she was born, Luther started the Protestant Reformation. Out of all of this change came Teresa pointing the way from outer turmoil to inner peace.

Teresa's father was rigidly honest and pious, but he may have carried his strictness to extremes. Teresa's mother loved romance novels but because her husband objected to these fanciful books, she hid the books from him. This put Teresa in the middle -- especially since she liked the romances too. Her father told her never to lie but her mother told her not to tell her father. Later she said she was always afraid that no matter what she did she was going to do everything wrong.
When she was five years old she convinced her older brother that they should, as she says in her Life, "go off to the land of the Moors and beg them, out of love of God, to cut off our heads there." They got as far as the road from the city before an uncle found them and brought them back. Some people have used this story as an early example of sanctity, but this author think it's better used as an early example of her ability to stir up trouble.

After this incident she led a fairly ordinary life, though she was convinced that she was a horrible sinner. As a teenager, she cared only about boys and clothes and flirting and rebelling -- like other teenagers throughout the ages. When she was 16, her father decided she was out of control and sent her to a convent. At first she hated it but eventually she began to enjoy it -- partly because of her growing love for God, and partly because the convent was a lot less strict than her father.

Still, when the time came for her to choose between marriage and religious life, she had a tough time making the decision. She'd watched a difficult marriage ruin her mother. On the other hand being a nun didn't seem like much fun. When she finally chose religious life, she did so because she though that it was the only safe place for someone as prone to sin as she was.

Once installed at the Carmelite convent permanently, she started to learn and practice mental prayer, in which she "tried as hard as I could to keep Jesus Christ present within me....My imagination is so dull that I had no talent for imagining or coming up with great theological thoughts." Teresa prayed this way off and on for eighteen years without feeling that she was getting results. Part of the reason for her trouble was that the convent was not the safe place she assumed it would be.

Many women who had no place else to go wound up at the convent, whether they had vocations or not. They were encouraged to stay away from the convents for long period of time to cut down on expenses. Nuns would arrange their veils attractively and wear jewelry. Prestige depended not on piety but on money. There was a steady stream of visitors in the parlor and parties that included young men. What spiritual life there was involved hysteria, weeping, exaggerated penance, nosebleeds, and self- induced visions.

Teresa suffered the same problem that Francis of Assisi did -- she was too charming. Everyone liked her and she liked to be liked. She found it too easy to slip into a worldly life and ignore God. The convent encouraged her to have visitors to whom she would teach mental prayer because their gifts helped the community economy. But Teresa got more involved in flattery, vanity and gossip than spiritual guidance. These weren't great sins perhaps but they kept her from God.

Then Teresa fell ill with malaria. When she had a seizure, people were so sure she was dead that after she woke up four days later she learned they had dug a grave for her. Afterwards she was paralyzed for three years and was never completely well. Yet instead of helping her spiritually, her sickness became an excuse to stop her prayer completely: she couldn't be alone enough, she wasn't healthy enough, and so forth. Later she would say, "Prayer is an act of love, words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love."

For years she hardly prayed at all "under the guise of humility." She thought as a wicked sinner she didn't deserve to get favors from God. But turning away from prayer was like "a baby turning from its mother's breasts, what can be expected but death?"

When she was 41, a priest convinced her to go back to her prayer, but she still found it difficult. "I was more anxious for the hour of prayer to be over than I was to remain there. I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer." She was distracted often: "This intellect is so wild that it doesn't seem to be anything else than a frantic madman no one can tie down." Teresa sympathizes with those who have a difficult time in prayer: "All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles."

Yet her experience gives us wonderful descriptions of mental prayer: "For mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything."

As she started to pray again, God gave her spiritual delights: the prayer of quiet where God's presence overwhelmed her senses, raptures where God overcame her with glorious foolishness, prayer of union where she felt the sun of God melt her soul away. Sometimes her whole body was raised form the ground. If she felt God was going to levitate her body, she stretched out on the floor and called the nuns to sit on her and hold her down. Far from being excited about these events, she "begged God very much not to give me any more favors in public."

In her books, she analyzed and dissects mystical experiences the way a scientist would. She never saw these gifts as rewards from God but the way he "chastised" her. The more love she felt the harder it was to offend God. She says, "The memory of the favor God has granted does more to bring such a person back to God than all the infernal punishments imaginable."

Her biggest fault was her friendships. Though she wasn't sinning, she was very attached to her friends until God told her "No longer do I want you to converse with human beings but with angels." In an instant he gave her the freedom that she had been unable to achieve through years of effort. After that God always came first in her life.

Some friends, however, did not like what was happening to her and got together to discuss some "remedy" for her. Concluding that she had been deluded by the devil, they sent a Jesuit to analyze her. The Jesuit reassured her that her experiences were from God but soon everyone knew about her and was making fun of her.

One confessor was so sure that the visions were from the devil that her told her to make an obscene gesture called the fig every time she had a vision of Jesus. She cringed but did as she was ordered, all the time apologizing to Jesus. Fortunately, Jesus didn't seem upset but told her that she was right to obey her confessor. In her autobiography she would say, "I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself." The devil was not to be feared but fought by talking more about God.

Teresa felt that the best evidence that her delights came from God was that the experiences gave her peace, inspiration, and encouragement. "If these effects are not present I would greatly doubt that the raptures come from God; on the contrary I would fear lest they be caused by rabies."

Sometimes, however, she couldn't avoid complaining to her closest Friend about the hostility and gossip that surrounded her. When Jesus told her, "Teresa, that's how I treat my friends" Teresa responded, "No wonder you have so few friends." But since Christ has so few friends, she felt they should be good ones. And that's why she decided to reform her Carmelite order.

At the age of 43, she became determined to found a new convent that went back to the basics of a contemplative order: a simple life of poverty devoted to prayer. This doesn't sound like a big deal, right? Wrong.

When plans leaked out about her first convent, St. Joseph's, she was denounced from the pulpit, told by her sisters she should raise money for the convent she was already in, and threatened with the Inquisition. The town started legal proceedings against her. All because she wanted to try a simple life of prayer. In the face of this open war, she went ahead calmly, as if nothing was wrong, trusting in God.

"May God protect me from gloomy saints," Teresa said, and that's how she ran her convent. To her, spiritual life was an attitude of love, not a rule. Although she proclaimed poverty, she believed in work, not in begging. She believed in obedience to God more than penance. If you do something wrong, don't punish yourself -- change. When someone felt depressed, her advice was that she go some place where she could see the sky and take a walk. When someone was shocked that she was going to eat well, she answered, "There's a time for partridge and a time for penance." To her brother's wish to meditate on hell, she answered, "Don't."

Once she had her own convent, she could lead a life of peace, right? Wrong again. Teresa believed that the most powerful and acceptable prayer was that prayer that leads to action. Good effects were better than pious sensations that only make the person praying feel good.

At St. Joseph's, she spent much of her time writing her Life. She wrote this book not for fun but because she was ordered to. Many people questioned her experiences and this book would clear her or condemn her. Because of this, she used a lot of camouflage in the book, following a profound thought with the statement, "But what do I know. I'm just a wretched woman." The Inquisition liked what they read and cleared her.

At 51, she felt it was time to spread her reform movement. She braved burning sun, ice and snow, thieves, and rat-infested inns to found more convents. But those obstacles were easy compared to what she face from her brothers and sisters in religious life. She was called "a restless disobedient gadabout who has gone about teaching as though she were a professor" by the papal nuncio. When her former convent voted her in as prioress, the leader of the Carmelite order excommunicated the nuns. A vicar general stationed an officer of the law outside the door to keep her out. The other religious orders opposed her wherever she went. She often had to enter a town secretly in the middle of the night to avoid causing a riot.

And the help they received was sometimes worse than the hostility. A princess ordered Teresa to found a convent and then showed up at the door with luggage and maids. When Teresa refused to order her nuns to wait on the princess on their knees, the princess denounced Teresa to the Inquisition.

In another town, they arrived at their new house in the middle of the night, only to wake up the next morning to find that one wall of the building was missing.

Why was everyone so upset? Teresa said, "Truly it seems that now there are no more of those considered mad for being true lovers of Christ." No one in religious orders or in the world wanted Teresa reminding them of the way God said they should live.

Teresa looked on these difficulties as good publicity. Soon she had postulants clamoring to get into her reform convents. Many people thought about what she said and wanted to learn about prayer from her. Soon her ideas about prayer swept not only through Spain but all of Europe.

In 1582, she was invited to found a convent by an Archbishop but when she arrived in the middle of the pouring rain, he ordered her to leave. "And the weather so delightful too" was Teresa's comment. Though very ill, she was commanded to attend a noblewoman giving birth. By the time they got there, the baby had already arrived so, as Teresa said, "The saint won't be needed after all." Too ill to leave, she died on October 4 at the age of 67.

She is the founder of the Discalced Carmelites. In 1970 she was declared a Doctor of the Church for her writing and teaching on prayer, one of two women to be honored in this way.

St. Teresa is the patron saint of Headache sufferers. Her symbol is a heart, an arrow, and a book. She was canonized in 1622.

St. Augstine

I have decided to put a Saint of the Week up this week it is St. Augstine of Hippo ( cause aparently there is about 6 diffrent ones) He is a doctor of our Catholic Faith and one of my faviorts. Here is his story

St. Augustine of Hippo is the patron of brewers because of his conversion from a former life of loose living, which included parties, entertainment, and worldly ambitions. His complete turnaround and conversion has been an inspiration to many who struggle with a particular vice or habit they long to break.


This famous son of St. Monica was born in Africa and spent many years of his life in wicked living and in false beliefs. Though he was one of the most intelligent men who ever lived and though he had been brought up a Christian, his sins of impurity and his pride darkened his mind so much, that he could not see or understand the Divine Truth anymore. Through the prayers of his holy mother and the marvelous preaching of St. Ambrose, Augustine finally became convinced that Christianity was the one true religion. Yet he did not become a Christian then, because he thought he could never live a pure life. One day, however, he heard about two men who had suddenly been converted on reading the life of St. Antony, and he felt terrible ashamed of himself. "What are we doing?" he cried to his friend Alipius. "Unlearned people are taking Heaven by force, while we, with all our knowledge, are so cowardly that we keep rolling around in the mud of our sins!"

Full of bitter sorrow, Augustine flung himself out into the garden and cried out to God, "How long more, O Lord? Why does not this hour put an end to my sins?" Just then he heard a child singing, "Take up and read!" Thinking that God intended him to hear those words, he picked up the book of the Letters of St. Paul, and read the first passage his gaze fell on. It was just what Augustine needed, for in it, St. Paul says to put away all impurity and to live in imitation of Jesus. That did it! From then on, Augustine began a new life.

He was baptized, became a priest, a bishop, a famous Catholic writer, Founder of religious priests, and one of the greatest saints that ever lived. He became very devout and charitable, too. On the wall of his room he had the following sentence written in large letters: "Here we do not speak evil of anyone." St. Augustine overcame strong heresies, practiced great poverty and supported the poor, preached very often and prayed with great fervor right up until his death. "Too late have I loved You!" he once cried to God, but with his holy life he certainly made up for the sins he committed before his conversion. His feast day is August 28th.
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=418

3 steps to avoid sin and turn to God

In our staint Paul bible study we went over 3 steps to turing to God, we were talking about how when you have a BIG sin on your hands like hate or looking at dirty things things like that, How you can't beat it with out turning to God. It was 3 simple steps:
Flee the area
Get on your knees
Turn to our savior

It sounds really simple and we all have our own ways when we face the looming of sin, we either can read the bible....pray....sing songs of worship...go to a sacrement (mass, confession...)...read spritual reading (confessions of St. Augestien...

It sounds simple doesn't it, well I know it can be really hard to do this in the middle of sinning but if you are about to sin just say, I LOVE YOU LORD, HELP ME JESUS...somthing like that...Mother Mary Help me...

Leave the area
run away
then PRAY
and TURN TO GOD..

Love,
Bobby

Eph. 6 10-18

10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints

This is a lot of good stuff...lets take it peice by peice but instead of taking each verse and breaking it down I am just going to disect what Paul is saying; This is all about putting on our amour that God gives us at our brith Rising up and fighting. Sounds like a retreat song we had this past year rise up.

10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

I want you to do what Sister Therese Marie,TOR said to do down in stuby read this part 3 times
1st pick out a word
2nd a verse/phrase
3rd put your self in the story, in this case Think about what Paul is discribing, putting on the armor of God...

then do it with this part:

14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints

Now This is a very spelled out what Paul is writing, trying to get across, he uses great discription and it makes it easy to visualize, but it is simple.
TEMPTATION IS COMING, SIN IS GOING TO BE THERE BUT EQUIPT YOUR SELF WITH THE ARMOR OF GOD DONOT PUT IN ON THE SHELF, USE IT!

~Bobby :)

The Ballad of Grandma K

if you want the lyrics just comment and I will post them....sorry the singing is kinda low...and the guitar is kinda loud...

Just some fun...and some updates

how madel with hair





What happens at the 1.10 happens to me all the time...



The adress again is loveyourfellowman.webs.com

O and a BIG SHOUT out to Grandma K, one of my best friends grandmas...HEY GRANDMA K I HOPE YOU ARE FEELING BETTER!!

Is there a diffrence

I went to 11 o'clock mass today because we had a graduation mass for all college and high school grad's. I couldn't help but notice the diffence between the elderly and the younger crowd. We will call the elderly 60 and up and the younger crowd anything younger than 60 (but consentrating on the 10-30 crowd). Anyway I couldn't help but notice a few things like dress, the elderly were dawning suites and sunday dresses. The younger polo's and khaki shorts, blouses and khaki capris (that is just one of the many).

I am wondering if we are getting this split almost a old way and a neo or new way. Do we want to be called as young and old the Neo Catholics and the Old Way Catholics? and we setting ourselves up for it, with programs geared toward teens and then ones for the elderly? Or is the Fresh prince and Jazzy Jeff right, Partents just don't understand?

1st I am so NOT against having programs like Lifeteen and God Squad and monday night youth groups they are awesome, they bring people to the church. But at the same time we have a out pooring of the "older crowd".

I don't like the fact that I think about the Neo Catholic and Old way Catholic.
I find it disturbing, I think though we might of set ourselves up we also can fix that. Older folks need to understand things like Lifeteen are great, though I know we have the support of some just not all.

In my mind we need to bridge the gap between ages, have times where older people listen to a "younger person" speak about what is going on and why we listen to the new christen music, almost forgetting hyms and pslams. Why Matt Maher and Chris tomlin and colaberating and making great works of God. When years ago NonCatholics weren't allowed in the church. (Remembering Catholic Means Universal)

And the Young need to listen to the old. About tradition and how the church used to be. Like a camp fire talk.

With God all things are possiable....facing the giants

Lasts

A vlog about lasts and doors closing windows opening I hope you enjoy.
the other video is the byrds turn turn turn...while listening think about how everything changes but you get led to greater things...

Somthing New

I have decided to do somthing a little diffrent every once and awhile,I will call it simply movie reveiws. Somtime after I watch a movie I will put a post of what I thought. Wether it a Christen movie or not, and I will Post a "christen" 1-5 star, so if you are looking for a moral values movie, fire proof or Facing the giants for an expample. Then I will put a rating of the world's veiw, so like Rocky, Tommy Boy or Step Brothers...I will put the trail on and a plot sypnopis from imdb.com and then my rating

1. Step Brothers

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback are both about 40 when Brennan's mom and Dale's dad marry. The sons still live with the parents so they must now share a room. Initial antipathy threatens the household's peace and the parents' relationship. Dad lays down the law: both slackers have a week to find a job. Out of the job search and their love of music comes a pact that leads to friendship but more domestic disarray compounded by the boys' sleepwalking. Hovering nearby are Brennan's successful brother and his lonely wife: the brother wants to help sell his step-father's house, the wife wants Dale's attention, and the newlyweds want to retire and sail the seven seas. Can harmony come from the discord? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}



I really enjoyed the comdey in this movie, It was very funny. But the language is not want kids below 6th grade to even know. The F word was used more times then I have herd in a movie since Hoffa.

religous scale- *
World scale- ****




2. Fireproof

Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter's adage: Never leave your partner behind. Inside burning buildings, it's his natural instinct. In the cooling embers of his marriage, it's another story.

After seven years of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that they are ready to move on without each other. Yet as they prepare to enter divorce proceedings, Caleb's dad asks his son to try an experiment: The Love Dare.

While hoping The Love Dare has nothing to do with his parents' newfound faith, Caleb commits to the challenge. But can he attempt to love his wife while avoiding God's love for him? Will he be able to demonstrate love over and over again to a person that's no longer receptive to his love? Or is this just another marriage destined to go up in smoke?




This moive is one of the best moives I have seen in a long time. For Married couple who have been married for 50 years to couple who have just started dating it is the perfect date movie. With A mix of comedy and a powerful story/message.

Religous- *****
World- *****

with love

Bobby

Amazing Basketball

Though this is a blog ment to teach and learn about religon,Once I saw this news story I couldn't not put it on here. I was on Big Kenny of Big and Rich...He is the Big part....It is about a Teen with autsim and he was the Basketball team manger they put him in their last game....just watch the story

with love
Bobby

Part 2 10 step

*Declaimer* a lot of this blog is not doctorine or medation on a verse but oppion on what I think this is about and what my fellow ST. PAUL BIBLE STUDIERS THINK***

I am going to reveiw the 10 step:

1. Encounter the Gospel
2. Realize there is a God
3. Admit that it is not you
4. Acknowledge that Christ is God
5. Admit that you are in sin
6. Realize that you need a Savior
7. Repent and Reconcile
8. Believe in the Gospel
9. Change the way you live
10. Share the Gospel with others so theycan encounter it.


I want to say one thing, when we were at bible study. We talked about this, idea I didn't think of it as the rest of the people their (John Thomas, Jen Harig and Paul Dillick) did part of the reason is past life experinace, going to the new Green Campus of Parkside church. It wasn't a bad experince but you could only listen to this as a 10 things to do then your christen, and then you start believeing it. But Paul saw it diffrently, he said it was more of a guide to your life and how to livebit. More of a Circle, because think how many times we Go around this circle. Defantly 5-7 and then 9, I also think step 3 and 4. We do 4 all the time at mass. I can say that 3 is repeted in my life every day. In just the way that I am not God or a God, I am a sinner trying to be a saint.

Then next thing we talked about was step 10 and how hard for a lot of Catholics it is to do but to non Catholics it comes easy. I would say that it is because they practice that a lot, talking about their faith. Unlike a lot of young Catholics end up with a 2nd grade education in religion. I know if I was to compare myself to a non Catholic I would have about a 6th grade education of my faith. I feel that it is somthing the Lifeteen Program has done for me, With my non Catholic or even non religous friends I have been able to practice.

To talk a little bit more about the circle Idea, I think that non Catholics go though the circle a bunch of times in their lives and Catholics might only go though it once or twice. But it is not the times you go thought it or quanity but the quality in which you do it, think about it if you went though this process 100 times in your life but never put your full being into it. But then someone goes though it once but they put everything into it the quality is most important.

Somtimes Non Catholics like I have stated they use this as a 1 time 10 program. But like AA Alchohalics ana. it is a ever going process like how as Catholics we see slavation not like Baptist or other Protant sects see it as a one time process...

LOVE,
Bobby

The 10 step christen plan…aka 10 step Christens

I was reading the sword of the spirit and I saw that the authors had a kind of 10 step plan to being a christen. They said if you were to approach Christianity as a 10 step program it would go like this:
1. Encounter the Gospel
2. Realize there is a God
3. Admit that it is not you
4. Acknowledge that Christ is God
5. Admit that you are in sin
6. Realize that you need a Savior
7. Repent and Reconcile
8. Believe in the Gospel
9. Change the way you live
10. Share the Gospel with others so theycan encounter it.
Now I don’t have a problem with this, I can say that I could point out in my life the times that I realized all those things. But if I was to complain, which I am about to, I would say two many non Catholics use this as how you Become a Christen. I feel this is kind of wrong I remember once or twice maybe a thousand times when I was going Harvest Bible Church, the new Parkside Church Green Campus, when they said this is how you become a christen…like I need to carry a list in my pocket and check them off (like up I repented and now I believe the Gospel). I see it as a life process and journey. As a Catholic as Catholics we go though this process….with out a check list but with a life journey. In our lives when we are little we encounter the Gospel…
PSR/CCD teacher Why did Jesus come to the Earth
Kid in PSR To die and save us from our sin…
In very short terms that is the Gospel…Now the next part I think we do very early on in our lives, in fact the next 2 parts, when we are young at least I remember acknowledging that there is a God, then I also remember when my mom would say she was ALWAYS RIGHT I would say NO MOM GOD IS THE ONLY ONE WHO IS ALWAYS RIGHT… I feel that is admiting that you or even your parents is not God.
Now having a sisiter who was 3 years older than me I learned the transabsation at a young age (the bread turning in to Jesus Body and the wine turning into Blood.) I can remember there were these 2 old ladies and during that part in the mass I walked up to them and said do you know what is happening…and I proceed to tell them that the wine was turning to Jesus Blood and the Bread was turning into his Body… I know for a preschooler to know that was odd…but it was me…I am not very normal…Now the next part doesn’t happen until you are about 8 or 9 and that is going to your 1st confession where you say you have sinned…the next 2 parts sometimes happen in a flipped order, Repent and Reconcile sometimes happens before you realize you need Jesus our savoir. Because of your 1st confession being in the 2nd grade. But I know that the realizing you need a savoir can happen earlier in life to but in my life it happened in the oppsite order… I didn’t realize I need Jesus until high school (new about Jesus but I don’t think I NEW and LOVED Jesus like you should, I did it in the passive Sunday Catholic way not the x-treme Caflic way) but I had repented my sins before…the next 3 steps happened all at once in my life, at the Game Plan For Life…It was the 1st time I knew God’s love and I embraced it at full force…Then I changed my life, I distanced myself from some of my friends that were leading me far away from Christ…I stopped watching some TV shows…Then like all renewed Catholics I felt like I had to tell everyone…and I was ridiculed but it never changed me and I have kept running the race…this is how at least in my life how the 10 step programmed worked…It wasn’t all at once…It was a process just as it should be approached…

Peace and love
Bobby

has some helpful tips

I was reading the Sword and Sprite; a Book written by Christopher Cuddy and Mark Hart. We are in chapter 3 in our ST.Paul Bible study at 5:30, you should come...

Well anyway the part that I read ahead was all about coming off the retreat mountain
it is the last time i will come off a life teen retreat mountain. I feel like st. Peter because if you go back to your gospel reading it was the story that Jesus was transfigured and st. Paul said Rabbi "we will make tents one for you one Moses, and one for Elijah".... then a dark cloud appeared and a voice said "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him." then Jesus told them not to tell anyone

Mark 9:2-10

Jesus took Peter, James, and John
and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves.
And he was transfigured before them,
and his clothes became dazzling white,
such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.
Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses,
and they were conversing with Jesus.
Then Peter said to Jesus in reply,
"Rabbi, it is good that we are here!
Let us make three tents:
one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified.
Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them;
from the cloud came a voice,
"This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."
Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone
but Jesus alone with them.

As they were coming down from the mountain,
he charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone,
except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
So they kept the matter to themselves,
questioning what rising from the dead meant.



Now after reading the story think about a post retreat, How often do you not want to come off that mountain...and build tents..but you can't on Monday you still have to go to school. But i have some helpful hints to keep the retreat in your mind :

1. Keep the them in your head, never stop thinking about the theme, keep being called prepared and revived...or what ever the theme is...

2. Keep going to adoration, it might be hard but even if it is just for a half and hour or 5 mins before or after mass...& KEEP GOING TO MASS these go together pretty well but I wanted to make sure you knew...

3. Read your letters when you need a pick me up, I do this often when i feel sad I will grab a letter from a past retreat and read it, it helps me to remember I am loved and I need to keep running the race...

You can't stay on retreat forever, but these are some of the ways to keep living the faith...But JESUS never told you not to tell anyone about the retreat, so the last thing is to:

PREACH THE GOSPEL AND [SOMETIMES](if nessacsey) USE WORDS!

praise GOD
Bobby

WITNESS

this is my witness proably the best I have ever done in a talk, ever it can only get better =D for all those who missed it...and those who didn't but want to hear it again...please read the "CPR" Post Right under this post!

Praise God!

CPR

A lot of you reading this in fact all of you know about how I go to Queen of Heaven Church in green Ohio, and how I am very involved in Life Teen. But I have just gotten back from my LAST retreat, It was all about CPR but not the chest compression, and breathing though the mouth it was about being CALLED, REVIVED AND PREPARED!

WE WERE ALL CALLED:
It was one of the smallest retreats I have ever been apart of, 35 teens. Though some thought we were weak, I know we are the STRONG 35! 2 people had to cancel because of other obligations. I know God had a purpose he only wanted those 35 no more no less. He called us all to be apart of it. A former core member Jason Goshe always said that he felt that if you were on the retreat then God called you there cause their was something you needed to hear.

Then on Saturday we were REVIVED:
Like all Saturdays, we went to confession the Catholic way to revive the sole. Unlike Protestant churches, who say to God before they go to bed "Lord I am sorry for my sins and list them". We go to a Priest and tell them what we have sinned, this serves a 2 fold purpose.

1. It says in the bible that you should tell people of your sins, the church used to have communal confession where the people at mass would confess their sins. They would also still go in front of a priest for the 2nd reason.

2. In basic terms is that the priest is the vicar for God in that way, his words are not always his but Gods.

I gave a witness/testimony about Gods love and my mass and adoration experience, I will be putting this up. I had so many great complements about my witness. I knew it went well it was what God wanted, i did what I could do praying about it and then writing it but God used me to get his message across. (I will be putting it on my blog so that you can hear it and listen to it.

We also went to mass; it was one for the best masses I have ever been apart of, in 4 years it was the best mass during a retreat! we also had a hour of adoration, that was also moving. though we had live music it wasn't as bad as it had been in the past.

On Sunday the last day the lords day, we got PREPARED:
We started the day with the time change so breakfast went from 7:30, to 8:30. My Cabin and I stayed up pretty Late talking about the retreat thus far what they thought, and How I thought they will become great leaders in Life teen. After Breakfast they showed a senior Video that made me cry (yes I cry) it was sad to think that my Life teen experience was almost over. After we had a session about Community, then after we had a lunch where you had to serve the person that was next to you. It really taught to me to put myself last. Then we had the last session all about being Prepared to the world around us and how to be holy after the retreat.

This is all about the retreat we were who God called, revived and Prepared.
We were a STRONG 35! NEVER WERE WE WEAK BUT STRONG THE ENTIRE WEEKEND

Praise GOD!
Bobby

John 3:16 part 2

Like I said here is part 2 of who knows how many!

John 3:16

this is all about john 3:16 part 1 meaning there should be a 2nd part and maybe a 3rd and 4th....this one is really just thrown together but there is some good stuff in it

Divorce and the whole crazy thing

Well it has been about a month and a few weeks since I last Blogged, I am sorry for that I have just been super busy and have not had a lot of time to blog. You can tell by the title I have a lot to blog about. And 1st I want to talk abut Separation/Divorce. I want to talk as the child in what is going on. My parents are now officially separated, meaning in a year they will get divorced. I don't feel that it is my fault because I can't change people. My parents are much of the same but completely different than who they were when they met. My dad is still quite and my mom is loud. But my mom is more religious and well my dad didn't change with her. My mom is trying to be more indepdent my dad just wants to be happy. But I as the child feel like my family is falling apart. I am 18 1/2 so all my life my parents have been together. And I love both of them, and I know that they both want out of the marriage. Maybe I am ahead in my years like in most things, but I don't see why it was never fixed. When it was going to be it didn't work, because they didn't trust each other. I sit here on my bed and think about my childhood, and how they never hid their arguments and sometimes it got nasty. But I always thought they would be strong in everything. And now that is not the case I feel cold and sad, angry and want to hit something really hard my head or a walk Maybe even a chalkboard. But it wouldn't help it would be hell on me and I know it will be.
It says in the bible that God won't give you anything you can't handle. Or in Matthew 19:26 With God all things are possible. Which means that you can to anything as long as you relay on The G-O-D.


I ask you all reading this to pray for my family and I that we can get though this civilly and no one be hurt and everyone be healed. Also for all those dealing with divorce.

But with that being a cross in my life I still have a lot of blessings:
Having the LOVE of both parents no matter what
Not having to be a middle person anymore
having the LOVE of a wonderful Girlfriend in Michelle
Being a God Father (with no mob though)
Living in America
Being able to walk talk hear and see
Playing guitar, and being able to write songs
Going to a great school
LIFE TEEN
having a great core and teen core, friends and 2 great presits
Music
Sports
Having a great childhood
Being able to beathe and laugh
No one has deid recently in my family or family friends
the quickly approaching 2yr. for Michelle and I
Having a pillow to lay my head on and a great bed
Being able to think clearly
Having Gods Love
Having Free will
Jesus dieing so that we can be with him in heaven
the holy sprite coming
Hot water
A warm house
I guess I will take one cross for 30 blessings


Love Everybody
~Bobby