Easter +

Today is the day! We have been spending 40 days praying, fasting, and giving alms. Now we awaken with the Risen Lord. We can now obtain heaven; we now are truly Catholic. Some times I wonder what the sandhedrians were thinking at this one moment, the temple was cumbled and built back up in 3 days...The Man they had put to death did all of those things. Come back for more later ya'll I don't have a lot of time to b

~Bobby

p.s. happy easter

Lent

So I know lent is like almost over, at least 1/2 over...I want to talk about the end that we are all coming to. Now we all gave some thing up probably. And at the end of Lent we will prob. eat, drink, listen to, do...Whatever we gave up...There is nothing wrong if you gave up eating meat all lent to have a big strip steak at the end. But that isn't what lent is about. It isn't about arbitrarily giving up meat not realizing what and why you are doing it and having a full rack of ribs. It is about realizing the sacrifice.  I gave up listening to Bob Rice... mostly because people don't think I can do it, and I didn't really know if I could do it. Since I do Play him a lot during Life Teen, but a lot of that is because When I was making WMV's that is what I had that I could find. So most of it is because of a dare, and a lot of it is because it is a challenge. I also want(ed) to get past my personal stuff, and become a lot more organized...This has been the biggest challenge(giving up b-r) and now it is starting to get to me....I want to listen to and praise to Bob Rice I want to worship to Bob Rice...But Christ died and so I made the sacrifice to not listen to my favorite artist. At the end of Lent I will be more grateful and my musical horizons opened...this doesn't mean I won't play him during praise and worship through lent...because that is 1 a Sunday, and 2 It isn't exactly just for me...but for the group (i.e. Days of Elijah)...It hasn't been at all easy and Not fasting on the Annunciation didn't help. But it was a major feast day and He had a new song on his blog that just rocked and fit so well into what I was feeling during lent. It made me really want to listen to him
:(...there are just 3 more weeks, and I am sure it is going to challege me but that is not even a drop in the bucket compared to what Christ did on the cross.

Sprechen Sie Jesus? (Do you speak Jesus)

 I was on LifeTeen.com and i came across this artical. what got me to it was a link in german Sprechen Sie Jesus? meaning i really don't know but it was thing

Dieses ist mein Körper; dieses ist mein Blut meaning this is my body this is my blood. the artical exerpt will get into more detail and i will inculed the link to the whole artical.

4 years ago I posted a blog about an article found on Lifeteen.com I thought it was amazing and I want to talk about it again. Just because I can...This is an blurb  from the article sadly it isn't on the website anymore...
 

"Although I had no idea what this local priest was talking about in his homily I knew exactly what was happening a few minutes later when he lifted the host and then the cup up and prayed, "Dieses ist mein Körper; dieses ist mein Blut." "This is my body; this is my blood."

It was the words of consecration and in German or in English I understood what was happening; Transubstantiation, at consecration the bread and wine become the body and blood of Jesus. Jesus was truly in my midst right there in Cologne, Germany; just like He is there when I attend a mass in California, Louisiana, or Arizona. Wherever and whenever the mass is prayed, one thing always happens - Jesus shows up, no matter what language is spoken. And that is why I am Catholic."

When I think about this it makes me feel very  full inside. Because my friends think about it, We are the only people who can say this about our faith. It is truly Universal. If you go the chapel service in Akron and then go to Christ Community church service (not even 10 mins away from one another) it is drastically different the style, the preacher will preach on something completely different, and the music won't even be close to the same.  But as Catholics when you go to mass whether it is at Queen of Heaven, St. Mary's in Mass. Ohio, Nativity, St. Francis, St. Paul's they are all the same. You could go to the Mass in Texas and it is going to be the same. Isn't that amazing? I am in awe of it. How can over 1.1 billion people be on the same page every week, every Mass, and fully in belief... There is only ONE and it is US the CATHOLIC CHURCH amazing, huh?