tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24832287610354995562011-08-15T02:05:57.283-07:00Mr. P.'s ClassroomA blog where the world is my classroom and Jesus is our TeacherMr. P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17439823298309674416noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2483228761035499556.post-84124003104542109532011-08-14T15:41:00.000-07:002011-08-14T16:06:44.874-07:002011-08-14T16:06:44.874-07:00Comic Review: "Ultimate Captain America""Ultimate Captain America" ##1-4<br />
<span data-jsid="text">written by Jason Aaron (<i>Wolverine</i>) & illustrated by Ron Garney (<i>Amazing Spider-Man</i>)</span><br />
<span data-jsid="text">(<a href="http://www.elystandard.co.uk/what-s-on/reviews/graphic_novel_review_ultimate_captain_america_1_977038">not to be confused with the recent <i>Captain America</i> movie</a>) </span><br />
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Comic note: Parental Guidance rated<br />
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Mr. P.'s Grade: A-/B+<br />
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Here are the ultimate strengths of this ultimate Cap. version:<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1784526004"> </a><br />
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(WARNING: Some spoilers included below.)<br />
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1.) Captain America prays the Lord's Prayer (i.e., "Our Father") during his interrogation and close-call execution scene in the opening chapters, even while he is mocked by his captor for praying.<br />
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2.) While imprisoned by the villain, Cap.is tested beyond his mental strength and tempted to his limits. He realizes that only a miracle would get him out of his situation. (virtues: faith; perseverence)<br />
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3.) Even after his miracle from a very hopeless situation, Cap. still credits God as he reflects on his success bringing the villain to justice. (virtue: humility)<br />
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4.) Cap. is not scandalized by the imperfect institution he serves even after all her many imperfections. (A good lesson that some bad apples don't make the whole barrel bad.)<br />
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5.) In the final scene, our hero brings the Good Book to his enemy as the villain lays in a secured hospital bed. Cap reads it to him with the opening lines from the Book of Genesis, "In the beginning..." (virtue: love of enemies)<br />
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No HW today, Class. It's the Sabbath.<br />
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Dismissed.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2483228761035499556-8412400310454210953?l=mrpclassroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mr. P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17439823298309674416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2483228761035499556.post-24769533864911195452011-08-13T23:17:00.000-07:002011-08-13T23:17:29.886-07:002011-08-13T23:17:29.886-07:00“And with your spirit” Points of Reflection<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:DoNotShowRevisions/> <w:DoNotPrintRevisions/> <w:DoNotShowComments/> <w:DoNotShowInsertionsAndDeletions/> <w:DoNotShowPropertyChanges/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">AMDG</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In November 2011 (First Sunday of Advent), English-speaking countries will pray a more poetic and more biblical translation of the Latin “Et cum spirito tuo” in to the Mass in English. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When the priest says, “The Lord be with you,” we will not say “And also with you.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We will respond, “And with your spirit.”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Here are some points for reflection:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>1.)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Jesus in Mt. 28 said that He will be with us until the end of time.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>2.)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>“And with your spirit” has roots in St. Paul and the first Christians all the way down to our time today.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>3.)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>“And with your spirit” better captures the Pauline sense of “And with your spirit.” <span> </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>4.)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>It’s NOT that the priest is saying “Hi everyone and good morning” and we reply “hey, Father, good morning to you, too”.<span> </span>No, something awesome and mysterious is taking place.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>5.)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Christ is present in the assembly of the baptized.<span> </span>This is reflected in the priest’s Apostolic Greeting, “The Lord be with you.”<span> </span>In a way, he’s saying “The Lord be with your spirit.”</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>6.)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>The ordained priest acts “in persona Christi capitis” (i.e., “in the person of Christ the head”).<span> </span>By replying “And with your spirit,” the assembly is asking the priest to be the spiritual father of the community in a sacred action about to take place.<span> </span>The priest’s spirit was changed at his ordination.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span><span>7.)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>There is an interdependence of the priest with the people at Holy Mass.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">HW: Study the Third Roman Missal.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Class dismissed.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2483228761035499556-2476953386491119545?l=mrpclassroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mr. P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17439823298309674416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2483228761035499556.post-30362712278142505192011-08-12T23:47:00.000-07:002011-08-12T23:47:04.941-07:002011-08-12T23:47:04.941-07:00Spiritual Friendship: St. Frances Jane de ChantalAMDG <br />
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Today's memorial for a mother of 6 who became a nun after her husband died is none other than <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08282c.htm">St. Jane Frances de Chantal</a>.<br />
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She's most fitting for us today, class, 'cause she's good friends with another saint: St. Francis de Sales who's a co-patron saint of the <a href="http://www.oakdiocese.org/">Diocese of Oakland</a>. This land of oak East Bay diocese comprises both Contra Costa and Alameda Counties.<br />
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I think the friendship as seen between these two canonized saints is most cool on my cool meter b/c it shows the beauty of friends who themselves seek to serve God. What beauty! What simplicity! What love!<br />
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So let us choose our friends wisely and with care. We become who they are.<br />
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HW:Check out St. Jane's life.<br />
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St. Jane Frances de Chantal, pray for us.<br />
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Class dismissed.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2483228761035499556-3036271227814250519?l=mrpclassroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mr. P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17439823298309674416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2483228761035499556.post-61434864328016426472011-08-12T23:03:00.000-07:002011-08-14T10:35:20.639-07:002011-08-14T10:35:20.639-07:00P.'s Delish Dish: Sushi w/"Some Awe"Alright, it's time for your meal break. Here you go. <br />
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This delish dish sushi lives up to its name at Yo! Sushi. Running @ about $9.50, the "Awesome" is made up of shrimp, eel, avocado, crab meat, and not sure what else. 'Sure fills me up. Arigato.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I hope the meal was tasty. Our sushi break, beautiful flock, reminds me of yet another meal that took place along the shore with seafood. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When Our Master called his first disciples, He simply said, "Come, follow me..." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And they left their nets and fish to catch the world with His love. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And when Peter denied him three times, Our Risen Master who had just cooked fish for his friend that morning, asked this first supreme bridge-builder, "Do you love me..." thrice.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He calls YOU, too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He calls you and me to follow Him and make fishers of all nations. All nations!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He asks you and me to return to His Divine Mercy when we deny Him through our weaknesses.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Follow me, the Master says to you...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">...and me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He looks you in your eyes...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He says, "Follow me."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He says, "Do you love me more than these?" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Like Peter, let's leave our nets, our baggage, our boat of worries, our daily cares behind.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Like Peter, let's say, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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+ JMJ <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2483228761035499556-6143486432801642647?l=mrpclassroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mr. P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17439823298309674416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2483228761035499556.post-18293318857668184952011-08-12T14:09:00.000-07:002011-08-14T10:22:36.079-07:002011-08-14T10:22:36.079-07:00Bishop Soto Blog on WYD & Our TimesAn apostle and friend to youth and youth adults, Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento, California, <a href="http://usccbmedia.blogspot.com/2011/08/amazing-global-grace.html">blogs</a> about World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid.<br />
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This caught my eye from His Excellency's post:<br />
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<div style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">"Living the faith is very challenging in these times. Particularly for young people in California, there is a sense of pervading cultural hostility to any public demonstration of faith. For the young men and women of Sacramento to have an experience of the global Church and to know that they are not alone will be an unforgettable life-changing experience."</div><br />
Yes, these are really challenging times. These are challenging times unlike decades past, for both society and the Church. <br />
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Between 1991-2001, for example, the pre-9/11 & <a href="http://www.coldwar.org/articles/90s/fall_of_the_soviet_union.asp">post-Soviet</a> and post-First Gulf War world saw a decade of a world relatively not at war and an American economy that was relatively strong. Bl. JP2 the Great ushered the pilgrim people in to the Third Millennium and, with respected moral authority, also set his eyes on the morally-crumbling West. The times were not as challenging as they are today.<br />
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Yes, our post-9/11 world is different than the past, especially for a society foreign to terror within its borders. And it is most especially different for a Church whose image today takes on a Woman in labor about to give birth. Amidst tribulation and the humiliating purification she is experiencing today, the eyes of faith tell us she is given two wings of a great eagle as a sign of Providence's care for her.<br />
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The Woman gives birth to new children. As the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) <a href="http://nineteensixty-four.blogspot.com/2011/03/emerging-us-catholic-trends-gss-2010.html">found in 2010</a>, the Catholic Church in the U.S. is growing. <br />
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But even in the U.S. where 1 out of 4 are baptized Catholic, and particularly in California where it is estimated that 1 out of 3 are Catholic, it is odd that we nevertheless have a pervading cultural hostility towards public faith.<br />
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Yup, even in America, the land of the free, where you think it ain't gonna happen.<br />
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In the Golden State, particularly, this growing "anti-Eureka!" ("I have not found It!") hostility to the faith sets the trend for the rest of the nation. As is said, so goes California, so goes the rest of the Nation... <br />
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And speaking of an anti, so goes another anti...<br />
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Cardinal Henri de Lubac, S.J., noticed in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Drama-Atheist-Humanism-Henri-Lubac/dp/089870443X"><i>The Drama of Atheistic Humanism</i></a> (1944) that there's a world of difference <a href="http://www.christianbook.com/the-drama-of-atheist-humanism/henri-de-lubac/9780898704433/pd/870443x/1250942237?event=1018SBF%7C676933%7C74181">between a-theism and anti-theism</a>. Whereas atheism simply denies God's existence, anti-theism is a step further in its blatant militant opposition to God and deliberately seeks to oppose Him. The Red Jesuit's chilling insight prophecizes what looms even further on the horizon and the task that lay ahead in the New Evangelization.<br />
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And so, beautiful people, enter WYD.<br />
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While we need to smell this cultural coffee that's brewing for you and me to drink, let's also smell the fragrant rose that is World Youth Day.<br />
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"Eureka!" <br />
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People who believe in God are not alone, as the young shepherd who hails from the<a href="http://www.diocese-sacramento.org/diocesan_bishop/bishop_soto/bishop_Soto_coat_of_arms.html"> land of oranges</a> and angels said.<br />
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Having attended WYD in Denver (1993) and Toronto (2002) myself, I too have felt this unforgettable life-changing experience. <br />
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I remember WYD Denver like it was yesterday! And Toronto seemed like it just happened a few hours ago. The energy is incredible year hence.<br />
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And even though I'm not flying to the land which brought the Cross to my own land of birth in the Philippines, I still feel the energetic excitement.<br />
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I feel the excitement in my friends who are there. I'm there with them united through the Eucharist as I remain geographically afar from them in a diocese named after the Blessed Sacrament. Even thousands of miles away, I give back to Spain, beset with secularism, what it first gave my Island forefathers. I send back to Spain young missionaries by supporting the youth and young adults who are there on my behalf.<br />
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Two of them are seminarians, one for San Francisco and the other for Sacramento. Read Br. J.R. Jaldon's post <a href="http://mjaldon.wordpress.com/contact/">here</a> and Br. Raj Derivera's <a href="http://iam3rd.tumblr.com/">here</a>.<br />
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I'm excited for the rumor of the new Doctor of the Church. He'll be Number 34 on the Doctor Docket List.<br />
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I'm excited for what the Pope of Christian Unity will <a href="http://www.romereports.com/palio/index.php?newlang=english">say</a>.<br />
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This Glory of the Olives will plant an olive tree for the WYD theme, "Planted and Built Up in Jesus Christ Planted in the Faith," which comes from St. Paul.<br />
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I'm excited for the youth who'll be there. These apostles will continue the Faith for which I've given my life, even after I'm long gone from this life.<br />
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I'm excited for what the intellectual B16's gonna say to the 1,200 young university professors all under age 40. <br />
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I'm excited to see its fruits now and some day and pray, like Simeon, to see with my own eyes the wonders that will happen.<br />
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About 450,000 are registered, although <a href="http://www.romereports.com/palio/index.php?newlang=english">WYD planners are projecting </a>1.5 million participants, including 800 bishops and 6,000 seminarians studying for the holy priesthood.<br />
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With all this excitement in the air, I dedicate this John Mayer song to the <a href="http://www.askacatholic.com/_TheChurch/popelist.cfm">266th Successor of St. Peter</a>: "Say What You Need to Say".<br />
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Say what you need to say, my dear Papa Benny! <br />
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So rock on with the Rock of Peter, Mystical Body of Christ, and <i>Viva il Papa! </i>Ad gentes...until all are one in Christ!<br />
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Homework: Check out the official theme songs for all World Youth Days <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7uiXaZLG9Y">here</a>!<br />
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Dismissed.<br />
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AMDG<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2483228761035499556-1829331885766818495?l=mrpclassroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mr. P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17439823298309674416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2483228761035499556.post-46422221980486742202011-08-12T04:00:00.000-07:002011-08-12T23:04:17.212-07:002011-08-12T23:04:17.212-07:00St. Lawrence-- Great Sense of Humor!'Morning, class! <br />
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I found this image from <a href="http://www.patheos.com/community/deaconsbench/page/2/">The Deacon's Bench</a> last Wednesday on the Feast of St Lawrence. What struck me at first glance was Lawrence's courageous face and the accompanying <a href="http://www.patheos.com/community/deaconsbench/2011/08/10/on-the-feast-of-st-lawrence-deacon-and-martyr/">Office of Readings from St. Augustine</a> on the life of St. Lawrence.<br />
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I was then drawn to the Blood of Christ that Lawrence carried and the commentary of how he had shed his own blood for Christ. In his other hand, he carried the Word of God. Word and Sacrament! The people behind him deserve a comment, too, below.<span class="fn" id="ctl00_C_About_Name"></span><br />
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Then I found out that it was created by a permanent deacon that I knew,<span class="fn" id="ctl00_C_About_Name"> Lawrence Klimecki of Sacramento. His professional website is <a href="http://deaconlawrence.imagekind.com/store/about.aspx">here</a>. He doesn't know me, but just adding his artistic hand to the image made it resonate all the more with yours truly.</span><br />
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<span class="fn" id="ctl00_C_About_Name">There're three things that greatly appeal to me about this deacon-martyr:</span><br />
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<span class="fn" id="ctl00_C_About_Name">1.) <u>His love for the poor</u>: During a persecution against the Church, the authorities ordered Lawrence to bring the treasures of the Church for confiscation. He gathered the poor and the needy of his day and brought them before his persecutors. Lawrence then said, "This is the treasure of the Church."</span><br />
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<span class="fn" id="ctl00_C_About_Name">The two figures in the image to his right (our left) seem to signify the care of widows and orphans, while the figure to his left (our right) is a blind man in need. These figures represent the people of our own time who are our modern day "widows and orphans" and those not just physically blind but spiritually blind, too, and need the love of God. </span><br />
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<span class="fn" id="ctl00_C_About_Name">2.) <u>His sense of humor under agony</u>: Sentenced to a slow death by fire, as his body was being grilled, he was filled with such love for God that he joked out loud and joyfully said, "You can turn me over now....I'm done on this side!"</span><br />
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<span class="fn" id="ctl00_C_About_Name">If you're a cook, then he's a great patron saint for you. </span><br />
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<span class="fn" id="ctl00_C_About_Name">3.) <u>My patron saint from Confirmation bears his name</u>: St. Lawrence Ruiz of Manila is the first canonized Filipino saint. He was martyred in Japan along with <a href="http://aesaintsoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/09/st-lorenzo-ruiz-and-companions.html">15 companions</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="fn" id="ctl00_C_About_Name"><a href="http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=366">St. Lawrence</a>, pray for us!</span><br />
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<span class="fn" id="ctl00_C_About_Name">Homework reflection: Who are the "widows and orphans" of our day?</span><br />
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<span class="fn" id="ctl00_C_About_Name">Alright, everyone, you're dismissed.</span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2483228761035499556-4642222198048674220?l=mrpclassroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mr. P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17439823298309674416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2483228761035499556.post-33168941967382489552011-08-11T11:46:00.000-07:002011-08-12T03:07:57.093-07:002011-08-12T03:07:57.093-07:00St. Clare, Patron Saint of Television<div style="text-align: center;">+ </div><br />
I wanted to launch this blog site's first day of class on a Marian feast day originally. The Assumption was coming up on the 15th, and there was the Queenship of Mary on the 22nd. Mary's birthday falls on Sept. 8, a great natural time for the beginning of this blog's school year.<br />
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So, in my excitement, and with Our Lady in mind, I logged the first blog-class post on the 11th, the Feast of St. Clare. She's the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtVSV_SNMUo&feature=related">patron saint of television</a>. St. Isidore of Seville holds court as the patron of the Internet. I don't think there's a patron saint of blogging yet as of this writing, but Clare's still my favorite candidate for the blogging patron saint job. I did, after all, post a YouTube video in my last class. <br />
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Today's memorial hits closer to home on many fronts:<br />
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1.) She's one of the two patron saints of the <a href="http://www.dsj.org/">Diocese of San Jose</a>, which is in the South Bay Area, where I grew up.<br />
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2.) My family and I just LOVE the DVD <a href="http://www.ignatius.com/promotions/clare-and-francis-movie/"><i>Clare and Francis</i></a> (2007) directed by Fabrizio Costa that I highly recommend for your DVD library. (Mr. P.'s movie rating grade for <i>Clare and Francis</i>: solid A) See trailer <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upojl2b4FKA">here</a>.<br />
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3.) A high school friend of mine entered the religious community that Clare founded known as the Poor Clares. They have a convent in, of all places, the heart of the economic powerhouse Silicon Valley. This is a great reminder that, even in our dire global economic situation, money and material things still ain't gonna cut it to make you happy. And if you ever need a prayer for any reason, give the<i> </i><a href="http://www.poor-clares.org/losaltos/losaltosl.html">Poor Clare Nuns of Los Altos Hills </a>a call.<br />
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4.) One of these days, my fam and I are going to hit all 21 founding California missions, one of which is <a href="http://www.missionart.com/hSC/p-sc.html">Santa Clara de Asis</a> in Santa Clara, California.<br />
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So, let's give it up for someone whose life still affects us 800 years after her death.<br />
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Homework: Check out the life of St. Clare. Imitate her virtues. <br />
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St. Clare, pray for us. <br />
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Class dismissed.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2483228761035499556-3316894196738248955?l=mrpclassroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mr. P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17439823298309674416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2483228761035499556.post-28462239004268168692011-08-11T01:42:00.000-07:002011-08-14T10:27:03.715-07:002011-08-14T10:27:03.715-07:00First Day<div class="MsoNormal">AMDG</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Well, good morning, beautiful class!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">On May 2, 2011, the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications and the Pontifical Council for Culture had a <a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1101806.htm">“Blog Meet” with 150 bloggers</a>. This blog is the fruit of that first meeting.<br />
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I was not there, but the meeting encouraged me to launch this site which I am calling “Mr. P.’s Classroom”.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As I launch this, I start with just me, my laptop and my powerful Guardian Angel. So welcome! I hope you stay.<br />
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I’ve not much in the way of a “course syllabus” or outcomes or handouts for my class, but perhaps the current working description of this blog is all there is to know in a this web-log (blog) course syllabus:<br />
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“A blog where the world is my classroom and Jesus is our Teacher” -- that Jesus is our Teacher; that He is Lord; that He is our Master; that He is the ONLY Master; and that we are all pupils.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And...as for “Mr. P.” <br />
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Okay, so you’ve most likely caught on that I’m Mr. P.<br />
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This was a nickname first given me many, many moons ago when I taught my first theology class. I don’t remember how it stuck, but even students that I see many years later still call me this.<br />
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Whenever I hear this, it makes me feel like this scene from SW IV when young Luke Skywalker asked Ben about the name “Obi-Wan” to which Master Kenobi replied, “Obi-Wan Kenobi— Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time…A long time.”<br />
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So, yup, I’ve resurrected the name that I’ve not heard in a long time, in a galaxy not so far away, kind of like the first few seconds of this scene:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/LtBUZicAvMQ/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LtBUZicAvMQ&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LtBUZicAvMQ&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And as we begin with any endeavor for the Gospel, we start with prayer.<br />
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So here’s a link to the upcoming liturgical translations for the Third Roman Missal and a bit of my own private prayer:<a href="http://old.usccb.org/romanmissal/"> http://old.usccb.org/romanmissal/</a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Oremus. Lord Jesus, Master, you are the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through you. We love you and we follow you. You said that when two or three are gathered in your name that you will be there in the midst of them. So even here on cyberspace, we <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20010106_novo-millennio-ineunte_en.html">put out in to the deep</a> even after fishing all night without a catch. We acknowledge that you are Lord of Cyberspace. We are comforted that you work with weak human beings to accomplish your will. We turn to your Mother for help in following you. In your most precious Name we pray. Amen.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">After the Holy Mass, the center, the source and summit of the Christian life, we should learn other liturgical prayers, especially the Liturgy of the Hours.<br />
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Then after that, we’ll learn the prayers for Benediction and the rosary.<br />
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Then we’ll learn about prayer in general and the need for private prayer and developing devotional prayer life. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">‘Homework for tonight is to say prayers before bed and to learn the Lord’s Prayer if you don’t know it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Class dismissed!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2483228761035499556-2846223900426816869?l=mrpclassroom.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mr. P.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17439823298309674416noreply@blogger.com0