Friday Frivolity: Jesus Was Here
Month: May 2012
Demystifying the Daily Mysteries
For the last few days (the last nine days, in fact!), I’ve been praying a Novena. This has meant that I’ve been praying the rosary every day. As you may know, the Catholic Church has assigned to each day of the week a different set of “mysteries”:
Monday: Joyful Mysteries
Tuesday: Sorrowful Mysteries
Wednesday: Glorious Mysteries
Thursday: Luminous Mysteries
Friday: Sorrowful Mysteries
Saturday: Joyful Mysteries
Sunday: Glorious Mysteries
These mysteries are the events in the life of Jesus and His mother, such as the Resurrection and when Jesus turned water into wine. Catholics are invited to meditate upon these mysteries as they pray the rosary. Previously, whenever I went to pray a rosary, I always had to do a google search to check which mysteries were assigned to that day. However, after nine days of praying the rosary, I’ve come up with a little mnemonic to work it out:
Jesus Saves, God Loves Sinners, Jehovah God
Wise Words on Wednesday: Climbing the mountain
Since it’s Brandon Vogt‘s birthday today I thought I’d post a quotation from one of his favourite Saints:
Fallacy and Fashion
It’s now exactly a week until G.K. Chesterton’s birthday…
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
– G. K. Chesterton
Your argument is invalid
Sunday Lectionary: Going up?
In addition to being the Seventh Sunday in Easter, this Sunday is also Ascension Sunday. This has been an insanely busy week – sorry I didn’t get this posted earlier.
Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord: 20th May, 2012
This Sunday we hear a glorious mystery! The Second Glorious Mystery to be precise! Yes, this Sunday we celebrate Jesus’ Ascension into Heaven.
In recent weeks, life among the Apostles had been, to put it mildly, a bit rocky (and not “rocky” in the good, “Peter” kind of way). In fact, things had been pretty awful. The Master had been betrayed, beaten and then killed on a cross. Dark times.
But then, something happened… He rose from the dead! For several weeks He had been appearing to His disciples! Life was good again! But then…what?…He left?
Huh? Things were finally starting to look up! Why did He leave? Did the Lord abandon His Church?
JP2 Group in Southern Cross
The Young Adult group which I help coordinate was in our Diocesan newspaper this week, The Southern Cross. Here’s the article :
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