Generation Christ - Ann Arbor at 530 Elizabeth Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 US
| 08-20-2010 | The Weekly Update is mailed out at noon on Fridays. Email paulcschultz at gmail dot com, if you would like to subscribe |
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Feast of St. Bernard (OF/EF)
Greetings GenChrist,
Our Sunday evening Holy Hours are on recess till September 5th but our monthly trip to the Delonis Center continues this weekend. Look for a young adult census/survey to be circulated at Mass in a couple of weeks' time. See below for other events that are going on till then.
In Christ,
Paul Schultz
News in Brief
Today: Friday Adoration - beginning after 7:00 a.m. Mass
August 22: Delonis Center
August 23: Intro meeting: Lay Formation Group
August 25: Art Lecture: Elizabeth Lev: Theology of the Body in Art
August 26: Monthly FMH Dinner
August 26: Third Thursday Holy Hour at OSP
August 28: German Park
September 5: Generation Christ Returns
September 8: Books Before Beer: Manalive by GK Chesterton
September 12: Schola returns to 12:30 Mass
September 19: Free Pancake Breakfast
GenChrist notes: Rooming situation sought; Recap: Pilgrimage for Christian Culture; Cross-over cultural opportunities
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News
"Whatever you did for the least of my brothers, you did for me."
Represent GenChrist this Sunday, August 22nd, at the Robert J. Delonis Center to help cook, serve and clean up following the Sunday meal. Five hours in the kitchen helps to serve over 200 hungry adults and children. GenChrist serves there each month from noon-5pm, and you can join us for a single shift (12-2:30 to cook or 2:30-5 to serve and clean up) or for the entire afternoon. Please let me know if you are interested. Thank you! ~Mark Meinhart
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Intro Meeting: Lay Formation Group
Dear Friends in Christ,
We are pleased to announce that the Oblates of the Virgin Mary have opened up a Michigan branch and are now available full-time to offer the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in the Ann Arbor area.
The Oblates of the Virgin Mary are a very faithful and vibrant community dedicated to the formation of priests and laity. Like their founder, the Oblates foster a tender love for the Virgin Mary, a great devotion to the presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist, and a persevering love for the Magisterium of the Church.
In keeping with their Ignatian spirituality, the Oblates provide spiritual direction for priests, religious, and laity by directing hundreds of people through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius each year. In the last 18 months, the Oblates of the Virgin Mary have taken over 85 people from the Ann Arbor area through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in daily life. They are developing local groups devoted to the formation of laity and a new group is being offered this fall.
In just a few months, participants receive:
· a thorough introduction to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
· formation in discernment of spirits, arts of prayer, meditation, contemplation, and Ignatius’s rules for discernment using the books written by Timothy Gallagher, OMV
· Personal direction through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in daily life
· a review of John Paul II’s exhortation on the Vocation and Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church & in the World
· a discovery of the richness of Lanterian spirituality
These lay groups provide an effective way for us to be more deeply formed and capable of fulfilling our important role as laity in the mission of the Church. The attached flyer will provide more detailed information about the Oblates and the lay Lanterian Association.
There will be introductory meetings offered at Old St. Patrick’s, Ann Arbor at 7:00 pm on Monday, August 23, 2010 and Thursday, September 16, 2010. We invite you to join us, along with Fr. Dennis Brown, OMV, to learn more about the Lanterian Association of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary. Fr. Brown will also talk about how the Ignatian spirituality can help us to more deeply contemplate Christ in prayer so that we can more closely follow Him and fully live the Gospel in our vocation.
Feel free to pass this along to anyone you think may be interested in joining the group. Please email to confirm that you will be attending so that we are able to properly plan for food and materials.
Blessings,
David and Diane
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Theology of the Body in Art
If you've ever downloaded the Vatican Radio podcasts, or listened to Joan Lewis on EWTN radio, you have probably heard Prof. Elizabeth Lev, a historian of art in Rome and the Vatican.
Next week, there's a chance to hear her give a talk relating art to the Theology of the Body.
7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, August 25th
Our Lady of Good Counsel, Plymouth
Buffet dinner for $10 at 6:00 p.m.
"The human body has been the subject of fascination in art from the earliest ages. Active or static, naturalistic or stylized, artists have reflected man's understanding of his meaning and function through innumerable representations of the human form. Starting with the ideal form of the Greeks, this talk traces the radical innovation of the Christian conception of the body, through St. Francis and the Renaissance, to the Sistine Chapel, hailed by Pope John Paul II as 'the sanctuary of Theology of the Body.'"
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McGivney House Dinner
The Father McGivney House Fellowship Dinner will be held at the St. Thomas rectory on Thursday, August 26th. Please join us at 5:30 p.m. (Evening prayer will begin at 6:00 p.m.) Men who have not fully discerned a call to marriage and are not closed to a vocation to religious life or the priesthood are welcome to attend. Please contact Max by Monday evening, if you are interested in attending. Dinner may be followed by a talk, which would end around 8 p.m.
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Third Thursday Holy Hour
Due to scheduling difficulties last week, the Third Thursday Holy Hour will occur on the Fourth Thursday this month:
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 10:00pm
Old St. Patrick
Come and join the angels and saints in adoring our Eucharistic Lord present in the Tabernacle. There will be some sustenance after our hour of prayer. Invite all you know to come! :-)
"Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. "Could you men not keep watch with me for one hour?" Matthew 26:40
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German Park: Monthly Public Picnic
German Park holds monthly public picnics at their multi-acre beer garden the last Saturdays of June, July and August. If you go there, you may see other members of Generation Christ.
http://www.germanpark.com/
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Books Before Beer:
Gilbert Keith Chesterton's Manalive
Wednesday, September 8, 7:30 p.m., Law Quad Grass (or Pizza House, maybe)
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Schola Returns
In the near future, the St. Thomas Schola Gregoriana will resume weekly practices as well as hopefully singing the 12:30 p.m. Mass - Please let Paul know if you'd like to join our number and learn how to sing chant music.
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GenChrist Notes
Pilgrimage Recap
A big thank you to all who prayed for the pilgrims or supported them with supplies and materials!
Pictures: here and here
Cross-over Catholic culture opportunities
Invitation from Midori:
1) I am looking for actors/extras to be in a Catholic music video! It won't take up much time! If you are interested please email me
2) I am hoping to start a dance troupe/Chastity outreach group. If you have any interest/experience in hip hop, swing or any other kind of dance and are interested in promoting chastity, please contact me
Wednesday Night Social Hour
8:30 p.m. at Pizza House, for those who can make it.
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