Generation Christ - Ann Arbor at 530 Elizabeth Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 US
| 05-21-2010 | The Weekly Update is mailed out at noon on Fridays. Email paulcschultz at gmail dot com, if you would like to subscribe |
~ The Weekly Update ~
Memorial of St. Christopher Magallanes (OF) / Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter (EF)
Greetings GenChrist,
We will come together for Holy Hour this Sunday evening, Pentecost. Fr. Selvam will lead our meditation.
This summer, St. Thomas has been assigned (transitional) Deacon Andrei Rynhel. Deacon Andrei is originally from the Archdiocese of Poznań (Poland) and is completing his studies for the Diocese of Lansing at SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake. Please give Deacon Andrei a warm welcome to St. Thomas. In particular, let him know if you'd like to meet to play basketball, tennis or soccer.
The Church encourages us to pray novenas - nine-day periods of private or public prayer to obtain special graces, to implore special favors, or to make special petitions. This practice follows, in part, from the nine days that the Blessed Virgin Mary and the apostles spent in prayer between the Thursday of Jesus' Ascension and arrival of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit on Pentecost Sunday.
If you haven't already, please consider joining in the Novena to the Holy Spirit. Today is the eighth day. Pray that His gifts would be poured-out upon Generation Christ and that we might change the culture of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County and the world even as His first servants changed Jerusalem, Judea and the world twenty centuries ago. (RSVP to this facebook page for the last two daily reminders.)
Truly He is Risen, alleluia!
Paul Schultz
News in Brief
Today: Friday Adoration - beginning after 7:00 a.m. Mass
May 22: Ann Arbor Grail Singers Concert
May 23: Delonis Center
May 23: Pentecost: Generation Christ
May 26: Theology on Tap
May 27: McGivney Dinner
May 26, 28, 29: Pentecost Embertide
May 31: FMH Memorial Day Party
June 2: Detroit Theology of Tap: Dr. Janet Smith
June 5: David Wagner Organ Concert @ St. Thomas
June 6: Mass & Corpus Christi Procession, Detroit
June 9: Books Before Beer kickoff
June 11: Ordination to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ
GenChrist notes: St. Thomas parish registration; Facebook Groups update / advanced notice; Generation Christ summer dates; Summer sublease opportunity
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News
Ann Arbor Grail Singers
Saturday, May 22nd
8 pm
Evening of Marian antiphons from medieval, Renaissance and Baroque composers
General admission - $15
Students - $5
St. Andrew Episcopal Church
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"Whatever you did for the least of my brothers, you did for me."
Join us this Sunday, May 23rd, 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. We will be there 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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Theology on Tap
Wednesday, May 26, 7:30 pm: Love Misunderstood
How are we any match for the instinct that love is meant to last forever?
Join Father Gerald Gawronski and young adult Catholics from around the area for an evening of thinking about and talking about what love really is and how it works. The discussion will include a look at the differences between natural and supernatural love and consideration of a few of love's basic principles.
In this consideration we will reflect on practical consequences and limitations within which we must learn to operate. What is there to talk about that could be of greater importance? It will be held on Wednesday, May 26 at 7:30 pm at Conor O'Neill's in Ann Arbor and is sponsored by Old St. Patrick Catholic Church.
Facebook RSVP
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Whit Embertide
This coming week, we have the opportunity to observe Whit Embertide - Ember Wednesday (5/26), Ember Friday (5/28) and Ember Saturday (5/29), which the Church assigns to the week after Pentecost Sunday ("Whitsunday" or "White Sunday" according to the Old English usage).
In the old covenant, the children of Israel celebrated a feast of first fruits 50 days after Passover. ("Pentecost" means "the fiftieth day"). In the new covenant, the Church celebrated its birthday on the 50th day after the Resurrection. Indeed, there were even "first fruits" of 3,000 souls received into the Church on that first "birthday" (c.f. Acts 2:1-41).
In a similar way, a focus of Whit Embertide is celebration of God's gifts in the early summer as well as material and spiritual preparation for the "harvest" ahead. For further information, see our explanation of Ember Days and Fish Eaters' notes on Whit Embertide.
Please email Paul if you would like to organize a communal celebration of one or more of these days of prayer, fasting and abstinence.
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McGivney House Dinner
The Father McGivney House Fellowship Dinner will be held at the St. Thomas rectory on Thursday, May 27th. 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 Paul 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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FMH Memorial Day Party
May 31, 2010
4:00-11:30 p.m.
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Theology on Tap: "Natural Sex - Going Green in the Bedroom"
Former parishioner Dr. Janet Smith will lead the discussion of contraception at this Summer in the City Theology on Tap.
Mass will be celebrated at Sts. Peter & Paul at 5:00 p.m. and dinner and discussion will follow at Courtyard Cafe. ToT will start at 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 2.
Facebook event
(On June 2nd, there will probably still be a GenChrist Wednesday night social hour in Ann Arbor - but several regular attendees will be absent)
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David Wagner Organ Concert
David Wagner, an organist and harpsichordist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and former Program Director for WQRS (when Detroit had a classical music station) will be giving and narrating a concert at St. Thomas the Apostle.
Saturday, June 5th, 7:00 p.m.
Featuring works of Bach, Widor, Walton, de Grigny and others.
Free admission. Reception to follow.
Sponsored by the American Guild of Organists, Ann Arbor Chapter
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Mass & Corpus Christi Procession
At the end of May, Br. James Brent will be ordained a priest of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph - the religious congregation where Br. Raphael (f/k/a Andy Forbing) is currently undertaking the novitiate.
After ordination, Br. James will be returning to Detroit to offer some Masses of Thanksgiving.
In particular, members of Generation Christ will be traveling to noon Mass that he will be offering at Old St. Mary's Church in Greektown. Afterwards, there will be a Eucharistic Procession that will visit Sts. Peter and Paul Church as well as Holy Family Church.
Total distance of about 1 mile. (FB RSVP, if you'd like a ride)
(If you'd like to make a particularly long, holy day of it: After its season ends at St. Thomas this Sunday, the Schola Gregoriana will be traveling to Detroit to sing the sequence Lauda Sion and other chants of the day with the Schola of St. Josaphat Church at the 9:30 a.m. Extraordinary Form Mass for Corpus Christi)
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Books Before Beer kickoff
A group from Gen Christ has decided to have a reading group that will get together on an occasional basis - meeting before our Wednesday night social hours.
Our first discussion / party will be on June 9th.
Please feel free to read C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters (a collection of 'correspondence' sent by an arch-demon to his nephew recommending the best ways to encourage our ruining of our souls) and then come to the location to be described on the facebook page.
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Ordination to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ
The Ordination to the Priesthood of Rev. Mr. Anthony J. Strouse, Rev. Mr. Mathias Thelen, Rev. Mr. Pieter van Rooyen, and Rev. Mr. Thomas Wasilewski by the grace of the Holy Spirit and the laying on of hands by His Excellency, Most Rev. Earl Boyea, Bishop of Lansing.
This celebration will coincide with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, as well as the final day of the Year for Priests.
Friday, June 11, 2010
6:30pm - 9:00pm
St. Mary Cathedral, 219 Seymour St., Lansing, MI
RSVP to this facebook event if you'd like a ride with a group from GenChrist, or email Max.
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GenChrist Notes
Parish Registration
This week there will still be registration/update cards in the pews during Sunday Masses. Fr. Bill wants to update the parish records and to make it possible to send out lots important news through emails. Please make sure to fill out a card.
Facebook Groups / Advanced Notices
If you haven't done so already, please join the GenChrist FB Group and, if applicable, the GCYP group. Consider the Fan Page as well.
Please RSVP or comment on these upcoming activities: Friday, June 18th - Next Holy Hour / Happy Hour - let us know if there is a particular bar you favor. (In July, we may seek to organize a Holy Hour / Happy Hour at St. John the Baptist, the Friday evening of the Ypsi Beer festival, July 23rd)
Wednesday, June 23rd - Blessing of a Bonfire on the Vigil of the Feast of St. John the Baptist - Facebook
Generation Christ Summer Schedule
Beginning in May, we will meet twice a month for Sunday evening adoration: 5/23 (Pentecost), 6/6 (Corpus Christi), 6/27, 7/11 and 7/25. We will break in August and return on or about September 12th.
One picnic will be held on July 18th.
Summer Sublease available
Close to downtown AA, starting June 12th. There also is a possibility for fall housing.
Contact Lauren, via the webmaster of this page.
Spaces are also available at Fr. McGivney House, with certain discounts available to undergraduate males.
