Generation Christ - Ann Arbor at 530 Elizabeth Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 US
| 05-28-2010 | 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 ~
Friday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time (OF) / Pentecost Friday (EF)
Greetings GenChrist,
We will next meet for a Holy Hour on Sunday evening, June 6th, Corpus Christi.
In Christ,
Paul Schultz
News in Brief
Today: Friday Adoration - beginning after 7:00 a.m. Mass
May 28, 29: conclusion of Pentecost Embertide
May 31: Memorial Day Mass @ St. Thomas Cemetery
May 31: FMH Memorial Day Party
June 2: Detroit Theology of Tap: Dr. Janet Smith
June 2-10: Sacred Heart Novena
June 5: First Saturday Mass & Breakfast
June 5: UCO Soccer Tournament
June 5: David Wagner Organ Concert @ St. Thomas
June 6: Mass & Corpus Christi Procession, Detroit
June 6: Next Generation Christ
June 7: Lansing Extraordinary Form Mass meeting, Lansing
June 9: Books Before Beer kickoff
June 11: Ordination to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ
GenChrist notes: Monday night movies @ St. Thomas; St. Thomas parish registration; Facebook Groups update / advanced notice; Generation Christ summer dates; Summer sublease opportunity; Note on the Octave of Pentecost; Pope Benedict's Prayer Intentions
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News
Whit Embertide
Today and tomorrow, we have the opportunity to observe the end of Whit Embertide - Ember Friday (5/28) and Ember Saturday (5/29).
For more information, see the note from last week's update.
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Memorial Day Mass
On Monday, May 31st, the one daily Mass at St. Thomas parish will be celebrated at St. Thomas Cemetery, 300 Sunset Road, at 9:00 a.m. (In case of inclement weather, Mass will be celebrated in the church)
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FMH Memorial Day Party
Come to a FMH style celebration for all the men and women who have given their lives in defense of our country. We will be barbecuing lots of meat and Max plans for a keg of Guinness to make a guest appearance. Feel free to bring sides, etc.
Also, if you have friends in the armed forces, they are more than invited as well.
This event will still take place even in light rain; heavy rain, we will do the cooking inside.
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 may or may not be a group meeting at Dominick's at 8:30 p.m. - we make no promises)
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Sacred Heart Novena
Please join St. Thomas parishioners in praying the Sacred Heart Novena from June 2-10, 2010. We will be praying the novena especially for the four men to be ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Lansing this year.
RSVP to this fb event and you'll receive a fb reminder each of the nine days.
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First Saturday Mass & Breakfast
Organized by the First Saturday Mass & Breakfast club
Look for more precise details in next week's update.
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UCO Soccer Tournament
Play the beautiful game with local and homecoming charismatics:
Facebook Invite
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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
This weekend, 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 next weekend 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: Its season having ended at St. Thomas last 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
fwiw, there will also be a procession at St. Thomas the Apostle, that day.)
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Message from Andrew McManus, a GenChrist member from Lansing:
Lansing Extraordinary Form Mass planning meeting
Please forward this invitation to anyone you know near Lansing who would be interested in having the celebration of the Extraordinary Form Mass available in that city.
A planning meeting will be held at the Diocesan Center (i.e., in the Cathedral Complex) from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Monday, June 7th, 2010.
Go to GetHoly.com to learn more and to RSVP.
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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
Monday Night Movies @ St. Thomas
All are invited to a Catholic movies series with members of the RCIA program throughout the summer. All movies begin Monday nights at 7:00 p.m in Parish Center Room 250:
June 7th and 14th - Padre Pio
June 28th - The Scarlet and the Black
July 12th - The Robe
July 26th - Going My Way
August 2nd - The Bells of St. Mary's
Parish Registration
This week there may or may not 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. If you haven't filled one out, find one or go to the church office.
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: 6/6 (Corpus Christi), 6/27, 7/11 and 7/25. We will break in August and return on or about September 12th.
The Diocese of Lansing Young Adult Picnic will be held on July 18th.
Facebook Page - RSVP to Margaret Grima as well.
One picnic will be held on July 18th.
Picnic is from 1:00 - 6 p.m.
Outdoor Parish Mass at 1:00 P.M. music led by Brian Flynn. Day will conclude with short prayer service. Please contact Paul if you can help sacristan and serve the Mass.
Lunch will follow Mass. Bring a dish to pass.
The Diocese will provide hot dogs, brats and buns and non-alcoholic beverages. Plates, napkins and cups with plastic silverware will also be provided.
COST: Collection at Mass will go towards expenses of picnic and concert. There is cost for parking, $5.00 for Washtenaw county residents and $9.00 per car for non-Washtenaw county residents.
Opportunity to purchase CD’s of Brian Flynn’s music will be available.
WHERE:
Independence Lake
3200 Jennings Road, Whitmore Lake, MI
Exit 50 on US 23
OTHER ENTERTAINMENT:
Sandy Beach with Swimming
Spray Zone for Kids
Nature, Rollerblading and Bike Trails
Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball, Softball and Concert under the Pavilion
RSVP
by July 13, 2010
By phone to Margaret Grima at 517-342-2555
Or Pat Rinker 517-342-2485
By email: prinker@dioceseoflansing.org
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.
Note on the Octave of Pentecost
Back in February, one Weekly Update included a note about each of the two calendars of the Roman Rite - that of the Ordinary Form and that of the Extraordinary Form - which often overlap or express similar themes (as is to be expected of calendars of the Church's liturgical year).
This week - now mostly spent - is among the greatest exceptions to a rule of general similarity.
According to the calendar of the Ordinary Form, this is the "Eighth Week of Ordinary Time" - the resumption of the part of the church year between the Easter Season and the Advent Season when the Church sequentially reads through one of the synoptic gospels each year. (This year, the Sundays of Ordinary Time focus on the Gospel of Luke.) The liturgical color is Green.
According to the calendar of the Extraordinary Form, this is the "Octave of Pentecost" - the weeklong celebration of the gift of the Holy Spirit and of the Church's birthday that falls between Pentecost Sunday and Holy Trinity Sunday. The liturgical color is Red. The Octave provides a fitting and celebratory coda after the conclusion of the Easter season and, together with the Embertide observance, directs us towards living, growing and sharing our faith through the summer of God's mercy.
This episode, related by Fr. Z., tangentially addresses the process by which the Octave of Pentecost was suppressed in the adoption of the Ordinary Form calendar in 1969-1970. (this op-ed provides mild support for the facts that Fr. Z. relates - in that they would appear to have passed the scrutiny of the NYT editorial page editor).
Given the celebratory benefits of older usage and the background of its suppression, some are supporting the restoration of the Octave to the Ordinary Form calendar.
Pope Benedict's Prayer Intentions
Each month, Pope Benedict XVI announces his special prayer intentions--particular things that he wishes all Catholics to pray for that month. (When, for instance, we pray the rosary and say the prayers at the end for the intentions of the Holy Father, these are the intentions for which we're praying.) Pope Benedict offers two intentions every month, one general, and one for a particular Catholic missionary activity.
His general prayer intention for June 2010 is "That priests, united to the Heart of Christ, may always be true witnesses of the caring and merciful love of God."
v Pope Benedict's mission intention is "That the Holy Spirit may bring forth from our communities numerous missionary vocations, willing to fully consecrate themselves to spreading the Kingdom of God."
