Generation Christ - Ann Arbor at 530 Elizabeth Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 US
| 10-07-2011 | The Weekly Update is typically mailed out at noon on Fridays. Email paulcschultz at gmail dot com, if you would like to subscribe |
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Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary (OF) / Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary; St. Mark, pope and confessor (EF)
Greetings GenChrist,
This Sunday night, Christy Whiting will lead the meditation at our Holy Hour and will talk about learning to trust God through difficult times.
On this feast of the Holy Rosary, I encourage you to pray the Joyful, Sorrowful and Glorious mysteries for the intention of Christian unity, as discussed more fully at the bottom of this email.
In Christ,
Paul Schultz
News in Brief
Today: Friday Adoration - beginning after 7:00 a.m. Mass
Tonight: Jimmy John's + Adoration at St. Thomas - fb
Tonight: Una Voce Rosary, Planning Meeting & Social - fb
October 8: Partial viewing of Brideshead Revisited in Royal Oak, maybe - fb
October 8: Chant Practice
October 9: Volunteer for BHBH for Hope Clinic - fb
October 9: Monthly TLM @ OSP - fb
October 9: Secular Franciscan open meeting @ St. Francis of Assisi
October 11: Theology on Tap @ Conor O'Neill's - fb
October 11: Great Books Discussion: Aristotle's The Politics, Book I
October 12: Monthly SCH Open Dinner
October 16: Fall Break: No Generation Christ
October 18: October Mass & Dinner in Detroit
October 23: Viewing of Catholicism before GenChrist
October 30: Core Team Meeting before GenChrist
November 4: All Saints' Party at St. Catherine House
GenChrist Notes: Upcoming Series: Fr. Barron's Catholicism; Catholic news: Rosary for Unity
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News
Chant Practice for Frassati Holy Hour
The men of Generation Christ have been invited to assist this month's Frassati Holy Hour with chant and other sacred music.
To that end, there will be a practice at St. Thomas the Apostle, Saturday, October 8th, 6:00-8:00 p.m. If you would like sing with us in Royal Oak - or, if you would just like to learn the Solemn forms of the Marian antiphon - please drop Paul an email and join the five of us who are already planning to practice.
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Secular Franciscan open meeting
The St. Joseph Fraternity of the Secular Franciscan Order is hosting an open meeting on Sunday, October 9th from 2-4 p.m. in the music room of St Francis of Assisi school.
The Secular Franciscan Order is a canonical order of lay Catholics - men, women, married and single - who follow the Third Order Rule written by St Francis and approved by Pope Innocent III.
The purpose of this open meeting is provide interested individuals the chance to learn more about it means to be a Secular Franciscan and how Secular Franciscans seek to live the Gospel in their daily lives while living in the secular world.
For more information, contact GenChrist member Seth Wescott or go on facebook.
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Great Books Course
Joe Mangan has organized several members of FMH to begin to make our way through the Canon of Western Culture, with a particular focus on the "Great Books" identified by Prof. Mortimer Adler.
Our fifth symposium will be Tuesday, October 11th. In advance, we will read Aristotle's The Politics, Book I. We will start at 7:15 p.m. and go till 9:15 p.m. Texts are linked at our Facebook page.
If you would like to join us for this meeting, please read (or re-read, as the case may be) the text. Facebook RSVP.
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St. Catherine House House Mass in Dinner
All the women are invited to House Mass and Dinner at St. Catherine House from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 12th. The evening will begin with Mass at 6 pm in the chapel. Followed by a delicious dinner. And, finally a talk by Deb Herbeck. Feel free to come to all or any part of the evening!
St. Catherine House, a woman's house of discernment, is located right across the street from St. Thomas on Elizabeth St. Any questions or, if possible, to RSVP, contact Christina Galloway
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Detroit Trip: Latin Mass + Pegasus Taverna
On Tuesday evening, October 18th, 14+ members of Generation Christ - will travel to a Traditional Latin Mass celebrating the Feast of St. Luke.
The Mass is at 7:00 p.m. Rides will be available from Fr. McGivney House at 5:55 p.m. After Mass, interested persons will grab dinner Greektown's Pegasus Taverna. If interested, please write a note on this event's wall by October 9th - so as to be included in the reservation. Hopefully, we'll return to Ann Arbor by about 10:30 p.m.
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GenChrist Notes
Audiovisual 'Catechism' on PBS: Fr. Barron's Catholicism
One very commendable program offering on public television this fall is called Catholicism and has been put together by a very media-able priest from Chicago (together with a team of videographers from The Today Show). They have harnessed the power of the 'moving picture' to convey an essence of the beauty, art, architecture, saints, liturgy, etc. of the Church's first 2,000 years.
This two minute video gives a sense of what his goal is. This nine minute extended preview may give some sense of how he highlights God's gifts as he works toward that goal. Everything that I've seen or read about the project suggests to me that is much more than a pretty picture show and that it makes effective uses of God's people and their particular places throughout history and the world to focus on the message of Jesus and how He has worked and continues to work on us.
PBS's write-up about the series, and the four episodes they will be showing, can be seen here. Per the programming schedule, those episodes will be showing on Detroit/Ann Arbor's PBS station at 6:00 p.m. on Sundays October 23, October 30, November 6 and November 13.
On Sunday, October 23rd, we will have a viewing of the first episode in the hour before GenChrist. There will be pizza and drinks. Please plan to arrive at 5:55.
Alternatively, Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Brighton has acquired the DVDs and will be showing them, starting this Sunday, at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday afternoons, for the next ten weeks.
Rosary for Christian Unity
For some years, some Catholics have been referring to Pope Benedict XVI as the "Pope of Christian Unity" - because of his obvious fondness for and reaching out to the Orthodox as well as the establishment of the Ordinariate and other outreach to Anglicans, Lutherans and the whole world.
One other area where we pray that his efforts soon come to at least partial fruition is in finding a place within the organization of the Church for priestly members of the Society of St. Pius X. Those interested in the history and recent developments on that score may review Rorate-Caeli's blog (though we do not recommend reading many of the comments there).
The Society's superiors are meeting today and the prayer request highlighted above comes from the Society's US offices.
