Generation Christ - Ann Arbor at 530 Elizabeth Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 US
| 12-09-2011 | This is a translation of The Weekly Update. 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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Feast of St. Juan Diego (OF) / Friday of the Second Week in Advent (EF)
Greetings GenChrist,
This Sunday evening, Fr. Dan Parrish will lead the meditation at our Holy Hour. Friends from other southeast Michigan young adult groups will be praying with us as well. At 6:00 p.m., we will have pizza and refreshments. Take a break from studying to eat and pray with us.
December 18th will be our last Sunday evening Holy Hour of 2011. Beforehand, we will show Catholicism - Episode V.
In Christ,
Paul Schultz
News in Brief
Today: Friday Adoration - beginning after 7:00 a.m. Mass
December 11: Gaudete Sunday
December 11: Monthly Traditional Latin Mass @ OSP
December 11: True Marriage Rally
December 11: Core Team meeting - 5:00 p.m.
December 12: Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
December 12-15: Evening Penance Services at Ann Arbor parishes
December 14: SCH Dinner
December 14: Last Mid-Week Social of 2011 - fb
December 14, 16, 17: Advent Embertide
December 15: Parish Life Night
December 15: Frassati Holy Hour - fb
December 18: St. Thomas Christmas concerts
December 19: Holy Hour / O Antiphons @ St. John the Baptist
January 6: Christmas Party
January 7: Ann Arbor Chant Workshop - Website
January 14: GC goes the DIA - fb - Rembrandt: The Face of Jesus
GenChrist Notes: March for Life; UMich class: Catholic Writers; Ember Days notice; Room for Rent (guys)
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News
Gaudete Sunday
GenChrist - Gaudete in Domino semper! Rejoice in the Lord always!
This Sunday is Gaudete Sunday ( i.e.,
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Monthly TLM at OSP
One local place you would be able to hear said Gaudete Introit is at the Traditional Latin Mass that will be celebrated at Old St. Patrick at 12:30 p.m.
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True Marriage Rally
Sunday, December 11th
2:00-3:00 p.m.
The TFP Student Action group, a Catholic organization that proudly affirms positive values, invites us to stand up in the public square for traditional marriage. We are invited to join the Saline or Ann Arbor rallies, which promote God's mean of marriage: one man and one woman.
The locations:
Ann Arbor - Corner of Washtenaw Avenue and Huron Parkway
Saline - Corner of Michigan Avenue and Ann Arbor-Saline Road
Bring home-made signs such as: "God's Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman" and "Honk if you Support Traditional Marriage"
As you know, true marriage is under attack in the US on many fronts. We encourage you to join us and 40 other cities across the country where will peacefully and prayerfully stand up for traditional marriage, hold positive, pro-traditional marriage signs and hand out literature to those interested in our case. See a video of one of these rallies here.
Please contact Jacob - protraditionalfamily@gmail.com - for more information or to get on their traditional marriage email list for southeast Michigan.
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St. Thomas Advent Penance Service
Monday, December 12th
7:00 p.m.
Tuesday - St. Mary
Wednesday - St. Francis
Thursday - Old St. Patrick
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St. Catherine House: House Mass & Dinner
All the women of Generation Christ are invited to House Mass and Dinner at St. Catherine House from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 14th. The evening will begin with Mass at 6 pm in the chapel, celebrated by Fr. Bob Roggenbuck. There will follow a delicious dinner and a talk by SCH-alumna, Sr. Rachel Benjamin, who is now a professed sister with the Servants of God's Love.
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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Parish Life Night
Thursday, December 15
5:30-7:30 p.m.
God's Hero: St. Germaine Cousin
Menu: Veal Parmesan, Spaghetti & Salad
Drawing: Win beautiful Christmas Wreaths
December's Parish Life Night dinner will be graciously provided by the owners and managers of the Plymouth Road Big Boy Restaurant.
In honor of this month's Hero - St. Germaine Cousin, Patroness of the Victims of Child Abuse - PLEASE BRING A NON-PERISHABLE FOOD ITEM TO PARISH LIFE NIGHT. These items will be donated to Catholic Social Services to assist the needy in our area.
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Holy Hour / O Antiphons
Generation Christ will be helping with another Advent Holy Hour at St. John the Baptist, featuring the O Antiphons. Facebook
Ladies who would be interested in chanting are asked to contact Michelle Kuhar. Gents are asked to contact Paul Schultz
Our practice will be held on Saturday, December 10th, at 3:30 p.m. in Ypsilanti.
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GenChrist Notes
March for Life - SFL Trip
Among the trips going to this January's 39th annual March for Life, UofM Students for Life may be willing to have GenChrist members along for the journey.
--The current cost is around $160 (including $50 for the collegiate conference).
--Those GenChrist members who are interested should email Joe
Tentative Schedule:
--Friday, January 20th: Leave on bus in the evening for D.C. Drive through the night and arrive early in the morning.
--Saturday, Jan. 21st: Free day in D.C.
--Sunday, Jan 22nd: Students for Life of America Conference, which begins with Mass and is open to all. The conference can be fantastic, especially in the area of pro-life apologetics. Or: another free day in D.C. (and would save the $50 registration fee).
--Monday, Jan 23rd: March for Life. As with last year, SFL'll probably try to get ahead of the bulk of the crowd so they can leave early enough to get back before people's classes start on Tuesday.
Catholic Writers Course
This spring, St. Thomas parishioner and UMich PhD candidate Tim Green will be teaching a course exploring the work of novelists and short story writers whose connections to Catholicism inform their literary achievements.
It will meet on Tuesdays and Thursday at 10 a.m.
Course page.
Please recommend this course to any UMich undergrad who might be interested. There are 7 seats remaining.
Ember Days notice
This coming week, we will have an opportunity to observe the Advent Ember Days - Ember Wednesday (12/14), Ember Friday (12/16) and Ember Saturday (12/17), which fall in the week after the feast of St. Lucy.
Ember Days fall four times within each year and are days when the faithful can particularly focus on God through His marvelous creation. Ember Days are days of fasting and partial abstinence, which are voluntary under the 1983 code of canon law. Marking the change of the natural seasons by prayer and fasting, we can thank God for all that He has done for us, for the plenty of the earth, and the beauty of the world He created. (See also, New Advent: Ember Days; and the Fish Eaters explanation of how the Ember Days are fashioned after a prior Jewish fasting tradition.)
In our Protestant and/or secular American culture, it is often said that the Church co-opted pagan festivals, giving them a little leavening of Catholicism but otherwise importing them whole cloth. In most important cases, this claim is wholly untrue; but is made by our opponents so as to suggest that Catholicism is a pagan or non-Christian religion. Ember Days are, in a sense, an exception to the rule - not because the Church adopted anything that was pagan but rather because the Church 'Christianized' something that the pagans had gotten almost right - thanking and praising God for a bountiful harvest, a rich vintage, a productive seeding or the blessing of nature in general.
Ember Days began in the Diocese of Rome before Christians were free to practice the Faith in public and gradually spread to all of western Christendom. They were celebrated in the third century and their origins are shrouded perhaps even further in the past. In 1969, in preparation for the introduction of the Missal of Pope Paul VI in 1970, the Congregation for Divine Worship invited all of the national bishops conferences to determine how the Ember Days should be incorporated into the calendar of that Missal within their nations. To date, the Bishops of the United States have not acted on this invitation - and the Ember Days do not yet appear in our Ordinary Form calendar.
Nonetheless, under Pope Benedict's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum (7/7/07) and its instruction Universae Ecclesiae (4/30/11), it remains our option to take advantage of the Extraordinary Form's calendar and the prayers and readings attached to the Masses of the Michaelmas Embertide.
While nothing will be planned for next Wednesday, please email Paul if you are interested in a communal celebration of the Friday or Saturday of these days of prayer, fasting and abstinence.
Room for Rent
There is a room available at the St. Patrick's house in Ypsilanti (AKA Aaron Harburg's house) starting January 2012. Rent is $360 plus utilities or if you know someone you want to share it with, $180 plus utilities.
