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Salvation History Part IV

Fr. Thomas Pastorius's picture

Let us continue with our quick and insufficient tour of salvation history.
16. Joshua & Promise Land Read more »

Submitted by Fr. Thomas Pastorius on August 15, 2010 - 8:56pm

Why We Pray As We Do (and How!)

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AMDG

David Hogan's picture

As summer is vastly approaching its end, so too is my time with the Catholic Youth Apostolate. It has been a great blessing working for the Archdiocese as an intern. I have learned many things from fixing a paper jam to helping at the Steubenville Conferences.

One of the lessons I learned was that no matter the task; to give God the glory. The Latin phrase Ad majorem Dei gloriam (AMDG) means exactly that: to the greater glory of God.  

God has blessed and entrusted each one of us with many gifts to build up the body of Christ. It is through the exercise of our gifts that we glorify God. Being grateful for the gifts God has blessed me with, I hope to offer them at the service of the Catholic Church. Read more »

Submitted by David Hogan on August 11, 2010 - 3:10pm

Passport to the OYM

Kathleen McGovern's picture

The OYM has added a new staff member to our family!  Some of you may know her from her days as a core member at Sacred Heart in Valley Park, as a youth minister at St. Read more »

Submitted by Kathleen McGovern on August 5, 2010 - 4:05pm

Inspirational Mustard

Paul Masek's picture

I have been thinking a lot about mustard lately, and not because I like it.  I don’t.

The reason I have been thinking about mustard is because of its significance at a recent Steubenville St. Louis Mid-America Youth Conference (significance which, by the way, was initiated by a bishop – just one more of the countless reasons I love being Catholic!). Read more »

Submitted by Paul Masek on July 29, 2010 - 2:53pm

Video of the Storm at Steubenville, Week 2

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Just before the second week of Steubenville St. Louis Mid-America, a huge storm rolled (very slowly) through Springfield, MO, taking down power lines around town, but (fortunately) not causing any injuries. Power was restored just before the doors to the Arena were opened, but the storm was a very prominent reminder of God's awesome power!

I shot the video below on my iPhone 4 (which had a couple of close calls, during the extremely windy parts of the storm) in HD, and posted it to YouTube:

Submitted by Jeff Geerling on July 17, 2010 - 10:13am

God Teaches Us Humility - At All Times!

Jeff Geerling's picture

At this past weekend's Steubenville conference (the first of two for 2010—I'll also be present at next week's conference!), I took over 1,000 photos. After editing and deleting redundant or crummy pictures, I posted 353 of them to this Flickr collection (slideshow here).

My normal photo-taking workflow is this:

  1. Take a ton of pictures (maybe 100-200).
  2. Pop out memory card, insert into computer, transfer photos, erase memory card.
  3. Take another ton of pictures.

Sadly, during Saturday night Eucharistic Adoration, I was happily snapping away a bunch of beautiful shots (I was probably up to about 100), and a little warning popped up on the camera "There was an error writing this image to the card. Please use a new card." Read more »

Submitted by Jeff Geerling on July 12, 2010 - 7:03pm

Bragging Rights

Greg Robeson's picture

Do you have the new iPhone 4 yet? I waited in line for over an hour in the heat to get one. The AT&T store only had 60 on the day they came out and I wanted to be one of the chosen. So I got up before everyone in else in my house and made the necessary sacrifice to get what I wanted, the best phone on the market. Initially my new phone impressed me mostly because of the new features and speed- it has the same processor as the new iPad computers, so that’s a pretty fast phone. After using my phone for a couple of days, I noticed that it was dropping lots of calls. Many business calls were interrupted, sometimes 3 or 4 times in the same conversation. I later learned that Apple publicly addressed this and is working on a solution, but I was no less disappointed. Read more »

Submitted by Greg Robeson on July 11, 2010 - 7:55pm

The Narrow Door

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“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many.  How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.”  (from Matthew 7:6) Read more »

Submitted by rosanne twellman on June 22, 2010 - 6:35am

Salvation History Part III

Fr. Thomas Pastorius's picture

Continuing our look back at Salvation History…

11. Burning Bush
The Israelites have been slaves in Egypt now for many years and the one person God has chosen to lead them to freedom has fled Egypt after murdering and Egyptian guard. Moses is now in the desert and from the outside he looks to be having a very comfortable life as a shepherd. He has a good wife and two sons. God though is not done with Moses and through the use of the burning bush God summons Moses out of his life of comfort and gives him a mission. Moses is to be the deliverer. Reading about Moses’ encounter with the burning bush one cannot help but ask oneself if God is calling us out of our life of comfort and asking us to have more of a life of service.

12. Exodus Read more »

Submitted by Fr. Thomas Pastorius on June 9, 2010 - 8:02pm