Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Good Day, my dearest COR friends!
My dearest, at least for today, are those of you who shared the COR retreat with me this past weekend. It is to these that I especially address the following reflections.
At the end of some retreats, the leaders introduce the participants to the "FOURTH DAY".
The 4TH DAY is every day after the retreat. It is the time in which the "COR high" will slowly vanish away. It is also the time in which the energy, the hope, the love, the trust, the courage, the dreams, the friendships, the faith of COR can flourish and become your very LIFE.
I see that many of you are keeping in touch and exchanging contact information. I love that! This form of caring for one another is extremely crucial especially for those of you who did not have any other friends -or maybe only one or two- from the same school celebrate the COR retreat with you. Let these "loners" hear you, they need you to keep alive the spirit of COR alone and in a cold environment...
Those of you who, on the other hand, came with -or found- many teens from your school, you can truly be blessed if you continue to form the community that you started here at COR, if you continue to reach out to one another, to support, encourage, love each other.
The fourth day can be, if you make it so, an infinite COR...
I did not get to sit on the hot seat this time around. I had a heavy heart after listening to all your pain, and as I kept thinking that this was probably my last Winter COR retreat here at the St. Leonard Yotuh Retreat Center.
I would not have told you any story from my life (I have plenty of amazing ones!), but I would have simply offered you my immense love for you. I also wanted to give you one of the most awesome gifts I could ever offer you: the gift of COR, because COR is not Fr. G: COR, now more than ever, is yours, it depends on you, it lives in you!
I pray for you constantly. I have offered you at COR, in the best way that I could at the moment, the most awesome gift of all: Jesus in the Eucharist, Jesus in his Word. I now ask you to continue COR forever, that is, to see Christ in others always, and to be Christ for others always!
I will share my thoughts and announce events in this blog on a regular base. It will be one way for me to be close to you, and for you to listen to the heartbeat of this COR kid...
I love you, I bless you.
Ciao! Fr. G
My dearest, at least for today, are those of you who shared the COR retreat with me this past weekend. It is to these that I especially address the following reflections.
At the end of some retreats, the leaders introduce the participants to the "FOURTH DAY".
The 4TH DAY is every day after the retreat. It is the time in which the "COR high" will slowly vanish away. It is also the time in which the energy, the hope, the love, the trust, the courage, the dreams, the friendships, the faith of COR can flourish and become your very LIFE.
I see that many of you are keeping in touch and exchanging contact information. I love that! This form of caring for one another is extremely crucial especially for those of you who did not have any other friends -or maybe only one or two- from the same school celebrate the COR retreat with you. Let these "loners" hear you, they need you to keep alive the spirit of COR alone and in a cold environment...
Those of you who, on the other hand, came with -or found- many teens from your school, you can truly be blessed if you continue to form the community that you started here at COR, if you continue to reach out to one another, to support, encourage, love each other.
The fourth day can be, if you make it so, an infinite COR...
I did not get to sit on the hot seat this time around. I had a heavy heart after listening to all your pain, and as I kept thinking that this was probably my last Winter COR retreat here at the St. Leonard Yotuh Retreat Center.
I would not have told you any story from my life (I have plenty of amazing ones!), but I would have simply offered you my immense love for you. I also wanted to give you one of the most awesome gifts I could ever offer you: the gift of COR, because COR is not Fr. G: COR, now more than ever, is yours, it depends on you, it lives in you!
I pray for you constantly. I have offered you at COR, in the best way that I could at the moment, the most awesome gift of all: Jesus in the Eucharist, Jesus in his Word. I now ask you to continue COR forever, that is, to see Christ in others always, and to be Christ for others always!
I will share my thoughts and announce events in this blog on a regular base. It will be one way for me to be close to you, and for you to listen to the heartbeat of this COR kid...
I love you, I bless you.
Ciao! Fr. G
