Saturday, January 31, 2009
Good day!
It might seem quite early, but I am already preparing the ground for the April 3-4-5, 2009 COR Retreat.
Right now I am looking to create a TEEN TEAM from among the many eligible COR kids.
If you are interested in the role of TEEN TEAM member for the April COR, are eligible (have at least served once in kitchen crew...) and are free on that weekend, please contact me now.
I am looking for teens who are enthusiastic about COR, eager to share the magic of COR with other teens, ready to be totally real, able to recruit friends from their own or other schools, and free to participate in 3 planning meetings (dates to be determined).
In a Teen Team Member I am also looking for a deep sense of faith, an openness to the Spirit of God, courage to share one's story, leadership to guide a "family", a spirit of cooperation with Mom and Dad (in this case, Jack and Debbie Bradley).
In my estimation, basically all of you who read this news are superb candidates for teaming...
I hope to hear form you, and very soon!
Ciao! Fr. G
It might seem quite early, but I am already preparing the ground for the April 3-4-5, 2009 COR Retreat.
Right now I am looking to create a TEEN TEAM from among the many eligible COR kids.
If you are interested in the role of TEEN TEAM member for the April COR, are eligible (have at least served once in kitchen crew...) and are free on that weekend, please contact me now.
I am looking for teens who are enthusiastic about COR, eager to share the magic of COR with other teens, ready to be totally real, able to recruit friends from their own or other schools, and free to participate in 3 planning meetings (dates to be determined).
In a Teen Team Member I am also looking for a deep sense of faith, an openness to the Spirit of God, courage to share one's story, leadership to guide a "family", a spirit of cooperation with Mom and Dad (in this case, Jack and Debbie Bradley).
In my estimation, basically all of you who read this news are superb candidates for teaming...
I hope to hear form you, and very soon!
Ciao! Fr. G
Friday, January 23, 2009
I had publised the piece below on January 20, 2009, but it did not make it to the website... I am trying again with it... Here we go!
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
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
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
Friday, January 16, 2009
Good day!
COR is today!
I am happy. I am excited. I am hopeful. I am prayerful. I am grateful. I am smiling. I am relaxed. I am waiting...
If I see you here this weekend, you've earned a hug from me.
If I see you not, I count on your prayer.
I will hold all of the COR kids I know -that means you, too - in the heart of the retreat.
I bless you, I love you.
G
COR is today!
I am happy. I am excited. I am hopeful. I am prayerful. I am grateful. I am smiling. I am relaxed. I am waiting...
If I see you here this weekend, you've earned a hug from me.
If I see you not, I count on your prayer.
I will hold all of the COR kids I know -that means you, too - in the heart of the retreat.
I bless you, I love you.
G
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Good day, COR friend!
I am continuing preparations for the COR Retreat. We are still at 50 participants. No more registrations accepted.
This Sunday there will be a KITCHEN CREW TEAM Meeting here at the St. Leonard Youth Retreat Center at 3:00 PM.
At 4:30 the TEEN TEAM and ADULT TEAM will hold their final meeting.
Please pray for the following COR weekend participants:
JULIE CECYS
BRIAN DARMSTADT
JOE DECAPITE
DANIEL DELAAT,
MARY DOWDELL
A powerful way to pray would be the EXALT! service at St. John Neumann in Strongsville tonight (Thursday, January 8, 2009) at 7:45 PM. Teens and young adults will hold a praise and worship service before the Blessed Sacrament. I am going! Contact me if you wish to car pool with me, or just go there on your own!
You may also wish to join me for a TEEN MASS at St. Mary, Avon this Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 7:00 PM.
Ciao! Fr. G
I am continuing preparations for the COR Retreat. We are still at 50 participants. No more registrations accepted.
This Sunday there will be a KITCHEN CREW TEAM Meeting here at the St. Leonard Youth Retreat Center at 3:00 PM.
At 4:30 the TEEN TEAM and ADULT TEAM will hold their final meeting.
Please pray for the following COR weekend participants:
JULIE CECYS
BRIAN DARMSTADT
JOE DECAPITE
DANIEL DELAAT,
MARY DOWDELL
A powerful way to pray would be the EXALT! service at St. John Neumann in Strongsville tonight (Thursday, January 8, 2009) at 7:45 PM. Teens and young adults will hold a praise and worship service before the Blessed Sacrament. I am going! Contact me if you wish to car pool with me, or just go there on your own!
You may also wish to join me for a TEEN MASS at St. Mary, Avon this Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 7:00 PM.
Ciao! Fr. G
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Good day!
In two weeks we will be at the end of another COR Retreat...
The Janaury COR is full, as you well know.
That means that you have lots of people to pray for.
I invite you to pray, today, for the following COR Retreat participants:
Taryn Avon (Elyria Catholic HS)
Liz Balazs (Kirtland HS)
Jaclyn Bradley (Adult)
Andy Bruck (Elyria HS)
Antonia Chavez (Elyria Catholic HS)
The Kitchen Crew Team is in its final stages of formation. Contact Brian De Laat ( prezident2028@yahoo.com) or Kristin Smajdek (ksmyte@aol.com) for information on kitchen crew developments.
Ciao! Fr. G
In two weeks we will be at the end of another COR Retreat...
The Janaury COR is full, as you well know.
That means that you have lots of people to pray for.
I invite you to pray, today, for the following COR Retreat participants:
Taryn Avon (Elyria Catholic HS)
Liz Balazs (Kirtland HS)
Jaclyn Bradley (Adult)
Andy Bruck (Elyria HS)
Antonia Chavez (Elyria Catholic HS)
The Kitchen Crew Team is in its final stages of formation. Contact Brian De Laat ( prezident2028@yahoo.com) or Kristin Smajdek (ksmyte@aol.com) for information on kitchen crew developments.
Ciao! Fr. G
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Good day!
I hope you are enjoying the first day of 2009!
I wish you NOT a "Happy New Year" for happiness is, as you well know if you are part of my world, a DECISION that a person makes over any circumstance that life offers.
I do wish you a Holy New Year, because holiness is a gift from God, one that He is most eager to offer you... maybe he is just waiting for you to ask for such an awesome grace!
I place 2009, mine and yours, into the loving hands of Mary, the most blessed Mother of God.
Ciao! Fr. G
I hope you are enjoying the first day of 2009!
I wish you NOT a "Happy New Year" for happiness is, as you well know if you are part of my world, a DECISION that a person makes over any circumstance that life offers.
I do wish you a Holy New Year, because holiness is a gift from God, one that He is most eager to offer you... maybe he is just waiting for you to ask for such an awesome grace!
I place 2009, mine and yours, into the loving hands of Mary, the most blessed Mother of God.
Ciao! Fr. G
