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Dallas, Paji, and Vance were on TV!!!!

I was interviewed by Ron Mizutani!

http://www.khon2.com/news/local/27301984.html

A Farewell BBQ for Rob :)

Aloha YA,

Tonight, in place of our normal Holy Hour and Lords Day, we are going to have a BBQ at Rob's house in honor of his departure to go serve our country in the middle east. Please come by anytime after 7:00pm tonight and join us for fellowship, prayer, and fun!

(Picture from flickr.com ,a 'Harris Graber' photo under creative commons license)

Save the date! D.M. Conference Oct 3 - 5 , 2008

Our Lady of Good Counsel and the Eucharistic Apostles of The Divine Mercy present a special celebration of the 10th Year anniversary of establishing a perpetual adoration of the blessed sacrament chapel here in Pearl City with the 2008 Divine Mercy Conference on October 3 - 5, 2008. Please see the bulletin and check here in the weeks ahead for more information.

My new hero! And not because he is a good swimmer!

YA, check this out article when you have a second: CLICK HERE

This Guy eats 12,000 calories a day! For Breakfast he has:

1)Three Fried Egg Sandwiches with Tomato, lettuce, and mayo 2)A bowl of grits
3)Two cups of coffee
4)A five egg omelet
5)Three Pieces of French toast with powdered sugar
6)Three Chocolate Chip Pancakes

AND THATS JUST BREAKFAST

For Dinner he has a POUND of pasta and an ENTIRE PIZZA

INSANE! This guy is my new hero, not because he is the greatest olympian to ever walk the planet, but because he eats MASSIVE AMOUNTS of food and still stays lean!

Sorry Batman, I have a new hero!

Voter Registration Campaign!

OLGC Young Adults! We have been asked by Eva Andrade, from the Hawaii Family Forum, to help with the Voter Registration Campaign. This is a chance for us to express our call to be responsible citizens!


Here is The letter from Eva:

Hi there!

Here is the link.

It should be relatively easy for the YAM or Outreach ministry to do this. They just need to have forms available and some pens. They cannot collect the completed forms unless there is an adult there who is certified as a registrar. (That information is in the packet on the back of the purple form that says How to Conduct a Voter Registration)

Their whole job is just to ensure that people are reminded to register (maybe via a pulpit announcement) and if they haven’t they can pick up forms at the table outside the church (manned by the Young Adult Ministry). It’s always good to remind people that if they have moved or changed their name they need to reregister. Also, it really works to have people encouraged to vote absentee (especially if they are elderly or have mobility issues.) I vote absentee every year so I don’t have to stand in lines or miss work. LOL

The office of elections is right down the street from OLGC. (Past the intersection by McDonalds and Longs). You can pick up WikiWiki forms from them if you want to save on some money for the photocopying. I think they let you pick up 300 of those. If you do that, ask for both Absentee and the regular voter registration forms. If you want to do that, just call 453-VOTE and tell them you want to pick up some forms.

Let me know if you need any more information.

Thanks so much,

Eva

So YOUNG ADULTS, please text me, or email me if you are interested in helping with this project. Thanks!

Dallas

*Picture from flickr.com ,a 'hjl' photo, under the Creative Commons License*

Creating a 'Landscape of Reality'

By Dallas Carter, MPT

Understanding Catholic Theology may be a life-time task. It is Important , however, to equip ourselves with a template of Christian theology, or a ‘landscape of reality’ as my favorite Theologian Frank Sheed coins it, that prepares each young catholic for that life-time task of contemplation and constant theological reflection.

So where does Catholic Theology start? Where does it come from? All of it must start from a Christian explanation of who God is and how he relates to mankind from the very beginning. God’s plan starts from the very beginning of creation which was done as a sheer act of goodness. As the Catechism states: “God, infinitely blessed in Himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in His own blessed life.” (CCC1). So God, out of His love created us to share in the innermost blessed life of the trinity. He created all things and disclosed the call to worship. He created the angelic spirits in aveternity, then he created the material realm (in time), the created order, in which the human person is on top. He created humans in His image and likeness (Gen1:27) and blessed them with the powers of the mind: memory, intellect, and Will. This blessing granted mankind to be able to have the desire to share in God’s blessed life and the ability to either choose or even reject this life.

So God called our first parents (Adam and Eve) into this intimate communion with him and by their original sin they shattered this unity. God however, promised a redemption of humanity and sought to save humanity part by part. This part of God’s plan was worked in the Old Testament in the Magnalia Dei that God blessed mankind with. It was manifested in acts like the Exodus, the gift of the promise land, the birth of Isaac, the election of David, etc. God constantly sought to bring his people back to Him, but each time they fell away. These great works and the fullness of the revelation of His very self to mankind , and his plan for mankind, culminated in the life, death, and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ Christ’s life, death and resurrection, discloses God;s plan of bringing us to Himself. Jesus discloses mystery of the plan of salvation in the Old Testament. Christ “bought us back” the ability to once again share in the innermost blessed life of the Trinity. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. In his coming he discloses the Way to the Father in the fullness of the Truth that lie in him, and he shows us the Life we ought to lead on our way back to the Father.

Christ, in teaching us the Way to the Father and showing us the Life, institutes the Church, which is the “sacrament of Salvation” (CCC740). Through the Church, Christ makes it possible for us to participate in the life of grace. Through baptism we are granted the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Love. We strive to live out these virtues through the Christian life set forth by the Church. By participating in the sacramental and prayer life of the Church we participate in the worship of Christ through the exercise of our memory (anamnesis); we live the truth of the Creed in fulfillment of our intellect, and we follow the Code through the Will by the Holy Spirit. By participating in this graced life through the sacraments, we engage our very selves into the plan of salvation, on our way to the blessed life of the Trinity.

(Picture from flickr.com ,a 'Matt Mcgee' photo)

'On Fire' Quote of the Month (August 2008)

"You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be, so long as my trust in God gives me strength. We must always be cheerful. Sadness should be banished from all Christian souls. For suffering is a far different thing from sadness, which is the worst disease of all. It is almost always caused by lack of Faith. But the purpose for which we have been created shows us the path along which we should go, perhaps strewn with many thorns, but not a sad path. Even in the midst of intense suffering it is one of joy." - Blessed Pier Giorgio