Professor Faith

Professor Faith?  “ Who is that?” my 7 year old son asked me during Mass just before the Creed.  I almost burst out laughing when I realized Father had just said, “Let us profess our faith.”     Months later, I was talking to my husband about my filling in as D.R.E.  I was discussing the number of catechists we still need for the quickly approaching religious ed. classes.  Once again my son, who was standing nearby, set my mind churning.  “Why do you keep talking about Religious Ed?  Who is he anyway?  When I finally had breath with no stitch in my side, I dried my tears and answered, “He’s friends with Professor Faith!”  He giggled at the fact that made up another person when I explained, religious ed is an abbreviation for religious education.

Thy Will Be Done

THY WILL BE DONE

Two weeks ago at Mass, I sat behind a girl in her early teens.  She put on a classic show of “You can make me come, but I’ll do it MY WAY.” I could just image the conversation in the car on the way over. She sat like a stone, arms crossed, glaring down. She remained that way while the congregation stood.  Her Dad glared at her and demanded through gritted teeth, “STAND UP!!” The demand landed on deaf ears.   I could sense the parent’s frustration, and the girl’s defiance building. So as not to make a scene, he let her sit there. As Mass went on, the girl stuck to her plan, not listening or showing any sign of participation. During the Eucharistic Prayer, her young brother crawled across the seats while everyone was standing, and cuddled up into the girls lap. In his hand he had the children’s version of the missalette, the Magnifikid.  She softened her poise and snuggled with him as he leafed through the pages looking at the pictures.  Soon he asked her to read it to him. Without hesitation, a grimace, or even a huff, she read to him the scriptures written there.

Isn’t it just like God to work that way? As a whisper, with love and gentleness, yet so powerfully?          Pray that God uses this Lenten season to melt away OUR WILL and allow us to hear Him whisper to us in the way only he knows how. 

the Campfire

Be a Light, change your ways and help others do the same.

One  Summer, two young men, Bob and Doug volunteered at a high school Summer camp. Many of the boys and girls at camp were city kids that had never spent much time out of the city. “The campers slept inside cabins the whole week until the last night.  Everyone imagined the fun they would have that night singing around a bright crackling campfire.  Rumors flew about roasting marshmallows, eating thick tasty stew, and sleeping in a makeshift lean-to. Late in the afternoon on the final day, five different  groups loaded their belongings on their backs and hiked to their camping spots.” That evening Doug and Bob toured each camp. There was a buzz of activity at the first four camps which radiated with the light and cheer of a blazing fire.  But at camp five, there were there were only faint whispers and sniffs from the group huddled in the darkness. For these campers who were unable to start a fire, the happy camping night turned into terror. Doug got a fire going and within minutes they began working together to get their site ready for eating and sleeping. Doug’s “light” had helped change the outlook for their night.

“For many people, the world is a dark, fearful place.  They feel that evil is in control, or that life happens by chance. Many wander without purpose, afraid that the worst is just about to happen.  Some people live in gloom because they are selfish. They pout because they can’t have ice cream after dinner or because they can’t sit in the front seat of the car.  Discontented people live in self-made darkness.”

“God provides enough light in our world to keep every creature confident, hopeful and bright. He takes pleasure in starting cheerful  fires, even for those who reject that light.” He sent his Son, the Light of the world, to bring hope to men who have lost their courage, and truth to those overcome with lies.

(“Boyhood and Beyond:  Practical Wisdom for Becoming a Man”. Bob Schultz. Great Expectations Book Co. 2004. Pp. 45-47.)

Borrow this book from the library in our Religious Education office and continue reading for specific examples of how to be “God’s light” to others.  Happy Camping!

Mary Luebke  

Acting CRE 

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Holmen WI

 Pre-K – Grade 5

http://www.amazon.com/Boyhood-Beyond-Practical-Wisdom-Becoming/dp/1883934095

 

Consecration Rap for 2nd graders preparing for First Communion.

 

 

 

 

My name is Krissy Weisgerber.  I was a member of the Young Adult Catholic

group Cornerstone in Madison.  Although I attended Catholic grade school, I

learned much later in life how sparse my Catholic education really was.

Therefore, I have developed a passion for reaching young kids and helping

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