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Locke exam + Visitation Parish
MODERN PHILOSOPHY – (Fr Santos) — Mid-term exam on John Locke. 3 essays. — I think I did exceptionally well.
MID-TERM BREAK BEGINS — after, our last class today, we can leave for our weeklong break. Without anymore tests and papers due, some of us need to keep busy doing anything … even arm-wrestling before class … all in brotherly fellowship (… I hope).
VISITATION PARISH — On my way driving home, I dropped off a seminarian staying at The Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Miami. Fr Chris Marino is the pastor of a beautiful parish. I saw the newly redone interior, but the lights were off, so I only took pictures outside. There are also some great pictures on their website. It’s also the former parish of my current Pastor Fr Dalton.
ten piedad + soccer + lawn movie night
SPANISH 2 – (Dr Jimenez) — Spanish mid-term on chapter 12. — “Senor profesor, ten piedad de nosotros, por favor!”
SOCCER — with the stressful exam week, we had an evening of soccer (non-tournament) after dinner and played until we couldn’t see the ball anymore. — I was ball boy, again
WALK-IN MOVIE NIGHT — 8pm tonight we had a different kind of movie night for our last evening together before the weeklong “Mid-Semester Break.” We laid out on the grass & watched “Norbit” projected onto a wall outside. — Great idea! Need more OFF!
Plato mid-term + Hail Father 2
OUR FATHER — Today’s Gospel reading was Jesus teaching us the “Our Father.” Fr Vallee had the Mass and we did another “Hail Father” in Arts & Ideas.
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY – (Fr Santos) — Mid-term exam on Plato. 4 essay questions. — I think me do good.
HOLY HOUR — the Rectory told us news about Archbishop Ambrose Battista De Paoli, Priest of the Archdiocese of Miami and Apostolic Nuncio to Australia, who died. The funeral Mass will be some time next week.
TV — watched “Pushing Daisies” (car crash dummies episode) and “Bionic Woman.”
Italian food night
OLD TESTAMENT – (Fr Michael) — Mid-term exam. 2 wrong. 88%.
CULTURAL FOOD NIGHT — Today was “Italian Food Night.” We had tasty pasta, garlic bread, lamb and for dessert, so kind of donuts in a bag of powdered sugar (I forgot the name). — Great food!
TV — “The Unit” & “Cane”
mid-terms begin
This is mid-term week. Same regular class schedule, with worklist & house jobs, but more pressure with mid-term exams all week … one test a day for me. After our last class on Friday, we can leave for “Mid-Semester Break” until next Friday.
MINISTERIAL METHODS – (Fr Michael) — Mid-term exam … eight multiple choice questions. 1 credit class. — 8/8 is a good start for the week!
TV — Heroes.
St John Neumann + Jubilee Vespers
MASS – (Fr Michael) — Today was our monthly Sunday parish visitation. This week was 11am Mass at St John Neumann Parish in south Miami. All 64 of us seminarians were in the front rows in our black suits in a beautiful parish (tour of their parish on their website here). The homily highlighted the lives of both Pope John Paul II and the founding Archbishop Coleman Carroll. We stayed after Mass to talk with parishoner and were treated to lunch. — A great experience. Special thanks to Fr Carmelo Romanello for concelebrating the Mass.
JUBILEE VESPERS – (Archbishop Favalora) — today is the 49th birthday of the Archdiocese of Miami and the beginning of a yearlong celebration leading up to the 50th Jubilee of our diocese. At 4pm, the Miami seminarians joined Vespers (evening prayer for Liturgy of the Hours) at St Mary’s Cathedral led by the Archbishop. It was a beautiful service with clergy, religious and laity from all over the archdiocese praying vespers with cantors, organ & choir.
cross – MVP – goals
MASS – (Fr Santos) — today I was alter serving Mass with the “Cross,” which means I carry the cross, assist with alter preparations and assist with “washing of the hands.” [Note to self: on exit, run before every leaves without me.]
SOCCER — After “Spiritual Direction,” I went out to watch the second soccer game and was crowned “Soccer MVP” for “ball-boy” running all over the back parking lot for soccer balls. I couldn’t stay for the end of the game since “Archdiocese of Miami” brothers had a meeting.
GOALS & OBJECTIVES — today was the deadline for turning in “Personal Goals & Objectives” for this year. We need to set a general “goal” and at least 1 “objective” for each to improve in each of the 4 areas: Spiritual (improve prayer life), Human (be more communal), Academic (improve my Spanish), and Pastoral (assist my brothers more)
The Office
TV — watched the new season of “The Office” on NBC. Even through I missed last week’s opener, I joined a few brothers here that also follow the show. I also tried to watch last weeks episode on the NBC website, but the bandwidth here was too slow, but I’ll keep trying. — some classic Dwight Schrute lines: “Assistant TO THE Regional Manager” — “Two paintball lessons with someone as experienced as I am is worth easily like 2 grand.” — “If you can fool them into thinking that you really care, you can get them to do anything for you.” — “Do you have your tickets to the gun show?” — “Do you want to form an alliance with me?” — anybody have another?
care package
Busy day with 3 classes, worklist (mopping floors) and Holy Hour before a good pork – baked potato – kolleyflour dinner. Watched the new Pushing Daisies series and some Bionic Woman. Even with all that, the best part of the day was …
“CARE PACKAGE” — Yeah! Some “The Office” stuff, summer vacation pictures & the 2nd season of “The Muppets” on DVD. — life is way too AWESOME! Thank you, caring stranger!
Talledega food night
OLD TESTAMENT – (Fr Michael) — reviewed our test (83%). Covered “Pentateuchal Traditions” (J–E–D–P) and “Genesis.”
CULTURAL FOOD NIGHT — today was “Talledega” food night with some suthurn cookin’. We all got so excited about the AWESOME cornbread and fried chicken, I forgot to take a picture before eating.
volleyball
[this is a backdated post] All I can remember about Monday is evening VOLLEYBALL! (–but I’m sure I learned something in today’s 4 classes, too) — and I missed “Heroes”, but it was worth it … v o l l e y b a l l 🙂
SJVCS Seminary Life Album
July '09 -- hospital chaplains @ IPF
Easter '09 -- Miami SJVCS friends
the Son always finds a break in let the clouds
Feb '09 -- school vocation talks @ AMHS
Feb '09 -- cold breakfast with brothers (Matias, Fenly & Randy), now at SVDP and Imad (at SJVCS)
Superbowl '09 -- eating great @ SJVCS
Sept '08 -- Worklist Coordinators?
St Raphael Chapel mural @ SJVCS
Sept '08 -- retreats @ SJVCS
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