I just posted the new lector schedule for January & February 2006. You can find in the announcements section of forum or in the calendar section by checking each Sunday. You can also get a hard copy by picking up the schedule in the Sacristy.

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I’ve always found it odd how some people are so prepared for everything it seems, and some people simply are not. Some people watch the weather and carefully plan out what they are going to wear. Sweaters for cold weather, boots for snow, and shorts for heat waves. They know what the weather is like before they even stop out the door.

Som of us, however, are always surprised. We walk out the door with, at best, an educated guess, always taking whatever is thrown at us and just dealing with it.

I find this is a lot like life.

Some people plan out their lives with goals and steps. They can practically see themselves ten years from now. It’s almost as if they’re watching a movie that they know by heart. Nothing is a surprise becauase everything has been carefully and meticulously planned. I don’t know what that feels like. Everyday I step outside with an educated guess on the weather. Is it December? Must be cold. I don’t have a ten year plan. I don’t even have a 1 year plan. I live day to day without ever really knowing what may lie ahead.

I find myself always being taken aback by what lies ahead.

What about you?

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I was driving last night to Buffalo Wild Wings to play some QB1 with a friend of mine. On the way there, I was listening to some music of course, skipping stations every 3 seconds trying to find something that caught my ear.

As I was about to give up my search for decent music and just try to get through the Celine Dion song that was playing long enough to make it there (as I was very close to BWW!), I came across this infectious beat on one of the hip hop/r&b stations and I was hooked. Whatever the song was, whatever it was about, I was done station scanning. The song could have been about sex, or getting high, or talking about someone’s lumps…the beat had me hooked!

As I danced the dance that you do when you’re confident no one is looking while you’re driving through an open parking lot, I heard something you don’t hardly ever hear on secular radio: “Jesus.” Wait a minute…I am on the hip hop station right? Secular radio right? Check. What’s going on here? Could this be a Christian song on the radio?

It was! The song is called “Looking for You” by Kirk Franklin, and it is AMAZING. Go out and buy it or download it or whatever you do to it now! It rocks!

And it reminded me…

Our Protestant Christian brothers and sisters have something that us Catholics don’t have very much of: this awesomely charismatic Gospel music! I LOVE it! The way Gospel choirs just get completely into their music, dancing, singing, praising, wearing their robes- it’s beautiful!

I highly recommend you check out this song, and as much Gospel music as you can get your hands on. I’m surfing the net right now, seeing if there are any Christmas concerts left. The music, the faith, is infectious.

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Hey everyone! I added a calendar to the messageboard, so that you guys can post the days and times of all the events you are in, your birthdays, and all other things. Be sure to read the Calendar rules, located in the Rules section. The Calendar should be located rigth below “cletusyouth.net” on the line where the FAQs and the Search button are! Let us know what’s going on!

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