First meeting: Vesper and BBQ
Albert Magnus Catholic Student Group invites to the first meeting of the semester. We meet for Mass at 630PM in St.Olav Church. After Mass we will pray Vesper together, and then have a barbecue.
In order to prepare food, we need to know how many is attending. Send therefore a mail to post@albertmagnus.org if you are coming, preferably before Wednesday.
You can sign up for the Catholic Student Group’s mailing by sending an email to post@albertmagnus.org
About monastic life
The Cistercian nuns of Tautra Mariakloster have a new website for those who would like to know more about monastic life and for those who are wondering if they are called to monastic life. On this website you can also find a blog with reflections over Benedict’s rule and Church feast days. Check it out!
Last meeting – vesper and BBQ
We ended the first semester of 2010 with vesper and BBQ. It was a sunny day, even if it was a bit cold. Good food and nice company!
A short pilgrimage from Kongsvold to Oppdal
We were a group from the student group that walked on “Pilegrimsleden” (Pilgrim road) from Kongsvold to Oppdal the first weekend of June. Here you can read more about the short pilgrimage we had.
An unrecognized gift?
Sr. Anne Elizabeth from Tautra Mariakloster, just outside Trondheim, has written this article for Pentecost.
She writes:
The same Holy Spirit that was given to the apostles and to those women and men who first journeyed with Jesus is given to us. Do we truly know the gift that is ours?
(…)
The Spirit’s gift of patience and endurance can help us in those times when the going is rough, when hurts and wrongs rupture relationships, when misunderstandings seem to rule the day, when life asks more of us than we think we have the ability to manage. God does not leave us on our own; God does not expect us to do it alone.
In this article she wants to help us discover, recognizing and use the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Adoration and BBQ
After Mass the 19th of May the student group met for adoration in the chapel of St. Olav Church in Trondheim. Afterwards we prepared a small BBQ. It was very nice both to get the spiritual and physical nourishment.
Here are some pictures from the BBQ:
Adoration in May
Finally Adoration again! This time we were 8 students that met to adore Christ in the Blessed Sacrament and pray. Tonight we focused on the Glorious mysteries of the rosary, and prayed for the gifts of The Holy Spirit. In case it should be of interest to anyone also planning Adoration, here’s the program we used, with reflections from different websites.
If you decide to use this program with a group or alone, we’d be thrilled – and we’d like to know, so please drop us a line in the comments if you do!
Bible Study – Bible Journey
On Wednesday the 28th we were four students and P.Al at the Bible Study. It was a nice experience. Reading the Bible and meditating on words seems to make it more available and relevant for our lives.
P.Al started with a short prayer to the Holy Spirit. Remembering the passage from Matt 18,20: (…) For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” The fact that He is in our midst is the presupposition and basis for the Bible meditation. We read a part of John 20 and shared with each other witch words or phrases that caught our eyes, heart and thoughts.
On coming Wednesday (5th of May) we’ll continue our Bible journey. This time we’ll read from the Acts of the Apostles, more precisely Paul’s speech on Areopagus (Acts 17,22-31) We’ll focus on Acts 17,22-28.
Picture of Areopagus with the Acropolis of Athens in the background from Wikimedia
Bible Study on Wednesday
We meet for Mass in St.Olav Church at 6.30 PM on Wednesday 28th of April.
Afterwards we will continue our Bible study. For this Bible Study you should read one of the chapters about the resurrection; You can choose to focus on one or you can read about it in all the Gospels (Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21).
Here you can find some of the text from previous Bible Studies. This is recommended reading.
Texts from the Bible Study
You can find different texts and reflections from the Bible Study here or in the column to the right under Lectures.
Here is the summary from P.Al about the Bible Study the 7th of April:
The Jews refer to their [Hebrew/Old testament] scriptures as the “TaNaK” which stands for the Torah [Law], the Nevi’im [Prophets] and Kethubim [Writings]. The whole Scriptures is often called simply as “the >LAW AND THE PROPHETS” (Mat. 7:12) Luke is more explicit when he adds the Psalms, which stands for the other books in the Kethubim as well.
On the Road to Emmaus and later in the Cenacle in Jerusalem, Jesus explains that what happend in the last three days – His Passion, death and Resurrection – had been written in Scriptures.
For Luke, the Law and the Prophets and the Psalms are enlighthened by what God has done to Jesus. JESUS IS THE FULFILMENT OF THE SCRIPTURES. This is the conviction of the Evangelists. Luke presents the Scriptures as POINTING TO JESUS – but the believer must open his mind and heart to this understanding.
The HOLY SPIRIT makes this possible and creates this reality as the believers are enlighthened.
Whatever might have been the Historical EMMAUS, Luke’s message is clear. Three Themes easily emerge:
- First: JESUS INTERPRETS THE SCRIPTURES- THE SCRIPTURES SPEAK ABOUT HIM AND FIND FULFILMENT IN HIM.
- Second: THE MEAL HAS THE OVERTONES OF THE EUCHARIST- WE RECOGNIZE THE RISEN JESUS IN THE “BREAKING OF THE BREAD”
- Third: AFTER ENCOUNTERING AND RECOGNIZING JESUS IN SCRIPTURES AND IN THE EUCHARIST, THE DISCIPLES WENT BACK AND SHARE THEIR FAITH EXPERIENCE WITH THE COMMUNITY OF DISCIPLES.
This in a Nutshell is Bible study, reflection and mission
