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

We also welcome the new faces; Angelica, David, Gabrielle, Kim, Park, Amaya and Juan. Hope to see you again!=)

The Italian guys served bruschetta, pasta and tiramisu. It was delicious!

Thank you for making good food, Andrea, Giovanni B and Giovanni P!

And thanks for cleaning up afterwards, Huy and Maria!

Here you can see all the pictures from the dinner! Thank you Jay!:-)

Next planned dinner is Vietnamese the 25th of November.

Maybe there will be a Norwegian dinner before that!

St. Birgitta. Picture from www.brigidine.org

In the beginning of September, the students gathered to help the Birgitta/Brigidine sisters in our parish. The Sisters have played a very visible part in our parish for 11 years, present at Sunday Mass, helping the priests with catechesis of children and adults, as well as doing ecumenical work with the other Christian churches in the region.

Now, finally, the sisters have a monastery which for the first time in Trondheim lets them lead the true Brigidine life. They have moved in to a new building which includes 25 guest rooms which lets them host both the faithful looking for a retreat with prayer and daily Mass, and groups for conference. This means we have to come to them, they will no longer be as present in St. Olav church.

Moving to a bigger monastery means they needed some help getting ready. I was so happy to see that so many students gave their Saturday morning to the sisters! Fritzie, Andrea, Andrea, Francesco and I met at the Church for a short prayer before we left, and Karoline, her mother Kari and sister Maria met us there. The sisters were thrilled with your work! We dusted, cleaned rooms and windows. Now the guest rooms are ready for guests!

The sisters were very hospitable toward us. They welcomed us with smiles and gave us a nice break with delicious fruit and drinks, and coffee. They also served us lunch, which we were very lucky to eat with them. In honor of the Italian students they made a delicious pasta (that father Dominic has been bragging about earlier) for the primi piatti and sausage and salad for the secondo piatti. It was delicious! The conversation at the table was very interesting, because the students spoke English and Italian, and I Norwegian. Some of the sisters speak English, but not all, and some speak Italian. All of them spoke Norwegian, and so all three languages were used in the conversation at once.

One of the rooms. So comfortable and peaceful!

All the students were very impressed with how the guest rooms looked, and would gladly recommend them to friends and family coming to see them. The sisters will gladly welcome you. If you want to book, just call mother Patrizia at 72 89 40 00. She speaks Swedish, Italian and English, and of course understands Norwegian. Their rooms are 450 kr per night and include breakfast. There are lovely en suite bathrooms with shower. Some of the rooms are wheelchair friendly.

The sisters are always very welcoming and offers great company. The student group has been enriched by their company before, when we discussed calling. I’m sure we will come to them in the future also, for spiritual guidance and friendship. Mother Patrizia says we are welcome to visit them for Mass, prayers or someone to talk to. They have daily Mass at 7.30AM, except Thursdays, when Mass is held at 5PM. Everyone is welcome to join them.

Getting to the monastery is very easy, especially by bus. Their address is Ingeborg Ofstads vei 1, 7091 Tiller. Here is a map. We simply took the number 46 bus, which has frequent service, from Church and got off at Ingeborg Ofstads veg, which is a few stops after the big shopping centre, City Syd. The bus stop is right next to the monastery.

You can find it under Pictures.

Enjoy!

- Karoline

Father Al packed his bag so we could celebrate Mass by the lake and we left. Half way to the bus stop, Father suddenly remembered he had forgot the missal. Running back, he found Andrea, Giovanni, Abraham, Laura and David! Thank you, Lord, for making Father forgetful. We would have left them if he hadn’t!

We took the bus number 8 to Byåsen butikksenter and bought some food. Suddenly we were in the forest! We walked to a lake, where we found a bench to celebrate Mass. Today we celebrated the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary and prayed for the Holy Mother’s intercession, bearing in mind specifically the people’s hardship in Afghanistan.

Father reminded us in his homily what also the late Holy Father John Paul II reminded us: Be not afraid. Mentioned 365 times in the Bible, one for every day of the year, to remind us that God is with us each and every day and thus we have nothing to fear. We finished Mass by singing the short version of Ubi Caritas, a song most of us knew by heart. The words are very simple, but the meaning so profound and so precious to us: Ubi caritas est amor, Ubi caritas Deus ibi est! Where charity and love are, God is there. My latin is not the best, but my comfort will be that that’s true for most of the readers too

After a walk we gathered for lunch by another bench, another lake. It was a peaceful place, under the trees. We shared a prayer and chocolate. After another walk, we found Karoline’s secret blueberry place and picked. We walked all the way down to Ila, now we were tired! But that’s one of the joys of nature: to see it and enjoy it you have to put effort and time into it.

Thank you all for coming! I hope we’ll see you all again.
Peace and love!
Pia Maria

A lot of pictures were taken during the trip. If I was going to post all of them on this website, it would have taken to much time and effort. So I didn’t. You see, there are no way (as far as I know) to post multiple pictures on this website using a simple tool. You can only post one picture at a time, using a complex procedure, and then repeat it all over if you want to post another picture. So have this in mind, and check out the link on the right to see the pictures that were among the few chosen ones.