To sign up, send an e-mail to Sister Anne Elizabeth (anneelizabeth@tautra.no) with the following details: name, age, e-mail, phone number and address. The sisters will give you their bank account details. You pay 200kr on signup and 200kr on arrival.  If you are unable to pay via bank account, please send Pia an e-mail at piasoer@gmail.com and we will make an arrangement.

Remember that there is only room for a limited number of participants, so if you want to go - sign up as soon as possible.

Here you can read more about the retreats in Tautra Mariakloster:

Retreat is a time of love,

a time for the heart,

when restlessness and demands are let go.

Retreat is a chance

to listen

to the voice of your heart, or to silence,

and there discover

the presence of God.

Picture from the ruins of the old monastery (November 2009): 

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!

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18:20).

This is my personal answer. This verse helped me when I was the chairman two years ago. It made me feel less afraid that the group would be a failure, and it made the tasks of a chairman more enjoyable. It made me focus on the things we did, the praying, the singing, the time we had together, instead of how many we were. It made me think that if 2 or 3 people gathered, then it was already a success, and anything more than that was a bonus, a blessing.

Whoever you are, future-chairman, if you feel that the task is too difficult, then I hope that this little verse will help you too.

H.

I must say that they and Maria have done a great job with the student group during the last semester. I was really impressed by the program that they put together. It was a combination of old and new activities/events, which made it both familiar yet refreshing, so I really liked that. I regret that I missed the adoration at Nidarosdomen Cathedral. It must have been beautiful. Many thanks to Benedikt, Daniele and Maria for taking care of the student group.

Now, we must think ahead. A board must consist of three people: the chairman, the vice-chairman, and the accountant. The accountant position is already filled by Maria. She is our current accountant, but has only been so for half a year, and she wishes to continue. The other two positions is currently open, so I need you guys to think about this. I know that there is one person who consider the chairman position. But nothing is sure yet. Personally, I would also like to join the board once more, preferably as a vice-chairman. But I’m going to work in Ålesund (another town in Norway) for 4 months after Christmas, so it’s going to be difficult. Hopefully, some will find the motivation and inspiration to lead the Trondheim Catholic Student Group in the next two semesters.

We will have a meeting shortly after summer. We will elect the new board at that meeting. Specific time and date remain to be discussed with P. Dominic and soon-to-be-ex-chairman Benedikt. Information will be sent out to the mailinglist, so don’t worry. Hopefully, many will come. In the mean time, have a great summer.

Huy.

Well, the last update before this article was the announcement of the ecumenical meeting between our group and another christian group called Trondheim Kristelige Studentforbund. It was a good meeting. Many students from both groups showed up. We prayed and sang together, and afterwards we discussed our images of God. We also discussed an article from Under Dusken, where the author didn’t have a very nice image of the christian God. After about an hour of talk and discussion we had a good meal together. Altogether, it was a great meeting. Hopefully, our two groups will meet again in the future. Do check out their website http://www.trondheim.forbundet.no/.

That was the 19th of April. After that, exams have started. But still we had meetings in the month of may, for example adoration, and dinner.

Although there was a lecture on the program for may, I don’t remember if we actually had it. Did we? I wasn’t there, so I am not sure, but I think we did. Someone has to help me remember here.

Anyways, the fact that the site is inactive, doesn’t mean that the student group is also inactive.

And finally, I know that many of you already know this, but I guess I’ll still write about it. There are going to be changes in St. Olav Church that is going to affect us. More specifically, 3 of our 4 spiritual counsellors at St. Olav Church, Bishop Muller, P. Dominic and P. Etienne, are leaving us. P Dominic is going to study at the Vatican for a couple of years, so luckily for us, he’ll be back. P Etienne is going to be permanently transferred to Molde to work there (at St. Sunniva Church, I guess). I hope that we’ll still see him occasionally, because after all he’s still in Norway. Bishop Muller, on the other hand, is not going to be in Norway. In fact, he has already left and is now in the Vatican. He has permanently stepped down from his position here in Trondheim, as many of you may know. Luckily, P. Al is not going anywhere, so we will still have a familiar face here.

Let’s pray for the Bishop and the two priests who are leaving us, that God must watch over them in their new journey. And let us pray for us here in Trondheim, the Catholic Student Group, P. Al, and the St. Olav congregation, that the changes of spiritual counsellors do not weaken us, and that God must bless us with a new bishop and new priests.

Peace.

Huy.

Sunday 19th of April

Kapellet i Singsakerbakken 13

Ecumenical Meeting

between

the Catholic Student Group and Trondheimsforbundet

concerning

what image of God we have.

Those who will be in Trondheim during the Holy Triduum, can find the calendar of the celebrations posted on katolsk.no (English translation).

To all the visitors, the Catholic Student Group’s good wishes for a happy celebration of Easter!

We started cleaning at 2 pm. It was pretty fun. Some of us got to climb the tall ladder to bring down the glass globes. But it was also a lot of work. There were 6 groups of glass globes in total. Each group consisted of 10 or more globes. We had to take all of them down, wash and dry each and everyone of them, and put them back. Additionally, we had to change all of the light bulbs and wipe off the dust on the cables. We had to move the ladder many times, because we couldn’t reach every glass globes from one spot. By the time we were finished with 4 groups, it was already 6 pm. It meant that the Evening Mass would start soon, so we had to stop and do the rest another day.

Everybody attended Evening Mass which started at 6.30 pm. The Mass ended at 7 pm, and everybody went downstairs to the parish hall. The tables were already set and the food were ready. I think that everybody enjoyed the dinner. The food was delicious! Many thanks to Maria D.C. and Elizabeth who made the food! And thanks to Father Dominic who made the dinner happened

It was really great to see that so many people came and helped with the cleaning. It was also really nice to have dinner together. It was actually the first and only time this semester, which was a cutback in comparison with the previous semester. The reason was that when we were making the program for this autumn, we decided to cut back on the number of dinner, because we wanted to try other things, like a pilgrimage or a walk in Bymarka. Maybe we could fit more dinner into the program in the next year, without cutting back on other activities?

Two weeks later, we gathered again and cleaned the rest of the glass globes.

Check out more pictures on the link to the right!