Text update 23 Jan 2009, 0852
A group of young adult Catholics from the San Bernardino area are preparing to head up to San Francisco this afternoon, January 23, 2009 to walk in the "Walk for Life". We are renting a full-sized car from Hertz at about $115 (3 days rental with insurance, and AAA discount) for the 3 day trip over there. We have been able to gather $140 in donations so far from our very generous friends and family members. Special thanks to Jim for his advice in car rentals. I will try to post updates, as internet is available. I will see if I can schedule a Confessions appointment with Fr. Marx at San Secondo before we head out at 2:30 - 3:00.
Thanks to the following people for their generous contribution: Jim ($75), Linda ($20), Andrew's Mom ($25), and Bob ($20), as well as Mr. and Mrs. Reese's friends in Daly City who are willing to open up their home for us to stay in during this trip. May God Bless all of you, and thank you from each member of our group.
1/ Laurence Gonzaga, 3rd degree K of C, CSUSB M.A. Graduate student
2/ Andrew Hedstrom, ARMY, 2nd degree K of C, CSUSB B.A. Undergraduate student
3/ Vince Padilla III, 3rd degree K of C, SBVC A.A. student
4/ Bernard Clarence, CSUSB B.A. Undergraduate student (Update: Due to issues with work scheduling, Bernard had to back out).
God Bless,
Laurence Gonzaga
Itinerary by Andrew Hedstrom
Friday:
1345 - 1400 Arrive at My House
1400 - 1415 Depart for SF
1400 - 2200 Arrive in Daly City/SF
2200 - 2400 Sleep
Saturday:
0000 - 0600 Sleep
0600 - 0645 Wake up/Personal Hygiene
0645 - 0705 Walk to Colma BART Station
0714 - 0715 BART arrives at Station
0715 - 0730 Ride to Civic Center BART Station
0730 - 0800 Walk 1 Mile to St Mary's Cathedral
0800 - 0930 Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
0930 - 1000 Walk to Embarcadero St
1000 - 1100 Free Time?
1100 - 1500 Walk for Life: West Coast
1500 - 2400 Free Time?
Sunday:
Latin Mass at 1230
Go home
Costs
Car ~125
Gas ~75
Total = 200
200 - 25 Donation = 175
175/4 = $43.75 for Transportation there and back
Bart ~ $6.20 round trip
43.75 + 6.20 = $49.95
Remember, this doesn't include food.
Food
~ $6.00/meal(fast food?) x 3meals x 2.5days = $36
Total = 36 + 49.95 = $85.95
Things to bring:
Sleeping bag
Clothes for 3 days (Includes socks and underwear)
Toothbrush
Toothpaste
Shampoo
Soap
Wash Cloth
Towel
Cell phone
Charger
Spending Money
Drivers License
This is the very minimum you should consider bringing.
But remember to pack light.
_______________________________
Friday, January 23, 2009
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Debating Tradition TRADventures
Debating Tradition TRADventures
It's still funny how we managed to turn our silly trad-parody video into a real trad debate... no, we didn't box after... but we did have a medieval jousting match.
-Laurence
It's still funny how we managed to turn our silly trad-parody video into a real trad debate... no, we didn't box after... but we did have a medieval jousting match.
-Laurence
Saturday, May 10, 2008
BIO: Michael Delaria
Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down,
And I’d like to take a minute, so just sit right there
I’ll tell you how I became a Catholic type called rare.
In east San Ber'dino, born and raised
In the churches where I spent few of my days
Rocking' out, sinning, praisin' all cool
And all hangin' with LifeTeen and playin' some pool,
When a couple of guys, meaning to do good
Started makin' trouble in my liberal 'hood.
I lost one little fight and then I got scared
Cuz morals can't change like I changed my hair.
I justified my sins day after day
But God told me it's His will, and not my own way.
Laurence gave me a push, and then he gave a ticket
I went to talks, learned, and thought: Might as well live it!
First talk, whoa this is great,
Learnin' to love truth while sin to hate.
Is this what the Catholics of Old were livin’ like?
Hmm...this might be all right.
I whistled for the girls, but when they came near
They tried to get fresh and worshiped their mirror
If anything, I could say that impure's not for me
So I said, "Where are you Lord, I'll pray to Thee!"
Years, it's been, six or seven at last.
I'm orthodox now, and relativity's past.
I look for the Kingdom, can't wait to be there,
To meet my Savior, the Judge Most Fair.
This is a spoof of the theme song to "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and is not a detailed or wholly accurate biography of Mike. Get to know him yourself, he'll like that.
Mike's Details:
Roman Catholic, 20 yrs old, Straight, 6' 3", Caucasian, Non-smoker, Non-drinker, Discerning the priesthood, In a relationship, Graduate of Aquinas High School, Student at University of Redlands, Psychology Major, Philosophy Minor, JCPenney Associate.
Friday, May 9, 2008
ideas
1. Rectory > Ministry Center - 16th century trads trapped in 21st century parish
2. "Los Otros" - "This is our Church" - High altar transformed into picnic table
3. BSB
4. "Power teens"
5. "Blair Beach Project"
2. "Los Otros" - "This is our Church" - High altar transformed into picnic table
3. BSB
4. "Power teens"
5. "Blair Beach Project"
Thursday, April 24, 2008
BIO: Andrew Hedstrom
Andrew was born July 15, 1987 in the ghetto of San Bernardino, a minor outlying city of Los Angeles. He has lived his entire life in beautiful Southern California, and has no desire to leave the state.
He was born Catholic, granted, he was born to fairly liberal parents. It was purely by the grace of God that he was saved from completely falling for the fallacious beliefs of modern society. In fact, he was on that path until he was introduced to one by the name of Mr. Laurence, who forever changed his perception of the Catholic faith, and how it should truly be lived. If it were not for the influence of Mr. Laurence, Andrew would most certainly be... *dunh dunh dunh* liberal! AHHHH! LOL.
During his senior year of HS, Andrew took on a teaching position at the parish of St. Anne Catholic Church in San Bernardino, CA. It was then, after his confirmation, that he finally started taking his faith seriously, and realized that he indeed needed to know what the Church taught if he himself was to be a teacher of it. And so began his journey to know more about the Truth.
On January 23, 2007 Andrew signed his 8yr contract for the US Army; he opted for the Military Police Corps. Andrew is a full time college student at California State University, San Bernardino where he is majoring in Criminal Justice. There he is in the ROTC program as a contracted Cadet, in a matter of roughly a year from this point in time, he will be commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the US Army.
At present, Mr. Andrew is helping at two churches. He is a Confirmation teacher at Our Lady of Hope in San Bernardino, CA on Saturday nights. On Sunday nights he is a Core Team member at Our Lady of the Assumption in San Bernardino, CA.
If you feel this autobiography to be inadequate in any way, please feel free to post comments and ask questions. I will be more than happy to answer!
Your brother in Christ,
Andrew Hedstrom
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
BIO: Laurence Gonzaga
Bio: Laurence Gonzaga, B.A (Psychology, CSUSB), M.A. in progress
Laurence was born in 1983 in the Philippines, and came to the US in 1987. He was taught the traditional Catholic faith, and practiced it for many years. However, he never really understood the reasons why Catholics did what they did. He didn’t know much about Protestantism, or what they believed. Laurence would often watch TV evangelists preach in the early 90’s but never understood what the difference was, if there was any, between their version of Christianity, and the one he was raised in.
Laurence attended Catholic schools in the Los Angeles area for a few years but spent most of his K-12 education in public schools. In the latter half of his high school years, Laurence became very good friends with some young ladies who began to challenge him on his Catholic beliefs and practices. They would ask him things like: “Why do you have statues; why do you pray to saints?; why is Mary so important?; Why do you follow the pope?; Why do you confess to men and not God?” and many more questions. Given the fact that he was no longer living with his grandparents, and now living with his parents who stopped going to church, it was only a matter of time before he lost all interest all together. From about 18 through 21, Laurence was an atheist. He would spend much of his time listening to punk rock and other forms of rock music. He would proudly advertise his anti-organized religion beliefs as he wore his shirts that endorsed a band called “Bad Religion”, whose emblem consisted of a “No-crosses” symbol, similar to the “No-smoking” signs. He even went so far as to wear such a blasphemous shirt while visiting a Bible study on campus, certainly, to get a rise out of the attendees.
In one of Laurence’s college courses, he was assigned to lead a team in debate against capital punishment. He remembers vividly, as he sat proudly in the front of the room, pulling out 5 different translations of the Bible and saying, “Which translation?”. Laurence attacked the veracity of the Bible simply because the opposing side used the Bible to justify their support of capital punishment, while not using the same Bible to dictate the consequences of other crimes. In hindsight, Laurence never stopped to think how his teammates felt in his merciless attack on the Holy Book, or even knew if he had Christians on his team. It didn’t matter, for his concluding statement was, “I think by now it's perfectly clear, the bible and any other holy book has just as much place in the legal system of the United Slates today, as the Little Engine That Could.”
This whole attitude changed when he took a course in Introductory Philosophy. He was introduced to the various proofs for the existence of God. Even if these were not necessarily from Christian sources, it made sense. How could it not make sense? After all, “The fool says in his heart ‘there is no God’” (Ps 53:1). The next logical question was, which god; and perhaps first of all, how many gods? Is God all, or is God separate from his creation? Once Laurence came to the monotheistic step, and concluded Christianity must be it, the question comes about, which of the thousands of denominations will it be? He tried coming back to the Catholic faith, even picking up the new Catechism. In the infant stages of re-discovering his Catholic roots, he came across a book called Understanding Catholicism by Rick Jones; a seemingly innocuous or harmless book. Within its 37 chapters, it completely destroyed the Catholic religious system, or so it seemed. The veracity of its claims were never verified, but was simply accepted. After a few months of being operationally a fundamentalist, of the Calvary Chapel brand, he didn’t realize what was in store for him when visiting Northern California for a wedding and presenting a challenge to his uncle who was a deacon for the Catholic Church. Laurence’s uncle simply pointed to a stack on the shelf titled “Beginning Apologetics” by Frank Chacon and Jim Burnham. It was by no means an intense theological treatment of all the objections in the Rick Jones book, but it gave just enough answers to get the ball rolling. The ball hasn’t stopped rolling since.
Laurence is now a catechist for a few of his local Catholic parishes in the San Bernardino diocese in California. He has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, and is currently enrolled in a Master’s program in Child Development Psychology. He attends the Novus Ordo as well as the local Tridentine Mass Indult. After helping to organize and promote a seminar by Dr. Sungenis in his area, Laurence has volunteered to be CAI’s media technician, providing a faster way to receive Dr. Sungenis’ audio presentations.
Laurence was born in 1983 in the Philippines, and came to the US in 1987. He was taught the traditional Catholic faith, and practiced it for many years. However, he never really understood the reasons why Catholics did what they did. He didn’t know much about Protestantism, or what they believed. Laurence would often watch TV evangelists preach in the early 90’s but never understood what the difference was, if there was any, between their version of Christianity, and the one he was raised in.Laurence attended Catholic schools in the Los Angeles area for a few years but spent most of his K-12 education in public schools. In the latter half of his high school years, Laurence became very good friends with some young ladies who began to challenge him on his Catholic beliefs and practices. They would ask him things like: “Why do you have statues; why do you pray to saints?; why is Mary so important?; Why do you follow the pope?; Why do you confess to men and not God?” and many more questions. Given the fact that he was no longer living with his grandparents, and now living with his parents who stopped going to church, it was only a matter of time before he lost all interest all together. From about 18 through 21, Laurence was an atheist. He would spend much of his time listening to punk rock and other forms of rock music. He would proudly advertise his anti-organized religion beliefs as he wore his shirts that endorsed a band called “Bad Religion”, whose emblem consisted of a “No-crosses” symbol, similar to the “No-smoking” signs. He even went so far as to wear such a blasphemous shirt while visiting a Bible study on campus, certainly, to get a rise out of the attendees.
In one of Laurence’s college courses, he was assigned to lead a team in debate against capital punishment. He remembers vividly, as he sat proudly in the front of the room, pulling out 5 different translations of the Bible and saying, “Which translation?”. Laurence attacked the veracity of the Bible simply because the opposing side used the Bible to justify their support of capital punishment, while not using the same Bible to dictate the consequences of other crimes. In hindsight, Laurence never stopped to think how his teammates felt in his merciless attack on the Holy Book, or even knew if he had Christians on his team. It didn’t matter, for his concluding statement was, “I think by now it's perfectly clear, the bible and any other holy book has just as much place in the legal system of the United Slates today, as the Little Engine That Could.”
This whole attitude changed when he took a course in Introductory Philosophy. He was introduced to the various proofs for the existence of God. Even if these were not necessarily from Christian sources, it made sense. How could it not make sense? After all, “The fool says in his heart ‘there is no God’” (Ps 53:1). The next logical question was, which god; and perhaps first of all, how many gods? Is God all, or is God separate from his creation? Once Laurence came to the monotheistic step, and concluded Christianity must be it, the question comes about, which of the thousands of denominations will it be? He tried coming back to the Catholic faith, even picking up the new Catechism. In the infant stages of re-discovering his Catholic roots, he came across a book called Understanding Catholicism by Rick Jones; a seemingly innocuous or harmless book. Within its 37 chapters, it completely destroyed the Catholic religious system, or so it seemed. The veracity of its claims were never verified, but was simply accepted. After a few months of being operationally a fundamentalist, of the Calvary Chapel brand, he didn’t realize what was in store for him when visiting Northern California for a wedding and presenting a challenge to his uncle who was a deacon for the Catholic Church. Laurence’s uncle simply pointed to a stack on the shelf titled “Beginning Apologetics” by Frank Chacon and Jim Burnham. It was by no means an intense theological treatment of all the objections in the Rick Jones book, but it gave just enough answers to get the ball rolling. The ball hasn’t stopped rolling since.
Laurence is now a catechist for a few of his local Catholic parishes in the San Bernardino diocese in California. He has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, and is currently enrolled in a Master’s program in Child Development Psychology. He attends the Novus Ordo as well as the local Tridentine Mass Indult. After helping to organize and promote a seminar by Dr. Sungenis in his area, Laurence has volunteered to be CAI’s media technician, providing a faster way to receive Dr. Sungenis’ audio presentations.
What are Catholic Tradventures?
Well. We are a group of young traditionalists (some more than others :-) ), who love the traditional Latin Mass (extraordinary form of the Roman Rite). We also attend the "new Mass" in English (ordinary form of the Roman Rite). We have been asked recently what we do for fun. Well, it caught us off guard and I was wanting to say, "study Scriptures, Church doctrine, moral theology, soteriology, eschatology, demonology, St. Thomas Aquinas, etc." We are "too serious" at the English Mass, and so, I suppose we come off as young people who don't do anything but whine about rubrics, liturgy, and catechetics... So, this blog was created as an effort to show that we can participate in "normal" antics and shenanigans, the only difference is... we do it outside of Holy Mass.
AMDG,
Laurence Gonzaga
AMDG,
Laurence Gonzaga
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