<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215</id><updated>2012-02-16T18:48:34.286-08:00</updated><category term='calendar'/><category term='events'/><title type='text'>St. Barbara Young Adults</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>47</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-821502746251106009</id><published>2010-11-30T10:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-30T10:00:02.922-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Prayer Intentions for December</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.christianfriendsofchina.org/webimages/prayer3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 469px;" src="http://www.christianfriendsofchina.org/webimages/prayer3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every month the Pope focuses on a particular prayer intention.  For December the intentions are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;font-family:Arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color:#6a6240;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;The Experience of   Personal Suffering as a Help to Others who Suffer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;General: &lt;/b&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;That our personal experience of suffering may be an occasion for   better understanding the situation of unease and pain which is the lot of   many people who are alone, sick or aged, and stir us all to give them   generous help.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#6a6240;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Opening Our Doors   to Christ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Missionary:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;   That the peoples of the earth may open their doors to Christ and to His   Gospel of peace, brotherhood and justice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-821502746251106009?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/821502746251106009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/11/prayer-intentions-for-december.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/821502746251106009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/821502746251106009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/11/prayer-intentions-for-december.html' title='Prayer Intentions for December'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-7945760828831113484</id><published>2010-10-31T10:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-31T10:00:01.439-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Prayer Intentions for November</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.christianfriendsofchina.org/webimages/prayer3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 469px;" src="http://www.christianfriendsofchina.org/webimages/prayer3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every month the Pope focuses on a particular prayer intention.  For November the intentions are:&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(106, 98, 64);"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;font-family:Arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color:#6a6240;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Drug Addicts and   Victims of Every Form of Dependence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;General: &lt;/b&gt;  &lt;/span&gt; That victims of drugs or of other dependence may, thanks to the   support of the Christian community, find in the power of our Saving God   strength for a radical life-change.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#6a6240;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;The Continent-wide   Mission in Latin America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Missionary:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;   That the Churches of Latin America may move ahead with the continent-wide   mission proposed by their bishops, making it part of the universal   missionary task of the People of God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-7945760828831113484?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/7945760828831113484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/10/prayer-intentions-for-november.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7945760828831113484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7945760828831113484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/10/prayer-intentions-for-november.html' title='Prayer Intentions for November'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-1938043709346818714</id><published>2010-10-15T10:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-15T10:00:04.779-07:00</updated><title type='text'>St. Teresa</title><content type='html'>Today we celebrate the feast day of St. Teresa of Avila.  One of her well known prayers is called St. Teresa's Bookmark.  Enjoy it in both text and sung forms.  The sung version is called Nada te turbe, a Taizé chant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/go1-BoDD7CI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/go1-BoDD7CI?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt; Let nothing disturb thee,&lt;br /&gt;Nothing affright thee&lt;br /&gt;All things are passing;&lt;br /&gt;God never changeth;&lt;br /&gt;Patient endurance&lt;br /&gt;Attaineth to all things;&lt;br /&gt;Who God possesseth&lt;br /&gt;In nothing is wanting;&lt;br /&gt;Alone God sufficeth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;i&gt;                    &lt;/i&gt;—&lt;i&gt;H. W. Longfellow (translator)&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-1938043709346818714?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/1938043709346818714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/10/st-teresa.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/1938043709346818714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/1938043709346818714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/10/st-teresa.html' title='St. Teresa'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-8211362081149682933</id><published>2010-09-30T10:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-30T10:00:02.915-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Prayer Intentions for October</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.christianfriendsofchina.org/webimages/prayer3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 469px;" src="http://www.christianfriendsofchina.org/webimages/prayer3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every month the Pope focuses on a particular prayer intention.  For October intentions are: &lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(106, 98, 64);"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;font-family:Arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color:#6a6240;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Catholic   Universities&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;General: &lt;/b&gt;  &lt;/span&gt; That Catholic Universities may more and more be places where,   in the light of the Gospel, it is possible to experience the harmonious   unity existing between faith and reason.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#6a6240;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;World Mission Day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Missionary:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;   That the World Mission Day may afford an occasion for understanding that the   task of proclaiming Christ is an absolutely necessary service to which the   Church is called for the benefit of humanity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-8211362081149682933?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/8211362081149682933/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/09/prayer-intentions-for-october.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/8211362081149682933'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/8211362081149682933'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/09/prayer-intentions-for-october.html' title='Prayer Intentions for October'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-2742892357275698195</id><published>2010-09-28T08:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-28T08:36:08.125-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What do ya know?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/events/shaw2009/events/religionandsexualhealth/religion.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/chm/events/shaw2009/events/religionandsexualhealth/religion.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For most people, the answer is "not much."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pew Forum on Religion and Culture asked adults to respond to a U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey.  Most Americans scored 50% or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions, and Constitutional issues regarding religion in public life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the surprising -- to me -- responses is that barely half of the Catholics who responded know that when they receive communion they are actually receiving Jesus' body and blood.  (I wonder how many of the people who identified themselves as Catholic are regular Mass-goers and how many participate only occasionally.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A summary from CNN is available &lt;a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/dont-know-much-about-religion-youre-not-alone-study-finds/?hpt=C1"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A 15-question version of the quiz is available &lt;a href="http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/intro.php"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  (I couldn't get the quiz to work with Firefox but it did work with Internet Explorer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do ya know?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-2742892357275698195?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/2742892357275698195/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-do-ya-know.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/2742892357275698195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/2742892357275698195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-do-ya-know.html' title='What do ya know?'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-7975670117941462738</id><published>2010-09-03T11:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T12:00:56.698-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pakistan</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cssr.org.au/_uploads/fcknw//Pakistan_Floods_2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 360px; height: 357px;" src="http://www.cssr.org.au/_uploads/fcknw//Pakistan_Floods_2010.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Natural disasters never seem to end.  Currently the people of Pakistan are dealing with the aftermath of the worst floods in living memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catholic Relief Services is providing shelter and hygiene kits containing plastic sheeting, bed mats, soap, kitchen supplies, water purification tablets, rehydration salts and covered buckets to store water.  CRS is also hiring residents in cash-for-work programs to restore clean drinking water by rebuilding water supply systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read more about the situation in Pakistan &lt;a href="http://crs.org/pakistan/shelter-for-pakistan-flood-survivors-slideshow/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and donate to CRS &lt;a href="https://secure.crs.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3640&amp;amp;3640.donation=form1"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-7975670117941462738?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/7975670117941462738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/09/pakistan.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7975670117941462738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7975670117941462738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/09/pakistan.html' title='Pakistan'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-783770100271718033</id><published>2010-08-31T10:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-31T10:00:00.643-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Prayer Intentions for September</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.christianfriendsofchina.org/webimages/prayer3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 469px;" src="http://www.christianfriendsofchina.org/webimages/prayer3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every month the Pope focuses on a particular prayer intention.  For September intentions are:&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(106, 98, 64);"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;font-family:Arial;" &gt;&lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;SEPTEMBER &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;  2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;font-family:Arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#6a6240;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;The Word of God as   Sign of Social Development&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;General: &lt;/b&gt;  &lt;/span&gt; That in less developed parts of the world the proclamation of   the Word of God may renew people’s hearts, encouraging them to work actively   toward authentic social progress.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#6a6240;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;The End of War&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Missionary:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;   That by opening our hearts to love we may put an end to the numerous wars   and conflicts which continue to bloody our world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-783770100271718033?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/783770100271718033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/08/prayer-intentions-for-september.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/783770100271718033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/783770100271718033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/08/prayer-intentions-for-september.html' title='Prayer Intentions for September'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-598430535666414802</id><published>2010-08-25T16:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-25T16:54:50.627-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Being Catholic Online</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.isthmuscatholic.org/pictures/Becoming%20Catholic%20Pope%20Benedict%20XVI.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 347px; height: 447px;" src="http://www.isthmuscatholic.org/pictures/Becoming%20Catholic%20Pope%20Benedict%20XVI.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do your friends on Facebook and other sites have any idea that you're Catholic?  Do you sometimes feel like you're &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;too&lt;/span&gt; Catholic?  These questions are addressed in an interesting article called "&lt;a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/how-catholic-should-you-be-online/"&gt;How Catholic Should You Be Online?&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to share your faith online, you might consider the advice given by the blogger, Matthew Warner:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Evangelism is about relationships. Don’t use your online platform (be it large or small) as only a megaphone (you’ll soon find nobody listening). Use it to listen, share and to build genuine relationships. That is a key ingredient of effective evangelism. It’s about truth &lt;i&gt;and charity&lt;/i&gt;. If you have not Love, you are but a clanging cymbal. Clanging cymbals are not Catholic at all.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-598430535666414802?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/598430535666414802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/08/being-catholic-online.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/598430535666414802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/598430535666414802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/08/being-catholic-online.html' title='Being Catholic Online'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-1741458966586447218</id><published>2010-08-09T21:32:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-09T21:41:01.124-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sharing the Faith, Splitting the Rent</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/08/08/realestate/08cover-span/08cover-span-articleLarge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/08/08/realestate/08cover-span/08cover-span-articleLarge.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There's an &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/realestate/08cov.html"&gt;interesting article&lt;/a&gt; in the New York Times about how people allow their faith to affect where and how they live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The article profiles a Christian group called Radical Living, a Jewish woman who wanted housing close enough to her synagogue to walk to services, a Muslim who wanted roommates who understood her prayer life, and a Buddhist looking for a roommate who accepts her incense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It raises questions in my mind about what requirements I would have if I moved.  I like being close enough to the church to be able to get there easily for Mass, meetings, or whatever is going on.  I would love to live close enough to &lt;a href="http://www.saintandrewsabbey.com"&gt;St. Andrew's Abbey&lt;/a&gt; to be able to join the monks for Mass or prayers.  Hmmm...what else?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-1741458966586447218?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/1741458966586447218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/08/sharing-faith-splitting-rent.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/1741458966586447218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/1741458966586447218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/08/sharing-faith-splitting-rent.html' title='Sharing the Faith, Splitting the Rent'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-3267049182264307397</id><published>2010-08-03T10:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-03T10:00:01.792-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La Fiesta Pequeña</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.oldspanishdays-fiesta.org/new/images/uploads/entertainment-pequena_01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://www.oldspanishdays-fiesta.org/new/images/uploads/entertainment-pequena_01.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On Wednesday night Old Spanish Days kicks off with La Fiesta Peque&lt;span class="red-colorfont"&gt;ña on the Mission steps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;This event features Fiesta’s traditional songs and dances: tunes of the Californios, Flamenco, Spanish classical and Mexican folklórico dances. Food is available for purchase from local vendors and admission to the event is free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="red-colorfont"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The event starts at 8pm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Viva la fiesta!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-3267049182264307397?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/3267049182264307397/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/08/la-fiesta-pequena.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/3267049182264307397'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/3267049182264307397'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/08/la-fiesta-pequena.html' title='La Fiesta Pequeña'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-7405511697968289682</id><published>2010-08-01T06:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T19:43:37.478-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Prayer Intentions for August</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.christianfriendsofchina.org/webimages/prayer3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 469px;" src="http://www.christianfriendsofchina.org/webimages/prayer3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every month the Pope focuses on a particular prayer intention.  For August the intentions are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#6a6240;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6a6240;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;The Unemployed and   the Homeless&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;General: &lt;/b&gt;  &lt;/span&gt; That those who are without work or homes or who are otherwise   in serious need may find understanding and welcome, as well as concrete help   in overcoming their difficulties.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#6a6240;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: 700; background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Victims of   Discrimination, Hunger and Forced Emigration&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="color:#7c5f03;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;Missionary:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-position: 0pt 0pt;"&gt;   That the Church may be a “home” for all people, ready to open its doors to   any who are suffering from racial or religious discrimination, hunger, or   wars forcing them to emigrate to other countries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-7405511697968289682?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/7405511697968289682/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/07/prayer-intentions-for-august.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7405511697968289682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7405511697968289682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/07/prayer-intentions-for-august.html' title='Prayer Intentions for August'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-3659958125123312912</id><published>2010-07-22T10:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-22T10:00:03.420-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mary Magdalene</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/73/202216566_1fc124f241.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 250px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/73/202216566_1fc124f241.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On July 22 the Church celebrates the memorial of Mary Magdalene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a woman who is so misunderstood and maligned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always like Mary and I love the gospel for her feast:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the first day of the week,&lt;br /&gt;Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early in  the morning,&lt;br /&gt;while it was still dark,&lt;br /&gt;and saw the stone removed from the tomb.&lt;br /&gt;So she ran and went to Simon Peter&lt;br /&gt;and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved,  and told them,&lt;br /&gt;"They have taken the Lord from the  tomb,&lt;br /&gt;and we don't know where they put him." &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping.&lt;br /&gt;  And as she wept,  she bent over into the tomb &lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;and saw two angels in white sitting there,&lt;br /&gt;  one at the head and one at the feet&lt;br /&gt;  where the Body of Jesus had been.&lt;br /&gt;  And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?"&lt;br /&gt;  She said to them, "They have taken my Lord,&lt;br /&gt;  and I don't know where they laid him."&lt;br /&gt;  When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there,&lt;br /&gt;  but did not know it was Jesus.&lt;br /&gt;  Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?&lt;br /&gt;  Whom are you looking for?"&lt;br /&gt;  She thought it was the gardener and said to him,&lt;br /&gt;"Sir, if you carried him away,&lt;br /&gt;  tell me where you laid him,&lt;br /&gt;  and I will take him."&lt;br /&gt;  Jesus said to her, "Mary!"&lt;br /&gt;  She turned and said to him in Hebrew,&lt;br /&gt;"Rabbouni," which means Teacher.&lt;br /&gt;  Jesus said to her,&lt;br /&gt;"Stop holding on to me, for I have not  yet ascended to the Father.&lt;br /&gt;  But go to my brothers and tell them,&lt;br /&gt;  'I am going to my Father and your Father,&lt;br /&gt;  to my God and your God.'"&lt;br /&gt;  Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples,&lt;br /&gt;"I have seen the Lord,"&lt;br /&gt;  and then reported what he told her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;You can read more about Mary Magdalene:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p class="subtitle"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/ac0506.asp"&gt;St. Mary Magdalene:  Redeeming Her Gospel Reputation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-3659958125123312912?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/3659958125123312912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/07/mary-magdalene.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/3659958125123312912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/3659958125123312912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/07/mary-magdalene.html' title='Mary Magdalene'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-1111441734609070342</id><published>2010-07-16T08:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T08:25:40.459-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiti After Six Months</title><content type='html'>The Jesuit Refugee Service reports that six months after the earthquake the situation is worrying.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jrsusa.org/news/news_100710.php"&gt;HAITI: LITTLE   PROGRESS AFTER SIX MONTHS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Six months after the earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12, the situation in the country remains worrying. Despite the preparative and preventive efforts of UN agencies, international organisations, the Haitian authorities and other local actors to cope with the humanitarian crisis and other natural disasters, the hurricane season now represents a significant danger to vulnerable populations, the 1.7 million displaced and other homeless persons.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Consider making a donation to the &lt;a href="http://jrsusa.org/support_donate.php"&gt;Jesuit Refugee Service&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://crs.org/"&gt;Catholic Relief Services&lt;/a&gt;, or another group assisting those in Haiti.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-1111441734609070342?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/1111441734609070342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/07/haiti-after-six-months.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/1111441734609070342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/1111441734609070342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/07/haiti-after-six-months.html' title='Haiti After Six Months'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-2428473043898844758</id><published>2010-07-15T14:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-15T14:30:44.796-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Will Work for Free</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.calgarycentreforculture.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Volunteers1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 250px;" src="http://www.calgarycentreforculture.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Volunteers1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's an interesting article in &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;America&lt;/span&gt; about people working in faith-based volunteer programs.  Read the article &lt;a href="http://americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=12373"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.  Have you ever thought about volunteering with a faith-based group?  Feel free to comment.  And read more about some of these groups and what they do:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.osavol.org/"&gt;Augustinian Volunteers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://dvusa.org/"&gt;Dominican Volunteers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.franciscancovenantvolunteers.org/"&gt;Franciscan Covenant Program&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jesuitvolunteers.org/"&gt;Jesuit Volunteer Corps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lorettovolunteers.org/"&gt;Loretto Volunteers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mercyvolunteers.org/"&gt;Mercy Volunteer Corps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.norbertines.org/volunteer_community.html"&gt;Norbertine Volunteer Community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.salesianlaymissioners.org/"&gt;Salesian Lay Ministers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vscorps.org/"&gt;Vincentian Service Corps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-2428473043898844758?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/2428473043898844758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/07/will-work-for-free.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/2428473043898844758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/2428473043898844758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/07/will-work-for-free.html' title='Will Work for Free'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-112947884922847242</id><published>2010-07-14T16:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-15T14:30:15.249-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Death</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/BrassOliveOilLamp2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/BrassOliveOilLamp2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This quote was used last night at Bob Carman's Vigil service.  I thought it was beautiful:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come -- Rabindranath Tagore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-112947884922847242?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/112947884922847242/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/07/death.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/112947884922847242'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/112947884922847242'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/07/death.html' title='Death'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-5237311460084388927</id><published>2010-06-11T14:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-11T15:03:05.038-07:00</updated><title type='text'>God's First Language</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://designmind.frogdesign.com/files/u54/silenceTwo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; " src="http://designmind.frogdesign.com/files/u54/silenceTwo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John of the Cross said that God's first language is silence.  It seems we don't have much room for silence in our lives...or for taking time to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;be&lt;/span&gt; rather than to &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;do.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting comments from Fr. Jim Martin [&lt;a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&amp;amp;entry_id=2980"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;] about an article in the NY Times.  As the Psalm says, "Deep calls to deep," but only if you're listening.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-5237311460084388927?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/5237311460084388927/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/06/gods-first-language.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5237311460084388927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5237311460084388927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/06/gods-first-language.html' title='God&apos;s First Language'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-800514341031538374</id><published>2010-06-03T13:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-03T13:47:39.703-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Artifact Stolen from the Mission</title><content type='html'>KEYT &lt;a href="http://www.keyt.com/news/local/95460154.html"&gt;reports&lt;/a&gt; that part of a tabernacle from 1789 has been stolen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="264" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" value="http://www.keyt.com/v/?i=95460154"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.keyt.com/v/?i=95460154" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="264" wmode="transparent" width="320"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anyone knows more about this please post a comment.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-800514341031538374?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/800514341031538374/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/06/artifact-stolen-from-mission.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/800514341031538374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/800514341031538374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/06/artifact-stolen-from-mission.html' title='Artifact Stolen from the Mission'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-7523809465492195678</id><published>2010-03-04T11:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-04T11:10:20.052-08:00</updated><title type='text'>March Meeting:  The Secret Life of Priests and Nuns</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gurugilbert.com/wp-content/coming-soon-sign_rp33.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px;" src="http://gurugilbert.com/wp-content/coming-soon-sign_rp33.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"  &gt;Just what is it that priests and nuns do all day?  How does someone become a priest or nun?  Are they holier than the rest of us?  How did they decide this was the life for them?  Here's a chance to explore the mysteries and ask your questions.  Our guests are Fr. Daniel Barica, Sr. Susan Blomstad, and Fr. John Love.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;FYI:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, March 10&lt;br /&gt;6:30pm&lt;br /&gt;St. Barbara Parish Social Room&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parking:   evening events it's easiest to park in the back of the church. Enter the driveway at Garden and Pueblo and turn at the Mission Renewal Center sign. Walk up the ramp next to the Friars' chapel and turn right at the statue of St. Francis. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-7523809465492195678?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/7523809465492195678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/03/march-meeting-secret-life-of-priests.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7523809465492195678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7523809465492195678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/03/march-meeting-secret-life-of-priests.html' title='March Meeting:  The Secret Life of Priests and Nuns'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-8859587135069407967</id><published>2010-02-18T08:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-18T08:00:02.337-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Imagine...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/wC/roger-ebert-jaw-cancer-photo-esquire-0310-lg.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 225px;" src="http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/wC/roger-ebert-jaw-cancer-photo-esquire-0310-lg.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagine that the last words you spoke were the last words you ever spoke and that the last meal you ate was the last meal you ever ate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Roger Ebert can’t remember&lt;/b&gt; the last thing he ate. He can't remember the last thing he drank, either, or the last thing he said. Of course, those things existed; those lasts happened. They just didn't happen with enough warning for him to have bothered committing them to memory — it wasn't as though he sat down, knowingly, to his last supper or last cup of coffee or to whisper a last word into Chaz's ear. The doctors told him they were going to give him back his ability to eat, drink, and talk. But the doctors were wrong, weren't they? On some morning or afternoon or evening, sometime in 2006, Ebert took his last bite and sip, and he spoke his last word.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;I found &lt;a href="http://www.esquire.com/print-this/roger-ebert-0310"&gt;this profile&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Esquire&lt;/span&gt; to be very moving.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-8859587135069407967?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/8859587135069407967/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/02/imagine.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/8859587135069407967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/8859587135069407967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/02/imagine.html' title='Imagine...'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-8184786453829452146</id><published>2010-02-17T00:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-17T00:05:00.539-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ash Wednesday</title><content type='html'>Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.  These 40 days are an opportunity to prepare ourselves for Easter through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone is invited to receive ashes on this day as a sign of repentance.  There will be Masses at the Mission today at 7:30am, noon, and 7:00pm and ashes will be distributed at each Mass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ash Wednesday is one of two fast days in the Church.  By "fasting," we are asked to eat lightly -- not more than one full meal and, if needed, up to two smaller meals that don't constitute a full meal.  It is also a day of abstinence from meat, so skip the hamburger or steak in favor of fish, pasta, or other non-meat meals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fasting and ashes sound so serious...and they are.  But it's also important to think about the words that are said as the priest marks our foreheads with ashes:  Repent and believe the gospel.  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Believe the gospel...&lt;/span&gt;believe in God's infinite love...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps you will enjoy reflecting on what that means as you listen to this song: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1VGuqk5sleA&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1VGuqk5sleA&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-8184786453829452146?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/8184786453829452146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/02/ash-wednesday.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/8184786453829452146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/8184786453829452146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/02/ash-wednesday.html' title='Ash Wednesday'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-7346970076814954803</id><published>2010-02-15T20:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-15T20:57:54.548-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Love and Marriage...Catholic Style</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.abundance-and-happiness.com/images/1752430-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; " src="http://www.abundance-and-happiness.com/images/1752430-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;February 16&lt;br /&gt;6:30pm&lt;br /&gt;Parish Social Room&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Join Kathie and Joe Schneider and Deacon Jerry and Bev Heyer to discuss love and marriage from a Catholic perspective.  Both couples work with Engaged Encounter. They'll talk about love, marriage, getting married and staying married, communication, and other issues. Please join us with your questions and insights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Parking:&lt;/span&gt;  For evening events it's easiest to park in the back of the church. Enter the driveway at Garden and Pueblo and turn at the Mission Renewal Center sign. Walk up the ramp next to the Friars' chapel and turn right at the statue of St. Francis.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-7346970076814954803?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/7346970076814954803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/02/love-and-marriagecatholic-style.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7346970076814954803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7346970076814954803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/02/love-and-marriagecatholic-style.html' title='Love and Marriage...Catholic Style'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-5931326618302051427</id><published>2010-01-14T13:11:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-14T13:16:50.849-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Haiti</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://westwoodchildren.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/good-samaritan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 432px; height: 392px;" src="http://westwoodchildren.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/good-samaritan.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are a couple of sources you may want to consider in providing aid for the people in Haiti:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://secure.crs.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3181&amp;amp;3181.donation=form1"&gt;Catholic Relief Services&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jrsusa.org/support_donate_credit.php"&gt;Jesuit Refugee Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-5931326618302051427?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/5931326618302051427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5931326618302051427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5931326618302051427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti.html' title='Haiti'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-8352947885888969254</id><published>2010-01-12T16:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-15T21:23:32.240-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Yoga</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gurugilbert.com/wp-content/coming-soon-sign_rp33.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px;" src="http://gurugilbert.com/wp-content/coming-soon-sign_rp33.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;dl&gt;&lt;dd&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yoga!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt; Are you a yoga enthusiast? Or maybe you've wanted to try it and never quite gotten to it. Either way, join us  for Yoga!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  Meet in the office at St. Mark's Church in Isla Vista at 6:15.  (&lt;a href="http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Goleta&amp;amp;state=CA&amp;amp;address=6550+Picasso+Rd&amp;amp;zipcode=93117-4603&amp;amp;country=US&amp;amp;latitude=34.4151&amp;amp;longitude=-119.85686&amp;amp;geocode=ADDRESS"&gt;Click here for a map.&lt;/a&gt;)  We'll walk over to St. Michael's together for a yoga class led by Marisol Murillo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  This class is appropriate for people with all levels of yoga experience...or none at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Wear comfortable clothes. If you have a mat you can bring it; otherwise there are mats available for you to use. $3.00 donation requested.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;FYI:&lt;br /&gt;Yoga&lt;br /&gt;January 19&lt;br /&gt;6:15pm&lt;br /&gt;St. Mark's Church - 6550 Picasso Rd., Isla Vista&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-8352947885888969254?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/8352947885888969254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/01/yoga.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/8352947885888969254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/8352947885888969254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/01/yoga.html' title='Yoga'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-3278900676005702697</id><published>2010-01-06T19:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-15T21:21:01.168-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Upcoming Events</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.dreamstudioz.com/billboard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px;" src="http://gurugilbert.com/wp-content/coming-soon-sign_rp33.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;Monday, January 11&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:10;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;6:30pm in the Bonaventure Room&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Faith and Film:  The Great Debaters (2007) &lt;/div&gt;Inspired by real events, The Great Debaters reveals one of the seeds of the Civil Rights Movement in its story of Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) and his champion 1935 debate club from the all-African-American Wiley College in Texas. Tolson, a Wiley professor, labor organizer, modernist poet, and much else, runs a rigorous debate program at the school, selecting four students as his team in ’35. Race relations at the height of the Great Depression included lynchings of black men and women as a common form of entertainment. The idea of talented and highly intelligent African-American young people learning to think on their feet during debates would seem almost a hopeless endeavor. But that’s not the way Tolson sees it, as his students serve themselves and the cause of racial equality in America. --Tom Keogh &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wednesday, January 13&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;6:30pm in the Social Room&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Monthly meeting.  Theme:  The Least Ones&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;Join Richard Rink from the St. Vincent de Paul Society at the Mission and Barbara Finch, director of the PATHS program at St. Vincent's in Santa Barbara to learn more about what we can do to serve the "least ones" among us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;The St. Vincent de Paul Society provides people with emergency help to pay rent or a utility bill, or to get food, clothing, or furniture.  The PATHS program provides transitional housing and services for single mothers who are on welfare or living below the poverty level.  Both of these groups provide very practical assistance to people in need.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;If you're like me, you see or hear about someone who is hungry or homeless and think "I wish I could help..."  This session will give you concrete ideas about what you can do.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="padding-left: 30px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;For both Faith and Film and the Young Adult meeting, you can park in the Mission Renewal Center parking lot behind the Mission. Enter the driveway at Garden and Pueblo and turn where you see the Mission Renewal Center sign.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-3278900676005702697?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/3278900676005702697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/01/upcoming-events.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/3278900676005702697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/3278900676005702697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2010/01/upcoming-events.html' title='Upcoming Events'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-6228837218513915481</id><published>2009-12-26T13:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-26T14:02:59.643-08:00</updated><title type='text'>James Martin on Mary</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2765054073_2e37c3c5e9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2765054073_2e37c3c5e9.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a fan of James Martin.  Here's his piece from &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Slate&lt;/span&gt; called "Hail Mary."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He starts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;It's tough to relate to someone who's supposed to be God's mom, isn't it?&lt;/blockquote&gt;Read the rest &lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2238981/pagenum/all/#p2"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-6228837218513915481?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/6228837218513915481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/12/james-martin-on-mary.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/6228837218513915481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/6228837218513915481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/12/james-martin-on-mary.html' title='James Martin on Mary'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2765054073_2e37c3c5e9_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-8161839423836666206</id><published>2009-12-22T10:16:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-22T10:20:10.465-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Mass Schedule</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Fra_Angelico_013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 450px; " src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Fra_Angelico_013.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;"  &gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;December 24 - Christmas Eve&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Organ, choir, and strings&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Prelude music begins 30 minutes before Mass&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5pm - Fr. John Vaughn and Br. Luis Guzman&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Midnight - Fr. Richard McManus and Fr. Daniel Barica&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;December 25 - Christmas Day&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Organ, choir, and brass&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;8am - Bishop Thomas Curry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;10am (Family Mass) - Fr. Daniel Barica&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;12 Noon - Fr. John Vaughn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-8161839423836666206?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/8161839423836666206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-mass-schedule.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/8161839423836666206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/8161839423836666206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-mass-schedule.html' title='Christmas Mass Schedule'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-1484777186420130143</id><published>2009-12-17T08:44:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-17T08:45:38.658-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Events This Week</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.starockypoint.com/Advent_Wreath_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px;" src="http://www.starockypoint.com/Advent_Wreath_3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Friday, December 18, 6pm, Mission Church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Simbang Gabi Mass&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a traditional Filipino Mass and will be followed by a reception.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Saturday, December 19, 5pm, Parish Social Room&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dessert Reception&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Join with other young adults at this dessert reception.  Bring goodies to share with the group.  This will be followed by...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Saturday, December 19, 7pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christmas Carol Sing-Along and Blessing of the Creche, in front of the Mission&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-1484777186420130143?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/1484777186420130143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/12/events-this-week_17.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/1484777186420130143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/1484777186420130143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/12/events-this-week_17.html' title='Events This Week'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-957137033262029194</id><published>2009-12-07T07:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T07:13:28.913-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Events This Week</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.starockypoint.com/Advent_Wreath_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px;" src="http://www.starockypoint.com/Advent_Wreath_3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tuesday - December 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception / Holy Day of Obligation&lt;br /&gt;Masses are at 7:30am, 12 Noon, and 7pm in the Mission Church&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wednesday - December 9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Communal Reconciliation Service&lt;br /&gt;7pm in the Mission Church&lt;br /&gt;Come and prepare yourself for Christmas by celebrating God's forgiveness and love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Saturday - December 12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Build the Christmas Creche&lt;br /&gt;Starting at 8am in front of the church&lt;br /&gt;To sign up please call the parish office at 682-4151&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sunday - December 13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Choral Service based on the O Antiphons&lt;br /&gt;3pm in the Mission Church&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-957137033262029194?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/957137033262029194/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/12/events-this-week.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/957137033262029194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/957137033262029194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/12/events-this-week.html' title='Events This Week'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-4343713228916762730</id><published>2009-12-06T09:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-06T09:27:25.391-08:00</updated><title type='text'>St. Nicholas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://orthodoxws.com/austin/images/icons/st_nicholas_myra_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://orthodoxws.com/austin/images/icons/st_nicholas_myra_500.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today we celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas of Myra.  The &lt;a href="http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.aspx?id=1221"&gt;Saint of the Day&lt;/a&gt; feature at Americancatholic.com describes his legendary charity:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblDescription" class="LabelColumnText"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the best-known story about Nicholas concerns his charity toward a poor man who was unable to provide dowries for his three daughters of marriageable age. Rather than see them forced into prostitution, Nicholas secretly tossed a bag of gold through the poor man’s window on three separate occasions, thus enabling the daughters to be married. Over the centuries, this particular legend evolved into the custom of gift-giving on the saint’s feast. In the English-speaking countries, St. Nicholas became, by a twist of the tongue, Santa Claus—further expanding the example of generosity portrayed by this holy bishop.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;May he serve as a model for us as we consider giving not only to our friends and relatives, but to all who are in need.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-4343713228916762730?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/4343713228916762730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/12/st-nicholas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/4343713228916762730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/4343713228916762730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/12/st-nicholas.html' title='St. Nicholas'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-5434685038262709527</id><published>2009-12-04T08:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-04T08:21:18.524-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Make the World a Better Place</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.freewebs.com/theprojectforabetterworld/giving_back_web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://www.freewebs.com/theprojectforabetterworld/giving_back_web.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just read an item on &lt;a href="http://www.lifehack.org/"&gt;Lifehack&lt;/a&gt; called "&lt;a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-small-ways-to-make-the-world-a-better-place.html"&gt;10 Small Ways to Make the World a Better Place&lt;/a&gt;."  The article says:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here are ten little gestures, all of them easily within our grasp, that can spread goodwill in our own communities, as well as increase our own sense of mindfulness about the people around us and our relationship to them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;I would add "smile" to the list.  Smiling and acknowledging someone you pass on a sidewalk or supermarket aisle makes the world a little friendlier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any thoughts?  Do you have small ways of improving the world?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-5434685038262709527?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/5434685038262709527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/12/make-world-better-place.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5434685038262709527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5434685038262709527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/12/make-world-better-place.html' title='Make the World a Better Place'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-5420592453802694648</id><published>2009-11-30T08:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T08:00:06.022-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Advent events this week</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.starockypoint.com/Advent_Wreath_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px;" src="http://www.starockypoint.com/Advent_Wreath_3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div  style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This week there are several things taking place:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div  style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Tuesday, December 1 @ 7pm, Mission Church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Advent by Candlelight.&lt;/span&gt;  Advent by Candlelight will inspire you and connect you with Advent like never before.  Please come to hear personal testimony from parishioners of how Jesus has touched their lives and join in with the beautiful music.  Refreshments will follow.  You're encouraged to attend this hour-long event and especially, to invite anybody you know searching for a way to fill that void in their life, whatever it may be.  Inspirational stories, beautiful music, delicious food, and new-found friends are sure to give Advent a renewed meaning in your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, December 2 @ 6:30pm, Blessed Sacrament Chapel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Taizé Prayer.&lt;/span&gt; Taizé is a form of chanted prayer that is meditative and beautiful.  It will lead you to a quiet place where you can speak with God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;dt  style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Friday, December 4 @ 12:10pm, Mission Church&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt  style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mass for the Feast of St. Barbara.&lt;/b&gt;  Friday is the feast day for the patroness of both our parish and our city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dt&gt; &lt;dd  style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dd&gt; &lt;dt  style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Sunday, December 6 after all Masses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt  style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Global (Alternative) Gift Faire.&lt;/b&gt; If you're looking for a special gift take a look at what's available outside the church next Sunday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;dt&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-5420592453802694648?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/5420592453802694648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/advent-events-this-week.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5420592453802694648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5420592453802694648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/advent-events-this-week.html' title='Advent events this week'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-1956620115311653171</id><published>2009-11-29T08:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-29T08:30:00.251-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Another Advent Calendar</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-F74oLfkThg/SxBlGZZHXcI/AAAAAAAABhs/r1JH601JALk/s320/advent-flash.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-F74oLfkThg/SxBlGZZHXcI/AAAAAAAABhs/r1JH601JALk/s320/advent-flash.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Busted Halo has an "&lt;a href="http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/advent-calendar-2009/"&gt;Advent Surprise Calendar&lt;/a&gt;." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're not familiar with &lt;a href="http://www.bustedhalo.com/"&gt;Busted Halo&lt;/a&gt;, take some time to check it out.  They describe themselves as "an online magazine for spiritual seekers" and are a ministry of the &lt;a href="http://paulist.org/"&gt;Paulists&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-1956620115311653171?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/1956620115311653171/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/another-advent-calendar.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/1956620115311653171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/1956620115311653171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/another-advent-calendar.html' title='Another Advent Calendar'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-F74oLfkThg/SxBlGZZHXcI/AAAAAAAABhs/r1JH601JALk/s72-c/advent-flash.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-6871979474395299159</id><published>2009-11-28T12:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-28T12:35:49.851-08:00</updated><title type='text'>It's Advent!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.usccb.org/advent/images/masthead.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px;" src="http://www.usccb.org/advent/images/masthead.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has an online &lt;a href="http://www.usccb.org/advent/"&gt;Advent calendar&lt;/a&gt; complete with readings and activities for the season.  Enjoy this season of anticipation.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-6871979474395299159?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/6871979474395299159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-advent.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/6871979474395299159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/6871979474395299159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-advent.html' title='It&apos;s Advent!'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-5109518190976888651</id><published>2009-11-26T08:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-26T18:23:35.759-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanksgiving</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/435984147_1cdccb6b10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 333px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/435984147_1cdccb6b10.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Morning Glory&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morning was glorious,&lt;br /&gt;Thin clouds luminous,&lt;br /&gt;The brisk breeze&lt;br /&gt;Welcome relief&lt;br /&gt;After sticky-hot yesterdays,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it’s been that way&lt;br /&gt;All week, Lord,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For though I keep&lt;br /&gt;Getting confused,&lt;br /&gt;Though the world&lt;br /&gt;Persists in panic,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You’ve been working,&lt;br /&gt;Stirring the stale,&lt;br /&gt;Calming the tempestuous,&lt;br /&gt;Whispering relief&lt;br /&gt;Amid so much anxiety,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Telling us today,&lt;br /&gt;As much as yesterday,&lt;br /&gt;What it means&lt;br /&gt;To rise again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- Thomas Flowers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Flowers, SJ, is the author of &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Walking-Humbly-Scripture-Meditations-Verse/dp/0809145715/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&amp;amp;qid=1259176498&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Walking Humbly: Scripture Meditations in Verse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; from Paulist Press.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-5109518190976888651?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/5109518190976888651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/thanksgiving.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5109518190976888651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5109518190976888651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/thanksgiving.html' title='Thanksgiving'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/435984147_1cdccb6b10_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-6370018397659489981</id><published>2009-11-24T15:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T15:11:02.234-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I'm easily amused</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://actapublications.com/images/small/9780879464004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="http://actapublications.com/images/small/9780879464004.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was browsing through a catalog from Acta Publications when I came across a CD called God's Greatest Hits.  I had to laugh.  What would be on an album like that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As it turns out, it includes songs like:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amazing Grace&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simple Gifts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Swing Low Sweet Chariot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Faith of Our Fathers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Holy, Holy, Holy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if that's what God considers his greatest hits?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any thoughts on what you would put on a disc with that title?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-6370018397659489981?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/6370018397659489981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/im-easily-amused.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/6370018397659489981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/6370018397659489981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/im-easily-amused.html' title='I&apos;m easily amused'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-4990623454215290085</id><published>2009-11-22T14:48:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-23T08:06:13.447-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Beautiful</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.homeexchange.com/extraimages/100220_Santa%20Barbara%20Riviera.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://www.homeexchange.com/extraimages/100220_Santa%20Barbara%20Riviera.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I walked out to the car this morning I had to stop and gaze at the mountains.  They were so beautiful.  And the words of the psalmist came to mind:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I lift up my eyes to the hills—&lt;br /&gt;from where will my help come?&lt;br /&gt;My help comes from the Lord,&lt;br /&gt;who made heaven and earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He will not let your foot be moved;&lt;br /&gt;he who keeps you will not slumber.&lt;br /&gt;He who keeps Israel&lt;br /&gt;will neither slumber nor sleep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Lord is your keeper;&lt;br /&gt;the Lord is your shade at your right hand.&lt;br /&gt;The sun shall not strike you by day,&lt;br /&gt;nor the moon by night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Lord will keep you from all evil;&lt;br /&gt;he will keep your life.&lt;br /&gt;The Lord will keep&lt;br /&gt;your going out and your coming in&lt;br /&gt;from this time on and for evermore. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-4990623454215290085?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/4990623454215290085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/beautiful.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/4990623454215290085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/4990623454215290085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/beautiful.html' title='Beautiful'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-320444858449537738</id><published>2009-11-20T10:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-22T14:58:50.461-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Center of My Life</title><content type='html'>At Mass yesterday the priest mentioned the song "You Are the Center of My Life."  Since I walked out humming it I went looking for it on the web...and of course I found it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy this version of &lt;a href="http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/psalms/psalm16.htm"&gt;Psalm 16&lt;/a&gt;.  May he always be the center of our lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="width: 300px;"&gt;&lt;object width="300" height="110"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/6rNsEE9VYw/aus=false/"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/6rNsEE9VYw/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="300" height="110"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 1px; background-color: rgb(230, 230, 230);"&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 4px 4px 0pt 0pt; float: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.imeem.com/embedsearch/E6E6E6/" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;form method="post" action="http://www.imeem.com/embedsearch/" style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt;"&gt;&lt;input name="EmbedSearchBox" type="text"&gt;&lt;input value="Search" style="font-size: 12px;" type="submit"&gt;&lt;div style="padding-top: 3px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/ads/banneradclick.ashx?ep=0&amp;amp;ek=6rNsEE9VYw" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.imeem.com/ads/bannerad/152/10/" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/ads/banneradclick.ashx?ep=1&amp;amp;ek=6rNsEE9VYw" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.imeem.com/ads/bannerad/153/10/" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/ads/banneradclick.ashx?ep=2&amp;amp;ek=6rNsEE9VYw" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.imeem.com/ads/bannerad/154/10/" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/ads/banneradclick.ashx?ep=3&amp;amp;ek=6rNsEE9VYw" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.imeem.com/ads/bannerad/155/10/6rNsEE9VYw/" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/rgdOK3l/music/_o1wgd02/paul-inwood-center-of-my-life/"&gt;Center Of My Life - Paul Inwood&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-320444858449537738?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/320444858449537738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/at-mass-yesterday-priest-mentioned-song.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/320444858449537738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/320444858449537738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/at-mass-yesterday-priest-mentioned-song.html' title='Center of My Life'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-7641662563155341797</id><published>2009-11-19T12:49:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-19T12:54:08.676-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Updated Calendar</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.starockypoint.com/Advent_Wreath_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px;" src="http://www.starockypoint.com/Advent_Wreath_3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.saintbarbaraparish.org/sbya/sbyacalendar.html"&gt;calendar&lt;/a&gt; has been updated with many, many events and activities for Advent.  You can visit the calendar anytime by clicking the link at the top of the page.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-7641662563155341797?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/7641662563155341797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/updated-calendar.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7641662563155341797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7641662563155341797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/updated-calendar.html' title='Updated Calendar'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-3787017459935843418</id><published>2009-11-18T06:48:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T14:41:46.215-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bishops on Marriage</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.usccb.org/laity/images/7-092.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.usccb.org/laity/images/7-092.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The US bishops have approved and published a pastoral letter on marriage. &lt;a href="http://www.usccb.org/laity/LoveandLife/MarriageFINAL.pdf"&gt;Marriage:  Love and Life in the Divine Plan&lt;/a&gt; is available on the bishops' web site.  The bishops have created an additional site devoted to marriage called &lt;a href="http://foryourmarriage.org/"&gt;For Your Marriage&lt;/a&gt;.  The  site looks interesting with everything from marriage tips to book reviews.  I would be interested in hearing comments from those who are married or engaged on how helpful the web site is.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-3787017459935843418?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/3787017459935843418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/bishops-on-marriage.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/3787017459935843418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/3787017459935843418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/bishops-on-marriage.html' title='Bishops on Marriage'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-6354336676474155587</id><published>2009-11-17T09:46:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-17T09:54:56.500-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pedro Arrupe</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sjweb.info/images/arrupe_frontpage2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 396px;" src="http://www.sjweb.info/images/arrupe_frontpage2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I'm a few days late with this, but Saturday was the anniversary of the birth of Pedro Arrupe, superior general of the Jesuits from 1965-83.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can read a nice piece by James Martin &lt;a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?id=56197859-3048-741E-2385789355395058"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, including a link to a chapter of Martin's book &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;My Life with the Saints&lt;/span&gt; that deals with Pedro Arrupe.  (I highly recommend the book as one that will give you a new view on friendship with the saints.  You can read what James Martin has to say and think about your own relationship with these friends of God.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the famous quotes by Pedro Arrupe deals with love.  I find it inspiring as I think about what motivates me in life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Nothing is more practical than finding God,&lt;br /&gt;that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way.&lt;br /&gt;What you are in love with,&lt;br /&gt;what seizes your imagination,&lt;br /&gt;will affect everything.&lt;br /&gt;Fall in love,&lt;br /&gt;stay in love,&lt;br /&gt;and it will decide everything.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-6354336676474155587?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/6354336676474155587/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/pedro-arrupe.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/6354336676474155587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/6354336676474155587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/pedro-arrupe.html' title='Pedro Arrupe'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-4181970144543997894</id><published>2009-11-16T21:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T21:11:44.049-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bishops</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BB2CEUhgSSY/SwHZ9auaWiI/AAAAAAAAFpw/-QaU5k_q98I/s1600/bflo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 610px; height: 453px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BB2CEUhgSSY/SwHZ9auaWiI/AAAAAAAAFpw/-QaU5k_q98I/s1600/bflo.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bishops are beginning their Fall meeting in Baltimore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;America's&lt;/span&gt; blog, In All Things:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt; The USCCB begins its annual plenary session today in Baltimore. On the formal agenda, the bishops will consider a proposed pastoral letter on marriage (which they should scrap and start over) and the final approval of Mass translations (some are good, some not so good but it is past time to fight over them anyway). Behind the scenes, the issue that dominates all the others is the polarization within the Conference, a polarization that seems to have been imported from the political world into the USCCB. The most important thing for the bishops to do this week is to heed the voice of their president, Cardinal George, to resist the political categories of left and right and return to “simply Catholicism.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; In the event, there is a political issue that is tailor-made for the “simply Catholicism” model proposed by Cardinal George: pro-life health care reform. For decades the bishops have backed universal health insurance for all Americans. Since 1973, the bishops have been the leaders, in season and out of season, of the pro-life movement in America. Now, thanks to the 240 members of Congress who voted for the Stupak Amendment banning federal funds for abortion, and the 220 members who voted for the final bill, the possibility of pro-life universal health insurance is that much closer to reality.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?id=74835840-3048-741E-7052836844684028"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Keep the bishops in your prayers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-4181970144543997894?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/4181970144543997894/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/bishops.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/4181970144543997894'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/4181970144543997894'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/bishops.html' title='Bishops'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_BB2CEUhgSSY/SwHZ9auaWiI/AAAAAAAAFpw/-QaU5k_q98I/s72-c/bflo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-7855643211665168028</id><published>2009-11-13T09:03:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-13T10:29:03.245-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Saintly Spirits</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.holyspiritswine.com/images/saintrocco_voice.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 248px; height: 306px;" src="http://www.holyspiritswine.com/images/saintrocco_voice.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps a future wine tasting expedition will include &lt;a href="http://www.holyspiritswine.com/"&gt;Holy Spirit Wines&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wisconsin priest, Fr Dominic Roscioli has partnered with two friends to launch Holy Spirits Wines. The trio's wines, which now are on sale in stores and are being poured in restaurants around southeastern Wisconsin, feature saints matched with wine varietals.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; "I was looking for a way to bring the saints marching back into peoples' homes," Roscioli told the Kenosha News. "What I find is there are a lot of people who don't go to church so much, but they're very spiritual. It's a way to get people to reconnect with their Catholic roots."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.cathnewsusa.com/article.aspx?aeid=17573"&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Please comment:  How do you bring your faith into your home?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-7855643211665168028?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/7855643211665168028/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/perhaps-future-wine-tasting-expedition.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7855643211665168028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7855643211665168028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/perhaps-future-wine-tasting-expedition.html' title='Saintly Spirits'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-5591110124763517376</id><published>2009-11-12T13:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T13:14:00.914-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic</title><content type='html'>Here's the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4BG1U0jpHG4&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4BG1U0jpHG4&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-5591110124763517376?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/5591110124763517376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/lords-prayer-in-aramaic.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5591110124763517376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5591110124763517376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/lords-prayer-in-aramaic.html' title='The Lord&apos;s Prayer in Aramaic'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-7523410506125214519</id><published>2009-11-11T09:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-11T09:32:21.694-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Aliens</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.cathnewsusa.com/uploads/images/2009/11/1111-alien-l.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 162px;" src="http://www.cathnewsusa.com/uploads/images/2009/11/1111-alien-l.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is holding a conference on astrobiology, the study of life beyond Earth, with scientists and religious leaders gathering in Rome this week.  &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; For centuries, theologians have argued over what the existence of life elsewhere in the universe would mean for the Church, at least since Giordano Bruno, an Italian monk, was put to death by the Inquisition in 1600 for claiming that other worlds exist, UK's the &lt;em&gt;Telegraph&lt;/em&gt; said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.cathnewsusa.com/article.aspx?aeid=17643"&gt;Read more&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-7523410506125214519?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/7523410506125214519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/aliens.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7523410506125214519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/7523410506125214519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/aliens.html' title='Aliens'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-2455973994989793659</id><published>2009-11-10T16:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-10T16:44:02.895-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='events'/><title type='text'>Carr Winery on November 14</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HdPz_dHKj14/SvoD0zvbcpI/AAAAAAAAAA4/NOAIQlIxjvs/s1600-h/carr.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 286px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HdPz_dHKj14/SvoD0zvbcpI/AAAAAAAAAA4/NOAIQlIxjvs/s320/carr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402634908761551506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a social event coming up on November 14.  Please RSVP if you would like to join us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHAT:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Wine tasting at Carr Winery&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHERE:&lt;/span&gt; Carr Winery, 414 N. Salispuedes St., Santa Barbara&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;WHEN:&lt;/span&gt; Saturday, November 14, 1pm&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-2455973994989793659?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/2455973994989793659/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/we-have-social-event-coming-up-on.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/2455973994989793659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/2455973994989793659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/11/we-have-social-event-coming-up-on.html' title='Carr Winery on November 14'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HdPz_dHKj14/SvoD0zvbcpI/AAAAAAAAAA4/NOAIQlIxjvs/s72-c/carr.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-4395330513885863168</id><published>2009-10-29T10:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-29T10:45:40.395-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='calendar'/><title type='text'>November 2009 Calendar</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 1 - 10:30am - Parish Social Room&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young adult group planning meeting.  Bring your ideas and enthusiasm to share.  More info?  Contact &lt;a href="mailto:andrea@suscipe.com"&gt;Andrea Duda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-4395330513885863168?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/4395330513885863168/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/10/november-2009-calendar.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/4395330513885863168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/4395330513885863168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/10/november-2009-calendar.html' title='November 2009 Calendar'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6023447947597752215.post-5762550164243060402</id><published>2009-10-28T14:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-28T14:19:11.018-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome!</title><content type='html'>Check here often for news and events related to the Young Adults of St. Barbara Parish.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6023447947597752215-5762550164243060402?l=sbya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/feeds/5762550164243060402/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/10/welcome.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5762550164243060402'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6023447947597752215/posts/default/5762550164243060402'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sbya.blogspot.com/2009/10/welcome.html' title='Welcome!'/><author><name>andrea</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03819035817637611381</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
