This professional soccer player leaves the field to become a priest. He’s not shy about using the media to promulgate the faith and talk about God!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Theme Chosen for SOMD Youth Day
At our first planning meeting for Southern Maryland Youth Day 2009, we threw around ideas for possible themes - the Bible, St. Paul (this is his year, after all), and others. Someone mentioned that 2009 is the 375th anniversary of the first recorded Catholic Mass in the English colonies, and we quickly decided to focus on what we could learn from the first settlers here in Maryland.
Sound boring? Maybe you don't know enough about what those early Marylanders had been through: The Catholics on-board were fleeing harsh treatment by the English government, seeking a place where they could live out their faith more freely. Others on board were adventurers looking for life in a new world and a chance at fortune and fame. In danger of starvation, pirate attacks, sickness at sea, and violent storms, they crossed the ocean to settle in a new colony, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Sound boring? Maybe you don't know enough about what those early Marylanders had been through: The Catholics on-board were fleeing harsh treatment by the English government, seeking a place where they could live out their faith more freely. Others on board were adventurers looking for life in a new world and a chance at fortune and fame. In danger of starvation, pirate attacks, sickness at sea, and violent storms, they crossed the ocean to settle in a new colony, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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