Short and Sweet...

This has gone by pretty quickly with not too much out of ordinary. On Wednesday night though we got to go to see the Colorado Rockies play the Los Angeles Dodgers which was really fun. The Rockies were up until about the 6 inning and then unfortunately gave up a few runs and ended up with a loss. But it was good times and the foot-long hotdog that devoured was delicious. Of course the prices there are highway robbery. Fr. Louis was cold so he got a cup of coffee - $4.50! It would have been a lot cheaper to go to Starbucks. Unfortunately there are no pictures because Br. Paul, the chronicler, forgot the camera.

On Tuesday I had another class session witht he teenage kids that I'm preparing for First Communion and First Confession at Eastertime. This week I wanted to talk to them about the soul and why it is that people believe in the existence of the soul. Is it just a nice story that someone invented or are there real logical reasons which point to its existence. This is a foundational question and I think it's important that they see that revelation is not divorced from reason. Also, if they believe in a soul even if they don't believe in Catholicism then perhaps it will spur them on in the future to pursue the truth. We went at it from a sort of Aristotian understanding of things and I tried to use the Socratic method to get them to see how the mind does things that cannot be attributed to a purely entity - namely the brain. onsidering how poor of an education these kids have had and how new to teaching I am I thought the class went remarkably well. They engaged and answering questions and thinking. It was beautiful. One of the kids even told me that I had lost him in the last five minutes so we give a quick review of the main points.

The homeless shelter ministry this week was interesting and I talked to a few guys who had some interesting backgrounds. The 7th graders at the school I help out at were great. I gave a talk on what Pope Benedict said in his recent controversial speech about Islam and how reason and revelation are connected and why God cannot contradict Himself. The kids were good about responding to questions but occassionaly one would let loose with an answer that was so good it just made you pause.

On Satruday nights it's the novices turn to cook dinner and this week was my turn. So I made pizzas - no not from scratch but close enough. I thought they turned out great. Nothing quite like mountains of cheese and toppings.

Here are a few pictures from this week (apologies for the lack of Rockies game picutres - we had really good seats too - 13th row by thrid base).


This is just another photo of our chapel that I took after benediction on Thursday. We used a lot of incense which is why you can see the light streaming in.


This is just a cool shot of Fr. Louis that Br. Paul took in the main parish church that the Dominicans run in Denver.



And here is a nice shot of Br. Peter looking in the other direction of said church. Well that's all for now. Take care and God bless.