YISS: Everlasting God

Youth In the Spirit Seminar (December)

This is a 4days stay-in camp (6-9Dec) organised by Amplify Ministry @ CSC(next to Nativity Church), specially for youths aged between 16 to 35.

Renew your faith with Him at this retreat! (:

The retreat cost $40, which includes meals, materials and the t-shirt! It may seem a little steep but its gonna be worth it! (:

Ask your non-catholic friends who are interested in knowing more about God too! Both Catholics and non-catholics are very very much welcomed!

You can contact Lydia/Anne Marie from Amplify or email them directly your registration at youthinthespiritseminar@gmail.com with your particulars in this order:

Name (Ms/Mr):
Address:
Age:
Ic.no:
Tel (Home&Hp):
Email:
Parish:(if not applicable, just leave blank)
T-shirt size: XS/S/M/L/XL

Happy birthday to our dearest Fran!

(:

Jesus

"God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Listening is the beginning of prayer. "

Conference on Life in the Spirit Seminar (LISS)

My reflections on this conference tt happened on 4 & 5 Aug 2007. The first day was a struggle to get thru the day man! To me, the first session was dry, but as i continued to listen to the 2nd session, i learnt new things. If not for Angele, would not be there on the second day...n the 2nd day was much more interesting in terms of content. This might get a lil lengthy caz I'm summarising 18 hrs worth of the conference into this tiny lil page...haha!k to be truthful, i think i only caught 4 hrs worth of it..so Angele can share her experience too so u'll get a fuller understanding.

The theme for this year's LISS is 'As by a New Pentecost'. As we all know, Pentecost is the day when the disciples experienced the Holy Spirit. As Fr. Gino explained, having a God experience is different from having a Baptism in the Holy Spirit. A personal God experience might change ur life, we look at things differently after that. You may have more than one God experience but the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is when YOU give God that promise of surrendering ur all to HIM, a definitive YES! to everything He wants u to do. The thought of what I want to do fades off and in every single little thing, we seek God's advice. At this point, I gotta admit, i have had a few God experiences but i have not given Him the definitive YES! yet but I'm striving towards it...slowly...in my own lil ways. I encourage you to do so too =) caz God loves us so much, i just feel I owe Him something...i mean..EVERYTHING!

Basically the definitive YES! requires my obedience/ submission to Him, and my prayers (I just realised how impt this is, n I'm so guilty of not praying deeply enough.I usually treat prayer as a sleeping pill..say already sure fall asleep one. well tt jus goes to show my spiritual level ain't to high...tts y im working on it).

As for the gifts of the Holy Spirit...they are cool! n its a WOW! experience when you get them but Fr. Gino was warning us that as time passes, we tend to use these gifts, neither for the good of others, nor to glorify God but we use it to show off, or get power, then we get arrogant and proud and all so yeah...Fr. Gino calls this spiritual warfare. One example is that when we read the Bible n all we think we know better than the priest so we either not listen in mass or we think the priest is talking bullshit. so he reminds us not to succumb to the attractions of the world, and he assures us that God is with us to fight off all these but we ourselves must be prepared.

The interesting thing i learnt on the first day was where my spiritual level is at...i shy to tell u what my is la but here are the 2 general levels: the feeling level, and the spirit level. Feeling level refers to when we feel holy then we do good but when we dun feel tt God is close then we stray. so eg when we sin, we go 4 confession then we feel all gd again so for a while we keep away from tt sin. but when temptation comes we fall back into tt sin , n we feel all horrible again then we go 4 confession again...we end up repeating our sins caz we do not have on going repentence. this leads to the sin becoming a habit and then its a sin attitude, lastly it becomes complusion.
Spirit level would be when we are able to use the gifts for the glory of God no matter how far away we feel we are from God. n a tis level, u wud have a love for scripture and u are open to share the faith with others. I think this is the gist of a new Pentecost, where we receive the gifts and we go out to evangelise.

Qn we reflected on day 1:
1. Have I fully surrendered my life to Jesus whereby He is the center of my life?
-Do I consult Him in everything I do?
-Do I do what He wants me to do or what I want to do?

2. Do I pray deeply in the Spirit?
-Do I have intimacy with God in my prayers?
-How much time do I spend each day in prayer?
-Is my prayer time more than the time i spend with my loved ones?
-Do I strive to make it better?

3.Do I have the hunger for the Word of God?

Hope these questions will help you reflect on ur spiritual life =)
and Day 2...

In us, we have our emotions, our mind and our inner being( this is where God dwells).
when we have a God experience, it vibrates thru our body, if affects our emotions and our mind. we feel at peace and we mature. anw, Fr. Gino was trying to explain to us how immature and mature actions work thru our mind, emotions and our inner being. this is a simple eg ...when someone is late for a meeting ur in charge of...

immature: emotion-we feel angry
mind- y is he always late? scold!

mature: inner being-keep calm, pple have their reasons for being like that
emotions- trying to cool down
mind- dun scold...smile and welcome the person.

eventually the person might feel guilty tt u din scold him n he will apologize...haha! if not he'll still think ur nice..n he'll wonder y? hopefully he'll find out tt its the God in u tt makes u so nice.

therefore being guided by the inner being will lead u to maturity. come to think of it...maybe tts y i get irritated so easily some times...i chucked my inner being away somewhere...

Day2 Qn: What was my God experience and how did that change my life?

The purpose of LISS is to help pple b more aware of the Holy Spirit.
they also gave some tips on how to conduct a LISS on our own...n well i gtg eat now...they actually have a manual on how to conduct LISS. Anw..Angele i really think this is not even half of what they tried to impart to us, so u can continue =) thanks! =p

Fran =)

hmmmmm......

God is like assam in Kiam Chye Ark. It's the one ingredient that brings it all together. Without it, the dish will be flat and not palatable.

Prayer can exist in every aspect of one's life. It is most often recognized in its verbal form, but is most potent when the heart speaks it.

Faith is trust without eyes, ears or tongue.

I pray for patience, tolerence and understanding because to me that is what God is.

-Leo

Yesterday's Homily @ QOP

In order for a ministry to be successful, you'll need PRAYER.
Prayers are powerful..... do not stop praying.
How much do we have to pray? "An hour a day is a good start" said Father
"and you'll see the wonders of prayer very soon...."

~ zer ~

Bible Verse of the Day

Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.

- Psalm 37:5-6 (NIV)-

with love, angele

Luke 10:17-20

The Return of the Seventy

And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

signing off, angele

UPCOMING EVENTS!

• 7 JULY 2007 (SAT) - Youth Rally! at EXPO HALL 1B. CAYC brings you a youth rally that will bring youths (confirmants) all around Singapore together in one place to worship and praise God as one! Do feel free to come and join the confirmants from QOP church, just contact any of us by email : savioyouthministry.gmail.com

• Conference on Youth LISS brought to you by Saccre Youth. If you want to experience God and deepen your faith or want to know about the charamastic side of the Catholic faith. Do attend this conference, where your doubts will be answered! Details are in the poster below, just click on it to enlarge it. Anything just look for us at the cabin or you can email us or contact Angele: 98621172.

youth fellowship gig! =)

heyz everyone! 16 feb is going to be a damn fantastic n happening nite =) we got 5 youth bands coming down to qop to play contemporary music more towards the rock genre...so come on down to experience the fun n enjoy the talents God gave to these youngesters! they r going to rock your world! spread the news to ur confi frens n have an old class reunion =) we got food n drinks. tix r selling at the door at only $4...hse of david 4.1
c ya dere =) cheers!
Fran

Updates about ym activities

Hello youths,
Since our last meeting(7th Jan 2007), we have decided that YM meetings shall be held on every 1st and 3rd sunday of the month immediately after the 10.30am mass. Please do take note of this and try your best to attend the meetings with an open mind.
As for our cabin, it has once again become a store room after a short period of about 6 mths or so. Thus, there will be a Cabin Clean-up this Sunday(14th Jan 2007) immediately after the 10.30am mass. Please do come and help out as we would not only like to enjoy the comforts of a clean cabin in a shorter time but also we would like to take this opportunity as a chance to get to know each other better and strengthen our bonds.
For those who do not know, Young Adults Prayer Gathering is held every Thursday at 8pm in church (usually house of david). This is a session where we gather with other members of the Church to reflect on a Bible reading and later share our thoughts. It will be led by an elected facillitator who happens to be our dear Francesca for this week (tomorrow, 11th Jan 2007). Due to her ending work late, tomorrow's gathering will be pushed back to 8.30pm. Do try to attend these sessions as you will certainly benefit from them.
That's it for now. Bye!!

P.S. Alex please remember to fix our cabin lights