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Catholic Worker in Training: February 2009
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Catholic Worker in Training. Monday, February 2, 2009. Then Peter came to him and said, "Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother who sins against me? As many as seven times? Jesus said to him, "Not seven times, I tell you, but seventy-seven times! It is difficult to truly forgive, and I am not sure if I am capable of such a beautiful act. My tendency is to hold grudges and judgments in my heart as my mouth speaks words of love, as I write phrases of peace. If face to face with a police officer of ...
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Catholic Worker in Training: February 2010
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Catholic Worker in Training. Saturday, February 20, 2010. Travels since November have taken me through Washington, Oregon, California and landed me in Arizona (my first time in the southwest). I rode through northern California with the company of three young community-searching, simple-living explorers. All of us, strangers at the beginning of the trip (brought together by a Craigslist rideshare ad), hugged goodbye after the 8 hour drive. The holidays beckoned me to Los Angeles where I was reunited with...
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Catholic Worker in Training: January 2009
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Catholic Worker in Training. Friday, January 9, 2009. I know that eventually I'll have to write for my blog updates, but so much fun has happened in the past month or so that I thought pictures might be more appropriate (with little snippets of writing in between). Enjoy viewing my holiday adventures. I made a deal with Herman (left) that he could check out as many books as he'd like from the public library on my library card. It rained on Christmas. Album and had some good laughs. Los Angeles Catholic W...
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Catholic Worker in Training: Passion: It Hurts So Good
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Catholic Worker in Training. Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Passion: It Hurts So Good. Are next door), search for a piano to play, and look forward to a year of discovering the lifestyle that fits me best. Recently we talked of causes we believe are just. Essentially, we were asking: What do we do with our passion? Do we feed our passion to boredom to create a lively experience, or do we find what we need and cultivate our calling? We didn't have any decent answers. Ironically enough, it seems the challen...
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Catholic Worker in Training: An Afternoon at the Federal Courthouse
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Catholic Worker in Training. Wednesday, March 17, 2010. An Afternoon at the Federal Courthouse. Almost the instant my feet touched the Arizona soil, I heard about the state's issue of immigration. In Los Angeles, I knew undocumented immigrants, and the troubles I heard were often about finding work and a living space without being turned in to la migra. In Tucson, just a few hours from the Mexico-U.S. border, the struggles of the immigrants are ones of basic survival. All of the detained were wearing ear...
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Catholic Worker in Training: November 2009
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Catholic Worker in Training. Monday, November 2, 2009. A $1 House, Chickens, Ducks, and Morning Glory. I met Kathleen through Clare, her daughter and LACW community member. Kathleen is jolly, a hard worker by nature, and eternally passionate about gardening. She had extended a few invitations my way to visit her in Olympia, Washington, to learn about gardening and get my hands dirty. I decided to take her up on that offer. And Kathleen spends her days tending to the garden. You're new at this! Tuesday ev...
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Catholic Worker in Training: The Keippelas
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Catholic Worker in Training. Saturday, October 3, 2009. When I moved from Los Angeles to Oregon, I knew my ideal situation would be living with the Keippela. They are not affluent. They do not have a large home or income. They are not Catholic Workers. Kacy and Andrew are a middle class white couple who saw my need and offered food, shelter and love. They opened their house for hospitality. Once for a near-stranger, and again for me. I share this story to lift up the Keippelas. October 6, 2009 at 8:47 AM.
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Catholic Worker in Training: April 2009
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Catholic Worker in Training. Monday, April 6, 2009. Despite my cynicism toward the city and its concrete, Babylonian existence, I have experienced very formative situations here and met a slew of people who are making it difficult to think about saying "sayonara.". In Vietnam, which gets them pretty irked, too). Although they have such youthful and curious personalities it is hard to believe that either of these men could have been armed and face-to-face with the deemed enemy 40 years back. These two men...
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Catholic Worker in Training: June 2009
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Catholic Worker in Training. Thursday, June 25, 2009. So Much Fear In Such Little Time. When one part of my life changes (for better or worse), I silently expect all aspects of my life to also change (only for better). As if I am waiting for one flaw in my life to be fixed so everything else can fall into place. A domino theory for my identity. Currently, I am a few weeks into a sizable change in my life. I have left Los Angeles and the community in which I participated for two years. I am facing...Choic...
