St. Andrew Young Adults in the News

URL: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cxmas25dec25,0,4614360.story?coll=sfla-news-front

Go and check it out, here the pictures:















Our Virginia....















Vicki, her mother, the choir... practicing for Dec 15th performance.

BTW, Arturo, I didn't know you were a party animal... just kiddin'
Very nice, great job guys!!! :)

Phrase from the Xmas day mass in the Vatican:
"This humanity of the 21st century appears as sure and self-sufficient
master of its own destiny, the avid proponent of uncontested
triumphs, Yet this is not the case. People continue to die of hunger
and thirst, disease and poverty, in this age of plenty and unbridled
consumerism."
- Pope, Benedict XVI -

The Pope also talked about peace and the need for peace in Africa and the
middle east...

Merry Christmas!!

I want to wish you all, all the best for this Christmas
season, may it be filled with peace and joy.
Share with your family and friends the gift of Love,
and even though, we have our frustrations, worries,
concerns, and many of us carry many crosses, l
et's leave them all outside the table this
Christmass eve and Christmas day, and
just remember Jesus is the
reason for the Season.

Young Adult Activiites for December / January 2007
As usual, XLT: Wednesdays at 7:00pm and Bible Study: Saturdays at 11:00am at Michael's office.

Here, the upcoming events:

• December 8th, 2006: Mass at St Andrew's - day of obligation for all Catholics. Mass at 7:00pm and 8pm St. Andrew's. The plan is to go to mass at 7:00pm and head back to Michael's at 8pm
  
  
• December 8th, 2006: Young Adult GIFT EXCHANGE!!!!! - Get Together - 8:00pm at Michael's office. Bring a small gift $15 to $25. We may go to my house or to a restaurant afterwards!!!!
  
  
• December 9th, 2006: Catholic LIFE - Coffee House/NOVA - Come and support Yai/Arturo, call me if you want to car pool!!!
  

  Host:	Catholic LIFE @Nova, Archdiocese of Miami Campus Ministry @BCC/NSU, Brew Crew Parishes
  Location:	Nova Southeastern University, Mailman building, Rm 309 (Just NE of Rosenthal & the old Flight Deck) 3301 College Ave, Davie, FL View Map
  When:	Saturday, December 9, 7:30pm
  Phone:	Marta 305-762-1013

• December 15th, 2006: Chirstmas Concert St Andrew. Please join us to see our Choir perform for all of us, come and enjoy a night w/ Xmas songs and much more!!!! @7:30pm EST.
  
  
• December 16th, 2006: Miami, Paulina's coffee house... The original coffee house click on : Paulina's Evite : We'll be car pooling tlo Miami, meeting in St. Andrew at 6:00pm.
  Contact Mike Florian or Edwin
  
  
• January 2007!!! I will need your response soon!!... Have you heard of Father Corapi, he is really great and he has an scheduled event 1/26-1/27. We are planning to attend this event with Lidia's group (LYNN), many catholics all over the country and flying in just to see Fr. Corapi. This is the last chance for you to see him, he will retire and dedicate the rest of his life to write books but not to public speaking. It'll be $25, and we may need to sleep over in Jupiter. Take note.
  

Event: St. Jude's Golden Jubilee

When: 1/26/2007 - 1/27/2007
7:00-9:00PM - 8:30AM-3:30PM

Where: St. Jude Catholic Church
204 US HYWY 1
Tequesta, Florida 33469

Who: Fr. John Corapi Keynote speaker.
Please come join Father in his last year of public speaking engagements.
Father will no longer travel after 2007 and spend all his time writing his books and giving TV and radio spots.

For more information, please contact:

Nina Minnel - or - Mary Kolar
Phone: 561-622-8083-or-561-743-9771

POT LUCK

Nice pot luck, supper, dinner, we had last night.... It was awesome, we had cream cake, good beans, pasta, salsa with vodka, cookies, great chicken!!!, and of course, a lot of friends joining us for a few hours. I'd like to thank Martha for driving up from Miami and her chocolate pudding, as well as say Hi to Vix (long time no see, great seeing you again), also I want to thank Juan (driving down from Boynton B.), Gonzo, Chris, and Christi, Gina, the Melindas (We'll play Sudoku some other time Melinda M. :-)), Dale, Erin, Dani, Gabriela and their friend from RD, John, of course Super Yai, Arturo, and Mike F).

Sorry I forgot the "Secret Santa," raffle, but we decided to wait until next Friday, December 8th, to host this event.

Also Martha Vargas is putting together a great event, for next Saturday December 9th, 2006 at 7:00pm in NOVA SouthEastern, Yai and Melinda will be singing, maybe Arturo, come and support our St Andrew Parish and meet other Catholics in our area. I will be posting more details shortly.

Let's pray for everyone in finals and let's all shoot for December 8th, 2006 to host "Secret Santa," again rules are simple: Present $15 to $25

I also forgot to post this link: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=10e6g2z1.1t54mjwd&x=0&y=w6mjs7 with our Young Adult Coffee House, thanks to Martha.