In addition to the random gchat I just posted, I thought I also should include this tweet exchange I found humorous from today:
I tweeted: "Was thinking I needed to start a novena soon and realized O Antiphons start tomorrow!"
My friend in response to my tweet: "@julz422 I only understand a few words of this".
Haha! We Catholics definitely have our own lingo. I forget how strange we must sound....
...and yes, I tweet about novenas and liturgical seasons. Are we surprised?
Peace,
Julia
Thursday, December 16, 2010
My YM Friends Try Group GChat and Talk Liturgical Colors...WHAT?!
It was a cold, snowy night tonight, and as those of you who have been following my blog for a while know- DC shuts down when cold and snowy merge together.
And so I sat with nowhere to go- in my snuggie, on my couch with my computer as I let it snow (x3 ;) and decided to engage in gchat- something I had not done much of since I became a school teacher. (Gchat had served me well when I worked a 9-5 office job- just saying. And that Google Reader wasn't going to read ITSELF. Geez... ;)
Some friends I had met up with the night before for happy hour were online and invited me to chat as a group so we could chat about the next time we could meet up for drinks.
This group gchat thing was new to me, but I must say, it produced the most ridiculously awesome conversation that I just had to share.
*Disclaimer* my friends are also young women involved in youth ministry...oh, and a seminarian. Okay. You've been prepped/warned:
After coordinating a happy hour for next week (amid other things ;) we begin discussing the origin of why my roommates and I call each other "jinger". If you don't know, you better ask somebody. Or look here: http://hebrews121-3.blogspot.com/2008/09/jingers-and-current-obsessions.html
Sem: Tell me again why it is 'jinger?'
Me: Oh, Jinger is from the Duggar family, but it sounds dirty, so we've made it commonplace ;)
Friend 2: making dirty things commonplace, eh?
Friend 1: sounds about right
Sem: soon I'll be making sinful things clean
Friend 1: he threw the purple card.... he just threw the purple card!
Me: I was just saying my seminarian friends become more useful to me when they can "do the sacraments" :)
Sem: See Julia, you can have a 4th category for male friends.
(he is referring to my "rules" for guy friends. I simply just have too many, so I've made them choose one of three things to earn their keep. Well, ideally. For seminarian friends, it is more difficult. Another friend made this genius flowchart to help: https://docs.google.com/drawings/edit?id=1iYG-5fOZTkG_kbL6URWsP9WzENMPgPA4W927fgq_AWc&hl=en)
Me: hmmm...i'll think about it. i suppose i can keep you around if you can say Mass for me and make my soul clean
Sem: [ going back to the 'purple card' reference] Are you a liturgical ref, [Friend 1]? We'll have to get you a uniform for that...
Friend 2: Friend 1 has plenty of outfits that coordinate with liturgical seasons...
Me: haha! YES
Friend 2:...and holy days
Friend 1: it's true. sad, but true
Me: The Church needs to make Shitake mushroom a liturgical color...or taupe. I have lots of neutrals...
Friend 1: perhaps they could do taupe on days where we celebrate hermits? or desert fathers?!
Me: YES
Friend 1: st. john the baptist?
Me: indeed!
Friend 2: Friend 1, you're the only person i know that would get all exclamation pointy over desert fathers. well, maybe julia too...
Me: I love me my mystagogues, too. WHAT.
Sem: not a bad idea. Except for that whole beheading thing.. gotta go with red
Me: but JTB was Christ's COUSIN he should get his own color
Friend 2: omigosh it's raining church nerds in here.
Andddd.....scene :)
Just another gchat in the life of a youth minister!
Yeah, we need to get out more. Let's hope this snow doesn't last long! As much as I would love another snowpacolypse..
Peace,
Julia
And so I sat with nowhere to go- in my snuggie, on my couch with my computer as I let it snow (x3 ;) and decided to engage in gchat- something I had not done much of since I became a school teacher. (Gchat had served me well when I worked a 9-5 office job- just saying. And that Google Reader wasn't going to read ITSELF. Geez... ;)
Some friends I had met up with the night before for happy hour were online and invited me to chat as a group so we could chat about the next time we could meet up for drinks.
This group gchat thing was new to me, but I must say, it produced the most ridiculously awesome conversation that I just had to share.
*Disclaimer* my friends are also young women involved in youth ministry...oh, and a seminarian. Okay. You've been prepped/warned:
After coordinating a happy hour for next week (amid other things ;) we begin discussing the origin of why my roommates and I call each other "jinger". If you don't know, you better ask somebody. Or look here: http://hebrews121-3.blogspot.com/2008/09/jingers-and-current-obsessions.html
Sem: Tell me again why it is 'jinger?'
Me: Oh, Jinger is from the Duggar family, but it sounds dirty, so we've made it commonplace ;)
Friend 2: making dirty things commonplace, eh?
Friend 1: sounds about right
Sem: soon I'll be making sinful things clean
Friend 1: he threw the purple card.... he just threw the purple card!
Me: I was just saying my seminarian friends become more useful to me when they can "do the sacraments" :)
Sem: See Julia, you can have a 4th category for male friends.
(he is referring to my "rules" for guy friends. I simply just have too many, so I've made them choose one of three things to earn their keep. Well, ideally. For seminarian friends, it is more difficult. Another friend made this genius flowchart to help: https://docs.google.com/drawings/edit?id=1iYG-5fOZTkG_kbL6URWsP9WzENMPgPA4W927fgq_AWc&hl=en)
Me: hmmm...i'll think about it. i suppose i can keep you around if you can say Mass for me and make my soul clean
Sem: [ going back to the 'purple card' reference] Are you a liturgical ref, [Friend 1]? We'll have to get you a uniform for that...
Friend 2: Friend 1 has plenty of outfits that coordinate with liturgical seasons...
Me: haha! YES
Friend 2:...and holy days
Friend 1: it's true. sad, but true
Me: The Church needs to make Shitake mushroom a liturgical color...or taupe. I have lots of neutrals...
Friend 1: perhaps they could do taupe on days where we celebrate hermits? or desert fathers?!
Me: YES
Friend 1: st. john the baptist?
Me: indeed!
Friend 2: Friend 1, you're the only person i know that would get all exclamation pointy over desert fathers. well, maybe julia too...
Me: I love me my mystagogues, too. WHAT.
Sem: not a bad idea. Except for that whole beheading thing.. gotta go with red
Me: but JTB was Christ's COUSIN he should get his own color
Friend 2: omigosh it's raining church nerds in here.
Andddd.....scene :)
Just another gchat in the life of a youth minister!
Yeah, we need to get out more. Let's hope this snow doesn't last long! As much as I would love another snowpacolypse..
Peace,
Julia
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Today I Figured Out Why I'm Single
Now, clearly I title this blogpost with my tongue in cheek as it were, but I was observing at my LAST grad school class of the semester (whoo hoo!) with my fellow classmates the demographics of our class. Observe with me, won't you?
- A Latina Sister
- An African Priest
- A consecrated Christian Brother
- 2 single young women (both teachers! myself and one other twenty something...)
- 1 married woman
- and 2 married men
We were commenting on what a great representation of the Church this is. So diverse! But I had to beg the question...
where's the young, single, cool lay-guy, huh? If this is the perfect demographic of people involved in the Church, then....
Sigh. This is why I am single ;)
There are many theories on why this dilemma exists in the Church (okay, so I named it a dilemma, and I have many theories ;) and my spiritual director is very helpful in affirming me that it's not me it's them... (okay, not in so many words, but...) Anyways, he is just encouraging me to persevere in just pursuing holiness as best I can in the state I am.
Alright, thus ends the single girl rant for now. I swear I feel like Carrie from Sex in the City typing about my foibles as a single girl (the Catholic edition, of course ;)
I've mentioned the last couple posts how excited I am to enter into Advent because I've needed a renewed sense of sacrifice and zeal. I love how the Church has these penitential seasons built in to lead us towards this kind of reflection.
Father also pointed out to me this week in spiritual direction that the word Advent is within the word "adventure". Heh. Clever! This also helps remind me that Advent is about beginnings. We have to trust that God has adventure and new beginnings for us this season.
Anyways, also on the plus side of all of this- it was my last class for the semester and I breathed a sigh of relief that I will never again be a first year teacher and a grad student at the same time!!
Hope your Advent is going well!
Peace,
Julia
- A Latina Sister
- An African Priest
- A consecrated Christian Brother
- 2 single young women (both teachers! myself and one other twenty something...)
- 1 married woman
- and 2 married men
We were commenting on what a great representation of the Church this is. So diverse! But I had to beg the question...
where's the young, single, cool lay-guy, huh? If this is the perfect demographic of people involved in the Church, then....
Sigh. This is why I am single ;)
There are many theories on why this dilemma exists in the Church (okay, so I named it a dilemma, and I have many theories ;) and my spiritual director is very helpful in affirming me that it's not me it's them... (okay, not in so many words, but...) Anyways, he is just encouraging me to persevere in just pursuing holiness as best I can in the state I am.
Alright, thus ends the single girl rant for now. I swear I feel like Carrie from Sex in the City typing about my foibles as a single girl (the Catholic edition, of course ;)
I've mentioned the last couple posts how excited I am to enter into Advent because I've needed a renewed sense of sacrifice and zeal. I love how the Church has these penitential seasons built in to lead us towards this kind of reflection.
Father also pointed out to me this week in spiritual direction that the word Advent is within the word "adventure". Heh. Clever! This also helps remind me that Advent is about beginnings. We have to trust that God has adventure and new beginnings for us this season.
Anyways, also on the plus side of all of this- it was my last class for the semester and I breathed a sigh of relief that I will never again be a first year teacher and a grad student at the same time!!
Hope your Advent is going well!
Peace,
Julia
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