There is a heavy, upbeat feel to this song that I particularly like. “Born Again” drives home the point that for us to experience new life, we need to give everything to God.
Newsboys is an Australian Christian rock band composed of Jody Davis, Duncan Phillips, Jeff Frankenstein and Michael Tait. Since their formation in 1985, they have released fourteen albums. The song “Born Again” is from their 2010 album of the same name. Continue reading
The following are homilies, images, clipart, videos, and multimedia slides you might find useful for your celebration of the Fourth Sunday of Lent (Year A).
In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus heals a man blind from birth and tells the crowd that He “came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see might see, and those who do see might become blind.”
FIRST READING: 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a
PSALM: Ps 23: 1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6
SECOND READING: Eph 5:8-14
GOSPEL: Jn 9:1-41
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LRowXe8XBU
Jesus Heals a Blind Man
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I9H3uibMe8
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This week’s featured website is PlugInToChrist.ca. The main aim of this great looking website is “to help youth and young adults to discover their God given gifts and potential as signs of Christ’s presence in the world.” I love both its design and content. It provides youth ministry news, prayers, reflections and liturgical resources. It also offers a virtual retreat for netizens.
URL: http://www.plugintochrist.ca
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This week’s featured short film is “Budding Love”. It is the creation of Michael Tse, a Vancouver Film School student. “Budding Love” is about completely accepting others despite their little imperfections.
The following are homilies, images, clipart, videos, and multimedia slides you might find useful for your celebration of the second Sunday of Lent (Year A).
In this Sunday’s Gospel, the Father declares that Jesus is His beloved Son, with whom He is well pleased. Ask yourself – am I worthy of being called a beloved child of God? Do I do the things that please the Father?
FIRST READING: Gn 12:1-4a
PSALM: Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22
SECOND READING: 2 Tm 1:8b-10
GOSPEL: Mt 17:1-9
What is Lent?
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This week’s featured website is catholicmissionarygirl.com. The girl is a Couples for Christ (CFC) lay missionary whose passion to serve God brought her to Indonesia and East Timor. She confesses that she has put up her blog “as a channel to share about the crazily unbelievable things God has put me through as a missionary just to love me perfectly”.
URL: http://catholicmissionarygirl.com/
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This week’s featured short film is “Bruce”. It is a 2009 graduation film from the Royal College of Art. Bruce is an award winning animation that explores how advances in open-source synthetic biology allow a young man to grow his very own action hero.
This week’s featured website is mercygrass.com, the blog of April Frances “Sky” Asuncion Ortigas. This 28-year-old Couples for Christ (CFC) lay missionary is not only a prolific writer but also a web designer and a photographer. Aside from writing about her thoughts, experiences and reflections she also posts well-crafted photos. Definitely worth checking out are the coffeedevos and folio sections of her site.
Source: http://vimeo.com/13273095
This week’s featured short film is “Dragonboy”. A knight. A princess. A dragon. Three little kids. One school play. An epic battle for love and honor. Dragonboy is a collaborative thesis done by Lisa Allen, Bernie Warman and Shaofu Zhang at the Academy of Art University.
Our God is a forgiving Father. The whole purpose of giving us His only begotten Son is to facilitate forgiveness. The song “Forgiven” stresses that “I don’t have to carry the weight of who I’ve been, cause I’m forgiven.” God forgives us because we are a treasure in the arms of Christ.
Sanctus Real is a north American Christian rock band composed of Matt Hammitt (lead vocalist, guitar), Chris Rohman (lead guitar), Dan Gartley (bass), Pete Prevost (guitar), and Mark Graalman (drums). Since their formation in the year 1996, they have released eight albums (3 through an independent label and 5 through the Sparrow record label). The song “Forgiven” is from their latest album “Pieces of a Real Heart”.
by Sanctus Real
Well the past is playing with my head
And failure knocks me down again
I’m reminded of the wrong
That I have said and done
And that devil just wont let me forget
In this life
I know what I’ve been
But here in your arms
I know what I am
I’m forgiven
I’m forgiven
And I don’t have to carry
The weight of who I’ve been
Cause I’m forgiven
My mistakes are running through my mind
And I’ll relive my days, in the middle of the night
When I struggle with my pain, wrestle with my pride
Sometimes I feel alone, and I cry
In this life
I know what I’ve been
But here in your arms
I know what I am
When I don’t fit in and I don’t feel like I belong anywhere
When I don’t measure up to much in this life
Oh, I’m a treasure in the arms of Christ ‘cause
Everybody hurts. Everybody falls and makes mistakes. People break promises. Your dreams can shatter. And the question is: who and what will give you the strength to rise from all your troubles?
God can heal your pain and forgive your sins. God is always faithful and will help you make your dreams come true. So never lose hope. Believe in miracles. Your prayers will be answered. And your heart will be renewed. That’s what faith can do.
Kutless is a north American Christian rock band composed of Jon Micah Sumrall, James Mead, Jeffrey Gilbert, Dave Luetkenhoelter, and Nick DePartee. Since their formation in the year 2000, they have released six albums. The song “What Faith Can Do” is from their latest album “It is Well”.
by Kutless
Everybody falls sometimes
Gotta find the strength to rise
From the ashes and make a new beginning
Anyone can feel the ache
You think it’s more than you can take
But you’re stronger, stronger than you know
Don’t you give up now
The sun will soon be shining
You gotta face the clouds
To find the silver lining
I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do
It doesn’t matter what you’ve heard
Impossible is not a word
It’s just a reason for someone not to try
Everybody’s scared to death
When they decide to take that step
Out on the water
It’ll be alright
Life is so much more
Than what your eyes are seeing
You will find your way
If you keep believing
I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do
Overcome the odds
You don’t have a chance
(That’s what faith can do)
When the world says you can’t
It’ll tell you that you can!
I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains
Hope that doesn’t ever end
Even when the sky is falling
And I’ve seen miracles just happen
Silent prayers get answered
Broken hearts become brand new
That’s what faith can do
That’s what faith can do!
Even if you fall sometimes
You will have the strength to rise
This week’s featured website is GodBeat. The website was founded by Jeff Myers, a convicted drug user and a former producer of online pornography who decided to dedicate his life to Christ during his court trial and eventual yearlong imprisonment. After leaving prison, he founded GodBeat “to replace the garbage he was putting into millions of homes a year, with God message, through music or any means necessary.” Jeff is now a changed man and GodBeat is growing fast as a home to hundreds of Christian music videos.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFZ5ryNwlII
This week’s featured short film is “Lightheaded“. Lightheaded is “a journey we take with temperature sensitive candle creatures who sacrifice what they know to become who they are.” This animated film was created by Mike Dacko. It has received numerous international awards.
In this week’s roundup, we’ll see why Pope Benedict XVI considers priests as a gift for the church and for the world. If you are a Linux newbie you’ll surely find the next link useful as it shows you 5 things new users of the free operating system should know. Would you like to know what it means to call God “Father”? Then the third link is just right for you. This may raise a lot of eyebrows but the Vatican endorses the “Blues Brothers” film. Curious? Then click on the fourth link. The fifth link will show you that where you start your digital day says a lot about you.
The featured website this week is Kuya Mac’s Kuwaderno and the featured short film is Joaquin Baldwin’s “Sebastian’s Voodoo”.
URL: http://kuyamac.tumblr.com/
Kuya Mac’s Kuwaderno is the blog of Michael Vivas. Among other things, Michael is a youth leader, an artist, a musician, a prayer warrior, a web designer, a user interface engineer and a usability practitioner. His blog is both eye candy and inspirational.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ePWK0qfisE
A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.
The director, Joaquin Baldwin, is an Annie Award nominee director and animator from Paraguay. Living in Los Angeles, he is now finishing his MFA in animation at UCLA. He has received over 50 international awards for his animated films Sebastian’s Voodoo and Papiroflexia, and also several grants including the Jack Kent Cooke full Graduate Scholarship in 2006.