jkaands Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 check this out, [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2009072803246"]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2009072803246[/url] and check out the photo gallery. Neat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 +J.M.J.+ it's an error page sounds cool too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle_eye222001 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 [quote name='jkaands' post='1935018' date='Jul 29 2009, 06:07 PM']check this out, [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2009072803246"]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2009072803246[/url] and check out the photo gallery. Neat![/quote] You meant.... [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072803220.html"]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...9072803220.html[/url] instead of ... [url="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2009072803246"]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2009072803246[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deus te Amat Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 The topic title makes it look like they actually washed DC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeresaBenedicta Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Awesome!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truth_Seeker Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 This is sweet! This would be a really amazing thing to do with a college group (maybe on a smaller scale, but with the same idea). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeresaBenedicta Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 [quote name='Truth_Seeker' post='1935104' date='Jul 29 2009, 08:23 PM']This is sweet! This would be a really amazing thing to do with a college group (maybe on a smaller scale, but with the same idea).[/quote] I'd be curious to see if it had the same or similar results... Part of me wonders if the outward sign of these monks (their habits) are a good majority of the reason that people trusted them and helped them. You and I may endeavor to live the same way or do the same thing, but be pushed aside or ignored simply because we look "just like everyone else." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeniteAdoremus Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 I want to do that! That's the best pre-vows retreat ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 This is why it has been a stupid experiment for nuns and priests to shed their habits and clerics. When you look like everyone else, you will be treated like everyone else and no one will trust you to be models of spiritual life and wisdom. We never see priests or penguins in daily life anymore and its a crying shame, that I'm convinced has helped lead to the moral decay of society. Instead of being able to stop a passing priest for advice we ask Dr. Ruth and MTV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zunshynn Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Gosh I love Franciscans... the mission of simply being. It makes me think of the beauty of the chapter on begging in Holy Father Francis' first rule... Sorry, I wanted to post it but I can't find it online. Which seems odd to me. But I like this part especially... [quote]The friars should be delighted to follow the lowliness and poverty of our Lord Jesus Christ, remembering that of the whole world we must own nothing; but having food and sufficient clothing, with these let us be content...If they are in want, they should not be ashamed to beg alms, remembering that Our Lord Jesus Christ, the son of the living, all-powerful God set His face like a very hard rock and was not ashamed. He was poor and he had no home of his own and he lived on alms, he and the Blessed Virgin and his disciples... The friars who are busy begging alms will receive a great reward themselves, besides enriching those who give them. Everything people leave after them in this world is lost, but for their charity and almsgiving they will receive a reward from God.[/quote] Just such a different perspective... to think of the poverty of Jesus... the poverty Jesus chose, and relate our poverty to his, and see the value in it because of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregorius Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 That is one awesome story. And I've been to the monastery they went to multiple times. But I did not notice this story until jkaands pointed it out. Perhaps it's because I don't get a daily paper. how sad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria_Faustina Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 [quote name='zunshynn' post='1935153' date='Jul 29 2009, 08:52 PM']Gosh I love Franciscans... the mission of simply being.[/quote] I wholeheartedly agree. What an awesome witness they are by doing this! Especially in their habits. Franciscan habits alone I think are inspiring. And, yes, Jedi-like... but still awesome. Because they look like St. Francis! [quote name='Deus_te_Amat' post='1935074' date='Jul 29 2009, 06:42 PM']The topic title makes it look like they actually washed DC. [/quote] That's exactly what I thought at first too. Except I was thinking 'wash' like, metaphorically and whatnot, perhaps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveletslive Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 i've heard about this before...i think a friar at a retreat might have spoke about his experience doing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truth_Seeker Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 [quote name='TeresaBenedicta' post='1935108' date='Jul 29 2009, 07:26 PM']I'd be curious to see if it had the same or similar results... Part of me wonders if the outward sign of these monks (their habits) are a good majority of the reason that people trusted them and helped them. You and I may endeavor to live the same way or do the same thing, but be pushed aside or ignored simply because we look "just like everyone else."[/quote] I would agree that their outward appearance most likely lead to many more people helping them than would have done otherwise. Personally, if I saw a group of young adults walking along the side of the road, I don't think I would assume they were doing it for spiritual reasons But I still think it would be a great experience (not to mention an interesting social experiment). I went with a group to Washington D.C. for spring break this past year, and half of our group did a homelessness plunge where they lived on the streets for two days. The journey that these monks took sort of reminds me of our trip, but what they did seems like it could be more easily adapted to a retreat for laypeople as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StColette Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 What an amazing story. [quote]The six spread out on the trampoline as if they were spokes on a wheel. But soon they realized gravity was against them, pulling everyone toward the center. Some tried to sleep clutching the side railing. When one person rolled over, the rest bobbed uncontrollably like buoys. No one got much sleep, but the firefighters did send them off the next morning with corned beef sandwiches.[/quote] ROFL! [quote]The woman reached for her purse and told Goodin, "I want to give you what we have left." She pressed $3.52 into his hand, which he accepted reluctantly.[/quote] Is it just me or does this sound like something from the Gospel? It reminds me of the widow woman who put in the two small coins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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