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Hard Work

September 21, 2011

By Ileana A. This week’s chapel message comes from Matthew 20: 1-16. “For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.” The householder and the laborers agreed to the wage of one denarius for a day’s work. The householder continued to go [...]

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Spiritual Experience

September 15, 2011

By Ileana A. This week I had a real spiritual experience. Tuesday evening I was reading from the Book of Job 38:1-42:6. While I was reading it, I realized that I was reading perfect third step material: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we [...]

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A Wise Old Man

July 28, 2011

By Ileana A. During this week’s Wednesday morning chapel, we students heard a story about an old woodcutter: There was a poor old woodcutter who only had one son and a beautiful white horse. All the people in his village wanted his horse but he told them that the horse was his friend. How could [...]

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Forgiveness of Self

July 22, 2011

By Ileana A. Recently I have been struggling with the concept of forgiveness. Especially forgiveness toward my past actions and myself. During chapel this week, several of the services spoke about Jacob and his dream of angels ascending and descending a ladder. After the dream, Jacob set a pillar of rocks where he slept and [...]

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Closing the Curtain

July 16, 2011

By Ileana A. “If the invitations open to every heart that has been broken, maybe then we’ll close the curtain on our stained glass masquerade.” These are the lyrics to one of the school’s popular Wednesday chapel songs sung by Casting Crowns. Hearing it this week, it was a reminder to all of us that [...]

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Seeing They Do Not See

July 7, 2011

By Ileana A. When I hear the Parable of the Sower I usually do not pay much attention to it. It’s a classic parable told often and, I bet, just as often disregarded. Listening to Father Chris read it however, I caught the words “This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing [...]

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An Apple Tree

June 10, 2011

By Yana K. A seed in itself is not very interesting. We eat our “apple a day to keep the doctor away” daily, and it doesn’t take much thought to throw away the seed-filled core. Soil in itself is not very interesting, either. When a puppy with dirty paws jumps on us, we’re frustrated about [...]

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A Spiritual Retreat

May 6, 2011

By Yana K. Father Chris usually holds a Catholic Mass on Thursday mornings. This week, he traded spots with Methodist Pastor Roxy Moses, who usually leads a chapel service on Mondays. The switch had to happen because Father Chris was scheduled to go on a retreat for a little while. When he informed us the [...]

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