
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Went to St.Antony Church yesterday for a church retreat! :D at first i did'nt really feel like going and our first impression of the church was it kinda old. The colour of the church its BLUE :D when we went there we were given a goodie bag and a shirt with some words printed in it " I'M CRAZY BEING CATHOLIC "then it was praise and worship, charlotte,joana,georgina and i were nt so use to it at first so we juz stood there clapping our hands and feeling quite shy as most of them were jumping. Then we went to Father Fred talk about the treasures of the chuch. Then it was lunch :D hahas then charlotte was so funny she talk talk talk until her hotdog and her fork droped xD and after that was praise and worship starting of the praise and worship we were still quite shy, then after some st.antony peeps came to join our seats we went HYPER! hahas the hyperness starts like this: the hyper guy beside me went hyper then i was hyper then charlotte was hyper then joanna was hyper but georgina was still quite shy.. hahas then we kept jumping and dancing and singing :D then there was this song which was i think the kingdom of god then we have to run to one side and another side which was FUN :D and the lalala part was fun too! then there was this yes lord yer lord yes yes lord charlotte was dam hyper then! :D next we went to a workshop called paraliturgy. paraliturgy means worship, and its something that the whole community does. First we have to introduce ourselves hahas and st.antony peeps were v.funny and v.hyper!cause there was two guys who were late and vanessa the one in charge (i think) of the workshop told them to do smt disgusting as everyone has "done" it too then one guy dig his nose and the another guy dig that per nose hahas. after we find out wat paraliturgy means we have to prepare a paraliturgy and we have to make a group with some st.antony ppl. so joanna and i mix wif 3gals from st.an. hahas they were v.nice and they keep laughting ,so funny (x and when i see them laught i'll laught hahas! ok so my group was making a paraliturgy for a healing session for those people who have family problems. and we took a prayer frm the bible its called a prayer for help, then the activity for them was to seperate them into 2groups one adult and one for children and take them to counsilling then put them bk to have "family" time then the closing prayer was for them to join hands and pray for one another. hahas then it was joanna and i who presented it and we're voted for the best paralitugy and our award was to set up this paralitugy for the mass ltr ( hahas this was juz a joke but it shocked us during tat time xD ) ok then it was praise and worship again this time the songs played was quite clam so we juz put our hands with each other shoulder sway to the music and sing :D then after tat two guys came and share to us how god has help them. After that was another workshop :D hahas we becm DAM crazy during tat time we kept laughting and laughting and saying lame jokes! xD hahas ok the next workshop was teaching us soft skill can't find the room at first, hahas we keep laughting when the workshop haven started and we were trying to make joanna laught . We learnt that for soft skill we first must prepare then we have to identify the problem then Nick gave us a problem for us to "slove" it, then georgina and i was the one who presented it. The next workshp we were all serious as it was an important workshop which taught us how to pray ( the ONLY way to communicate with god and to grow a relationship with him ) and we learnt 3 types of prayer one is a plain conversation with god at any time of the day. The next one was contemplative prayer using the bible. It works like this, first we have to think of an incident which can be happy or sad, but most of us choose the sad incident then we have to get a bible and imagine god is flipping the bible then when we saw a phares or a word that have strike us we stop, and my phares was " Be watchful and strengthen what it is left" and this really relates to my incident and i find this so cool! miracles do happen with god~ ( tats what i believe!cuz it really happen before) then the another type of way was though praise and worship Chaos told us that when we are doing praise and wordship we must pray(lyrics) with the music, not juz jump jump jump then sing sing sing.(did'nt knw how to really explain it)then chaos playes a song name:WHO AM I and asked us to try and pray with the song,then there was this gal who cried. After that was DINNER :D hahas YAY~ ate fish and chips! woohoo~ then charlotte and joanna so funny kept talking abt harry potter's last book hahas.. then it was praise and worship again :D sang clam songs again too :D and then it was mass :D during mass Father told us to do something extraordinary this christmas and he gave us one example of his,hahas he was so funny! he told us that one christmas he and his frens had nth to do after church and they left some cake so they decided to bring it to the police station( as they pity them cuz its christmas and they still have to work)and on their way there they keep singing christmas song and when they reach the police station they said MERRY CHRISTMAS and gave the cake to the police man and the police man appreciate it . hahas thats like so cool (x and he told us that something extraordinary does nt means stealing or smoking as after u did that you won't feel happy anymore and you cannot tell it to anyone where else if u did smt like Father did you can still happily tell another and still be happy! cuz its something GOOD and i really hope to do smt like this this yr xD then after we sing "Our Father" my friends and i felt that st.antony church peeps are very bonded together, they are so friendly and into god~ quite different frm my church.. then after the mass we sang "one way" and we went hyper again for the last time today :D when we're abt to go home we kept saying that we want to transfer church xD hahas as st.antony its really a great church! but its in woodlands ): hahas then we though of requesting to our auntie martina if we can come back again for praise and worship xD thank you lord for this day! CRAZY catholic :DLabels: St.Antony Church ROX