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Kauffman Prayer Journaling Workshop
October 16, 2010
Prayer Journaling WorkshopSaturday, October 16
8:30 – 11:30am
in the Church
Can one word deepen your prayer life?
The journaling workshop uses the ancient form of prayer, Lectio Divina, focusing on one word to point the way on our journey. Come for this morning of music, prayer, journaling and conversation.
Led by David Kauffman
, the Journaling Workshop is a prayerful and musically-guided journey into the deep and quiet placed of our hearts, where conversations with God become real and life-changing. Participants receive a “taste” of the spirit of the workshop the night before as they hear the music and stories told during the concert.David is a songwriter, recording artist and founder of Good For The Soul Music. He has given over 1000 concerts, youth rallies and parish retreats. He performed for Pope John Paul II and over a million and a half people at World Youth Day in Paris and Denver. David’s passion is to offer music and spiritual reflections that will help people experience God’s embrace in everyday life.
Workshop fee $10 includes journal.
Companion CD available for additional cost of $15.
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David Kauffman with Bill Gokelman in concert
October 15, 2010
Live in Concert: David Kauffman with Bill Gokelman
Behold! The Mighty One Has Done Great Things For Us!
Date: Friday, Oct 15th
Time: 7 PM
Where: St. John Vianney Catholic Church, Round Rock, Tx
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Prayer Journaling Workshop on Saturday, Oct 16th! Register Here!
Our choir has been invited to join David Kauffman and Good For The Soul Music on stage for a beautiful, prayer-filled concert. Come on October 15th and fill our church with prayer. Good For The Soul Music offers music and spiritual reflections that will help us all experience God’s embrace in everyday life. These songs will touch the heart of both young and old, so come as a family and bring your friends.
Good for the Soul Music concerts are free will offering events. This means that there are no tickets sold and there is no charge for anyone to attend the concert.
There will be a free will offering (collection) at end of the concert for attendees to have the opportunity to donate to the mission of Good for the Soul Music. A free will offering is a voluntary donation for whatever you feel moved as a proper value for the evening.
Merchandise (CDs, books, journals, etc) are available for sale at the concert.
Songs SJV Knows:
See What You Are
My God, My God (past Tenebrae psalm)
I Hunger and Thirst For You (past Tenebrae psalm)
Soon to be introduced at SJV:
Behold
Hear His Music!
See what people are saying about his music!
- His lyrics and words comfort and inspire us.
- He takes scripture (we might take for granted, scripture we may not be familiar with) and makes them move and dance in a way that allow us to interact with them.
- He is a prophet, proclaiming God's love and God’s message to a flock searching for their shepherd.
- He is an invitation, allowing us to be healed and to be embraced by our heavenly father.
- Lately, I have faced some very challenging lessons that nearly washed away what little faith I had left in me. A friend of mine gave me your "Surrender" CD today and as I listened to the lyrics, I felt as if God, Himself, was speaking to me through your songs. Your music helped me give over to God and thus find a path to peace.
- Thank you for all you have done for me. I continue to find your music inspirational and it gets me through the difficult times in my life.
About David:
David Kauffman is a songwriter, recording artist and founder of Good For The Soul Music. He has given over 1000 concerts, youth rallies, and parish retreats. He has performed for Pope John Paul II and over a million and a half people at World Youth Day in Paris and Denver. David’s passion is to offer music and spiritual reflections that will help people experience God’s embrace in everyday life. He transformed the “Morning Offering” prayer into a beautiful meditative song called, “I Will Make This Day My Prayer.” The Magnificat from Luke 1:46-55 is sung as a congregational song entitled, “Behold,” the title song of his album, Behold, a collection of hymns and psalm settings for Sunday worship. And there’s Follow Me singing of discipleship. Both are wonderful for playing in your car’s CD player! His Be Still and Surrender albums are filled with quiet reflection music, and are used by people who care for the sick, the homebound, and hospice patients, as well as RCIA sessions and retreat settings. His COJO (Companion on the Journey) Series sings and speaks to different milestones in life, and take the listener on a mini-retreat in the listening. His songs touch the heart and soul of us all.The newest album, Follow Me, contains music that speaks to our call to discipleship. This CD is a companion to the Behold CD, bringing choral voices to fill the air with God’s praise and our desire to follow God’s lead!
About Bill:
William Gokelman is an Associate Professor of Music and Director of Liturgical Music at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. William is also on staff at St Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church, where he serves as a cantor, pianist/organist and directs the 9:00 choir every Sunday.
He has been the keyboard artist for the San Antonio Symphony for several years. He has published and arranged music with the leading Catholic publishers. William has written the keyboard and choral arrangements for all Good For The Soul Music, and often co-writes with David Kauffman. He is a composer in his own right; His album of his own compositions in piano and instrumental settings, Steal Away is produced by Good For The Soul Music.
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Behold Behold is a collection of hymns and psalm settings for Sunday worship. The productions range from anthemic and explosive to tender and beautiful. David Kauffman is a songwriter, recording artist, and is founder of Good For The Soul Music. David’s passion is to offer music that will help people experience God’s embrace in everyday life. Behold is part of the Choral Series. Sheet Music (Octavos) and the complete print book for Behold are available here. Selections from Behold are being used for Sunday worship in Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Episcopal, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches nationwide. Join us and sing what’s Good For The Soul. |
Directions:
From North of Round Rock -
- Take I35 South.
- Exit 256 (1431).
- At the light go Left (East over the highway) on University Blvd. Landmark: IKea
- Continue East for less than 1 mile on University through two lights.
- Turn Right (South) on Sunrise Rd. Landmark: Chevron/Burger King
- Continue South on Sunrise for about 1 mile. The church is on the Left.
- Enter the parking lot North of the Church building.
- Main entrance is at the back of the building away from the street.
- Take I35 North.
- Exit 254 (FM3406/I35 Bus). Landmark: Fudruckers
- At the light go Right (East away from the highway) on Old Settler's Blvd.
- Continue East for less than 1 mile on Old Settler's Blvd through two lights.
- Turn Left (North) on Sunrise Rd. Landmark: Wag-A-Bag/Shell Station
- Continue North on Sunrise for about 1/2 mile. The church is on the Right.
- Enter the parking lot North of the Church building (pass the chruch then enter lot).
- Main entrance is is at the back of the building away from the street.
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Coats for Kids
The Round Rock Area Serving Center has kicked off the 2010 Coats for Kids project. Their goal is to collect 6,000 coats for children enrolled in the RRISD Free and Reduced Lunch Program. The Collection period is from September 1 thru October 15 and distribution will be November 6 at Dell Diamond. Please donate new or gently used coats at RRASC located at 1099 E. Main St. or donate $10.00 for a new coat. Send a check payable to RRASC and mail it to P.O Box 5006, Round Rock, TX 78683-5006.Adult volunteers please contact: cynthia_ a_flores @yahoo.com
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Sep 4 - 10, 2010
Labor Day
The Dignity of Work
The dignity of the human person, realized in community with others, is the criterion against which all aspects of economic life must be measured. (USCCB Vision on Economic Life)
All human beings, therefore, are ends to be served by the institutions that make up the economy, not means to be exploited for more narrowly defined goals.
All work has a threefold moral significance:
- It is a principle way that people exercise the distinctive human capacity for self-expression and self-realization.
- It is the ordinary way for human beings to fulfill their material needs.
- Enables people to contribute to the well-being of the larger community
Work is good for every person. People without work retain their innate dignity as a human person; they lack, however, one of the major avenues for self-expression and self-fulfillment.
Work is to care for ourselves and those we love and to contribute to the wider society and through work we provide for the good of society and to the common good of our nation and the world. (Education for Justice)
“The economy must serve people, not the other way around. Work is more than a way to make a living; it is a form of continuing participation in God’s creation. If the dignity of work is to be protected, then the basic rights of workers must be respected— the right to productive work, to decent and fair wages, to the organization and joining of unions, to private property, and to economic initiative.” (Themes of Catholic Social Teaching, USCCB)
Labor Day is essentially about solidarity—our responsibility for one another—and social justice. These values are not peripheral to our faith but at its very core.
Three Dimensions of Basic Justice:
- Commutative Justice calls for fundamental fairness in all agreements and exchanges between individuals or private social groups.
- Distributive Justicerequires that the allocation of income, wealth, and power in society be evaluated in light of its effects on persons whose basic material needs are unmet.
- Social Justice implies that persons have an obligation to be active and productive participants in the life of society and that society has a duty to enable them to participate in this way. (USCCB, Economic Justice for All)
Six Criteria to evaluate policies and institutions:
- Respect for human life and dignity
- Subsidiarity and solidarity
- Respect for marriage and family life
- Priority for the poor and vulnerable
- Recognition of cultural diversity
- Right to economic initiative and productive work
SJV Weekly Announcements
September 3, 2010
In order to enrich our liturgy and reduce the number of announcements after Mass, here are some of the important announcements for this week. For more information please read the bulletin and check the web site (www.sjvroundrock.org).· First Friday Adoration continues. Eucharistic Adoration is from 9 am on Friday (9/3) until 9 am on Saturday (9/4). You may sign up on line at http://sjvroundrock-org.ecatholicchurches.com/index.cfm?load=page&page=196 or simply visit the Day Chapel and spend some time in prayer before our Lord.
· Children’s Mass – celebrated this Sunday at 11:00 a.m.
· Classes for the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA), for those interested in becoming Catholic or learning more about the Catholic faith, begin Wednesday, September 8th at 7:00 pm in the Day Chapel.
· Religious Education Registration continues. Forms are available in the narthex and in the office. Religious Education volunteer opportunities abound! Will you answer God’s call to serve? Wednesday classes really need help. Please contact Jenny Kodysz (re@sjvroundrock.org or 637-0875).
· The second collection this weekend is for Debt Reduction. We are within $8000 of our goal of paying off the rectory note. Let’s finish it this month!
· Sunday, Sept. 12 - Calling all Middle School and High School Youth! - We're kicking off the new RE year with a monster celebration. The Knights will be cooking up burgers and hot dogs and we'll have lots of food, faith and fun to start the year. The RE kickoff will start at 5:30 in your RE class and the fun will continue until 8:00. To round out our meal, we ask students to please bring an item with them to class according to the following list: 6th and 7th - cold 12 packs of soda; 8th and 9th - cold cases of bottled water; 10th-12th - bags of chips or cookies. Any and all adult volunteers are also welcome. Please contact Angie Cahue-Kosacek at angieck@austin.rr.com or 733-1493 if you can help.
· BIG EVENT NEWS: The Raffle Tickets are READY!! ...Lots of Great Prizes!! Please stop by the narthex to pick up your raffle tickets, and ask your family, friends and coworkers to support our raffle!! We will begin collecting the sold raffle tickets and monies next week in the narthex. Please be sure to get your tickets turned in as soon as you can. If you need additional tickets, contact Bruce Bessner at 512-791-9553 or brucebessner@aol.com. Let's make this year’s raffle the BEST!!
· David Kauffman Concert Planning meeting Thursday, September 9 at 7:00 pm in the St. Lawrence Room. Contact Alyson Pirotina at 921-0644 for more information.
· Join the Young Adult Ministry for a night of FREE pizza, FREE drinks, FREE games, and FREE fun! This event is for any person who is 18 & over. We will be attending the 5:30pm mass on Saturday, Sept. 18th followed by Game Night in St. Monica's Hall from 6:30pm-9:30pm. Beginning this weekend, sign ups will be in the front of the parish after each mass. For more info. contact Jennifer Guevara at YoungAdults@sjvroundrock.org.