A Lot to Catch Up On

There's a lot to catch up on.

**A few Lenten reflections I want to touch upon before Easter Sunday approaches.

Holy Week is this week.

Passion (Palm) Sunday
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
Easter Sunday


**Still need to overview the lessons learned from the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress trip with fellow Newman Center Community Members.

**Two amazing episodes of Twenty Four (24) have gone by. :-p

**Tijuana Housebuilding Trip 2006 has just started ramping up, here we go! Time to fundraise. I need to raise at least Seventy Five (75) dollars. Let me know if you can help (please, yeah begging). I may set up a paypal way for you to donate (donar). :)

Here's the TJ spiel (from me last year) that Kathy pointed out to me from a googling (haha, little did I realize it'd all be found in a search)

Tijuana Housebuilding was the weekend before last, the 13-15th of May. It's hard to convey what we experienced there, but it's something that if only all of us could see, then we'd have a greater awareness of life outside the bubble. For now, I'll sum it up by saying that we weren't there to give them a house, we were just there to assist in the acceleration of their construction. We weren't just helping with a house, a home --- we were helping build community, since if one day, volunteers stopped coming, they would have the community and structure through Esperanza to continue building their community up, building for a better Mexico,-- rather than having to risk their lives crossing the border. (Oh, and flops to that minuteman project, heh) It is a different country over there, just about 45 minutes away from La Jolla, San Diego and the disparity of wealth is surprising. Regardless, when you interact with them, eat with them, work with them, you find that they are the same, they are like family, and that's why I've been going the past 3 years.

Anyway, it's late --time to crash.