Blessed
Dear Young People, I would like to add something else to what I have already said to you. I would like to speak to you briefly about prayer, about communion with God, a communion that is deeply personal between ourselves and God.

Tradition
This last few days we’ve seen two amazing examples of the power and beauty of tradition. On Thursday, Prince William and Kate got married. It was a beautiful ceremony, dripping with hundreds of years of history. Though I was not at all a fan of the tabloid way the news media covered it (I couldn’t care less about Kate’s dress) it was an important moment, especially for the people of England. On Sunday, John Paul II got beatified. A million people gathered to celebrate the event. The liturgy was amazing and reflected over a thousand years of Church Tradition.

They Are Listening, But Are They Hearing?
I don’t know about you, but I was not raised in a Christian home and listened to some pretty foul music as a teenager, music I would never play for my mother let alone my students. I may be embarrassed about it the reality was that I owned those CD’s listened to them all the time; it was a part of who I was. The question is, did I know what I was listening too? Did my mind compute the words that I was saying?

Trader

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