Outside chapel St Francis Hilfield Friary

Hilfield

My Mother

I thionk this music is wonderful . It is a nice time to listen and training the years..Listen it please
Ivanildossf

Farting Elves 12 Days of Christmas Funny Video Animation by JibJab

CHRISTMAS DAY - DIDO

I hope you enjoy this music

the big cat

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xam5vk_international-tiger-day-2009_animals

WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ABOUT WHAT WE SHOULD DO FOR OUR LAS CLASS?

Write IN ENGLISH a new post in your blog.What's your opinion about what we should do forour last class? Post your ideas.4. Comment on your classmates blogs.5. Continue practicing your ESL skills by following the skills links lists below the Student Blogs.

In general I have been enjoyed the class of english every Sartuday as well during all week and I confess that I enjoy all this time with my Teacher Toddy Lerry as well with my classmates..Interesting be with them. Them come from all part of the World. I guess this make difference in the class and with a teacher who is fanny too and enjoy what he do and he do it very well. Thanks Teacher a lot.

I guess in the last class we will have class inpart time, and after we should share photos with al classes together, put it on it each blogs and wirte a testemony in honor tothe teacher. Also we have bring something for share with all of us and listen a goood music ...after that we should say with only voice Thanks a lot my dear Teacher...

Ivanildo

Deep Fried Turkey Catching on Fire

It is a nice place

San Francisco there ismany things for see. During my tiem here Ispend many times visiting places, knowing places and take photos, but these photo I takle from my classmates in his blog. I loved it. But you can should share you coments and say what could fell if you were here as all people visiting and no visitors
It is a marvelous place isn't? I love thjis place very much.......... It is a gold Gate Bridge in San FRancisco. A nice palce to Visit when you can.. O love this place since when I visited there three months ago...I just feel the same, greatful for the experience that I experieted

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A small apresentation of my life inSan Francisco and imn USA too

The life in San Francisco is very calm down. Ilove live in San Francisco as well in all Bay area. Since I move to San Francisco I enjoyed it a lot. I live in Dolores Street next tothe Dolores Parl.

It is a marvelous Park. I spend sometimes there sometime for takea nice air and see people take a fun..Sometimes is necessary put down things and doing something different. Right now Iam living in Berkerley at Saint Clar'es house

It is a wonderful house, It was a monastery house to the Holy Cross and now It belong to the franciscan Brotherhood. My life there is silently and quite. We pray, meditate a lot and help people with some assistances in their needs. I had been in this place that you should see it right now... and if you would like visit sometimes just contact Bro Ivanildo 1 415 684422

I am learning day by day

I want to give thanks to my English's Teacher. He is a good Master and of course he is a man who think outside the box,engage in chitchat and I guess he go out to socialize, but for me he is a excellent teacher, he has a good gift in his life and I am sure he does this because he loves what he can do...Thanks teacher.
Other thing that I'd like to show is a link. This link for me is nice and I use it in my free times to learn..you my classmates can read and add it if you wanna. I guess it is so nice as the teacher's blog
see this..

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/INTERMEDIATE/unit5/page1.htm
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Pulsa en REPRODUCCION

aceite	oil	óil
albóndigas	meatballs	mít bols
almíbar	syrup	sírep
azúcar	sugar	shúgar
café	coffee	kófi
ensalada	salad	sálad
especias	spices	spáisis
fideos	spaghetti	spaguéri
galletas	cookies	kúkis
guiso, estofado	stew	stú
hamburguesa	hamburger	jámburguer
helado	ice cream	áis krím
huevos revueltos	scrambled eggs	skrámblt éggs
jalea	jelly	yéli
jamón	ham	jam
manteca	butter	báter
mermelada	jam	yam
migas de pan	bread crumbs	bréd krámbs
mostaza	mustard	mástard
pan	bread	bréd
pancitos	buns, rolls	bans, rols

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panqueques	pancakes	pán- kéiks
puré de papas	mashed potatoes	másht potéitous
papas al horno	baked potatoes	béikt potéitous
papas fritas (de cocina)	french fries	french fráis
papas fritas (en bolsa)	potato chips	potéitou chips
pastel	pie	pái
pimienta	pepper	péper
pizza	pizza	pítza
pollo frito	fried chicken	fráid chíken
postre	dessert	disért
queso	cheese	chí:s
sal	salt	sólt
salchicha	hot dog	jot dog
salsa	sauce	só:s
sopa	soup	súp
tallarines	noodles	nú:dls
torta	cake	kéik
vinagre	vinegar	vínegar

GOOD REALLY CARE OF US..DO YOU AGREE?

This is the Church of St Steven's

So how can we get to the second half of our own lives? We all know uptight men and women at 60 who still cannot let go and trust God or themselves. The secular person has no one to surrender to, so we can understand them being control freaks. Christians supposedly do know a loving and trustworthy God, but they still do not entrust themselves to this God or others who are not just like them. Rigid and controlling people are almost always fear-based people. Only love thaws such coldness. We each must fall into the hands of a living and loving God, sooner or later. It comes down to interior journeys of prayer, and leaps of faith where we learn to actively test and trust whether God is really with us, and whether God really cares. Only then can we deeply know that God is truly faithful and forgiving love—for us. Adapted from Adult Christianity and How to Get There

How can u be a brother or know more about religuous life?

Below, we have included two documents about joining our joining our Franciscan community. The first one is an outline of the process of joining the First Order. The second article is as an essay on the actual process from the perspective of two brothers in community. We look forward to meeting new aspirants and those interested in joining the way of our blessed Brother Francis.

ON BECOMING A FRIAR Contact the Vocation Director Brother Richard Jonathan (Little Portion Friary, PO Box 399, Mount Sinai, NY 11766/0399 / email: Kendrick05@aol.com ) Visit one of our friaries to see first hand who we are and what we are like During you visit to the friaries you will be interviewed by several of the brothers. Submit an application Undergo a background check, physical and psychological tests Receive the invitation to come to test your vocation STAGES OF DISCERNMENT Postulancy (usually three to six months) Novitiate (usually three years) - Novices take a vow of obedience and receive a habit First Profession (not less than three years) - Professed have taken vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and their habit includes a cord with three knots life profession REQUIREMENT FOR MEMBERSHIP: Normally be in communion with the See of Canterbury (be an Episcopalian) Furnish reverences of character Be of sufficiently sound health, physically and psychologically Be free of all obligations: domestic, financial, etc. However, aspirants outstanding federally funded student loans may be admitted to the formation of the Society of St. Francis if they arrange a deferment or other method of of their loans during a period of their formation. Thereafter the repayment of the brother's student loan will be the responsibility of the house in which the brother though the obligation of the loan remains with the brother. We understand that education gained as a result of these loans should assist the brother in earning that will enable the house to repay the loans. If the brother should no longer be member of the Society of St. Francis , the Society has no obligation in the repayment these loans. have at least two years of work or college Sign the following statement: "If I am accepted as an aspirant or postulant and come to live with the Friars the Society of St. Francis, and subsequently leave the community, I agree I cannot of right claim or reclaim anything from the Society for any reason." TOP What do you do if you sense God is calling you to Religious Life? First of all take a deep breath, sit still with God. Just even questioning ��God what do you want me to do in my life?�� is itself a call from God. Without God��s active commission in your life, this question would not even exist for you. Dwell on this question. It will take months of quietness with God and your soul to even to begin consideration of a call for vocation. This for all all religious orders. This is for all ways of being in religious life. For Franciscan vocation, this includes commitment to be a friend or associate, to consider the Third Order SSF or joining communal life in the First Order brothers. How does it work? Where would you fit in the larger Franciscan community? The First Order is primarily what people think of as Franciscan friars (see illustration to the left). These are men clothed in brown habits with the rope at the side (poorly illustrated at left) and the cappuce (hood). These are men who live together as a communal family and accept the traditional vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Their ministry is an apostolic ministry grounded in daily prayer, obedience and living out the gospel message of Jesus Christ in our modern world. Some may be called to more active ministries such as working with the poor, prison ministries . . . . and within the greater Christian Church. Francis was called to active ministry in the world and deep contemplative communion with God as well. We are expected to have active presence in both of these experiences. This is a unique tension within the Franciscan vocation. After talking with the Vocations Director, he will provide further information and an application to join. Then you visit the communities. We offer vocations retreats each summer at Little Portion Friary. Here you will meet other men exploring the same call from God, live for a week with brothers in community life. Whether at a vocations retreat or simply visiting an individual friary, it is important to get a sense of the real life of who we are as brothers. We are all deeply devoted men and also truly human. When you visit a house, for your discernment about the call from God, you will meet individually with the brothers. You may be asked questions about how God called you, what you makes sense God��s movement in your life, specifically why a Franciscan vocation, about your family life, your commitments, your goals. At this point you are considered an enquirer into a possible Franciscan vocation. After meeting the brothers, you will have time back home to reflect upon your experiences and in a way deepen your prayer about vocation. Because now you will know us and are in relationship with us. But with this information and openness and personal authenticity, speak to God about your desires. So now, it will become clearer, whether a) you are called to Franciscan life or religious vocation at all or b) whether you are called to life with God through secular work. There are within SSF three ways to live out a Franciscan vocation: Associates, Third Order and First order brothers. TOP ASSOCIATES These are men and women who in their friendship support the ministries and life of all Franciscans brothers and sisters. They pray for the brothers and sisters, make retreats, attend services, become friends of our friaries. They communicate with the brothers and ask for prayer. Some are able to offer financial support to our brothers and sisters. But they live their own lives in their own home. They do not feel a specific call to three vows. These Over a period of time let God speak to you about God��s desire for you. associates and friends are however moved by the life of Francis, the love of the brothers and sisters, and a desire for deeper relationship with Christ in their daily life. THIRD ORDER SSF Like the first order, this grouping of brothers and sisters stems from the history of Francis�� ministry to lay men and women. He created this order recognizing that the vowed communal life was not everyone. In Francis�� lifetime, as today, there are men and women who desire to live out the Gospel life but are committed in family relationships and work responsibilities. The Third Order brothers and sisters live in the spirit of the vows and dedicate themselves to daily Franciscan prayer and ministry. They meet together regularly in their local areas for support and growth in their Franciscan identity. Just as in the first order, there is a period of formation in which they are mentored to encourage a spiritual rule of life, write a spiritual memoir and meet with a spiritual director. FIRST ORDER SSF In the years after the First World War, several men asked for God to raise up a Franciscan awareness and vocation in the Episcopal Church in America. In 1919 Father Joseph, an Episcopal priest established a Franciscan Community in Wisconsin. It grew from the monastic tradition of daily offices (prayer), worship, manual work, ministry to the poor in outlying churches and communities. Ten years later, the small group of men transferred to Mt. Sinai, NY and established Little Portion Friary. Since then an active community of men have lived the Gospel life there and in San Francisco CA. As First Order brothers, we follow the Rule of Francis with small modifications for modern life. We live the three traditional vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. about the call from God, you will meet individually with the brothers. You may be asked questions about how God called you, what you makes sense God��s movement in your life, specifically why a Franciscan vocation, about your family life, your commitments, your goals. At this point you are considered an enquirer into a possible Franciscan vocation. POVERTY As individuals and as an Order poverty means living simply with detachment from financial and material possession. We are poor in spirit and truly dependent up God. Poverty is less dependent on a view of material good and more fully aware of our complete dependency on God��s provision. This then leads to Franciscan humility which is the core of our community life. CHASTITY Rather than having a single intimate relationship to another person, we choose to devote our lives to others in the love of Christ. {The relationship then is with Christ which manifests itself into a dependence on our brothers. This loving relationship with Christ manifests itself to commitment to our brothers and all of creation. We accept that we need to be authentically human and voice our concerns about intimacy, our desires, and frustrations. We recognize that God created us fully human and seek to be fully authentic as we address our needs about intimacy, desire and companionship. As in poverty, we recognize that what think of the vow deepens and changes. We come to an awareness of our true interdependence with each other as brothers and our complete dependance on God. Our whole existence, then, is determined by our relationship to God. So then it is not simply an issue of absence of sexuality and primary relationship but rather is a fullness of living out our lives in God. This takes take time. But we trust in the wisdom of Francis as these were the same issues in his time and with his brothers. TOP OBEDIENCE This is actually the central vow and the heart of our lives in community. It relates and implies a personal humility accepting the will and purpose of God in our daily walk. This may be reflected in the decisions of our leadership in community or in the quiet voice of God in our hearts . This obedience leads us into our ministries, where we live, how we regard our prayer lives and spiritual development. We entered the Order coming out of lives and independence and individual choice. There are sometimes conflicts about what we personally want and the needs of community. This vow indicates our willingness to submit our personal desires to the greater need and the greater purpose of God. It implies a trust in God, our brothers, and ourselves. We are all members of the Episcopal Church of America. The brothers live a communal life together in friaries sharing household responsibilities, income, common worship, and communal prayer offices. Each brother also dedicates himself to deepening his relationship with God through private prayer and meditation as well as diverse ministries in which he is called. Some of us are called to preaching spiritual direction, retreat work, and social ministries such as work with the homeless, poor, disenfranchised. We all follow the ministry of Christ as displayed in the Gospels. Our growth depends on individual and group study as novices and professed brothers. In your discernment process, you may be called by the Vocations Director to come and live with us for a time. In this time of postulancy (usually about three months), it will become clear if your call from God is to the Franciscan lifestyle of the First Order. This discernment process may indicate to the brothers and to the candidate that God��s call is for some other Christian ministry outside of SSF This too is a gift and should be welcomed as part of discernment. After completion of the postulancy, an individual may be clothed as a novice (in habit) to join us a brother in community. This period of novitiate is one of continuing formation and discernment. By being clothed in the brown habit and living the full communal life as a brother, you will better understand the reality of our Franciscan life together. The period of the novitiate is about three years. After this time, both brothers and novice together discern if a deeper commitment and relationship together is the will of God and is best for community. Then the brother promises the three classic vows and becomes a professed brother in community. First profession of vows is a continued time of formation for about three to seven years after which a lifetime commitment is made to the vows, the community and the Christian Church. This page was written by two brothers Jacob and Donald Luke in the spirit and experience of our Franciscan life. This is a general introduction and questions are welcomed and encouraged.

Video of my life profession

http://vimeo.com/14377576

T This is celebration of new member of the Society. At this point he is became a novice, first stage of the Life Religious.In general the process for became a brother in religious life is hard. He begin with postulance for about 6 months, after that he begin his noviciate for more 3 years, after that became a junior professor brother and after that about more three years became a life profession brother...

This is the Chapel in the Lilte POtion in Long Island NY, here sometimes there is mass for all visitors who like a contact with the nature and silently place..The people who like silence enjoy it a lot...

This is The friary in Litle Pottion in Long Island in NY .It is about 1.30 minutes from the NY City.Its close to the POrto Jefferson about just 20 minutes to the friary.Here there is 6 brothers living and some novices in formartion.l The Guardian at this hoouse is Bro Erick Michael and master of Novic

This is the house in Lilte Pottion where some brothers from the Society saint Francis live and work in a Retreat House..See some activities of there..

Here at this house the brothers receve others who are interesting in a free days, meditation, relaxing,pray and mass and many others things the people is looking for special a nice contact with the nature and God's creation..

How is the life of a monk or friary

This the San Damiano Friary in San Francisco. Take more informations below.


This is Dolores Street next to the Dolores Park. I lived here for almost 1 year and half. I enjoy it a lot to live in San Francisco during my fist time in life religious. I mean life religious because it a style of living in consacrate life as many people do, like budist monk, catholic monks, Anglican monk or friary, Orthodox monks or friars.As Christians we look for help people with shelter, giving them hospitality and inspirations for them continue their life.

How to know the religious life and lean more about

Do you know what friary or monastery does mean? Read that and leave you comment.

San Damiano Friary is located in the Mission District of San Francisco not far from the Mission Dolores. For over 25 years it has been at the center of the brothers work in the Diocese of California. For about ten years the brothers also managed El Rancho Del Obispo - the Bishop's Ranch, a diocesan retreat and conference center. For a time we also had a small house in the Sunset District in conjunction with our sisters.
		San Damiano Friary has always offered hospitality. For many years we offered "crash-pad" space to people without shelter. We have also provided housing for refugees, students, people coming out of prison, new arrivals to San Francisco and others in the process of transition.
In addition to be the home from where brothers engaged in urban ministries on the streets, in jails, hospitals, nursing homes and hospices, it is also the base for brothers going off on mission tours, leading retreats, workshops and other programs.

From your own personal experience,what you would recomend to other ESL students as a good way to improve you English?

Hey Guys...

I'd like recomend to other ESL students as a good way to improve your english is practicing every day, every time in special with native speakers. With them you can improve your listening with them.

Also you need to listen to radio any time you can but you need to try to write it too. Another hand you have continue studying and have regularly class and never give up because the language to learn is a process..sometimes fast, sometime long and some time slow do not give up....

Ivanildossf

The life is the reality..

Today I am at th school. The class is fantastic. My class is full today and I am in at the the computer class.