2010 Day 2: USTPMTBBAA Iowa Reunion

DAY 2: 2010 USTPMTBBAA MINI-REUNION IN IOWA 

Budz1's favorite - Gouda cheese

Updated 4/13/2013

Previous Publication  6/17/10  ust1611 Multiply website

Saturday,June 5, 2010
Morning Trip to Kalona Cheese Factory:
Kalona is the largest Amish Settlement west of the Mississippi River, something that began when three Old Order Amish families established homesteads near Deer Creek the year Iowa became a state.  Unofficially named "Bulltown" in 1879 for a local successful shorthorn breeding service, the town originated as a train station of the English River Township railroad system.  It was a typically quiet country town until mid-1950's when Highway 1 was paved, streamlining the way to and from Iowa City for commuters and visitors.  Kalona is also known as The Quilt Capital of Iowa.



USTPMTBBAA Trip to Kalona Cheese Factory  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wR5Llu8Tzk   00:45

Livin' it up at Riverside Casino and buffet lunch at 12:30 P.M.  A few won, a few pennies gone to heaven.

USTPMTBBAA 2010 Reunion: Livin' it Up  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3NhBybuYwc   7:50

UST Medical Technology Reunion in Chicago & Videos

2009 MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ALUMNI MINI-REUNION PHOTOS IN WINDY CITY CHICAGO!

Iconic symbol - Chicago Theater

Susan: Welcome to Palmer House - the best hotel in Chicago

http://youtu.be/Txk0o8O2OQ4

The "Bean"

http://youtu.be/LulK2a7g-WA

Grand Victoria Casino, Elgin

http://youtu.be/w26Uh8NgpCw

Good Buffet with Seafood

Chicago Chinatown

http://youtu.be/PZ-vaXelSq8

Lunch at Vicky's

Extended lunch at Milet's restaurant

Downtown Chicago - the cleanest big city in the whole United States - no graffiti, well-behaved and courteous locals

http://youtu.be/lfcFfJeHAj8

Chocolate Factory

http://youtu.be/7BeWGpFVCFU

Little Quiapo Restaurant - the best crispy pata (fried pork hocks) in the neighborhood

[Click photo to enlarge]   Updated 4/12/13

UST1611 BLOG LINKS

http://ust1611.blogspot.com/2009/09/the-ust-medtech-group-chicago-reunion.html

http://ust1611.blogspot.com/2009/09/ust-medtech-reunion-in-chicago-update.html

http://ust1611.blogspot.com/2010/03/ust-medtech-reunion-in-chicago-photo-book.html

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Woweeee! Here's the update of the reunion....it looks like we're getting at least a group of 20 for the Spirit of Chicago cruise.  An excellent group! The Tres Amigas (Susan, Sofie, and Me) have made a reservation at Hilton-Palmer House in downtown Chicago. 
Hilton-Palmer House
17 E. Monroe St.
Chicago, IL.
312-726-7500
However, please check the internet if you'd like a cheaper hotel along the Magnificent Mile (Michigan Avenue).  We'll just meet in the Hilton lobby.  Everything is near, a walking distance.
Reunion activities:
Casino
Cruise
John Hancock 95th Brunch
Lina's Potluck Picnic
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

Anointing Mass

SATURDAY - APRIL 6, 2014 

MASS & ANNOINTING OF THE SICK

And the God of all grace...will himself restore you strong, firm and steadfast.  1 Peter 5:10

GLORY AND PRAISE TO OUR GOD

Glory and praise to our God, who alone gives light to our days.

Many are the blessings he bears to those who trust in his ways.

We, the daughters and sons of him who built the valleys and plains,

Praise the wonders our God has done in ev'ry heart that sings.

In his wisdom he strengthens us, like gold that's tested in fire.

Thought the power of sin prevails, our God is there to save.

Every moment of ev'ry day our God is waiting to save,

Always ready to seek the lost, to answer those who pray.

Easter Sunday

CHRIST'S RESURRECTION is the most important day of the church year.  Easter Sunday varies from year to year because the Council of Nicaea (325 A.D.) determined that it would be celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox.  There are two times during the year when the length of day and night are equal: the vernal equinox and autumnal equinox.  The word "Easter" is probably derived from the Goddess of Spring, Eostre.  

Many churches hold an annual Easter sunrise service.  This comes from the fact that Mary Magdalene and the other Mary first learned of Christ's resurrection at dawn on the first day of the week.  Matthew 28:1

Christian Churches commonly fill their altars and surround their crosses with masses of Easter lilies to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus and the hope of life everlasting.  In the Old Testament, the lily is associated with Christ in the Song of Songs passages ("I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.") and Hosea, through whom God promises a resurrection to Israel if the nation repents.  The reference reads:  " I will heal their waywardness and love them freely...Israel will blossom like a lily."  Lilies are said to have been found growing in the garden of Gethsemane after Christ's night of agony.  Tradition indicates that the beautiful white lilies sprang up where drops of Christ's perspiration fell to the ground in his final hours of sorrow and distress.

Holy Saturday Easter Vigil

EASTER VIGIL

"For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.  He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.  In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water."  - 1Peter 3:18-20

Early Christians believed that the just who died before the coming of Christ awaited redemption in a shadowy existence, referred to the Old Testament as Sheol.  This belief is alluded to in First Peter 3:18-22, where the place is described as a prison.  The statement " he descended into hell" in the Apostles' Creed refers to this belief.  It expresses our faith that, after his death but before his resurrection, Jesus went to announce to those in "prison" that they had been saved and were invited to heavenly life.

Holy Saturday evolved in the church after the fourth century.  Before that time, only Easter was recognized as a holy day.  But during the fourth century all the days of the week before Easter were established as holy days.

Some churches reserve Holy Saturday as a traditional time for baptism.

Prayer to the Shoulder Wound of Jesus

I have been instructed by our religious classmate Vicky (her TV channel is on EWTN always) to please pray this prayer daily.  According to her, it is a promise of our Lord to St. Bernard - whoever venerates and honor His Sacred Shoulder Wound will be forgiven of all venial and mortal sins.  How remiss of me! I'm always thinking of Jesus' 5 wounds only but not his shoulder wound (for carrying the Cross).

PRAYER TO THE SHOULDER WOUND OF JESUS

   O most loving Jesus, meek Lamb of God, I a miserable sinner, salute and worship the most Sacred Wound of thy Shoulder to which Thou didst bear thy heavy Cross, which so tore Thy Flesh and laid bare Thy Bones as to inflict on Thee an anguish greater than any other Wound of Thy Most Blessed Body.  I adore Thee, O Jesus most sorrowful; I praise and glorify Thee and give Thee thanks for this most sacred and painful Wound, beseeching Thee by that exceeding pain and by the crushing burden of Thy heavy Cross to be merciful to me, a sinner, to forgive me all my mortal and venial sins, and to lead me on towards Heaven along the Way of Thy Cross.  Amen.

More On St. Bernard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_of_clairvaux
                                http://www.thesacredheart.com/shwound.htm

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Lenten Rose

The Lenten Rose is not truly a rose but a helleborus, a perennial flower that resembles a rose.  It is called the Lenten Rose because in some parts of the world it uniquely blooms during the spring and winter.  It has many beautiful colors of white, yellow, and purple.

Roses were banned in the early Church because at the time the flower was viewed as symbol of paganism, orgy, and lust.  Church writer and critic Tertullian wrote an entire volume denigrating the flower.  In about 202 A.D., noted theologian Clement of Alexandria forbade Christians to adorn themselves with roses. 
Helleborus orientalis

 

 

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