Hello everyone! Want to find out what was going on in COSDU for our first 3 sessions? Well, read on to find out more....
Our very first week back into school, marking the start of the new semester called for a Welcome Food & Games day! Welcome Food & Games happened on the 27 July at Melbourne Uni's chaplaincy. It was filled with much games and laughter as our game host was Rachel who did a really good job!
The night started off with many new people streaming in, all pulled in by friends or who had found out about us during O week (: Belle was in charge of getting name tags on people just so we could get to know everyone's names a bit easier (: Followed by that, everyone settled down for the P&W session led by Jeanne which got everyone up and moving especially with the song "Trading my sorrows"! (Thanks Jeanne for that!) We played really fun games like the cloth game which went a bit like this...
A huge piece of canvas was placed in the middle of two groups and each group had to be sent out to sit directly behind each side of the canvas. When the canvas sheet drops, the person who shouts the name of the other person the fastest wins. The loser however, gets sent to the other team. What a fun way to get to know people's name (and remember them) yeah? After a few rounds of games, we moved on to dinner!
Laura very happily took on the role of coordinating food and drinks for the night. Well... She obviously did a good job of pleasing all the very hungry stomachs as we had an awesome spread of pizza and sushi! Yay! Here is a sneak peek of a little food that we had (;
For the next week, we had welcome mass at St Carthages (: As usual, the night kicked off with a P&W session led by Chris and Belle. The most wonderful thing of that session was that it was planned super super late and guess what, it apparently still went pretty fine! Looks like trusting in God and letting Him take control of the situation is a fool proof method yeah? What can we say, the Almighty God is pretty awesome and it did seem that letting Jesus take the wheel in our super super short P&W practice was all we needed for the whole night to have fallen together perfectly (: Just look at how happy everyone was at the end of the day!
(Sorry if the photo is a bit blur!)
Well, that marks the end of the second week for the semester! Definitely ended a good note, especially with the eucharist being such a big part of it. Heehee ^^
Now for the third week! Its already the 10th of August! How fast does time fly :O For our third week, COSDU's own chaplain, Father Thinh, gave a talk on Grace - Starting afresh from Christ. This talk was tied in particularly to grace as this years theme was Year of Grace which invites us to contemplate the face of Christ. Father Thinh's talk was really enriching for many as he talked about how Grace is a free gift which is given by God and is one thing which can't just be earned. He also taught us a really really cute acronym to help us remember a little more of what Grace is all about. So here it is! God's Riches At Christ's Expense = GRACE :D
After Father Thinh was done, we had a beautiful sharing from Maureen Saclot of how God's grace had worked in her life. I wouldn't reveal any personal details of what she had said, but whatever it is, she shared about how she went through a really difficult phase in her life. And it was only through grace and prayer that she managed to get through (:
So guys, just remember, however hard your week in school, or at work, or in family can get, know that God is always there guiding you and holding your hand. He will never let you go and of all people, He will not be the one who is going to forget you or cast you away. His grace was given to us at His expense, and so maybe, we too should learn to live life with grace and cherish the blessings He has so willingly given to us (:
Lost of love
COSDU (;
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