Second Sunday Supper (10/10)

YAG Welcome BBQ/Bonfire

Thu, October 7, 6pm – 10pm
Where: Ben's House (8493 La Jolla Shores Dr, La Jolla, CA)

Second Sunday Supper

Sun, October 10, 6:30pm – 8:00pm (after 5:30PM mass)
Where: Roetter Hall, Good Samaritan Church

Help us welcome new Young Adults and Graduate Students this Thursday, 6PM at Ben Horne's house. There will be burgers (meaty and veggie) provided. Drinks, sides, snacks, etc are welcome. If enough people come, our chaplain (Father Joseph) might make an appearance :). He is susceptible to peer pressure.

Second Sunday Supper will continue after 5:30PM mass this Sunday. Danny Richter will be leading a discussion on Saint Francis. We will have Indian food again since it's been very popular (Punjabi Tandoor) in the past. Suggested donation, $7. Help us order enough food for everyone by RSVPing here.

All YAG events (and more) are also posted on the blog/calendar at http://ucsdyags.blogspot.com. Check it out.

- Huy
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YAG Welcome BBQ/Bonfire (10/7) - Fall Quarter YAG Events

Ministry Fair

Sun, October 3

YAG Welcome BBQ/Bonfire

Thu, October 7, 6pm – 9pm
Where: Ben's (8493 La Jolla Shores Dr, La Jolla, CA)

The Young Adult Group Annual Welcome BBQ/Bonfire will be on Thursday, October 7 at Ben's house. Please bring something small to share (food or drink). There will be a grill. I'll bring wood so we can head down to the beach later in the evening for a bonfire. Let us welcome new young adults and graduate students to our community.

We will also be at all three masses this Sunday for the Ministry fair. Please stop by our table and say hi especially if you've been gone all summer. Welcome back! See you soon.

Other dates to keep on your calendar:

YAG Retreat

Fri, November 19 – Sun, November 21
Where: Cuyumaca

Spend a weekend outdoors while studying the basic tenets of our faith: The Creed

YAG Thanksgiving Dinner

Tues, November 23
If you won't be with family this Thanksgiving, you can still have a full Thanksgiving dinner! We'll gather at someone's home for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, maybe play some touch football. Better yet, delay your trip home and have two Thanksgiving dinners.

- Huy

Second Sunday Supper Recap (9/12)

St. Ignatius of Loyola

A good sized group of YAGS gathered on a Sunday night for some good company and good food. When the eating was over, we switched into a mode of talking about St. Ignatius of Loyola. I spoke of Ignatius' early life and what led to his conversion. St. Ignatius realized, while he was convalescing from a battle wound, that vanity and riches would not lead to happiness, but that fighting for God would.

After a discussion of St. Ignatius' discernment process, we went on to speak of the way we personally discern how to live our lives. St. Ignatius taught that when you find God's will for your life you will be full of spiritual joy, while when you are not on God's path you will be full of distress. A good number of us YAGS agreed with this statement. It's always good to reexamine your decision making process and to ensure that you are seeking God in the decisions you make.

Stay tuned for next months Second Sunday Supper with Danny Richter as our speaker. We will be in for a treat!

-Andrea Grim

Padre's Game Recap (9/9)

The YAGS headed downtown to watch the Padres baseball game. It was off to a great start when someone offered all 8 of us seats looking over first base. So instead of our $5 seats we were given $58 seats. Nice!

The game didn't go so well for the Padres, which made Brian happy as he was sporting his San Francisco Giants hat. We did however get to witness six home runs! All in all it was a lot of fun and we can't wait to go again next year!

- Andrea Grim

World Cup 2010 - YAG Style

The World Cup was very exciting this year. The US gave us all heart attacks, and it seemed like everyone was very interested thanks to ABC/ESPN televising every game. The UCSD Newman Center Young Adult Group was no exception. We have a lot of avid football fans, and a gang of us got together to watch the finale featuring Spain vs Netherlands on two TVs. Gourmet food was provided by the guests.

Most people present wanted the Dutch, but I was all for the predominantly Catholic nation. The Spanish played beautifully and beat the cheap-shot Dutch in the final minutes of regulation.

There was good food, drink, and company. More pictures here.

Weezer and Store Front

Weezer Concert and Beer Fest

Sat, August 21, 5pm - 9pm
Where: Del Mar Fair Grounds

Store Front

Sun, September 5, 5pm – 8pm

The Young Adult Group (or at least me) will be going to watch Weezer at the Del Mar Fairgrounds Saturday, August 21st. Admission into the races is $6. Weezer is supposed to come on after the last horse race at 6:30PM. If you are interested, please fill out this form, and then I will email just those who reply later this week (probably Thursday) about arranging carpools, etc. If you'd like to come without responding, just gimme a call or text on Saturday, and I'll let you know how to find us.

Also, Our USCD Catholic Center Catholic Community has been cooking and delivering food for homeless teenagers the first Sunday of the month for the past several years. This upcoming month (September 5, 2010), our Social Justice Coordinator, Maureen Sterk, has asked for the Young Adult Group's help in this ongoing effort. She will be organizing, but if you can spare 2-3 hours of your time to help cook and deliver a meal for Store Front, please fill out this form. We will contact you as the time draws near to give you more details.

God bless everyone! See you soon.

- Huy Nguyen
phone: (three one zero) nine five one - five three four seven

Joshua Tree Camping Trip

So this post is basically three months late, but like history, if it is not written (or in a blog post), it did not happen. But this trip did happen, and it was amazing.

A gang of us from the UCSD Newman Center Young Adult Group went camping, but the main attraction was to climb in Joshua Tree, probably one of the most beautiful places you'll ever see.

Six of us left early on Friday, April 22nd to climb and scout out the routes for the bigger group on Saturday.

Later on, the rest of the group got to our three camp sites in Joshua Tree National Park. We had dinner, set up our tents and sleeping bags, and went to bed after a night of campfire mayhem.

The next day, almost all of us went to climb, attempt to climb, or just watch people climb (which was harrowing on it's own). We set up and had at least 3-4 routes going all at once. Ben led all of the climbs, set anchors at the top so we could all top-rope.

Almost everyone who wanted to took a crack (pun intended!) at finishing a climb. By the end of the day, our fingers were raw and forearms were burning. We all collected a few extra bruises and left some skin somewhere on the rock as well.

Thank God for creation, good friends, and good health. Amen.

More pictures here (Andrea's) and here (Martin's) and here (Kristy's) and here (Dana's) and here (Daniel's).