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Written by Catholic SUN
Wednesday, 16 June 2010 18:38 |
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| What Are You Waiting For!?
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By Father John Donovan/ SUN contributing writer
Patience is a virtue; a virtue with which I generally have not been blessed. I find especially when I am driving I have begun to wave to people, not with just a polite nod as if to salute, but rather with both hands as if I was shooing flies away from a picnic. I slip into the fantasy of the absurd. I imagine that like the cartoons, I could press a button and a giant robotic hand extends out, holds the slowpoke, while a giant boot extends and halls off and kicking the vehicle right in the tailpipe and out of my way.
With that said, Advent is obviously a challenge. Although I may think I am in a hurry most times, I am not one to read the last page of the book. I do believe that like Advent, we need to have the foundation and the buildup before reaching the crux of the plot. However, I have read this book before. What build-up or surprise could be left?
That is the thing with surprises, by their nature they are unexpected. Although I know to expect certain social obligations at this time of year, shopping and the likes, I find that detracts from the season. The greatest surprises have come in this season not wrapped in packages but the words or gestures of another. Although in the midst of the Christmas season we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany, is not the purpose of this time to experience an epiphany? Is not our preparation, our waiting, one of recognizing the Incarnation, Christ in our midst?
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Written by Catholic SUN
Wednesday, 16 June 2010 18:37 |
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| He Scores!
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Dec. 4-10, 2003
He Scores!
By Eileen Jevis/ SUN staff writer
SUN photo(s) Paul Finch
Seventh grader gets the opportunity to be a sportscaster
Travis Cunniff, a seventh grader at Bishop Grimes Junior/Senior High School was chosen as one of seven students from around the country by Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids and Time Warner Cable to become a member of the 2003-04 team of young sports reporters, known as GAScasters. Under the guidance of mentor Mark Larson, the sports director for Channel 10, Travis will cover organized games and sporting events for the Syracuse area exclusively for Nick GAS.
Travis was selected from hundreds of applicants between the ages of eight and 14 after participating in GAScaster auditions held nation-wide. Travis learned of the auditions when his father saw a flyer in Burger King and brought it home for Travis and his brother, Alex. Travis was notified in October that he had won and would be on his way to New York City for training. Travis recently returned from New York where he spent four days meeting with Nickelodeon and Viacom’s producers and cast, including the host of Slime Time Live, Dave Aizer. Travis and his mother were welcomed to New York City at a party at Planet Hollywood.
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