Just further proof that there is, in fact, a God!!!

Yes, brothers and sisters, He is back. And like Jesus before him he will rise from the dead and make beleivers out of nations. We are all graced for being able to see Him play and if all things go well on draft day, we will all be able to see Him hand off to DeAngello Williams, oh, what a world it would be.

Where to begin, well, why not Holy week?

Ok, Holy Week was busy, awesome, and the work was completely worth it. It all started at the Chrism Mass. This was the first Chrism Mass that I have been to and if there is one thing that I will never forget it is the freakin' ridiculously large amount of priests there. Of course this is the mass where the priests of the diocese give their obedience to the bishop, but it was still cool to see all those priests under the same roof. I was not only amazed at the number of priests that were there but the number of priests that I new that were there, I didn't realize that I got around Memphis as well as I did. The priest that stuck out the most was Fr. Robert Marshall. Fr. Marshall used to be the Associate Pastor at my Parish and I hadn't seen him since my senior year in high school and the last time we spoke he was under the impression that I was leaving Memphis for Cincinnati, and that was 4 years ago. Wow.

Another thing that stuck out in the mass was my friend Robbie, who is a seminarian, was the person in charge of carrying the HUGE OIL VAT off the alter. I couldn't help but pray to myself that he would not drop the vat, and alass he carried them successfully. Whew.

The next few posts will be catch up posts, because I'm soooo behind.

Thanks for reading, I'll try to keep you posted, Later days,

Matt

Yes, I have been quite lazy these past couple of weeks, I wish I could defend myself and say that I have been busy but that would not be the whole truth so I will say that I have been quite lazy in not posting.

Any who, please read on below and see what I have been doing when I was not being lazy these last few weeks.

Thank you much, please keep reading, and I promise I'll keep posting,

Matt Hudson

"We can't let our future become our past,
If we are to change the world,
Won't you tell me, tell me please,
How many miles must we march"
-- Ben Harper, "How Many Miles Must We March"

Another awesome day at the GAP presentation. Today, instead of trying to talk between the pro-abortionists and the GAP reps, I spent my time near the GAP presentation talking with those who came up to the barriers. I had several conversations with pro-lifers that liked the project and other pro-lifers that thought that the pictures were brutal. I tried to spend most of my time talking with those people that were either indifferent to the topic or those pro-abortionists that came over to either criticize the project or argue their point-of-view.

All in all I think that the project was successful because of the people that we spoke to either had a change of heart or they were left defending a broken position, only held up by their stubbornness. The only difficulty that I had was dealing with the statement "we'll have to agree to disagree." I don't particularity enjoy arguing with people but today it was different because I spoke my peace and they countered with their point-of-view and, in most cases, I showed the flaw in the their thought, and say that blasted phrase.

I could tell they knew what I was saying was right by their body language, whether it be a calming face or a once intuitive stare fall into a blank look of realization, but what they said totally went against what they were feeling, they either ended the conversation and walked away or said the phrase above, "we'll just have to agree to disagree."

This experience was great and if anybody gets a chance to go to one I strongly recommend it. Again, for more info go to http://www.abortionno.org, they also have pictures and movies about what they do.

Later days, all

"You must do the heaviest,

So many shall do none,
You have got to stand firm,

So many shall run"
-- Ben Harper, "Jah Work"

Wow, today was great. At the University of Memphis we had a Group visit the campus called GAP (Genocide Awareness Project). They setup pictures of aborted fetuses and compared abortion to the holocaust, American lynchings, Cambodian killing fields, 9/11 attacks, etc. The idea is to inspire dialog with students on both sides and to help show the atrocity that abortion really is. (For more info on the GAP go to http://www.abortionno.org)

I was there participating with the group and noticed that there were pro-abortion (not pro-choice) protesters and I was asked to go over there and invite them to speak with the GAP representatives, so being the guy that I am I did just that. When I got over there I spoke with a few of my Feminist Theory classmates and the leader of the group to talk with the GAP reps and they said that they could not go past the Blue Line. When I asked about the Blue Line they said it was the cops that were keeping the place safe.

So I went to the police and asked if they could allow the pro-abortionists to go over and speak with the GAP reps and they told me to speak to the Director of Communications Services Curt Guenther in the Admin Building, so I did. Mr. Guenther was cool and understood my feelings about the communication lines, but he was worried about the possibility of a violent outbreak, and he said that he gave both organizations a public forum to say what they wanted to say. He also said that he was not interested in getting the groups to communicate with one another, but to allow them each to present their side in public. It was here that I had an idea, I asked him what it would take to set up a debate where both sides would be represented and he gave me instructions to do so and I promptly got to work.

I went to both sides and asked if they would be interested in such a debate and they both obliged me. So I have some work to do to get this going. I ask that you pray for the organization of this debate and for the campus pro-life group I plan to start.

One final thing, my good buddy, who will remain nameless, forwarded me a newsletter via e-mail that was from the WAC (Women Action Coalition). It said that they plan to throw rotten tomatoes at the GAP reps and on top of that, my Feminist Theory teacher passed around the same newsletter and had a call to arms in the class saying that we should go over to the violent display and yell at them and throw rotten fruit at them to get our point across. And of course there was one SMART lady, dressed in jackboots, threw a tomato and was promptly grabbed by the police that were there, it was hysterical because she threw like a girl.

Any who, that is my info for today, tomorrow is the last day for the GAP presentation and I plan to be much more involved than I was today. If you are in the Memphis area and are interested in seeing the project in action the display will be there from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. hope you enjoyed reading this and I will have much more tomorrow, later days.