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Wow. It’s hard to believe another semester of Ignite.242 has come to a close. This past Monday, with about 175 UVA students, students from several other campuses around VA, teenagers, families, retirees, and everywhere in between, we processed from St. Thomas Aquinas, across the UVA Grounds, up Mr. Jefferson’s Lawn, and to the University Chapel, led by our Lord in the Holy Eucharist.

Many stories have begun to come up about conversations had along the way with curious bystanders, and the beginnings of conversions by God’s grace. One particular young man approached a group toward the back, saying “I’m a fallen away Catholic, but this is really moving.” Several people simply joined the procession along the way. And many in the procession expressed a profound sense of the movement of the Holy Spirit as we walked.

Let’s pray together that this procession would not be simply an event that happened and would be cool to do again, but rather a lifestyle that we would begin to live out as we move about the Grounds: in our conversations, our relationships, our choices- every aspect of our lives. Let’s pray that He would continue His work of transformation and renewal on our campus and in our city, and that He would begin with our own hearts.

Amen.

We hope you can join us for our next ignite on Monday April 19th, 2010.  The night will begin at 7:30pm, and although we’ve had a poor track record pulling this off in the past, we PROMISE we will begin at 7:30pm this time.  Our speaker for this night will be Lisa Epperson.  Lisa works for LifeTeen and is an excellent speaker.  She will be wrapping up our semester theme on the verse 1 Peter 2:9 –

But you are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. -1 Peter 2:9

See you there!