Jambo Youth Issue 61

All Thou Couldst Give How is it I was worth all you could give That I, through thee, with our Father might live. Through agony suffered in Gethsemane You've given our Father's kingdom to me. You bled and died on Calvary's hill To seal yourself to the Father's will. While heavenly legions awaited your call You silently suffered, atoning for all. Freedom from sin you won for us then And life eternal you brought forth again. You shattered forever death's shackled band By rising in resurrection grand. Following God, you showed us the way To walk in your path that each of us may Return to the presence of our heavenly Lord And glory forever in his holy word.

Don Bosco Utume • •

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Pep-up To the Young Points to Ponder Saint of the Week Poem Last Drop

: Stories for Reflection : Failure Leads to Success : What is Failure : St. Francis of Paola : All Thou Couldst Give : Yes to Jesus

God's Coffee R D Clyde

Last Drop Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. (Rev 3:20) There is a famous and beautiful picture of Jesus knocking on a door. When this picture was first shown to the public, the artist's attention was drawn to a serious flaw. There was no handle on the door! The artist explained that this was very deliberate, because it represented the reality. The door is the door of the human heart, and there is no handle on the outside. Jesus cannot enter unless I open the door and invite him in. "I stand at the door and knock. If anyone opens the door, I will come in and we will share a meal as friends." If I open the door and let Jesus in, then I can be sure that, later on, I will hear another knock. If I ask 'What is it now?', he will answer 'I want back out again'! Back out again through my words and actions, etc

Take at least one minute out today, go down into your heart, open the door, and say your own personal YES to Jesus for this Easter season. You don't Fr. Jack McArdle have to understand it — just do it!

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A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us." God brews the coffee, not the cups.......... Enjoy your coffee!

Lesson: The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God. Check out JY in www.dbafe.org

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Editors: Anastasio Sdb & Shyjan Sdb

Failure Leads to Success!

What is Failure?

In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca Recording company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." The group was called The Beatles. In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." She went on and became Marilyn Monroe. In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry fired a singer after one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck." He went on to become the most popular singer in America, named Elvis Presley. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?" When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process." In the 1940's, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947 after seven long years of rejections! He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention, an electrostatic papercopying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today. Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contacted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralyzed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold medals. The moral of the above Stories: Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the hottest furnace. A winner is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS! In LIFE, remember that you pass this way only once! Let's live life to the fullest and give it our best.

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure, it means you haven’t succeeded yet. Failure doesn’t mean you have accomplished nothing. It means that you have learned something. Failure doesn’t mean you have been a fool. It means that you have had a lot of faith. Failure doesn’t mean you are inferior. It means that you are not perfect. Failure doesn’t mean you don’t have it. It means you have to do it in a different way. Failure doesn’t mean you have wasted your life. It means you have a reason to start afresh. Failure doesn’t mean you should give up. It means you must try harder. Failure doesn’t mean you’ll never make it. It means it will take a little longer. Failure doesn’t mean God has abandoned you. It means God has a better idea.

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. S.G. Eriksson

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Contributed By Fr. Ottone Cantore IMC

April 2

SAINT for the WEEK St. Francis of Paola

Born in 1416 in Paola on the S.W. coast of Italy, he was familiar with Franciscan life from an early age, and went on pilgrimage to Assisi. He became a hermit in a coastal cave near his home town, and at the age of 20 was joined by two others; this was the beginnings of a community which developed into an offshoot of the Franciscan Order known as the ‘Minims’. They stressed especially the Franciscan principles of charity and austerity, and in a worldly age attracted many followers. Francis was much in demand both as a spiritual adviser and a mediator in political disputes; he spent the last 25 years of his life in France and was responsible for several peace treaties, as well as being tutor to the Dauphin. He died in 1507 in Tours and was canonised in 1519. He is a patron saint of seafarers (many of the miracles associated with him being of a maritime nature). The Minims later fell on hard times, but their numbers surged again in a remarkable way in the 18th. century. They are now once again few in number.