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Ansel Adams High Sierra — Wilderness Outreach This is an adult Laymen expedition into the western High Sierra in the Ansel Adams Wilderness. We will be rebuilding a length of trail for outfitters so that their mules and horses can navigate more easily into the backcountry. We are currently recruiting a Chaplain.  Here is the Schedule:

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Fathers and Sons Campout Weekend — Wilderness Outreach Calling Fathers and Sons (ages 10-14). Please join us for an early spring Wilderness Outreach weekend, Friday March 24 through Sunday March 26 at Tar Hollow State Forest. The weekend will be filled with hiking, trail clearing and age-appropriate conversations about our Faith and manhood. We will

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Trail Work, Ci**rs, and Masculine Spirituality — Wilderness Outreach Please join us for a weekend, Friday through Sunday morning late winter campout. Men 18 and over. We will be getting into some hiking, crosscut saw work, smoking a few ci**rs and discussing the theology of masculine spirituality. We will be camping in tents but also have a shelter house with a big

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Damascus Man UP! Firewood Weekend — Wilderness Outreach Do you want to get a taste of a man’s call to manhood on the physical, spiritual, and intellectual levels? Then join us on this campout and work weekend at the Damascus Catholic Campus. Chain saws and splitters will be fully engaged prepping firewood for the summer youth camps. Experience “Camp ...

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Turning Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle Inside Out. Or the Why of Masculine Spirituality — Wilderness Outreach In the summer of 2014, high in the granite peaks of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in the Ansel Adam Wilderness, men wrestled with the faith and reason of leadership. Each evening, following days of moving rocks weighing hundreds or even thousands of pounds, building trails for horses, mules and backp

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OSU Newman Men Rogue River Expedition — Wilderness Outreach This is a high adventure wilderness expedition into the Manhood, Worship, Work, Asceticism, Leadership, and Brotherhood. Fr. Christian DeCarlo will be out Chaplain. This expedition is for men from Ball State University and Wilderness Outreach leadership team. $300 per man.

From a commentary on Isaiah by Eusebius of Caesarea
(Cap. 40: PG 24, 366-367)

The voice in the wilderness

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God. The prophecy makes clear that it is to be fulfilled, not in Jerusalem but in the wilderness: it is there that the glory of the Lord is to appear, and God’s salvation is to be made known to all mankind.

It was in the wilderness that God’s saving presence was proclaimed by John the Baptist, and there that God’s salvation was seen. The words of this prophecy were fulfilled when Christ and his glory were made manifest to all: after his baptism the heavens opened, and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove rested on him, and the Father’s voice was heard, bearing witness to the Son: This is my beloved Son, listen to him.

The prophecy meant that God was to come to a deserted place, inaccessible from the beginning. None of the pagans had any knowledge of God, since his holy servants and prophets were kept from approaching them. The voice commands that a way be prepared for the Word of God: the rough and trackless ground is to be made level, so that our God may find a highway when he comes. Prepare the way of the Lord: the way is the preaching of the Gospel, the new message of consolation, ready to bring to all mankind the knowledge of God’s saving power.

Climb on a high mountain, bearer of good news to Zion. Lift up your voice in strength, bearer of good news to Jerusalem. These words harmonize very well with the meaning of what has gone before. They refer opportunely to the evangelists and proclaim the coming of God to men, after speaking of the voice crying in the wilderness. Mention of the evangelists suitably follows the prophecy on John the Baptist.

What does Zion mean if not the city previously called Jerusalem? This is the mountain referred to in that passage from Scripture: Here is mount Zion, where you dwelt. The Apostle says: You have come to mount Zion. Does not this refer to the company of the apostles, chosen from the former people of the circumcision?

This is the Zion, the Jerusalem, that received God’s salvation. It stands aloft on the mountain of God, that is, it is raised high on the only-begotten Word of God. It is commanded to climb the high mountain and announce the word of salvation. Who is the bearer of the good news but the company of the evangelists? What does it mean to bear the good news but to preach to all nations, but first of all to the cities of Judah, the coming of Christ on earth?

RESPONSORY
See Matthew 11:11, 9

The herald of the Lord approaches
of whom the Lord says:
– No one born of woman
is greater than John the Baptist.

Truly this is a great prophet,
and more than a prophet,
of whom the Lord says:
– No one born of woman
is greater than John the Baptist.

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