CACCLC 2019 Recap

Thanks for joining us at CACCLC 2019! This year, we had 87 campers and 3 religious (priests and seminarians); 28% of our campers were attending CACCLC for the first time.

For those who missed it or those who want to relive the memories, here are a few highlights in pictures:

Morning stretches!

Mass with Fr. Timothy

This year, we had the first ever CACCLC Networking event, where campers could connect to local young adult groups and bible studies, and connect based on other interests like volunteering and dragon boat. It was a great success, with many campers meeting new friends and group members!

Fr. Timothy gave insightful talks on our 2019 theme “Living Hope”: "Hope Includes Your Past", “Hope Includes Your Present”, and “Hope Includes Your Future”.

Our Large Group Activity this year was a relay race including Steal The Bacon, Rubber Duck Lasso, Know Your ExCo, Bible Trivia Poster, and a Pillow Sack Relay. Winning teams were awarded extra water balloons and water guns for an epic water balloon fight!

During the following free time, campers played basketball and spikeball, took a hike to check out the trail, swam in the pool, and took a nap to recharge.

Campers enjoyed many delicious meals, thanks to the kitchen staff!

For our workshops this year, we had a Social Justice workshop by Lily Sin, and a Mental Health workshop by Jessica Chow. Lily challenged campers to do an “Act of Hope” after camp, and Jessica taught us about the scientific side of anxiety and depression, and how to support our friends struggling with mental health.

Fr. Timothy answered campers’ anonymous questions during “Office Hours with Fr. Tim”.

At night, campers played board games, sang and jammed to music, and wrote affirmation notes to each other.

Fr. Timothy brought water from Lourdes (a pilgrimage site in France known for Marian apparitions and miraculous healings) in spray bottles and said a healing prayer for all the campers. What a blessed way to end camp!

Special thanks to our photographer Genesia for the beautiful photos featured in this post. Check out more photos of CACCLC 2019 here and here.

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As the 2019 ExCo team, we want to thank all of YOU campers for coming to camp this year. We hope that you all had a fruitful experience and hope to see you next year — save the date for Labor Day 2020 (Sep 4–7)!

We keep in touch via our Facebook group so be sure to join the group for all the latest announcements! Now let’s be Living Hope in the world!

CACCLC 2019 Music

Excited for camp? By now, you should have received a Welcome Packet and your carpool arrangements (if requested) in your email, and heard from your small group leader. If you haven’t yet, or if you have any questions, email cacclc2019@cacclc.org.

Here’s the music for this weekend — you can familiarize yourself with the songs before camp, or listen to these playlists on the way to camp!

Praise & Worship

As widely attributed to St. Augustine, “he who sings prays twice”! Praise & worship music is often based on Scripture and is meant to be a form of prayer—so pay attention to the lyrics and sing with your heart. Listen to the setlist on Spotify, and check out "The Do's and Don't's of Praise and Worship" for some tips on how to approach P&W (fun gifs included)!

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. (Colossians 3:16)

Taize

We'll also be singing Taizé music on Sunday night...but what is Taizé?

The Taizé (pronounced like tay-zay) community is an ecumenical monastic order in Taizé, France, made up of 100+ brothers from Catholic and Protestant traditions. The songs are short phrases (usually lines from/inspired by Scripture) that we repeat over and over for contemplation/meditation. 

Listen to the setlist on Spotify or YouTube:

Some songs are in Latin, so check out this helpful Latin pronunciation guide. It’s very similar to English, but here are some tips to note:

ae = eh (for example, prae => preh)
ti (when followed by a vowel) = tsee (for example, benedictio => ben-eh-dic-tsee-oh)
ui = ooh-ee
qu = (say it like it's English like "quote", not like Spanish like "quesadilla")

Taizé tends to be a favorite part of CACCLC for many — we hope you enjoy it!

A letter from Fr. Tim to campers

Dear Campers,

I am very excited to be your camp spiritual director and to meet each of you. I am praying for you already and know that you are in for a weekend of life-changing grace. I am certain that God loves your community, and he will reveal his love for you in your being together with others like you. I am an eight-year old priest, and one of my joys has been helping the Chinese Catholic Community at St. Clare’s in Santa Clara. Your community is full of joy and hope, despite many of the struggles you endure every day. You worship from the heart. Priesthood is sharing is Jesus’ mission of teaching, prayer, healing and self-sacrifice. Every year I continue learning, and sharing, and trying my best to show the ones I meet that they are God’s beloved, that they are cherished and that their future is full of hope. I hope and pray that our time together will bring you healing and hope. Please feel free to send me your thoughts on what you are looking forward to most about this camp, and what you hope this camp will do for you.

I am a priest with the Legionaries of Christ in Cupertino, CA. My focus since 2010 has been education of children, teachers and families at Canyon Heights Academy in Campbell. I recently completed a M.A in educational leadership at the University of Notre Dame. People tell me that I am very caring and I think this is probably true. For fun, I like big groups of people having fun. I love the outdoors, following sports, playing baseball, living in California, talking about issues, or silly things. My biggest joys have been hearing confessions, especially at camps like yours.

In Christ, Fr. Tim

Introducing Fr. Timothy Lyons, LC

ExCo 2019 is excited to announce our spiritual director for this year’s camp! Fr. Timothy Lyons, LC is a priest from the Legionaries of Christ community in Cupertino, CA. He occasionally celebrates Mass at the San Jose Chinese Catholic Mission at St. Clare’s in Santa Clara, CA, where many CACCLC campers are parishioners. If you came to CACCLC 2018, you may have heard Kristen mention Fr. Timothy during the spiritual direction panel! Fr. Timothy has a gift for preaching and teaching the Gospel. His preaching is simple, but profound, touching both the intellect and heart. He inspires us to holiness and emanates the beauty of knowing the risen Christ. 

Bio: Fr. Timothy entered the seminary in 1997 and first lived in San Jose from 2002-05, serving as a part-time intern at Canyon Heights Academy. In 2005, he resumed his studies, receiving a B.A. in Theology and a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Regina Apostolorum University in Rome, Italy. He returned to the United States and worked for two years in youth ministry in Sacramento and Phoenix. Fr. Timothy was ordained a priest in Rome on Christmas Eve, 2010 by Cardinal Velasio de Paolis. He served as Canyon Heights Academy chaplain from 2011-2015, and as director of Our Lady of Santa Clara Retreat Center in Cupertino from 2015-2018. He is currently the chaplain of Canyon Heights Academy.

Introducing our 2019 theme

We are so excited to announce our 2019 theme is LIVING HOPE — 主賜希望於人間、 讓我們活出望德！

Design by Genesia Ting

We often talk about Faith and Love, but we seldom mention the third theological virtue: Hope.  In the midst of each of our individual struggles, we seek out Hope for reassurance through life’s challenges.  The phrase “Living Hope” has a 2-part meaning; Christ calls us to nurture our lives with Hope, becoming beacons of light so that Hope can spread and be alive within our communities.

What exactly, then, is this Christian Hope?  How do we own it enough to be able to gift it to those around us?

We'll answer these questions together this coming Labor Day Weekend (8/30-9/02). Registration starts on JUNE 16TH, so mark your calendars — we hope to see you at camp!

God bless,
Lucia & Albert
Your CACCLC 2019 Co-Overalls