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Rosary and Dinner

Leadership Discernment

Dating for Dummies

Lenten Twilight Retreat

Tetelestai

Cannolis and Morals

Patristic Quote of the Week

Prayer Requests

Saint of the Day

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Hello all,

 

Here’s what we have coming up at Newman:

 

·         We will be praying the 3rd Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary, The Crowning with Thorns before Mass this weekend.  For dinner afterwards we will be having sub sandwiches with all the fixings and brownies for dessert.

·         If you are interested in being a leader at Newman next year, please let Kirsten know no later than March 31st.  She will give you some discernment information to help you make a final decision.

·         Next Thursday, April 1st, the Inter-Religious Council is having an informational program called Dating for Dummies.  Each of the religious groups including Newman, UPCaM, and MSA, will be speaking about their perspective on relationships and dating.  The program will be held in Wade lounge at 7pm, and ice cream will be served!

·         Our annual Lenten Twilight Retreat is coming up on Friday, April 2nd at Hallinan from 6-9pm.  Please come for dinner and lots of personal reflection as we near the end of Lent, and begin the season of Easter.

·         On Saturday, April 3rd, there will be a group from Newman going to see a production of Tetelestai at St. Matthias in Parma.  Tetelestai is a musical performed by non-professional actors from the Cleveland area in which they portray the Passion of Christ.  If you’d like to go or get more info, please contact Melissa Olenik at mao9@cwru.edu.  Click here to visit their website.

·         Also on Saturday (4/3) at 7:30pm, we’ll be having a movie/discussion night at Hallinan called Cannolis and Morals.  We’ll be watching the movie The Godfather, eating cannolis, and having a discussion afterwards about morals in the context of the movie.

·         And, as always:

 

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Patristic Quote of the Week

 

Cyprian of Carthage: “For who is more a priest of the most high God than our Lord Jesus Christ, who offered a sacrifice to God the Father, and offered that very same thing which Melchizedek had offered, that is, bread and wine, to wit, His body and blood? And with respect to Abraham, that blessing going before belonged to our people. For if Abraham believed in God, and it was accounted unto him for righteousness, assuredly whosoever believes in God and lives in faith is found righteous, and already is blessed in faithful Abraham, and is set forth as justified; as the blessed Apostle Paul proves, when he says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Ye know, then, that they which are of faith, these are the children of Abraham.” (Epistle LXII: Caecilius, On The Sacrament Of The Cup Of The Lord, Chapter 4 [A.D. 250]).

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Prayer Requests

 

Please pray for

·         Our RCIA students at Newman, as they prepare to enter the church on Holy Saturday

·         Those experiencing financial difficulties and those seeking employment

·         Those experiencing difficulties in relationships with loved ones, for healing and forgiveness

·         Those who are ill or close to death, for comfort for them and their families

·         All unborn children and for an increase in respect for life from conception to natural death

·         And for peace in the world and in our own hearts.

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Saint of the Day (from AmericanCatholic.org)

St. Joseph

The Bible pays Joseph the highest compliment: he was a “just” man. The quality meant a lot more than faithfulness in paying debts.

 

When the Bible speaks of God “justifying” someone, it means that God, the all-holy or “righteous” One, so transforms a person that the individual shares somehow in God’s own holiness, and hence it is really “right” for God to love him or her. In other words, God is not playing games, acting as if we were lovable when we are not.

 

By saying Joseph was “just,” the Bible means that he was one who was completely open to all that God wanted to do for him. He became holy by opening himself totally to God.

 

The rest we can easily surmise. Think of the kind of love with which he wooed and won Mary, and the depth of the love they shared during their marriage.

 

It is no contradiction of Joseph’s manly holiness that he decided to divorce Mary when she was found to be with child. The important words of the Bible are that he planned to do this “quietly” because he was “a righteous man, yet unwilling to expose her to shame” (Matthew 1:19).

 

The just man was simply, joyfully, wholeheartedly obedient to God—in marrying Mary, in naming Jesus, in shepherding the precious pair to Egypt, in bringing them to Nazareth, in the undetermined number of years of quiet faith and courage.

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Hope you are doing well!  Thanks for reading.

 

In Him,

Cheryl

 

"If we love God and are faithful to Him, we shall be at peace, and this peace will endure."

-St. Madeline Sophie Barat