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Rosary and Dinner

Professor Prayer Cards

Taize and Good Friday service with UPCaM

Musical Stations of the Cross

Reconciliation Opportunities

Holy Rosary Holy Week Events

Patristic Quote of the Week

Prayer Requests

Saint of the Day

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Hey Newman,

 

Do you know the word holy means ‘set apart’?  Holy Week starts tomorrow – a time ‘set apart’ for us to grow in our faith and celebrate Christ’s Death and Resurrection.  Read on for more information about what will be happening and Newman and Holy Rosary:

 

·         Praying the Rosary before Mass will continue this weekend with the 4th Sorrowful Mystery, The Carrying of the Cross.  For dinner after Mass we will be having spaghetti with fruits, veggies, and bread.  You are welcome to come even if you will not be attending Newman Mass this weekend.

·         Our Professor Prayer Cards are up to the letter H. Hooray to all those who have been praying!  Please pick up some cards at Hallinan and an info sheet too, for more info and a suggested prayer.

·         There will be a Taize service on Holy Thursday, April 8th and there will also be a Good Friday service on April 9th, both in conjunction with UPCaM.  Both events will be held at the Church of the Covenant at 12:30pm and they’ll both be over in time for your 1:30 class so please come join us!

·         Also on Good Friday at 8:00pm at Church of the Covenant, the fourteen Stations of the Cross will be presented and meditated upon through poetry and music written by two 20th-century French Catholics.  Newman student leader Jonathan Ryan and Todd Wilson, Director of Music at Church of the Covenant and Professor of Organ at CIM, will play a dramatic and moving work for organ by Marcel Dupré in alternation with poignant poetry by Paul Claudel.

·         Lent is a great time to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation, allowing you to leave behind those things that are separating you from God.  Holy Rosary has lots of opportunities coming up this week, including:

·         Finally, don’t forget!  We have to spring forward this weekend by setting our clocks ahead an hour on Sunday.  Yeah, I wasn’t happy when I heard that either. :o)

·         And, as always:

 

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Patristic Quote of the Week

 

Irenaeus: “As I said before, the Church, having received this preaching and this faith, although she is disseminated throughout the whole world, yet guarded it, as if she occupied but one house.  She likewise believes these things just as if she had but one soul and one and the same heart; and harmoniously she proclaims them and teaches them and hands them down, as if she possessed but one mouth.  For, while the languages of the world are diverse, nevertheless, the authority of the Tradition is one and the same. (Adversus Haereses, 1, 10, 2 [A.D. 180])

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Prayer Requests

 

Please pray for

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

·         The church, that we may all grow in love in faith especially during this holy time

·         All mothers and fathers, in thanksgiving for all that they do

·         An increase in vocations and blessings for those who are discerning what to do in their lives

·         The sick and the dying, for comfort for them and their families

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

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Saint of the Day for 4/3 (from AmericanCatholic.org)

St. Isidore of Seville (560?-636)

 

The 76 years of Isidore's life were a time of conflict and growth for the Church in Spain. The Visigoths had invaded the land a century and a half earlier and shortly before Isidore's birth they set up their own capital. They were Arians—Christians who said Christ was not God. Thus Spain was split in two: One people (Catholic Romans) struggled with another (Arian Goths).

 

Isidore reunited Spain, making it a center of culture and learning, a teacher and guide for other European countries whose culture was also threatened by barbarian invaders.

 

Born in Cartagena of a family that included three other saints, he was educated (severely) by his elder brother, whom he succeeded as bishop of Seville.

 

An amazingly learned man, he was sometimes called "The Schoolmaster of the Middle Ages" because the encyclopedia he wrote was used as a textbook for nine centuries. He required seminaries to be built in every diocese, wrote a Rule for religious orders and founded schools that taught every branch of learning. Isidore wrote numerous books, including a dictionary, an encyclopedia, a history of Goths and a history of the world—beginning with creation! He completed the Mozarabic liturgy, which is still in use in Toledo, Spain. For all these reasons Isidore (as well as several other saints) has been suggested as patron of the Internet.

 

He continued his austerities even as he approached 80. During the last six months of his life, he increased his charities so much that his house was crowded from morning till night with the poor of the countryside.

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Have a great (holy) week!  Thanks for reading.

 

In Him,

Cheryl

 

“You must be holy in the way that God asks you to be holy. God wills that you sanctify the world and your everyday life.”

- St. Vincent Pallotti