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Dinner at Hallinan and Mass at Holy Rosary

Regression

Student Mass on 4/28

IRC Barbeque

Summer Sign-Up Sheet

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Hey Newman,

 

This will most likely be our last newsletter of the year.  It’s been a pleasure to keep you updated on what’s going on a Newman via the newsletters.  I hope you have found them useful and educational!

 

Here’s what’s happening for the rest of the semester:

 

·         Our last dinner of the semester is today at 6:30pm at Hallinan.  We will be serving taco salad and dessert.  To all of you graduating students, please be sure to stop by!   After dinner we will walk to Holy Rosary for Mass at 8pm.  Come sit with us at Mass even if you don’t come to dinner!

·         Regression is coming up tomorrow (Monday, April 26th) at 7pm.  This will be a great time to relax and have fun before finals.  We’ll have Nintendo, board games, grilled cheese, juice drinks, and other activities to wrap up the semester.  If you have any favorite games or activities from childhood, please bring them along!

·         Holy Rosary will be having a student Mass on Wednesday, April 28th at 12:15pm.  We will be praying for strength and grace for our efforts during final exams.

·         The Inter-Religious Council End of Year Barbeque has been rescheduled for Wednesday, April 28th from 11:30am to 1:30pm.  They’ll be cooking food at the picnic tables on north side near Clarke Hall and the Mistletoe tennis courts.  Take a break from studying to come get some food and chat with our IRC friends!

·         There is a summer sign up sheet for Newmanites who will be sticking around the Cleveland area this summer.  If you’d like to be included, please talk to Kirsten to sign up.  Nothing has been planned yet, but some ideas include a summer LIFT group or social events.

·         And, as always:

• Daily Mass, 12:15pm, Weekdays at Holy Rosary
• Confession, 4-5pm, Saturdays at Holy Rosary
• Nightly Rosary, 9:45pm Mondays and Thursdays on Northside, 9:30pm all other days on Southside (contact Phil for exact locations)
• Professor Prayer Cards are available at Hallinan, on the bench next to the door, along with an info sheet and suggested prayer
• Check out our website at http://home.cwru.edu/ncsa
• Submit a Prayer Request at http://home.cwru.edu/ncsa/request.html
• E-mail us at catholic@cwru.edu

 

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Patristic Quote of the Week

 

St. Basil the Great: “Question: What is the fear with which the Body and Blood of Christ are to be received by us?  A kind of certainty, or a kind of feeling?  Answer: The Apostle teaches us this fear when he says, “Anyone who eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks judgement on himself [1 Cor. 11:29].”  Certainty is affected by faith in the words of the Lord, why He says, “This is My Body, which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me [Luke 22:19].””  (Rules Briefly Treated [post A.D. 370]).

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Prayer Requests

 

Please pray for

·         All students, for grace and strength as the conclude the semester

·         In thanksgiving for all faculty and staff and the work that they do for us

·         An end to abortion and its damages on women, men, and children

·         Those experiencing financial difficulties or job loss

·         The hungry, homeless, forgotten, and lonely, for peace and strength

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

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Saint of the Day (for 4/25/04) from AmericanCatholic.org

 

St. Mark

 

Most of what we know about Mark comes directly from the New Testament. He is usually identified with the Mark of Acts 12:12. (When Peter escaped from prison, he went to the home of Mark's mother.)

 

Paul and Barnabas took him along on the first missionary journey, but for some reason Mark returned alone to Jerusalem. It is evident, from Paul's refusal to let Mark accompany him on the second journey despite Barnabas's insistence, that Mark had displeased Paul. Later, Paul asks Mark to visit him in prison so we may assume the trouble did not last long.

 

The oldest and the shortest of the four Gospels, the Gospel of Mark emphasizes Jesus' rejection by humanity while being God's triumphant envoy. Probably written for Gentile converts in Rome—after the death of Peter and Paul sometime between A.D. 60 and 70—Mark's Gospel is the gradual manifestation of a "scandal": a crucified Messiah.

 

Evidently a friend of Mark (Peter called him "my son"), Peter is only one of the Gospel sources, others being the Church in Jerusalem (Jewish roots) and the Church at Antioch (largely Gentile).

 

Like one other Gospel writer, Luke, Mark was not one of the 12 apostles. We cannot be certain whether he knew Jesus personally. Some scholars feel that the evangelist is speaking of himself when describing the arrest of Jesus in Gethsemane: "Now a young man followed him wearing nothing but a linen cloth about his body. They seized him, but he left the cloth behind and ran off naked" (Mark 14:51-52).

 

Others hold Mark to be the first bishop of Alexandria, Egypt. Venice, famous for the Piazza San Marco, claims Mark as its patron saint; the large basilica there is believed to contain his remains.

 

A winged lion is Mark's symbol. The lion derives from Mark's description of John the Baptist as a "voice of one crying out in the desert" (Mark 1:3), which artists compared to a roaring lion. The wings come from the application of Ezekiel's vision of four winged creatures (Ezekiel, chapter one) to the evangelists

 

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Thanks for reading!  I hope you have a wonderful, fun, and relaxing summer!

 

In Him,

Cheryl

 

“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.”

- Mother Teresa