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Taize

Meal for the Poor at St. Colman’s

Mass Questions

Music Recital at Church of the Covenant

Live in Love

Patristic Quote of the Week

Prayer Requests

Saint of the Day for 11/13/03

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Greetings Newman-ers,

 

Today’s newsletter is brought to you by St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first U.S. citizen to be canonized.  Her story is below, but first:

 

·         Taize will be a week from today, Thursday, November 20th at 9pm at Hallinan.  Taize is a time for prayer that includes chanting, scripture readings, intercessions, silence, and candlelight.  Please contact Jenny (jle6@cwru.edu) if you have any questions.

·         We will be teaming up with the parishioners of Holy Rosary to serve Thanksgiving to the poor at St. Colman’s on Saturday, November 23rd.  People are also needed to help prepare food the night before.  If you are interested in helping out, please contact Phil (ptk3@cwru.edu).

·         Have questions about the Mass and why we do what we do?  Fill out a card with your question on it and drop it off in the basket on the bench next to the door at Hallinan.  Fr. Kropac will be answering some of your questions in the weeks to come.

·         You are invited to a music recital this Saturday, November 15th at 1pm which is being held at the Church of the Covenant (between Hallinan and Thwing).  The recital will include music of many different styles and nationalities, including settings of Gregorian and Gospel Hymns.  Please contact Jonathan (mjonathanryan@juno.com) if you would like more information.

·         Live in Love, the chastity group that is getting started on campus is still looking for prospective members and leaders.  Please contact Chris Kolibaba (csk10@cwru.edu) if you are interested or to get more information.

·         And, as always:

    • Sunday Mass, 6pm, Hallinan Center
    • Daily Mass, 12:15pm, Weekdays at Holy Rosary
    • Confession, 4-5pm, Saturdays at Holy Rosary
    • Nightly Rosary, 9:45pm Mondays on Northside, 9:30pm all other days on Southside
    • Spend some time with the Blessed Sacrament, 8am-5pm (ish) M-F, Hallinan.
    • 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

 

Irenaeus of Lyons: “It is incumbent to obey the presbyters who are in the Church—those who, as I have shown, possess the succession from the apostles; those who, together with the succession of the episcopate, have received the infallible charism of truth, according to the good pleasure of the Father. But [it is also incumbent] to hold in suspicion others who depart from the primitive succession, and assemble themselves together in any place whatsoever, either as heretics of perverse minds, or as schismatics puffed up and self-pleasing, or again as hypocrites, acting thus for the sake of lucre and vainglory.  For all these have fallen from the truth” (Against Heresies 4:26:2 [A.D. 189]).

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Prayer Requests

 

Please pray for

·         An increase in respect for life and an end to all things that threaten it,

·         All students, especially those who are feeling overwhelmed,

·         The poor, lonely, abused, and forgotten,

·         Broken marriages and families, for healing,

·         Those in seminary or considering a vocation, especially those in the Diocese of Cleveland,

·         All Christians and an end to things that divide Christ’s body, the church,

·         In thanksgiving for the ways we are blessed and humbled every day,

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

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Saint of the Day for 11/13/03 (from AmericanCatholic.org)

 

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

(1850-1917)

Frances Xavier Cabrini’s deep trust in the loving care of her God gave her the strength to be a valiant woman doing the work of Christ.

Refused admission to the religious order which had educated her to be a teacher, she began charitable work at the House of Providence Orphanage in Cadogno, Italy. In September 1877, she made her vows there and took the religious habit.

Since her early childhood in Italy, Frances had wanted to be a missionary in China but, at the urging of Pope Leo XIII, Frances went west instead of east. She traveled with six sisters to New York City to work with the thousands of Italian immigrants living there.  She found disappointment and difficulties with every step. When she arrived in New York City, the house intended to be her first orphanage in the United States was not available. The archbishop advised her to return to Italy. But Frances, truly a valiant woman, departed from the archbishop's residence all the more determined to establish that orphanage. And she succeeded.

In 35 years Frances Xavier Cabrini founded 67 institutions dedicated to caring for the poor, the abandoned, the uneducated and the sick. Seeing great need among Italian immigrants who were losing their faith, she organized schools and adult education classes. She died of malaria in her own Columbus Hospital in Chicago.

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Thanks for reading, have a great weekend!

 

In Him,

Cheryl

 

"When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place."

- C. S. Lewis