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Rosary Before Mass

St. Colman’s Meal for the Poor

Mass at Newman Cancelled Thanksgiving Weekend

March for Life

CWRU Early Music Singers Concert

Live in Love

Patristic Quote of the Week

Prayer Requests

Saint of the Day for 11/21/03

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Hello Newman,

 

Tomorrow, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of Mary.  More on that and a cool prayer are below, but first we want to let you know what’s happening at Newman:

 

·         We will be continuing to pray the Rosary each week before Mass at Newman.  This weekend, we will be praying the 2nd Joyful Mystery which is The Visitation.  Please join us a few minutes early to pray.

·         If you’d like to help out with serving Thanksgiving dinner to the poor at St. Colman’s, a group will be meeting at 12:45pm at Hallinan this Saturday, November 22nd to catch the RTA, help serve the meal at 3, and return to campus around 6pm.  Also, on the evening before, food will be prepared in Clarke Tower at 7:30pm for the meal.  If you’re interested in going or helping out, please email Phil at ptk3@cwru.edu

·         There will be no Mass at Newman on November 30th due to Thanksgiving Break.  If you are on campus that Sunday, Holy Rosary in Little Italy has Mass at 8:30am, 11am, and 8:00pm.

·         CWRU Right to Life, our campus’ pro-life group, is getting together a list of people who are interested in attending the March for Life.  The march is held in Washington D.C. on January 22nd which is the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion in the United States.  A bus leaves from John Carroll on Wednesday evening, the 21st, and returns Thursday evening after the march.  If you are interested in going, please email Phil at ptk3@cwru.edu.

·         You are invited to the Fall Concert of the CWRU Early Music Singers this Friday, the 21st, at 7:30 PM in Harkness Chapel.  The 70-minute program will consist of a variety of sacred choral music composed in England during the late Renaissance (Jacobean period) with biblical texts.  EMS will be joined by instrumentalists on some selections, and will also perform several pieces which are unique to the CWRU music library and haven't been performed in several hundred years!

·         This is the last call for those who are interested in the new chastity group that is forming on campus called Live in Love.  If you would like to get more information, are a prospective leader or member, or just want to be on the mailing list, please contact Chris Kolibaba at csk10@cwru.edu.

·         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

 

Cyprian of Carthage: “They alone have remained outside [the Church] who, were they within, would have to be ejected. . . .  There [in John 6:68–69] speaks Peter, upon whom the Church would be built, teaching in the name of the Church and showing that even if a stubborn and proud multitude withdraws because it does not wish to obey, yet the Church does not withdraw from Christ.  The people joined to the priest, and the flock clinging to their shepherd in the Church.  You ought to know, then, that the bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishops; and if someone is not with the bishop, he is not in the Church.  They vainly flatter themselves who creep up, not having peace with the priest of God, believing that they are secretly in communion with certain individuals.  For the Church, which is one and Catholic, is not split or divided, but is indeed united and joined by the cement of priests who adhere to one another” (Letters 66[67]:8 [A.D. 253]).

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Prayer Requests

 

Please pray for

·         Those experience financial difficulties, especially for the unemployed

·         All catechumens in the RCIA program

·         Catholic ministries around the world

·         In thanksgiving for all priests and religious

·         The unity of all Christians

·         Families and the strengthening of all relationships in them

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

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Saint of the Day for 11/19/03 (from AmericanCatholic.org)

 

The Feast of the Presentation of Mary

Mary's presentation was celebrated in Jerusalem in the sixth century. A church was built there in honor of this mystery. The Eastern Church was more interested in the feast, but it does appear in the West in the 11th century. Although the feast at times disappeared from the calendar, in the 16th century it became a feast of the universal Church.

As with Mary's birth, we read of Mary's presentation in the temple only in apocryphal literature. In what is recognized as an unhistorical account, the Protoevangelium of James tells us that Anna and Joachim offered Mary to God in the Temple when she was three years old. This was to carry out a promise made to God when Anna was still childless.

Though unhistorical, Mary's presentation has an important theological purpose. It continues the impact of the feasts of the Immaculate Conception and of the birth of Mary. It emphasizes that the holiness conferred on Mary from the beginning of her life on earth continued through her early childhood and beyond.

Please pray:

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope.  To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve, to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears. Turn, then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us; and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb Jesus; O clement, O loving, O sweet virgin Mary.

Pray for us, O holy Mother of God.

That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

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Thanks for reading, have a great weekend!

 

In Him,

Cheryl

 

“Love is the movement, effusion, and advancement of the heart toward the good.”

- St. Francis de Sales