| October 2009 Newsletter |
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In This Issue:
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| Upcoming Events |
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| President's Message |
| 10/1/2009 |
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| Chaplain's Corner |
| Marriage as a Vocation |
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| V.P. Communications |
| News of Events Past and Present |
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| V.P. Programs |
| Programs for Oct, Nov and Dec 2009 |
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| V.P. Membership |
| Membership News |
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| Dates To Remember |
| Birthdays and Ordinations |
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| Visit Our Club Online |
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| Upcoming Events |
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11/11/2009 - 6:00 PM at St. Gabriel Church
Monthly Meeting of Serra Club North |
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| Our November meeting is a potluck and mass at St. Gabriel's Church. Potluck starts at 6:00 pm., Our program is at 7:00, and mass is at 8:00. Speaker is Beth Tilling, District Governor. |
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11/22/2009 - 6:00 PM at St. Thomas More
Chili Supper Fundraiser |
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| The Kansas City Serra Club (downtown club) is sponsoring a chili supper on November 22, 6:00 pm, at St. Thomas More church. This is a fundraiser to support the retreat for seminarians at Lake of the Ozarks next summer. The lake retreat has been sponsored by the Kansas City club for many years. Please mark your calendar to attend this worthy cause. Please call or email Clarissa Grill or Sandy Sutton with your reservations. |
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12/8/2009 - 8:00 AM at Your Church
Feast of Immaculate Conception |
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| Please attend Mass on this special day. |
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12/21/2009 - 6:00 PM at St. Thomas More
Bishop's Annual Christmas Mass and Dinner With Sem |
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| Please mark your calendar to attend the Bishop's annual Christmas mass and dinner with the Seminarians on December 21 at St. Thomas More church. This dinner will replace our usual monthly dinner/meeting at Cascones. Mass will begin at 5:30, with dinner and reception following. |
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| President's Message |
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10/1/2009
by Clarissa Grill
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 The Serra International Convention held in August in Omaha was attended by John Lusero, Ken and Joyce Bischof, Sandy Sutton, and me along with 524 other Serra Club members from 12 different countries. Bishop Robert Finn, Vicar General Monsignor Robert Murphy, Fr. Matt Rotert and Fr. Joseph Cisetti were among the clergy attending from the Kansas City –St Joseph Diocese. New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan was the Keynote Speaker. I had always heard of what a dynamic speaker Archbishop Dolan is and no words could ever be any truer. He is an articulate, humorous and very spiritual man as well as a very good friend of Bishop Finn. Some of us had to privilege to personally be introduced to him by Bishop Finn as they ate breakfast together.
Archbishop Dolan spoke on how vocations can be promoted by the laity in four distinct ways. You must wait until our November Mass and Potluck meeting to find out what those ways are. Thanks to John Lusero’s generosity, DVDs of Archbishop Dolan’s presentation along with the other guest speakers, were purchased by him for our club’s use. Beth Tilling, our District Governor, will be visiting our club at our November 11th meeting and is planning to show Archbishop Dolan’s talk. You definitely need to try and attend this meeting and hear him. We also will be celebrating our 5th anniversary that night.
October will be a very busy month filled with numerous Serran events. Besides our board and membership meetings, there is Sister Doris’s Franciscan Prayer Walk celebrating Blessed Junipero Serra’s Missions, and our annual Joint Serra Club Mass and Meeting with Bishop Finn. Please mark you calendars and plan to attend as many as possible. More specific information regarding time, place, etc of these events was sent earlier this month by e-mail.
The Annual Joint Club Mass and Meeting with Bishop Robert Finn will be held on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at Visitation Church, 5141 Main Street, Kansas City, MO.
Bishop Finn will offer Mass at 12:00 noon and our luncheon will follow immediately in the parish hall on the lower level.
The charge per person of $12.00 will cover the cost of lunch, rental of the parish hall and stipends for the musicians at mass. In order to have the proper number of meals prepared, please let me know by October 2, if you will be attending.
God Bless and thanks for everything you do for the Church thru Serra. |
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Marriage as a Vocation
by Fr. Jim Schrader
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 "... a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate. (Mark:l0). That's the gospel you chose for your nuptial Mass. The Word of God here announces your vocation ... "that the two may be one." God our Father calls you to the vocation of married life. You two publicly proclaimed your vocation. Yes, the two of you are to be one in heart, mind and body. God and His Church calls you to be a sacrament ... a sign of how much the Lord Jesus loves His Church. We can see it in husband and wife. Sacraments (like the Sacrament of Matrimony) are signs, and signs to be effective must be perceptible to the senses. God the Father, Jesus Risen, and the Holy Spirit want to SEE your sacrament. We the Church want to see you in love. An abiding, persevering, unconditional love. After your wedding Mass, your Sacrament continues. Your wedding ceremony is for a day, but your marriage is for a lifetime. Your ongoing Sacrament grows as communication deepens. And that communication to be real must include the sharing of negative feelings, like anger, resentment, loneliness. Devoted couples share even those feelings, not for the sake of winning, but for the sake of growing in love and relationship. But true love demands a willingness to listen and to change. Have you ever heard a couple say to each other: "I promise to love, honor and obey you?
OBEY! You've got to be kidding!!! But obey comes from the Latin ob audire, which means to listen. To listen is the greatest honor we can give to anyone. To listen to such an extent that I can repeat what was said, and also pick up the emotions expressed. And then, too, every relationship cycles through periods of romance, disillusionment, and joy. Those are major feelings, but love is not a feeling, but rather a decision. And that decision remains constant in the ups and downs of married life.
Married couples vocation is "that the two of you may be one." Those of us living in the Sacrament of Matrimony will surely be tempted to lead the world's plan for marriage, that is, doing our own individual thing. Or married couples may choose God's plan for marriage .... unity, always seeking unity in love. The world's plan for marriage leads to loneliness, estrangement, being married singles. God's plan for marriage leads to unity, fufillment and genuine joy. God bless and persevere our Matrimonied couples!!! |
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News of Events Past and Present
by Sandra Sutton
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On Sunday, September 6, at St. Elizabeth Parish, our Diocese held its annual celebration of the jubilees of religious profession. There were 20 Sisters honored. Clarissa Grill, John Lusero and Sandy Sutton from our club were in attendance. Sr. Connie Boulch, Diocesan Director for Consecrated Life, coordinated the event. See picture attached our the jubilarians and Bishop Finn.
Thanks to John Lusero, Clarissa Grill, Steve Van Keirsbilck, Erwin Dvorak and Sandy Sutton, who attend the Priest and Seminarian Appreciation Golf and BBQ Dinner on September 21. The rain forced the cancellation of part of the morning session and all of the afternoon session of the golf tournament. But the Texas Hold’em and Gin Rummy games had a bigger turnout. Bishops, our Abbot, Priests, Seminarians and Serrans and other attendees stayed for the BBQ Dinner, and the prizes and clothing given away. We look forward to having more of our club members participating next year.
The Annual Joint Club Mass and Meeting with Bishop Robert Finn will be held on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at Visitation Church, 5141 Main Street, Kansas City, MO. Bishop Finn will offer Mass at 12:00 noon, and our luncheon will follow immediately in the parish hall on the lower level. The charge per person of $12.00 will cover the cost of lunch, rental of the parish hall and stipends for the musicians at mass. In order to have the proper number of meals prepared, please let me know by October 2, if you will be attending. |
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Programs for Oct, Nov and Dec 2009
by Joyce Bischof
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 On September 9th Father Charles Rowe gave us a beautiful talk on the beauty of human life. He received many compliments afterward.
This month, Wednesday, Oct. 14, at Cascone's, we will have Scott McKeller from the Bishop Helmsing Institute. He will talk on apologetics.
In November we will celebrate our 5th Anniversary as a club with a mass and potluck at St. Gabriel's. We cannot get in the church until 8:00 pm., so we will eat at 6:00, the program will begin at 7:00 or shortly thereafter, and we will have Mass at 8:00 with Fr. Jim celebrating. Our District Governor, Beth Tilling will do a presentation on the conference recently held in Omaha, Nebraska. We will listen to a taped message given by Archibishop Dolan of New York City. The Board will bring a meat dish, and members are asked to bring a salad, vegetable or dessert.
On October 10-11th we will sell our rosary CD's at St. Therese. Stan Vajdic and Lloyd Bermond sold all the CD's they had at Annunciation Church in Kearney so we hope to give them some competition. Way to go Stan and Lloyd.
Our December meeting will be a joint meeting with the other Serra Clubs on December 21. It is the annual Christmas mass and lunch with Bishop Finn. Bishop Finn wanted to change the date this year from the day after Christmas to Dec. 21. Location TBA.
God bless.
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Membership News
by John Lusero
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 Please welcome our new members, Charles and Ruth Ann Bruce and make them feel welcome. Also, if any of you would like me to visit your parish for a Serra Club/31 Club talk, please arrange it with your pastor and check with me for a date. Invite someone to our next meeting as our guest and show them the good work we do for the church.
Godspeed,
John Lusero,
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Birthdays and Ordinations
by Editor
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Pope Benedict's Prayer Intentions for October:
General:
That Sunday may be lived as the day on which Christians gather to celebrate the risen Lord, participating in the Eucharist.
Mission:
That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their own missionary responsibility and consider it the highest service they can offer humanity.
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For those who are ill, or are preparing for surgery, or are recovering from illness: Ken Karr, Clarissa's mother, Pat Nease-surgery (friend of Sandy Sutton).
Special Intentions:
Pope Benedict XVI; Bishop Robert W. Finn; Bishop Emeritus Raymond J. Boland, all priests, deacons, men and women religious, for novices and postulants.
For all seminarians at Conception, Kendrick, Holy Apostles, St. Gregory the Great, and in Rome as they continue their studies and discernment.
For the successful efforts to charter a new Serra Club in Diocese of Jefferson City, MO.
For Chaplain Lt. Joseph Reardon and all priests serving as Military Chaplains and all who serve in the US Military service at home or abroad.
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PRIEST BIRTHDAYS
17 Oct Fr. Shawn Ratigan, St. Pat's
28 Oct Fr. Ken Riley, St. Charles
SEMINARIAN BIRTHDAYS
03 Nov Joshua Barlett
26 Nov Matthew Eshnaur
05 Dec Timothy Leete
13 Dec Adam Haake
15 Dec Nicholas Pinkston
ORDINATIONS
Rev. Msgr. Robert A. Murphy 10-26-1974
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