| 12/01/2009 |
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In This Issue:
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| Upcoming Events |
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| President's Message |
| Christmas Message |
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| Chaplain's Corner |
| Merry Christmas |
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| V.P. Programs |
| January 13, 2010 Membership Meeting |
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| V.P. Membership |
| Membership News |
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| Guest Articles |
| Pope Benedict's Dec 2009 Intentions |
| Project Andrew |
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| Dates To Remember |
| Prayer Intentions for December 2009 |
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| Priest Anniversaries This Month |
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| Visit Our Club Online |
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| Upcoming Events |
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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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1/10/2010 - 8:00 AM at Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph
National Vocation Awareness Week |
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| National Vocation Awareness Week is January 10 to January 16, 2010. More information will be provided later. |
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| President's Message |
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Christmas Message
by Clarissa Grill
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 Just a short note this month to wish all of you a very blessed Christmas and New Year. As we approach the birth of Christ, I pray that our hearts and homes will be filled with love and peace. Below are some wonderful spiritual 2010 resolutions I came across during some Advent reading that I want to share with you.
Live Simply,
Love Generously,
Serve Faithfully,
Speak Truthfully,
Pray Daily,
Leave everything else to GOD.
May 2010 provide numerous opportunities for all of us to work together to accomplish our Serra mission. Let’s start thinking and praying about news ways to serve our club in 2010. Consider serving on the board or on a new committee, chairing a special event, assisting the Vocation Office on one of their projects.
I want to end by thanking you for everything you’ve done and continue to do for our church through Serra. God Bless. |
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| Chaplain's Corner |
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Merry Christmas
by Fr. Jim
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 "Tis the season to be ....."
Thirty years ago my friend, Father Louie Gelhaus, and I drove to the west coast and camped out each night. Camping in Yellowstone National Park is memorable. As we drove around the park in the early morning, I entered a small parking lot, which indicated a waterfall was near. We walked the path at the foot of some mountain, and eventually saw the most striking and majestic water I ever viewed. There was a little boy there with his father. The boy's mouth was open in wonder and awe as he looked up at the waterfall. His dad was evidently in a hurry and I heard him say: "Come on, son, we gotta get going." That did not register with the boy at all. And finally the father grabs the boy's hand and leads him away...away from his revere, away from his delightful sense of wonder and awe. I felt sorry for the boy.
"The root of religion" says RabbiHerschel, "is wonder and amazement." From wonder and amazement flowers prayer and adoration of God. Tis the season to be full of wonder and awe. Advent/Christmas is the season to ponder in wonder and awe the copious love God has for us in becoming one of us. As St Paul says: He (Jesus) emptied Himself of His Godhead and became one of us. God became human. And He is still human...for us people and for our salvation.
What do I have to let go of to enter into a delightful period of wonder and awe? Do we become so wrapped up in ourselves and our doings that we fail to apppreciate in wonder and awe the Reason for the Season...God becoming one of us. Tis the season to be filled with wonder and awe at the Incarnate mystery of our God.
Happy Holy Days of Christmas.
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| V.P. Programs |
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January 13, 2010 Membership Meeting
by Joyce Bischof
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 Wed, January 13, 2010 Membership Meeting--Cascone's (Feast Day of St. Hilary).
6:30 to 6:45 social
6:45 dinner
7:15 speaker (Members are not required to attend dinner but may attend a little later, say at 7:00 or so, and just attend the speaker and business part of the meeting.
We hope you will bring a guest to our January meeting. Our Chaplian, r. Jim, will talk on "Becoming Holy in 2010."
Our February meeting will be also be held at Cascones, Feb. 10, and we will hold our orientation for three new members, Charles and Ruth Ann Bruces, and Priscilla Pawlikowski. |
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| V.P. Membership |
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Membership News
by John Lusero
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 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. Please invite someone to our next meeting as our guest and show them the good work we do for the church.
Godspeed,
John Lusero,
Membership |
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| Guest Articles |
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Pope Benedict's Dec 2009 Intentions
by Vatican
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 December 2009
General: That children may be respected and loved and never be the victims of exploitation in its various forms.
Mission: That at Christmas the peoples of the earth may recognize in the Word Incarnate the light which illuminates every man and that the Nations may open their doors to Christ, the Saviour of the world. |
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Project Andrew
by Madonna Davis
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I would just like to let everyone know that several of us volunteered for the "Project Andrew," Friday, Dec 11, at St. Theresa's Parish Hall. Although I didn't really do much, the time spent was very rewarding. I felt it was very special to be able to play a minor part in that evening.
"Project Andrew" introduces young men to the priesthood. The Bishop, Fr. Rocha, Keith Jiron, several parish priests, and about 20 to 25 (?) young men were in attendance.
We served pizza, salad and coke.
The Bischofs and Linda and Greg Nelson also volunteered.
Madonna Davis
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| Dates To Remember |
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Prayer Intentions for December 2009
by Editor
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For deceased Serrans and family members, those who need our prayers, are ill, or are preparing for surgery, or are recovering from illness and surgery, or are looking for jobs: Pris Pawlikowski, Bob and Joanne Nelson, George Cascone, Ken Karr, Fr. Pat, Ken Karr, Rick Grindel's mother, Leanne Wessling's daughter Jennifer, Dustin Howell, Kenny 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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| This Month's Priestly Ordination Anniversaries |
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| Msgr. William Blacet - 12/21/1946 - Our Lady of Good Counsel |
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