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Rite of Penance Location Changed
During these hot summer months confessions will be held in the Library, in the Aquinas Center, on Saturday’s from 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. or anytime by appointment.
Projectionists Needed
The projection ministry at the 10:15 a.m. Mass is currently looking for additional projectionists. Anyone in middle school or older is welcome. No experience necessary. It’s easy. The schedule is flexible. Start during summer or in the fall. Confirmation candidates, this would count toward your service hours. Contact Eric Morton: myteric@gmail.com, 860-429-6056, or see him after Mass setup/takedown.
Visitation Help Needed
The Visitation Ministry needs a few people to bring communion to residents of Mansfield Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation. If you can spare some time to help, please contact Peter Salesses at 860-429-8111.
Faith Sharing Group
The Faith Sharing Group will be meeting every other Wednesday. The next meeting will be July 28, at 7:00 p.m., in the Library. We will explore methods to slow down and find God in places we never thought to look. We will alternate discussion of Richard Rohr’s “The Naked Now” with viewing and discussing DVDs on spiritual topics. bgfayadgicb For more information contact Betty Ann Marsland at (860)870-4396 or email at bamarsland@sbcglobal.net.
Bike Steeple Chase Fund-Raiser
The nineteenth annual Steeple Chase Bike Tour Fund-Raiser for WAIM and the Perception Programs will be held Saturday, August 21, 2010. If you are a bike rider, please consider participating to help these wonderful local programs. There are 5 possible routes, ranging from 20 miles to 100 miles. For more information and registration forms, see the WAIM bulletin board in the Aquinas Center.
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Knights of Columbus
The following is an excerpt from the book By Their Works, by Stephen Singular.
A young man was born in Baltimore in the 1920 and because of the circumstances of the day he was sent to live in an orphanage run by the Xaverain Brothers. George grew up under the tutelage of Brother Mattius, nicknamed “Coach” who taught the young men in his care athletics and discipline. George blossomed into a baseball talent who tried out and signed a contract with the Baltimore Orioles.
The young man was traded to the Boston Red Sox and joined the Knights of Columbus Pere Marquette Council 271. He had a good year, hitting 29 homeruns breaking the major league record of the day. Later he helped baseball remove the tarnished image it had received because of the infamous Black Sox scandal. His popularity grew and grew as he moved from Boston to the New York Yankees.
The adult man never forgot his roots as a Catholic and an orphan. When he retired from baseball, he visited orphans all over the country, dropping in on hospitals and reformatories, giving away mementos and establishing charitable foundations that stand to this day. He died of cancer at the age of 53 receiving last rites a month earlier from Father Thomas Kaufman, who was quoted as saying that “The Babe said his prayers to the very end and died a good Catholic.” The man’s full name, George Herman Ruth.
Contributed by Rob Tierney, member of Knights of Columbus Council 14029 Storrs, CT.
Old Reading Glasses Needed
We need your old reading glasses for people who come to Detox and Treatment Centers, who do not have any glasses. They are unable to journal, do work sheets, or read recovery literature without them. If you could please contribute your old reading glasses, it would be of great help. A good number of these folks are indigent, veterans, and/or dual diagnosed with no means to afford their own glasses. They could also use magazines, books, jigsaw puzzles. A lot to ask, but a gift that is so necessary. Please leave your donations in the collection box in the Aquinas Center.
