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June 13, 2010

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

BELLARMINE CALENDAR

Thursday, June 17

Chapel Offices Closed for Staff Day

6:00 PM Finance Committee - Gallagher Center

7:00 PM Mystagogia - Activity Room

Saturday, June 19

9:00 AM St. Vincent de Paul - Activity Room

Sunday, June 20

Children’s Liturgy of the Word

Outreach Collection - Ignatian Spirituality Project

SMALL FAITH COMMUNITIES

Anyone who is interested in participating in a small faith community can sign up after mass today. There may be spaces in existing groups who are looking for new members and we may need to start some new groups depending on the numbers of people interested. The sign up will give us the information that we need to determine availability of individuals and places in groups and how that might fit together. Sign up will take a few minutes; look for Karen Brandstetter at a table in the Narthex right after mass!

Please donate your round 2-liter plastic bottles (without handles). A collection box is located in the narthex.

We also need two old garden hoses and cordless screwdrivers (screwdrivers to be returned after the camp is over). Please call Jim Crosby at 745-3317 to arrange pick-up/drop-off.

On Saturday, June 6, the family who lived next to Jeff Campbell lost everything in a house fire. Thankfully no one was hurt. (Jeff’s home was damaged, but insurance is taking care of everything and he has a place to stay while work is being done.) The family next door is a single mother with five sons (ages 2 - 13) who did not have renter’s insurance. Please keep them in your prayers. If you’d like to be of assistance to this family, please call Jeff at 745-1908 to find out how you can help.

JUNE OUTREACH COLLECTION

Ignatian Spirituality Project

Bellarmine’s outreach collection on June 20 will support the Ignatian Spirituality Project, an important initiative serving people in homelessness around the Chicago/Detroit Province and the country. The Ignatian Spirituality Project (ISP) has brought faith and hope to the lives of homeless men since 1998. Fr. Bill Creed, SJ founded ISP in response to his relationship with people in homelessness and his desire to help them cultivate a positive life-sustaining spirituality. ISP retreats are designed to help homeless and addicted men and women make the first steps toward rejoining society. ISP uses the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius to help those on retreat encounter God, who loves them, believes in them, and offers them hope for recovery. The retreat fosters a desire to put their life and their will into the care of God one day at a time. Since its founding, ISP has offered over 100 retreats to over 1,200 men and women who are homeless and in recovery – most in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Milwaukee. To learn more, see the bulletin insert.

THANK YOU! 

Well over 300 immigration reform postcards were collected this past Sunday. The parish immigration reform team thanks everyone for such a tremendous response! The team would also like to invite those interested to be involved with submitting these postcards to our Congress members. Would you be willing to speak to office staff of our U.S. Senators or Representatives to share your vision and values for fair and humane comprehensive immigration reform?! If so, please contact Jeff Campbell, Parish Social Mission, at 745-1908 or campbellj5@xavier.edu.

Parents of Little Ones (POLO), you are invited to the annual POLO picnic at our house! If you have children birth through grade school and are looking for a fun family afternoon and wanting to catch up or meet fellow families from Bellarmine- please join us!! Come prepared to swim, fish, play volleyball, cornhole, frisbee or simply relax. We provide the main dish (hamburgers/hot dogs/brats/mets) and lemonade. Please bring your favorite dish to share and your favorite beverage.

The fun starts Sunday July 25th at 3 PM and ends when the last person leaves. Our address is 3493 Trovillo Rd., Morrow, OH 45152. Please RSVP to dsjmbrausch@embarqmail.com by 7/23 with how many will be attending and the dish you will bring. Please extend this invitation to any other families that you have met at Bellarmine - we know that we do not have everyone's email addresses. We look forward to seeing familiar and new faces!

~Doug, Shannon, Jolie and Maya Brausch

Mercy Professional Services, a not-for-profit counseling practice in Walnut Hills, is hosting its third annual Partners on the Paddle Wheeler. Held on the BB Riverboats’ Belle of Cincinnati, the dinner cruise and auction is July 16. Special guests include Chris and Christi Mack, Lisa Cooney and Jerry Galvin. Tickets are $75 per person with a registration deadline of June 30. Contact John Burroughs to reserve your places, (513) 221-2330.

Several Bellarmine parishioners are associated with MPS as staff and board members. We personally invite the Bellarmine community to join us in supporting this much- needed fund raising effort.

...is looking for three or four new members to join with the six who will be continuing next year. We ask a three year commitment. It’s best if you are a person who knows the parish in some of its variety and history, especially if you have been involved in other ministries or service through the years. Is this your moment to help with the larger priorities and issues we live with as a parish, in our city and church today? Interested? Read on.

Our job is to keep the parish true to itself. We "advise" by engaging the topics and themes that affect us all, pastor and staff and community. Lately we’ve established plans to revise our website, worked to renew our program of small faith communities, met with the Jesuit Provincial assistant on parish life to explore our Ignatian values, especially the call to social justice. We meet with staff members to better understand and support them in their service. We are the point persons, along with the finance team, for keeping contact with XU about campus changes and our shared future.

To come forward, we trust you to nominate yourself . . . or look around and nominate people you think would be good for Bellarmine as a whole. Ask them to step forward, or let us know who to call. Talk it over with present or former members you know. (See below). What we need is just a one page statement of interest, by July 1. Everybody who comes forward attends a group interview on Wednesday or Thursday, July 14-15.. As people learn better what the job entails some step aside and others get even more interested. That might be you! Send your notice of interest to Karen Brandstetter or Richard Bollman. This month.

RANDOM QUOTE

It has never been either practical or useful to leave all things and follow Christ. And yet it is spiritually prudent. ~ Thomas Merton, The Monastic Journey

With The AMOS Project’s recent victories on Banks Project local hiring goals and further progress on local hiring for ex-offenders, AMOS congregations are gathering to jumpstart our next round of efforts!

Join AMOS’ "Nehemiah Campaign to Rebuild Cincinnati" on Thursday, June 17 from 7:00 – 8:30 PM at Tryed Stone New Beginnings Church (5550 Reading Rd., Cincinnati). The evening will feature next steps on the Nehemiah Campaign and celebration for AMOS congregations' latest successes:

Prevailed in the fight for greater transparency on the Banks Project

Already seen rule changes in Cincinnati’s ex-offender hiring policies

Won $45 million for summer jobs for teenagers

Earned commitments from ALL three County Commissioners for local hiring on tax-funded construction

For more information about our parish involvement in AMOS, contact Jeff Campbell, Parish Social Mission, at 745-1908 or campbellj5@xavier.edu .

The Ignatian Volunteer Corps (IVC) is an organization of men and women in their 50’s to 70’s, who want to use their talents and life experiences to help others. IVC volunteers commit two days a week to work directly with people who are poor or with organizations that pursue the structural issues and concerns that affect them Informational meetings will be held on: Wednesday, June 9 at 1:00 and Thursday, June 24 at 11:30. For information please contact Sam Schloemer at sschloemer@ivcusa.org. Visit our web site at: www.ivcusa.org

Holistic Directed Retreat, August 16-22, Marydale Retreat Center in No. Ky. Presented by: The Center Within. Spiritual Directors include: Gerry Hair, Julie Murray, Donna Steffen, Jean Marie Stross. Come for two or more days, and give your heart and spirit the time it needs to come home inwardly. Retreat includes daily morning meditation and communal prayer. www.TheCenterWithin.org or TheCenterWithin@aol.com

All forms, money and copies of insurance card (a current one needs to be on file) are due. Please make sure you get those in right away.

Please remember in your prayers our mission delegation in Tuba City, AZ at St. Jude.

Jr High youth group and BYG would like to include all of next year’s 7th - 12th 8th graders in our mailing list to keep you apprised of the many opportunities offered through the parish. Parents, if your teen is not already registered or if much of his/her information has changed, please pick up a registration form at the Youth Info Table in the narthex. Please complete the form and drop off or send it to the Chapel this month so all records can be maintained and updated before August mailings. Thank you for your help.

The Jesuit Spiritual Center in Milford is presenting a Seekers Retreat Weekend July 17 - 18 entitled What Are you Searching For? Deepen your faith, discover more meaning in your life, and create lasting connections. Cost is $150 individually or $75 each if you bring a friend. Scholarships are available. Contact Al Cucchetti at 248-3500 to register or for information.

Do you feel God calling you? The Lay Pastoral Ministry Program at the Athenaeum of Ohio is now taking applications for Fall 2010 enrollment. A non-degreed Certificate or a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry are available options to deepen your knowledge and faith.  For more information call 513-231-1200 or visit www.athenaeum.edu.

RANDOM QUOTE

To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely -- to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away. ~Cornel West, Democracy Matters

SVDP SUPPLIES HELP TO FAMILY

It was a beautiful Easter morning when "Haley", her husband and six children were enjoying the glories of the Easter services at their church. Their Easter joy soon diminished, however, when they returned home to find a police car out front and learned that a mentally deranged relative had flooded and devastated the contents of their home, wrecking appliances, TV, beds, furniture, even destroying irreplaceable family photos. When the SVDP volunteers arrived at their new apartment to offer help, there was no furniture or bedding, only plastic bags of clothing that they were able to salvage. The relative who had created such havoc was now incarcerated.

Haley explained that she and her husband both worked to support their large family and had never before needed to ask for charity, but she was most grateful for thrift store vouchers for furniture and household items and the promise of new beds for the family. In spite of this tragedy, Haley and her husband were focused on the future and eager to once again begin establishing a home for all of them. As the visit was ending, a children’s Bible was given to one of the younger children and it seemed as if a little Easter joy was rekindled.

2010 Juneteenth Events

Cincinnati’s Annual Juneteenth Festival is scheduled for June 19-20 at Eden Park. There will be a parade, entertainment, historical and cultural exhibits for the whole family. The kick-off "Parade of Flags" begins at 12:30.

The Freedom Center will also host a Juneteenth Celebration with African drumming, singing and stories on June 19. The celebration begins at noon.