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April 18, 2010

Third Sunday of Easter

BELLARMINE CALENDAR

Sunday, April 18 

CRS Collection

First Eucharist

1:00 PM Summer Service Trips Meeting - Activity Room

Monday, April 19 

7:00 PM St. Vincent de Paul - Activity Room

Tuesday, April 20 

6:30PM Religious Education - St. Agnes, Bond Hill

7:00 PM JustFaith - Activity Room

Wednesday, April 21 

7:00 PM BYG - Alumni Center

7:00 PM Advisory Committee - Alumni Center

Thursday, April 22 

7:00 PM Mystagogia - Activity Room

Friday, April 23 

8:00 PM BYG Retreat - Chilo Park, Clermont County

Saturday, April 24 

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

Sunday, April 25 

Children’s Liturgy of the Word

Fair Trade Coffee and Streetvibes Sales

7:00 PM Parish Registration

Habitat for Humanity Outreach Collection

FIRST EUCHARIST

Today we celebrate as the following children are welcomed to the Lord’s Table:

Elizabeth Chamberlin

Connor Close

Caitlin Doyle

Peter Hattemer

Finn Leahy

Cooper Pierce

Brigid Simmons

Maggie Byars

John Carroll

Cole Davoran

Corinne Fellerhoff

Jack Munzel

Joseph Schnizer

Beau Schureck

Gabe Amason

Eli Kitchings

J.T.Sedgwick

There is but one ocean though its coves have many names; a single sea of atmosphere with no coves at all; the miracle of soil, alive and giving life, lying thin on the only earth, for which there is no spare. 

                                                                            ~David Brower, conservationist

CRS COLLECTION

Today we take up The Catholic Relief Services Collection. You are invited to give hope to Jesus in disguise. Give hope to the community that has lost its livelihood to a crop disease. Give hope to the refugee child, separated from her mother. Give hope to the immigrant, trying to keep faith alive in a foreign land. The Catholic Relief Services Collection helps to fund programs that give hope to refugees, immigrants, and the impoverished, including victims of war, natural disaster, and drought. Through humanitarian, economic, pastoral, and advocacy efforts, The Catholic Relief Services Collection gives hope. Please be generous in today’s Collection. Please make checks out to Bellarmine Chapel. (Note: A small portion of this collection supports archdiocesan initiatives not directly related to Catholic Relief Services, such as CISE.)

Today at 5 PM at Spring Grove Cemetery: Blue Ribbon Vigil of Hope We are helping to host a community gathering in support of survivors of abuse and their families. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, a good time to meet and speak out.

Shalom Coalition of Cincinnati Habitat for Humanity is building its 14^th house this year!! Bellarmine has been a member of this coalition since house number five. With seven other churches we build one home a year. That means this will be our ninth family to assist into independent decent housing. Thank you for all you have done in the past. We ask you to continue your generosity with a contribution during the collection next Sunday, April 25. Please make checks payable to Bellarmine Chapel with Habitat for Humanity in the memo line.

Remember, this is not a handout, but a hand up. The Larry Burrows Memorial House, named in honor of the co-site coordinator of the past many years, will be a one-story home at 2304 Boone St. in East Walnut Hills. There will be a dedication today, April 18, at 2 PM. All are welcome to attend. The family will work 500 hours of sweat equity, and will pay a 20 year interest-free mortgage. There are many of you who help every year by donating, bringing lunches to feed the construction crew, and building. We thank you all!!

RANDOM QUOTE

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. ~John Muir

Three Women Scholars and Women of Faith continue the Year with Thomas Merton:

April 22, Earth Day: Kathleen Deignen, on Merton as an Ecological Prophet;

April 25: Christine Bochen, Thomas Merton and the Seeds of Justice and Compassion;

May 6 and 7: Bonnie Thurston, on Merton's Interest in Buddhism, and in Islam

All events, 7 - 9 PM, St. Monica-St. George. All are welcome. Please RSVP to 381-6400.

The Family Life Office, the Office of Religious, and the Social Action Offices of the Archdiocese as well as many other organizations are co-sponsoring a "Conference on Violence Against Women" on Saturday, April 24, from 8:30 - 4:30 at Seton High School, 3901 Glenway Avenue. There will be a Keynote presentation, panel, 12 workshop sessions (some in Spanish). Cost of $65 for reservations includes breakfast, lunch, concluding entertainment by MUSE. Co-sponsors include archdiocesan offices and parishes, area religious congregations and schools, community groups. Co-chairs: Louise Akers, SC, and Mary Jo Gasdorf, SC. Online registration, www.srcharitycinti.org/opjic.htm; via mail, Sisters of Charity, Office of Peace, Justice & Integrity of Creation, 310 Neeb Road, Cincinnati, OH 45233. Information: 451-9444.

Interested in joining a young professional prayer group? The group is planning to meet bi-monthly on Sunday afternoons and will spend time discussing various devotional books. Contact Cara Cross at cross.cara@gmail.com for more information.

Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired (in N. College Hill) is looking to find an individual interested in volunteering as a Communications Assistant. Job duties include coordinating communication pieces and performing other administrative tasks assigned by the Coordinator of Volunteer Services. Must be willing to work on a biweekly or weekly basis. For more information, please contact Christine Sevindik at 513-728-6261 or csevindik@clovernook.org.

Featuring: Bishop Eduardo Carmona Ortega

Diocese of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, México

Sunday, April 25 – 5:00-6:15 PM

Schiff Family Conference Center

Cintas Center at Xavier University

For more information, contact Jeff Campbell, Bellarmine Social Mission, at 745-1908 or campbellj5@xavier.edu.

This year's Catholic Men's Conference was another success, but conferences are not our objective. Our objective is to get men "out of the pews" and engaged with other men to share their faith journeys and challenges in a confidential supportive setting.

If you've been called to go deeper in your relationships with God, your family, your friends and your colleagues, please come and share with like-minded men in a friendly, confidential, prayerful and supportive environment. It has made a huge difference in my life these past 17 years. So, please contact me and let me invite you to a Catholic Men's Fellowship meeting. Mike McNamara at campbellj5@xavier.edumailto:campbellj5@xavier.edu.

Join New Life Furniture for an Open House at their new location: 11431 Williamson Road, Unit D, Blue Ash 45241 (off Cornell). New Life Furniture accepts donations of new and used furniture to help furnish apartments of those who are moving up from homelessness. At their celebration you can tour the warehouse, learn about volunteer opportunities, enjoy the free food and cornhole. They are accepting donations of spring cleaning items. Saturday, April 24, 11 - 3 PM. All are welcome! If you have used furniture you would like to donate, please call New Life Furniture at 313-0530 to arrange a pick-up.

Jr. High Youth Group meets in the cafeteria on the ground floor at 1507 Dana Ave. every other Friday night from 7-9:30. Meetings begin with dinner and teens are welcome to stay and socialize for half an hour afterwards.

April 30 - Meeting at Alumni Center at 1507 Dana

May 7 - "Challenge Party" at XU O’Connor Center

Bellarmine Youth Group for high school teens meets at XU’s Alumni Center, 1507 Dana Ave on Wednesday nights from 7-9 pm weekly. BYG upcoming meeting dates: April 21, 28, May 5

Beautiful Chilo Park, Clermont Co. Ohio.

Flexible schedule - come to 1, 2 or all 3 days.

Start at 8:00 PM on Friday, social, games, campfire

9:30 AM on Saturday, retreat

Trip forms are on line at bellarminechapel.org

RSVP by Sunday April 18 to 745-4224

Summer Service Dates - Sign-ups start this week. Forms are available at the Youth Info Board or online.

#1 St. Jude Catholic Church on the Navajo Reservation in Tuba City, AZ., June 8 - June 17, $350 plus airfare. Please fill out a reservation form and send the $150 deposit ASAP.

#2 Harlan, KY July 4-10, 2010, $265 complete. Please fill out a reservation form and send the $125 deposit by Sunday, May 2.

Please contact Sue Antoinette soon if you have questions or are interested in joining either group - 745-4224 or antoinette@xavier.edu.

Celebration on Calhoun, Corryville Catholic inner-city elementary school's 6th annual fundraiser happens Sunday, April 25. At the school, next to Old St. George Church on Calhoun Street by the University of Cincinnati. Doors open 3:30; party ends 8 PM. $35 pp. includes: accessible parking, open bar, hors d’oeuvres, buffet dinner, silent auction, live auction. Reservations: call 281-4856 or 349-8751.

Recently, our SVDP volunteers were asked by a social worker from the Council on Aging for assistance for an elderly woman who lives near campus. "Eleanor’s" request was simple: she needed a new mattress because the old one was not supporting her back and she was waking up with back aches. She is 83 years old and still very active. Several days a week she went to the nearby public school, usually walking, to work with second graders, helping them with their reading. Eleanor is also a faithful participant in her church and was happy to stand and pray with the volunteers. The SVDP volunteers were inspired by Eleanor’s willingness to give back to her community, and pleased to be able to grant her request, in large part due to the ongoing generosity of Bellarmine Chapel in supporting our neighbors in need.

Healing and Spirituality workshop is being offered starting May 18 on Tuesday/Thursday evenings for two weeks in May and the first Thursday in June examining the Judeo-Christian tradition of healing. The evening sessions prepares the participants for the experiential component on Saturday classes (May 22, June 5) and Sunday (June 6: noon-4PM) learning Level 1 Healing Touch training of laying on of hands, especially related to lay ministry in the church. This workshop is available for CEU’s for nurses, chaplains. It is also available for 3 credit course at XU. For more information contact Sr. Rosie Miller, theology department: 745-4248, miller@xavier.edu. Or register www.xavier.edu/summersession

The public is encouraged to recycle their electronic waste for a contribution of $5 per car to support Players for the Planet (an environmental group founded by Cincinnati Red Chris Dickerson):

Thursday, April 22, 7 am – 5 pm, Kroger, Western Hills, 6150 Glenway Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211

AND

Saturday, April 24, 10 am – 7 pm, Kroger, Hyde Park, 3760 Paxton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45208