Bellarmine Chapel Bulletin

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April 25, 2010

Fourth Sunday of Easter

BELLARMINE CALENDAR

Sunday, April 25

Children’s Liturgy of the Word

Fair Trade Coffee and Streetvibes Sales

Habitat for Humanity Outreach Collection

7:00 PM Parish Registration

Tuesday, April 27

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

7:00 PM JustFaith - Activity Room

Wednesday, April 28

7:00 PM BYG - Alumni Center

7:00 PM Social Mission Core Team - Activity Room

Thursday, April 29

7:00 PM Mystagogia - Activity Room

Friday, April 30

7:00 PM Junior High Youth - Alumni Center

Saturday, May 1

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

Sunday, May 2

Children’s Liturgy of the Word

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

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 decent independent housing. Thank you for all you have done in the past. We ask you to continue your generosity with a contribution during the collection today. 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. 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!!

The office is now mailing the readings for mass in .pdf format to all readers. Please be sure we have you current email address (you can send it to Liz at keuffer@xavier.edu). If you do not receive an email with the readings by 5 PM on Tuesday the week you are supposed to read, please call the chapel office ASAP at 745-3398.

Bellarmine Chapel is accepting bids for development of a new website. Please contact Liz in the chapel office at 745-3398 or keuffer@xavier.edu for information.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

June 21-25, 2010: This is an opportunity for children from preschool age through grade 6. Our theme this year is "God’s Big Backyard" and we will learn about service to others through classroom time, music, craft activities and drama. The times are 9:30 AM – 12 Noon. We need many parents and teens to help make this program work. Priority registration for those who are willing to volunteer is open now by visiting www.knox.org and clicking on the Vacation Bible School link on the right hand side. Open registration will begin on May 6.

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 mike@planehelp.net.

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.

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

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.

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.

Grace Place, the Catholic Worker House of Cincinnati in College Hill is looking for live-in Workers and 4-hour shift volunteers who will provide direct services to women and children in transition from homelessness. Their needs include supervising the house, coordinating volunteers, bookkeeping, coordinating the newsletter, providing a monthly meal, light housekeeping, transporting guests and helping with their outreach ministry to refugees. For information, see the flyer in the vestibule or contact Grace Place at 681-2365 or graceplacecw@fuse.net.

Power Inspires Progress (PIP - a job training program) is having an open house pizza party at its restaurant (1301 Vine Street) on Friday, May 7, 5:00 - 9:00. For $15.00, you'll enjoy a variety of pizzas, salad, dessert, tea and lemonade. For other beverages, you're welcome to BYOB. There will be entertainment at 7:30. We'd love to see you! For more information: Janet Schelb at steinschelb@aol.com.

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.

RANDOM QUOTE

Jesus is real, and so, praise God, are we. Every single thing the resurrected Jesus does on earth he does through our bodies. You're fed, you're healed, you're forgiven, you're pronounced clean. You are loved ... Go and do likewise.    ~Sarah Miles, from her book Jesus Freak

On Sunday, April 11, Jane Sansalone made a covenant as an Associate of the Sisters of Notre Dame. By this covenant she promises to live our their charism through her spirituality and ministry. The S.N.D. charism is a deep experience of the goodness and provident care of God. Congratulations to Jane on this commitment!

Joe O’Flynn was recently honored as the Outstanding Diversity Educator for 2010 from the Oxford unit of the NAACP. Joe teaches at Talawanda High School in Oxford.

Mary Anne Reese recently won first place in Northern Kentucky University's 2010 Social Justice Writing Competition. Her winning creative nonfiction piece was entitled, "El Salvador: Singing through Dark Streets."

The Lynne Miller Voice studio recital will be held Monday, April 26, 7 PM, at Bellarmine Chapel. You may recognize Lynne since she has subbed for Scot in the past, and several of Lynne's students are Bellarmine parishioners and musicians. The event is free, and all are invited to attend.

Leah Reynolds will be selling her pottery at the Clay Alliance Spring Pottery Fair from 11 - 5 on May 1 at DeSales Corner (Woodburn Ave. and Madison Rd.) in East Walnut Hills. Leah’s proceeds from this show will be supporting Jesuit Volunteer Corp, which has been "home" to her son, Patrick, in Nicaragua, since December 2008. She has over a dozen advent wreaths, mugs and bowls, and there are over 60 potters selling.

ADSUM

Paintings by Holly Schapker

May 16, 2010 - June 18, 2010

The Xavier University Art Gallery (Cohen Center)

"These paintings represent my interpretation of the mission of St. Ignatius Loyola. They incorporate all I know and feel about my life as a Catholic and as an artist. The process of creating this body of work has taken me almost three years in which I have been continuously supported by the Xavier University Community. My research for the exhibition included completing the Spiritual Exercises with Darrell Burns, S.J. and attending the 2008 Ignatian Pilgrimage led by Tom Landy, Director of the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture at Holy Cross University."

April 30 - Wrap Up Meeting at Alumni Center

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

O’Connor Sports Center at XU

3801 Victory Parkway 45207

7:00 PM – 11:30 PM

Fun, games, swimming, open gym, pizza, snacks and more. Share this fun events with your friends, they are more than welcome. Included in the JrHi fee and only $8 for friends.

April 28, 7:00 - 9:00 PM at The Alumni Center.

May 5, 6:00 - 8:30 PM Dinner and Blessing for our seniors at 958 Marion Ave

May 14 COAP and CCAMP Meeting for Teens, Parents and Adult Volunteers in the Nieporte Lounge, 7:00 for new people, 8:00 for returning volunteers. See you there. Summer Service Trips are open to 8th-graders through adults and kids 11 and up when accompanied by a parent.

Planning meeting for next year: Teens interested and in being part of this discussion and leadership, please contact Sue Antoinette at 289-6457 or antoinette@xavier.edu for more details.

Saturday, May 1 from 12-2 PM

St. Vivian (7600 Winton Rd)

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 for information at 745-4224 or antoinette@xavier.edu.

RANDOM QUOTE

During the first quarter of 2010, volunteers from St. Vincent DePaul conference here at Bellarmine made 102 home visits providing assistance to a total of 264 people. We helped with rent payments for 33 households in the amount of $6,427.00 (approximately $195 per family) and 23 households with payments to Duke in the amount of $3,910.75 (approximately $170 per family). We gave $1,710.00 Kroger cards to 45 households (approximately $40 per household) and $822.50 Metro tokens to 29 households (approximately $30 per household).

We were able to provide furniture vouchers worth an equivalent of $3,330.00 to the St. Vincent DePaul thrift stores for 36 households and $2,525.00 in vouchers for clothing, household items and bedding for 61 households. Thanks to our bed program we were able to donate 14 twin beds, 38 full beds and 2 cribs to people who were previously without a bed to call their own.

Besides meeting the physical needs of our neighbors, we also gave away 34 adult Bibles and 25 Stories of the Bible for children. As a Catholic organization, SVDP is concerned with the deeper needs and the spiritual well-being of those we serve, always observing a profound respect for their conscience and the faith they believe in.

All this work in the surrounding neighbors of Norwood, Evanston, Walnut Hills and Avondale would not be possible without the generous support of the parish. Please continue to keep this ministry, both the volunteers and our neighbors in need, in your prayers.

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