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May 9, 2010

Sixth Sunday of Easter

BELLARMINE CALENDAR

Sunday, May 9

Parish Registration

Socials Following Morning Masses

Monday, May 10

7:00 PM Baptism Preparation - Activity Room

Tuesday, May 11

7:00 PM JustFaith - Activity Room

Wednesday, May 12

7:00 PM COAP Volunteer Meeting - Nieporté Lounge

Thursday, May 13

6:00 PM Finance Committee - Gallagher Center

Saturday, May 15

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

Sunday, May 16

Children’s Liturgy of the Word

Outreach Collection for CoEd

CoEd COLLECTION ON MAY 16

The Cooperative for Education (CoEd) is a Cincinnati-based non-profit with the mission of helping Guatemalan schoolchildren break the cycle of poverty through education.

Establishing computer centers in rural Guatemalan middle schools creates opportunities for Mayan children to gain the skills they need to continue their education, find higher wage jobs, and permanently raise their standard of living. For every $1,000 donated through the outreach collections after all masses today, Bellarmine can sponsor a sustainable computer workstation in a rural Guatemalan school. Visit www.coeduc.org for more information.

We are hosting an opportunity for those in the parish who have experienced the loss of their spouse through death, to gather and have an evening of sharing and support. We will meet on Thursday, May 20, from 6:00 - 8:00 PM in the Activity Room at the chapel. We will have light dinner refreshments, so please RSVP, ASAP! RSVP to Karen Brandstetter at brandstetter@xavier.edu or 745-3349 so we can be prepared for everyone. The goal of this evening will be to provide sharing and support to one another based on this common experience of loss at such a close and personal level.

RANDOM QUOTE

Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.  ~Mother Teresa

FINANCIAL REPORT

Thanks for your steady support of our operations here. All budgets are on the edge, in your house and in our ours! What you can give now, through June, will help us know how to plan a realistic budget for 2011.

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.

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 – Noon. We still need many parents and teens to help make this program work. We especially need classroom leaders. If you would like more information about volunteering, please call Jim Crosby at 745.3317. Registration is open now by visiting www.knox.org and clicking on the Vacation Bible School link on the right hand side. There is also a link on Bellarmine’s website.

This year's theme is Service. The students will be creating painted flower arrangements and wooden building blocks for local charities. The arrangements will be given to a charity to brighten up their office/meeting space. The building blocks will be given to children in need.

RECYCLE AND BRIGHTEN SOMEONE'S DAY! Please give us your round 1/2-liter, 1-liter, and 2-liter plastic bottles (without handles). A collection box is located in the narthex.

Rectangle, square, arch and triangle shaped cut wood pieces no larger than 4X8 are also needed. Contact Jackie Baumgartner at jacksjma@earthlink.net to coordinate drop-off/pick-up.

We celebrated the end of our school year for the religious education families last Tuesday, May 4, with a picnic at Millcrest Park in Norwood. It was a wonderful year with new families involved, 42 active students, K through 6. Five of them are from St. Clement, three from St. Agnes, one from St. Cecilia, and the rest from Bellarmine. Our need to create the program away from campus has the added benefit of opening the doors to other parishes nearby. The St. Agnes staff, where we gather, hosted a soup dinner on several of the Lenten Tuesdays, and we continue our custom of Mardi Gras pancakes, and weekly prayer services with parental involvement, too. Special thanks to our catechists: Kathy Heile, Margaret Martin, Kathy Stockman, Kathy Sivrais, Andrew Schwytzer and Kristen Schwytzer, and Bob Bonnici.

Our two week alternate program takes place at St. Clement school, July 26 - 30 and August 2 - 6.

~ Jim Crosby and Kathy Kohl

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. Contact Mike McNamara at mike@planehelp.net.

Please pray for the family of parishioner Jim Brown. His mother passed away recently.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINISTRY...

within the parish: a way to take part, and get to know people around you too!

Ministry to Engaged Couples This is a call to married couples who would like to help younger brides and grooms grow in their capacity to communicate, share values, and build a lasting marriage. You would set up time for them to work through a values inventory, (called FOCCUS), and then come back for one or two further evenings of discussion together. As ministers of this work, you and your spouse have the role of helping the engaged couple listen and speak up, and to share from your own backgrounds and experience, too.

There is a two-evening training for this work coming up: June 10 and 17. Call Kathy Kohl (745-3376) or Richard (745-3398) to talk further if you are interested.

And our Finance Committee is in need of two new members who: know the parish and its values; have an affinity for interpreting financial data and budget reports; and want to help us all come to a deeper appreciation of our role as stewards of all we've been given here. More and more the key question for our finance team is how to better support our ministry for the future, the outreach and the growth in faith that we all want, through the generations. It's a three year commitment, about 8 meetings a year.

If this person might be you, call or email Richard, or Kevin Berlon, our current chairperson: kberlon@usavingsbank.com

Please indicate your interest by June 1.

Hoxworth Blood Drive, June 5. Call Henry Meek at 51-522-1122 to get the best time.

Summer Quest books (Summer Reflections) are in for those small faith communities that use them. Please contact Liz or Karen in the office to arrange pick-up.

Volunteers are needed to help serve lunch at Tender Mercies on Saturday, June 12. This is a great opportunity for a family, a group of friends or a small faith group. Time period is about two hours. If you can help, please call the chapel office at 745-3398.

COAP and CCAMP Meeting for Teens, Parents and Adult Volunteers in the Neiporte Lounge, May 12, 7:00 for new people, 8:00 for returning volunteers. Be prepared to have your picture taken. Summer Service Trips are open to 8th graders through adult and kids 11 and up when accompanied by a parent.

Summer Service Dates - Sign-ups are underway. Forms and money are due now. Forms are available at the Youth Info Board or online. Please contact Sue Antoinette for information at 745-4224 or antoinette@xavier.edu.

St. Jude Parish on the Navajo Reservation in Tuba City, AZ., June 8 - 17, 2010, $350 plus airfare. Forms and money are due ASAP.

Harlan, KY July 4-10, 2010, $265 inclusive. Building projects continue helping the working poor maintain decent housing in Harlan County. Please turn in your forms and money ASAP.

"You Too Go Into My Vineyard." The Athenaeum of Ohio’s Lay Pastoral Ministry Program has been educating Catholic men and women for over 35 years. Sponsored by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, this program is grounded in Catholic doctrine and forms faithful disciples to be engaged in the mission of the Church. Classes are now forming for the Fall of 2010.Call 513-231-1200 or email kboss@athenaeum.edu for more information.

PAINTING EXHIBITION

Adsum: Contemporary Paintings on Ignatian Spirituality
Xavier alumnus Holly Schapker ' 92 is exhibiting her 25 works based on Ignatius Loyola; his life, mission, and the Spiritual Exercises at the Xavier University Art Gallery located in the A.B. Cohen Center (behind the Cintas Center). She is hosting an Artist Reception on May16, 2010, 1:00-4:00pm and invites Bellarmine Parishioners to get an early preview immediately following the 11:00am Mass that same day. Light refreshments will be provided. Please contact Terri Yontz at 745-3811 or yontz@xavier.edu for more information.

The Society of St. Vincent DePaul is open to all those who seek to live their faith by loving and committing themselves to serving their neighbors in need. Here at Bellarmine we serve the people in the nearby neighborhoods through person to person contact during home visits, listening to them and helping them to regain their own dignity. Each week, our volunteers are impressed with the spirituality of the people we visit as well as their courage to overcome a variety of overwhelming circumstances.

We meet at 9 AM on Saturday mornings in the Activity Room and always begin our time together with prayer and reflection. We then split up in to two-person teams typically doing one to two home visits per team, before returning to the chapel to discuss the cases and decide how to allocate our limited resources. It is a great ministry to meet fellow parishioners and our neighbors. If anyone feels the call to join SVDP ministry and give of your time and talents, please join us. For more information, please call 745-1950.

The Cincinnati Reds will host site the fourth annual Major League Baseball Civil Rights Game. The Cincinnati Reds will play against the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday, May 15. Tickets are on sale now.

The exhibition entitled Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, will be on display through May 31, 2010 at the Freedom Center. Related educational materials and programs will be available online www.freedomcenter.org and an extensive series of programs is being scheduled to coincide with the exhibition. The Freedom Center is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 AM - 5 PM.

Mark your calendars: Juneteenth celebrates the end of American slavery. Slavery "officially" ended in 1865, and Cincinnati commemorates and celebrates that historic event with the annual Juneteenth Festival. The 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.