We will be CLOSED for SPRING BREAK
God Love Ya,
Not Going Anywhere for Spring Break?
There is still time to sign up for the
Ultimate Catholic ASB Adventure!!!!!
Contact us at the Newman Center if you’re interested
233-5555
The Community of St. John
March 21-26, 2010
GENERAL INFORMATION
Cost: $125.00
Departure: Sunday late morning, TBD
Arrival at St. John’s: Sunday Eve approx. 7:30pm
Type of Work: Clean-up and help with remodeling at the Community; working with the Missionaries of Charity in Peoria, IL.
Theme of the week: The Cross: Our Source for Life
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This Thursday will be the
LAST MASS
until Palm Sunday: March 28th
No Mass over Spring Break
Options…We love them. We require them. We expect them. When ordering 
something on the Internet, shopping at grocery stores or eating at fast-food restaurants, we want these precious choices. But is having options also apply to our following Christ and the Gospel? Can you imagine Jesus, Heavenly Insurance Man, offering us multi-plan terms of the Gospel?
- The Silver Plan: for those who want to do just barely enough to get into heaven…they get their Eucharist and go; with this plan, Purgatory is the “Third option besides Heaven and Hell.
- The Gold Plan: for those who are serious about religion and try to fit it into their busy schedules. They aren’t hot in their devotion to Jesus, but you can count on them not being cold either. Hmmm, what does that make them?
- Platinum Plan: for those who want to be really on fire for Jesus…you can be a Super Catholic! Fly the lofty heights of religion, be the cream of the crop and be the envy of those beneath you!
Jesus doesn’t offer us different levels of discipleship. In fact, Jesus mentions that doing God’s will is the pre-requisite of getting into heaven. Did you know this? If not, check out the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 7: 21, “Not everyone who says to me ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.”
He has a plan for us–a mission for which we have been created! We have been created for a heavenly adventure! Since we Newmanites look to Newman as our example, please know that he was and IS adamant about us knowing and doing God’s will. Here’s what he says about our life purpose in mission:
Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random; we are not here, that we may go to bed at night, and get up in the morning, toil for our bread, eat and drink, laugh and joke, sin when we have a mind, and reform when we are tired of sinning, rear a family and die. God sees every one of us; He creates every soul…for a purpose. He needs, He deigns to need, every one of us. He has an end for each of us; we are all equal in His sight, and we are placed in our different ranks and stations, not to get what we can out of them for ourselves, but to labor in them for Him. As Christ has His work, we too have ours; as He rejoiced to do His work, we must rejoice in ours also.
There is nothing more I want for you than to rejoice in the work God has for you. To help you , I want to offer you any assistance as you seek to know God’s will for your life. I have been offering the Spiritual Gift Inventories to any who want to discern how God has gifted them for the mission of the Gospel. If you have been baptized and confirmed, then you have a gift! Come see me and see how this works so that you too can rejoice in the work God has given you!
God Bless You,
Sam
A retreat with CATHOLIC YOUTH EXPEDITIONS for college students and young adults centered on the Paschal Mystery (Passion, Death & Resurrection) of Jesus in a Liturgical MEGA-Celebration! Including a huge Vigil Fire! The goal of the expedition is to immerse young adults into the greatest three days of the liturgical year. 
St. Joseph’s Formation Center
Bailey’s Harbor, WI
April 1, 2, 3
According to reliable sources, students do not have to get Thursday classes off, but can be excused for religious obligations on. The T-Expdedition ends on Saturday night at 10pm so you would be open to be with family on Easter Sunday. Pick up and drop off is at CYE Base Camp!
We have rescheduled our
Catholicism 101: NFP
night so that we can go to the
PARISH MISSION
Healing Mass at 7pm!
St. Josephat’s is located at the corner of Walnut and Congress. It’s a 15 minuted walk from the Newman Center. Take Elmwood to New York and take a right. Take a left on Walnut. The Church is on your right!
This parish Mission is being lead by Father Christopher Crotty C.P.M. of the Father’s of Mercy. The Healing Missions preached by Fr. Crotty have the following goals in mind:
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The promulgation of devotion to the Holy Spirit our advocate and sanctifier
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Teaching on the Theology of the Holy Spirit
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Leading devotions to the Holy Spirit
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Guiding souls to the Life in the Holy Spirit, and to His healing of moral, physical and spiritual aliments
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Warning souls of the dangers in the modern world which seek to destroy the life of the Holy Spirit within us
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On this mission you WILL experience the power of the Lord’s love in the Eucharist
Feel free to check out these fantastic NFP videos to get you all jazzed up for the 17th!!!!
Souper Tuesday
Come and get it!!!!
Broccoli & Cheese to please!!!!
4-6pm
And then come with us to the
PARISH MISSION:
The Healing Presence of the Holy Spirit
St. Josephat is located on Congress St.
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