Let’s all heartily welcome these 11 new CSM members who participated in the
Spring Welcome Series:

Next Sunday these folks will be wearing green carnations, and will be our Offertory Gift bearers.
Be sure to give them a special greeting at the Coffee Hour! – Jocelyn Heaney, Membership Chair

Please congratulate and pray for the following young girls and boys who received their first Eucharist
during our 11 o’clock Liturgy last Sunday:

Phillip Andreani * Devin Copfer * Jacob Corrigan * Owen Galvin * Hattie Gemerchek

Kimmy Thompson. And the same for Ian Etheart, who received his First Communion May 14.

Congratulations to these children and their families – Mary Carol Lucic, Christian Formation Chair

‘FIRSTS’ OF ANOTHER KIND…

The new CSM Personal Needs Fund was announced and described in our May 14 Newsletter.
To benefit this fund, there will be a party from 5 p.m. until dark, Saturday, June 17, aboard the
U.S.S. Cod, docked near the foot of East Ninth Street. Tickets are $20 – in advance, please! – and are
available at Coffee Hour. Nautical attire suggested! Details: Fred Leonard, 440-331-8325 (daytime)

Lou Schroeder Memorial Breakfast to benefit Malachi House will be in our hall 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. next Sunday, June 4. Sausage, French toast (all you can eat), fruit juice, coffee, tea. Adults: $5; children (4-12): $3. Volunteer help with the breakfast is needed! Call Lou’s daughter, Mary Schroeder Giersz (216-441-1455) or Carol Lavelle (216-781-3110)

Memo from JoAnn Kramer: the CSM proposed budget for the year beginning July 2000 is attached to this newsletter. Weekly collection of $2960 would be needed to support this budget. Please send any comments to JoAnn Kramer or any other member of council. The council will vote on the budget June 13.

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  A Message from Sr. Michael Marie Griffin, OSU:

"June 2 will be my last day as director of St. Malachi Center. I wish to thank you for your support and dedication over these past 10 years. I have been honored to be a part of St. Malachi Center. I have learned so much from everyone who shared our Center experiences together. My prayers are with you. Please pray for me as I continue my life’s journey." - Sr. M.M. Sr. Michael Marie surely has the prayers and best wishes of the Community of St. Malachi. God be good to her!  And to Cathy Saegal, who has been appointed interim director.

A Message from Susan Shipley, CSM Social Action Chair:

"Okay, all you who support sensible gun control laws, stand against that wall. And all of you opposed, stand along that wall. If only it could be that simple. I know what wall I was standing along on Mothers’ Day last Sunday. I was standing with 750,000 people in the Capitol Mall area in Washington, D.C. Group after group marched with their state. There were many speakers: the well-spoken surviving teenager from Littleton; the eloquent mother of a student killed at Littleton; Marian Wright Edelman, a black mom with a wonderful singing voice as well as a story to tell; a broken-hearted Native American mom; the widow of a police officer killed on duty.

"The speakers were moving, dynamic, soul-searching, forgiving, hurting. I saw shoes of kids who have been killed by gunfire – their actual shoes. I get teary eyed just remembering. I saw thousands of photographs, signs, quilts honoring dead family members killed by guns. I saw no political anything on behalf of George W.’s campaign. I saw Gore signs and stickers. I saw hundreds of thousands of people mourning their loss of a loved one, but in celebration. I was exhilarated and humbled.

"The Million Mom March is calling on Congress to enact common sense gun control legislation that includes 1) sensible

‘cooling off’ periods and background checks; 2) licensing handgun owners and registering all handguns; 3) safety locks for all handguns; 4) limiting purchases to one-handgun-per-month, and 5) no-nonsense enforcement of gun laws. I have Million Mom March bumper stickers that remind people, ' I Vote.’ These will be available at Coffee Hour. Please consider taking one. Barb Parkowski also has them. The MMM can make a difference; in Congress we must make a difference."

- - - Casey Stangel, 440-234-8766

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CSM SYMPATHY AND PRAYERS 
for the families and friends of Greg Nadeau, and of Ray Smith, father of Patrick Smith.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT - please keep in your prayers Herman Strnisha, Mary Beth Gibbons, 
Dennis Stramel, Margaret Wolf and Margaret Pickle.

(In response to a number of requests, here is how to reach Bea Donofrio with get-well greetings and 
miss-you messages: 1764 Wiltshire, Akron, OH 44313 - E-mail: bvdono@netscape.net)

CSM CONGRATULATIONS – to Ann and Henry Speier, upon the birth of Christopher Henry;
and to Curt Kondik and Ed Janoch, onetime St. Malachi seminary interns, who were ordained to the 
priesthood May 20.

And LET’S HEAR IT FOR – Teresa Andreani, who has received an NSPR Association of Ohio
"Friend of Education" Award for sharing her quilting art with students.

And for – Susan Shipley, who thanks everybody for their "prayers, well wishes and efforts concerning
my job search…" She describes her new position with Kent State University as "a post-doc 
in the Institute for the Prevention of Violence."

And for – Sr. Maureen Doyle, OSU, who was commencement speaker May 20 and recipient of an
honorary doctorate at John Carroll University.

And for - Kate Galo, who graduates June 8 from Berea High School with an Award for Academic 
Excellence for four consecutive years. Her mother, Jan Galo, puts it this way: "Kate has been a 
lifelong member of the CSM, baptized by Fr. Paul 18 years ago! She has received a $1500 scholarship 
offer from Bowling Green State University and the Presidential Scholarship and Scholar’s Award, totaling
$7500, from Baldwin Wallace College. Kate will most likely attend Bowling Green to pursue her career 
goal of secondary English teacher." Jan describes her daughter as "an assistant in the sacristy for many 
years, scheduling and instructing the servers." And she rightly described herself as "proud Mom, CSM 
choir member, sacristan."

Kay Vine has provided the following additions to our May 14 listings: Silver Anniversary Banners Quilters: Cindy DiNardo, Eileen Garven, Liz Galvin, Teresa Andreani, Nadge Herceg.  Altar Cloth: (made with linen brought from Ireland by Gen McCloskey, of beloved memory) and sewn by Lois Dingman, Pat Forkas, Pat Schmidt. Anniversary Liturgy Slides: Peg Connell, Rebecca Rocco, Kay Vine, Mike Flynn; these will be added by Mike May to our web site: http://www.stmalachi.org

A Message from Malachi Mart: 
"For those of you that did not know, Malachi Mart has come of age and is now on the internet – malachimart@voyager.net

A Message from Communio Editors: "The editors, in particular Luis Gutierrez, would like to offer  
apologies to both Mary Murray and Mary Englert for the misattribution of the article on the Vatican II Lecture Series that appeared in the May 14 issue. We credited Mary Englert when in fact the article was written and submitted by Mary Murray." – L.G.

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