The Community of St. Malachi Newsletter  

· “All St. Malachi” Annual Picnic
· Next Liturgy Committee Meeting
· Message From Barbara Starre
· Sympathy And Prayers
· Health Department
· Special Prayers Roster
· Message From Treasurer Bob Simoneau
· Message From Spiritual Development Chair Jackie Bluett
· "Is God Calling You To Closer Relationship?" Praying With St. Ignatius of Loyola” Retreat
· St. Malachi Men’s Retreat Program
  “Male Spirit Round Up Day”
· Centering Space Reflective Prayer

· St. Malachi Center Benefit Golf Outing & Steak Roast
· West Side Ecumenical Ministry Community Corner 
· Task Force On Sexual Abuse Meeting
· St. Malachi S.M.A.R.T. Parents Picnic Suppers & Family Movies
· Backdoor Ministry Brunch
· Membership Committee Informational Meeting
· Tutors, Mentors Needed! Seeds of Literacy
· St. Malachi Center Needs Reading Buddies and Teen Mentors
· Monday Night Meal Menus
· Deadlines

Newsletter Editor: Mary Englert MTEnglert@juno.com

  The Community of St. Malachi – First Personal Parish of the Diocese of Cleveland
Celebrating Faith in God and in the Future! 

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 

 July 23, 2006

“All St. Malachi”

ANNUAL   PICNIC

sponsored by
The Community of St. Malachi 
     and 
St. Malachi Parish

Noon – 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 13

Lakewood Park Women’s Pavilion - Belle and Lake Avenues

Chicken, Hotdogs, Hamburgers, Coffee and Soft Drinks will be provided!

But do bring a side dish to share!

Come and enjoy good food, good company, children’s fun games, running games, prizes and other entertainment.

Volunteers welcome to drive others from church to the park, and back.

Information: Coletta Taddeo (330-659-0929) or Nancy Saegel (440-777-5879)

“Our next Liturgy Committee meeting is at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1, in the rectory. We need people interested in the liturgy to help keep our liturgy as one of our treasured values. Please come and increase our numbers. We meet once a month.

“We are looking for people to visit churches noted for their liturgies and report back to our committee. Please call me -- 440-884-9309 -- for a visitation form and suggested churches to visit.

“We wish to thank the 165 people who participated in the liturgy survey last month. We are discussing the results at our meetings and will post a summation in next month’s CSM Newsletter or Communio.” - M.P,

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Message from Barbara Starre:

“It is three months this Sunday (July 23) since Dave died. My heart is filled with gratitude to this beautiful community of people for all the care, love and prayers showered upon our family.

“We all miss Dave and the extraordinary qualities of his personality. He loved life and knew how to live it to the fullest. Dealing with bone marrow cancer simply expanded his capacity for love and compassion. I believe everything in our life is a gift inviting us to greater spiritual awareness and transformation. A friend sent the following inscription from an old English gravestone. I have shared it with many:

“He who we have loved and lost

Is no longer where he was before.

He is now wherever we are.

“Dave’s spirit is ever present for all eternity. When I imagine myself hugging him, the mental image of his former physical form blends right into my form and we are ONE.

Peace and Love to All of You,

CSM SYMPATHY AND PRAYERS

- for the family and friends of Barbie Bennett and Joseph Gill.

CSM SPECIAL PRAYERS ROSTER

- Please keep in your prayers all the victims of warfare, both civilian and military, as well as these young people now in the armed forces, and their families: Ricky Brezinski, Daniel Bugaj, Brian Chambers, Brian Collins, Jim Curtin, Christopher Dvorak, Edward Dvorak, Gary Faerber, Carter Gaffney, Michael Gomez, T. J. Gordon, Andrew Harlan, Rob Kastelic, David McLaughlin, Randy Mieskowski, Bill Nelligan, Tom Nemes, Michael O’Neil, John Parkowski, Chuck Porter, Kate Rybarczyk, Dave Salinas, Provented P. Taylor Jr., Louis Torres, Victor Valentino Jr., Michael Whalen.

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“I am pleased to begin my term as your treasurer, and I hope I can do as good a job on behalf of the Community of St. Malachi as my predecessors did. In June the CSM Council passed the Fiscal Year 2006-07 Budget and it was published in the newsletter. In order to meet all of our obligations, our budget calls for us to have regular collection income of $170,000 for this fiscal year. This amounts to a weekly collection of $3,270. To help everyone know how well we are doing in meeting this goal, we will publish the most recent collection numbers and the year-to-date amount with each CSM Newsletter, starting with this one.

“I remind everyone that in order to be counted for the CSM, checks must be made out to the Community of St. Malachi. Checks made out just to St. Malachi are not counted for the Community of St. Malachi and go to St. Malachi Parish. The cash received at our 11 o’clock Liturgy and all checks properly addressed to the Community of St. Malachi are part of our regular collection income.

--- Bob Simoneau

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Message from CSM Spiritual Development Chair Jackie Bluett:  

“Is God calling you to closer relationship? “ Praying with St. Ignatius of Loyola” is a retreat adapted from The Spiritual Exercises to foster a heartfelt knowledge of Jesus. For nine Sundays, Fr. Clem Metzger, SJ, from the Jesuit Retreat House will guide you through different methods of prayer, meditation, journaling, and small group sharing. You will be asked to commit 30 minutes a day to private prayer. The dates are Sundays, Sept. 17, 24; Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, and Nov. 5, 12. The time is 7-8:30 p.m. and the place is St. Malachi Hall. Registrations are available at the doors of the church. Please register by Tuesday, Sept. 12. Cost is $50. If needed, there is a scholarship for this retreat; please call Fr. Tony, 216-781-3110 or 216-861-5343. If you have other questions, call Fr. Metzger, 440-884-9300. “If you have made The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola and would like to be a part of the retreat committee for “Praying with St. Ignatius of Loyola,” please contact Jackie Bluett, 440-526-8574 or jackierose@aol.com 

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Sandy Ridge Reservation, 6195 Otten Rd., North Ridgeville, Johnson Wetland Center

A day for all Community of St. Malachi and St. Malachi Parish men interested in doing men’s spiritual work. The day will offer men’s topics for discussion, sacred dance, poetry, nature walk and good fellowship.

Says Mike Graham: “If you’re hearing a call or feeling that little nudge, then come join us and trust that this is the next step in your journey with God.”

Information: Mike Graham, 216-228-8815 – E-mail: mmgraham@msn.com 

Centering Space 

- Reflective prayer, 7-8 p.m. every Tuesday, 14812 Lake Ave., Lakewood. No cost; registration not required; all welcome. Information: 216-228-7451.

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14th Annual

ST. MALACHI CENTER BENEFIT GOLF OUTING & STEAK ROAST

Friday, Sept. 15, Cherokee Hills Golf Course, Valley City

Includes full breakfast, GPS golf carts, digitally calculated score-keeping and more.

To register contact Marilyn at 216-252-6443 – e-mail mcox4393@cs.com 

Online registration/info: www.stmalachicenter.org/golf.html 

Sponsorship packages now available: call Ginny Suhr, 216-771-3036

West Side Ecumenical Ministry - WSEM’s Community Corner

directed by CSM member Lou Keim, has moved to 8302 Detroit Ave., Cleveland. Phone number’s the same: 216-631-6508.

The corner’s expanded services to low-income and other needy people now call for expanded donations of new and “like new” small household items and children’s toys and clothes.

CSM Task Force on Sexual Abuse - Meeting

 7 p.m. Thursday, July 27, rectory. All welcome.

Information: Kathy Burke, 216-228-6782.

St. Malachi S.M.A.R.T. Parents

 (St. Malachi Adults Raising Tots, Tweens, Teens…) – Picnic suppers and family movies at Lakewood Park, 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 21 (Wallace and Grommit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit) and Friday, Aug. 11 (Scooby Doo 2). Info: Mike Pellegrino, 216-351-8553.

BackDoor Ministry Brunch

 - 8:30 a.m. Sunday, July 30 (and the last Sunday of every month) in the hall. Volunteers welcome. Information: Phil Daly, 216-631-4056.

CSM Membership Committee – Informational meeting

 for all interested in Community of St. Malachi membership, in the hall following our 11 o’clock Liturgy Sunday, Aug. 13. Information: Barb Pistillo, 216-692-0172.

TUTORS, MENTORS NEEDED!

Seeds of Literacy – initiated and sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph to combat adult illiteracy, needs tutors at its 10 sites. Orientation sessions: 6-8 p.m. Mondays, Aug. 14 and Sept. 18.

Training sessions:

• No. 1: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays, Aug. 19 and Sept. 23;
• No. 2: Saturdays, Aug. 26 and Sept. 30.

Information: Angela Eldredge, 216-651-4302

St. Malachi Center - needs Reading Buddies and Teen Mentors

 for its school year programs beginning this fall. Reading Buddies spend one hour each week working on reading skills and other homework with one or two After School Program youth at the kindergarten through third grade level. Hours tentatively are 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. and 4:30-5:30 p.m. Monday thru Thursday.

Three opportunities for teen mentoring are in career exploration, leadership skills and homework help. Says Jackie Bluett: “If you are looking for an active way to respond to God’s loving you, and one or more of these opportunities fit your schedule, please call Lynn Scott, 216-771-3036.”

Monday Night Meal Menus

Jul 24: Rigatoni

Jul 31: Smorgasbord

Aug 7: Chicken

Aug 14: Sloppy Joes

Aug 21: Kielbasa

Aug 28: Rigatoni

Sep 4: Hot Dogs

Sep 11: Meatballs in Gravy

Sep 18: Chicken

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