The Community of St. Malachi Newsletter

· Spiritual Development Planning Meeting
· The Bag Project
· Message From Martin Trojan (Seminarian)
· Health Department
· Special Prayers Roster
· Regular Weekly Collection
· 2008 Catholic Charities Appeal
· Spiritual Development Committee
· Wednesday Prayer
· CSM Road Trip To M.A.S.H.
· Book Discussion
· Summer Solstice Gathering

· St. Malachi Center
· St. Malachi Center’s Anniversary Raffle
· Golf Outing
· Interreligious Task Force On Central America
· Young Adults In The City (20's And 30's)
· Monday Night Meals
· Justfaith: Call To Transform Our Hearts And The World
· Eucharistic Ministers
· 2008 Calendar
· Deadlines
· Attachment To Newsletter
· Letter From Malachi Mart

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

 Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 

 June 8, 2008 

Spiritual Development Planning Meeting

The Spiritual Development Committee is having their annual planning meeting on Saturday, June 14 from 11:00am to 2:00pm at the home of Mike Graham (1295 Bonnieview in Lakewood). All are welcome. Please bring you energy and ideas.

If you can attend, please contact Jackie Bluett (440-590-0394 or jackierose@aol.com) or Mike Graham (216-228-8818 or mmrsgraham@msn.com).

Many thanks to our dedicated, hard-working sewers who helped launch a special “recycling” project this spring. Since the group first met to cut cloth for shopping bags (eventually plastic shopping bags will be replaced by usable bags) over 45 bags have been made.
They are currently for sale at Malachi Mart and WSEM Community Corner Hunger Center at W. 83 and Detroit.
The sewers, cloth cutters, helpers include: Nancy Saegel, Antoinette Robinson, Dottie, and Minnie from St. Malachi Center, Colette Peters from St. Wendelin, and Jan Galvin, Eileen Garven, Diane Brinich, Kay Vine, Teresa Andreani, Carol Kuegler, Cindy DiNardo, Chris and daughter, Sara, Crawford, Nadge Herceg, and Janelle Schubmehl from St. Malachi’s.

More bags are being made and there is additional fabric if you would like to lend a stitch! Contact Kay Vine at 440- 871-5868.

Message from Martin Trojan (Seminarian)

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 – Please remember in your prayers for the sick these that have been added (or updated) since our previous edition: Mike Misener Chet Fedoriwicz Laura Dumbrys

If you need the previous list, you may go to the Malachi Community website at www.stmalachi.org/community.htm. Click on Health Department, found under Newsletter, or you may visit the “We Lift These Prayers” book on the St. Malachi side of the altar. You may then add these requests to your personal list.

Please remember in your prayers the deceased: John Patterson

We join in prayer for the family and friends who have experienced the loss of their loved one.

 – Please keep in your prayers all the victims of warfare, both military and civilian, as well as these young people now in the armed forces, and their families:

Please remember to make checks out to the Community of St. Malachi. Bob Simoneau 

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This past week the Community received a report from Catholic Charities on the status of the 2008 appeal as of April 30, 2008. The total amount pledged for 2008 as of April 30 was $7,290,000. The Community of St. Malachi has pledged $5,756 to date, as compared to $6,170 for all of 2007. It may be interesting to all to note that the combined pledges from the four Cluster parishes as of April 30, 2008 is $38,325 with St. Malachi Parish being significantly the largest supporter. Bob Simoneau, CSM Treasure

Chairperson contact: Jackie Bluett 440-526-8574 jackierose@aol.com

Please join the Spiritual Development Committee for Wednesday evening prayer. For Wednesday, June 11 the prayer is Taizé Prayer a meditative, candlelit service including simple chants sung repeatedly, rich silence, and prayers of praise and intercession. Meet at 6:00pm in the Church.

Next Wednesday, June 18 at 6:00pm is Bridges to Contemplation using Thomas Merton’s writings as a starting point for contemplation and discussion.

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Plans are underway for a CSM group attendance at a stellar performance by Peter Toomey in the ever popular comedy “M.A.S.H.” The date is Friday, June 27. The time is 8:00pm. The place is the Brecksville Little Theatre, Brecksville Old Town Hall, NW corner of the square, Ohio 52 (Royalton Road), 100 feet west of Ohio 21 (Brecksville Road).

The cost for reserved seating is $10. To reserve a seat, leave a message at the box office, 440-526-4477 or e-mail the theater at www.BrecksvilleLittleTheatre.com

Do come and join us in communally cheering and/or hooting Peter’s performance! Other performances are at 8:00pm June 6-7-13-14 and 2:00pm June 15.If you own an Entertainment Book; it’s a “buy one get one free,” G112 and G113. For further information about our June 27 CSM event to hail or bewail Peter Toomey, call Kay Vine (440-871-5868) or Mary Englert (216-228-8417).

Thanks go to Syndie Eardly for hosting us in her lovely Lakewood home for the May discussion.

The meeting for June is Wednesday June 25at 7:00pm. The book we will discuss is My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. We will meet at the home of Pat O'Malley, 9764 Sugarbush, Olmsted Falls; phone 440-816-0847. Pat has asked us to bring a "Christmas in July" donation for Malachi House (paper products, postage stamps, soda pop in cans, ground coffee.)

The July meeting will be July 16...........note date, please. This will be our organizational meeting for the following 12 months. We will have our pot luck at the home of Rebecca Rocco, as usual. Questions? Call Casey at 440-234-8766.

There will be a Summer Solstice gathering at Starre's Acres on Friday, June 20 at 6:00pm. It will be a pot luck dinner and campfire to welcome the coming of summer and to honor our Earth. Reservations are required on or before June 14.

Those who would like to attend are asked to bring a nutritious dish to share, reusable dinnerware, non-alcoholic beverages, and a chair or two. Please call 330-239-1217 for reservations and more information. Peace, Barbara Starre  

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St. Malachi Center

St. Malachi Center’s Anniversary Raffle
This year, the Center is offering a “progressive” raffle, with drawings every month! Tickets are only $12 each or three for $30! SMC held its second drawing last Monday after noon Mass. Vince Hvizda won $250; Cheryl Birchfield won $150; and Fran Kelly won $100. The next drawing is Monday June 30. Winning tickets go back into the “hopper” to be eligible to win the other monthly and the grand or runner-up prize. The grand prize is $5000 and the runner-up prize is $1000. The grand prize drawing is Saturday November 8th after 4:30 Mass in the School Hall.

To purchase tickets, please contact Cathy Graham, Jackie Bluett or Ginny Suhr. Call 216-771-3036 or email St_Malachi@ameritech.net. The seller of the grand prize ticket receives $250 and the person who sells the most tickets receives $250!

Please mark your calendars! The St. Malachi Center 16th Annual Golf Outing is Friday August 29. You can find brochures at the doors of the Church and on line at: www.StMalachiCenter.org/news/2008golfouting.pdf.

We have sponsorships available. Please call Jackie Bluett at 216-771-3036. For more golfing information, please call Ginny Suhr at 216-771-3036.

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On Friday, June 13, the InterReligious Task Force on Central America (IRTF) invites the public to a coffeehouse entitled: "A Call to Solidarity." This is an evening of music, photography, poetry, education and action for the people of Mexico. This event is timely because the US Congress is currently considering a shift in policy direction by voting on the Merida Initiative ("Plan Mexico"), which would give millions of tax dollars in military aid for the "the war on drugs," despite Mexico's increasingly questionable human rights record.

The presenter will be Elisa Bredendiek who is a member of the Cleveland Catholic Worker and she has spent the last 3 months in Mexico studying social analysis, immigration, US intervention, and social movements with the Zapatista communities. Join us on Friday, June 13 from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at St. Paul Community Church.
(4427 Franklin Blvd., Cleveland 44113)

Young Adults in the City (20's and 30's)

Young Adults are invited to volunteer with the Cleveland Foodbank on Saturday, June 21 from 8am to noon. We'll be sorting or repacking food in their warehouse. . This event is sponsored by the Catholic Charities Youth and Young Adult Ministry along with the CYO Office in the Diocese of Cleveland. To register, please call Laura (216-228-9516) or e-mail to 2006yaic@gmail.com or mjvogel@clevelandcatholiccharities.org

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St. Hilary Church with co-sponsors, Holy Family of Stow and St. Mary’s of Hudson, invite you to a Wednesday, June 16 workshop introducing “JustFaith.” This program empowers people of faith to develop a passion and thirst for justice.

Jack Jezreel will facilitate the three hour workshop from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. Jack is a popular national speaker and justice educator. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Notre Dame and he spent six years in a Catholic Worker Community. He serves as the Executive Director of JustFaith and has been involved in parish-based justice ministry for 25 years.
St. Hilary Church is located at 2750 West Market Street, Fairlawn, OH

Contact: Linda Gannon, 330-664-0943 or Lyn Schott 867-1055 ext 217. The cost is $10.00 and includes materials and snacks.

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Eucharistic Ministers:

• June 15: Pam Pulizzi, Kay Vine, Dolores Sullin, Bruce Wacker, Bruce Wegrzynowski, Dan Zehe, Lori Zehe, Peg Connell, Jeff Barbalics, Meg Kilbane, Cynthia Bender
• June 22: Therese Andreani, Barb Aylward, Jackie Bluett, Linda Bellini, Theresa Chinnock, Phil Daly, Joan Daly, Diane Dorenkott, Jan Durkalski, Chris Dusek, Al Meyers

First Lay-Directed Personal Parish of the Diocese of Cleveland

Celebrating Faith in God and in the Future

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