St. Malachi parishioners will take holiday fruit baskets to our neighbors at Lakeview High Rise on Sunday, December 13, 2015. This is a wonderful opportunity for families, couples, individuals to share a special treat with our neighbors.
Save the date on your calendar and plan to participate in this St. Malachi tradition!
Join us on Sunday, November 22, 2015 in the School Hall at 10:15AM for a special time of preparation for the upcoming Advent season.
Sunday, 11/22/2015 is the Feast of Christ the King, the end of the Church year, so Advent will begin the following week.
During this one hour in the School Hall we will prepare our hearts and hands for Advent through loving service in the name of Christ our King.
If you can, please bring PB & J, bread, socks, hats & gloves, hand warmers and cereal bars for gift bags that we will be preparing for our neighbors in less fortunate circumstances.
While we are together we will have a variety of service activities, with something appropriate for every age. These activities will include making sandwiches, writing Christmas cards for our parish shut-ins, and preparing gift packages for our homeless neighbors. In addition, we will have Advent materials available that you can take home for your home Advent devotions. Come to this great St. Malachi Parish event, there is something for all ages!
Our book for Sunday,November 15, 2015 is Living Gently in a Violent World by Stanley Hauerwas and Jean Vanier. We will meet in the school from 10:15- 11:15AM.
Book review: In this fascinating book, theologian Stanley Hauerwas collaborates with Jean Vanier, founder of the worldwide L’Arche communities. For many years, Hauerwas has reflected on the lives of people with disability, the political significance of community, and how the experience of disability addresses the weaknesses and failures of liberal society.
L’Arche provides a unique model of inclusive community that is underpinned by a deep spirituality and theology. Together, Vanier and Hauerwas carefully explore the contours of a counter cultural community that embodies a different way of being and witnesses to a new order–one marked by radical forms of gentleness, peacemaking and faithfulness.
You may purchase the book at: InterVarsity Press
As the Church year comes to an end, November is the time to remember all Saints, both those canonized by the Church and our beloved who have gone before us in faith.
To celebrate our belonging to this communion, come to the hall on Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 10:00 AM in the hall. Learn about saints. Take home items for a November remembrance altar. Enjoy a church tour.
Bring brunch items to share. Something for all ages!
Stacey Dever of the Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Office will tell us about opportunities to assist refugees. As you know, there has been an enormous influx of refugees and migrants into Europe; Recently, Pope Francis appealed:“May every parish, every religious community,every monastery, every sanctuary of Europe, take in one family.”
Participate in a conversation about Pope Francis’ recent trip to the U.S.! What touched you? What inspired you? What has remained with you? How is it affecting your faith? Your life? Join us on Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 10:15AM in the hall. See Fr. Tony’s blog post, The Fruit of Pope Francis’ Visit to the U.S., for some thoughtful questions for reflection.
On Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 10:15AM in the hall, Dana Hill will present Planned Giving.
“The Long Loneliness” is the autobiography of Dorothy Day which will be discussed on be Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 10:15AM in the school. Even folks who haven’t read it are invited to attend.
“We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.” DOROTHY DAY
Pope Francis has proclaimed a Jubilee of Mercy to begin later this year. Fr. Tony will discuss God’s gift of mercy in the Sacraments of Healing: Penance and Anointing of the Sick. Join us in the hall at 10:15AM on Sunday, September 27, 2015.Book Club Sunday, September 20, 2015 10:15AM
On Sunday, September 20, 2015 the Book Club will meet in the school at 10:15am. We begin the study of Pope Francis’ Laudato Si On Care of Our Common Home.
