Let us pray for a blessed new year for our club!
Calendar of Events.
January 9-15, 2011. National Vocation Awareness Week.
January 10, 2011. Luncheon Meeting and Speaker, 12:00 Noon at Louis Benton Steak House.
January 13, 2011. Serra Leadership Development Conference, Chicago, Ill. See below for further information.
January 14-16, 2011. USA Super Weekend, Crown Plaza O'Hare-Chicago, Rosemont, Illinois.
January 20, 2011. Serra Board Meeting, 12:00 Noon at Louis Benton Steak House.
January 25. 2011. Member-Guest Reception, 5:30 p.m. at Louis Benton Steak House. Each member is asked to invite at least two guests. Please note: This meeting will take the place of our regular Serra meeting at Sacred Heart. Also, please note that the Serra USA Council has added two new workshops to its programs: Membership 101: Recruitment
and Membership 102: Retention.
Visit the website as more information becomes available.
January 27, 2011. March for Life, Washington, D. C. Once again we will report on the events in next month's bulletin, particularly as they relate to the participation among the young people of our nation. Vocations awareness is a welcome by-product of these activities.
In connection with the March, this message appeared in the bulletin of Our Lady of Sorrows on the weekend of January 1-2, 2011. Not everyone can travel to Washington, D. C. to the March for Life this January. However, you can partner with Help Pregnancy Crisis Aid by bringing one can of Enfamil or Meijer Brand Formula to church during the month of January. Our shelves once held 600 cans of Similac--until Similac recalled all of their formula. Since our formula was donated to us, Similac would neither replace the formula nor the cost of the formula, resulting in many moms walking away empty-handed. Thank you for helping struggling mothers of our community feed the youngest and most vulnerable among us.
Looking Ahead. Here's some very exciting news about the next International Convention, which will be held July 14-17, 2011 in Jerusalem, Israel. More information to come as it becomes available.
Priests' Anniversaries.
Father Fred Brucker, January 25, 1976.
Father Joseph Kenshol, January 19, 1973.
Father Mark Mitchell, January 25, 1976.
Father Ernest Schneider, January 30, 1977.
Father Thomas Simons, January 30, 1977.
Good News for Vocations. This past weekend, Father Ted Kozlowski blessed Our Lady of Sorrows parishioner Jorge Zentino, who will travel to Epworth, Iowa next Saturday to begin his seminary education at Divine Word College. The college's website tells us the following: there are hundreds of Catholic colleges in the United States. A few of these colleges are seminaries, but only one in the entire country is dedicated to preparing young men for missionary service--Divine Word College in Epworth, Iowa. Divine Word College is an undergraduate Roman Catholic seminary whose primary mission is the education of young men seriously considering vocations as missionary priests and brothers in the Society of the Divine Word. Saint Arnold Janssen founded this religious society in 1875 in Holland as a foreign missionary society whose members work "first and foremost where the Gospel has not yet been preached at all or only insufficiently, and where the local Church is not yet viable on its own." (SVD Constitutions). Presently more than 6000 Divine Word Missionaries seek to live St. Arnold's original inspiration in 70 countries.
Divine Word College, located in the Archdiocese of Dubuque, is a short drive west of the city of Dubuque. The college traces its roots back to 1931. The present campus and facilities have welcomed students since 1964. Let us give thanks for this young man's vocation.
About Super Weekend.
Overview: Super Weekends are scheduled twice a year so that the USA Council Board and USA Council Committees have an opportunity to work on the here and now but also work toward the future. The USA Council of Serra International schedules three Board meetings during the Serra year. The first of these meetings is scheduled to occur during the Serra International Convention. The second and third meetings occur in September and January. The September and January meetings are characterized as Super Weekends...
All Serrans are encouraged to attend Super Weekend. Typically, the USA Council Board, USA Council Committee members, District Governors, and District Governors-Elect attend the meetings at Super Weekend. However, the USA Council wants all Serrans to know that everyone is welcome. Everyone can contribute expertise and talents...It's not too early to register for this June's Super Weekend at 1.888.777.6681 or register online.
Celebrating Epiphany. Around a thousand years ago a stonemason in Autun, France, was working on decorations for the city's new cathedral. One of his carvings shows a charming scene. The three kings, all wearing crowns and sharing one cozy bed, are being awakened by an angel pointing to a star. The angel's finger is gently touching the hand of one of the kings on top of the patterned coverlet. This king's eyes have popped open in surprise, while the other two slumber on. The stonemason artistically combined two biblical stories into one. The star reminds us of the one that led the kings to Bethlehem, while the visiting angel refers to the warning they received in a dream not to return to Herod after visiting the Christ Child.
For centuries tradition has held that the names of the kings were Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, but nobody really knows for sure. Other traditions call them wise men from the East who studied the stars. They were the first non-Jews to recognize and worship the Son of God and give him kingly gifts. In the Middle Ages, houses were blessed on Epiphany, reflecting how the magi found Christ "on entertaining the house."
Try reviving this ancient tradition today. It can work for any family or household group. One person incenses the house while another sprinkles holy water, and a thirs writies in chalk over every outside doorway "20+C+M+B+11", which stands for "The Three Holy Kings, Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, in the year 2011." The letters C, M, and B also stand for Christus mansionem benedicat, "May Christ bless this home." Blessing the doorways symbolizes the family's commitment to welcome everyone as Christ into one's home throughout the year.
Source: Our Lady of Sorrows Bulletin, January 1-2, 2011.
Pray the Rosary. The 2011 Catholic Art Calendar lists Fifteen Promises of Mary to Christians who Recite the Rosary. For January, the promises are as follows: I. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the rosary shall receive signal graces, and II. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the rosary.
Let us pray...for the repose of the soul of Serran Steve Kramer, who passed away on December 26 at his mother's home in Henry Ford Village.
Finally, let us begin the new year with this thought:
Solemn things of mystic meaning:
Incense does the God disclose;
Gold a royal Child proclaims;
Myrrh a future tomb foreshows.
Roman Breviary
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