November 2, 2003
A New Look
"I
vant your Blood"
Perhaps you heard this from a few
costumed Draculas this past Halloween, but it’s true- we DO want
your blood at St. Brigid’s blood drive next Monday (Nov. 10th)
from 4-9 pm in Code Auditorium. It is a wonderful , painless, easy way
to literally save the life of an other person.
I give blood as often as I can and it feels good to know that in addition
to praying for people, I can do something to help them live! If you’ve
never given blood before, why not make Monday the 10th your first time?
Still
Listening
Our last
Synod Listening Session in English will be in St. Anthony’s Hall
next Sunday, Nov. 9th after the 10am Family Mass.
Come share your hopes for the future of our church.
At College?
At St. Brigid’s we like to stay in touch through
e-mail “letters from home.”
Once a person has an e-mail address at school (or if he/she uses a personal
address), please let us know what it is so we can include them when
we write.
Here's a handy college link so you
can send this info online.
e-mail Father Ralph:
Past Columns:
Oct
26: Blessed Mother Teresa
Oct
19: The Future of Our Youth
Oct
12: In Hot Water
Oct
5: Fruits of the Millennium
Sept
28: Jesus Comes To St. Brigid's
Sept
21: The children will lead us
Sept
14: Triumph of the Cross
Sept 7:
Nine-eleven: Two Years Later
August
31: Where the Summer went
August
24: Lessons from the Blackout
August 17: Here and
There
August 10: Surrender
August 3: Reaping Rewards
July 27: What's your
mission?
July 20: From a Deserted
Place
July 13: Nothing for the
Journey
July 6: God at Home
June 29: Going in Stages
June 22: Sommer in the Summer
June 15: Our Newest Priest
Ordained
June 8: The Feast of Pentecost
June 1: Beyond First Communion
May 24: Felicidades Manuel
May 18: Twenty Years Later
May 11: Bows for Peace
May 4: Upcoming Ordinations
April 27: One Heart One
Mind
April 20: Amazingly Graced
Days
April 13: Ashes to Palms
April 6:
God Embedded
March 30:
Pastoral Visits
March 23:
Turning Tables
March
16: Transfiguring Imagination
March
9: Beasts and Angels
March 2:
Lent and Imagination
Feb 23: Sorrow
Far and Wide
Feb 16: Saints
Feb 9: Columbia Lessons
Feb2: Giving At A Difficult
Time
Jan 26: Penny Power
& Catholic Schools
Jan19: Yet Another
Year
Jan 12: Stealing Jesus
Jan5: The Wise Still Come
From Afar
Columns from 2002
After
months of design work and weeks of learning new skills, we’re publishing
the first issue of our newly designed bulletin. First I want to publically
thank parishioner John Chiaramonte for sharing his time and talent with
us by designing the new look and for his help and patience with our staff
as he taught us how to use this new design.
Some noteworthy features include:
• Each issue features the date on the front cover
(no more picking up the wrong week’s bulletin!)
• Short descriptions in English of what’s being
written in different languages so that we can
all know and appreciate what’s happening in
the varied parts of our parish community
• The same page order in each issue
(no more hunting for your favorite pages-- each
week the majority of the pages will be in the
same order in the bulletin)
• An easier to follow “What’s Happening” page
See at a glance all that is happening at St. Brigid’s
in the coming week so you can get involved!
• Smaller announcements means more information
in each issue. Instead of using full pages for one
announcement, grouped announcements will
let us use the bulletin for informative articles.
(for example -- see page 11 for an article on
Church teaching and politics this election day...
ONLINE NOTE: You can't see page 11 online but you
can go to the online website that has the 2003
Election Statement)
All of the bulletin is now being
produced electronically and while we’ll still take in material from
parish ministries on paper, it would be easier for our bulletin editor
to receive material as e-mail attachments or on floppy disk. Our
bulletin editor? Why it’s Susan Porteus who’s good at the
other kind of keyboard as well (the church organ). Our thanks to Susan
for taking on the responsibility for bringing you all the news of what’s
happening at St. Brigid’s with the help of others on our staff and
in our parish.
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