Generation Christ - Ann Arbor at 530 Elizabeth Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 US
| 04-23-2010 | The Weekly Update is mailed out at noon on Fridays. Email paulcschultz at gmail dot com, if you would like to subscribe |
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Feast of St. George (OF/EF) and St. Adalbert (OF)
Greetings GenChrist,
This Sunday evening, Fr. Eric Weber will lead the meditation at our Sunday evening Holy Hour.
As we approach the summer months, the Core Team renews our request that everyone consider his or her own life to see whether he or she is called to serve and lead Generation Christ - Please see the descriptions below or feel free to volunteer for a position that you don't see named but which you believe GenChrist needs. In the near future, we will also be sending out an online survey - so that you can give us feedback on what worked well at GenChrist this year and what could work better in the future.
Truly He is Risen, alleluia!
Paul Schultz
News in Brief
Today: Friday Adoration - beginning after 7:00 a.m. Mass
Today: Local Organists concert
Today: SCH Patroness Party
April 24: Gabriel Project Training
April 25: Delonis Center
April 28: SVDP Big Boy / "Celebrity Waiter" night
April 28: Five Guys and a Catechism: Four Last Things
April 29: McGivney Dinner
May 1: May Crowning during 9:00 a.m. Mass
GenChrist notes: GC Service opportunities; Facebook Groups update / advanced notices; Generation Christ summer sessions; SCH / FMH Housing opportunities
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News
Local Organists concert
Bethlehem United Church of Christ
Friday, April 23rd
7:00 p.m.
Performers are: John Woolsey, Andrew Meagher, Paul Scheiderer, Naki Sung Kripfgans, Ingrid Pylvainen.
The performance will include newly commissioned works by Fred Himebaugh and William Zuckerman.
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FEAST DAY PARTAY for ST. CAT!!!
There can never be a woman pope. But there was a woman who told a pope how to do his job right. We have a women's discernment house named after her, here at St. Thomas: St. Catherine of Siena. Her feast day is next week (OF), and the party is tonight. Be there!
Facebook RSVP
Friday, April 23rd
8:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.
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Gabriel Project Training
On Saturday, April 24, 2010, from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m Dr. Marcella Colbert - the director of the Galveston-Houston Gabriel Project - will be at St. Thomas to train parishioners, particularly seasoned mothers, in ministering to women with these needs. Please rsvp to me and also forward this message to anyone in our area that you think should be interested.
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"Whatever you did for the least of my brothers, you did for me."
Join us this Sunday at the Robert J. Delonis Center to help cook, serve and clean up following the Sunday meal. Five hours in the kitchen helps to serve over 200 hungry adults and children. We will be there from noon-5pm, and you can join us for a single shift (12-2:30 to cook or 2:30-5 to serve and clean up) or for the entire afternoon. Please let me know if you are interested. Thank you! ~Mark Meinhart (meinhar at gmail dot com)
Or Facebook RSVP
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SVDP "Celebrity Waiter" dinner
Our local St. Vincent de Paul center is holding one of its annual fundraisers, a dinner at the Plymouth Road Big Boy served by our parish priests and office staff as well as leaders of the Altar Rosary Society, Religious Ed., KofC and Mark Meinhart and others from GenChrist.
Wednesday, April 28th
5-9 p.m.
at Big Boy Restaurant
3611 Plymouth Road at US 23
Please come out and support SVDP
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McGivney House Dinner
The Father McGivney House Fellowship Dinner will be held at the St. Thomas rectory on Thursday, April 29th. Please join us at 5:30 p.m. (Evening prayer will begin at 6:00 p.m.) Men who have not fully discerned a call to marriage and are not closed to a vocation to religious life or the priesthood are welcome to attend. Please contact Tony - tony at zick dot ws - by Wednesday morning, if you are interested in attending. Dinner may be followed by a talk, which would end around 8 p.m.
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Michigan Chamber Players - Free concert: including Bill Campbell, Principal Trumpeter of St. Thomas
A free concert by the Michigan Chamber Players, showcasing the talents of faculty members of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
Monday, April 12th, 8 pm
Stamps Auditorium (Walgreen Drama Center on North Campus)
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Five Guys and a Catechism (plus friends)
On Wednesday, April 28th, the Five Guys will lead a discussion about the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell.
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May Crowning
The entire parish is invited to join the Altar Rosary Society for the crowning of the statue of our Blessed Mother.
Saturday, May 1st - during the 9:00 a.m. Mass
Please bring flowers from your gardens to place around Mary to show our love and devotion.
Light refreshments will follow in the parish hall.
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GenChrist Notes
GenChrist Serving Opportunities
During the summer months, we would be glad for you to step in and try out GenChrist service/leadership, to help in the present and to help in discernment of joining Core Team for next fall.
Among other opportunities, some positions might include:
-Summer Social Chair - plans events or recognizes events in the community; recommends and fosters GC participation, through Facebook and otherwise
-Summer Announcements - shares news at the end of our summer Holy Hours.
-Summer worship / music - assists Kevin and Louise and brings his or her musical abilities (whether voice, violin, guitar or piano) to the service of God and GenChrist
Please contact Paul or Mark about the social chair and announcement opportunities and Louise about musical service
Facebook Groups / Advanced Notices
If you haven't done so already, please join the GenChrist FB Group and, if applicable, the GCYP group.
Saturday, May 8th - Vocal Arts Ensemble - Byrd, Brahms and Beyond @ St. Thomas - website
Please RSVP or comment on these upcoming activities: Friday, June 11th - Priestly Ordinations @ St. Mary Cathedral, Lansing - Facebook
Wednesday, June 23rd - Blessing of a Bonfire on the Vigil of the Feast of St. John the Baptist - Facebook
Generation Christ Summer Schedule
Beginning in May, we will meet twice a month for Sunday evening adoration: 5/2, 5/23 (Pentecost), 6/6 (Corpus Christi), 6/27, 7/11 and 7/25. We will break in August and return on or about September 12th.
One picnic will be held on July 18th.
SCH / FMH Housing - 2010-2011
Are you wondering what God's plan is for your life?
Are you considering the possibility of religious life?
Are you desiring continued growth in holiness in your own life?
Some benefits of life at St. Catherine House include:
*SHARING A HOME WITH OUR LORD IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT!
*Close proximity to campus, St. Thomas and Zingerman's!
*Opportunity to experience life in community through House dinners, small groups
*Monthly Mass and dinners with speakers who will encourage growth in holiness
*Retreats in September and January
*Adoration in the St. Catherine House Chapel
*Annual "Nun Run" every Fall
*Monthly spiritual direction
We are currently accepting applications and scheduling interviews for the SCH summer household (May/June/July) as well as the 2010/11 Academic year.
Both single/double room options are available. Rents for summer household are a fraction of academic year rents ... this is a wonderful option if you are considering staying in Ann Arbor to work through the summer.
For more information or to receive an application and/or schedule an interview, contact Sr. Mary Ann Foggin, SGL at: mfoggin at dioceseoflansing dot org or call 517-342-2506.
