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Fifth Sunday of Easter
14 May 2006
Dear Friends in Christ,
Several items for your attention:
- The truth about The Da Vinci Code will be the topic of a class taught by Catholic lay evangelist and radio host Steve Wood this Tuesday evening at 7 pm in Gallivan Hall. Please come and bring a non-Catholic friend with you. Please also look inside this bulletin for an information pamphlet on The Da Vinci Code written by Amy Welborn and published by Our Sunday Visitor; I encourage you to read this information carefully and share it with your friends. The movie which opens this Friday and the book upon which it is based make outrageous claims about the Church and blasphemous assertions about the Lord Jesus; we must therefore be prepared to explain the truth to anyone who asks. Come to class this Tuesday and study the brochure in your bulletin to prepare for that mission.
- After every Mass this weekend, we will be distributing baby bottles from the Piedmont Women's Center. Please take one of these bottles home and then bring it back next week to Sacred Heart Hall filled with contributions to support the care so urgently needed by young mothers with crisis pregnancies. We take this baby bottle collection twice each year, both times in months dedicated to special Marian devotion: In May we assist the Piedmont Women's Center, and in October we help Birthright. Both of these groups provide direct assistance to women who might be in danger of killing their babies with an abortion, and our support is a practical way to transform our pro-life principles into action.
- Next Saturday at our Cathedral Church in Charleston, Bishop Baker will ordain three men to the transitional diaconate for service in our diocese. They are Timothy Gahan, Andrew Trapp, and Jeremi Wodecki, and all three of these men will be ordained to the priesthood in the summer of 2007 along with the three students in Rome who will be ordained to the diaconate this October, our native son Michael Cassabon, Bryan Babick, and Jeff Kirby. Moreover, on June 3rd, Bishop Baker will ordain to the priesthood Deacons David Runnion (who served at St. Mary's in the summer of 2004) and Marcin Zahuta. In other words, in the next 13 months, we will have eight new priests ordained for the Diocese of Charleston, and for this we must give thanks and praise to God.
Father Newman
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us.