Archive for the Social Ministry Category

20. June 2008 by admin.

From the Notre Dame Learning Center
Volunteer tutors honored:
Seven area residents were honored for long-term service at the Notre Dame Learning Center’s 3d annual Appreciation Dinner Wed., May 21. They are:  The husband and wife team of Joanne and Russ Cordaro, from Holy Ghost Church, Gates; Jack Fawkes, Rochester; Maria Infantino, Greece; Jim Nobes, Penfield; Joe Ragusa, Webster; and Larry Steehler, Irondequoit.

About the Notre Dame Learning Center:
The Center, a free after school tutoring program for city students, was begun in 2004 by three retired School Sisters of Notre Dame. It depends on some 60 volunteers per year to provide one-on-one assistance in reading or math.

Students range from kindergarteners to eighth graders. They are referred by public, Catholic or charter schools in the city. Since its beginning the Center has served more than 300 children.

Anyone interested in volunteering for the July or August sessions, or to refer a student, may call Sr. Lorraine Burns at the Center at 254-5110 or visit www.ndlcenter.org.

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Spring cleaning and brave blue flowers

17. April 2008 by admin.

The weather is warming up and all the early spring flowers are lifting up their heads to the sunshine.  So too are we in this welcome relief from a classic upstate NY winter.

We honored another milestone anniversary this past weekend.  Dave and Jane

Richardson have been married 50 years!  Congratulations to them.

News from the Social Ministry Committee:

The Social Ministry Committee has a new name.  We will now be referred to as the Faith in Action Committee.  This name better reflects our goal to provide you, the parishioners, with opportunities to reach out and help the needy in our community.

Currently you could bring specific food and toiletry items to Mass on the first weekend of the month and participate in the upcoming Spirit Day.  (Spirit Day will be a chance to put your faith into action helping with spring cleaning for local people in need of a little assistance.) In the Fall you might also donate items for the Thanksgiving and Christmas Food baskets and Christmas gifts for our Giving Tree.  The Committee itself reaches out by bringing flowers to the homebound at Easter and Christmas and by sending monetary donations to needy families.

In the future we would also like to invite you to join us in educating ourselves regarding Social Justice issues.  Anyone interested in the above activities is welcomed to attend our monthly meetings on the second Tuesday of the month at 5:45 pm in the Parish Center.

Food Collection News: Last month we collect about 20 bags of items.  Our next monthly food collection will be the weekend of 5/3 and 5/4. St. Theodore’s Food Cupboard has requested CEREAL, RICE, PEANUT BUTTER AND SPAM.

How to contact us by email –

To make comments or suggest ideas for the blog or e-newsletter:
newsletter@holyghostrochester.org

 

For comments and suggestions about the web site in general:
webteam@holyghostrochester.org

 

For general email to the parish:
gholygho@dor.org

 

Yours in Christ,

Holy Ghost Web Team, with input from Social Ministry committee

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Spring has sprung (a leak)

10. April 2008 by admin.

The blog continues to unfold, bringing you news of Holy Ghost.

 

We welcome back Michelle Peter after her trip to

Italy with her mother.  She is almost over the jet lag and is excited to talk about all the sights.

 

Fr Tom Nellis is away on his vacation and will return April 18.

 

This past week at the 5pm Mass, we had the privilege of offering a blessing to the Rich and Kelly Publicover celebrating their 25 years of marriage.  They were married April 9, 1983, St. Mary’s Star of the Sea, Narragansett, RI.  Please let us know of other upcoming celebrations.

 

We had our “first Sunday of the month” food collection and collected many grocery items for St Theodore’s pantry.  Thank you very much for your generosity.

 

The weather has finally turned to the spring we so longed for.  It was a wonderful way to mark the 3rd Sunday of Easter as Fr Tom remarked.  Some of you have adopted flowers from our sanctuary and I am including here a little info on how to replant lilies from Church.

Water and set in indirect light, even after flowers have fallen off.

Plant outside after last frost in a sunny place -in the fall deadhead the brown stalk.

Or you can let all the leaves brown and deadhead it before planting bulb.

 

http://forum.doityourself.com/showthread.php?p=1338170

 

May the Spirit of the Easter Season remain with you as April showers nourish all of the new growth of spring.

 

Yours in Christ,

Holy Ghost Web Team

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