Are you in the 8th through 12th grade? Then "Come Follow Me" to this year's DiocesanYouth Rally.  Never been to a Youth Rally?  Well don't miss out!  There is Mass, Music, Food, Fun and Activities.  Join teens from all over the Diocese on Saturday February 18th, 2012 at St Juliana Church.  The cost is just $35.00 per person and includes your meals for the day and a t-shirt commemorating the event.  Contact Gina-Marie in the Office of Youth Ministry to submit the attached form and sign up today!

Attachments:

DYC Follow Me There Permission Form.pdf

[DYC Rally Form 2012]

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Hanley Resource Center, located at 933 45th Street in West Palm Beach is offering a FREE eight session program for children 6-12 who have parent(s) or family member(s) dealing with alcohol and/or substance addiction issues. The program starts on January 23 and for more information please call them at 561-841-1216.  

God Bless you,

Deacon Bob 

SAM…(Substance Addiction Ministry) has started a Support Group on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month. The Group meets in the Annex (building to the right of the school) from 7:00—8:30 pm. If you or a loved one need help dealing with addiction, please join us. If you have any questions please call Deacon Bob Pope at 561-212-9729. All calls are confidential 

The group is a place where people suffering from addiction or their family members or both can come to share how addiction has impacted their lives, in a confidential setting. This is not counseling and is not a 12 step group meeting. The meeting is facilitated by Erik Vagenius, MHS, CAP Coordinator of the Diocese of Palm Beach Substance Addiction Ministry. For more information on SAM, please see http://www.diocesepb.org/family/sam.htm

If you or a family member or someone that you know is hurting because of addiction to a substance or compulsions that are not substance related such as compulsive shopping, overeating, problem gambling, and any other activity or behavior that has become the major focus of a their life during which they withdraw from other activities – then the SAM Support group is a place where for them to share with others that have similar issues.

Thank you for your time and please feel free to forward this information to anybody that you think may benefit from it.

The CCW wants you! That’s right - our new ‘year’ is starting now, and we don’t want you to miss any of the good things coming up.

The COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN (CCW) is a group of active Catholic ladies who want to make a difference, helping others as well as fellow CCW members.

Santa’s Shopping is one of our most popular special events. Children can buy gifts for their families at very affordable prices. These items are new or gently used things donated by the CCW ladies and friends.

The Seder Meal held on Palm Sunday teaches us about the beliefs and heritage we share with our Jewish brothers and sisters.

Back to Basics distributes donated Christmas gifts of shoes, socks and underwear for underprivileged children.

Noreen McKeen Residence  - our fall visit brightens the spirits of members and residents alike, with an afternoon of food and song.

Bake Sales bring home-baked treats to parishioners tables and some income to our small coffers.

Take a Sister to Lunch offers a nice outing with some of our religious.

Spring Festival  - our booth selling various “treasures” is a good fund-raiser.

Fashion Show - a lovely and stylish afternoon out.

Burse Fund - helps support seminarians.

Water for Life - Donations are collected at each meeting. In conjunction with Catholic Relief Services, this enables small villages in Africa to provide clean, safe water for the people.

50/50 Monthly Raffle is held, too. Half the proceeds go to the winner, and half to the Diocesan Scholarship Fund, which goes toward a young woman’s tuition to a Catholic college.

Meeting programs are always informative and enlightening, dealing with subjects spiritual, secular, practical and beneficial. This year’s list is still being developed; watch the weekly bulletin for details. Leadership training is available through the Diocese and the CCW Central Deanery.

Our affiliate is part of the larger body:  “The National Council of Catholic Women acts through its affiliated organizations to support, empower and educate all Catholic women in spirituality, leadership and service.” To learn more about us, check out This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and www.nccw.org.

CCW is completely self-supporting. No funds are taken from the parish. We’re very pleased and very blessed that during the 2010-2011 season, through the efforts of our members, the following community ministries benefited from our fundraising efforts:  Water for Life (Catholic Relief Services), Needy Families at the Holidays, Dominican Associates, Vita Nova, Birthline Pregnancy Centers, Faith, Hope, Love Charities, and the PBDCCW Raffle Fashion Show, Scholarship Fund, and Take a Sister to Lunch. These Holy Name of Jesus ministries were recipients as well: Children’s Choir, Festival, Trinity Center Chairs project, Youth Ministry, Simon Ministry, School Scholarship, and Religious Education.

Holy Name’s CCW meets in Trinity Center on the second Tuesday of each month, at 7:00 p.m. For more information, call president Madeline Chin, 561-642-5262.

Little Things for God

By Mary Wollney

Preparing Our Hearts for Christmas

At this time of year we receive a variety of holiday invitations.  Traditional ones come from friends asking us to join them in celebration.  Non-traditional invitations come from both society and religion:

·                    Society invites us to prepare our homes for the holiday. 

·                    Advent invites us to prepare our hearts for Christmas.

We know how to prepare our homes.  But just how do we prepare our hearts???

We do it one trying situation at a time.  Every time we feel ‘pushed’ we are given an opportunity to change and prepare our heart by sharing love instead of frustration.  

Sometimes a visual aid helps: When we are stressed and in a foul frame of mind, that’s when it helps to visualize lighting a candle of love in our hearts.

Candles represent light. When a candle of love is in our heart we feel at peace, which makes it easier to share love.  Sharing love is one way to prepare our heart for Christmas.

As we go about our lives it’s easy for our candle of love to either blow out or completely burn out.  Someone may cut us off in traffic.  Someone may take ‘our’ parking space.  Someone may cut in line at the department store.  They may utter an unkind word.  They may make unreasonable demands.  Every day, all day long, life presents us with situations that can cause our candle of love to burn out.  Darkness results.

That’s when we need to relight our candle.

PEOPLE  ENGAGED IN  ACTIVE  COMMUNITY  EFFORTS

P.E.A.C.E. is a congregation-based community organization charged with the mission of effectively fighting injustices in the communities of Palm Beach County. Through the power of large numbers of organized people, our members identify problems of mutual concern, research solutions to those problems, and hold public officials accountable to implementing these solutions.

We are an affiliate of DART (Direct Action & Research Training Center), a network of twenty-two organizations just like ours located throughout the country.

The celebration of Mass is a corporate act, an act of the whole assembly gathered for worship. All the particular ministries serve this corporate function (GIRM, no. 27). In the Mass, the Church is joined to the action of Christ, the high point both of the action by which God sanctifies the world in Christ and of the worship that the human race offers to the Father, adoring him through Christ, the Son of God, in the Holy Spirit (no. 16). We are joined to this divine action through baptism, which incorporates us into the risen Christ. This action, which lies at the center of the whole Christian life (no. 16) is not initiated by us but by God acting in and through the Church as the body of the risen Christ.

The Holy See has approved the New English Translation of the Third Edition of the Roman Missal.  We must now await the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to determine when when can begin using the new translation in liturgy.  It is expected that the new translation will be in effect for Advent of 2011. 

The bishops have told us that now is the time for us to begin studying and learning the new text.  When these changes take effect it will be awkward to change responses we have made for many years that, over time, have become automatic.  Soon we will have to think about what we are saying at Mass.  The translation will also bring about a change in the language of the Mass.  The Vatican has asked that vernacular translations mare closely resemble the original Latin text.  We will notice more complex wording and longer phrases as the translators have worked to emancipate the rich meaning and antiquity of the prayers of the Roman Rite. The language we will use at Mass will sound less like street English and more like one addressing a king in a royal court.  We must remember the Mass makes us present on Calvary as the King of Kings was glorified by submitting His will to His Father in the Perfect Sacrifice: an example which we are called to imitate by submitting ourselves as a living sacrifice to Father.

Full text of the new translation of the ordinary of Mass (Study text).

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People often ask why it is that the Church talks about money. There is a widespread view that our faith is separate from what we do with our money. That way of thinking is flawed.

The Church exists to share Christ with the world, and that fact is, Christ had a lot to say about money. There are hundreds of references to money in the Bible. Jesus used money and possessions as themes in half of His parables. Why did He speak of money so often? Because He knows that money and possessions have a way of interfering with our relationship with Him.

Ladies, please join Holy Name of Jesus Church Women's CRHP Alumni on Facebook at Holy Name of Jesus-West Palm Beach-Women's CRHP, moderated by Deacon Bob.

Ministry for young adults 18-28 is back. If you have graduated from high school, in college, home on break, working and looking for some spiritual growth as well as fun with your peers, come join us. We are meeting the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month starting June 6th from 7 to 9 pm. “BRING A FRIEND”.

Please contact Darlene Fernandez or Joe McDeavitt.

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WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 20, 2009—Today a group of prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders and scholars released the Manhattan Declaration, which addresses the sanctity of life, traditional marriage and religious liberty.  The 4,700-word declaration issues a clarion call to Christians to adhere to their convictions and informs civil authorities that the signers will not—under any circumstance—abandon their Christian consciences.  Drafted by Dr. Robert George, Dr. Timothy George and Chuck Colson and signed by more than 150 Orthodox, Catholic and evangelical Christian leaders, the Manhattan Declaration was made public at a noon ET press conference held in the Lisagor Room at the National Press Club.

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