Cluster News
PARISH OUTREACH
H.O.P.E.
Our H.O.P.E. ministry began on May 14th. Anyone within our parish who needs transportation for appointments, transportation to the store, transportation to the bank, light meal preparation, or other needs, please call Outreach or Kathy and Bob Talbot at: 215-541-0250.
Volunteers are waiting to be of service to our parish Family!
Something New: On-going Support Group Participants in previous Bereavement Support Groups are invited to become participants in something new – an on-going support group. Our next meeting will be Thursday evening, November 29th from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. IMPORTANT!!! – Parish Outreach Office is where the meeting will take place. Please call if you are NOT coming: (215)679-2282.
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES
Catholic Social Services is looking for single or married adults to become foster parents to children of all ages and races. There is a special need for families who can provide care to Teenagers - a population that needs love, guidance, and support as they move into adulthood.
To learn more about becoming a foster parent, please call Melissa at: 215-587-2458.
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Friendly Visitors - More Volunteers are needed for our Friendly Visitor Program. Share an hour or so of your time, on a regular basis, with a person who is homebound. This is an opportunity for you to fulfill your Baptismal call to service--by becoming a friendly visitor. FMI call Sr. Patricia Kelly at the Parish Outreach Office, 215.679.2282.
The H.O.P.E. Program,
(Helping Other People Enthusiastically)
Next weekend at all the Masses, there will be someone who will speak about H.O.P.E. and further explain what H.O.P.E. may be able to do for others, and while H.O.P.E. participants do for others, you are also doing for yourselves because:
You are living your baptismal to serve, Because you are serving God’s people, you are deepening your spiritual life, and You are giving hope to others.
Catholic Social Services is looking for single or married adults to become foster parents to children of all ages and races. There is a special need for families who can provide care to Teenagers - a population that needs love, guidance, and support as they move into adulthood. To learn more about becoming a foster parent, please call Melissa at: 215.587.2458.
LIHEAP = Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program: Open Line, 452 Penn Street, Pennsburg, (215)-679-4112 can be contacted for help with heating bills. The contact person for LIHEAP is Linda Connell.
Parish Outreach Office of Catholic Social Services
Excerpts from Faithful Citizenship: A Catholic Call to Political Responsibility
A statement from the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Since 1976, every four years, the U.S.C.C.B. has issued a statement on the responsibility of Catholics in society. The purpose of the statement is to communicate the Church’s teaching that every Catholic is called to an active and faith-filled citizenship, based on a properly informed conscience in which each disciple of Christ publically witnesses to the Church’s commitment to human life and dignity with special preference to the poor and vulnerable. Faithful Citizenship was developed…in collaboration with many committees within the U.S.C.C.B.….
As we approach November mid-term elections and the election of 2008, we face difficult challenges for our nation and world…September 11th and what followed has taught us that no amount of military strength, economic power, or technological advances can truly guarantee security, prosperity or progress. The most important challenges we face are not simply political, economical or technological, but ethical, moral and spiritual…
These times will test us as American Catholics. A renewed commitment to faithful citizenship can help heal the wounds of our nation, world and Church…Politics cannot be about merely ideological conflict, the search for partisan advantage, or political contributions.
Politics should be about fundamental moral choices. How do we protect human life and dignity? How do we fairly share the blessings and burdens of the challenges we face? What kind of nation do we want to be? What kind of world do we want to face? Politics should be about an old idea with new power-the common good! The central question should not be “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” It should be “How can ‘we’-all of us-especially the weak and vulnerable, be better off in the year’s ahead? How can we promote and protect human life and dignity? How can we pursue greater justice and peace?”
In the face of all these challenges, we offer once again, a simple image-a table. Who has a place at the table of life? Where is a place at the table for a million…children destroyed every year before they are born? How can we secure a place at the table for…the hungry and those who lack health care in our own land and around the world?…
As Catholics, a special table-the altar of sacrifice, where we celebrate the Eucharist is where we find the direction and strength to take what we believe into the public square, using our voices and votes to defend life, advance justice, pursue peace, and find a place at the table for all Gods children.
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