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Dr. Sean Reynolds, Director of the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, will speak on the Archdiocesan Youth Athletic Initiative at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at St. John the Baptist Church, Dry Ridge. He will discuss the work of the Archdiocesan Task Force on Youth Athletics, which has been working since January 2012 to develop policies and guidelines for youth athletic programs. The new policies and guidelines, which go into effect Aug. 1, will apply to elementary-age and parish-based high school age Catholic-sponsored athletics. In addition to the presentation, there will be a Q&A session for those attending. The session is open to anyone interested in learning more about the Youth Athletic Initiative. For more information about the session, contact Rod Dunlap, director of youth ministry at St. John, call 513-385-8010, ext. 102.

Holy Trinity Church in Dayton is holding a Spring Rummage Sale and Plant Sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 11, at Trinity Center, 266 Bainbridge St. This is a large sale of household items, decorative items, books, jewelry, toys and collectibles. The plant sale includes beautiful plants and hanging baskets. Lunch is available. All are welcome. Celebrate Mary in a service of music, scripture, prayer and joy! Musicians, lectors and youth from local parishes will lead this celebration at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, at the Maria Stein Shrine of the Holy Relics. Refreshments and Marian artwork will be available. Catholic Charities is offering a free Life Issues Workshop, “How are You Doing: Dealing with Life after the Disaster,” at 7 p.m. May 15 at the Rivervalley Community Center, 30 Wells Street, Moscow, Ohio. It is a program for children, adults, and teens focusing on the one-year anniversary of the tornado that struck Northern Kentucky and Clermont County. Sandy Keiser, LISW-S, and the Mental Health Services counselors of Catholic Charities will be the presenters. Refreshments and childcare will be provided. C o n t a c t S a n d y K e i s e r a t 5 1 3 - 2 4 1 - 7 7 4 5 o r skeiser@ccswoh.org. Friends of Jesus, a group for adults with developmental challenges (18 years of age or older) will hold its Trains and Tunes Picnic on Saturday, May 18, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Fehrs’ house in Madeira. Besides food and fellowship, the Fehrs will show their model train set-up and lead everyone in song. New members are always welcome but need to register first with Jane Callan prior to attending. Also, please RSVP to Jane at 513-793-3546 by Thursday, May 16. The beautiful, historic St. Mary’s Church in Dayton will host “My Spirit Rejoices,” a recital honoring Mary, at 7:30 p.m. May 18. Featured performers will include Diane Walters, graduate in vocal performance from Temple university; Chris Albanese, graduate in vocal performance from University of Dayton; Guy McIntosh, trumpet, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London; and

Kathy Maresca, organist/choir director of St. Mary Church. Highlights of the program include Ave Marias written by Dubois, Caccini, Mozart, and Shubert; the “Pie Jesu” by Nadia Boulanger; and other compositions. A free-will offering will be taken to support the artists. St. Mary Church is located at the corner of Xenia Ave and Allen St. For more information, call 937-256-5633 or go to www.stmarydayon.org. Come pray and celebrate Pentecost on Sunday, May 19, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Dayton from 3 to 5 p.m. There will be a procession of parish, prayer groups, and organization banners and flags, followed by calling down and welcoming the Holy Spirit with music, song, healing prayer, evangelization, and Benediction. Fr. Angelo Anthony, C.PP.S., pastor of St. Joseph, Emmanuel and Holy Trinity churches, will speak on, “The First and New Pentecost: The Importance of the Holy Spirit Gifts and Fruit in the Year of Faith and New Evangelization.” The day is hosted by CREDO Apostolate. For more information, visit: http://www.credoapostolate.us or call 937- 901-4475.

The 8th annual Rosary Rally at Elder High School will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at Elder Stadium with a procession, praying the rosary, Marian songs and Benediction. All First Communicants are invited to dress up and join in the procession. If it rains, the event will be moved to the Elder Field House. For more information, call Roger at 513-251-7729 or Guy at 513-922-0335. St. Boniface Spiritual Bookclub will gather on Sunday, May 19, at 1 p.m. in the parish center to discuss Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life. Author Fr. James Martin, SJ, is the “official chaplain” of TV’s The Colbert Report and was an ABC commentator during the papal election. In Between Heaven and Mirth he looks at how joy, humor, and laughter can change our lives and save our spirits. Using scriptural passages, the lives of the saints, the spiritual teachings of other traditions, and his own personal reflections, he shows us why joy is the inevitable result of faith and how a healthy spirituality and a healthy sense of humor go hand-in-hand with God’s great plan for humankind. The book is available at the rectory for $12 or from Amazon.com. For more info, contact Lisa Biedenbach, 892-3417 or bieds19037@aol.com.

The Mariological Society of America invites all to its 64th annual meeting from Tuesday, May 21, through Friday, May 24, at the Athenaeum of Ohio/ Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Anderson Township. The meeting, dedicated to the theme of “Mary and the New Evangelization,” will include talks, daily Mass, and Marian devotions. Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr will celebrate Mass at 5 p.m., May 23. Registration costs $45 for all four days, with options for lodging and meals. It’s also possible to register for one or two days at $15 per day. A brochure with more details is available online at http://www.mariologicalsociety.com/MSA_2013.pdf.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis told 800 superiors of women's orders from around the world that the Catholic Church needs religious women and that religious women need to be in harmony with the faith and teachings of the church. "What would the church be without you?" the pope told the women May 8. "It would be missing maternity, affection, tenderness and a mother's intuition." Religious superiors, Pope Francis said, need to ensure their members are educated in the doctrine of the church, "in love for the church and in an ecclesial spirit." Quoting Pope Paul VI, he said: "It's an absurd dichotomy to think one can live with Jesus, but without the church, to follow Jesus outside the church, to love Jesus and not the church." The sisters, who came from 76 countries, were in Rome for the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superiors General. The group welcomed the pope with loud applause and with the ululations of the African sisters among them. U.S. Sister Mary Lou Wirtz, superior of the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and president of the International Union of Superiors General, said the sisters "are very pleased with the pope, and it gives them hope of maybe some change happening in the church." They appreciate the pope's emphasis on serving the poor and going out to the margins of society, "because that's what our service as religious women is about." In his talk to the women, Pope Francis said their vow of chastity expands their ability to give themselves to God and to others "with the tenderness, mercy and closeness of Christ." However, "please, let it be a fruitful chastity, a chastity that generates sons and daughters in the church. The consecrated woman is a mother, must be a mother and not a spinster," he said. While the sisters were laughing at his use of a very colloquial Italian word for "spinster" or "old maid," he

added: "Forgive me for speaking this way, but the motherhood of consecrated life, its fertility, is important." Pope Francis said that just as Mary could not be understood without recognizing her role as being Jesus' mother, the church cannot be understood without recognizing its role as being the mother of all believers. "And you are an icon of Mary and the church," he said. The pope said every vocation -- and not just a call to the priesthood -- begins with a call from God and is a call to continually center one's life and actions on Christ, "adoring the Lord and serving others without holding anything back for oneself." But particularly for priests and religious, responding to that vocation means feeling, thinking and acting in communion with the church "that generated us through baptism," he said. "The proclamation and witness of the Gospel -- for every Christian -- are never isolated acts. This is important," the pope said, repeating the phrase and adding that Christians do not do good because of a "personal inspiration, but in union with mission of the church and in its name." For members of religious orders, the whole process of growing in love and dedication to Christ and in service of others is aided by poverty, chastity and obedience, Pope Francis said. Embracing poverty, he said, means overcoming all temptations of selfishness and instead relying totally on God's providence. It is expressed in simplicity and learned from living with "the humble, the poor, the sick and all those on the existential margins of life." "Theoretical poverty is of no use to us," he said. "Think of how much damage to the people of God has been caused by men and women of the church who are careerists, climbers, who use the people, the church, their brothers and sisters -- those they should be serving -- as trampolines for their personal interests and ambitions," he said. "This does great harm to the church."

Pope Francis declares that women’s religiousorders and the church need to be in harmony

“What would the church be without you?”

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A day after the Vatican issued a statement saying the congregations for doctrine and for religious were united in wanting a reform of the U.S.-based Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the head of the congregation for religious repeated his call for more dialogue with the sisters. Brazilian Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, told reporters: "There are difficulties and we must help each other clarify" the meaning and exercise of authority and obedience in the church, the cardinal told reporters. Asked what should be done for U.S. religious women who feel hurt by the investigation of the LCWR and the earlier Vatican-ordered visitation of U.S. religious communities, Cardinal Braz said: "They must say what is in their hearts with sincerity. "But they must also find ways, through dialogue, to say what it means to say they are 'not interested in doctrine,'" he said, in an apparent reference to statements from LCWR leaders that the organization's purpose is leadership development and networking, and not educating sisters in church teaching.

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SC Ministries Foundation’s

“We Shall not be Moved”earns 2013 Gabriel award

We Shall Not Be Moved: The Catholic

Sisters of New Orleans has won a 2013 Gabriel® Award for Best Religious Television, National Release, announced t h e C a t h o l i c A c a d e m y f o r Communication Arts Professionals on May 3. The 57-minute film documents how six congregations of New Orleans’ Roman Catholic sisters returned to minister and rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. The film was produced by NewGroup Media of South Bend, Ind. and the co-executive producers are Loretta Dees and Sr. Sally Duffy, SC with from SC Ministry Foundation in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Gabriel® Awards are presented annually to film, television and radio programs and a distinguished individual whose body of work nourishes and uplifts the human spirit. The competition is to all radio and television stations and producers in the United States and Canada. The 2013 awards will be presented June 20 at the 2013 Catholic Media Conference in Denver.

We Shall Not Be Moved was presented

b y t h e I n t e r f a i t h B r o a d c a s t i n g Commission as the first program in ABC’s “Vision and Values” series for the fall 2012 broadcast season. ABC stations scheduled 138 broadcasts in 41 states. The congregations featured and the year they came to New Orleans are: Ursuline Sisters – 1727; Sisters of Our Lady of Mount Carmel – 1835; Sisters of the Holy Family of New Orleans – 1842; Marianites of Holy Cross – 1849; Congregation of St. Joseph – 1854, Society of St. Teresa of Jesus (Teresian Sisters) – 1915. SC Ministry Foundation in Cincinnati organized the fund-raising effort to make the documentary. The funders represent the Assembly of Catholic Foundations and other Catholic foundations and congregations of women religious. For more information about the film, including a preview, or to order the D V D , v i s i t www.weshallnotbemovedmovie.com or call 800-354-3504 to order the DVD.

Hurricane Katrina

Knights, VFW Post join in project

to honor veterans on Memorial DayTwo Fayetteville organizations, (the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Scanlon Kelly, Post 5920 and the Knights of Columbus, Father Sourd Council 2423) entered into a joint operation as a tribute to deceased Veterans and Comrades in Arms. A special Memorial Day Celebration and flagpole dedication service will be held on Memorial Day, May 27, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Patrick Cemetery, A n d e r s o n S t a t e R o a d , a n d Fayetteville. This is the first part of a united campaign by the two patriotic organizations to correct oversights at both St. Patrick and St. Martin Cemeteries. The groups’ intention is to ensure that deceased veterans receive the recognition and honor they deserve. The flags will be displayed to salute all veterans past and present who have sacrificed so much for our great country. Col. Gordon Ellis, Army National Guard, will be the featured speaker. The Brigade he commands has been deployed to Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. He will speak on the importance of Memorial Day and the role of the United States Military in today’s world. Ellis is a lifelong

resident of southwest Ohio. Participating groups at the Ceremony will be Fayetteville High School Marching Band; VFW Honor Guard from VFW Scanlon Kelly, Post 5920 Fayetteville, Ohio; Color Guard from Archbishop Paul F. Leibold Assembly 1621 of Fayetteville, Ohio; Members of Knights of Columbus, Fr. Sourd Council 2423 of Fayetteville, Ohio; Mayor of Fayetteville, Ohio, Bernie Vilvens; Perry Township Trustees of Fayetteville, Ohio; Village Council, Police Chief, Boy Scouts of America Troop and Den 456 all of Fayetteville, Ohio and any Veterans or Veteran Organizations that would like to attend this tribute to our deceased veterans. Deacon Ben Barboza from St. Angela Merici Roman Catholic Church in Fayetteville will conduct the prayer service. There will be a second Memorial Day Ceremony a t S t . Mar t in Cemetery, St. Martin, Ohio scheduled for next year on May 26, 2014. Details will be published later for this event. We hope you will attend both ceremonies to pay tribute to our departed Veterans and to show our thanks and pray for them and their families.