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Chaplain Regent Editor Vice Regent Financial Secretary District Deputy Rev. Jeffrey J. Maurer Gail Erickson Janet Heidemann Diane Meore Ann Adami 845– 496-0890 Kay Valenzano c/o St. Mary’s Church 37 Weathervane Dr #13 3 Hickory Dr. 143 Toleman Rd. Treasurer 24 Cedar Ave. 42 Goshen Avenue Washingtonville, NY 10992 Campbell Hall, NY 10916 Washingtonville, NY 10992 Marion Schrader 845-496-7439 New Windsor, NY 12553 Washingtonville, NY 10992 845-496-3723 845-496-6983 845–496-4922 Recording Secretary Ct. Patricia #195 845-496-3730 gerickson52@gmail.com heidemannjanet@yahoo.com dmeore0702@yahoo.com Cheryl Curran 845-496-5636

Greetings from Our Regent Wow, just — WOW. It’s a whole new world out there. I’m a big Stephen King

fan and one of my favorites was The Stand. Never planned on living it though. In the book, after a deadly influenza type virus accidentally gets out and wipes out most of the world, survivors are split, the “good” going to Boulder, CO (not sure why he picked Boulder) and the evil going to Las Vegas (that’s a no brainer to under-stand). There are so many lessons to be learned from this pan-demic/plague: there are consequences to every action; who and what are really important; our actions do matter and affect everyone, not just ourselves; how much man-kind is capable of if they work together; and how many good people there are out there. One important lesson I see in this is what we were doing before just wasn’t working. More and more our society has turned to so many gods and forgotten to follow the one true God. Oth-ers’ lives have become so busy they don’t have time for God and what’s truly important. Subtle reminders didn’t seem to work, so here we are with an in your face, no place to go (literally), no escape message. God meant for us to help and love and care for each other, not hate and hurt. After 9-11 people woke up, changed. For a while. But after a few years we slowly went back to the old ways. And here we are again. So where will you go—Boulder or Las Vegas? Learn, change, repent and rejoice in the fact that this too shall pass and we have a chance to do better. God loves us and will always take care of us, we just have to remember to follow Him and His Law. God bless you, Gail

CDA Happenings

Volume 27, Issue 2 March 1, 2020

@ “CDA Court St. Ann, Mother of Mary #2419”

National Happenings

National Office

Unfortunately, the National office has been closed until further notice. In order to address the danger of the Covid-19 virus for the office workers, they have been furloughed. When the office is reopened for CDA business an email will be sent to the members of our Court.

Sight and Sound The Sight and Sound Theater in Lancaster, PA noted for their live religious depictions of Bible stories will broadcast “Jesus” for free from April 10-12. Log in to their website at:

https://watch.tbn.org/sight-sound-theatres-presents-jesus/ videos/sight-theatres-presents-jesus-trailer “Sight & Sound”, in Lancaster, PA, is now putting their live shows in a movie format and selling their rights for $199. Marion Schrader is looking to setup the movie Noah for St. Mary’s Parish. When Marion gets a date and time there will be more information in the newsletter and Church bulletin.

Court St. Ann, Mother of Mary #2419 Washingtonville, NY 10992

cdacourt2419@gmail.com www.cdacourtstann2419.org

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Mark Your Calendar!

COURT FUNCTIONS The next meeting will be determined according to the health guidelines

for the State.

April 5th

Holy Week

Easter Sunday

April 12th

Divine Mercy Sunday

April 19th

May 10th

Circle of Love

Spirituality I wanted to start the Lenten season on the right foot, so I signed up for the “Women’s Lenten Retreat” with Sr. Eileen Carmody as the guest speaker. Who could have ever guessed that this would be the fi-nal meeting of the CDA Court St. Ann, Mother of Mary #2419, for an un-known length of time. Sadly, the coronavirus prevented the sacred rituals performed that enrich the Lenten season. Thankfully, the good Sister’s re-flections have become the mortar I need to keep Christ by my side through-out this terrible time in history. The pandemic and Lent at first seemed to be strange bedfellows, but using Sister’s analogy of Lent they coexist nice-ly to demonstrate God’s love for us. Sister Eileen began the retreat with a stone. The stone represents the things that block us from being what God wants us to be. During Lent, Sister advises us to reflect on four major questions that aid us to change our hearts and makes us healthy and strong in Christ: I. Can you roll away the stone? II. Can you drink from the cup that I must drink? III. Do you know what I have done for you? IV. Do you love me? We are challenged to remove the stones that block us from truly loving God. Offer our cries of weakness to God and trust that He will change it into service to others. God desires us to be our best selves. Give to others totally out of love. One must die to themselves for others. These are com-plicated answers in all their simplicity. Sr. Eileen did a wonderful job of pointing out the questions of Lent. I still have my stone. I hope to keep it as a reminder of the profound lessons taught to me during the “Woman’s Lenten Retreat.” Submitted by: Patricia Cooney

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Pictured: women at the Retreat

Keep in Y our Prayers

Please keep in your prayers , Bob & Grace Alcaro; Bob Kaiser; Linda Jurain’s sons mother-in-law, Dorothy Foy; Cindy Heintz; Carmen Bruckner and her daughter Christine McCartney; our Parish priests, Deacons, and Brother Zack; John Flores and his son; Sal Mancuso; all our healthcare providers and first responders and all who have request-ed our prayers.

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$ Annual Court Dues$

Please use the coupon below to send your annual dues of $20 to Ann Adami. These dues are used to pay the National and State dues that are required for each court member and also cover the assessments by the National and State Courts and our insurance coverage. Our dues no longer cover all the aforementioned items so it is quite essential that every member is conscientious in paying them in a timely manner. Thank you for your coopera-tion.

Dues Coupon

Name________________________________________

Address______________________________________

Phone #_________________________ E-Mail_______________________________________ (to update the file) Make your check out to: Ct. St. Ann, Mother of Mary #2419 Please put “2020 dues” in the memo line. Include this coupon with your check or cash at the Court meeting or send your check to: (for safety do not send cash in the mail)

Ann Adami 1429 Route 208

Washingtonville, NY 10992

Author’s Luncheon

Moffat Library has rescheduled the “Meet the Au-thor” luncheon. The new date is Thursday, September 10 from 5:00—8:30 pm. The venue remains the same—Round Hill House. Featured authors are: Mary Calvi, Dear George, Dear Mary; A Novel of George Washington’s 1st Love

and Peter Duffy, The Agitator

At this time reservations are only by email: E-mail @ Moffat@rcls.org.

Tribute To Rayola McLaughlin Past National Regent and Centenarian” Submitted by: Helene Shepard On March 20, 2020 Rayola added the new title “centenarian” to her long list of accomplishments. Rayola participated in and served Catholic Daughters from her 18th birthday to the present in Court Madonna #114 in Port Jervis, New York. She held positions on all three levels: Local, State and National, of the organization. After she served on the state level in the 60’s and 70’s she was elected National Regent in Philadelphia and served from 1986 to 1990. Dur-ing this time, and later, she was honored with many awards presented in person by Popes, Bishops, and even President George W. Bush. She is presently a Lady of the Holy Sepul-cher. When she had been able to attend CDA Masses and, if requested, you would see Rayola in the black cape with the insignia of the Holy Sepulcher as a symbol or her station. Rayola has always remained a role model for all women in the Church and her community. She was devoted to St. Mary’s Church in Port Jervis where she was Baptized and received all her sacraments and was a Lector and Extraordi-nary Minister of the Eucharist. I am happy to say Rayola has been my mentor for the past 40 years. To quote Rayola when recently asked about her life she simply said that her life has been a good one. “Faith has al-ways been so important in my life, and it will always be.” Unfortunately, due to the Coronavirus we were not able to visit with Rayola on her special day. We look forward to the day when we can celebrate with her. Happy 100th Birthday Rayola. CDA loves you! God bless you. If you would like to send Rayola a card her address is: Belle Reve Senior Living 404 E. Harford Street Milford, PA 18337

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April & May Birthdays

April May Mary-Beth Doelger 4/04 Mary Daly 5/5

Carmen Bruckner 4/09 Louise Grix 5/5 Mary Ann Kaiser 4/10 Carolina Aiosa 5/8 Cheryl Curran 4/14 Josephine Crowe 5/9 Marion Ciofalo 4/16 Roseann Horgan 5/9 Barbara O’Dwyer 4/17 Betty Mahoney 5/16 Kay Moran 4/21 Angela Beuchert 5/18 Carol Anderson 5/19

Denise Evans 5/20

Margaret Allen 5/21

Lauren Santos 5/24

Julie Morel 5/24

Mary Piva 5/25

Bernadette Silvestri 5/26

Allison Laquidara 5/28

Lily of the Valley

Red Hawthorne

Ongoing Happenings

► Collect box tops for Education to benefit St. Mary’s Little Lambs Preschool and register shopping cards on line. ► Recycle empty cans and bottles and bring to meet- ing. Funds are used in our convention fund to help offset costs. ► Bring Food Pantry donations to the meeting: This month’s collection is canned tuna, canned chicken, peanut butter, jelly, and/or any non-perishable food item on sale. ► Bring items for the Food for Kids backpacks and place them in the bins outside the St. Joseph’s Room. ► Rosary maker meeting—1st Friday of the month at 9am Tetreau Hall.

Court Finances

(as of February)

Checking Balance: $7513.48

Convention Fund: $3429.54

Reserve Fund: $3590.79

Rosary Update From: Margaret Healey

The director of activities at Valley View Nursing Home, Mark LaBruna, has extended his heartfelt apologies for the way our CDA Rosary Volunteers have been treated this past year. That one young lady who caused all the trouble is no longer volunteering and will not be impeding on our ministry in the future. The activities staff was also scolded for not tak-ing charge of the volunteer by guiding her correctly. He re-minded them that CDA has been saying the Rosary here, faithfully, for over 50 years and was appalled that on young student doing community service was given free reign on Sundays. He was very upset when I told him that almost all of our current CDA volunteers will not be signing up for an-other year of Rosary, myself included, so we will be discon-tinuing this ministry until we can get enough volunteers to replace them. Most of us have been doing this for 23 years. It is time for our younger members to take their place. Mr. LaBruna suggested that we just come to say the Ro-sary on the 3rd Sunday of each month. How about it ladies? Surely we can do this. I will continue to make the schedule and keep it running. We would do all 3 activity rooms at 10:30 am. So we would need a minimum of 3 volunteers. So if we get 9 volunteers then you would just have to go once every 3 months. Twelve volunteers and it once every 4 months. That’s really not a lot to ask. New volunteers will be accompanied by a seasoned volunteer temporarily until you got it down. Please consider signing up for this worthwhile ministry. We can’t let Our Blessed Mother down. We will discuss it as part of the agenda the next time we meet so please give it some thought, especially our newest members. It is a feel good ministry, rich in grace, bringing God’s love to His most often forgotten ones. If you can’t go to the next meeting but want to sign up, call me at 845-988-7891. Sincerely, Margaret Healey

In Memoriam We extend our deepest sympathies to the family of Maureen Bowes who passed away on Thursday, April 2, 2020. She was a wonderful example of a Catholic Daughter. May she rest in peace.

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Kids in Church

Written by an 8-year-old named Danny, who lives in Chula Vista, CA for his third grade homework assignment to explain God:

Explanation of God: “One of God’s main jobs is making people. He makes them to replace the ones that die, so there will be enough people to take care of things on Earth. He doesn’t make grownups, just babies, I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way he doesn’t have to take up his valuable time teaching them to talk and walk. He can just leave that to mothers and fathers. God’s second most important job is listening to prayers. An awful lot of this goes on, since some people, like preachers and things pray at times beside bedtime. God doesn’t have time to listen to the radio or TV because of this. Because he hears eve-rything, there must be a terrible lot of noise in his ears, unless he has thought of a way to turn it off. God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere which keeps Him pretty busy. So you shouldn’t go wasting his time by going over your mom and dad’s head asking for some-thing they said you couldn’t have. Atheists are people who don’t believe in God. I don’t think there are any in Chula Vista. At least there aren’t any who come to our church. Jesus is God’s Son. He used to do all the hard work, like walking on water and performing miracles and trying to teach the people who didn’t want to learn about God. They finally got tired of him preaching to them and they crucified him. But he was good and kind, like his father, and he told his father that they didn’t know what they were doing and to for-give them and God said okay. His dad (God) appreciated everything that he had done and all his hard work on earth so he told him he didn’t have to go out on the road anymore. He could stay in heaven. So he did. And now he helps his dad out by listening to prayers and seeing things which are important for God to take care of and which ones he can take care of himself without having to bother God. Like a secretary, only more important. You can pray anytime you want and they are sure to help you because they got it worked out so one of them is on duty all the time. You should always go to church on Sunday because it makes God happy, and if there’s anybody you want to make happy, it’s God! Don’t skip church to do something you thing will be more fun like going to the beach. This is wrong. And besides, the sun doesn’t come out at the beach until noon, any-way. If you don’t believe in God, besides being an atheist, you will be very lonely, because your parents can’t go everywhere with you, like to camp, but God can. It is good to know He’s around you when you’re scared, in the dark or when you can’t swim and you get thrown into real deep water by big kids. But you shouldn’t just always think of what God can do for you. I figure God put me here and he can take me back any time he pleases. And that’s why I believe in God.”

Local Court Election

Local court elections always coincide with the National Convention. Gail Erickson will be com-pleting her second term as our Regent and will be retiring. Our Nominating Committee members are: Karen Sheboy, Linda Jurain, Helene Shepard, Janet Allen, & Lynn Eismont. They will be meet-ing either by phone or conference call to select the officers for the term 2020—2022.

Classic Shortbread

Ingredients: 3 sticks unsalted butter, at room temp.

3 cups all-purpose flour 6 tablespoons cornstarch 1/4 tsp, fine salt

3/4 sup granulated sugar Directions: 1. Put oven rack in the center of oven and

preheat to 325 F. Butter a 9X12 1/2 jelly roll pan and line it with parchment, then butter the paper. 2. Whisk together the flour, cornstarch and

salt in a bowl. Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy, 5 to 7 min. Slowly add the flour mixture and

beat on low until the dough is just combined. 3. Transfer the dough to the prepared pan, spreading it out as evenly as possible with a spatula.

Cover with plastic wrap, then use your hands to press and flatten into a smooth even layer. Remove the plastic and cut the dough with a sharp knife in

appox. 1 X 3” bars. Use a fork to prick a decorative pattern into the tops. 4. Bake, rotating the pan from front to back halfway through, until golden, 60-70 minutes. Let

stand for 5 minutes in the pan, then re-cut the bars along the previous cuts. Carefully lift the bars off the parchment with a small spatula and transfer them

to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an air-tight container for up to 5 days (can be frozen).

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Ct. St. Ann, Mother of Mary #2419 c/o Gail Erickson 37 Weathervane Dr. #13

Washingtonville, NY 10992

Mission Statement “Catholic Daughters of the Americas strives to embrace the principle of faith working through love in the promotion

of justice, equality, and the advancement of human rights and

human dignity for all”