The Catholic Community at Stanford University is a family of students, faculty, staff, administrators, their families, and local community members. With the guidance of the Holy Spirit and through a variety of social, educational, liturgical, and community service programs, we seek to form the Christian conscience, help members appropriate the Catholic faith, educate for justice, facilitate personal development, and form leaders for the future. We support the University's efforts to achieve its goals in keeping with our own traditions and in an environment of religious and cultural diversity. We are a personal parish in the Diocese of San Jose under the pastoral care of Dominicans and lay leaders.
SACRAMENTAL BLESSINGS
Congratulations to the babies that will be baptized this Sunday at the
4:30pm Mass: Bea Karys Brillantes, Natalie Caires, Ari Johannes Chaw,
Audrey Marie Fuerer, Alex Krista Mohan, James Matthew Pyle, Victor Nolan
Ryan and Joshua Ethan Tang. Blessings on the babies and their
families.
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY REQUEST
Thank you to the generous member of our community who donated the frequent
flyer miles for our interns training. We are hopeful that we will find
someone to help us with our second need. Neither of our interns for next
year has a car. Therefore, we are looking for anyone who has a car they
would like to donate or let us use beginning in September. If you can help
please call Kathryn Gray (650/857-9014) or talk with Fr. Carl. Thank you
in advance for all your support of our community.
COMMUNITY PRAYERS
Please keep Charles Kelly and Gillonne Wachter in your prayers this
week. And, please pray in thanksgiving for the 12 years of marriage of
Lesley and Mark Ruzon and for continued happiness for their family and all
the families in our community.
GRAD STUDENT FELLOWSHIP
The Grad Student Catholic Fellowship will be meeting this week to discuss
the Sacred Scriptures: what our Catholic tradition tells us about their
interpretation, and how to learn and get the most out of reading them. We
will be meeting, as usual, on the third floor of Old Union at 8 PM. All
are invited.
FAMILY GIVING TREE: BACK-TO-SCHOOL
BACKPACKS FOR NEEDY CHILDREN
The Catholic Community at Stanford is
committed to serving the needy children who live in the four Bay Area
Counties. There are 227,826 children living in this area who are enrolled
in the California Free or Reduced Lunch Program (Title I). In 2007,
together with volunteers from the Catholic Community at Stanford, The
Family Giving Tree helped 15,000 low-income children in the Title I
program by providing them with a new backpack containing tools they need
to succeed in school. If you would like to participate in this backpack
project on Saturday August 9th from 12:00 noon to 2:00pm, please contact
Peter Barling (peter_barling@hotmail.com). We will be working in a large
warehouse collecting, stuffing and sorting backpacks for distribution to
low-income students via teachers and social service agencies.
Transportation from campus can be arranged. Families with young children
are welcomed to bring their children to help with this project!
FEATURED YOUTH DAY MUSICIAN
TO PERFORM LOCALLY
Saturday, August 23, 2 p.m.: Saint Patrick’s Seminary and University
will hold a Benefits Concert featuring John Angotti, Catholic Music Artist
at St. Mary’s of the Assumption Cathedral at 1111 Gough Street in San
Francisco. John is an award winning composer and recording artist. John
was featured at the United States Papal visit and at World Youth Day in
Sydney, Australia. Details
and photographs of John Angotti’s World Youth Day activities...
Performing with John Angotti will be a choir from Saint Francis High
School in Mountain View and Nativity Church in Menlo Park that will be
directed by Margaret Durando. The music group will be directed by: Gabriel
Lucas, Our Lady of Wayside in Portola Valley. Tickets: $75 for general
admission. $25 for students. To buy tickets online, click on John Angotti
Benefits Concert at www.stpatricksseminary.org.
The benefits concert will help St. Patrick’s Seminary and University
address growth in enrollment for incoming seminarians as well as programs
and services for priests at the Vatican II Institute. Proceeds from
Compact Disc sales from the concert will go to St. Patrick’s and the
organizations that helped put on the event. For more information, call
650/325-5621 #104.
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