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2008
Parish
News From St. Wenceslaus FLOOD 2008
Photo
from cover of June 22 Witness
Photo
courtesy of the Cedar Rapids Gazette
 View slideshow - click
button below
-VOLUNTEERS
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There will be an on-going need for volunteers. Call the office at 362-8061 ext 202 to get the latest needs. JUNE 12- JANUARY 4---approx 9025 volunteer hours THANK YOU & GOD BLESS
View photos of Czech Heritage Park & learn how you can be a part of this
Confirmation 2008-2009 RCIA 2008-2009 Beat the
winter blues and be part of Movin’ for McAuley! Come join us Movin’ for McAuley is a
morning filled with fun for all ages! Start
off the day by getting out of the cold and get in a
workout from
walking laps around Westdale Mall or bring the kids and make it a
family fun
day as everyone enjoys various activities, games, great prizes, bagels
and
beverages. There is never a dull moment
at action filled event! This year, Movin’ for
McAuley will host a Family Expo. We
would like to give area businesses and
organizations the opportunity to let the community know what is
happening
around town and how to get involved. For
a small fee of $20 per table for businesses and $10 per table if your
group/organization is of non-profit status, you can reserve a spot on
the
course where you may showcase and promote your group in any manner you
choose. All we ask is that all
participants provide a game, activity or some type of promotional item
that may
be given to all walkers at your table and that expo participants may
NOT sell
goods or products of any type. Last
year, more than 600 walkers came out and participated in the Movin’ for
McAuley
Mall Walk and we are planning for more participants in 2009. To market to a captive audience of this size
for only $20; how could you say no? Having
a problem with committing to the event? Think
of it this way…
Ways
you can help: Form a team! We have
special prizes for teams! Show your team spirit, wear your logo, come
in
costume, or make a banner! Try to challenge other departments, other
offices,
other Listen! We’ll be
happy to have someone from the Thank you
for your
consideration, and we hope to see you at Westdale Mall, Advent – A Season of Hope
Advent is a time of waiting and expectation; a season of quiet anticipation and preparation. We are waiting for our Lord to come into the world as the baby Jesus, born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem. We are also preparing for His return, His second coming as the shepherd-king, to restore harmony and right relationship to all creation. Advent is a season yearning for God to come and set the world right with perfect justice, truth and peace. It is a season of hope. Advent is a time to emphasize preparation through prayer. While Lent emphasizes a spirit of repentance through prayer and fasting, Advent’s prayers are prayers of humble devotion and commitment, prayers for deliverance, prayers of gladness and joyful expectation, prayers that await the light of Christ coming into the world. We do not shrink from those Advent scripture readings that reveal a strong prophetic tone of accountability and judgment. Christ’s disciples expect the Lord to hold them accountable for what has been entrusted to them just as a spouse, parent, teacher or supervisor holds us accountable. And just as the steward was found faithful in small matters by the master, we too are confident that we will be found faithful and will enter the joy of the master. We have absolute trust in the Lord’s countenance. Assuredly, during Advent we anticipate the Lord’s coming with hope. It is that hope, however faint at times, that keeps us from despair and the darkness of sin and its destructiveness. It is a hope that urges us to be kind, loving and compassionate toward one another. It is a hope that encourages our faith in a merciful God who continues to pour His grace upon us. We don’t know when Christ will come again to bring human history to its completion. But we celebrate with gladness the great promise of Advent and we rekindle that positive, joyful spirit within us because we know, as Zechariah prophesied , that the light of Christ will shine on all who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, and He will guide our feet into the way of peace. The 2008 Online Advent Calendar
 Czech
Republic ambassador visits Cedar
Rapids
By Cindy Hadish (St.
Wenceslaus parishioner) The Gazette Oct 30 CEDAR RAPIDS - The most
difficult phone call Gail Naughton had to make after the June floods
was to
Petr Kolar, the "We cried together on the phone," said Naughton, president of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, which held books and other artifacts from the Kolar came to Boarded windows and mud-caked sidewalks in front of the museum remain visible reminders of the June flood that inundated the building with 10 feet of water and devastated "I have mixed feelings," Kolar said, upon arriving at the cleaned, but gutted, museum at Kolar was joined at a dinner at the Cedar Rapids Country Club by Gov. Chet Culver, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, and other state and local officials. It was the first time Culver and Kolar had met. "I hope we can continue to maintain this terrific friendship," Culver said, adding that he would like to visit the Checks totaling $583,780 from the
Czech
museum: $405,380.
Sokol Cedar Rapids: $89,000. St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church: $44,700. Christine Schuety, president of the library foundation, said she was touched that the library was selected to represent recovery help to Sokol, a social and gymnastics organization started in 1872 by Czech immigrants, will use the gift to help buy new equipment. Floodwaters raged through the 100-year-old Sokol building downtown at St. Wenceslaus, Schuety said the library gift will be used as a catalyst for efforts to help fund a permanent library, either at its downtown site, at Naughton said the museum, which opened in 1995, is committed to staying in
Kolar
drew parallels between the devastation in
The 2002 European floods inundated "Tragic moments can be turned into something positive," Kolar said, noting that many parts of the Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek was scheduled to make the trip to
CZECH HERITAGE DAY/RE-DEDICATION OF CHURCH SEPTEMBER 28 View KCRG-TV coverage of the event click here     This
group from Dowling Catholic High School in West Des Moines and their
business partner, Mercy Des Moines Hospital, spent all day Saturday
working at sites as part of the flood recovery efforts. They then
joined us for Mass and Goulash Day before returning to more work sites
Sunday afternoon.
We want to express our appreciation to you all for your efforts and we are happy you could join us for this big celebration! God Bless!     ST. WENCESLAUS CZECH GOULASH DAY
Goulash Day at St. Ludmila Church* GOULASH &
KOLACHES RYE BREAD – CAKE
- PIE -
ICE CREAM WENCEBURGERS & BRATS POP & COFFEE GAMES-FOOD-MUSIC Raffles 5 p.m. St.
Ludmila’s weekly
Bingo . *The June flood left the St.
Wenceslaus Gym Building unusable this fall.
FLOOD 2008 Photo from cover of June 22 Witness Photo courtesy of the Cedar Rapids Gazette View slideshow - click button below FLOOD PHOTOS & Church re-build photos click here -VOLUNTEERS - There
will be an on-going need for
volunteers in a variety of ways.
Call the office at 362-8061 ext 202 to get the latest needs. JUNE 12- OCT 20---approx 6800 volunteer hours THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU ROOF PROJECT - Aug 15- work begins  see more photos FR. PODHAJSKY'S INSTALLATION MASS SUN. AUG. 10 view photos WELCOME FR. PODHAJSKY...
JULY 26/27 Inspiring the world, one person at a time.
This event is part
of the parish's year-long Sesquicentennial celebration
Farewell reception for Fr Hernandez - July 6   Below are statements regarding the actions of ICE in Postville, Iowa. It is important that we are mindful of the possibility of it happening elsewhere. Archbishop Jerome Hanus
Fr Hernandez & Naida Garza Bishop Gerald R. Barnes Message from Sister Mary McCauley Sr Nina Shephard Retirement Party June 8      We celebrated our High School graduates at Mass Sunday May 18. They are L-R with
high school and college they will be attending ; Josh Boeding,
Prairie-University of Iowa; Michael Jansa, Prairie-University of Iowa; Cal Beatty, Prairie-Mt. Mercy; Wes Wery, Xavier-Mt. Mercy; Nick Wery, Xavier-St. Louis University  HOUBY DAYS - May 16-18   FIRST COMMUNION- April 2008 Brooke Miller
 A SAD FAREWELL
There will be a going away
party
following both Masses on June 14-15 for St. May the Risen Lord continue
to bless our
communities of faith! In Christ, Fr.
Nils Hernandez Associate Pastor EASTER VIGIL March 22  Judith and Alexander Lindsay It is with great Easter joy that we welcomed Alexander Lindsay into the Church during Easter Vigil Mass. Congratulations! Immaculate Conception Parish Sesquicentennial Celebration click here for details The Living
Last Supper SUNDAY,
MARCH Immaculate Religious Education 2007-08 calendar SUNDAY NIGHT SUPPER
SERVERS— Groups
from around the CR area help
out by Czech School Chili
Supper - The
the
4th Czech &
Slovak History & Culture Conference
The NCSML's Czech and
Slovak History and Culture Conferences are among the best
received small conferences addressing
details
and
registrationCzech and Slovak issues. Parish Luncheons One Sunday each month after 10:30 Mass in Chihak Hall The menu changes; recently we have had
salad
bar/potato
bar, chili, taco bar soup and sandwich and spaghetti luncheons.
The proceeds from
these
lunches go to the five agencies the parish assists. During the summer
concert in the park series hot dogs and snacks and beverages are
sold in he parking lot. NEXT LUNCHEON:
Sunday, March 30 --after
LENTEN SERIES Thursday nights Feb 14-March 6
Immaculate Conception Parish Sesquicentennial
Celebration Next
event --Sat. Feb Immaculate Conception
Church in
partnership with Red Cedar Chamber Music presents Latino
Meets Iowa as part of its yearlong
150th
Anniversary celebration. Latino Meets
Iowa is a concert of classical
music inspired by the exciting
rhythms and hauntingly beautiful melodies of Latin American music. Red
Cedar
artists, flutist Jan Boland and guitarist John Dowdall, are
joined by cellist Bjorn Ranheim of the St. Louis Symphony and
violist Anthony Devroye of the Avalon String Quartet. Latino
Meets Iowa features music by Cuban American
composer/guitarist Ricardo Iznaola, including Danzas de la Abuela, a new work for
flute, guitar and cello commissioned by Red Cedar Chamber Music, and
his
multi-movement Musique de Salon for
flute, viola, guitar and cello. For information call 319/377-8028 or visit www.redcedar.org
Panera Bread presents Sat. Feb. 16 Movin
for McAuley is a morning of fun for all ages: Registration
forms are available at
Catholicism
101 A series of
talks to deepen
understanding of the Catholic faith Based on the
Catechism of
the Catholic Church with an emphasis on adult faith formation. This is for
EVERY adult No need to
register. Come to all of
them. Come to the ones
you’re
most interested in Beginning All Saints
Church lower
level January 3rd The Father, Almighty January 10th
NO
SESSION January 17 The Creator January 24th Heaven & Earth Angels and humans January 31 February 7 I believe in Jesus Christ the
Only Son of
God February 14 Incarnation February 21 Born of the Virgin Mary February 28 Praying the Psalms, Jesus
Teaches us to
Pray Suggested texts:
Catechism of the
Catholic
Church & Catholicism for Dummies More
information: Jo
Meister
We
welcome your parish announcements, inquiries and questions.
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