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St. Lawrence Parish 2010 - 2010 RCIA program Registration

Interested in registering for the 2010 - 2011 RCIA Program? Please click on the RCIA registration form link and submit your completed registration form to the St. Lawrence Church parish office or contact Kara Tsuleff (Director of Religious Education) 812-537-0019 or e-mail:  karatsuleff@comcast.net.

RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults- Non-Catholic Spouses encouraged to attend) This process is “designed for adults who, after hearing the mystery of Christ proclaimed, consciously and freely seek the living God and enter the way of faith and conversion as the Holy Spirit opens their hearts”.  The first stage of this process is referred to as the Precatechumenate or “inquiry” period which means that your questions will be answered before you make your final decision to freely become Catholic.  Classes will be held on Wednesday nights, beginning September 8th from 7pm-8:30pm in the Father Kasper room in the lower level of the Church.  These classes take place weekly until the end of the Easter season.      

St. Lawrence Faith Formation News

Registration for all our Faith Formation programs begins next weekend, July 31st and August 1st.  Join us in the Sister Mary Cecile Room in the lower level for refreshments. Catechists will be available with forms and to answer questions after all of the Masses.  Forms will also be available on our parish website on our events page and on the table in the back of church.    

Confirmation preparation

Classes for new candidates will begin September 12th from 6:30pm-8:30pm.  Classes will be held the second Sunday of the month.  This program is open to students entering 8th grade-high school.  Required Parents’ Meeting for new candidates: Sunday, August 29th at 2pm in the Father Kasper Room in the lower level of the church.  (Candidates from last year’s class will resume on the 12th as well.  No registration needed.) Confirmation Registration Forms can be found here.

   

 

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Baptism Program –

The fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm in DRE’s office in the Lower Level. This program is required for parents who have not attended a Baptism class previously or those who would like a refresher course. Please register by calling the Parish Office @ 537-3992 or emailing Kara Tsuleff : karatsuleff@comcast.net or call 537-0019.

Pilgrimage to Ireland 2011 - Dates and Cost to be announced

Fr. Peter is planning a 10 day pilgrimage to Ireland in 2011. Cost or dates to be announced. 

Share Your Blessings Open Your Home and Heart to a Foster Child

Foster parents provide a safe, nurturing, and stable environment for children who can no longer remain in their own home due to the risk of abuse or neglect. To make a difference in the life of a child, contact the Indiana Department of Child Services: 1-888-631- 9510, www.in.gov/dcs/foster. Or contact our local Regional Foster Care Specialist, Mary Riede: 812-537-5131, 812-438-2530

   

 

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Don’t forget to turn in your Kroger Card Reload Receipt with your name written on top to be eligible for April’s monthly drawing. Our February was $1,036! Thanks so much!

   

 

Our Patron Saint

 
 

Saint Lawrence

St. Lawrence (d. 258?)

The esteem in which the Church holds Lawrence is seen in the fact that today’s celebration ranks as a feast. We know very little about his life. He is one of those whose martyrdom made a deep and lasting impression on the early Church. Celebration of his feast day spread rapidly.

He was a Roman deacon under Pope St. Sixtus II. Four days after this pope was put to death, Lawrence and four clerics suffered martyrdom, probably during the persecution of the Emperor Valerian.

Legendary details of his death were known to Damasus, Prudentius, Ambrose and Augustine. The church built over his tomb became one of the seven principal churches in Rome and a favorite place for Roman pilgrimages.

A well-known legend has persisted from earliest times. As deacon in Rome, Lawrence was charged with the responsibility for the material goods of the Church, and the distribution of alms to the poor. When Lawrence knew he would be arrested like the pope, he sought out the poor, widows and orphans of Rome and gave them all the money he had on hand, selling even the sacred vessels to increase the sum. When the prefect of Rome heard of this, he imagined that the Christians must have considerable treasure. He sent for Lawrence and said, “You Christians say we are cruel to you, but that is not what I have in mind. I am told that your priests offer in gold, that the sacred blood is received in silver cups, that you have golden candlesticks at your evening services. Now, your doctrine says you must render to Caesar what is his. Bring these treasures—the emperor needs them to maintain his forces. God does not cause money to be counted: He brought none of it into the world with him—only words. Give me the money, therefore, and be rich in words.”

 Lawrence replied that the Church was indeed rich. “I will show you a valuable part. But give me time to set everything in order and make an inventory.” After three days he gathered a great number of blind, lame, maimed, leprous, orphaned and widowed persons and put them in rows. When the prefect arrived, Lawrence simply said, “These are the treasure of the Church.”

The prefect was so angry he told Lawrence that he would indeed have his wish to die—but it would be by inches. He had a great gridiron prepared, with coals beneath it, and had Lawrence’s body placed on it. After the martyr had suffered the pain for a long time, the legend concludes, he made his famous cheerful remark, “It is well done. Turn me over!”

Comment

Once again we have a saint about whom almost nothing is known, yet one who has received extraordinary honor in the Church since the fourth century. Almost nothing—yet the greatest fact of his life is certain: He died for Christ. We who are hungry for details about the lives of the saints are again reminded that their holiness was, after all, a total response to Christ, expressed perfectly by a death like this.

Patron Saint of: Cooks and the Poor