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This week:
Mon- Fri: Easter Time Lauds
April 14: Encounter.Perfection
April 15: Sacred Heart of Mary Parish Mission
April 17: Street Evangelization
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Encounter. April 13 - 19

Weekly update                  

Happy Easter!

Thank you to all who engaged in preparations for Seder. We've had a special time of celebrating and experiencing communal meal. 
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Our 2 years Anniversary Mass, brunch and fun was a marvelous time of thanksgiving and fellowship. Big thank you to the Downs family for hosting this event. 
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Spirit Filled Retreat was definitely a great fit for our Encounter group at this time. All of the parish groups from Columbus demonstrated hospitality and openness beyond our expectations. All of us were challenged, comforted and encouraged in becoming missionary disciples. We were blessed not only with the presence of young, enthusiastic, Holy Spirit oriented and mature leaders, but also with the ministry of Dominican friars and sisters who offered ministry of reconciliation and spiritual counseling. This retreat has proven that the life in the Spirit led with authenticity among the young people is possible and I hope that we all could experience genuine presence of God hovering over us continually: times of liturgical and spontaneous prayer/worship were engaging and very real, Adoration and Mass were conducted with great solemnity (they had incense in the room!), yet the intimacy with Jesus was very tangible. The talks and small group time were oscillating around forming the hearts of youth to become missionary disciples for lifetime, not only as a temporary or imposed task. Free time, conversations, ball games, bone fire only added to our time there. We are very grateful for many touching testimonies and a witness of Catholic youth from Columbus. We are hoping to keep this relationship to develop.

Special thank you to Mrs. Poirier, Mrs. Venditti and the Lees for offering their time to drive our teens. 

This week:

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SHM mission
Sacred Heart of Mary Parish Mission
Easter 2015
This Wednesday we are starting a Parish mission in Weirton, 6:00 - 7:30 pm. If you feel called to serve through playing an instrument, singing, leading short prayers or chaplet, giving short testimony, greeting, helping with technical set up or interceding, contact majorchange@gmail.com ASAP. The first week we are planning: prayer and worship, two testimonies (all ages; if you have a personal story related to the Divine Mercy theme and would like to share it, that would be great), talk (Encountering Jesus the Merciful) with short Lectio Divina, Divine Mercy chaplet, conversations, chanting one Psalm. 
SHM mission
Street Evangelization
If you want to 'do the Acts 2 stuff', this is a great opportunity!
St. Paul Street Evangelization is coming to Steubenville to train street evangelizers. SPSE trains and supervises over 170 Catholic street evangelization teams. 

We will join SPSE team, Dr. Bergsma and students from FUS in:
3:00 pm training workshop at FUS, Fireside at JC Williams*
4:00 driving to Pittsburgh 
5:30 - 7:30 pm Street Evangelization in Pittsburgh/Pirates game (Catholics 'doing the stuff')
8:00 drive back. stop for a snack and de-brief
9:00 - 9:30 pm back in Steubenville 
* If you can't participate in 3pm workshop, pick from two earlier ones (click on the image)
We need adults 21 an up in ratio 1:4 for this event. Four teens (13-17yo) will be assigned to stay with one adult at all times, no exceptions. Younger than 13yo may come with a parent. 18 yo and up will not be assigned to an adult but will form a team or join FUS students. This is perfect implementation and hands on experience in sharing the Gospel after our retreat. 
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Encounter.Easter Time Lauds
April 7 - May 22, Mon-Fri
St. Peter's, 7:30 - 7:55 am
Catholics are great in prayer during penitential times, but pope Francis calls us to enter into the joy of Easter. Let's sing together!
Encounter.Intercession

Read about Intercessory prayer for a Sacred Heart of Mary six weeks long Parish Mission which Encounter. will lead after Divine Mercy Sunday. 
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