Connecticut Catholic Events

CT Catholic Men’s Conference
Saturday, 26 October, 8:30-5pm
Goodwin College, 1 Riverside Drive, East Hartford
visit: www.ctcatholicmen.org

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TONIGHT: Theology at Bar (254 Crown St, New Haven, CT 06511) is a casual forum where young adults in their 20s and 30s, single or married, of all denominations and walks of life, gather in a local bar for 'straight talk, hard facts, and real answers' on our faith and how it applies to daily life. Confessions available during the talk.

Dan Norton is a Catholic apologist from Boston, Massachusetts. He has spoken to college and Theology on Tap groups throughout the northeastern United States. He is an award winning speaker and the former President of the public speaking club, Copley Square Toastmasters, in Boston. He has academic degrees in both philosophy and engineering. He received a MA in Philosophy degree from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio and a Civil Engineering degree from the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. As someone with an extensive background in religion and science, he is especially interested in the perceived conflicts between these two areas today.

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Saturday October 26 Please join us for our 6th Annual Concert, benefiting Malta House (Norwalk) and Saint Joseph Parenting Center (Stamford). This event will be held at Norwalk Concert Hall, at Norwalk City Hall, 125 East Avenue. There will be a VIP Pre-Concert Award Reception from 6:00-7:45 p.m., featuring the Eighth Ave Jazz Trio with John Colianni, piano, followed by an 8:00 p.m. curtain.

Tickets and info: http://www.maltahouse.org/?page_id=113

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The Saint Thomas More Soup Kitchen, Park Street New Haven
Wednesdays, 9 am - 2 pm
Open to Everyone 
Volunteers Needed 

The Saint Thomas More Soup Kitchen served 314 meals this week. Lunch is served from 11:00 am—1:00 pm on Wednesday through April.

If you would like to be a part of this wonderful opportunity and respond to the needs of others, show up anytime in the Golden Center Dining Hall between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm. Volunteers are especially needed to meet in the Commons rotunda at 9:00 am to help transfer food from their pans to ours. Please consider being part of this wonderful opportunity and respond to the needs of others. For more information: katie. byrnes@yale.edu.

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Sunday Dinner with Rosalie Riegle
Sunday, October 27, 6:00 pm
St Thomas More Center, Park Street New Haven

Open to Everyone

Please join us for dinner and a presentation by Rosalie Riegle: Recipient of the 2013 Vox Populi Award from the Oral History Association, given for “outstanding achievement in using oral history to create a more just and humane world,” from 2004 through 2007 Rosalie Riegle interviewed 173 war resisters who risked arrest and sometimes long prison terms to speak in the loudest way possible against US militarism. The results of this project can be read in her recent books, Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community (Vanderbilt UP, October, 2012) and Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out for Peace (Wipf and Stock Cascade, 2013.) She is also the author of Voices from the Catholic Worker (1993), and Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her (2003). Riegle is a member of the National Committee of the War Resisters League, the Project for Justice, the Environment, and Peace, the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and the American Catholic Historical Association. For more information: katie.byrnes@yale.edu

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Sisters of Life Come & See retreats
November 14-17, 2013
February 13-16, 2014
May 23-26, 2014

Vocation Office: Sr Antoniana Maria, SV, 718-863-2264
www.sistersoflife.org/vocations

Retreats include: Mass, Liturgy of the Hours, Eucharistic Holy Hour, Rosary, Conferences by Sisters, sacramental Confession, visits to Sisters of Life convents.

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St Thérèse Church, 105 Leetes Island Road, Branford
Parish Mission conducted by Father Eugene O’Reilly
October 27-30, 7:30pm each evening

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2014 March for Life, Washington, DC
Wednesday, 22 January 2014

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Lourdes Medical Director to Speak at Holy Family Retreat Center November 18
Dr. Alessandro de Franciscis will discuss “Cures and Miracles in Lourdes”

Italian physician Dr. Alessandro de Franciscis says his mission is to “serve the truth” as head of the Lourdes Medical Bureau, which investigates reports of miraculous healings at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Lourdes, France.  Dr. de Franciscis will discuss his work and share his insight into the wonders of this celebrated shrine in a fascinating presentation scheduled for Nov. 18 at the Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center in West Hartford.  The talk, “Cures and Miracles in Lourdes; An Evening with Dr. Alessandro de Franciscis,” begins at 6:30 p.m. and includes a reception.  The suggested offering is $50, more if you can, less if you can’t.

Holy Family Retreat Center is located at 303 Tunxis Road in West Hartford.  To register for Dr. de Franciscis’ talk, call the Retreat Office at 860-760-9705 or visit www.HolyFamilyRetreat.org/LourdesMiracles.  Space is limited.