Parish News
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Upcoming Events at Newman
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Feast Day of Saint John Henry Newman
October 9, Patron of Newman Parish, Pray for us!
Hospitality Weekend October 12-13:
We are serving donuts after the morning Masses and pizza after the evening Masses. Everyone is welcome to join us! Let’s celebrate the Feast Day of Saint John Henry Newman.
The Search
What do you seek? Who are you?
Join us Mondays this fall for the video series "The Search", produced by Chris Stefanick, and find the answers to these questions and more. This 7 part series will be presented as part of the OCIA, formerly the RCIA.
Starts Monday, October 7 at 7:00 pm.
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All Saints Day – Wednesday, November 1st
Friday, November 1st is All Saints Day. It is a Holy Day of Obligation, Mass will be at noon and at 5:30 pm. All Saints Day is dedicated to the saints of the Church, that is, all those who have attained heaven. All Souls’ Day, which is observed on Nov 2nd is dedicated to those who have died and not yet reached heaven.
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Grief During the Holidays
A free community event with an inspirational speaker and author, Donna Mathiowetz, will be hosting an event in dealing with the loss of a loved one as the holidays come around. The event is offered by Stokes, Prock and Mundt Funeral Chapel.
Thursday, November 14 at 6:00 pm
Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse-Holiday Inn South
Anyone interested in attending should contact Sue Ripp or Laurie Hittman by Wednesday, November 6. Seats will be reserved for our group. Sue and Laurie will register anyone interested in participating or answer questions.
Sue 715-829-3822 or suerippht@charter.net
Laurie 715-379-4110 or jlhittman1@jlhittman.com
Because of this event, Newman Parish will not be offering a similar holiday grief session this year.
WELCOMING NEW NEIGHBORS
Have you heard that Eau Claire is welcoming 75 refugees to our community? Yes. Some have arrived, some have not yet arrived.
A group of 12 people, from University Lutheran and Newman Parish combined, are preparing themselves to be an official Good Neighbor Team, eventually to be paired with an arriving refugee family. The team is committing to walk alongside these newcomers, becoming their initial supportive community for a six-month period, and being trained to do so in a well-educated and culturally sensitive manner. World Relief is the agency providing the foundational structure for this process, and their local representative, Jodi Jewell, is working closely with us each step of the way.
One of the Team’s first tasks will be to furnish the new family’s apartment: we’ll be asking all of YOU to help! After our initial live training sessions on April 23rd, and April 26th we were given the “Master Apartment Supply List” which contains a total of nearly 100 items in the following categories: Furniture, Kitchen, Linens, Cleaning, Personal Hygiene, Other. Some of these can be used, others must be new; we may be scouring thrift sales and places like Savers and Goodwill in the coming weeks.
Sara Bryan of ULC and Lou Hoeschen of Newman are the co-leaders of the Team, serving primarily in a communications role. Stay tuned for more information to come.
Here is the link for Apartment supplies for the Refugee Family when they arrive.
Here's the link:
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Hospital/Homebound/Nursing Home Visit and/or Anointing of the Sick
If you desire the sacrament of anointing and/or a homebound/hospital/nursing home visit, please contact Fr. Dan Oudenhoven(fr.dan@newmanec.com or 715-834-3399) and he will work out an arrangement with you to make it possible.
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