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March 13
CCCR Board meeting
March 14
Time: 7-8pm
Open Forum:
What is God Doing at Sunday Mass? What are We Doing?
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
700 Snelling Ave. S.
St. Paul, MN
March 14
Time: 8-9pm
Council of the Baptized meeting
Look for the March
CCCR Newsletter in the last week of March.
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Register to be part of the CCCR Lay Network if you live in or go to a parish in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
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Donate money to enable CCCR to continue taking action and developing an informed and engaged laity.
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Read about our 2017 CCCR Action Campaign initiatives. Become involved.
Read Why am I Involved?, a new section in the CCCR Newsletter. This month, Bob Beutel shares why he is involved in church reform. Each month, a current CCCR Board member will reflect on why they became involved. As you read this new section, we invite you to consider the question, "How may I become more involved?"
Have you read the 2017 Strategic Plan? This plan articulates actions which emerged from
specific recommendations of the
Pastoral Recommendations Project.
Read on. Reflect. Collaborate. Act. Share.
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Art Stoeberl Stepping Down from the CCCR Board
Art Stoeberl, who has been serving on the CCCR Board for many years, has decided to step down from the CCCR Board.
Art served as Call to Action - Minnesota's representative on the CCCR Board, and we all benefited from his wisdom and perspective over the years. Art, we will miss your generous soul. You have broadened our horizons.
Connie Walsh Joins the CCCR Board
Connie Walsh has recently joined the CCCR Board of Directors. Connie is active in FutureChurch and brings with her much information, experience and energy from her involvement with that organization and others with a more national scope. Connie, we welcome you to the CCCR Board.
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March Open Forum:
What is God Doing at Sunday Mass?
What are We Doing?
The ritual we use at mass should tell us the answers to these questions. We would like to know if the answers are clear to you from the ritual. Your input will help a team of local Catholics who have been researching these questions as groundwork for reestablishing an Archdiocesan Liturgy Commission. There will be a brief presentation of how the ritual expresses the answers and then how we need your reaction. Come join us!
Presenters: Jim Moudry; Kathryn Lien; Fr. J. Michael
Joncas; Fr. Michael Byron; and Paula Ruddy
Time:
7-8pm
Place: Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
700 Snelling Ave South
St. Paul, MN 55116
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Let your gifts, time and other resources guide you in collaborating with CCCR, and the Council of the Baptized. Each month, read this section--"Opportunities: Be Involved", to identify some ways you may become involved.
We need your energy. As Lent begins, explore these opportunities to deepen your involvement in church reform work. Read on:
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Become involved in one of the current active campaign initiatives.
Contact:
[email protected]
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3. Donate to the CCCR. Enable CCCR to focus its energies on the work of church reform. Click the link Donate to CCCR.
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Why Am I Involved?
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In coming months, CCCR Board members will share why they are involved in the church reform work of the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (CCCR). There are many reasons and stories to share. The following reflections are from Bob Beutel:
Member of CCCR Board since 2009 (almost the beginning). Real estate attorney. Grandfather of 5 girls and 2 boys; one of the girls lives with us. Member of St. Joan of Arc parish. Wife Lois is a Quaker.
I was first interested in liturgical reform since the 1960s, being a part of the change from passive attendance to active participation in the Eucharistic celebration as a community worship service filled with joy and spirit that makes us do what needs to be done to bring God's justice to the Church and the world at large.
I have been a part of ordination of women as priests and bishops; I have also served as a CCCR spokesperson to the news media and at public demonstrations urging the retirement of our former archbishop. I have been a part of "Follow the Money" (more formally known as the Accountability and Transparency team).
I stay in the Church and contribute to CCCR because I am optimistic that the laity is listening to the Spirit and taking responsibility for bringing about change that a weakened clerical leadership is unable to accomplish. As marginalized people in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement, we made some "impossible" changes. I was privileged to work with and be inspired by Paul Wellstone in bringing out the voices of poor and excluded people on issues of poverty; now I think the same movement is possible in the Church through CCCR's lay networking and organizing around the issues burning within our hearts.
-Bob Beutel
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2. If you have an account with Amazon, sign in.
3. If you do not have an Amazon account, go to the bottom of the website https://smile.amazon.com/ and press the link that says "create an account".
4. Register by providing the following information:
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In order to select CCCR as the 501(c)(3) charitable organization you want to donate to, do the following:
2. At the top of the screen, look just below where you type what you want to search
3. You should see text that says, "change your charity"
4. Put your cursor over the down arrow next to that text, and you should be taken to a screen where you can type,"Catholic Coalition for Church Reform".
Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform. This adds another option to the ways you may donate your resources to CCCR. We appreciate your donations. Your donations enable us to continue the work of reforming the Catholic Church.
Tell your friends about this option to contribute to the work of Catholic Coalition for Church Reform, which is a registered 501(c)(3) organization.
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