Click on video above: 'The Thought' - April 11, 2022 |
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Follow Jesus Through
That Final Week
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Everything You Need to Know About Easter in the
Catholic Church
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From the Archives: "Why We Call it Good Friday" |
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As we move through Holy Week, we will encounter "Good Friday." Did you ever wonder why this darkest moment in history is called "good"? The video below gives a great insight into that question. |
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From the Archives: "Parishioners' Perspectives" |
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As we approach Easter this year, there are two touchstones in my mind that bring me back to when I first came to know Jesus. One is what has been called the “Greatest American Play.” Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder, tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. Its theme of how life passes so quickly, and people being unaware that they will soon join those who’ve gone before them gripped me then, and it grips me now. The play asks, in effect, what will remain of us, what will our lives have added up to, in the gaze of eternity? In Grover’s Corners we know it will not be anything grand, or out of the ordinary, for anybody. The play poses the question, that for all virtues and all vices, all successes and all failures, “what difference will Shakespeare or Napoleon have made, not to mention you and I?”
Our Town is my lifelong favorite play. (Somewhere over the past decade I mentioned that in an e-zine article here at St. Ignatius.) It is one of the tools God used to get me thinking about Him and my time here on earth way back in the early 70’s. READ MORE
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Hearts, Eyes and Prayers toward Ukraine |
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The Archdiocese of Baltimore has listed efforts and news on their website regarding involvement and support of Ukraine during the Russian invasion. VISIT THEIR SITE to learn more. |
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The Charm Brass Quartet & The SATB Horn Quartet |
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Samantha Hartsfield is an orchestral horn player with a “combination of intellect and intuition, and brings to each performance an understanding both interpretively and analytically” (Thomas Verrier, Artistic Director, Vanderbilt Music Academy). As a brass teaching artist for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s OrchKids teaching program, she shares these skills with young musicians in the city of Baltimore. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where she studied with Leslie Norton of the Nashville Symphony as a Martha Rivers Ingram Scholar. Following her studies in Nashville, she spent a year studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she focused on expanding her career paths on an international level with teachers Micheal Thompson, Richard Watkins, Katy Woolley, and others. She is excited to continue her studies with Robert Rearden at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. Samantha intends to continue her career changing lives by embodying the infectious energy of Classical music.
Samantha’s solo recital on April 23rd highlights her love of musical collaboration. She is a founding member of the Charm Brass Quintet and the SATB Horn Quartet, both of whom will be featured on this recital. She will be performing a dynamic program of works by Eugene Bozza, York Bowen, and Robert Schumann with pianist Hanna Lee. These works represent the culmination of Samantha’s love for the horn, and she is thrilled to be able to put on a live recital in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. All are welcome to join Samantha at 1:00pm on April 23rd, 2022 at St. Ignatius Church!
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Sunday May 1st - Let's make a day of it! |
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It would be our honor to host you as our guest at The Loyola School Open House Sunday on May 1, 2022. We will begin our event immediately following the 10:00 A.M. Mass in The Reeves Gallery at St. Ignatius Catholic Church, 740 N Calvert Street Baltimore, MD 21202 at 11:00 am. Starting with Coffee, Cake and Conversation, we will begin our 20-minute tours of the school at 11:15 a.m. The last tour begins at 12:05.
We offer this day as a special thank you to our many benefactors of St. Ignatius Catholic Church to tour our classrooms and to meet members of The Loyola School, which we refer to as “TLS” administration, faculty, staff, students, and parents.
We hope that you will decide to join us. Please RSVP to Will H. Nathan, Jr. via email @ wnathan@lelc-balt.org by Monday, April 25, 2022 or call 443-563-2589 Ext. 122.
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St. Ignatius Reading & Discussion Group
April 12 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Palm Sunday
April 10 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
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Holy Thursday
April 14 @ 7:30 pm
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Good Friday (April 15)
- Stations of the Cross (Noon)
- Sacrament of Reconciliation (Noon - 3 PM)
- Liturgy of the Lord's Passion (7:30 PM)
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Holy Saturday: Solemn Easter Vigil
April 16 @ 7:30 pm
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Easter Morning
April 17 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
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Women Who Stay
April 26 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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POOR BOX
This week's collection: The Ignatian Spirituality Project
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HOW TO GIVE
How to contribute to
St. Ignatius.
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PRAYER LIST
Pray for those who are sick
and on our Prayer List.
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Vatican official speaks to event hosted by LGBT outreach group New Ways Ministry |
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Xavière Missionary Sr. Nathalie Becquart, the undersecretary of the Vatican's Synod of Bishops office, addressed an April 3 online gathering organized by New Ways Ministry, the Maryland-based advocacy group for LGBTQ Catholics whose founders were once censured by the Vatican.
In delivering a lecture entitled "Synodality: A Path of Reconciliation," Becquart said the Catholic Church is trying to re-learn the kind of synodality that marked its life in the early centuries of Christianity as a more inclusive and relational church of dialogue and listening. READ MORE
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Following Jesus Isn’t About Being Perfect
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You’ve been there. Who hasn’t? You made a mistake. You did something you know you shouldn’t have. You convinced yourself at the time that it wasn’t so bad but, deep down, you knew better.
And now, you’re left to deal with the aftermath. Maybe someone got offended. Maybe someone got hurt. Maybe people you loved and respected ended up rejecting you.
And now you’re stuck with an uncomfortable regret.
Or a broken relationship you can’t fix.
Or a pain that seems like it will never go away.
When this happens, it’s easy to feel like you’re looking up from the bottom of a deep well and there’s no point of even trying to climb out. You can’t change the past, so you might as well just accept this as part of your identity now. READ MORE
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READER NOTIFICATION:
Parish: 'the thought' is a publication of St. Ignatius Catholic Community—Baltimore. Each edition contains articles and news feeds that are included for awareness of current topics in our world today. The positions expressed by outside authors and news feeds are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or positions of St. Ignatius Catholic Community or its staff.
- This e-zine was designed and compiled by John C. Odean
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