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Something for the Soul
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A Reflection on The Eucharist & Engagement
A reflection by parishioner Alison Macor is featured in the summer issue of the University of Notre Dame's (ND) magazine. An alum of ND, Alison is an active light in our community of faith serving as an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist, a Lector, a member of our Parish Pastoral Council and, through that service, one of the leads (along with Josie Barrett, Susan Parker, and Mary Margaret Salls) of our Caring Connection project. Alison's also Mom of a son in our Faith Formation program, and therefore, a Catechist. But wait, there's more, she's the author of a forthcoming book about the making of The Best Years of Our Lives, winner of the 1947 Academy Award for best motion picture and just happened to teach my daughter's History of Film class at Texas State. Oh, the movies we watched that summer!
We offer this article as witness to the surprising networks woven by engagement in ministry within our community. Through Communion Outreach, Alison met Sara, then served with Joe. Meet all three plus one more in a related article in Light then we invite you to prayerfully consider engagement in one of our many ministries or organizations.
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Illustrations by Gina & Matt as presented in
Notre Dame Magazine, Summer 2021
An Invitation ~
Come in from the heat this weekend to cool off with a tall refreshing glass to spend some time with Alison's article. Meet Sara, Joe, and others she's encountered in the halls of St. David's. Learn how this engagement in Communion Outreach did something for her.
Please note - The names of patients and some identifying details in the essay have been changed.
Something for the Soul
If this article piqued your curiosity about communion Outreach, we invite you to meet another ND alum, Nancy Carrales, who invites you to join her ministry of comfort through Communion at Westminster. Find more at Help Needed.
As Pope Francis observed in Laudato Si ~
“Everything is related, and we human beings are united as brothers and sisters on a wonderful pilgrimage, woven together by the love God has for each of his creatures and which also unites us in fond affection with brother sun, sister moon, brother river and mother earth...”
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Appearing Now in One
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St. Austin's Peace Quilt – A History
The St. Austin’s Peace Quilt was a project sponsored in October 1987 by the parish Pax Christi *
group founded in 1982 by Mary Berwick.
The parishioners who accepted the invitation to participate were each given a 12” square of muslin fabric to complete with an original or suggested peace-theme art design, using embroidery, quilting, or paint.
To identify the project, “St. Austin’s Parish 1987” was embroidered on one square and the outline of the church on another, and each square shows the name of the parishioner who created it. The 42 squares were joined with floral fabric and the resulting quilt-top was displayed at parish-wide and Pax Christi events during the 10 years the group was active.
The goal to transform the quilt-top into a true quilt didn’t come to fruition until the spring of 2017. A few months earlier, Mary Alice Brown asked fellow parishioner Sharon Oliver for her recommendation and guidance for the quilt’s completion. Sharon, a quilter and member of the Prayer Blanket Ministry, took the project under her wing. She engaged her mother’s quilting group at St. Joseph Catholic Church in her hometown of Slaton, Texas. The skills and loving care of the Quilting Ladies are evident in this hand-quilted beautifully-finished Peace Quilt.
The Peace Quilt project parishioner-participants are listed on the accompanying chart.
*Pax Christi (Latin for peace of Christ) is the international Catholic peace movement, as designated by Pope Pius XII in 1952. Through prayer, study, and action, members promote peace, respect for human rights, justice, and reconciliation. Pax Christi was established in 1945 in France by a laywoman and a bishop as a reconciliation effort between French and German Catholics in the aftermath of World War II. It now includes 120 member-organizations in over 50 countries, including Pax Christi USA, and has non-governmental consultative status at the United Nations.
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St. Austin's Peace Quilt - Fall, 1987
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St. Austin's Peace Quilt Participant "Quilters"
Listed by Location of Quilter's Square
Carol
HassellHarriette
KunzMartha
AskewJeanne
MorrisKaren
BlubaughTheresa
Robinson &
Rita
LeonardLiz
HoltVicki
KosarekBobbie
FreemanMarie Alice
BrownCary
KopeckyWanda
NeuvarPhyllis
NugentClaudia
WenzelCeleste
StarkPaula
DixonCatherine
& Ralph
WilsonTess
SchlegelDiane
PetersonMargaret
CookPam
GrahamCarol
SullivanChristy
KuehnBongi
MathabelaPat
MokryDave
BieserHuddie
MurrayAnn
HambletonSusan
GilgChristy
TrochtaBarbara
BuddeKaren
KerkeringSharon
DanzigerGladys
AndersonMaggie
EmersonCindy
WenzelSherry
O'ConnellMarian
BreenEllen
BrownMary Alice
BrownJoan
LoehrSandy
Palacios
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