Resurrection High School “God Squad”

Serra International

Convention June 20-22

2013 Majorca Spain

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Deacons

Peter Glittens

Michael Foulger

and Trevor Klein

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The Serra International

Convention Majorca

Spain

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Fr. Ben Weber a Priest

in St. Catharines

Diocese

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District Governor

Patrick Hearn

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K-W SERRA RELIGIOUS LIFE DINNER Also invited to the dinner are

the permanent deacons

serving in Waterloo Region.

It is hoped that all Serrans as

well as members of the com-

munity will join us for this

event.

This event, along with the

Altar Server Award program,

are two of the most popular

events in the Serra year.

SEE YOU THERE !!!!

A major event of the K-W

Serra club is the Religious Life

Dinner. Dr Bergman is our

speaker and Bishop Crosby

will attend.

This year it will be held on

Wednesday January 16th at

Conestoga Place, formerly

the Knights of Columbus Cen-

tre. This event has always been

an opportunity for Serrans to

thank the religious sisters

serving in our community.

Dr. Katherine Bergman,

President St. Jerome’s

University Guest

Speaker at the Dinner

Student Bret Israel and

Chaplain Kelly Steven

Kelly Stephen, the chaplain at Resurrec-tion High School attended a recent Serra meeting along with Bret Israel a grade 11 student and talked about the religion program at the school that provides for approximately 1600 stu-dents between the ages of 14 and 18.

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God Squad T-Shirts worn

by the student members of

the team who plan liturgies.

Notice their angel wings!

One of the first things that they

mentioned was that most young

people in this age group have an

attention span of about 40-60 sec-

onds and this impacts directly on

how religion can be presented to

them. They shared a portion of a video about St. Therese of Lisieux that has been used and well received in classes. Mr. Stephen shared that in his experience, young peo-ple want to “feel and touch” relig-ion and talked about an experi-ence at St. Louis church in Water-loo where students actually “rang the church bell”-this was signifi-cant for some students and they felt very connected. Bret, especially, talked about this program that encourages students to be involved in a variety of pro-grams and events that require “help”- he finds this a great way to

put his faith into action.

Holy Mass is celebrated for

the entire student body five

times a year and this is be-

cause of the support of priests

like our chaplain Fr. Toby and

other priests in the school area

Permanent Deacons Visit the Club

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The 2013 Serra

International

Convention

headquarters

hotel will be the

4-star Grand

Melia Victoria

Hotel located in

the heart of

Palma

Serra Connects

Serra International Convention

This year the International

Convention will take place

in Palma, Majorca, Spain

from Thursday June 20th to

Saturday June 22nd. Two of

the invited speakers are: His Eminence Zenon Car-

dinal Grocholewski, Pre-

fect of the Sacred Congre-

gation for Catholic Educa-

tion in Rome and His Eminence Sean Cardi-

nal O’Malley, Archbishop

of Boston, Massachusetts,

U.S.A.

If you are planning a holi-

day this year you might consider going to the Serra

International Convention.

composition put together by

one of our Serra International

staff members Jon Haines who

is the Assistant Director of

Research and Communications

You will also find two previous

issues.

Since mailing of magazines like

“The Serran” which we

The latest issue of Serra Con-

nects can be read by going to

the following website

http://www.serra.org/images/

documents/serraconnects/

serraconnects

nov_dec2012final.pdf.

Copy this URL into your

browser and read the latest

received once or twice a year

has become just too costly to

mail and it is now being sent

electronically.

Unfortunately those of our

members who do not have an

internet connection have to

rely on others to print off a

copy. The current issue runs

32 pages.

“Serra

Connects”

replaces

“TheSerran”

that used to

be mailed

once or twice

a year

P L E A S E C O N S I D E R R E M E M B E R I N G S E R R A I N Y O U R E S T A T E

The Wednesday November 7th

Serra meeting brought us Perma-

nent Deacon Dr. Peter Gittens

PhD, who is responsible for the

Permanent Deacon program in

Hamilton Diocese. He was born in

St. Lucia and educated in a minor

seminary in Trinidad before going

to Rome to finish his formation for

the priesthood. Before being or-

dained , Peter decided against ordi-

nation and left the seminary. Later

he married and when the opportu-

nity to become a deacon arose this

was a natural fit for him.

Deacon Peter has been a professor at

the St. Augustine Seminary and is

now in charge of the education of

those studying for the class of 2016 in

Hamilton. The deacons in training go

to Hamilton once a month for their

studies, often, along with their wives.

Fr. Mark Gatto is Director of Forma-

tion and Monsignor Ed House is

chaplain to the Permanent Deacons.

We wish Deacon Peter all the best in

his new role in the Diaconate program

in Hamilton Diocese. God Bless You!

See list on Deacons at the bottom of

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Permanent Deacon

Peter Gittens is

Associate Director

of the

Diaconate Program

Deacon Trevor and Angela Klein

P A G E 3 T H E S E R R A C L U B O F K I T C H E N E - W A T E R L O O

Deacon Trevor is a teacher at St.

Mary’s in Elora, where he teaches at

the intermediate level, Grade 7 and

8. Trevor is a convert from the

United Church and wanted to learn

all about the catholic faith.

Trevor is involved with the Portage

Program for Adolescents in Ontario

in addition to his teaching position.

Portage Ontario provides a long-term

residential drug addiction rehabilita-

tion program for adolescents aged 14

years or more. It was established in

1985 in Elora, near Guelph

FOR THE CANDIDATES OF

THE PERMANENT

DIACONATE CLASS OF

2014:

Patrick Crowley,

Brian Dunn,

John Fioretti,

Phong Hoang

RCIA classes and became in-

volved in hospital ministry at St.

Clement Parish in Cambridge.

They also worked in a bible

program and RCIA.

Michael has a full time job as a

lab technician at the University

of Waterloo.

Before becoming a catholic,

Mary had involvement with a

Mennonite church a was a

preacher there. Deacon Michael

is at St. Clement Cambridge

Deacon Michael and Mary Foulger

Recently Ordained, and those currently studying for the Permanent Diaconate

Deacons

are

coming to

many of

our

parishes

We also met Deacon Michael

Foulger and his wife Mary. Mi-

chael and Mary were Anglican

missionaries who came to Can-

ada from England.

Mary was a teacher in the public

system in Ontario and was disen-

chanted with the fact that she

could not teach her Christian

beliefs in that system.

They became involved in the

catholic church and both attended

Bishop Crosby has asked him to work at

St. Joseph parish in Fergus where he

looks after the Baptismal Ministry as

well as preaching once a month.

Rev. Mr. Tevor Klein is also involved in

Adult Faith Formation at St. Joseph.

Fr, Ken Miskiewicz is pastor at the new

church in Fergus. He follows

Fr. Ian Duffy currently at St. Ann

Parish in Ancaster.

Trevor and Angela have young children

who also require parental time.

FOR THE CANDIDATES OF

THE PERMANENT DIACON-

ATE CLASS OF

2016:

Gerard Byrne,

T. J. Han,

Ed MacIntosh,

Rene Marechal,

John Moss

THE ORDAINED DEACON CLASS OF

2012:

Carmelo Campanella,

Joseph DiLoreto,

Michael Foulger,

Trevor Klein,

Samuel Landman,

Stephane Zara,

Mark Romeo,

Pat Colangelo,

Rafael Dayot,

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Fr. Ben Weber ordained for St. Catharines Diocese

Governor Patrick Hearn Visits K-W Serra Club

Vocations Video at Resurrection High School

Fr. Toby Collins, Vocation

Director for the Congregation

of the Resurrection, and

teacher Richard Sloos, are

working with students at Res-

urrection Catholic Secondary

School to produce a vocations

video for the Congregation of

the Resurrection and Waterloo

Serrans.

It is an exciting venture as

students have visited St.

Jerome's University, as well as

St. Francis and Sacred Heart

Parishes in search of youth

who know the CR's and are

eager to tell others about the

great things these priests and

brothers are doing in Kitchener

-Waterloo. The hope is that a 5

minute video will be com-

pleted by early December that

is light-hearted and informa-

tive. The students have been

working hard to get the inter-

views completed on time and

the editing just right. The video

is funded by the Waterloo

Serrans and promises to be a

lively way to raise awareness of the call to religious life and

the difference those under

vows continue to make in the

llives of young people.

Patrick is a frequent visitor to

the Kitchener-Waterloo area

and has many friends and rela-

tives here. He is a graduate of

the former St. Jerome’s High

School and attends their reun-

ions. As a result Patrick at-

tends several of our K-W

Serra club functions each year.

Patrick was able to give the

Governor Patrick Hearn vis-

ited the club on Wednesday

October 10th to attend our

regular monthly Board meet-

ing.

It was good to see Patrick who

has prepared himself well to be

Governor by attending the

Governor’s Training program

in Chicago .

Board members many ideas to

consider as we discussed our

agenda.

Patrick plans to have a meeting

of all the District 26 Serra Club

Presidents so they will be able

to learn from each other.

We wish Patrick all the best in

his role as Governor. May God

Bless you, and your efforts.

ioners at St. Teresa Parish in

Kitchener. He was ordained on

May 26th by Bishop Gerard

Bergie of St. Catharines and

will be stationed at St. Joseph’s

in Grimsby .

Ben has been a seminarian

studying at Christ the King

Seminary In Buffalo before

being ordained for St. Cathari-

nes Diocese.

Ben has a brother studying at a

Carmelite monastery in Wyo-

ming USA.

Jim and Lori must be proud

parents having two sons in

religious life.

Father Ben is one of the first

two graduates of Our Lady

Seat of Wisdom Academy

in Barry’s Bay Ontario.

www.seatofwisdom.org The

Academy is about 2 hours

from Ottawa and 4 hours from

Toronto

Shown here is Father Benja-

min Weber with his parents

Jim and Lori who are parish-

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P L E A S E C O N S I D E R R E M E M B E R I N G S E R R A I N Y O U R

E S T A T E

COMING EVENTS

Nov. 21, 2012

Fr. Con O’Mahoney

Topic: Vatican 11

Dec. 5th, 2012

David de Sousa

Out of the Cold Program

Dec. 19th, 2012

Al Smith

Rosary Program 98.5 FM

Jan. 2nd, 2013

Sister Elaine Arsenault

Sister of Social Service

Jan. 16th, 2013

Religious Life Banquet

Dr. Katherine Bergman

and Bishop Crosby

Feb. 6th, 2013

TBA

Feb. 20th, 2013

Denise Dolff

Outreach in Africa

Mar 5th 2012

Ordinandi Dinner

Mar. 6th, 2013

Mini Lenten Retreat

Fr. Toby Collins

DG Pat Hearn