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Workshops,
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The CYO of St. Martin of Tours Parish at Oxford Circle will sponsor
a basketball tournament for the Sister Paul Mercedes Scholarship Fund.
The tourney takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 22
and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 23 in the school gym. Sister Paul
Mercedes Perreca, I.H.M. was tragically killed in an early morning hit-and-run
auto accident earlier this year. Sister Mercedes spent mornings taking
her stepfather for dialysis treatment and afternoons and evenings tutoring
students at St. Martin’s School. She was on her way to Mass at
nearby St. Matthew Church when the accident occured. The CYOers will
be honoring her life and work. Proceeds will be donated to the scholarship
fund, which will go to a deserving eight-grader. Information: 215-535-2962.
Respect Life
James Corr, director of the Respect Life Office of the Philadelphia
Archdiocese, will speak on the Catholic perspective of “End-of-Life
Issues” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 29 at Christ the King Church,
Morrell Avenue and Chesterfield Road. A reception will follow. Information:
215-632-1144.
Black Tie Gala
West Catholic High School’s annual “Blue and Gold Gala”
will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 29 in the Tearoom of the old
Wanamaker Store. Gerald D. Putnam, president of the New York Stock Exchange,
and a member of the West Catholic alumni, will be honored. Information:
215-386-2244.
Happy Birthday
Norbertine Father Francis J. Ciliberti recently celebrated his 90th
birthday at the Regina Nursing Center in Norristown, where he has been
a resident for the past six years. Father Ciliberti will be remembered
as the director of the Norbertine Seminary Guild and for his pastoral
care to the patients at St. Agnes Hospital. He has spent 62 years as
a priest ministering in parishes and schools in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
Spring Concerts
Immaculata University Symphony will perform its spring concert at 7:30
p.m. Saturday, April 22 in Alumnae Hall. ... Little Flower High School’s
spring concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 22 and at 2 p.m.
Sunday, April 23 in the school auditorium. ... The choir at Gwynedd-Mercy
College will offer a musicale at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 and at
8 p.m. Friday, April 28 in the Julia Ball Auditorium. ... Neumann College
chorale will join with Swarthmore chorale in a concert at 8 p.m. Friday,
April 28 in Neumann’s Meagher Theater.
Flea Markets
Ladies Auxiliary, Ancient Order of Hibernians, Saturday, April 22, 8
a.m. to 1 p.m. at Rhawn Street and Frankford Avenue, back of Wachovia
Bank ... St. Philip Neri Parish, 218 Queen Street, Saturday, May 13,
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
South Philly Night
Annunciation B.V.M. School at 12th and Wharton Streets, will host “A
Night in South Philadelphia,” featuring an auction and dinner
at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 22. Information: 610-935-5544.
Health Care
The Parish Nurse Ministry of Our Mother of Good Counsel Parish in Bryn
Mawr and Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, in collaboration with Bayada
Nurses, will host a three-part presentation on “Heath Care in
the 21st Century” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 26; 10 a.m. Friday,
May 5, and 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 10. All sessions will be held at Bryn
Mawr Presbyterian Church, 625 Montgomery Avenue. There is no fee. Information:
610-975-9600.
Spiritual
Devotions
Divine Mercy celebrations at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 23 at St. Ignatius
Church, Yardley, and at 3 p.m. April 23 at Presentation B.V.M. Church,
Cheltenham. ... St. Bartholomew Parish, 5600 Jackson Street will conduct
the annual St. Peregrine triduum April 30-May 1. St. Peregrine is the
patron of those with cancer. Healing Mass at 7 p.m. Monday, May 1.
‘Da Vinci’ Forum
Lou Baldwin, former Staff Writer for The Catholic Standard & Times,
will give a presention on “The Da Vinci Code” from a Catholic
perspective, and lead a discussion on it Wednesday, April 26 at 7 p.m.
at St. Leo Parish meeting room, 6700 Unruh St.
Book Discussion
A talk comparing the works of the Christian apologist C.S. Lewis and
one of his critics, Philip Pullman, will be presented by David Mills,
editor of Touchstone, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 21, at the International
Institute for Culture.
The film version of C.S. Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia”
has rekindled the debate over his Christian world-view.
Pullman dislikes Lewis’s work, and wrote “His Dark Materials,”
which depicts the fall of man as a good thing — but Mills believes
that book also conveys more of the Gospels than Pullman realizes.
Info by phone at (215) 877-9910 or on the Web: www.iiculture.org.