Kzoo Catholic Sports Leagues (KCSL) - Ultimate League!: The 2016 Summer Sport of Ultimate Frisbee is in full swing now! They are playing on Wednesday nights, beginning at 6 pm, at St. Monica (behind the school - 534 W. Kilgore Rd., Kalamazoo, 49008). Please keep these folks in prayer. Check out “Kzoo Catholic Sports Leagues” on Facebook or email KCSLfor help or more information regarding this and future offerings. God bless you!
What is gender, and how has that word come to take on so many conflicting and controversial meanings in our contemporary moment? In this lecture, Dr. Abigail Favale will trace the development of the concept of gender, analyze the worldview behind it, and compare that worldview with a Christian understanding of reality, human identity, and sexual difference.Abigail Favale, Ph.D., is Dean of Humanities and Professor of English at George Fox University. Her award-winning work has appeared in The Atlantic, First Things, Church Life, and various literary and academic journals. Her memoir, Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion, was published in 2018, and her latest book, The Genesis of Gender, will be released by Ignatius Press in early 2022. Abigail lives in Oregon with her husband and four children.
This event is free and open to the public. Due to Hope College’s COVID precautions, masks are required indoors on campus for all individuals who are vaccinated or unvaccinated.
We are introducing a new Respect Life Ministry at SJV. Guided by the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the mission of the Respect Life group is to help educate people about pro-life topics and to keep them informed of related news and events. To that end, and as an introduction of the group to the parish, we are putting together a unique art project called Pellets of Life - The Art of Evangelium Vitea. It will be on display in the Village Hall at St. John Vianney before and after all Masses on the weekend of October 2-3. Mass schedule is 5:00 pm Saturday and 8:30 am and 10:30 am Sunday. Please stop by and take a look. You’ll be glad you did!
We are introducing a new Respect Life Ministry at SJV. Guided by the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, the mission of the Respect Life group is to help educate people about pro-life topics and to keep them informed of related news and events. To that end, and as an introduction of the group to the parish, we are putting together a unique art project called Pellets of Life - The Art of Evangelium Vitea. It will be on display in the Village Hall at St. John Vianney before and after all Masses on the weekend of October 2-3. Mass schedule is 5:00 pm Saturday and 8:30 am and 10:30 am Sunday. Please stop by and take a look. You’ll be glad you did!
Rachel's Vineyard is a weekend retreat for anyone whose life has been affected by an abortion experience, including the mother, father, couple, and grandparents. It is an opportunity to step aside from the normal activities of life and focus on healing the pain, regret, shame, sorrow and grief associated with an abortion decision. You will have the opportunity to grieve the loss of your unborn child or children, find God's mercy and journey to become the whole, healthy person God intends you to be. It is a non-judgmental and supportive, loving retreat with a retreat team composed of a facilitator, priest, therapist and team members who themselves have a history with abortion and found healing through the retreat. The cost is $150 but no one is turned away because of inability to pay. Financial aid is available. Contact Maggie for more information or to register.
Rachel's Vineyard is a weekend retreat for anyone whose life has been affected by an abortion experience, including the mother, father, couple, and grandparents. It is an opportunity to step aside from the normal activities of life and focus on healing the pain, regret, shame, sorrow and grief associated with an abortion decision. You will have the opportunity to grieve the loss of your unborn child or children, find God's mercy and journey to become the whole, healthy person God intends you to be. It is a non-judgmental and supportive, loving retreat with a retreat team composed of a facilitator, priest, therapist and team members who themselves have a history with abortion and found healing through the retreat. The cost is $150 but no one is turned away because of inability to pay. Financial aid is available. Contact Maggie for more information or to register.
Rachel's Vineyard is a weekend retreat for anyone whose life has been affected by an abortion experience, including the mother, father, couple, and grandparents. It is an opportunity to step aside from the normal activities of life and focus on healing the pain, regret, shame, sorrow and grief associated with an abortion decision. You will have the opportunity to grieve the loss of your unborn child or children, find God's mercy and journey to become the whole, healthy person God intends you to be. It is a non-judgmental and supportive, loving retreat with a retreat team composed of a facilitator, priest, therapist and team members who themselves have a history with abortion and found healing through the retreat. The cost is $150 but no one is turned away because of inability to pay. Financial aid is available. Contact Maggie for more information or to register.
When we first encounter a book, its genre raises certain expectations for what we, as readers, will find within the pages. In this talk, two authors pull back the creative curtain to show how novelists negotiate the complicated network of tropes and conventions that operate within the realm of popular genre fiction. Hear from two practitioners—Eleanor Bourg Nicholson, author of Gothic novels A Bloody Habit and Brother Wolf, and Rhonda Ortiz, author of historical romance novel In Pieces and founding editor of Chrism Press—what rules are to be observed, what rules are to be broken, and how genre and imagination combine to create a vivid narrative.Books will be available for purchase at the event, and (barring an unexpected fainting fit) the authors will be available for book signing.
This event is free and open to the public. Due to Hope College’s COVID precautions, masks are required indoors on campus for all individuals who are vaccinated or unvaccinated.
This event is co-sponsored by the Corpus Christi Foundation.
China’s one-child policy, the extreme population control measure that made it illegal for couples to have more than one child, may have ended in 2015, but the process of dealing with the trauma of its brutal enforcement is only just beginning. From award-winning documentarian Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, One Child Nation explores the ripple effects of this devastating social experiment, uncovering one shocking human rights violation after another — from abandoned newborns (almost always girls), to forced sterilizations and abortions to government abductions. Learn more about the documentary by clicking here.The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Dennis Feaster, Associate Professor of Social Work, and Dr. Gloria Tseng, Associate Professor of History.
This event is free and open to the public. Due to Hope College’s COVID precautions, masks are required indoors on campus for all individuals who are vaccinated or unvaccinated.
This event is co-sponsored by Markets and Morality.
Respect Life Ministry at St. John Vianney Parish