Jan. 9, 2011 Bulletin - Visitation Parish

VISITATION, ELMHURST, IL JANUARY 9, 2011
Visitation Parish Catholic Reading Club
God, Philosophy and Universities
The Visitation Parish Catholic
Reading Club will be discussing
Alasdair MacIntyre’s God, Philosophy
and Universities at our January meeting
on 20 January. Professor MacIntyre
recently retired after a quarter century in
the Philosophy department at the
University of Notre Dame. This work
was the main text for the course of the
same name that was the most popular class in the College of Arts
and Letters at the University. In this book, MacIntyre provides a
survey of the development, evolution and contributions of the
Catholic philosophical tradition, as informed not only by Jewish
and Christian Revelation, but also as influenced by the ancient
Greek pagan philosophers and by theistic philosophers in the
Islamic and Jewish traditions. In line with Catholic thinkers from
Augustine to Aquinas to our own Pope Benedict XVI,
MacIntyre argues that there is no incompatibility between the
truths of faith and those of reason since both flow the same
Source of Truth. On the contrary, the methods and aims of faith
and reason, while distinct, support one another, and any perceived
inconsistency between the two stems from a misunderstanding
of our finite minds confronted with infinite realities,
from an unwarranted intrusion of one of the disciplines into an
area not appropriate to it, or from restrictive theories of what we
can know by reason. While there has been much discussion in
recent years of the proper role of the Catholic university in our
day, Dr. MacIntyre argues strenuously that it is precisely within
the university setting that the truths of the Catholic faith are most
fruitfully discussed, developed and defended. This book is available
through Amazon.com and other booksellers.
The January session will be held on January 20 from 9:30
until 11:30 A.M. in Podesta Hall. For a copy of the study guide
for this session or of the book list for the balance of the year,
please call Renee Regole at 630-832-7903.
Rosebud Program Intentions
In our calling to respect the dignity and worth of all life,
the Elizabeth Ministry requests that you please remember in
your prayers the following intentions placed at the statue of
the Visitation this past week:
1 intention for those who are pregnant and their
unborn babies.
1 intention for those families celebrating births
and/or adoptions.
1 intention for those grieving a miscarriage, still
birth, abortion or infant or child death.
1 intention remembering those wanting to
conceive or adopt.
Please Join Us To Pray For Our Priests
Join us on Monday evenings in the Church at 7:00 P.M.
during this year dedicated to the Holy Eucharist, “the source and
summit of our faith.”
We pray the rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet followed
by special prayers for priests, Benediction and a blessing with
the St. Peregrine relic.
Your servant,
Deacon Jim Eaker
I Look at Him and He Looks and Me
Often a deep fervent look at Christ may make the most
fervent prayer. “I look at Him and He looks at me” is the
most perfect prayer.
Christ offers Himself in the Eucharist, in His adorable
Presence. Receive Him in a spirit of poverty and repentance
of heart, with the soul of a child, until the very evening of
your years.
In remaining before the Eucharist for long periods of
time, many people have let themselves be penetrated down
to the very depths of their being. For all who consent to a
long process of maturation, little by little their inner self is
built up, without their knowing how. And, by prayer that is
always simple, they are somehow drawn towards Christ.
He is the one who bears with us the great sorrows of life
and our broken relationships. He is also the one who, risen
from the dead, rejoices with us, today, tomorrow and
always. (from Seeking the Heart of God)
Look at Him and He will look at you. The adoration
chapel is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Help keep the
chapel perpetual. To register, please call Owen or Gail at
630-573-0033.
Evening of Recollection
There will be an Evening of Recollection for women
this Wednesday, January 12, at 7:30 P.M in the Church.
The evening includes two meditations by a priest of Opus
Dei, time for silent prayer, private confession and benediction.
Books for spiritual reading will be sold.
Everyone is welcome. Bring a friend.
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