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St Brendan The Navigator Feast Day May 16th Ancient Order of Hibernians St Brendan the Navigator Division Mecklenburg County Division # 2 ISSUE # 3 MONTHLY NEWSLETTER VOLUME# 7 March 2015 Our next business meeting is on Tuesday, March 10th at 7:30 PM Holy Spirit Parish Center Denver 2015 Officers Chaplain Father Paul McNulty President Dick Seymour Vice President Lee Madden Secretary Tom Dowd Treasurer Chris O’Keefe Fin. Secretary Ray FitzGerald Standing Committee Joe Dougherty Marshall Sean Ragan Sentinel Ron Haley Past President Ray FitzGereld www.aohmeck2.org "Níor bhris focal maith fiacail riamh." Translation: "A good word never broke a tooth." President’s Message St. Brendan the Navigator Pray for Us St. Patrick Pray for Us Erin go Baugh Brothers, Here we are, the month of St. Patrick, a busy month for our Division. It’s time to proudly display our heritage. If you haven’t been able to participate in or volunteer to help at our events or activities in the past, this is the perfect time to make that extra effort. Keep alert to our e-mails, website and information in this Newsletter to see how you can help. As we approach St. Patrick’s Day, be alert to stores, kiosks, vendors promoting or selling merchandise that defames or disparages the Irish heritage. Typical are t-shirts depicting the Irish as drunkards and the like. Don’t hesitate to complain either in person or in writing to the vendor or the establishment’s management that you find this offensive and politely ask them to discontinue displaying or selling the items. Our big day will be Saturday, March 7th when we’ll be hosting our Fifth Annual Hibernian Dinner & Show celebrating St. Patrick. The event will be at the Msgr. Kerin Parish Center at St. Mark. We have great entertainment lined up and, like last year, there will be a ceili plus a sing along plus several other surprises. We need a strong turnout from our members, their families and friends to ensure the success of the event. In the event that your wife can’t make it to the dinner, consider buying a ticket and try to join us anyway. We always need help during the evening selling 50-50 tickets, helping at the bar and coordinating the servers, etc. and especially help with the clean-up. The price this year is the same as last year, $25 and a special price for children 12 years of age and under ($15). We’ll need help around 3pm in the afternoon to set up the parish hall. This year we will be having a silent auction with several quality items with the biggest item being four (4) tickets to the University of Virginia /Norte Dame football game in Charlottesville, VA. I know that this item will bring in several large bids and hope to have a credit card machine available so you can put your bid on a credit card. On Saturday March 14th, we’ll join other Hibernians from the Sons of Erin and South Carolina in marching in the annual Charlotte St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Brothers should wear khaki slacks and green shirts (Division shirts would be preferable, long or short sleeve). Families are invited and encouraged to march with our group. We’ll begin the day with a 9am Mass for the Hibernians at St. Peter’s Church on North Tryon St. in Charlotte. What better way to start the day than with a Mass in honor of St. Patrick. The parade route is usually around a mile, so you don’t have to be an Olympian to trek the streets of Charlotte. After the march, be sure to visit the Charlotte Goes Green Street Festival, where there will be plenty of food, entertainment and merchandise. Stop by the Sons of Erin AOH division’s booth, where they sell the best corn beef sandwiches around. On the Feast Day of St. Patrick, Tuesday, March 17th, we’ll be celebrating our annual AOH St. Patrick’s Day Mass at Old St. Joseph’s Church in Mt. Holly (2139 Mountain Island Highway/NC 273, at the intersection of Sandy Ford Rd.). The Mass will begin at 10:00 am and we will be joined by our Brother Hibernians from Charlotte and the Ladies AOH Ladies of the Lough Division. Before the Mass we will have a blessing of the grave of the church’s founder and first pastor, Fr. T. J.Cronin, a native of County Cork. Be aware that there are no restroom facilities at the church. St. Joseph’s is the oldest standing Catholic Church in North Carolina and is an historical site. Since the parish is inactive, the Mass of St. Patrick is one of the two or three Masses celebrated there throughout the year. After the Mass we will be heading over to the Family Restaurant in Stanley, a local establishment for food and refreshments. This Mass and the gathering afterwards are open to members and guests. Balloting is now open for you to nominate a Division Brother for the Hibernian of the Year award. We will present the award at our Anniversary Dinner (April 30th), at Jeffries in Mooresville, in a private room upstairs, which will celebrate the sixth anniversary of our Division’s founding. At this dinner we will also have the formal installation of the 2015 officers. Time flies when you’re having fun! Our March business meeting will be on March 10th at Holy Spirit PAC center in Denver. The March social will be a St Patrick’s Day celebration at Brian Fay’s Cork and Cask on March 17, 2015 at 6:30 PM. Many of us have been there before. I’d be remiss if I didn’t remind you that we are now in the season of Lent. Try to increase you spirituality during this period. One example is to participate in the 40 Days for Life peaceful witness at a local abortion mill, where we pray for a change of heart and for the end of abortion. Your parish bulletin will provide you with opportunities. St. Brendan the Navigator, pray for us! Dick Seymour "Statue outside the Cobh Heritage Center, which is dedicated to the history of Irish emigration." HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKETS YET? St. Brendan the Navigator AOH Proudly Presents Our 2015 Hibernian Dinner & Show St. Patrick Celebration When: Saturday, March 7, 2015 6:30pm to 10:00pm Where: St. Mark Catholic Church Msgr. Kerin Family Center 14740 Stumptown Road Huntersville, NC 28078 Musician/Ventriloquist BRIAN TIERNAN’s dynamic guitar/banjo playing traditional lively, family-friendly, sing-a- long, songs followed by a set with the RINCE NA H’EIREANN School of Traditional Irish Step Dancers. Tis a grand time you’ll be having when you join us at this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration. Tickets: $25.00 per Adult $15.00 Children 12 and Under For Reservations: e-mail: [email protected] or contact: Ray FitzGerald at (704) 992-1702 Dick Seymour at (704) 960-4500 Ticket Includes: Entertainment, Irish Dinner, Dessert and Coffee Beer/Wine Cash Bar *50/50* Raffle Prizes *PLEASE PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS BY MARCH 2, 2015* *NET PROCEEDS WILL SUPPORT CATHOLIC EDUCATION* March Birthdays Patrick Phelan Division Brother March 1st Heather Seymour Daughter of Brother Dick March 4th Father Josh Voitus Division Brother March 5th Elizabeth Madden Daughter of Brother Lee March 5th Leanne Vaccaro Wife of Brother Tom March 6th Michael Schilling Son of Brother Larry March 7th Deacon Bob Murphy Division Brother March 12th Jack Leahy Son of Brother Ted March 12th Scott Albertson Son of Brother Ed March 19th Dan O’Brian Son of Brother Bob March 22nd Patty Leahy Daughter of Brother Ted March 24th Dexter Koehl Assoc. Member March 28th Chris O’Keefe Division Brother March 31st Scott Albertson Stepson of Brother Ed March 31st March Anniversaries Vicky & Mike Daniels March 4th Angeles & Bob Murphy March 16th “Cuimhnigi ar na daoine ar thainig sibh” “Remember the people from whom you came” Division Calendar of Events for March 2015 March 7th, Hibernian Dinner & Show at St Mark’s March 10th, Division Business Meeting Holy Spirit 7:30PM March 14th, St Patrick Day Parade Downtown Charlotte March 17th, St Patrick’s Day Mass at St Joseph’s, Mt. Holly 10:00 am March 17th, Division social at the Cork & Cask 6:30 pm March 28th, Irish Movie Night at St Mark’s Admission is FREE 6:00pm "Customs House in Dublin." "Row houses in Cork." "Powerscourt Estate." "A bagpiping corps in the Waterford City, Co. Waterford, St. Patrick's Day parade. Irish America News . Irish American buys all of Walmart’s offensive t-shirts, will return them March 18 Since IrishCentral first published a story about Kevin Westley’s mission to buy up stereotyping Irish t-shirts from Walmart in the lead up to St. Patrick’s Day and return them March 18, the Long Island, NY Irish dance instructor and radio host has been overwhelmed by the response. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think it would get this big of a reaction,” he said during a catch up phone call. The initial interview with Kevin, published on Thursday, has received almost 8,000 shares and over 200 comments. His story was picked up by ABC and FOX news, and a camera crew from CBS paid a visit to his home. He also has a series of interviews lined up with radio programs in Ireland for Monday morning. This marks the second year that Westley has taken a stand against the sea of green t-shirts that appear in stores before St.