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A Time for Transformation Facts About Easter a DA Kindnes April 2019 Northern Illinois Edition The ONNECTION C News and Events for Mature Catholics - Since 1995 An Irish Blessing St. Patrick’s Day Word Search March is National Nutrition Month A DAY TO LISTEN Health & Wellness by Drusilla Banks The best way to honor the holiday and Dr. King is simply to listen Gabriola Lucinda Bright ~ Brother Paul McDonough By Mark Schmeltzer P.O. Box 38 PRSRT BPM U.S. POSTAGE PAID Dundee, IL 60118 PERMIT NUMBER 40 CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED DUNDEE, IL 60118 A Time for Transformation The Christophers ~ The Christophers Kindness counts Facts About Easter November is ~ Victor Parachin Elks Veterans Remembrance Month Page 2 CThe ONNECTION April 2019 Where Angels Walk National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help Lenten Season Schedule Pilgrims are invited to observe Preventing tragedy the traditions of the Lenten season. The Stations of Cross w ill tak e p lace Spelling Bee Rebekah Manthei “I knew I was done for,” Rebekah recalled. “I twice weekly and was glad to have a job in her closed my eyes and waited for it to hit me.” Holy Week includes family’s hardwood flooring A few seconds passed and nothing happened. A a blessing of the Winners business in northern couple more seconds… Then, Rebekah heard the f o o d b a s k e t s Michigan, even though it board land, but it sounded very far away. leading up to Easter was physically demanding. Slowly, she opened her eyes. Everything seemed Sunday on April 21. Part of her job was to get normal. But where was the board? The Lenten season schedule: flooring orders together in “Baffled, I got off the forklift and went to find Stations of the Cross–Fridays during Lent, where the board had landed,” Rebekah said. She JOAN WESTER the warehouse, and she did April 5, 12, 19, 5:30 p.m., led by The Fathers of walked the entire length of the large warehouse, and Mercy ANDERSON this by finding the product and moving it with a finally, at the other end of the warehouse, behind more Stations of the Cross–Tuesdays during Lent, Young children may be unable to recognize forklift. Different woods were arranged in different stacks of flooring, lay the board. There was no way it April 9 and 16, 9:15 a.m., led by Sister Caritas or categorize their losses, locations so, depending on the products, it took a lot could possibly have landed there. No way except for Mass for Palm Sunday of the Passion of the let alone sort them one from another. of moving and rearranging to get an order together. one. Lord–April 14, 11 a.m. “One day, we received an order very late, that “I knew right then that God had sent my guardian Holy Week Blessing of the Food Baskets for Easter Meal–Sat., April 20, 9:30 a.m. needed to be ready first thing in the morning,” said angel to protect me,” Rebekah said. To this day, she still envisions her angel catching the board in mid-air Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass–April 20, 8 Rebekah. “I decided to stay late to get it ready, since it p.m. involved an hour or so of moving large stacks of and throwing it across the warehouse. Thank you, angels. Wherever we are, you are Holy Mass for Easter Sunday of the flooring by forklift to get to what I needed. One of Resurrection of the Lord–April 21, 11 a.m. there with us. these stacks of flooring was piled almost to the ceiling The National Shrine of Our Lady of Good of the warehouse.” Joan’s new book Help is located at 4047 Chapel Drive in Rebekah was unaware that someone had left a Where Angels Walk Champion, centrally located between Green loose hardwood board on top of the flooring she had is the 25th Anniversary Edition, Bay, Sturgeon Bay and Algoma. It is open 365 started to move. As she began to lift the top bundle available now at Loyola Press. days a year, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Visit from the stack, the loose board fell vertically, aimed She can be reached at ShrineOfOurLadyOfGoodHelp.com. right at her head. [email protected]. Fr. John J. Dussman Council #3731 held its annual spelling bee on Jan. 10. Pictured, from left to right, are the winners—1st Place: Hayes Sadler of OLPH, 2nd Place: Umika Arora of St. Catherine Laboure, and 3rd Place: Vincent Lim of St. Catherine Laboure. Congratulation to these winners, who will now compete in the regional contest to be held on March 2 at St. Catherine Laboure. May all your troubles be tiny and all your worries small, and your Angels come and smooth your way whenever you may call." Angel Quotes How kids explain angels THEY ARE LIKE ANGELS, THEY ARE GOD’S CHILDREN. ~ LUKE 20:36 April 2019 CThe ONNECTION Page 3 The Christophers CThe ONNECTION Published By Churchill Publications, Ltd. The Connection is published by the first of each A time of month. It is circulated throughout Chicago, Joliet and Rockford Dioceses. It is an independent publication supported by advertising and subscriptions. Publication of advertising herein does not necessarily constitute transformation endorsement. Opinions expressed in columns are not necessarily those of the publisher. The publisher reserves By Fr. Ed Dougherty, M.M., the right to refuse and/or edit any materials for publication. 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