December, 2019 Serra Club Newsletter of Louisville MISSION: To foster and promote “To always go forward – to never turn back!” vocations to the priest- – Saint Junipero Serra hood and religious life. If you receive this through regular postal delivery, but would be willing to receive PUBLIC PRAYERS it by email, please contact Chuck Lynch, (502) 244-2752. FOR VOCATIONS: CALENDAR OF UPCOMING MEETINGS & EVENTS Each Mon. - Holy Spirit Church, Unless noted otherwise, all lunch- Margaret Mary parish. Reserva- Lexington Road, Mondays at 7 es are at 11:45 at the Golden Cor- tions required for lunch. See pm. ral in Hikes Point, Louisville, and article on page 3. Each Tue. - Our Lady of are open to the public. Board meeting in December - Lourdes Church, Holy Hour for Dec 2 – Luncheon for Senior Due to the Holidays, there will be Vocations - 9 to 11 am. Women Religious, at the Universi- no board meeting in December. Each Wed. - St. Patrick Church, ty Club. Reservations were re- 7:30 am. quired by Monday, November Jan 6 - Regular meeting. 25, with payment to our Treas- Each Wed. - St. Thomas Church, urer by Wednesday, November Jan 20 - Regular meeting. Bardstown, KY - 6 to 7:30 pm. 27. Jan 28 - Board meeting at St. Mar- 2nd Mon. - Mount St. Francis, Dec 16 – Mass & Luncheon at St. garet Mary. Floyds Knobs, IN, 7 - 8 p.m. NEW MEMBER South America. Lynn, welcome to the club! You are in our prayers for your SPOTLIGHT – Soon after retiring, she took a fall and ended up with a broken early December shoulder surgery. LYNN HANER arm and a shoulder needing sur- Our Club now has a Lynn just joined the Serra gery. So, she says her immediate retirement plans were not what she Facebook page. Go to Club of Louisville. She is single www.Facebook.com and and a retired special needs educa- tor, most recently in the Jefferson search “Serra Club of County Public School system. Louisville.” Originally from Louisville, Lynn taught 41 years in three states. Thanks to Fr. Dave Harris for She has five nieces, two of whom allowing us to have a Holy Hour have also become Catholic ele- for Vocations at St. Albert mentary school teachers (one in Church on November 20, and to Ohio and one in Hawaii)! Fr. Albert Añover for helping She is a member of St. John us with that Holy Hour. Paul II parish, where she is a lec- tor, a Eucharistic Minister, and a CONGRATULATIONS member of CLOUT - Citizens of TO JOHN TICHENOR Louisville Organized and United Together). She has also been in- FOR BEING A SERRAN volved with the RCIA program FOR 60 YEARS! some years. She has been a big Congratulations to Serran John supporter of the seminarians of expected; but she smiles and laughs Tichenor, who has been a member the Order of the Salvatorians in through it all! Page 1 www.ArchLou.org/Serra December, 2019 Serra Club of Louisville JOHN TICHENOR 1979. She has two older sisters, eight nieces and (continued from page 1) nephews, 13 great nieces and nephews, a great-great- nephew, and a great-great-niece. of the Serra Club of Louisville She also did missionary work in Chile for two for 60 years as of 11/1/19! years, and was an educator for 13 years, including John, thanks for all you have six years as a principal. She said the hardest day of done for the Serra Club of Lou- her life was the day she had to close down her home isville! John was presented parish school in St. Louis. with a certificate and recogni- The Sister Visitor Center (SVC) is one of the tion at our November 4 regular nine divisions of Catholic Charities of Louisville, meeting. and is celebrating 50 years of serving in West Louis- ville. It is an emergency crisis center in West Louis- CONGRATULATIONS! ville, serving the poor in the Shawnee, Russell, and Portland areas – everything west of the Ninth Street CHUCK LYNCH SPOKE AT OUR divide and north of Broadway to the river. The SVC was originated by the Sisters of Chari- NOVEMBER 4 MEETING ty of Nazareth, but Ursuline Sisters have always Unfortunately, Fr. Don worked there, too. Today, there are two Ursuline Halpin, O.F.M. Conv. of Mt Sisters and two lay women running the Center. St Francis, IN, who was They help families with financial needs (utility scheduled to speak at our bills, rent bills, and preventing evictions). They are November 4 meeting, took one of the 14 area ministries throughout Jefferson ill at the last minute and was County. The SVC operates a clothes closet, and also unable to give his presenta- coordinates the distribution of food from Dare to tion on the retreats he leads Care. for the Louisville Archdio- Forty-five percent of their budget comes from cese and for southern Indi- grants and private dona- ana. Serran Chuck Lynch tions. They are also sup- spoke, instead, on Indul- ported by regional church- gences. es, the Pax Christi Col- For a copy of Chuck’s entire handout on Indul- laborative, the K of C, gences, see a copy after the end of this newsletter. In Catholic Charities, the response to questions about Scripture verses on Purga- Metro Government, indi- tory, Chuck suggests you check out the excellent arti- vidual volunteers, the cle here. Catholic Service Appeal, (Thanks to Paul Willett for the picture with this and individual donations article.) of cash, food and clothing. Many of our parishes sup- SISTER MICHELE INTRAVIA port them with food, cloth- SPOKE AT OUR NOVEMBER 18 ing and cash on a regular basis. Even football’s Hall MEETING of Fame (and Louisville’s own) Paul Hornung is a big supporter of the SVC. Sr. Michele Intravia, of the Ursuline Sisters of To do their work, they have “financial appoint- Mount St. Joseph, was our speaker for the November ments” and “clothing appointments” with people to 18 meeting. She has been with the Sister Visitor Cen- determine their needs, and to be sure that food, ter for 15 years, and its Director for the last eight clothing and money is going where it is really need- years. ed. They require paperwork and ID’s to be sure peo- ple are who they say they are. For financial assis- Sr. Michele was born and raised in St. Louis, Mis- tance, they also require things like utility cut-off no- souri, on The Hill, which is the Italian Section of the tices and eviction notices. city. She attended Bishop DuBourg High School and Fontbonne College (St. Louis). She then completed In October they distributed food to 767 people. her Bachelor’s Degree at Brescia University Year round, they serve 10,000 people. For Christmas (Owensboro). She entered the Ursuline Sisters in they’ll try to help 200 children with new clothes, Page 2 www.ArchLou.org/Serra December, 2019 Serra Club of Louisville SR. MICHELE INTRAVIA MONDAY, DEC 16 MEETING - (continued from page 2) MASS AND LUNCH shoes, hats, gloves, and coats. Sr. Michele said that 95% of the poor they serve are not Catholic. She re- In lieu of a regular meeting at the Golden Corral, minded us that “we’re not serving them because they we will meet at St. Margaret Mary for noon Mass, are Catholic, but because we are Catholic.” followed by lunch in the parish’s Hospitality Room. When she gets overwhelmed or frustrated with The lunch will be catered by Goose Creek Diner. Fr. people testing her patience, she reminds herself to Pat Dolan will celebrate Mass and also give us a “Suck it up, Buttercup!” Christmas homily / presentation on “Recapturing Christmas Traditions.” Speaking at Masses for the parishes of the Pax Christi Collaborative, she challenged them to raise Reservations must be made by Monday, De- $4,000 to help with the SVC needs. The parishes came cember 9, with payment to our Treasurer by through with $5,000 instead. Wednesday, December 11. For more information or With a core base of only 20 weekly volunteers, to make reservations, please contact the Serra Club they can always use many more volunteers. Although Treasurer, Jerry Gonsoski, at 245-5392. SVC gets middle-schoolers and high-schoolers from If you are attending, be sure to give yourself parish youth groups, students working on service plenty of time due to Shelbyville Road traffic in hours, and others, it is still very hard to get volunteers December. due to some people’s reluctance to drive to West Lou- isville. POTPOURRI – Sr. Michele says they welcome all the volunteers VARIOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST and prayers they can get, as well as donations of food, clothing, and financial assistance. Member birthdays this month We want to thank Sr. Michele for meeting with us Sam DuPlessis, Dec 6 Marie Heckel, Dec 11 and giving us an update on the Sister Visitor Center. Neil Manias, Dec 25 (Thanks to Paul Willett for the picture with this ****************************************** article.) Pope’s Prayer Intentions for this month – Univer- sal – The Very Young - That every country resolute- ly commits to taking the necessary measures to make VOCATION ESSAY AND the future of the very young, especially those who POSTER CONTESTS suffer, a priority. ****************************************** Shop for Christmas and support our seminarians The contests are for grade schoolers. Schools, par- and religious orders: ishes and youth leaders have been notified of the an- St. Meinrad Archabbey - https://smagiftshop.com; nual Vocation Essay and Poster Contests sponsored by the Vocation Office and the Serra Club. Entries Franciscans - https://mountsaintfrancis.org/gift-shop-1 must be received in the Vocation Office by January Passionists - https://passionist.org/product- 10.