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Youth Briefs

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CLEVELAND Our Lady of Victories Parish, altar server training on Saturday, Oct. 4, at 10 a.m. for all current and new servers in fourth grade and up. Details: 662-846-6273.
COLUMBUS Annunciation, CYO blast off, Sunday, Sept. 21, from noon – 3 p.m. at Lake Lowndes. Details: Maria Dunser, 662-328-2927, ext. 12.

GLUCKSTADT St. Joseph Parish youth are encouraged to assist with game booths at Germanfest on Sunday, Sept. 28, from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

PEARL St. Jude Parish youth in seventh-12th grade are invited to a special Respect Life event Saturday, Sept 27, at 9 a.m. Participants will work with the Knights of Columbus to prepare life crosses for October. After lunch the youth will go to Mac and Bones for a round of miniature golf.

RIDGELAND Holmes Community College  will offer ACT workshops on Saturday, Oct. 18, and on Jan. 31, and April 11, 2015. Details: Katrina Myricks, 601-605-3339, kmyricks@holmescc.edu.

TUPELO St. James Parish hosts “Freshman Forecast: The Journey Begins” a discussion session for seniors, Sunday, Sept. 28, from 2 – 6 p.m. in the CYO room. Details:  Dawn Steinman, 662-842-4881.

SENATOBIA The Northwest Mississippi Community College Catholic Student Association meets at 5:30 p.m. on the last Monday of the month at the McClendon Building, Room 130. Membership is open to students on any Northwest campus. Details: LaJuan Tallo, 662-816-1129.

St. Joseph junior named U.S. Senate page

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MADISON – St. Joseph School junior Jack Hall was selected to serve as a page to U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran during the spring semester. Hall is the first St. Joe student to receive such an honor. He will serve in the Senate from mid-January through mid-June 2005.

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As a Senate page, Hall will attend classes in the Senate Page School from 6:15 – 9:30 a.m., or one hour before the Senate meets. Pages report for duty and work until about 5 p.m. or until the Senate adjourns for the day.
The Senate page program is limited to juniors who maintain a 3.0 or higher grade point average.
At St. Joseph, Hall has been active with the Speech & Debate team and currently serves as sports editor of The Bear Facts, the school’s student newspaper.
Last spring, he was named the first recipient of the Orley Hood Sports Writer of the Year Award sponsored by the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum. The award was named after the late Orley Hood, a popular, longtime sports columnist with The Clarion-Ledger.

Youth Briefs

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BATESVILLESt. Mary Parish, Youth Get 2 gathering for youth in grades eighth-12, Saturday, Sept. 13, from 1 – 3:30 p.m. in the parish center. Monthly youth dinner, Wednesday, Sept. 10, from 6 – 7 p.m.

COLUMBUS Annunciation, CYO blast off, Sunday, Sept. 21, from noon – 8 p.m. at Lake Lowndes. Details: Maria Dunser, 662-328-2927, ext. 12.

GLUCKSTADT St. Joseph Parish youth kick-off Mass, Sunday, Sept. 7, at 5 p.m. followed by cookout, music and games under the pavilion. Parents can come to the parish hall to sign paperwork, pick up calendar and ask questions.

– Calling all third-fifth grade boys to join St. Anthony’s fourth and fifth grade football teams. You do not have to be a student of St. Anthony School. Details: Trey Endt, 601-497-9505.

NATCHEZ St. Mary Basilica, kick-off party for youth groups, Sunday, Sept. 7, in the Family Life Center Youth Wing as follows: KCYO (grades 3-5) 3 – 4:15 p.m.; JCYO (grades 6-8) 4:30 – 6 p.m.; CYO (grades 9-12) 5:30 – 7 p.m.

– Children ages four to second grade are invited to a pizza party Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 5:30 in the Family Life Center. St. Mary Kids meets once a month for a short lesson and fun.

– Altar servers training for new youth, Sunday, Sept. 7, at 3 p.m. in the church. Altar servers must be seventh grade and older and must have received the sacraments of baptism and Eucharist.

SENATOBIA The Northwest Mississippi Community College Catholic Student Association meets at 5:30 p.m. on the last Monday of the month at the McClendon Building, Room 130. Membership is open to students on any Northwest campus. Details: LaJuan Tallo, 662-816-1129.

Principals participate in international collaboration

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By Laura Grisham
Principals Bridget Martin of Southaven Sacred Heart and Clara Isom of Holly Springs Holy Family schools attended the third International Meeting of Dehonian Educators (IMDE) July 21-25 in Valencia, Spain, on behalf

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of International Meeting of Dehonian Educators (SHSM), which supports those schools. ESIC, a multi-campus business school operated by the Spanish Province of the Sacred Heart Brothers and Fathers (SCJ), hosted the weeklong gathering.

Education is a priority of the SCJs , translated from the hopes their founder, Father Leo John Dehon, to have an impact on people and society through education.
The title given to this year’s conference was “Educare: Sint Unum.” The Latin ‘educare’ was used because of their desire to educate the whole person, and ‘sint unum’ to remind the educators that they are all a part of one project.

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The IMDE’s objective is to network and collaborate: to get to know one another, to work on the formation of the Dehonian identity as it applies to the schools and to share resources. All of the educators at local, national and international levels spent the week discussing ideas on how to promote the ideas and a Dehonian curriculum to the students, parents and teachers in our schools.
“You gotta know your history,” said Isom. “Education was his (Father Dehon’s) focus. He sent out his people to teach to break the cycle of poverty.”
However, collaborating across continents is not so easy, not to mention the variety of educational institutions from pre-school, middle and high school, to technical schools, seminaries and universities. Each institution, though striving to teach the same charism (any gift that flows through God’s love to humans), has unique ways to accomplish the mission in their respective cultural and institutional setting. Coming together to share strengths and innovations creatively solves many problems. And that was the focus of the gathering—to draw from one another’s strengths and shared identity.082214photos19
The master plan drawn up to achieve the conference objectives gives a communications hierarchy to educators on a provincial, regional, district and school level. Using technology and the web in particular, all will interact and be able to share in the ideas, projects and events to come. All educators and students will have access to this site.
The principals plan to incorporate more activities at the schools surrounding the Catholic Dehonian ideas and traditions. Each school hopes to effectively be drawn towards the larger common goal.
One way that the US Provincial group suggested coming together was to emphasize feast days for their respective schools — St. Martin, Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Holy Family, the Sacred Heart and St. Joseph. Retreats, in-services, combined school events and a host of other things are in the planning stages.
(Reprinted with permission from “… from the Heart,” the newsletter for SHSM.)

Oxford teens travel to conference

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Twenty young adults from Oxford St. John the Evangelist walk to their dorms after a seven-hour road trip to the Franciscan University Steubenville Mid-America Conference sponsored by the Archdiocese of St. Louis at Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. An estimated 3,700 Catholic teens attended three days of work sessions, participated in worship services and listened to noted Catholic motivational speakers all with the purpose of discovering a new relationship with Christ and the Catholic Church. The Theme for the Conference was “God is …..” based on the writings of Isaiah, 12:2 and the exhortation of Pope Francis for “a renewed personal encounter with Jesus.” (Photo by Mary Leery)

Youth Briefs

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BATESVILLE St. Mary Parish, vacation Bible school, Saturday, Aug. 23, 9 a.m.

GREENWOOD Immaculate Heart of Mary and St. Francis parishes, youth and parents meeting with new youth minister, Stephen Iwanski, Sunday, Aug. 24, 4 p.m. Pizza and salad will be served.

JACKSON St. Richard accepting football players and cheerleaders for 2014/2015 season. Children in 3rd-6th grades are eligible to participate. For more information contact the school at 601-366-1157.

MERIDIAN St. Patrick School back to school night,  Tuesday, Aug. 19, at 6 p.m.
– Parents and youth (JCYM and CYM) meeting, Sunday, Aug. 24, after the 11 a.m. Mass in the Family Life Center.
– The parish scouting program seeks volunteers to serve as assistant scout master or Cub Scout Den Leader. Training provided. Details: 601-693-1321.

COLUMBUS Annunciation Parish youth car wash Saturdays Aug 9, and 23, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. 206 Tuscaloosa Road.

HERNANDO/OLIVE BRANCH/SOUTHAVEN End of Summer celebration for teens from Holy Spirit, Queen of Peace and Christ the King parishes at Sardis Lake, Saturday, Aug. 23, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Day includes games, swimming, prayer and cook out..
Sign up sheets are in the church gathering area.