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We
are a community who fosters the twin virtues of justice and
charity.
Justice calls us into right relationship with God, one
another and the earth.
Charity calls us to respond in love to
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The Bridge
of Faith Program is
designed to provide a faith connection between a
city parish and a suburban parish. This connection provides
opportunities for: communication and visitation: for sharing and
exchanging personal, spiritual, cultural, and financial resources; and
for deepening understanding among individuals, families, and parish
communities of various nationalities and races.
Our Mother of Good Counsel has
established a Bridge of Faith relationship with two parish
communities:
Social
Events:
Annual events are held to
allow parishioners and friends to come together for an occasion of
dining, music and other forms of entertainment. The more commonly held
events are: Italian Night, Annual Parish Party, the school's yearly
social, the Annual Parish Picnic, and a Pancake Breakfast held twice a
year.
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Peace
and Justice Committee
Health
Ministry
The Red Cross Bloodmobile visits the parish twice a
year, once in December and once in June.
The aim of the Red Cross is to collect 75 pints of
blood each visit. Donors and donor-recruiters are needed.
I.H.N.
Interfaith
Hospitality Network
of the Main Line:
Our Parish Community is part of this interfaith
effort to provide temporary housing for homeless families for a week
at a time every nine weeks. Volunteers
are needed to prepare the families' living space in our Social
Center, to cook one evening meal, to act as a host for the evening or
overnight, and to pack up and deliver belongings on the following
Sunday when families move to the next congregation.
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The
Dolphin Program
This interfaith service program, begun and supported
largely by the Episcopal Church, is designed to provide one-on-one
service to residents in nursing homes. Members of our parish
commit themselves to visit on a regular basis one person residing in a
nearby Nursing Home in an effort to provide a compassionate presence
and friendship to someone who has little or no family in the area.
H.O.P.E.
Helping Other
People in Emergencies:
This parish-based
service program is composed of volunteers who give service to the
homebound. Men and women are welcome to helping providing
transportation, meals, and other services to those in need.
H.O.P.E.
DRIVERS NEEDED
Some
new drivers for our HOPE service program are needed, especially during
these summer months when many of our drivers are on vacation.
If you can offer some of your time to transporting people to
Doctors' appointments, hospital appointments, or helping people with
shopping needs, please call Sr. Anne at 610-525-0147.
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Parishioners
who are hospitalized:
Bryn Mawr, Lankenau and Paoli Hospitals have a Confidentiality
Policy and as a result, the parish does not know that a
parishioner is hospitalized unless you or someone else tells us.
Please call the Parish office if you would like a hospital visit or a
remembrance in our prayers.
Ongoing
Food and Clothing Drives:
1. Each Sunday, parishioners are encouraged to bring a non-perishable
food item to church with them for those in need in our parish or
community.
2. Four times a year, the Saint Vincent de Paul Society conducts a
clothing and house wares collection to which our parishioners donate
items which they are no longer using.
Bus
Service
Bus Service is provided for Parishioners to and from
the 9:30 a.m. Mass throughout the year.
Contact us!
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Senior
Community Members
These young-at-heart people in our neighborhood meet
on a monthly basis for time together in our parish setting.
Social, enrichment and service-oriented projects are part of our
development as a faith-filled community. A committee meets
regularly for the purpose of evaluating and planning the growth of
this endeavor.
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Gardening
Angels
A group of men and women of all ages who take care
of beatifying the outside of the church.
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