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District Officer Training

We are having a District + wide Officers Training Meeting  Saturday August 15th   8:00Am to 12;00 noon  @ St.Patrick's church Auditorium in Canby  498 NW 9th Ave.  Canby, OR 97013 Officers are Highly recommended to attend. Supreme Regional Growth Specialist Billy Chrisman will be flying in from alaska & running the Meeting.  Any Third Degree is welcome to attend .  We will start with the heart of the Gospel for first hour,  following will be officers training . Please bring your laptop as we will cover how to find resources and demonstrate how some things work online.  We will follow up with questions & Answers.  Once again open to everyone & officers are Highly recommended to attend.  Council with Highest attendance in this meeting will receive a Building the Domestic church Kiosk purchased by Worthy Supreme Regional growth director Billy Chrisman . ***Note from Ted- if you are not going to the third session of Bro...

Invitation to Week One: “Black-Pilling Week One—Satanic Masterpiece On Both Sides of the Spectrum”

  Honored Clergy and My Brothers All, I want to invite you to the first gathering in a four-week class on a difficult but deeply important topic: what happens when people begin to lose faith in religion because of the sins, failures, scandals, hypocrisy, or abuses of religious leadership. This first week is working under the title “Black-Pilling Week One—Satanic Masterpiece On Both Sides of the Spectrum.” The title is intentionally stark, because the experience itself can feel stark: a person sees real evil, real betrayal, or real corruption among those who claim to speak for God, and the temptation is to conclude that the whole thing is rotten. Some react by hardening into cynicism. Others react by defending the institution so fiercely that they can no longer hear the wounded. Both responses can pull us away from truth, charity, repentance, and hope.    If you have not watched it yet, the video at https://www.youtube.com/live/DhAZZGECvtc is what led me to tackle th...

The Brothers in the Spirit tackle Black Pilling

Brothers In the Spirit is a new spiritual outreach for Men at St. Clare's and St. John Fisher, an outgrowth of the ACTS retreat and our council's COR program.  We've been meeting in the Clare Room weekly, drop ins and drop outs welcome.  The schedule is Saturday mornings, 9am-10:30am, but we try to have coffee ready and the Mary's Garden door open by 8:45am. David Villigas will not be able to attend many of our sessions in August, and has invited Ted Seeber to lead our discussions.    For Our August small group series, we will be discussing a Crisis Magazine video,  "Deliver Us from Black-Pilling" . Please watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/live/DhAZZGECvtc .  Due to the elephant-in-the-room topic that has attacked the Church for at least the last 30 years, we will also have copies of Bishop Barron’s https://media.wordonfire.org/ebooks/Letter-to-a-Suffering-Church.pdf available as our Knights of Columbus Council purchased several a number of yea...