Nativity of Our Savior

Families and friends of Nativity Parish are invited to enjoy an afternoon filled with fun for all ages.

This years event includes......

Music, Dance, Contests, Name That Tune, Kids Games, Clown, Team Games, Volleyball, Soccer, Water Balloon Toss, Great Food, Popcorn, Cotton Candy, and much more!

You can receive a "free" E-mail account at http://www.catholic.org your E-mail address would be yourname@catholic.org.  This is a totally web based E-mail service or you can direct your E-mail to your home E-mail address.  These services are useful for reading your E-mail away from home, or if you plan to change your ISP (Internet Service Provider) in the future, or if you are away at school.  Most public Internet locations such as the library do not mind use of these web based E-mail providers since nothing goes on their system. 

Also a special thanks to all of those who helped make Nativity Parish SUMMERFEST A huge success. 

Venerable Mother Theodore Guerin, who founded the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., in 1840, will receive the title "Blessed" during a beatification ceremony Oct. 25, 1998, in Rome. Beatification is a proclamation by the Roman Catholic Church that Mother Theodore is a holy and virtuous woman, worthy of honor and 
emulation. 

"Mother Theodore is a woman for our time," said Sister Diane Ris, general superior of the  Sisters of Providence Congregation. "Mother Theodore's faith, hope and love are models  for all of us. Mother Theodore had a deep, deep faith that never faltered or wavered. She 
derived strength from her faith in God. She knew that God was always with her and  always would be with her in all circumstances and, especially, in times of trial. She knew  God always was present." 

Mother Theodore (Anne-Thérèse) Guerin was born in France in 1798 and entered the  Sisters of Providence in Ruillé-sur-Loir, France, in 1823. In 1840, in response to a  request from the bishop of Vincennes, Ind., Mother Theodore and five sister companions  journeyed to the United States to establish a motherhouse and a school for girls in the  wilderness of west-central Indiana. The sisters arrived at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods the  evening of Oct. 22, 1840, and within a year opened their first academy. Mother  Theodore died May 14, 1856. She is buried at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. 

The process for the beatification and canonization of Mother Theodore began in 1909,  when Bishop Francis Silas Chatard, bishop of Indianapolis, granted permission for the  opening of the Informative Process of the Cause for Mother Theodore. The process took 
place in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis as the first required step of the Cause and  involved a thorough study of Mother Theodore's life, work and writings. 

In 1956, Pope Pius XII approved and signed the petition to continue the Cause of  Mother Theodore. In 1992, cardinals and bishops declared that Mother Theodore had  practiced the theological and cardinal virtues to a heroic degree. Pope John Paul II  ordered a decree about her heroic virtues and gave her the title "Venerable." 

Proof of one miracle is required for beatification, the next to the last step in the  canonization process. Proof of a second miracle is required for sainthood. 

The healing of Sister of Providence Mary Theodosia Mug through the intercession of  Mother Theodore was unanimously approved as a miracle by the Congregation for the  Causes of Saints medical consultants Nov. 20, 1996, by theologians March 25, 1997,  and by cardinals June 3, 1997. The recommendation for the beatification of Mother  Theodore then was presented to Pope John Paul II who read the proclamation July 7,  1997. 

The decree issued by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints said, in part, that Mother  Theodore "lived for the good of the sisters and other persons" and that she was  "renowned for her sanctity." 

Sister Mary Theodosia, an educator and writer, suffered from neuritis and cancer. On the  evening of Oct. 30, 1908, Sister Mary Theodosia prayed at Mother Theodore's tomb.   When she awoke the following morning, she was cured of the illnesses. 

In the decree, Pope John Paul II declared: "Know that the miracle done by God through  the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God Theodore Guerin ... is evident with  regard to the sudden, complete and stable recovery of Sister Mary Theodosia Mug ... "   The beatification ceremony for Mother Theodore will be conducted Sunday morning, 
Oct. 25, at the Vatican. Sisters of Providence, Companions and friends, in Rome and at  Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, also will observe the event during a prayer vigil Saturday  evening, Oct. 24, and a Mass of Thanksgiving Monday morning, Oct. 26 

Details about the ceremonies and information about pilgrimages to Rome will be  announced during the next few weeks. Sisters of Providence currently minister in 24  states, the District of Columbia, Taiwan and the West Indies. 

For more information visit the Sisters of Providence web site.  Click here 

Nativity's web site was changed to a Geocities Plus site which means no more annoying advertisements when the site is accessed.  Also this increases the amount of web space from 3mb to 25mb (mb = 1,000,000 bytes of information or keystrokes).  I have received several favorable comments about Nativity's site and would like to thank those who have taken the time to offer your suggestions and insight.   This site is currently only taking up 500k            ( k=1,000 bytes of information or keystrokes) of space so we now have 20.5mb to use. 

Again if you have any comments or suggestions please feel free to E-mail them to me at cwstrot@netnitco.net or you may E-mail them from the home page of this site. 

"Go home and recite the rosary," the priest said, "skip a day, recite another one, skip a day, recite another one, then come see me." 

When the appointed time came , the penitent's wife showed up.  " Where's your husband?" the priest asked.  "He's dead, "she replied, "and you killed him."  The priest was taken aback.  "How can reciting the Rosary possibly kill anyone?" he asked. 

"Oh it wasn't the Rosary that killed him," she explained.  "It was all the shipping." 

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