Young Adult Circle - Weekly E-Newsletter 10/31 - 11/06

Greetings All-

A BIG THANKS to all who planned and participated in the retreat
this past weekend :)

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Highlights:

Deanery-wide:
-End of Month Mass
-Taize Prayer
-HFH Site Build
-Theology on Tap
-Dumaine Lecture Series at Stanford
-Mass at Juvenile Hall Service Opportunity
-Second Harvest Food Bank Service Opportunity

Parish Specific:
-Stanford
*****Service Opportunities
-St. Joseph
*****Small Faith Group Meeting

Housing

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DEANERY WIDE
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Monthly Young Adult Mass and Food Drive
Last Tuesday of Every Month
October 31st, 7:30PM

NOTE: Food Collection at 6:30

IMPORTANT NOTE: for October 31, the Mass will be held at St.
Joseph's Church, 582 Hope St., Mountain View.

YA Halloween Mass

Please mark your calendars for Tuesday evening, Oct 31th, at 7:30
and each final Tuesday of every month for our monthly Young Adult
Mass. This Mass is offered to and for the young adults of our
Deanery (northern grouping of parishes in the Diocese of San Jose
which includes Palo Alto, Stanford, Los Altos, and Mountain View),
yet is open to any and all young adults from college-age to early
40s. The liturgy is smaller and more intimate, focusing on
introductions and a conversational/dialogue homily, followed by
fellowship and refreshments.

Prior to mass, Laura Lessard of the Stanford Young Adults is
organizing a pre-Mass Second Harvest Food Drive on Halloween night.
This involves dressing up in costume and collecting food in the
neighborhoods surrounding St. Joseph's Church.

Contact Laura at:

laura.lessard@gmail.com

for more info about this fun service activity

Afterwards, there will be a Halloween party hosted by the Young
Adults of St. Joseph's parish inside Fr. Doyle Hall in the church
basement. Come in costume or normal dress, and celebrate Halloween
with the Young Adults of Deanery 2!

The Young Adults of St. Joseph's will be providing tasty snacks
for the after Mass party. You can help them out by bringing
non-alcoholic beverages or a donation to help offset the cost.

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Monthly Taize Prayer at Mercy Center
First Friday of Every Month
November 3rd, 8PM

Mercy Center in Burlingame
2300 Adeline Drive
Burlingame, CA 94010

Taize Prayer (named for the town in France where the movement
originated) is simple Christian phrases/chants set to music and
then repeatedly sung in community, with veneration of the cross
during the service. This ecumenical spiritual experience draws
people from all over the Bay Area. Please bring a pillow to pray
in comfort, either in pews or on the carpeted floor.
Socializing/food after the service is optional.

Call Rob Manfrey 650-815-1425 for more info or directions

See you on the first Friday of every month!

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Habitat for Humanity Building
Brisbane
20 Plumas St.
Saturday, November 4th
8:30AM to 4:15PM (no half days)

2 spots still open!

Join Young Adults from the Deanery in this service project to help
build low income housing on the Peninsula. Bring your own sack
lunch. More info and release forms available at:

http://www.peninsulahabitat.org/volunteering/docs/volunteer_packet
_brisbane.pdf

Just two more spots for the build in Brisbane on 11/4. Please
contact Larry ASAP if you are interested.

Contact Larry at:

hudat@stanfordalumni.org, (650) 966-8050

for more info or to sign up.

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Theology on Tap Sunday
November 5th, 7:00PM
Scruffy Murphy's
187 S Murphy Ave
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-6113
(408) 735-7394
http://www.totsiliconvalley.com

"When is Sex Really Loving" at Scruffy Murphy's Irish Pub in
downtown Sunnyvale. Fr. Eddie Samaniego will lead this talk and
ask: What kind of relationship are you in? Are you treated like a
person or an object and how do you treat others? Who's getting what
from whom?

Come to understand what being in a "good relationship" means in
this interesting talk about human relationships.

Speaker: Fr. Eddie Samaniego, SJ

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DUMAINE LECTURE SERIES:
WILLIAM STOEGER, S.J. ON SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY
November 6th, 7:30 PM
Building 200, room 203 (the main lecture hall).
Stanford University

The lecture series sponsored by the Stanford Catholic Community
has been named to honor Pierre Dumaine, the first Bishop of San
Jose who has been a longtime supporter of our community.

Fr. William Stoeger, S. J., will speak on a topic of great interest
and heated debate in the last few years around the contention
between evolution and creationism: whether Darwinian notions of
natural selection leave room for intelligent design by a divine
Creator, whether scientific explanations of the origins of life
exclude the claims of faith and religious belief.

Fr. Stoeger is an expert on the subject. A distinguished astronomer
at the Vatican Observatory located at the University of Arizona, he
speaks as a scientist and a man of faith. His lecture is titled
"Science and Theology: Creation and Natural Processes," and two
short pieces by Fr. Stoeger on the subject will be available on
the Catholic Community at Stanford web site for those who might
want to read them in advance of his talk. The talk is open to the
public and all are invited. Bishop Dumaine and Bishop McGrath will
join us for this important occasion.

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Mass with Juvenile Hall
November 10th

Download the .pdf for more information

See Link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YoungAdultCircle/files/

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Second Harvest Food Bank Service Opportunity
November 18th, Saturday 9AM to 12PM
750 Curtner Ave, San Jose.

Join the Circle for the last big food sort before Thanksgiving at
Second Harvest's San Jose facility. Duties include sorting food
from barrels or packing Thanksgiving dinners for needy families.
Spots are limited. Open to all.

Contact Larry at:

hudat@stanfordalumni.org

for more info or to sign up.

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PARISH SPECIFIC
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Stanford

Soup Kitchen Volunteering
November 4th, 8:30AM to 1:00PM
The Soup Kitchen at St. Anthony's
3500 Middlefield Rd
Menlo Park

6 more spots needed for 11/4

We will have the first and last Saturdays of the month reserved
for the CCAS. Shifts are from 8:30AM to 1:00PM.

Contact Peter at:

peter_barling@hotmail.com

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St. Joseph

St. Joseph's Small Faith Group
Wednesday, 7PM to 8:30PM
582 Hope St.
Mountain View

Meets every week. Contact Bernadette at:

bernadettefriedrichs@gmx.de

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HOUSING

Single female Christian teacher seeks housing with family, couple,
other female singles. Can share bathroom, max $700 , open to
helping with what is needed in exchange for reduced rent. Pls
contact Alexandra 650-759-9641