Retreats:
Prayer and Learning Opportunities:
Adoration, Fridays, following the 8 a.m. Mass until 12:00 noon. Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Pensacola. Held in the chapel.
St. Paul Parish Morning Women’s Study Group, 9:30 a.m., St. Paul Parish, Giri Room, Pensacola. Refreshments and childcare provided. Nan, 850-434-3570.
St. Ann Gulf Breeze Women’s Group. First and third Thursdays of every month, 9:15 a.m., St. Ann Catholic Church, Family Life Center- Room 7, Gulf Breeze. Childcare is provided. Cecilia Hines, 934-6758.
Attention Married and Engaged Couples: Attend a course and learn a natural method of family planning that is safe, effective, morally acceptable and good for your marriage. Great for achieving as well as postponing pregnancy. Have you wondered about what is this natural family planning? For more information and registration, go to www.ccli.org or call Mark & Deb Kummer, 850-607-6037.
Pro Life:
The Creighton Model is a reproductive science that teaches couples about their fertility, and offers natural medical treatment for infertility and other woman's health issues in a holistic manner. Classes for The Creighton Model are now being offered at St. Ann, Gulf Breeze. For more information, please contact Jenny Craft at jjwicraft@yahoo.com, or call 850-221-2052.
The Couple to Couple League's Natural Family Planning Class: A three-class series to learn the sympto-thermal method as an alternative to contraception. For information regarding upcoming class schedules, please contact Kendra Tullson at 850-624-0216 or kendra.tullson@gmail.com. To learn more about NFP, please visit http://CCLI.org. Postpartum and pre-menopause classes are available on request.
Pro-Life Committee
Little Flower Pro-Life Committee meetings. Second Fridays, 6:30 p.m., Little Flower, Pensacola. Meets in the Marian room. James and Ingrid Kane, 850-455-8942.
Mary's Shelter Gulf Coast, St. Thomas-by-the-Sea Catholic Church, Orange Beach, AL. Mary's Shelter Gulf Coast is seeking representatives from Pensacola area Catholic Churches to serve on its Outreach Committee. This committee works on ways to make homeless pregnant women aware of services offered. Input is needed from Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, both of which are in the Mary's Shelter service area. For more information, call 251-986-6200 or toll free 866-823-4674.
Help the Poor:
Alfred-Washburn Center (AWC) needs your help! AWC is a homeless facility operated by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Each day, this remarkable mission serves 100-130 homeless who visit to eat, shower, obtain clothing or to do their laundry. AWC needs volunteers on Saturdays to provide these much-needed services. There is a special need for volunteers on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday who are comfortable interacting with the homeless to listen to their stories to help determine if anything can be done to break their cycle of homelessness. For further information contact at Deacon Bob Leblanc, 850-712-5790.
Florida
Want to know what’s going on in the Florida state legislature? What laws are being passed? What funding is being approved? How do their actions affect all of us, especially the poor, the disabled, and the most vulnerable among us? How can you become part of the process to influence our government to act in ways that are consistent with Catholic teaching? Log on to the Florida Catholic Conference’s website at www.flacathconf.org and subscribe to join FCC Advocacy.
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