North Country Catholic Newspaper

Diocesan Events

**Please note we do our best to keep the Event Calendar up to date, however if you are unsure if an event is happening, please contact the orgaization holding the event to see if it is still going on**

ULTREYA
Plattsburgh - North Country Cursillo will hold its next Ultreya.
Date: Nov. 7
Time: 6 p.m. to 8
Place: St. John XXIII Newman Center
Features: Ultreya meetings are open to all Cursillistas and guests interested in learning more about the Cursillo Movement.
Contact: Please RSVP to Marika Donders, Post Cursillo Coordinator at mdonders@rcdony.org. Also, email Marika if you are a Cursillista in our diocese and are not receiving emails about our events in order to be added to our North Country Cursillo mailing list. Please include when and where you made your Cursillo weekend.

LIVING WITH HOPE
Saranac Lake – The Respect Life Office will be have a discussion to learn more about NYS Physician Assisted Suicide Bill and Canada’s MAID.
Date: Nov. 29
Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Place: St. Bernard’s Church
Cost: $10 donation requested
Features: The theme will be “Dying with Christ, Living with Hope”. When we make a commitment to die with Christ, we can truly live with hope. Discussions feature theologians and healthcare professionals giving perspectives on suffering, grief, dying and our Christian duty to care. Contact: Registration: https://www.rcdony.org/livingwithhope Questions contact Colleen Miner at cminer@rcdony.org

FOSTER GRANDPARENT
Foster Grandparents are role models, mentors and friends to children with exceptional needs. The program provides a way for volunteers age 55 and over to stay active by serving children and youth in their communities. They are placed in a classroom serving with a child or children who are in need of emotional support, development of basic learning skills, friendship, companionship, encouragement, individual attention and unhurried help. The program currently has 40 volunteers and serves more than 100 kids per year. To volunteer in this program, you can live in one of the following counties. Franklin, Essex County, Clinton County, St. Lawrence County or Jefferson County
Contact: Melissa Howard, Volunteer Coordinator at (518) 359-7688 or E-mail: mhoward@cathcharities.org

SIDEWALK ADVOCATES FOR LIFE
Experience Sidewalk Advocated for Life’s new virtual basic training 2.0.
Features: Sidewalk Advocates for Life employs peaceful, prayerful, loving, and law-abiding outreach outside of abortion centers to aid mothers in crisis and connect them with life-affirming resources in the effort to save their preborn children and end abortion. By God’s grace, this effort has witnessed over 9,000 women turn around at abortion centers and CHOOSE LIFE!
Contact: To get started, YOU’RE INVITED to fill out the brief application at sidewalkadvocates.org/trainingapp. Upon receipt, we’ll be in touch with next steps for accessing the online training.

Neighboring Dioceses

ADVENT DAY RETREAT
Canandaigua - Advent Retreat: "Blessed are they that Hope it the Lord: Advent Meditations on the Virtue of Hope" to be held.
Date: Dec. 13
Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Place: Notre Dame Retreat House
Cost: $60
Features: Christ calls His disciples to be lights of the world and salt of the earth- to do so means that we live with hope in a world that so often seems hope-less and full of despair. As we approach the conclusion of the Holy Year of Hope and prepare for the great Feast of the Nativity, spend a day meditating on this most important spiritual virtue – Hope.
Contact: For more information email Nancy Lynch at info@notredameretreat.org or visit www.notredameretreat.org

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