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HOUSE NEWS: Jubilee House Benefit Show on Nov. 7th

Posted in HOUSE NEWS, tagged Brophy's Irish Pub, Dirty Fist, Erica Carlsson, Gainesville Catholic Worker, Jon Decarmine, Jubilee Benefit Show, Jubilee House, Michael Claytor Trio, Progressive Madness, The Wooden on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

EVERYONE IS INVITED to the Jubilee Benefit Show next Friday, November 7th! Erica Carlsson, a former Metanoia participant at the GCW, has pulled together a very nice concert with a great line-up of bands to benefit the Gainesville Catholic Worker. Here are the details:
WHEN: Friday, November 7, starting at 9pm
WHERE: Brophy’s Irish Pub, 60 SW [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: It was cold

Posted in HOUSE NEWS, tagged blankets, cold, Gainesville Catholic Worker, Homeless, shelter on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have always looked forward to the first cold snap each fall. It usually comes in November and clears the air, zaps the mosquitos and dries up the mold and mildew. Living at Jubilee House makes me feel a little guilty about that. While the extreme heat of late summer can put one in a bad [...]

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SCRIPTURE STUDY: Jerusalem Spring

Posted in SCRIPTURE STUDY, tagged Acts 2, Acts of the Apostles, church as contrast society, common good in scripture, communal ethic in scripture, communty, early church, Jerusalem Spring, justice in scripture, Lord, Messiah, Prague Spring on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Following the initial Pentecost event, where a new moment in salvation history is signaled by the reversal of the Tower of Babel story in Genesis 11, Peter delivers a speech invoking Isaiah, Joel and the Psalms of David to interpret the experience of this new fledgling community of Jesus’ followers (Acts 2:14-36). The passage ends with [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: Sunday’s cafe is back! And gardening too!

Posted in HOUSE NEWS, tagged Dorothy's Cafe, food security, Gainesville Catholic Worker, Kelli Brew, Rosa B. Williams, sponsoring a cafe, sustainability, vegetarian chili recipe, volunteering at the GCW, What We Need is Here, World Food Day on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Dear friends,
Change is afoot at the GCW as we incorporate lessons learned from our schedule experients in August and September. Here is what you need to know about changes to our schedule and information for “This Week at the GCW:”
SUNDAY DOROTHY’S CAFE IS BACK: We experimented this fall with a cafe schedule that would allow [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: No Thursday Cafe and other changes

Posted in HOUSE NEWS, tagged Gainesville Catholic Worker, volunteer on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Dear friends,
As many of you know, we experimented with some changes in the schedule during the months of August and September. And after seeing how things worked out, we’ve settled on a new schedule for the rest of the semester that takes into account what we learned from the new changes as well as feedback [...]

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SCRIPTURE STUDY: A new start

Posted in SCRIPTURE STUDY, tagged Acts of the Apostles, babel, Genesis and Acts, Pentecost, speaking in tongues, the beginning of the Church, tower of babel on October 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »

When we last left the apostles, they were holed up in a room, hiding, unsure of what what was to happen next. The book of Acts opens with Jesus enjoining them not to depart from Jerusalem, intimating that this was exactly what the apostles had hoped to do. And who could blame them? Just a [...]

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