HOUSE NEWS: Mass/Prayer Service, Party, Socks, and Blankets

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MASS/PRAYER SERVICE AND POTLUCK: This Thursday, we’ll either be celebrating mass or having a prayer service depending on whether we can find a replacement for Fr. John.  Either way, we’ll eat together afterwards. It is a potluck dinner so bring something to share if you can! [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: GCW anniversary party on Sunday, October 4!

Dear friends,
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GCW ANNIVERSARY PARTY ON OCTOBER 4: Each October, we celebrate the beginning of the Gainesville Catholic Worker community. We started 9 years ago, October 2000, in a little house (Jeremiah House) just two blocks from our current home. We feel it is important to give [...]

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REFLECTIONS: Mending the world

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. – E.B. White
In Jewish tradition, these are the Days of Awe – the span of ten days between Rosh Hashanah, the birthday of the creation of the [...]

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REFLECTIONS: Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without…

(Earlier this month, we received a generous gift from Jon Meinholz, a parishioner at Holy Faith Catholic Church and good friend of the house. We wore out our old truck over a year ago, and we didn’t realize how much we relied on it and how much of a real blessing it was to us [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: Scripture starts, need vols, Roundtable speaker and more

Dear friends,
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SCRIPTURE STUDY: This Tuesday, September 15, from 4:30-6pm, we’ll begin our regular weekly Scripture study. We’ll look at the gospel of Luke this fall. We approach scripture a little differently at the GCW then you might be used to
in your churches. For a little overview of [...]

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HOUSE NEWS: Welcome Leroy and Lawrence and volunteer opportunities for families and groups!

Dear friends,
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Thanks so much to all of the folks who came out to dine or volunteer at Dorothy’s Cafe last Wednesday. We had a great first turnout for the cafe and we’re especially grateful to the folks who let us [...]

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REFLECTIONS: Little helpers…

We’ve got the Bean with us here this week, and he’s “helping” a lot. The enthusiasm a four year-old has! He falls asleep each night happily anticipating the next day’s work. Garden-work, kitchen-work – what some might call drudgery – this boy is all over. I know from experience that the helping phase passes about [...]

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