SAINT BERNADETTE SILVER AND GOLD SOCIETY
Our next regular meeting will be held on January 8, 2014, and is scheduled to start at 12:30 PM.
Place: St. Bernadette’s Church Hall.
Your early arrival and assistance is needed to help us set up tables at about 12:15. The men especially are needed for this.
Lunch: Potluck style. Please bring a main dish, salad or dessert of your choice.
If possible, place an emphasis on the main dishes. This will ensure that all attendees will have an equal chance to enjoy all the courses available.
Thank you for your continued generosity in preparing this food for our pleasure.
Our guest speaker will be Father Roch Drozdzik. He will speak about his background, his family and how he entered the priesthood.
Please let us know of any specific programs or topics you would like to have our society learn more about through our monthly speakers.
Don’t forget to pick up your name tag on the way into the hall and return it before you leave.
Remember the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Chapel every Wednesday and Friday from 9:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.
See you at the meeting and please bring a friend.
John ‘Jack’ Stabile
Correction to December Newsletter-
Our new member is Gaye Rose – Last month’s list noted Rose Gaye. Sorry!
Please remember to bring something for the Pantry donation basket.
DUES FOR YEAR 2014-
The dues are $15.00 per person starting in January.
Raul Barbeito will be accepting the dues for 2014 at the January meeting.
Please remember that if dues are not paid by March 31, 2014 you will no longer receive the Silver and Gold Newsletter and will be dropped from our membership.
If you are unable to attend a meeting during the first quarter of 2014 please mail your dues to: Raul Barbeito
1696 Maizefield Lane
Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526
Make checks payable to the St. Bernadette’s Silver and Gold Society.
IMPORTANT –
If there are any changes to your personal profile – name, address, phone, e-mail, etc.
Please give or send them to:
Raul Barbeito Jeanne Woods
1696 Maizefield Lane or 2121 Fawn Meadow Way
Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526 Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526
If you know of any member who is not receiving the Newsletter please ask that person to call or e-mail Raul (919-557-9093) or Jeanne (919-285-4726).
If you are receiving the newsletter by regular mail and do have an e-mail address please give that e-mail address to Raul Barbeito.
If you are receiving an e-mail containing a copy of the newsletter that you cannot open please contact Jeanne Woods.
Don’t forget the Knights of Columbus Bingo on Thursday nights at 7:00 p.m. in the Church Hall. Details are in the Sunday Bulletin. It is a fun night out.
Light Humor –
The children were asked questions about passages in the Bible. Here are some answers.
Adam and eve were created from an apple tree. Noah's wife was joan of ark. Noah built and ark and the animals came on in pears.
The first commandments was when eve told adam to eat the apple.
Moses died before he ever reached canada then joshua led the hebrews in the battle of geritol.
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Activities Committee –
Silver and Gold Society Trip Plans
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 – Watergate: Political Scandal & the Presidency Tour this exhibit at the NC Museum of History, 5 E. Edenton St., Raleigh, to learn more about this national political scandal that engrossed Americans in the early 1970’s as a Congressional Committee, led by North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin, investigated the Nixon White House. Findings ultimately led to President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation on August 9, 1974. Plus, The Tsars’ Cabinet: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts Under the Romanovs and Windows into Heaven: Russian Icons from the Lilly and Francis Robicsek Collection of Religious Art. This Exhibit has a $5 charge to visit. Lunch could be at the restaurant in the science museum or at the restaurant in the history museum. Sign up and pay at the January meeting or contact Anita Kretchik.
April 7-11, 2014 – Nashville, TN. Five day/4 night tour run by Diamond Tours includes Grand Ole Opry Show and Nashville Nightlife Dinner Theater, guided tour of Nashville, admission to Country Music Hall of Fame and Backstage Tour of the Grand Ole Opry, guided tour of Belle Meade Plantation, ride on the Delta flatboats at the Opryland Hotel. Cost $465 per person, double occupancy, 4 breakfasts and dinners included. Deposit of $75 due at January meeting. Full payment is due February 1, 2014.
Sunday, June 8, 2014 – Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward – Raleigh Little Theater – 3 pm show - $12 per person. This is a comedy. A novelist invites an eccentric medium and clairvoyant to his house to conduct a séance for research for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his temperamental first wife. She attempts to disrupt his marriage to his second wife, who cannot see or hear her. Having held the record for the longest-running, non-musical British play in the West End from 1941-1957, Coward’s work has been adapted to film, musical, television, and radio. Reservations must be made by February 15. Tickets must be purchased by February 20.
‘Driving Miss Daisy’ is sold out.
Anita Kretchik – , 919-542-4672
Mary Ellen Goldsmith – , - new number available after January 2nd.
Sylvia deLeon - , 919-567-1689
Thank you for taking the time to read this newsletter and we wish you all a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Jeanne Woods – Newsletter Chairperson
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