Conway Lecture at Eck Visitors Center: Mechthild of Magdeburg - October 4, 2018 5 p.m.

Further details at http://events.nd.edu/ (Notre Dame website)

Conway Lecture: "Mechthild of Magdeburg's Mystical Voice"

Time: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Location: Eck Visitors Center Auditorium

Presented by Niklaus Largier translator and Medieval studies professor (Univ. of California, Berkeley).

Christian Music Concert - 11 a.m. September 30, 2018

Four Flags Apple Festival, Niles, MI Fairgrounds corner of 17th and Lake Streets
fourflagsapplefestival.org/

Apple Festival site is handicapped accessible / No weapons (school property) / pets will not be allowed on fairgrounds

Location : Semco Tent
free admission
Niles Area Ministerial Association Christian Music Concert

other shows follow including a lip sync contest from 1 - 3 p.m.

Apple seed popping contest
Apple peeling contest
Apple pie eating contest immediately lip sync (register prior to event) at Entertainment Tent

Lecture on newly canonized St. Archibishop Oscar Romero - Oct. 8, 2018, 7 p.m. Saint Mary's College Auditorium

Monday, October 8, 7 p.m., Carroll Auditorium, Madeleva Hall, Campus of St. Mary's College
Saint Oscar Arnulfo Romero: Sentir con la Iglesia
Dr. Margaret R. Pfeil
Joint appointment in the Department of Theology and the Center for Social Concerns
Faculty Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
2018-2019 series THEOLOGIES OF LIVED FAITH

Distinguished scholars come to Saint Mary's to lead us in an exploration of the relationship of faith and faith and engagement with contemporary religious and theological issues. Please join us for our upcoming lectures, which are free and open to the public.  These lectures are sponsored by the Saint Mary's College Annual Endowed Lecture Series Fund.

Four Flag Apple Festival - September 27 - 30, 2018

http://fourflagapplefestival.org/

A Free Apple to every guest!  Pastries, cookies, apples, pies, juice... if you can dream it, we have it!  Festival Grounds, 1740 Lake Road, Niles, MI 49120

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A Free Apple to every guest!  Pastries, cookies, apples, pies, juice... if you can dream it, we have it!

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Better yet, see us in person!

September 27th - 30th 2018

Four Flags Area Apple Festival

1740 Lake St, Niles, MI 49120

Severe Weather Statement (9 p.m. Sept. 25, 2018) -- Berrien County and Niles, Michigan 49120

.A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM EDT/815 PM CDT/ FOR NORTHWESTERN ELKHART...ST. JOSEPH...NORTHEASTERN STARKE...NORTHWESTERN MARSHALL...SOUTHEASTERN LA PORTE...CASS AND SOUTHEASTERN BERRIEN COUNTIES... At 849 PM EDT/749 PM CDT/, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Dowagiac to Georgetown to Hamlet, moving east at 30 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include... South Bend, Elkhart, Mishawaka, Niles.

from WNDU dot-com Weather Website page (9 p.m. Tuesday evening)

Severe Thunderstorm Warning Berrien County Michigan - Tuesday Sept. 25

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL LA PORTE AND SOUTHERN BERRIEN COUNTIES... At 823 PM EDT/723 PM CDT/, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Bridgman to near Three Oaks, moving east at 50 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include... Michigan City, Bridgman, New Buffalo, Three Oaks, Shorewood-Tower Hill, Shorewood-Tower Hills-Harbert, Baroda, Galien.

Arts and Crafts for Mennonite Relief Sale - Elkhart IN - Saturday Sept. 22, 2018, 7 a.m.

Arts & Crafts

Purchase a quilt, antique, or new & used item at auction, or shop:

• Ten Thousand Villages: Fairly Traded Handicrafts from Around the World Crafts
• locally-made gifts and crafts
• dried flowers and custom flower arrangements
• books and more

Crafts begin selling at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and 7:00 a.m. on Saturday!

Food also served now at 7 a.m. --

Satisfy your hunger by eating some of the wonderful food available including:

• Popcorn, Kettle Corn, & Cotton Candy
• Apple butter
• Sweet Rolls
• Apple Fritters
• Donuts
• Strawberry Shortcake
• Pie & Ice Cream
• Fair Trade Coffee
• Peppernuts
• Egg Rolls

• International Foods
• Breakfast Haystacks
• Chicken Barbecue
• Pancakes & Sausage
• Pulled Pork Sandwiches
• Baked Goods (some are gluten free!)
• Welsh cakes
• Taco Salads
• Pizza
• Hamburgers
• Hotdogs

Run for Relief - Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds - benefitting Mennonite Central Cmte. for Relief

5K or 2K Fun Walk (September 22, 2018: 8 a.m.)

$25.00 race entry fee. All proceeds go to Mennonite Central Committee relief efforts. Participants will receive a T-shirt. Awards for the 5k Run top finishers in each age group. The 2k Fun Walk is not timed. Strollers are allowed on the 2k Fun Walk!

On-site registration at Elkhart County fairgrounds is Friday evening, September 21, from 5:30 to 9:00 PM or Saturday morning, September 22, from 6:45 to 7:45 AM.

http://www.mennonitesale.org/run-for-relief

Annual Mennonite Relief Sale -- Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds in Goshen, IN - Friday 6 - 9 p.m. Saturday 9/22/2018 7 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Free admission to the two-day Sale for Mennonite Missions and Charities

This is the 51st Annual event that includes a haystack dinner, food vendors, auctions, craft sale, petting zoo, barrel train rides.

See further http://mennonitesale.org/

Today: Is the future of American religion already behind us? - Lecture Kenneth Woodward at N. Dame, IN

Lecture: "Is the Future of American Religion Already Behind Us?"

Time: Tue Sep 18, 2018, 12:30PM - 2:00PM

Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Halls

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The Center for the Study of Religion and Society, The McGrath Institute for Church Life, and the Department of Theology present this lecture by Kenneth Woodward.

Lunch will be served. 

Red Mass (annual prayer service ahaed of Opening of SCOTUS term) - September 30, 2018, 10 a.m. - Noon

Host Church: St. Matthew the Apostle Cathedral (Roman Catholic), Washington D.C.

from information at "Faith and Action" dot-org:

The Red Mass is a special service. This service’s primary purpose is praying with and for members of the judiciary and anyone engaged in the law, including attorneys, legal advocates, paralegals, justices, and judges. The Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court attend this church service together. The importance of our presence and participation at the Red Mass cannot be overstated.

http://www.faithandaction.org/event/red-mass/

"Blessing of the Companion Animals" (near St. Francis feast day) - September 30, 2018 Marian High School Mishawaka, IN

from online Catholic events archive -- September 2018 calendar

The Secular Franciscan Order — Third Order of St. Francis is sponsoring a “St. Francis Pet Blessing” from 1-3 p.m. in the south parking lot of Marian High School. All pets may be brought for a blessing in honor of St. Francis, Patron saint of animals. Several displays including the Pet Refuge of Michiana, pet food samples from “Well Pet,” animal health advice from a local veterinarian, the Canine Unit from the South Bend Police Department, a dog groomer available for advice and students from Marian High School will be available for giving your dog a lovely bath and some grooming. 
Bring a lawn chair, your favorite pet and enjoy time with God’s lovely gift of our pet friends.

1311 Logan St, Mishawaka, IN 46544

Friday Sept. 14, 2018 "International News Roundup" (NPR call-in talk radio, 1A)

from www.npr.org/

Guests

• Peter Bergen CNN's national security analyst; vice president 
• and director of the international security program at New America; 
• author of "United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown 
• Terrorists"; @peterbergencnn
• Karoun Demirjian Reporter, The Washington Post; @karoun
• Ron Nixon Homeland security correspondent, The New York Times; 
• author of "Selling Apartheid: South Africa's Global Propaganda War"; @nixonron

This hour of the Morning NPR show is from 11 a.m. til Noon Eastern Time Zone:

https://the1a.org/shows/2018-09-14/friday-news-roundup-international

Rowan Williams (scholar, poet, church leader) - part of Notre Dame (IN) Forum on Arts & Faith Nov. 26, 2018

from www.nd.edu/

Relieved by Prayer: Power, Shame and Redemption in Shakespeare's Drama

Time: Monday November 26, 2018, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. 

Location: Dahnke Ballroom, Duncan Student Center, Campus of Notre Dame

Rowan Williams, renowned theologian and former Archbishop of Canterbury, will deliver a keynote lecture as part of the 2018-19 Notre Dame Forum.

Co-sponsored by “Religion & Literature,” a Notre Dame journal housed in the Department of English, Williams will present a talk titled, “Relieved by Prayer: Power, Shame and Redemption in Shakespeare’s Drama,” in the Dahnke Ballroom at 5 p.m. Nov. 26 (Monday). A reception will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public.

“Rowan Williams is a renowned scholar, poet and Church leader,” said Father John Jenkins [Notre Dame's President]. “We are fortunate to have him speak on the intersection of religious faith and literature.”

Williams shepherded the Church of England as Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. He is a leading figure in the study of religion and literature and currently serves as Master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1990 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2003.

Educated in theology at both Cambridge and Oxford, Williams is the author of dozens of books and articles on Christian theology, belief, poetry and icons. His 2006 book, “Grace and Necessity: Reflections on Art and Love,” draws on the works of Catholic thinkers and artists like Jacques Maritain, Flannery O’Connor and David Jones to explore how human beings open themselves to transcendence. Williams is a noted poet and translator of poetry, and, in addition to Welsh, speaks or reads nine other languages.

Aeschylus - - And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart. . .

from Blog discussing "Blue Bloods" as a CBS drama series:

During the family dinner scene of this episode "Unbearable Loss," Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) reveals that he has been asked to speak at the funeral and shares the quote that he plans to use –- a quote from Aeschylus’ Agamemnon (lines 179-183):

“And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”

The main purpose of this reference, on the surface, is to convey through the evocative language of Aeschylus the intensity of the suffering and grief that accompanies a loss. Frank had intended to share this quote at the funeral of his eldest son Joe, who died in the line of duty, but couldn’t find the will to do so at the time. Now, by making use of this quote, Frank demonstrates his understanding and sympathy for the reverend’s loss through an expression of the pain and suffering he himself has gone through.

https://windswaves.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/the-awful-grace-of-god-blue-bloods-robert-kennedy-and-aeschylus-agamemnon/

Marilynne Robinson - Notre Dame Forum lecture - dialogue - September 19, 2018

"Writing Faith: A Conversation with Marilynne Robinson" (Part of Forum 2018-19: The Catholic Artistic Heritage)

Time: Wednesday September 19, 2018, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Location: Dahnke Ballroom, Duncan Student Center, on Campus

 

To kick off this year’s ND Forum, Marilynne Robinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and champion of the integral relationship between faith and art, will be in dialogue with John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C., and Glynn Family Honors Associate Professor, Susannah Monta. This event is free and open to the public. 

https://events.nd.edu/events/2018/09/19/keynote-event-featuring-marilynne-robinson/

Niles, Michigan "Community Orchestra Concert" - Sunday September 16, 2018 afternoon

Come in and listen to the Niles Community Orchestra as they play some fun familiar numbers from movies, TV, and Broadway shows.

4 - 5:30 p.m. Free to the public

in the Rotunda of the Niles District Library, 620 E. Main Street (enter from Cedar Street side)

Niles, MI 49120

(269)-683-8545 for further information

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