Food for Farm Families

On Saturay, June 13, brothers Joe D'Alessandro, Mark Myllykoski, and members of the Latino Roundtable packed 150 boxes of food for the migrant blueberry workers. Also, included in the delivery are four pallets of bottled water. Awesome job done by all.

Delivery was on Sunday, June 14. 

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Sleep In Heavenly Peace Bed Build

Three knights, George Schadt, John Danchisko and Greg Decker worked at the June 13 bed build at Independence Mall.  George was assembling heaboards, John was staining, and Greg was  drilling pilot holes.  About 40 beds were completed and ready for delivery and assembly.  If interested in participating, there is another build day in July.  See SignUps for more information. 

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Knights Movie Night

The Knights of Columbus "Movie Night" program presents a free screening of Rocky on Saturday, July 11 from 6:30 to 9:00pm in the Parish Hall.

For Saint Mark’s 50th anniversary, the Faith on Film series will present the 1976 crowd-pleaser, Rocky. This film surprised everyone by winning the best picture Oscar and continues to entertain multiple generations 50 years later. On its face, it is a story about an underdog chosen out of obscurity and triumphing in an unexpected way by transforming his life, not by winning, but by perseverance, “going the distance”.

Bishop Barron suggests that one method to evangelize our culture, is to exercise our analogical imagination and re-cognize the seeds of the word, present among the people and culture one seeks to serve. If we exercise our imagination and re-view the film through a lens of faith, we can find seeds of the word throughout the film. Accordingly, we are not going to find, at least, very often, the whole Catholic thing on beautiful display, but we are going to find bits and pieces of it practically everywhere, provided we have the eyes to see and ears to hear.

With this in mind, join us on Saturday, June 11th, at 6:30pm, to re consider why we enjoy the film Rocky and to re-cognize the seeds of the word that are within it. The Apostle Paul, in Acts 17:23 provides us with a precedent for this type of cultural interaction. On Mars Hill he says, “For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.” A film can provide us with a similar opportunity to re-cognize that “unknowingly” the seeds of the word found in popular culture have their full expression and power in God’s word. If we can fully reveal, re-cultivate and re-cognize (rethink) those seeds, both believers and non-believers might come to see that they have been attracted to the “Rocky” story because they have been unknowingly responding to the fragmented seeds of the word and in an analogous way worshiping Christ all along.

Watch the trailer HERE.

Please join us for a free screening on July 11 from 6:30 to 9:00pm in the Parish Hall. Admission is free though a suggested donation is requested.