HOUSE NEWS: Can you bring a pizza this Wednesday?
Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Green House.
LAST CAFE – CAN YOU BRING A PIZZA THIS WEDNESDAY? At the end of each semester we celebrate with all of our friends from the street, volunteers and whomever else joins us by turning our traditional Wednesday cafe into a Pizza Cafe! This will be our last cafe of the 2012-13 year! Bring a homemade pizza (or 2 or MORE!); come and make one with veggies from our local farmers, the micro-farm, Porters’ Farm and the Green House Garden (be here by 10am to make one); or buy one from one of our local pizza joints (Big Lou’s, Satchel’s, Five Star, Mamma Mia, Italian Gator, Leonardo’s, et al) and bring it to the cafe (between 11:45am and 2pm). Let us know if you’re bringing so we can make sure we’ll have enough! Click here for more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/589119374452142/. We typically go through more than 25 pizza pies, so we hope some of y’all will have some fun and make some or drop a few off.
MICROFARM WORKDAY ON SATURDAY: We invite you to join us with Jade Allen and Lynn Chacko, members of the GCW extended community, at their urban microfarm just a few blocks from UF. The microfarm provides produce which is shared with our friends and neighbors at the cafe and through distribution from the GCW. Come volunteer with us this Saturday, from 9am to 12pm, all morning or for an hour or whatever suits your schedule. Address is 415 NW 32nd Street.
WINDING DOWN: This week is our last full week of activities before we take our summer sabbatical. The last breakfast is on Friday, June 21, and beginning next week, we’ll be spending time doing a final clean-up of the house. We’re excited to have a couple of youth groups join us next week for clean-up and repair. If you’re interested in helping, let us know.
Thanks to everyone! Hope to see you this week!
HOUSE NEWS: Putting the “work” in Catholic Worker
Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Green House.
Gloria and Clayton after completing the parking lot oasis bench.
THINGS ARE MOVING ALONG! Wow! The house rehab and special projects are happening at a fast and furious pace! As you see above, Gloria and Clayton completed the bus stop bench for the parking lot oasis (with an assist from Mary who donated the bench), and with the help of Oliver, Kelli, Aunt Maggi and others, the parking lot oasis is really coming along nicely. And Chris and Oliver are rehabbing the upstairs bathroom (by far the worst part of the house before the rehab!), Oliver is building a “free little library” for the bus stop, Gloria and Clayton are painting doors and so much more! Stop by and see the changes! Or write to us if you want to help! Thanks to everyone!
STILL LOOKING FOR GOOD, STURDY OUTDOOR TABLES AND CHAIRS: Eventually we hope to build some nice heavy-duty picnic tables for the new outdoor dining area, but in the meantime, if you have good wooden or metal outdoor tables or chairs that need a good home, send them our way! The lighter-weight outdoor furniture seems to get regularly liberated from our backyard, but heavier items seem to stay put. If you have anything you want us to come pick up, we’d be glad to. Just let us know.
PUT THE PIZZA CAFE EXTRAVAGANZA V ON YOUR CALENDAR: At the end of each semester we celebrate with all of our friends from the street, volunteers and whomever else joins us by turning our traditional Wednesday cafe into a Pizza Cafe! This will be our last cafe of the 2012-13 year! Bring a homemade pizza (or 2 or MORE!); come and make one with veggies from our local farmers, the micro-farm, Porters’ Farm and the Green House Garden (be here by 10am to make one); or buy one from one of our local pizza joints (Big Lou’s, Satchel’s, Five Star, Mamma Mia, Italian Gator, Leonardo’s, et al) and bring it to the cafe (between 11:45am and 2pm). Let us know if you’re bringing so we can make sure we’ll have enough! Click here for more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/589119374452142/. We typically go through more than 25 pizza pies, so we hope some of y’all will have some fun and make some or drop a few off.
Thanks to everyone! Hope to see you this week!
HOUSE NEWS: New outdoor dining area is in!
Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Green House.
NEW OUTDOOR DINING AREA IS IN! This past Wednesday, after receiving out latest newsletter, a friend of the house showed up around 10am and said, “Let’s do this outdoor dining area project!” And five days later, it is complete! We’ve been wanting to put in a patio in the side yard for some time now, hoping to take advantage of the increase in space it allows us so that folks who come for breakfasts and lunch can relax and linger over their meals, instead of moving out to make room for the next group of folks to come in. The new outdoor dining area should allow us to provide seating for 20-25 outside, doubling our capacity and making the experience of dining here at the house more welcoming and spacious for our guests. Many thanks to our friend who provided the resources and experience, as well as the time, to get this project done! The work was a joint effort involving a lot of folks over the last few days, including Vickie, Mohammed, Danny, Johnny IV, Clayton, and others. Thanks to all! Which brings us to a new request…
LOOKING FOR GOOD, STURDY OUTDOOR TABLES AND CHAIRS: Eventually we hope to build some nice heavy-duty picnic tables for the new outdoor dining area, but in the meantime, if you have good wooden or metal outdoor tables or chairs that need a good home, send them our way! The lighter-weight outdoor furniture seems to get regularly liberated from our backyard, but heavier items seem to stay put. If you have anything you want us to come pick up, we’d be glad to. Just let us know.
NEW COMMUNITY PRAYER SERVICE AND POTLUCK THIS SUNDAY: A small group of us have been meeting once-a-month to worship together in an informal, intimate setting, and then share a meal. Everyone is welcome. This month’s gathering will be at the home of Dave and Gloria Chynoweth. Contact us for directions.
ONE COMMUNITY MEMBER LEAVES AS ANOTHER ARRIVES: These next few days are Vickie’s last ones with us. She’ll be heading out on Thursday morning, starting a new chapter in her life. She’s gifted us with a copy of her thesis (on the Catholic Worker and bioregionalism) to keep her at the house for anyone to read who is interested. We’re so grateful for Vickie and everything she has done here over the past 5-plus years. And as Vickie leaves, we welcome a new live-in member, Oliver, who will be with us for the summer. Oliver arrives later today. Both the new and old will be here at the café tomorrow, so if you want a good lunch, a chance to say good bye and hello, stop by the house! (We’ll give Oliver a proper introduction in next week’s house news.)
NEW EDITION OF CONSPIRE, OUR NEWSLETTER, IS NOW AVAILABLE: We just completed another edition of our irregular newsletter, Conspire, and many of you should be receiving a copy in the mail this week. If you don’t get a hard copy and would like to be added to the mailing list, let us know! If you want to download and look at a PDF of the newsletter, you can see it here.
Thanks to everyone! Hope to see you this week!
REFLECTION: David Brooks commencement speech in which he speaks of Dorothy Day
The following is from the baccalaureate speech given at Sewanee, the University of the South, by David Brooks last week. In it, he references one of his heroes, Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker. We thought folks might enjoy this.
Columnist David Brooks
… One of my heroes is a woman named Dorothy Day.
When she was a young woman, Day thought she wanted to be a writer and a bohemian. She moved to Greenwich Village in New York. She hung out in bars, listened to jazz and had a lot of boyfriends. She read Dostoyevsky as if her life depended upon it, and sometimes seemed to live like a character in a Dostoyevsky novel. But something about the disorganized nature of that life bothered her.
One night she was wrongly arrested and put in jail. She had done nothing wrong, but to her the arrest seemed to indict her entire style of life.
She wrote: “It was as ugly an experience as I ever wish to pass through. I do not think that ever again, no matter of what I am accused, can I suffer more than I did then of shame and regret, and self-contempt. Not only because I had been caught, found out, branded, publicly humiliated, but because of my own consciousness that I deserved it.”
Then a few years later, she had a very different experience. She gave birth to a child. She wrote that when her child emerged she felt like the greatest artist or the greatest poet:
“No human creature could receive or contain so vast a flood of love and joy as I often felt after the birth of my child. With this came the need to worship, to adore.”
Dorothy Day
Her need to worship turned her toward God. And with that came a passion, to be among the poor. She started a newspaper called The Catholic Worker. She started soup kitchens and homeless shelters and rural communes. She didn’t serve the way we often serve today, as affluent people going down to give the needy a hand. She embraced poverty and lived in the shelters herself. For her the service was not about the meals. It was a form of worship and way to honor God.
Day wasn’t one of these people who could separate public behavior from private morality. Day couldn’t just do good, she had to be good…
Click here to read the entire address (the Dorothy Day section starts on page 3.)
HOUSE NEWS: Need help at the cafe this week and new newsletter!
Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Green House.
NEED HELP AT THE CAFE THIS WEDNESDAY: We’re short a handful of volunteers for the café this Wednesday, so if you can help out, it would be much appreciated. We’re down two volunteers for morning prep work, starting at 9:30am and going through noon; and we’re down one person at noon for serving between 12-3pm. If you can help out, even for an hour we’d be very grateful!
NEW EDITION OF CONSPIRE, OUR NEWSLETTER, IS NOW AVAILABLE: We just completed another edition of our irregular newsletter, Conspire, and many of you should be receiving a copy in the mail this week. If you don’t get a hard copy and would like to be added to the mailing list, let us know! If you want to download and look at a PDF of the newsletter, you can see it here.
STILL LOOKING FOR MORE HELP WITH SEVERAL BIG SUMMER PROJECTS: (Thanks to several folks who responded last week to this info. Johnny or Kelli will be in touch with you this week.) This is the time of “big” projects for us at the Green House and we could use quite a bit of help outside of the regular volunteer opportunities. If you’re interested in helping, email us and we’ll contact you with more information about the particulars for each project. And if you could pass around the list below to family members, friends, co-workers, churches and others who you think might be able to help, we would be forever grateful!
- The creation of an outdoor dining area in our side yard: We’ve been really busy over the past few months, with an average of 45 people coming four days a week for breakfast, and often close to 100 joining us for lunch on Wednesday. We can only seat about 20 people at a time in the house, so it has been a little challenging to offer the leisurely meals we would like to and also make sure everyone has a chance to sit down for a bit. (Still people are grateful for the good food, the soft music and newspaper, and the gracious volunteers.) But what we would really like is to spruce up the side yard and make it an outdoor dining space. During the nice weather, we could serve twice as many people at a time with the space we have outdoors. We earned money with the Art for All sale to purchase supplies to build some more picnic tables and hopefully some bricks or pavers to create a patio or build a deck. We need volunteers to help, and we could really use some project coordination by someone with expertise and experience in construction, landscaping, etc.
- The creation of a parking lot/bus stop oasis: Clayton and Gloria are heading up their final project before they leave for New Orleans this summer – a little oasis for folks waiting for the bus near our parking lot gardens. Clayton had noticed that some disabled and elderly folks from a public housing apartment building nearby were having to stand in the sun and wait for the bus that stops near our gardens. After bringing a house chair outside several times for people, he floated the idea of building a permanent bench under the tree. The idea has since grown to include a butterfly garden and a “little library” – a small, enclosed box on a pole (like a bird house) filled with used books and a sign “take one, leave one.” We have been amazed by how much plant life the outskirts of that empty parking lot next door can sustain. It’s often abuzz with bees, butterflies, and birds as well. We’re excited about creating a little nature oasis among the asphalt and concrete and grateful to Gloria and Clayton for it. If you want to help out, lend supplies or expertise, get in touch with Clayton and Gloria or send us an email and we’ll connect you.
- House painting: A few years ago, we had a guest who offered to paint the house. He got about 90% finished and we’d like to finish the last bits over the summer. This includes painting the small outcrop at the top of the house that offers venting for the attic, as well as painting just above the frames of the upstairs windows. It’s a complicated job because of the height, but if anyone has the experience and expertise and could help, we’d be grateful. We additionally are thinking of several other smaller painting projects if you’re interested (the doors, steps, the picket fence, etc.)
- Various repair jobs: From patching up drywall to fixing the upstairs bathroom to putting in shelves in the kitchen and so on, we have a number of jobs around the house for which we can provide person-power but need expertise. If you’re adept at plumbing or drywall or carpentry and so on, and could coach us through various small repairs, we’d love the help.
For any of these, just email us at gvillecw@yahoo.com.
HOUSE NEWS: Summer project help, Vickie graduates, microfarm workday!
Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Green House.
SUMMER A SCHEDULE CHANGES: Beginning this week, there are a few changes in the schedule. Most importantly, we’ll be serving breakfast only 2 days a week instead of four during the rest of May and through June. Breakfast@theGreenHouse will still be from 7-9am, but we’ll just do it on Monday and Friday. We can use 1-2 volunteers for both of those days if you are available and would like to commit for the next six weeks or so. Just send us an email and let us know which day you’d like to help. Additionally, Art for All will work not meet each Saturday during the summer, but instead there will be several “guerilla art” projects for which they’ll announce on Facebook and in the weekly email when they’ll be meeting and any supplies they’ll need. Another change: The Green House Knitters will start meeting on Monday evenings again, 7:30-9pm. Everything else is the same! We can especially use help at the microfarm on Thursday mornings and at the café, anytime on Wednesday between 9:30am and 4pm.
CONGRATULATIONS VICKIE! Vickie Machado, a live-in member of the Green House for the past two years, graduated last week with a MA in Religion and Nature. We’re so proud of her! Vickie is living at the house through the end of the month, so 1) if you’re by the house make sure to congratulate her and 2) let her know of any contacts you have in S. Florida for possible work for her!
Congrats Vickie! (pictured with Robert)
WE NEED HELP WITH SEVERAL BIG SUMMER PROJECTS: This is the time of “big” projects for us at the Green House and we could use quite a bit of help outside of the regular volunteer opportunities. If you’re interested in helping, email us and we’ll contact you with more information about the particulars for each project. And if you could pass around the list below to family members, friends, co-workers, churches and others who you think might be able to help, we would be forever grateful!
- The creation of an outdoor dining area in our side yard: We’ve been really busy over the past few months, with an average of 45 people coming four days a week for breakfast, and often close to 100 joining us for lunch on Wednesday. We can only seat about 20 people at a time in the house, so it has been a little challenging to offer the leisurely meals we would like to and also make sure everyone has a chance to sit down for a bit. (Still people are grateful for the good food, the soft music and newspaper, and the gracious volunteers.) But what we would really like is to spruce up the side yard and make it an outdoor dining space. During the nice weather, we could serve twice as many people at a time with the space we have outdoors. We earned money with the Art for All sale to purchase supplies to build some more picnic tables and hopefully some bricks or pavers to create a patio or build a deck. We need volunteers to help, and we could really use some project coordination by someone with expertise and experience in construction, landscaping, etc.
- The creation of a parking lot/bus stop oasis: Clayton and Gloria are heading up their final project before they leave for New Orleans this summer – a little oasis for folks waiting for the bus near our parking lot gardens. Clayton had noticed that some disabled and elderly folks from a public housing apartment building nearby were having to stand in the sun and wait for the bus that stops near our gardens. After bringing a house chair outside several times for people, he floated the idea of building a permanent bench under the tree. The idea has since grown to include a butterfly garden and a “little library” – a small, enclosed box on a pole (like a bird house) filled with used books and a sign “take one, leave one.” We have been amazed by how much plant life the outskirts of that empty parking lot next door can sustain. It’s often abuzz with bees, butterflies, and birds as well. We’re excited about creating a little nature oasis among the asphalt and concrete and grateful to Gloria and Clayton for it. If you want to help out, lend supplies or expertise, get in touch with Clayton and Gloria or send us an email and we’ll connect you.
- House painting: A few years ago, we had a guest who offered to paint the house. He got about 90% finished and we’d like to finish the last bits over the summer. This includes painting the small outcrop at the top of the house that offers venting for the attic, as well as painting just above the frames of the upstairs windows. It’s a complicated job because of the height, but if anyone has the experience and expertise and could help, we’d be grateful. We additionally are thinking of several other smaller painting projects if you’re interested (the doors, steps, the picket fence, etc.)
- Various repair jobs: From patching up drywall to fixing the upstairs bathroom to putting in shelves in the kitchen and so on, we have a number of jobs around the house for which we can provide person-power but need expertise. If you’re adept at plumbing or drywall or carpentry and so on, and could coach us through various small repairs, we’d love the help.
For any of these, just email us at gvillecw@yahoo.com.
MONTHLY WORKDAY AT BAM ON SATURDAY: On Saturday, May 18, from 9am to noon, we’ll all be gathering at Black Acres Microfarm (BAM) for our monthly workday. In partnership with BAM, we help provide regular volunteers and the produce from the microfarm is shared with our friends and neighbors at the cafe and through distribution. Volunteer all morning or for an hour or whatever suits your schedule. Call Jade at 352-275-4661 or 352-337-0817 to get directions and let him know you’re coming!
COMMUNITY PRAYER AND POTLUCK ON SUNDAY: For about a year now, a group of folks, including some of us associated with the Green House, have been committed to forming an intentional community. Once-a-month, we gather at various people’s homes, in the spirit of the early church, to pray together and share a meal. The gathering is open to anyone who would like to join us. This week, we’re gathering on Sunday at Hurley House (the big pink building at the east end of the parking lot behind St. Augustine Catholic Student Center and Church), from 4-7pm. Feel free to join us!
HOUSE NEWS: Join us on Friday…or Saturday…or Monday….
Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Gainesville Catholic Worker.
Lots happening over this last stretch of days before we take a one-week break between semesters! Here’s what you need to know, and we hope you can join us for one or more of these events!
Citizen’s Coop, 435 S. Main Street, Be there on Friday night for the Art Walk and visit our table!
TOMORROW, FRIDAY APRIL 26, WE’RE ON THE ART WALK! We’re so grateful to Citizens’ Coop for including our artists and crafters from Art for All in this Froday’s Art Walk, taking place from 7-10pm at a variety of locations downtown (click here to see and print out a map). We’ll have a table at Citizens’ Coop, displaying and selling items made by our cadre of artsists and crafters who gather each Saturday at the Green House to make beautiful things from recycled materials. So if you have a chance to drop by the table and say hello and maybe purchase something, we would be so grateful!
DROP BY CITIZENS COOP AND HELP SUPPORT THE GREEN HOUSE: And speaking of Citizens Coop… Don’t forget to that all this month (five more days!), Citizens Coop is featuring us, The Green House, as the object of their “Be the Change” campaign. Set up at each register in the store is a glass jar and information about the Green House. Customers can drop their change into the glass jars and at the end of the month, the Coop will direct all the proceeds to us. They’ll be doing this every month, focusing on a different group, and we’re lucky enough to be the very first one! So drop by the Coop, pick up some great food, and drop your change in the jar! Come on Friday night at visit the Art Walk table and drop some change in the jars!
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, MONTHLY WORKDAY AT THE MICROFARM: If you have not visited Jade and Lynn’s microfarm, you don’t know what you’re missing! They have done incredible things at Black Acres Microfarm, and each month, we host a workday at the farm to help give back for all the produce they send our way each week for us to share with people who don’t get much good, healthy food. Come this Saturday and help out with basic farm chores, anytime between 9am and noon. BAM is located at 415 NW 32nd Street, near to the Publix Shopping Center on 34th Street and University Avenue.
From left, Tamra (former GCW live-in community member), with Gloria and Vickie
MONDAY, APRIL 29, END OF THE SEMESTER PRAYER SERVICE AND POTLUCK: Each semester we are so lucky to have a group of people make a commitment to live and work at the Green House, and when it the semester ends, it is always hard to say good-bye. So at the end of each semester, we host a special prayer service and potluck dinner, to thank these young folks and send them off with our blessing to continue the work they’ve begin here wherever their journey may take them. So on Monday, April 29 at 6:30pm, we invite you to join us in saying good-bye and thank you to Vickie, Gloria and Clayton. Vickie has lived with us for two years now, and volunteered for several years prior to that.
Clayton, at the cafe
Gloria and Clayton also volunteered for several years and spent the past year living at the house. We hope you’ll come, share stories and memories about them, and join us in blessing them as they move on from Gainesville into new and exciting endeavors. If you can bring a dish to share, that would be great! The prayer service will begin at 6:30pm with the potluck dinner to follow. And besides our live-in community members, we always like to give thanks to anyone who has spent time volunteering at the Green House during their time in Gainesville. So come by and let us know if you’ll be leaving after this semester or over the summer can we give you a proper thank you!
NEEDED: TUESDAY MORNING VOLUNTEERS! We’re short-handed on volunteers for Tuesday’s breakfast and could use 1-2 regulars, between 7-9am. (We could also use a second volunteer on any of the weekdays beginning with May and running through June!). Let us know if you’re interested and can help out.
ON BREAK FROM MAY 5-12: We’ll also be taking a short break, May 5-12, while UF and Santa Fe are on break between semesters. We’ll start back up with a summer schedule for May and June on Monday, May 13th. Check the website soon for more info on what will be happening during May and June.
Thanks for all your support!
HOUSE NEWS: Roundtable on intentional communities this Thursday
Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Gainesville Catholic Worker.
First off, a quick thank you to everyone who helped out this weekend preparing for and then participating in the big Art for All Open House and Sale. We had a great turn-out, much pie was eaten, and many folks helped support the house by buying some of the items created this past semester at Art for All. We’ll continue to display items throughout the next two weeks, so if there is something you might like to purchase, stop by any weekday and you can look at what is left (someone is always on duty between 1-5pm, but you can stop by anytime). We’ll also be displaying at the Art Walk on Friday, April 26, so come by and see us then (more info in next week’s email). You can click here to see some of the items created at Art for All.
ROUNDTABLE THIS WEEK ON INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES: This week, we’re really excited to have back with us Whitney Sanford, UF professor of religion, to talk about “Sustainability, Autonomy, and Resilience: Lessons from Intentional Communities.” The roundtable will be on Thursday at 6:30pm at the Green House. Here’s a short description: “Intentional communities such as Catholic Worker Houses and Farms, ecovillages, and Transition Towns, demonstrate alternatives, including voluntary simplicity, regional economies, and community responsibility. What can we learn from these communities, and how do these lessons translate beyond these communities?” Bring a dish to share if you can!
COMMUNITY PRAYER SERVICE ON SUNDAY: This Sunday, we’ll be hosting a community prayer service and potluck dinner at the Green House, from 4-7pm. A small group of folks have been meeting monthly to worship together, plan activities and share a meal. Everyone is welcome to join us. Bring a dish to share if you can!
DROP BY CITIZENS COOP AND HELP SUPPORT THE GREEN HOUSE: All this month, Citizens Coop is featuring us, The Green House, as the object of their “Be the Change” campaign. Set up at each register in the store is a glass jar and information about the Green House. Customers can drop their change into the glass jars and at the end of the month, the Coop will direct all the proceeds from us. They’ll be doing this every month, focusing on a different group, and we’re lucky enough to be the very first one! So drop by the Coop, pick up some great food, and drop your change in the jar! Thanks! (You can see more about it here, http://www.citizensco-op.com/community/be-the-change, although the site is down right now for some reason.)
Thanks for all yor support!
HOUSE NEWS: Come have a piece of homemade pie and enjoy the Art for All Open House this Sunday
Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Gainesville Catholic Worker.
ART FOR ALL OPEN HOUSE (WITH HOMEMADE PIES!) THIS SUNDAY, APRIL 14: Each semester, a group of artists and crafters from among our house community, former guests and community members, volunteers, and friends who live on the street meet every Saturday to encourage each other’s creativity. They make beautiful objects of art and wonderful and useful crafts from a whole host of found and recycled items–old calendars, t-shirts, bottles, magazines, and such. These items get “up-cycled” to make vases, gift bags, rugs, paper flowers, ornaments and more (click here to see some Art for All creations). And at the end of each semester, we host an Art for All Open House to share with the larger community these beautiful works of love. The Art for All Open House will be this coming weekend, on Sunday, April 14, from 1-4pm. Stop by to see the work of these artsists and crafters, enjoy a slice of homemade pie, and maybe pick up a Mother’s Day (or graduation) gift. Please invite friends and others!
DROP BY CITIZENS COOP AND HELP SUPPORT THE GREEN HOUSE: All this month, Citizens Coop is featuring us, The Green House, as the object of their “Be the Change” campaign. Set up at each register in the store is a glass jar and information about the Green House. Customers can drop their change into the glass jars and at the end of the month, the Coop will direct all the proceeds from us. They’ll be doing this every month, focusing on a different group, and we’re lucky enough to be the very first one! So drop by the Coop, pick up some great food, and drop your change in the jar! Thanks! (You can see more about it here, http://www.citizensco-op.com/community/be-the-change, although the site is down right now for some reason.)
A WINDOW INTO THE WORLD OF THE GREEN HOUSE: Kelli wrote a really beautiful piece that I think captures a slice of our life at the Green House. The post is on her blog, What We Need Is Here, and it is entitled “Mercy.” You can find it by clicking here. Check it out when you have the time.
INTERESTED IN LIVING AT THE GAINESVILLE CATHOLIC WORKER FOR A SEMESTER? Each semester, we accept 3-6 students, recent grads, and other aduts who are interested in exploring life and work in a gospel-based community, standing with and working alongside people whom our society marginalizes, and deepening one’s sense of the intersection between spirituality and social justice. The GCW Semester gives individuals the opportunity to experiment with and practice a life of simplicity, solidarity, service, community, spirituality and more. It is a “total immersion” engagement in the life and work of the GCW. If you or someone you know might be interested in living and working with us for the Fall 2013 semester, we’d love to share information and talk. Email us and we’ll send some information to look through and set up a time to meet.
Hope you’ll stop by this weekend, Sunday from 1-4pm, and share a piece of pie with us!
HOUSE NEWS: Need some new volunteers and looking for folks to live here for Fall 2013
Click here to see an entire list of what is happening this week at the Gainesville Catholic Worker.
LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD VOLUNTEERS: As the semester starts to wind down for students at UF and Santa Fe, we’ll be in need of some new regular volunteers starting this month and running through June. We’re hoping to continue as many of our projects as we can through the months of May and June, but we’ll need your help. If you think you can help out one day a week for Breakfast@theGreenHouse or Wednesday’s cafe in the morning or afternoon or Thursday morning at the microfarm, we’d love to have you! Just send us an email and we’ll plug you in starting this month or next…
INTERESTED IN LIVING AT THE GAINESVILLE CATHOLIC WORKER FOR A SEMESTER? Each semester, we accept 3-6 students, recent grads, and other aduts who are interested in exploring life and work in a gospel-based community, standing with and working alongside people whom our society marginalizes, and deepening one’s sense of the intersection between spirituality and social justice. The GCW Semester gives individuals the opportunity to experiment with and practice a life of simplicity, solidarity, service, community, spirituality and more. It is a “total immersion” engagement in the life and work of the GCW. If you or someone you know might be interested in living and working with us for the Fall 2013 semester, we’d love to share information and talk. Email us and we’ll send some information to look through and set up a time to meet.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR! ART FOR ALL OPEN HOUSE (WITH PIE!) ON APRIL 14: Our semesterly Art for All Open House (with pie!) will be on Sunday, April 14, from 1-4pm. We’ve created some beautiful things – from vases to rugs, made from recycled material. Come enjoy the beauty and creativity – and maybe pick up a Mother’s Day (or graduation) gift. We’ll also have slices of homemade pie on hand for anyone who comes by!
RETREAT ON INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES THIS WEEKEND: Pax Christi Florida is hosting a retreat on the spirituality of intentional communities with Christine Vladimiroff, osb in Delray Beach April 6-7. Two members of our community will be attending. If you’re interested, you can find out more about the retreat by clicking here.
Hope you had a happy Easter and looking forward to seeing many of you this week!
