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Social Mission Newsletter:

About: This bi-weekly, web-based newsletter is meant to help our community go deeper into the issues of our day, to help us put our

faith into action.  Here you will see the Top posts from our e-bulletin, plus additional updates on other social mission-related events,

resources, and opportunities from our community and non-pro�t partners.  If you have questions on anything you see here, want to

get involved, or want to share your own resources or events, please reach out to our Director of Social Mission, Tim Severyn,

at severynte@xavier.edu 

Weeks of September 4 - September 18 2020

NOTE

Some content remains on this page for more than two weeks, especially when it relates to an upcoming event.  If you visit this

page regularly, you can skim through to new content by looking for the star 🌟 next to an announcement.

Quicklinks: General | Dismantling Racism | Building a Bridge | Immigration | Healthy Earth | St. Vincent de Paul | Other | Archive

Meet Your Social Mission Core Team!

Catholic News Sources with Social Mission Content

America: The Jesuit Review | National Catholic Reporter | Commonweal | Crux

Active Discipleship Portal

Be Sure to Check Out our New Menu of Options for Self-Guided and Group-Guided Opportunities for Contemplation and Action  at 

🌟www.bellarminechapel.org/activediscipleship🌟

🌟Special Welcome to our New Social Mission Interns!🌟

Updates for Active Disciples

The thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

I see the church as a �eld hospital after battle. 

~Pope Francis

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Jonathan Hesford: I am a senior studying Theology at Xavier. I'm originally from Spring�eld, Missouri and have a passion for lay parish engagementand working for Pope Francis' culture of Encounter. I normally attend the 7:00 pm Mass and am excited to work at an amazing parish!

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at rstrandjohnson@outlook.com to be added to our volunteer list!  

🌟4. Season of Creation

Did you know Pope Francis and ecumenical leaders from around the world have declared September 1 through October 4 the Season

of Creation?  As part of this season, our Healthy Earth Team invites you to:

1. Participate in our Laudato Si’ and Environmental Spirituality Group - A monthly small faith group gathering on the 4th

Sunday of the month at 1 PM beginning 9/27 to go deeper into care for creation and our faith. Email Tim Severyn

at severynte@xavier.edu to join!

2. Join an Earthscursion - Happening this Sunday, 9/13 at 1 PM in French Park.  Join us for a socially distanced hike.  Email

Kathy Kohl at Kathy.kohlpk@gmail.com for meet up details.

3. September Action Step - Conduct a Waste Audit!  You can learn more about how to conduct a waste audit here. 

TOP 5 from the E-Bulletin - September 6, 2020

🌟1) Join our Healthy Earth Team in a Monthly Care for

Creation Action Step

It has been �ve years since Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’s encyclical

on caring for our common home, was released.  In recognition of

this seminal work, the Healthy Earth Team will be sharing

monthly, family-friendly suggestions on simple ways to care for

the environment and one another. We invite you to join us each

month in these actions!

You can learn more about how to conduct a waste audit here.  Let us know how it goes - email Tim Severyn

at severyn@bellarminechapel.org 

🌟2) Environmental Spirituality and Racial Justice Virtual Small Faith Groups Starting Soon

This Fall, as part of our parish's Active Discipleship initiative, we will be launching several new virtual small faith groups tying our

faith to justice.  We presently have planned:

1. Laudato Si’ and Environmental Spirituality - A monthly small faith group gathering on the 4th Sunday of the month at 1 PM

beginning 9/27 to go deeper into care for creation and our faith. 

2. JustMatters: Faith and Racial Healing - an 8-week small faith group coming together in this moment of racial justice to learn,

pray, and act together to promote racial healing.  These groups will meet weekly via Zoom.  There are two groups forming:

1. Mondays at 6:30 beginning on September 14 

2. Thursday at 6:30 beginning on September 17

Space is limited for all three groups!  If you are interested in participating in any of these, email our Director of Social Mission, Tim

Severyn, at severynte@xavier.edu today!

It is also possible to form additional groups, utilizing either the JustFaith program (24-week) or other JustMatters (8-weeks)

curricula focused on areas like immigration, peace, hunger, advocacy, etc. (Check out www.justfaith.org) Existing small faith groups

can also access these curricula throughout the year as well! Email Tim Severyn to explore ideas and receive access.

🌟3) Building a Bridge Book Club - LGBTQ+ Welcome

The Building a Bridge Team is launching a (virtual) book club as part of our meetings and welcomes all parishioners who want to join

in these discussions. The �rst will be this Sunday, Sept. 6 at 5:30 pm. We will discuss the article Pride and Prejudice: A history of the

relationship between gay and lesbian Catholics and their church. Contact parishioner Katherine Inskeep

September’s Suggestion: Conduct a Waste Audit

Have you ever examined what goes into your garbage or recycling? What are the items you dispose of most? Conduct a waste audit in your

household and track your waste for the next week. Where can you make changes to reduce your impact?

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at kinskeep@alumni.nd.edu to join the discussion and receive the Zoom link!

🌟4) Earthscursions are back for the Season of Creation!

Did you know Pope Francis and ecumenical leaders from around the world have declared September 1 through October 4 the Season

of Creation?  As part of this season, our Healthy Earth Team invites you to gather with us at French Park on Sunday, September 13,

2020 at 1:00 PM to hike and enjoy some socially-distanced time with each other, taking in the beauty of our earth.

We will meet in the lower lot, just as you enter the park, at 3012 Section Rd. Then, we will hike up along the creek to the upper picnic

area, enjoy a snack together (please bring your own snack and a water bottle), and hike back down to our cars.

If you are interested, please reply to Kathy.kohlpk@gmail.com so we know to expect you! 

🌟5) St. Vincent de Paul Story

The phone messages SVDP receives each week tell the stories of so many of our neighbors who have suffered the negative impacts of

the pandemic. 

A �fty-two-year-old woman with a daughter, twenty-two, left one of those messages this week. In April, the daughter lost her job and

her day-care services. When the daughter was able to get another job, the woman had to babysit her three grandchildren for a time.

Then, just as she was ready to go back to work, the company where she was employed had to close because some employees had

contracted the virus. She was looking for a new job and was three months behind in paying her monthly rent. 

Help from our Bellarmine conference and the special parish Coronavirus Community Assistance Fund kept her from being evicted.

Another call came from a young woman whose salary of $13 an hour was just enough to make it possible to pay her bills, but who had

her hours cut when the pandemic began. She managed to pay her rent, but couldn’t keep up with her Duke and water bills. She is now

back to full-time employment, but that income is not enough to pay her back bills. 

With the help of the Coronavirus Fund and our Bellarmine conference, those bills have now been paid, giving her peace of mind as

she continues on her journey.

We Vincentians miss our home visits, seeing and talking, praying, hugging, and listening to our neighbors, but the voices we hear over

the phone are �lled with gratitude so that we can almost hear their smiles! St. Paul says, “Owe nothing to anyone except to love one

another.” With your generous support, Vincentians every week are showing love to our neighbors, letting them know that someone

cares.

You can support this work by donating to the Coronavirus Community Assistance Fund here.  If you would like to get involved,

contact Jim Doerger at 513-617-2085 or 513-378-8548.  We would love to have you!

General: Social Mission Core Team

🌟Bread for the World

(Have Faith, End Hunger.)

Every year, parishes around the world ask their governments to support legislation to end

hunger as part of the Bread for the World Offering of Letters. With COVID-19 and the

resulting economic slowdowns, access to good nutritious food has become especially

urgent.  This month, Bellarmine is joining with Bread for the World to lobby our

Congresspeople.  We invite you to write and tell our Representatives and Senators to

support legislation that would provide Better Nutrition for a Better Future.  

Sending a message has never been easier.  Click on this link and you will be taken to a site

designed by Bread for the World just for this purpose. Fill in the information about yourself on the left side of the form and modify

the Sample Letter on the right side to emphasize what is important to you. Please make the letter YOUR letter.  When you are happy

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TOP 4 from the E-Bulletin - September 13, 2020

🌟1. Fresh is Better: Evanston Garden Project - Virtual Garden Tour!!

For the last four growing seasons, Bellarmine parishioners have partnered with our Evanston neighbors to grow good food and good

friendships!  You heard a bit about this project during Laurie Roche’s witness talk in the livestream two weeks ago - now you can see

it in action!  While we cannot host an in-person garden tour, due to the pandemic, we present to you our �rst ever Virtual Garden

Tour, with videos and photos from this growing season! You can watch the video here.  If you would like to get more involved, and we

hope you do, contact Tim Severyn at severynte@xavier.edu

🌟2. Missionary Cooperative Appeal - Donate Now!

The Missionary Cooperative Appeal is an annual collection of the Archdiocese's Mission Of�ce to support the work of missionaries

across the country and around the world. This year, we are partnered with the Franciscan Missions. Fr. Dan Kroger is offering the

masses on September 12 and 13, where he will share more about their life-changing work!  You can make your donation to support

these efforts on our website here.

🌟3. Casa de Paz Fundraiser and Meal Train Support

Casa de Paz, a home for Latina women and their children, that a number of Bellarmine parishioners were instrumental in getting

launched is having their annual fundraiser, virtually on Facebook Live, September 22, 6-7 PM.  Text CasadePaz to 513-854-0233 to

give!  Check out the image below for details.  We hope you will consider joining us!

You can also support this organization by purchasing groceries once a month and dropping them off to a fellow parishioner for

delivery.  If you'd like to get involved, contact Bellarmine Immigration Team member Becky Johnson,

Mercedes Torres: I am a second-year Social Work Major and Gender and Diversity Studies Minor. At Xavier, I am also a Community-Engaged Fellowand on the board for Hispanic Organization and Latinx Awareness, Voices of Solidarity, and the Student Social Work Organization. I aim to advocate

for social justice and use my platforms to uphold the voices of marginalized communities.

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with your letter, just click send and it will go out to your Representative and Senators based on your address.

Thank you! You just performed a work of mercy: you helped to feed the hungry!  Feel free to share this link with your family and

friends for even greater impact!

If you would like to take another step and �nancially support the work of Bread for the World, you can donate on our Bellarmine

website here or mail a check made out to Bellarmine Chapel with BftW in the memo line.  We will make one donation in our

community’s name.

🌟Ever Ancient, Ever New:

Exploring the Female Diaconate:

A Livestream Panel

Monday, September 14, 7:00-8:15

p.m. EDT with Dr. Anna Miller, Casey

Stanton and Luke Hansen, S.J. and

moderated by Allison Borden and co-

sponsored by Bellarmine Chapel,

the Institute for Spirituality and

Social Justice, and the Center for

Faith and Justice at Xavier University.

The topic of the ordination of women

as permanent deacons has emerged

at three consecutive global synods in

Rome, most notably the recent Synod

of Bishops on the Pan-Amazonian

Region (October 2019), which formally requested that Pope Francis reestablish a papal commission to study the topic. Now that

commission has been formed, which continues the dialogue and discernment in the church. Join this evening of dialogue about the

ministry and leadership of women in the Catholic Church, speci�cally the history of women deacons and the contemporary practice

and theology of the permanent diaconate.  Visit the website for more information and the live link.

🌟Social Mission Mini-Grants Available! - Deadline Extended

The Social Mission Core Team is accepting applications for our $500 mini-grants between now and the deadline of September 1

(NOW EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 1).  These grants are awarded to any non-pro�t or start-up initiative in need of funding that a

parishioner is currently involved in, even if only as a volunteer.  The core requirement is that the organization or project aligns with

Catholic Social Teaching and �ts in with the wider efforts of our Church.  For the application and more detailed guidelines, contact

our Director of Social Mission, Tim Severyn, at severynte@xavier.edu today!

New Issue Action Team Group Emails

As part of our new Social Mission communications strategy, each of the issue-based action teams' email lists (Immigration,

Dismantling Racism, Healthy Earth, and Building a Bridge) have shifted to Google Groups, using our bellarminechapel.org email

system.  To join the new email list groups, click on the links below.    

Here are the join links:

Immigration Team: https://groups.google.com/a/bellarminechapel.org/forum/#!forum/immigration/join

Healthy Earth Team: https://groups.google.com/a/bellarminechapel.org/forum/#!forum/healthyearth/join

Dismantling Racism Team: https://groups.google.com/a/bellarminechapel.org/forum/#!forum/dismantlingracism/join 

Building a Bridge Team: Please email Tim Severyn at severynte@xavier.edu to join

Please note, while these groups are open to all, they are primarily going

to be oriented towards those who are part of the issue team working group, those who either attend meetings or are interested in actively

participating in the work of the team through email or other activities outside of the meetings.  If you just want to stay abreast of upcoming

events and resources, you do not need to join these groups.  You can now �nd all of that information in one place - right here!

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Dismantling Racism Team

Next meeting is Tuesday, September 22, 6 PM via Zoom

Team meets the 4th Tuesday of the month at 6 PM

Note: There will not be a Team meeting in August

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On the Journey to Justice: A Civil Rights Pilgrimage - April 5-8, 2021

Our Bellarmine Dismantling Racism Team is organizing a prayerful pilgrimage to Civil Rights sites across Alabama from April 5-8,

2021.  Given that we are upon the 57th Anniversary of the March on Washington (August 28), and all that is going on in our world

around racial justice, we thought this would be a �tting time to start promoting this pilgrimage once more. 

A �yer with more details is available here and pictured above, including registration deadlines, costs ($550 - all inclusive except lunch

and dinners), and a basic itinerary.  At this point, we are hoping to collect basic information from those who might be interested in

joining us on this Active Discipleship experience. 

Please �ll out this webform if you are considering and want more information!  Plans will evolve as we understand what is possible

with the pandemic.  

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🌟Save-the-Date: AMOS Candidate Forum

On Sunday, October 4, 4 PM, AMOS Project is hosting a candidate forum with candidates for the sheriff and prosecutor's of�ce,

where they will be calling on them to commit to an agenda for racial justice and community safety.   More information on how to

register will be forthcoming!

🌟Catholic Nonviolence and Racial Justice

September 15, 2020 7:30 - 9:00 pm

We stand at a moment of signi�cant opportunity to make constructive social change. In particular, this summer, we’ve seen renewed

energy in campaigns around the country for racial justice. In our �rst session, we focused on nonviolent action that disrupts and

challenges the violence of racism. In this second, we talk with Catholic activists. The tradition and global network of Catholic

Nonviolence offers creative, spiritual paths for making constructive social change. Join us to learn from black Catholics in the U.S.

and Kenya on how their Catholic faith shapes and inspires their nonviolent activism for racial justice. We will also learn about the

global Catholic Nonviolence Initiative accompanying BIPOC voices from violent con�ict zones, engaging the Vatican, and working to

develop Catholic Social Teaching to focus more on nonviolence. Finally, we will learn about how a U.S. Catholic peace organization,

Pax Christi USA, integrates an anti-racism lens to their work. https://udayton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYldu-

hrj4pH9YMVd9ObnrzEZfAAdTTgCBi

🌟Thomas Merton and Black Lives Matter: Spirituality and Racial Justice for Our Time

Dan Horan, OFM, will present a webinar on “Thomas Merton and Black Lives Matter: Spirituality and Racial Justice for Our Time,” on

September 8 at 8 PM ET / 7 PM CT. This is the �rst in the “Tuesdays with Merton” webinar series sponsored by the Bernardine

Center at Catholic Theological Union International and the International Thomas Merton Society. The webinar is free and open to

the public, BUT you must register. You can do that here: https://cdpsisters.org/events/tuesdays-merton-webinar

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Building a Bridge Team

LGBTQ Ministry Development Series

New Ways Ministry is publishing a series of blogs, as well as virtual discussions, meant to help pastoral leaders and parishioners

discern the call to participate in LGBTQ ministry and develop that ministry for their parish. If you would like to register or read

current posts, please follow this link: https://www.newwaysministry.org/programs/nextsteps/.

Building a Bridge Resource Page

We also invite you to check out our new Building a Bridge Resource Page, featuring an excellent list of resources to support our

parish in better understanding the relationship between the LGBTQ+ community and the Catholic Church, explaining why this bridge

is needed today.  Signi�cantly, this page also includes a number of resources for LGBTQ+ Catholics seeking community and support; it

speci�cally lists some resources for youth discerning their identities, to help you know you are loved by God and are wonderfully

made!

Immigration Team

 🌟Share the Journey Concert - A Concert for Compassion

Our 3rd annual Share the Journey Concert is going virtual across two nights, October 16 and 17, 7-10 PM and will feature some

national performers who have created some of the songs we have come to know and love as a faith community.  You can learn more

about the concert here or on the �yer below, including reviewing a line up of performers and linking to the great immigrant-serving

organizations this bene�t concert is supporting - Kino Border Initiative, LULAC, and Catholic Charities Su Casa Hispanic Center. 

 Look to future bulletins for more information!  Your donations are greatly appreciated!

Next Meeting is Sunday, 9/6, 5:30 PM via Zoom

Team meets every other Sunday at 5:30 PM

Next Team Meeting is 9/15, 6 PM via Zoom

Team meets the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 6 PM

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🌟Casa de Paz Fundraiser and MealTrain Support

Casa de Paz, a home for Latina women and their

children, that a number of Bellarmine parishioners

were instrumental in getting launched is having their

annual fundraiser, virtually, on September 22, 6 PM. 

We hope you will consider joining!  

You can also support this organization by purchasing

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groceries once a month and dropping them off to a

fellow parishioner for delivery.  If you'd like to get

involved, contact Bellarmine Immigration Team

member Becky Johnson, at

rstrandjohnson@outlook.com to be added to our

volunteer list!   

Needing Upholstery Work?

Jorge and Glenda, our friends from El Salvador that the

parish is hosting as they go through the asylum process,

do top-notch upholstery work on chairs and other

small pieces of furniture.  If you have something you

want re-done, reach out to our Director of Social

Mission and he will connect you with them!

Action Alerts on Immigration Issues

Looking for other ways to get involved? Check out this

great action-oriented chart put together by the

Immigrant Dignity Coalition, of which Bellarmine is a

member.

Healthy Earth Team

🌟Photos from Holloway Hope Community Garden - a partner of Bellarmine's Fresh is Better Initiative

Next meeting is Monday, 9/28, 6 PM via Zoom

Team meets the 4th Monday of the month at 6 PM

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 🌟Evanston Beauti�cation Days

The Evanston Beauti�cation Committee, a partner of our Healthy Earth Team, is planning 3 more cleanup events at the Evanston

Park from  9-12 pm  in the Fall of 2020.

 September 19th

 October 17th

November 14th

If you're able to join any of these, email Veta Uddin at vetauddin@yahoo.com 

Fresh is Better: Evanston Garden Project Partners with Civic Garden Center for Online Classes

Bellarmine volunteers continue their efforts with Fresh is Better, launching a recent partnership with the Civic Garden

Center for both mentors and education.  You can �nd a list of free upcoming garden classes on their website here.  These

are open to anyone, so please join if you're interested!

You can also learn more about our Fresh is Better work here.  We would love to have more volunteers in this growing

effort!   To get involved, email our Director of Social Mission at severynte@xavier.edu!

Take Your Recycling to the Next Level!

Members of Bellarmine’s Healthy Earth Team have updated their resource list for helping you recycle all of those hard to recycle

items - from batteries and styrofoam to e-waste and plastics.  Check out the list here!  And, recognizing that it can be time consuming

to try to live into less waste, we will be doing our best to let you know whenever there are City-wide or community-wide drop off

events where you can bring lots of these items at once!

St. Vincent de Paul 

Coronavirus Community Assistance Fund

Our Bellarmine Conference of St. Vincent de Paul has distributed almost all of the donations they have received to date through our

Coronavirus Community Assistance Fund.  With unemployment bene�ts having sunset for many of our neighbors at the end of July,

and uncertainty about more relief from the government, the need has grown for your donations.  Please consider making a donation

here to support those impacted by the pandemic!

Virtual Home Visits are Conducted Weekly

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St. Vincent de Paul Stories

You can �nd the most recent story in the Top 4 above, and you can �nd an archive of recent stories at the bottom of this newsletter.  

Other Social Mission Events and Opportunities

🌟Should We Still Sing You Are Mine?

Please join us on Thursday evening September 10 at 7:30 PM for a panel discussion about how our community can discern using

liturgical music in the wake of abuse allegations against composer David Haas. The goal for the evening’s presentation is to lay

groundwork for open, honest, sensitive, and vulnerable discussions of this issue as a parish. The panel will feature XU theology

department professors Ashley Theuring and Marcus Mescher in conversation with Bellarmine Chapel’s director of liturgy and music

Brendan Hemmerle. Please visit the Livestream link on our event page (https://www.bellarminechapel.org/should-we-still-sing.html)

to see how you can join the discussion and submit a question for consideration by the panel.

🌟UN2020 Update

Date: Saturday, September 12Time: 1:00 – 2:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

The UN will mark its 75th anniversary with a one-day high-level meeting on September 21st, at the opening of the 75th session of the

UN General Assembly. Just nine days prior to that date, which culminates UN2020’s four-year effort, we are very fortunate to have

Jeffery Huf�nes, Senior Advisor to both UN2020 and Together First, to catch us up with the latest news and a look at expectations

for the future. The session will include a Q&A segment.   Click here if you want to see the issues we have asked Jeffery to address. 

Email Donna Park at donnapark50@gmail.com for the Zoom link.

IVoteCatholic.Org - Help Build the Kingdom on Earth

We are called to live our faith in all aspects of our lives, but – when it comes to voting – this can be dif�cult. Over the next several

weeks, immerse yourself in the Church’s teaching and gain a fuller understanding of the Church’s commitment to a consistent ethic of

life which guides us to be advocates for a variety of issues related to life and human dignity. Of course, not every issue is morally

equivalent, nor can commitment to one issue excuse indifference to the rest. We will not be telling you for whom or what to vote.

Rather, to inform your vote we encourage discernment, prayer, and a universal call to holiness and compassion.  This 7 week program

is created through the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.  More information can be found at www.ivotecatholic.org 

Voting is an Act of Love (New Resource by ISN)

Over the next 12 weeks, exercise the right and responsibility to vote for candidates and issues that support the common good and

concern for the most vulnerable. Click here for more information which will be continually updated >>>  In addition, a virtual voter

registration training will be available August 26 from 3-4pm Central. Click here for more information >>>

Civic Engagement in the 60 Days before the Election

There are many ways to get engaged as a citizen and a Catholic this election season:

1. Make sure you are registered to vote at your current address.  The deadline to register ahead of our November 3 election is

October 5.  If you are an Ohio resident, you can �nd more information here.

2. Make a plan for how you will vote - in-person on election day, early in-person, or via mail/absentee.  If you are an Ohio

resident, you can �nd information on how to request an absentee ballot here - be sure to do it early to allow enough time to

vote.

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3. Help others to do the same!  Bellarmine’s Dismantling Racism Team is going to be offering some volunteer shifts with non-

partisan partners helping with voter registration and absentee voting in September.  If you want to get involved, email Tim

Severyn at severynte@xavier.edu 

4. Sign the Civilize It Pledge - this is an effort of the USCCB to encourage greater civility, clarity, and compassion this election

season, combating the polarization and divisiveness that causes us to label others enemy.  You can sign the pledge here.

Weekly Prayers for Solidarity

Prayers for Solidarity happens every Monday at 11 AM for 15 minutes on Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio Facebook page.  You

can pray with us here!

Actively Responding to COVID-19 - Solidarity Masks and Advocacy

Wearing a mask amid the pandemic is an act of solidarity, one of the principals of Catholic Social Teaching. 

Especially with a mask mandate in effect in the state of Ohio, it is important for us to do our part to take care of

one another.  While there are many good causes through which you can order a mask, the Ignatian Solidarity

Network is selling masks on their website that say “Solidarity” on them.  You can �nd those masks here.

Social Mission Overview

Bellarmine Chapel is a church committed to Vatican II and the revolutionary idea that the Catholic church should serve as a �eld

hospital, promoting active missionary discipleship amongst all our parishioners.   You can see a visual depiction of the way our

community works to ful�ll that mission here.   And you can learn more about many of these initiatives by clicking on the remaining

tabs under the Social Mission Initiatives heading.  Please feel free to reach out to our Director of Social Mission, Tim Severyn,

at severynte@xavier.edu with any questions or concerns.

Archives:

SMN - August 22, 2020

SMN - August 7, 2020

SMN - July 24, 2020

SMN - July 12, 2020

SMN - Week of July 5, 2020

SMN - Week of June 28, 2020

SMN - Week of June 21, 2020

SMN - Week of June 14, 2020

SMN - Week of June 7, 2020

SMN - Week of May 31, 2020

SVDP Story Archives: 

SVDP Story - August 22, 2020

SVDP Story - Re�ection on Catholic Charities - August 11, 2020

SVDP Story - July 24, 2020

SVDP Story - July 10, 2020

SVDP Story - June 28, 2020

A Resurrection Story - June 14, 2020

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9/16/2020 Social Mission Newsletter - Bellarmine Chapel - Cincinnati, OH

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Bellarmine Chapel

(513) 745 - 3398

Mailing Address:

3800 Victory Parkway

Cincinnati, OH 45207-2211

Physical Address:

3801 St. Francis Xavier Way

Cincinnati, OH  45207

Parish Center Address:

3832 Ledgewood Dr.

Cincinnati, OH  45207