Deanery Advent 

Get a start on your Christmas Shopping! St. Benedict’s will hold a Catholic Relief Services Ethical Trade Sale after all masses November 30th and December 1st. CRS Ethical Trade is a celebration of the dignity of work. It’s a community of fair trade believers dedicated to improving the lives of the world’s most vulnerable by choosing to consume differently. By purchasing fair trade items you help farmers and artisans to receive a fair wage and build their business. Together, we’re creating a better world through education, advocacy and conscientious purchasing.
     The Sale will feature craft items, as well as organic coffee, chocolate and olive oil. Bring your checkbook or cash. Choose beautiful gifts and feel good knowing that your purchases are helping to change and improve the lives of the world’s most vulnerable. Every purchase at our Ethical Trade Sale helps our brothers and sisters to create better lives for their families.  A portion of every sale also goes to Catholic Relief Services in support of their many relief efforts around the world.

Resistance to the Death Penalty
And so we pray that the Lord continue to not only transform society, transform our country, transform the injustice surrounding the death penalty, but to continue to transform our hearts and our witness to the dignity and sacredness of every human person.

Archbishop Charles Thompson, 5 November 2019, Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Terre Haute, during prayer vigil for those facing execution.

Terre Haute Death Penalty Resistance (THDPR) will be presenting a series of panels exploring the community impact of capital punishment. On Sunday, December 8, one of the THDPR panels will be held here at St. Benedict’s. This local group is part of Death Penalty Action (DPA).  The DPA provides high visibility resources, leadership, support, educational and direct action events and activities within the broader death penalty abolition movement. Supporters of the Terre Haute Death Penalty Resistance group include Archbishop Thompson, the Sisters of Providence, the Respect Life Office of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, the Catholic Mobilizing Network, and the National Coalition to Abolish Death Penalty.
          The panel discussion will be held in St. Ben’s Hellmann Hall on Sunday December 8, from 1:00-7:00 p.m. A soup and bread supper will be served at 5:30 p.m. This event is free of cost, and no registration is required to attend. Everyone is invited!
More information about the DPA can be found on their website: deathpenaltyaction.org

No matter what your present status in the Catholic Church,
No matter what your current family or marital situation,
No matter what your past or present situation,
No matter what your personal history, age, background, race, etc.,
No matter what your own self-image or self-esteem, you are invited, welcomed, accepted, loved, and respected at St. Benedict Church.