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Giving Tuesday Has Passed-- But You Can Still Donate To the CDA and your Favorite Charities!
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Your National Board 2022-2024
Left to right, National Directors Nancy Bambenek, Brenda Anderson, Barb Ward, Darlene Moritz, Second Vice National Regent Connie Dronette, National Regent-Elect Susan Moné, National Regent Emily Guilherme, National Chaplain Father Shenan J. Boquet, First Vice National Regent Essie Walker, National Secretary-Treasurer Ivone da Silveira, National Directors Duchess Collins, Michele Bowman, Mary Impellizeri, Yvette Griego and Brenda West.
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Updates
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December National Quarterly
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Box of Joy: see video and register
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Video from Catholic ExtensionOne of our National Charities has graciously given us a video of their Award receipit. Click here to view. (look underneath the sidebar in left column)
Meet Your National Chaplain
Father Shenan J. Boquet
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SHARE, National Quarterly, National Regent and Father Ed
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Father ed's sunday reading
Immediate Past National Clergy Consultant Father Ed Lamp
27 Nov 2022 –
1st Sunday in Advent, A
1st Reading: Isaiah 2:1-5
2nd Reading: Romans 13:11-14
Matthew 24:37-44
What’s another year? was the name of a song that won the Eurovision Song Contest long ago! Today we start another liturgical new year, with the songs of Isaiah singing the praise of Advent. Our year of prayer will carry through to Christmas, then on to Jesus’ Public life, then Lent and Holy Week and the drama of Easter and the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Then our time moves towards next Advent, when another year of liturgical prayer begins. This rhythm and pattern can be a blessing for us, providing a spiritual framework of meaning for all the bits and pieces of daily living, during the different seasons. The liturgical year can help us keep our lives grateful and centred on God.
We begin this season of Advent in a spirit of expectation. During this time we look forward not just to the birthday of Jesus at Bethlehem but also for his second coming at the end of time!
Here’s an instance of a woman with something to teach us this Advent. Before we had cell phones or WhatsApp or Voicemail, we depended on the humble landline. There was a mother in Mayo whose son in New York used to phone her up at eight o’clock every Sunday evening. As it neared the time her eyes were fixed on the telephone. No call in or out was allowed as she waited! She would not miss the joy of hearing her son’s voice and all his news. That woman was a model for our spirit of waiting in Advent ! The key attitude is one of being alert, being ready, so as not to miss the time of his coming, ‘you must stand ready because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect’. These words sound like a warning as though God were ready to pounce and catch us off guard with our affairs not in order! But they are also a promise, filled with hope. The coming of the Christ was and is the best of good news, a gift beyond imagining! It calls for joy and gratitude.
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National Regent
Emily Guilherme
My dear Catholic Daughters of the Americas,
I am both humbled and honored by the reception and love I received at our 2022 Convention in Puerto Rico. Being installed as your National Regent, alongside my fellow officers and directors in San Juan will be, I am sure, one of the highlights of my life. I am blessed to have Father Shenan Boquet as our National Chaplain
From my first meeting of Catholic Daughters in Court St. Joseph in Corona, California thirty short years ago, I never I would have guessed that it was God setting a flame in my heart. It was the love, camaraderie, and joy in the Lord that has kept me going in my faith journey and in particular, my journey with the Catholic Daughters. I am grateful to all the Catholic Daughters who have impacted my life over those thirty years, especially those who have mentored me: you have made an incredible impression in my life.
One of my favorite parables that Jesus speaks of is in Matthew 17:20 - the parable of the mustard seed; sometimes we are faced by seemingly insurmountable obstacles in our lives and faith. But Jesus reminds us that if we have the faith of even a mustard seed, we can and we WILL move mountains. Sometimes its just that tiny seed of faith that has seen me through some of the most difficult moments: losing my parents, brothers, friends, mentors… at those times I have grasped tightly to that mustard seed of faith and been amazed at the fruit that springs forth. It is that mustard seed that has allowed me to keep walking with the Lord, and I believe that mustard seed’s name is grace: the grace of God. It is only by His grace that I am able to offer up and surrender those things that I cannot fix, the things I cannot force, into His gentle, loving, and pierced hands. His grace is above me, below me, beside me, and inside me.
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National Quarterly In Spanish
Boletín Trimestral Nacional -
Septiembre de 2022
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CDA Year Prayer Service
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