We have received some very happy news from Habitat for Humanity via our Nativity KC’s: This is an invitation from Habitat for Humanity for the Nativity Community and the Nativity Knights of Columbus to help dedicate the 4-plex we helped create. This was a huge and very sucessful project which we began planning one...
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Books have the power to take us far beyond our ordinary day to day experiences. Here are two recently released books that accomplish that goal with insight and sensitivity. Half the Sky, written by Pulitzer Prize winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, presents an idea that was shared by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus...
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Catholic Relief Service’s President Ken Hackett has sent us this news about their work in Haiti: While roads are starting to clear and food and aid are reaching hundreds of thousands of people, the needs are still enormous in Haiti. Toppled buildings, sprawling camps and tented homes set up on the roadside are sobering...
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We are pleased to welcome the 2010 North Dakota Heart Gallery to Nativity. Featuring the professional photographs of twenty-one beautiful children, the Gallery will be on display with us through the end of January. There are approximately 1000 children in foster care in North Dakota at any given time, with about 200 of them...
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How can we respond to the needs of the people of Haiti? The massive earthquake that struck near the capital of Port-au-Prince has caused enormous destruction and suffering to the nation considered the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti was still recovering from a series of deadly hurricanes when the quake struck this week....
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This Wednesday, Jan. 20, 6:45-7:30 pm in the Nativity School library, Fr. Gary will speak to PARENTS on some of the fundamentals of personal safety for children. His focus will be on how to protect children and teens from exploitation, abduction, internet crime, drugs and school violence in an environment that emphasizes the dignity...
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Isaiah 60:1-6; Ephesians 3:2-3,5-6; Matthew 2:1-12 One hundred years ago, the first step on American soil for immigrants from Europe was not a patch of warm, welcoming earth but rather a wooden ramp at Ellis Island in New York harbor.  The ramp led to the doors of the main building where processing took place....
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For more information on Fair Trade Companies, please visit http://blog.sojo.net/2009/11/30/fair-trade-christmas-lists-and-links/
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December 1st is World AIDS Day. Our parish focus this year – “Go…make disciples of all nations…” has challenged us to look beyond our own boundaries and confront some of the most difficult problems facing our world. Catholic Relief Services has been a leader in responding to the international AIDS/HIV crisis over the past...
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Be a pillow of the Church? This message might make you think of an old Saturday Night Live routine about a character who never quite correctly heard what was said. “What’s this I hear about a pillow of the Church? Oh, pillar of the Church. Never mind…” But this is intentional. We’ve all heard...
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