Deanery 5 Fall Meeting: The Spirituality of Aging

All parish staff members in the Deanery are invited to attend our next meeting.

Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Place: St. Joseph of Cupertino Church (Community Center)
Speaker: Marita Grudzen, co-founder of the Stanford Geriatric Education Center.

The following areas will be among those covered in the presentation:

• Suggestions for starting parish programs for elderly parishioners
• Navigating resources for the aging and their family members
• Understanding the needs of the "sandwich generation"
• Working in bereavement ministry

Please let your parish Deanery representative know by October 1st if you plan to attend. The reps will also be gathering questions and concerns from staff members to be given to the speaker in preparation for her talk.

Some Programs and Events in our Deanery

Each parish in our deanery has many great programs, events and on-going ministries. Some of them are open to participants from outside the parish, however even neighboring parishes may not be aware of the resources available in the parishes around them.

Here are some on-going parish programs in our Deanery:

• Young Adult Group - St. Mary's in Los Gatos. For more information, contact camillerig@aol.com
  
• Grief Support Group - Queen of Apostles every 1st and 3rd Monday. For more info, call Shirley Ruzzo at 241-1209.
• Eucharistic Adoration in the newly renovated chapel (next to the parish offices) at Sacred Heart in Saratoga. Open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
• Alateen Group - Queen of Apostles on Thursday evenings.

Sacred Heart in Saratoga also has an exciting concert scheduled for Friday, September 19, 2008.

• The Kiev Symphony Orchestra and Choir will be giving a concert beginning at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.) For tickets ($35 & $40 for reserved, $30 unreserved), please call 370-9030.