St E CYO Reunion Gazette

Saturday Nov 12th, 2011

Reunion Edition
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Come Share Your Stories

Our culture lies: its 100% me and 0% us. All emphasis is on our differences. Websites and banks data-mine our daily lives so that marketeers and manipulators can slice and dice our preferences into ever smaller micro-segments. Its no wonder that our politics divide us as screaming radioheads constantly demonize the other. But we are much more alike than different. No matter what our current station in life, we all end up at the same place, in the same circumstance - an ending, inescapable and common to all. And we all started in the same time and place. Born into circumstances much more similar than diverse, we share common experience: the same formative years, the same culture of place, and a shared set of values and morals. Our parents worked hard and did their best in a time of exploration, great passions and movements: wars of poverty and dominoes, Civil Rights, JFK, gender equality, and journeys into inner and outer space. It was a time when all seemed possible and the unimaginable became real. So what are we left with? Whats the in-between of our common beginnings and our present today? How have our shared values informed our lives journeys? Our career yearnings have come to fruition, or not. Our parents are elderly or gone and our children are adults. Weve learned that money is needed but not ultimately important. Our childhood conceptions of God have deepened and matured and our sense of wonder of the beauty and mystery of life have become profoundly richer. We are left with our faith, our lives, our passions, our loves, our stories. It's been forty years since we have shared with each other our hopes of what our stories would be. Come celebrate and share your stories that have become: the longings, surprises and discoveries; the victories, defeats, and disappointments. For most, concerns of income, neighborhood, and social position have faded as our understanding of life has deepened. We simply are who we are. Fellow souls traveling on life's journey that started at a common time and place. Come remember our common beginnings, celebrate our common values, and share stories of your journeys. Come share your stories.

We must not cease from exploration. And the end of our exploration will be to arrive where we began and know the place (and each other) for the first time. TS Eliot

Reunion Doins
4:30 5:30 6:00 7:00 8:30 9:00 Mass with Msgr Mank CYO Parents Reception St. E Tour Dinner Channel Your Mattingly St. E CYO: The Movie

Menu a la Reunion
Chicken Mary Joseph Pork Loin Lucina Collins Con Broccoli Salad Scheibal Mattingly Au Grautin Green Beans Geraldine Apples Hoedebeck Rolls Rosella Carrot Cake Comerford Cream Cake Cecilia Devils Food Frisse White Cake McCauley BYOC (beer, wine) Coffee, Iced Tea, Water