End of Year function - Tuesday 17 December

All Library supporters are warmly invited to our End of Year Function at the Library on Tuesday 17 December. 



It starts at 10.30 am with the Annual Mass for Members, friends, relatives and benefactors. 



After Mass the Library's AGM will be held followed by End of Year / Christmas light refreshments. 

Library Notices - December 2013

LIBRARY NOTICES

I:       Achievements and Advance Notice

This has been the completion of our 20^th Year!

We have celebrated with our usual activities of Discussion Group, Icon School, Book Club and support by members of the Blessed Adrian Fortescue chapter of Dominican Tertiaries.

Special events included a visit, talk and book launch by Joanna Bogle, and  our twentieth anniversary Mass (celebrated by Archbishop Hart), dinner and address by Julian McMahon.

We have promoted and read books! We have a new postcard to promote the library (enclosed).

We have also used electronic communications. We have blogged! We have Tweeted!

Next year we will be 21!

We are planning a series of talks and events, all aimed at nourishing and deepening Catholic Faith and Culture. In this way we aim to join and share the Joy of Evangelizing, as Pope Francis has exhorted. We will begin early in the New Year with the celebration of the YouCat, a publication based on the Catechism, but prepared, illustrated and promoted for youth especially by Cardinal Schonborn.

Details of this and future events will follow.

Please participate! Use and promote the library to your friends, and in your parish!

P.T.O.

II:     Invitation to be a Library Volunteer

The Caroline Chisholm Library collection rests entirely on the dedicated work and support of our volunteer staff.  Volunteers help according to time and ability, staffing the loans desk, mending books, assisting in cataloguing and recording of books and in their sorting and preparation.   

Our excellent volunteers however are much in need of additional staff, as this some are caring for family members, or pursuing their vocations elsewhere.

If you are interested to find out more about being a volunteer, contact Anthony Krohn or any of the committee for a brief overview of the Library operations. We can then arrange for you to meet some of our experienced volunteers and for training.

Please phone the library on (03) 9670 1815, or Email: cclibrary@bigpond.com

III:    Please Renew Your Subscription,

Join the 350 Foundation or Donate Funds

We always need funds for our running costs – the constants are rent, electricity, computer connections, &c., and we also want to augment the collection with new books and journals and up to date website design and presence.

Please donate to support your library and its work.

Tax Deductible Donations for the Library are always Most Welcome,

And very gratefully received!!!

You can donate by cash, cheque or transfer to the library’s account:- 

ANZ Bank,  BSB 013040 Account 254936888

Please note on transfer: “subscription”, “donation” or “350 Foundation”

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Library Annual General Meeting - Tuesday 17 December

The Library's Annual General Meeting will be held on Tuesday 17 December at the Library following Mass at 10.30am. All are welcome to attend.

20th Anniversary Dinner

Caroline Chisholm Library

20^th Anniversary Dinner

On Thursday 8^th August 2013

The Caroline Chisholm Library

Will celebrate 20 Years of Life and Service

6 p.m.  Mass of Thanksgiving

Chapel of the Academy of Mary Immaculate

88 Nicholson Street Fitzroy

7 p.m. for 7.30,

Fund-raising & Celebration Dinner

The Pumphouse Hotel

128 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy (opposite Exhibition Gardens)

Speaker: Julian McMahon, Barrister,

Catholic Faith in the Public Arena

 Meal $80 per head; $150 per double; Drinks at bar prices.

For Bookings or information please call 03 9670 1815 or 0411 483 494

Or Email: cclibrary@bigpond.com

Please pay by cash, cheque or transfer to the library’s account:- 

ANZ Bank,  BSB 013040 Account 254936888

Tax Deductible Donations for the Library Most Welcome!!!

*** Please: Put note on transfer: “Name”, plus “dinner” or “donation”. 

Library Book Club - Next meeting

The Library’s Book Club meet again this Friday, 31 May at 7pm in the Caroline Chisholm Library to discuss A.N.Wilson, C.S.Lewis A Biography, (Collins 1990/Flamingo 1991).

 “More probing than the affectionate biographies now available, this is a welcome addition to Lewis studies. Wilson renders yet another extraordinary but thoroughly human life. His Lewis is no "plaster saint." Extremely reticent about his life and canonized by devotees since his death, Lewis was a unique challenge to the biographer. Wilson adeptly considers each of Lewis's books in the context of the life and reveals how the writer came to realize the importance of the imagination in Christian faith. Lewis's conversion to Christianity, his friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, and his work on the Narnia books are presented insightfully.” (Amazon)

 “Brilliant. Agnostic. Prejudiced. Gregarious. Bullying. Loyal friend. Heavy drinker. One of the most learned scholars of his generation. A controversial Christian apologist. Author of a children's fantasy that has sold millions upon millions of copies. And, after his death, almost a cult figure. C. S. Lewis was an incredibly complicated man, and, as revealed in this splendid biography, a mystery to those who knew him best. The mixture presented in Wilson's biography of the life of learning...of domestic drama and bad temper, religion, and sex, is irresistible.—New York Review of Books “

 All are welcome!

Upcoming Philosophy Course

Philosophy as a Guide to Sane Thinking

by Mr John Young

What is philosophy? Why is it important? Do we know reality? The difference between sense knowledge and intellectual knowledge. Man: soul and body. Free will. God’s existence. His nature. His causality. The moral life.

On all these topics the secular views current today will be assessed in the light of the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas, who is seen by the Catholic Church as a sure guide in philosophy.

Location - TMC Office, Balwyn

Second floor, 35 Whitehorse Rd, Balwyn, VIC 3103

Dates and Times

Over six Sundays from June 23 to July 28 2:30pm to 4:00pm

Cost

$20 (inclusive of materials)

Inquiries/Registrations

- Patrick Doyle: pdoyle@ncc.org.au; 0400 693 272

Sponsors:

The Catholic Community of Blessed John Henry Newman

The Thomas More Centre

The Caroline Chisholm Library

About John Young:
John Young is the author of three books, including ‘The Scope of Philosophy’. He has had some 600 articles published in Australia and overseas. He has also taught philosophy in four seminaries.

Library Book Club - Meeting on Friday 22 February

The Library's book club meets again on Friday 22 February to discuss T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday.

 

Meeting starts at 7pm at the Caroline Chisholm Library. 

 

All are welcome.