MEMORIAL DAY
Monday, May 25th is Memorial Day.
Our Catholic War Veterans Post 613 will have their annual
Memorial Day commemoration here at St. Casimir: 8:30am - a
service at the Freedom Memorial in our Neff Road parking
lot, followed by Mass at 9:00am. The commemoration will
conclude with breakfast in our lower hall. All are invited.
ORDINATION
On
Saturday, June 13, 2015, Deacon Lukas Laniauskas will be
ordained to the order of Presbyter for service to the
Society of Jesus of the Chicago-Detroit Province at the
Queen of All Saints Basilica in
Chicago, Illinois. The Presiding Bishop will be the Most
Reverend Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of
Indianapolis. Father Laniauskas will celebrate a First Mass
of Thanksgiving on Saturday, June 20, 2015, at 4:00pm at
Camp Dainava in
Manchester, Michigan. He also looks forward to coming
home to St. Casimir’s to
celebrate Mass sometime this autumn.
As a
Parish community, we thank God for the gift of Father
Laniauskas’ vocation and offer our prayers that he have a
blessed and fulfilled life serving the Church as a Jesuit
Priest.
As
plans are finalized for Father’s Mass here at St. Casimir’s,
we will keep everyone informed.
CHILD’S GATE TO LEARNING
“Child’s Gate to Learning” (CGL) supports neglected children
in Lithuania. To
raise funds, the Cleveland chapter is offering a boxed lunch
for $10. All lunches must be ordered by May 20. Lunches
must be picked up on Sunday, May 31st after the
10:00 Mass. Donations are welcomed. To order lunch, make
a donation, or for information about CGL contact Egle
Laniauskas (eglelan@gmail.com)
or send your order to 6604 Ivana Court, Mentor, OH, 44060.
Order forms can also be found in the Book Room
BALTIC COMMEMORATION
On
Sunday, June 14, 2015,
we will commemorate the 74th Anniversary of the
Occupation of the Baltic States by the Soviet Union and
remember the victims of the mass deportations of June 13-14,
1941. The Commemoration will be an Ecumenical Prayer Service
at
2:00pm here at St. Casimir’s. All are invited
to join with the Estonians and Latvians for this special
day. Refreshments will be served afterward in the cafeteria.
This event is sponsored by the Baltic American Committee of
Cleveland.
PICK UP YOUR ALTAR SOCIETY PLANTS
Those
who ordered flowers, plants and vegetables from the Altar
Society are asked to pick them up after all the Masses
this weekend. We thank everyone who supported this
fund raiser. All proceeds will be given to the parish.
Lietuvi
Post
613 of the Catholic War Veterans will be distributing
Memorial Poppies at all the Masses this weekend. Proceeds
from this goes to fund their programs to benefit Veterans in
need, especially those who are hospitalized. Please accept a
poppy and make a generous donation to our Catholic War
Veterans. Also this weekend, they will be asking for new
members. Anyone who has served in the military is eligible
to be a member. Please consider joining this year. 
This
weekend, Bishop Lennon ordained four men as priests in our
diocese. Congratulations to Father Jeffrey Barnish, Father
Joseph Kim (Archdiocese of Daegu, South Korea), Father
Jeremy Merzweier, and Father Robert Ramser. May God be with
them as they begin a lifetime of service to the people of
our diocese.