SAVE A LIFE AND SEE AMERICA!

Come join us at our Summer Blood Drive, Tuesday, August 5^th, in Holy Family Hall from 2:30 to 7:00 PM.  All Blood or platelet donors can register to win one of three $1,000 Gas Cards! Our goal is 65 units, so call the church office NOW to schedule your appointment!

The need is constant.  The gratification is instant.  Give blood. 

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FAITH FORMATION MINISTRIES

REMINDER:  EVERYONE will need to re-register FOR FAITH FORMATION FOR NEXT YEAR.

Beside letting us know if your child will be returning, it will help us update our records and keep them current.  Kindergarten through Grade 6 will also need to choose whether their child/ren will attend Sunday morning from 9:15 until 10:30 a.m. or Wednesday afternoon from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m.  Grades 7 & 8 will meet on Wednesday evenings from 6:45 until 8:15 p.m.  (Note the time change.)

Faith Formation Registration Forms for 2008-09 are available on the table outside of the Faith Formation Office.  We need both the Registration Form and the Emergency Medical Form returned before we can register your children for next year.  Registrations need to be in by August 15, 2008.  Class assignments will be available for pickup during the last week on August.  They will not be sent home.

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Call to Religious Life

Sharon Miller, daughter of Doug and Karen Miller, has been accepted to enter as a postulant with the Congregation of the Passionist Nuns in Whitesville, KY. As a Passionist Nun, Sharon will take vows of promoting devotion and a grateful remembrance of the Passion of Christ, chastity, poverty, obedience, and enclosure. She would live a life of enclosure, of silence, solitude, prayer, and penance. To enter the convent, Sharon must first pay off her college loans from the two years she attended Franciscan University of Steubenville. She humbly asks her  fellow parishioners to financially offer assistance. To quote Sharon: “I believe that God’s will for me is to love and serve Him by living a life of prayers and sacrifice as a cloistered, contemplative nun.”  Please make checks out to the Congregation of the Passionist Nuns and they will provide a tax receipt for you.

Have you met Judy Massengill, our new chairperson of our Family Life Commission? This Commission coordinates family-oriented and social events (e.g. Parish Picnic, the Talent Show, and St. Al’s Night at the Crawdad’s). In addition to these well-known events, we would like to offer more variety. In order to do this, we need you! If you are willing to help, even on an occasional basis, please call Judy at 327-3132 or email at alandavidm@yahoo.com.  And don’t forget this year’s Parish Picnic is on a Saturday – October 11^th at Stanford Park. Thank you!

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LAY MINISTRY TRAINING PROGRAM

The Diocesan Office for Lay Ministry is currently accepting applications for the two-year Lay Ministry program designed to help you understand more fully your baptismal call to minister to your family, to others in the Church, and to those in your daily life. This program is also a pre-requisite for the permanent deaconate. Classes for Year 1 will be held in four sites: Bryson City, Charlotte, Greensboro and Lenoir, and will begin in September. For more information, please contact Frank Villaronga at 704-370-3274 or e-mail favillaronga@charlottediocese.org.

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Now Available….E-Contributions!

St. Aloysius now offers two ways to contribute to the parish electronically! There is no charge for either of these services. You can even call the church office and stop having the envelopes mailed to you - thereby saving the church more money!


OPTION #1:  Simply set up St. Aloysius as you would any other account that you pay online. You can pay monthly, bimonthly, weekly. Many parishioners are already using this service with various banks with great success! You can start, stop, or change the amount given at any time.

OPTION #2:  St. Aloysius is now online with e-Paluch.com. e-Contributions allows parishioners to make contributions to St. Aloysius electronically and automatically, using your debit card. Parishioners can sign up through e-Paluch's safe and secure Web Page. Parishioners decide how often and how much to contribute to St. Al's -- e-Paluch processes the contributions and directs the funds to the St. Al's bank account. Click e-Paluch.com to register. Click on e-contributions, then "register", then "register as a parishioner", then type in "NC".  St. Aloysius will automatically come up.

To use option #2 if you do not have internet access, parishioners need to complete an Authorization Agreement for Preauthorized Payments Form.  Simply obtain the form from the parish office, complete the required information, and submit the form along with a voided check to the parish office.  If you have internet access, you can do all of this online.

If you have questions or want more information regarding either of these options for electronic contributions, please contact Kathy Succop at the church office: 327-2341.