Co-Cathedral of St. Thomas More at 900 West Tennessee Street, Tallahassee, FL 32304 US - Young Catholic Professionals (Y.C.P.)

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Mission Statement: "Young Catholic Professionals are young adults in their twenties and thirties who desire to fully live their Catholic faith by growing as disciples of Jesus, witnessing to their faith in their daily lives, and reaching out to others as a fellowship in Christ." Meetings for the Fall of 2004 are scheduled to begin on Tuesday, September 14th at 7:00 PM in the Parish Library. The topic will be: "What does it mean to be Catholic?" The rest of the Fall schedule will tentatively be: Tuesday, September 28th @ 7:00 PM - Voting as a Catholic – w/ Mike McCarron (FCC) –tentative- Tuesday, October 12th @7:00 PM - Amanda Laudadio - Practical ways to live and defend our faith. (Catholic Apologetics?) Tuesday, October 26th @7:00 PM - Tim Henderson – Accepting our lot in life – Taking up our crosses. Tuesday, November 9th @7:00 PM - Tough Questions about our Faith w/ Tom Neal Tuesday, November 23rd @7:00 PM - Male and Female Roles in the Church – Speaker(s) TBA Tuesday, December 7th @7:00 PM - Being an Integrated Person w/Bob Schuchts Tuesday, December 21st @7:00 PM - Song Fest – Caroling at Casa Calderon – Music Leaders Contact Rebecca Durbin or Deacon Molina for further information. In addition to these meetings, Y.C.P. plans to get together each Sunday after the 11:45 AM Mass at the Atlanta Bread Company by Governor's Square for lunch and fellowship. We plan on putting together a Volleyball team to compete in the City League and/or East Hill Baptist Church's League. Contact Duncan Williams to sign up! Game nights, Dinner out nights, Service projects, etc. are planned as well. Finally, we will sponsor a Book Club (the Holy Ground Book Club). This Fall's Book will be "The Kite Runner"... an epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption, and it is also about the power of fathers over sons-their love, their sacrifices, their lies. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner tells a sweeping story of family, love, and friendship against a backdrop of history that has not been told in fiction before, bringing to mind the large canvasses of the Russian writers of the nineteenth century. But just as it is old-fashioned in its narration, it is contemporary int its subject - the devastating history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years. As emotioanlly gripping as it is tender, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful debut. Contact Amanda Marks for further information on the Book Club.

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