Cleveland Commonweal Local Community Network

  On Sunday, November 17 of last year, I received an e-mail message that I had not seen in more than three years "New Member for your Commonweal Local Community." When I googled the person's name, I found an association with John Carroll University. Instantly the idea formed. This November is the Centennial Issue of Commonweal.  Perhaps now is the time, and perhaps John Carroll may be the place, to begin reinventing Commonweal Local Communities. By November 24, I had posted on this website the first draft of: Models for Reinventing Commonweal Local Communities Analyzing the data from the 29 meetings that occurred between September 13, 2017 until we shut down after February 24, 2020, a total of 36 names appeared at one time or another on the membership list. Almost all of these were Commonweal subscribers. In 2018 there were about 165 Commonweal subscribers with an email address within thirty miles of the center of Cleveland.  Therefore, about one out of five subscribers w...

 

“Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. Each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality. If these seeds would take root in my liberty, and if His will grow from my freedom, I would become the love that He is. and my harvest would be His glory and my own joy."  Thomas Merton, Seeds of Contemplation ,  Photo taken on December 29, 2024 @5:18pm about the time when we discovered the bishop's pastoral letter on the internet. The original post was on December 30, 2024 @ 12:39pm “ “It’s simply a letter about how we can draw closer to Christ, and there is no controversy in that,” Bishop Malesic said. “Let’s just pray 15 minutes a day; join a small group; invite your Catholic neighbors and friends together to have a cup of coffee and talk about ‘Why are you Catholic?’; ‘How can you become a disciple of Jesus?’ I think these are the basic things.” -from a media interview of the bishop A Flourishing Apostolic Church I invite every Ca...