Faith in the Time of COVID
Saturday, September 25, 2021 - 8:00 am

Some look upon religion as an immature response to difficult times but science has shown that the positive aspects of faith improve and strengthen our responses. Faith can reframe our outlook with hope and give us a connectedness to higher spiritual goodness.  While it is natural and understandable to struggle during difficult times, i.e. feeling angry with God or abandoning our efforts to help ourselves, it actually weakens us.
 
Whatever your faith experience was during COVID, join us for our first Marthas & Marys of 2021-2022 on September 25, 2021 at 8:00 am in Bauer Hall.  We invite you to come explore and share your experiences with fellow pilgrims to help each other travel on.
 
Marthas & Marys is a women’s social group united in faith supporting one another to find the courage to allow God to satisfy our spiritual hunger and to guide our hearts and lives. Join us for a time of community, reflection, discussion and fun. No assignments to complete or homework. Just time with other women.  All women are welcome.
 

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Meeting dates for 2021 - 2022
 2021:  September 25, October 30, December 4
2022: January 15, February 26, March 26, April 30, June 11

If you have any questions, please contact Beth McNeilly: bnaples490@gmail.com.

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Our Purpose

Growing in faith is the work of the Church. It was the heart of Jesus' own mission to help us human beings connect with our divine source, to help us age with goodness, wisdom and peace, and to help us build and live in the reign of God. The Church seeks to help us live with purpose and meaning by connecting what we believe with how we live, and how we live in community. Thus, we may connect our own inborn hunger for God with our tendency to attempt to satisfy that hunger in ways that do not lead to meaning, these alternate paths may include greed, seeking power, or overuse of earth's resources. The way of faith, on the other hand, leads us to find the courage to allow God to satisfy our hunger and to guide our hearts and lives. We may connect ourselves to those within our households, but also in our neighborhoods and world. We may connect questions we have about the tough moral decisions we face with the guidance of Scripture and the Church and the wisdom or our own elders.

Simply put, we are striving to become a women's social group united in faith.