An encyclopedia for three worlds. A multilingual encyclopedia, considered the first, is currently helping Ukrainian children to fully integrate into the Italian school system.

It has 8 volumes and each entry is presented in Italian, English and Ukrainian.

It is aimed at primary school children, but its main objective is to help Ukrainian students feel fully accepted in the classroom with their new peers and teachers.

Asia Graziano, project manager at Scripta Maneant Editions, explained how the concept started. “The idea was born out of a concrete need. We wondered how, on our small scale, we could contribute to the school, education and cultural integration of newcomers, Ukrainian children who came to Italy and Europe.

It contains hundreds of topics conveyed to children from different backgrounds through not only books, but also interactive content, audiobooks, smartphones and multimedia interactive blackboards.

Professor Olimpio Tullio explained how these books are used in the classroom. “For example, we started from the solar system, analyzing what the sun is and this is written in Italian, English and Ukrainian. We talked about it, then we used the book to study eclipses.

“We tend to think of the school as a community, a community of teaching and a community of practice,” said Filomena Massaro, director of the Polyvalent Institute 12 in Bologna.

The project also takes care of the needs of all the children in the class. Project manager Laura Lopardo said no child should be left behind.

“We were concerned about these children who might have learning disabilities. Therefore, we printed it with a specific large font.

Throughout Italy, dozens of schools and around 500 public libraries have adopted the trilingual encyclopedia.

Watch the Euronews report in the player above.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, often referred to as the SCLC, was one of the most prominent participants in the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The organization still champions social justice issues. Although influential in other southern states, this national organization has always been based in Atlanta, and Georgia has been home to many of its founders and leaders.

Origins

The SCLC has its origins in several mid-20th century developments. Black veterans returning from service in World War II (1941-1945) were no longer willing to accept the injustices at home they had fought abroad; The southern black churches were powerful social institutions; Black voters were increasingly involved in the Democratic Party; and the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision bolstered a national movement to desegregate public schools. African Americans began to band together in local political clubs and attract a large base of supporters, many of whom felt that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had too bad a reputation among Whites.

The event that sparked the formation of the SCLC was the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott of 1955-56. Although not started by Church leaders, the movement was soon joined by Montgomery’s black ministers, who kept the boycott alive and ensured its ultimate success. Born in Georgia, Martin Luther King Jr., then living in Montgomery and recognized for his courage, intelligence and leadership qualities, was chosen as spokesperson. News of the boycott (and others in Birmingham, Alabama and Tallahassee, Florida) was carried year-round by the New York Times. As a result, activists of both races nationwide saw the opportunity to expand the boycott movement into a Southern civil rights movement.

At a lecture at King’s alma mater, Morehouse College in Atlanta, attendees discussed forming a civil rights organization. The Southerners and Northerners present at the conference decided to keep the regional focus, to include “Christian” in its title to attract as many church leaders and lay people as possible, and to establish its headquarters in Atlanta, where a large, financially secure downtown black class population, including many graduates of elite black colleges there, could be called upon to lend their support. The SCLC was officially inaugurated in Atlanta on January 10 and 11, 1957, and a follow-up meeting was held in New Orleans, Louisiana the following February 14.

First years

From its inception, the SCLC was an urban organization. Many historians attribute its early success in attracting members to King’s ability and prestige. Other Georgians who played a significant role in the SCLC’s early efforts included King’s wife, Coretta Scott King; Ralph David Abernathy; Joseph Lowery; and Andrew Young.

As headquarters, Atlanta was naturally the focus of the SCLC’s early activities in Georgia. In many cases, an action was initiated by another civil rights organization (such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or the Congress for Racial Equality), with King and other SCLC members standing up. joining for help. At the behest of students at Atlanta University (later Clark Atlanta University) and Morehouse College, King joined a sit-in on October 19, 1960 at the Magnolia Tea Room at Rich’s Department Store in downtown Atlanta . He and many others have been arrested and imprisoned due to a recently passed law against trespassing. This brought national attention to the civil rights cause.

The SCLC leadership made training new political activists in nonviolent tactics a priority and opened the Dorchester Center in Liberty County, where they trained hundreds of volunteers over the next few years. It was in this center that one of the most significant campaigns, the Birmingham, Alabama protests of 1963, was planned.

Efforts in Georgia

Notable actions in Georgia involving the SCLC include class action lawsuits filed against state and local governments for maintaining separate dining areas for employees; sit-ins (and their variants such as “wade-ins” and “kneelings”); rallies and marches organized to desegregate public places; voter registration campaigns; and boycotts against traders who would not desegregate their stores. In addition, major campaigns in other states were planned at the SCLC headquarters in Atlanta.

In December 1961, a series of mass meetings and protest marches known as the Albany Movement for Desegregation began in Albany. Its leaders invited King and Abernathy to speak at a rally, and the couple then led about 264 people to Albany City Hall, where they were arrested for marching without a permit. Although the city agreed to some desegregation measures, it quickly reneged on them. In July 1962, King and Abernathy were found guilty of leading the December march, and the SCLC renewed its protests.

The SCLC also organized Operation Breadbasket and the Citizenship Education Program in 1962 to raise the economic status of African Americans by focusing on the job market, literacy programs, voter education and community organization programs throughout the South.

In June 1963, Hosea Williams of the Chatham County Crusade for Voters launched demonstrations to protest segregation in Savannah movie theaters. Thousands of people participated, including many members of the SCLC, but the protests eventually turned violent. The SCLC, wishing to achieve its goals in a non-violent way, called for an end to them and a broader integration agreement was won on August 12.

On October 22, 1965, just two months after the Voting Rights Act was passed, SCLC “Voting Rights” marchers in Lincolnton were attacked and beaten. The following year, however, an SCLC voter registration drive in Hancock County, which had one of the highest concentrations of rural African Americans in the state, led to the enfranchisement of many. citizens, who through their votes and courage (and against previously insurmountable odds) dramatically changed their own lives over the next two decades.

In 1978, the SCLC joined with other organizations in an ultimately unsuccessful legal initiative to reclaim land in McIntosh County that had been taken from seventy black families for use during World War II. Rather than being returned, the land had become the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge. That same year, SCLC’s Lowery, speaking at a rally in Macon, urged the city to initiate racial justice in hiring practices.

In 1980, a Wrightsville SCLC leader, John Martin, was arrested by the Johnson County Sheriff for refusing to leave the sheriff’s office. The arrest sparked protests from black Georgians and nine weeks of weekly protests amid growing tension ensued before a biracial committee was formed to resolve the situation. A civil suit was filed against the sheriff and several others; although initially losing, the SCLC took the case to a federal appeals court and won a partial victory.

Leadership changes and the post-civil rights era

Andrew Young became executive director of the SCLC in 1964. Four years later he was named executive vice president but resigned in 1970 to run for Congress.

The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968 propelled Abernathy to the presidency of the organization. Abernathy could not match King’s leadership talents, however, and schisms in leadership and fundraising difficulties led to the marked decline of the SCLC’s influence. In 1977, when Abernathy resigned to run for Congress, Lowery succeeded him as president. Lowery avoided financial disaster but led a less visible organization as disenchanted young people and impatient black activists gravitated to competing civil rights organizations. Although it achieved its original goals, continuing problems within the SCLC, including declining membership, financial difficulties, and infighting, weakened the organization.

Many leadership changes characterized the two decades following Lowery’s presidency. After Lowery’s retirement in 1997, King’s son, Martin Luther King III, led the SCLC until November 2003, when the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth became interim president and CEO. In August 2004 Shuttlesworth was elected chairman, only to step down three months later. The board elected Charles Steele Jr., of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, as Shuttlesworth’s successor in November 2004.

Steele served until 2009, when Bernice King, a daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., was elected president of the organization. King, however, never reached an agreement with the SCLC board regarding the terms of her chairmanship, and in January 2011 she announced that she would not accept the position. Howard Creecy then assumed the presidency and held the position until his death in July 2011. Isaac Farris, the nephew of Martin Luther King Jr., succeeded Creecy but was succeeded in April 2012 by the prominent leader of the civil rights CT Vivian, who was named interim president. . Steele returned as chairman in July 2012.

While the SCLC has not forgotten its original goals, its focus has shifted to new causes, including health care, construction site safety, and environmental and correctional justice, as well as fair treatment of refugees. As of 2003, there were seventeen Georgian chapters and affiliates of the SCLC. The organization publishes its own magazine and continues to work for civil rights.

In May 2012, a collection of documents documenting the history of the SCLC from 1968 to 2007 was opened to the public at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.

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The N64’s software catalog is equally fascinating and coherent. From the console’s release in 1996 (1997 in Europe) until its timely death in 2001, the final release coinciding with the launch of the GameCube, the system saw a first-party release every few months, a few titles from Rare per year, and a handful of third-party releases – of wildly varying quality – per month.

As the author of this comprehensive tome points out, Nintendo knew even before launch that a steady supply of software was going to be an issue, so they focused on quality over quantity.

It’s the system that gave us Super Mario 64 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time – two games still often referred to as the greatest of all time – and rewrote the console’s FPS rulebook with the benchmark GoldenEye setting. 007. Let’s not forget, this is also the console on which Super Smash Bros. and Animal Crossing were conceived – two franchises that helped the Switch move millions of units.

Speaking of consistency, Chris Scullion’s latest encyclopedia is laid out in the same uniform fashion as before – it’s the fourth in an ongoing series. This means that every official release is covered, earning at least a quarter-page cover with a bonus sidebar and at least one screenshot.

US and European releases are grouped together, taking up the majority of the pages, with the backend of the book covering all 64DD add-on games and all Japanese-only releases.

The subject of screenshots deserves to be addressed. Modern emulators are famous for running N64 games in crystal clear high definition, which does not give a faithful representation. So rather than filling the pages with “bullshots” – a term not used often enough, frankly – Scullion went to great lengths to capture images in the N64’s native resolution. They are, for the most part, of identical quality to the slightly blurry and grainy screenshots found in gaming magazines of the time.

Since the N64’s library is smaller than that of the SNES and Mega Drive – two formats Scullion has covered in the past – more titles were given a page to themselves. Most entries detail the plot of the game (if any) and the type of game mechanics featured. Occasionally, the game’s critical and commercial performance is mentioned, with the legendary N64 Magazine receiving some shout-outs. And rightly so.

Entries are well-researched, sometimes delving into a game’s development issues or a franchise’s history. It’s clear that Scullion played all the titles – even the tedious sports sims, of which the N64 had a curiously large amount – instead of relying on hearsay and YouTube clips. It is something that is always commendable, while being noticeable everywhere. Even when it comes to text-heavy Japanese games, Scullion finds something remarkable to say.

Seeing the N64 library laid out like this is quite fascinating. As you scroll through its pages, you’ll start to notice patterns, such as how a trifactor from THQ, Midway, and Acclaim was responsible for a huge proportion of the library. It’s also interesting to see which games never left Japan and how few European exclusives the system had. The 64DD section wasn’t as interesting as I’d hoped, although that’s not the author’s fault – this failed add-on had a sadly small library; one that included niche art and design programs.

Small as it was, the N64 still had some hidden gems and lesser-known titles. Indeed, it’s easy to forget that in addition to games featuring Super Mario, Link, and Pikachu, it also had unique entries in the WipEout, Destruction Derby, and Road Rash franchises. If you’re currently scratching your head while looking confused, this is one of the best possible ways to familiarize yourself (or reacquaint yourself) with the brilliant and slightly weird N64 catalog.

The N64 Encyclopedia is now available in hardcover. Written by Chris Scullion and published by white owl. Expect to pay £25 to £30.

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Versatile Broadway pianist/composer/host Seth Rudetsky returns to The Wallis with his signature concert series, this time with Tony Award winner Lillias White on November 3, 2022. Seth, still hard at work, managed to spare a few moments to answer some of my questions. .

Thanks for taking the time for this interview, Seth! And a belated thank you to you and your husband James for the hours of comfort you have given me and millions of others during the pandemic months with your Stars in the House podcasts.

You’ve done many a Broadway Star’s Evening “…With Seth Rudetsky.” Your Broadway Babies contact list must be endless. How did this episode with Lillias White come about? Did you just send him a text to ask him if he’s available?

This one was born because of The Wallis! They went through the list of amazing people I’ve had the honor to work with and asked for Lillias. I was so happy when they asked me because she is, hands down, one of my favorite Broadway stars.

What about your thousands of guests on Star in the House? A simple sms or email? Or have you been rippled with offers popping up on your Zoom?

Stars in the House was crazy! My husband James Wesley and I decided to raise money for the Actors Fund as soon as Broadway closed. We knew that almost everyone in entertainment would suddenly have no income and the Actors Fund would be inundated with requests for money. We were doing shows at 2 and 8 p.m. every day and you’re right: it was constant texting and emailing the stars to see if they would join. Fortunately, they all said yes. The best was when a star fixed it all; like I texted Kerry Butler and she arranged for the cast of Beetlejuice to join. Or James emailed Rachel Bloom and she brought in the cast of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. And the most amazing thing was when people made offers that we hadn’t thought of; we had a Desperate Housewives reunion. At the end, Marcia Cross told us she could get the Melrose Place cast if we wanted. Dana Delaney told us she would find us the cast of China Beach. It shows how the people doing the real entertainment are really stepping up for charity work and it’s paying off; we are now over $1.1 million raised. I don’t think we thought we would ever get to that number. The lockdown was only supposed to last a few weeks, so we thought we’d put on the show and harvest what we could for a month. But the need had been there for much, much longer. And it’s still that. Brian Stokes Mitchell, chairman of the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund), said it would take most people at the company five years to recover. So James and I always go there. We recently hosted two hilarious game nights with Chicago stars and some of Come From Away’s closing cast (and writers). But if your question is how to book things, the definitive answer is texting. Almost my entire Broadway show CATASTROPHE! was thrown by me texting the stars!

Can you tell us about the first time you crossed paths with Lillias?

I first saw Lillias White when she played Effie in the late 80s Broadway of Dreamgirls. I liked it! Then I saw her amazing act at The Triad with my friend Andrea Burns. Andréa and I are still talking about when Lillias told everyone she wasn’t allowed to sing “Mem’ry” the way she wanted during the CATS broadcast and the audience insisted that she let us know. show. It was amazing! I saw Lillias perform in the amazing off-Broadway Back To Bachrach and David, as well as her performance as Dinah Washing in Dinah Was. Everything phenomenal. Then I was in the band on and off for How To Succeed when she brought the house down in act two. She approached me through friends to go with her for a small benefit and that’s when I first played for her.

My love of obsession came to a head in 1997. I decided to fundraise for the Gay/Lesbian Synagogue (Beth Simchat Torah) featuring gay/Jewish composers. I had a lot of David Friedman and Henry Krieger songs. I wanted to do the end of the Act One Fight scene from Dreamgirls. Lillias was in technical rehearsal for The Life but told me she would come on afterwards. Already, it was incredible. We all know how exhausting technology is, but she always wanted to help. Anyway…she was singing that score so amazing that I decided I had to do Dreamgirls on Broadway with a full orchestra with Lillias as Effie. I ended up doing it as an Actors Fund benefit with the other ladies being Audra McDonald and Heather Headley and we raised $1,000,000. And Lillias ended the show with “I Am Changing”. I DEFINITELY anticipate her doing this at The Wallis.

When I interviewed Kelli O’Hara earlier this year for your “…With Seth Rudetsky” with her too at Wallis, she said you had a “wonderful memory”. Do you have a photographic memory? How do you keep all the Broadway facts and trivia seemingly at your fingertips?

People say it a lot. My family spent time at dinner telling stories about our day, the beginning, the middle, and the end. So my mind is trained to remember my favorite stories. One of my favorite things to do on my Broadway cruise is having the audience shout out a Broadway star’s name and tell a story about them. I think I love Broadway and I have a giant space in my head for my favorite tales.

What was your original three-line pitch for “…With Seth Rudetsky”?

A combination of Inside The Actors Studio…but funny and a concert with a Broadway legend singing his greatest hits…and songs you never thought they’d sing!

And your piano accompaniments? One try with a guest and you’re good to go?

A review? Sometimes NO passage. If someone’s music is clearly marked, I’m good to go. Especially with Lillias. I know all of his music, so just a quick sound check. In addition, it should be noted that these concerts often feature songs that the artist had not planned to do. They are very free-form, depending on what we end up talking about. When Sutton Foster revealed she was playing Annie as a girl, you KNOW I made her sing “Tomorrow” even though we never intended.

What makes your favorite place in Los Angeles the Wallis?

I love Valais. It’s big but so intimate. My type of show feels like you’re hanging out with me in my apartment and that’s how the Wallis feels. But with incredible lighting and sound!

Stars in the House has raised over $1 million for the Actors’ Fund. When you started zooming your show, did you ever think you’d hit close to a million?

Zoom??? Stars in the House began by using Streamyard to get people around the world to join the show. We were able to do an ER reunion even though we were in New York, most of the actors were in LA and George Clooney was in London. Now we’ve got everyone together in our Upper West Side apartment (after a COVID test) but we’re still using Streamyard to stream.

Your two-plus years of weekly broadcasts included theme nights, game nights, and stage and TV cast meetings. Do you and James have an all-time favorite episode of Stars in the House? And why?

As for the house’s favorite stars, James always says it’s Free to Be You & Me starring Marlo Thomas and super fans like Debra Messing and Audra McDonald. For me it is so much! Original casts of A Chorus Line, Ragtime, Carrie and in TV terms, My Comedy Idols; SCTV.

When you were growing up, what did you see yourself doing? Play piano? Compose music ? Being a comfortable and welcoming host that you are?

I think I only thought I would be an artist while I was growing up. I was studying classical piano so there was a side that thought I would be a concert pianist, but I wasn’t really interested. I also loved to write, and my first “play” was Killer Girlfriend and her character name was Miss Mazepa. Go to court? Through it all, I thought I would need a day job and it would be a school psychologist! Anyway, when I got to Oberlin, I started being able to pursue all of my diverse interests and that led to what I’m doing now: I was hosting a Broadway radio show in Oberlin, but I I was also directing the musicals, I was in the musicals, and co-hosting and writing the big student comedy show!

If there’s still someone you haven’t worked with that you’d like to accompany and/or share the stage with?

I’m still waiting to do a show with Barbra Streisand. Amazingly, she came to my deconstruction show when I was at Largo in LA and I actually did my “Wah wah mule” deconstruction of “Cornet Man”. She was such a great sport, and it was a dream come true to have her in the house. But I want to do a full show with her!!! Barbara, can you hear me?

What future for Seth Rudetsky?

The future for me is forcing myself to finish editing Musical Theater For Dummies that I was hired to do some time ago. They pushed back the release date twice because of my ADD! Luckily I’m almost done and it’s actually available to order on Amazon! My Broadway cruises have grown a lot and I have one every three months or so. The Caribbean, Alaska and Spain, Portugal ALL feature a lot of my favorite Bway stars. In addition, I do the kind of concerts that I do at Wallis every Sunday live from my home studio. As soon as I get back to New York, I have Javier Muñoz, Nikki James, Sis, Andrea McArdle and Claybourne Elder all coming to TheSethConcertSeries. And finally, I’m working on various writing projects that I still have to finish once the ritalin is on!

Thanks again Seth! I look forward to seeing you and Lillias at the Wallis on November 3.

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The death of Father John Horgan on October 19 sparked an avalanche of testimonies from individuals about the impact he had on their lives. Here are some of the tributes we received.

Father John Horgan was a close friend of the Catholic Education Resource Center as director for 26 years. His deep knowledge of the Church and his shrewd understanding of politics and culture helped guide our council through many complex discernments.

He was a gracious host, and we are grateful for the memorable and entertaining dinners that often preceded those meetings we held at his parsonage. He had a way that made everyone he dealt with feel known and valued. We, and the many, many others he counseled, counseled, befriended and encouraged, will be sorely missed.

Champ J. Fraser
Editor
Catholic Education Resource Center

We were very fond of Father Horgan. There was never a moment when I was not amazed and touched by his homilies. He was a great and good priest as our pastor at Saints Peter and Paul. May he be comforted now in the loving hands of Jesus.

Lydia Chua
Vancouver

I had the opportunity to work with Father John Horgan from 2001 to 2003, helping him and Fathers Donald Neumann and Patrick Tepoorten to organize the Holy Hour and the Youth Conference during the Visitation of the Relics of Saint Therese in 2001.

Father John Horgan was the speaker at the conference and in front of 700 young people gathered at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Coquitlam, he lit the fire among the young people. There was so much enthusiasm, spiritual awakening and willingness to work that God instilled in the hearts and minds of the young participants through his servant, Father Horgan. The event was a great success!

The Aquinas Institute sponsored an Advent retreat at Corpus Christi Church in 2002 with the support of Father Neumann. Again Father Horgan was the guest speaker for the full day retreat. Despite the heavy rains in the morning, more than 800 people from various parishes filled the church. There were only standing places. People were thirsty for spiritual renewal via an Advent retreat. Father Horgan was the perfect speaker. People went back to practicing their faith. Some have gone to confession after decades of living without the benefit of the sacrament of reconciliation.

Wherever Father Horgan spoke, people just wanted to hear him. He was a walking spiritual encyclopedia. People listened to him attentively and were spiritually motivated.

When Father Neuman died, Father Horgan took over the preparation of Aquinas’s book Meditations on the Holy Eucharist. He willingly gave me appointments to discuss the book and guide me. He was a wonderful spiritual director – supportive, knowledgeable and very intellectual.

However, due to his hectic and busy schedule at Sts. Peter and Paul in North Vancouver and at EWTN in the United States, Divine Providence had other plans for the book. Msgr. Pedro Lopez-Gallo took over to help with its production and publication during the Year of the Eucharist proclaimed by Pope John Paul II in 2004.

When a friend and parishioner informed me of Father Horgan’s deteriorating health, I discovered that he had been a long-term resident at Vancouver General Hospital. I wanted to visit him but was told there were strict instructions that visitors were not allowed. So, I started praying for a good, holy, happy death for him.

At the recent funeral mass of Father Jose Luis Soria, I met one of Father Horgan’s friends who, to my surprise, told me that I had to visit Father Horgan despite the restrictions. With a long-stemmed rose from a friend in Opus Dei and a similar white rose from me, I went to the hospital. On my way to his floor, I met the hospital chaplain in the elevator. He told me that no visitors were allowed, so I gave him the two roses and asked him to give them to Father Horgan with prayers from Opus Dei and me. God knew I couldn’t see Father Horgan and He gave me a priest to deliver the roses and the messages to Father Horgan. God’s mercy, forgiveness and goodness cannot be surpassed.

I thank God for the good and holy life of Father John Horgan. Thank you, Father Horgan, for sharing your love for the Holy Eucharist, Our Blessed Mother Mary and the angels. Thank you for guiding and helping me in the early preparation of the Meditations book. May God reward you in heaven with the beatific vision and may Our Blessed Mother Mary and the angels welcome you.

Teresita Nixon
Sacred Heart Parish, Delta

Everyone at No Stomach for Cancer would like to offer their condolences to the friends and family of Father John Horgan. Please accept our deepest condolences for the loss of your friend and loved one. May God bless you during this difficult time.

Jon Florin
Executive Director
No stomach for cancer
Middleton, Wis.

In addition to Fr. Horgan’s credentials mentioned in your September 24 article, he has also taught at Our Lady of Peace Retreat Center in Beaverton, Oregon, and at Westminster Abbey.

Father Horgan was also appointed this year as the spiritual director of the Vancouver Honor Guard Chapter, a Eucharistic association of members who unite whatever they do at a particular time of day with the sufferings of Jesus on the cross.

The first Honor Guard at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Center in Vancouver was inaugurated in June. Unfortunately, Father Horgan was unable to join us due to illness.

Marie Waung
Daughters of the Church

Father John Horgan will also be remembered as spiritual director of the Daughters of the Church for over 20 years.

In 2001, Marthiel O’Larey and Patricia Ballard, inspired by the post-synodal apostolic exhortation of Saint John Paul II of 1996 Consecrated Vita, approached Father Horgan to tell him of their inner call to a life of consecration as lay women in the midst of ordinary life – outside of religious community and convent life. He listened and invited a small group of women to meet in his parish where he gave them training talks, retreats, and the Church support he knew they needed to nurture their budding vocations. Father John Horgan was inspired to name the community “Daughters of the Church”.

On December 11, 2021, Bishop J. Michael Miller, Father Horgan and Father Paul Goo concelebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving at the Chapel of the John Paul II Pastoral Center for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Daughters of the Church, a private pious association of lay women consecrated to God expressed in a private vow of chastity in lifelong celibacy. In his speech at the reception, Bishop Miller called the community “the fruit of Vatican II.”

Under the leadership of Father Horgan, the number of Daughters of the Church gradually increased to 13 consecrated lay people, a new form of consecrated life in the diocese.

The Daughters of the Church meet in person monthly at Immaculate Conception Church in Vancouver and weekly via Zoom or conference call. For more information, visit rcav.org/about/communities-of-devoted-women/daughters-of-thechurch.

Patricia Ballard
Moderator, Daughters of the Church

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WESTMINSTER – Jeff Belanger is a master storyteller – and his supernatural tales promise to keep his audience captivated during the spookiest month of the year: October.

Belanger, co-author of “The Nightmare Encyclopedia, Your Darkest Dreams Interpreted” will talk about the paranormal in your sleep, the meaning of your dreams, and the symbols and archetypes of your dreams at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26 at the Forbush Memorial Library, 118 Main Street.

“We spend a third of our lives sleeping, with much of the night filled with dreams,” Belanger said. “Particularly vivid and disturbing dreams leave behind impressions that are hard to dismiss. This program delves into our sleep, our dreams, why we dream, and then explores the deepest and most memorable of all our dreams, our nightmares,” said Belanger.

But what are nightmares? And what meaning do they have for the dreamer?

Questions like these have been asked and answered at all times in all cultures around the world, Belanger said.

“”The Nightmare Encyclopedia” examines ideas about bad dreams found in different parts of the world, in different periods of Western history, in recent clinical research, in current theories of the occult, and in popular movies”, did he declare.

Belanger thinks most traditional societies around the world are taught that our souls leave our bodies and travel to other realms when we dream, “so maybe nightmares are the result of getting lost in one of the bad neighborhoods of the world. Dreamland”.

“If a dream is a message from ourselves to ourselves, then a nightmare is a critical message,” he said. “This program is meant to be stimulating and entertaining. Moreover, I will help to interpret the dreams of those who want to share with the public. There is so much we can learn about ourselves by keeping a journal by our side and exploring the images of our dreams and nightmares.

Through his love of journalism and all things scary, Belanger has written over a dozen books, published in six languages, including “The World’s Most Haunted Places”, “Weird Massachusetts”, “Our Haunted Lives” and “Who’s Haunting the White House”. ?” being the best sellers.

He is also the Emmy-nominated host, writer and producer of the “New England Legends” series on PBS and Amazon Prime, where Belanger delivers programs and talks to audiences around the world. He has been the writer and researcher for every episode of “Ghost Adventures” on the Travel Channel; “Paranormal Challenge and Aftershocks” on Travel Channel and “Amish Haunting” on Destination America.

Bélanger has made media appearances on hundreds of radio and television shows over his 20 year career and he has a passion for mysteries and legends.

“The Nightmare Encyclopedia, Your Darkest Dreams Interpreted” was co-authored by Kirsten Dailey and can be found at Barnes and Noble, Amazon and other bookstores.

Nick Langhart, director of the Forbush Memorial Library, believes there is an audience for these subjects and, more importantly, it’s an audience that might never come to a library without such exceptional programs.

“Our aim is to attract people by offering material covering a wide range of interests – hikers, cooks, musicians, mechanics, gardeners, astronomers, etc. – we strive to build a collection of books and media for all the needs of the community,” he said. “Diverse programming is an important way to welcome members of our community who feel the library has nothing to offer them and to show the wide range of what is here, all for free.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

For more information about Forbush Memorial Library and its events, call 978-874-7416 or visit forbushlibrary.org. For more information on Jeff Belanger, visit jeffbelanger.com.

Other local Halloween events include:

Halloween brick building and movie night planned

CLINTON — The Bigelow Free Public Library, 54 Walnut St., will host a Halloween movie night at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27, featuring Stephen King’s “Firestarter.”

Their 2nd Annual “Halloween Freenzy” Brick Building Contest will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, October 29 for children ages 5-12.

For more information or to register, call 978-365-4160 or visit bigelowlibrary.org.

Halloween celebrations at Leominster Public Library

LEOMINSTER – From toddlers to teenagers, the Leominster Public Library, 30 West St., will welcome Halloween in style.

A teenage Halloween party will be held from 7-10 p.m. on Friday, October 28. Visit the library after hours, if you dare, for Halloween music, dancing, crafts, games, prizes, and plenty of snacks. Costumes encouraged. For teens in grades 7-12.

The Tiny Tykes Trick or Treat Halloween Celebration will take place at 10 a.m. on Monday, October 31, with treats such as bat wing slappers, coloring books, pumpkin slinkys, and more. For children 6 and under. Everyone is invited to wear a costume.

For more information or to register, call 978-534-7522 or visit leominsterlibrary.org.

It’s getting crazy at the Thayer Memorial Library

LANCASTER – Tap into your creative side with a spooky craft event at 4 p.m. on Monday, October 31 at the Thayer Memorial Library, 717 Main St. Create corner bat bookmarks, all supplies provided.

For more information, call 978-368-8928 or visit thayermemoriallibrary.org.

Halloween Night Hike and Hayride when the sun goes down

PRINCETON – Celebrate fall with a guided hike and wagon ride and experience the magic of the sanctuary when the sun goes down from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 29 at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, 113 Goodnow Road.

For more information or to register, visit massaudubon.org.

Kai Greene is a one-of-a-kind bodybuilder who has spoken a lot about the connection between muscles and the mind. The IFBB professional bodybuilder once opened up about the rewarding experience he had after reading Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding.

Greene is a multi-talented personality. He redefined the view of bodybuilders by showing that bodybuilders are not just limited to lifting huge weights and training aggressively, but also have other passions like art. In this throwback interview, he shared his journey of self-discovery as an academic.

Kai Greene found the book that changed his life

Fascinated by the limitless possibilities offered by bodybuilding, Greene was curious to learn more. Eventually, he got his hands on Arnold’s Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding. He remembers working hard to get where he wanted to be.

“I wanted to become a professional bodybuilder,” said Greene. He shared that he had a reason to apply some of the skills learned in the book. It wasn’t about strength, it was about identifying as one “academic” and “smart person” who could think of intellectual pursuits.

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As an avid aspiring bodybuilder, he performed push-ups until he couldn’t stand up anymore. For the same, he revealed that he was on suicide watch. He said it took a lot of effort to let them know that he was preparing for the world conferences, contrary to what they felt.

His art is his inspiration

Greene has an ardent love for art; he is renowned for his self-portraits. Interestingly, he uses them as a driving factor to maintain his well-built physique. In fact, in 2011 it had enough artwork to host an exhibition. Greene gave himself a unique description as a bodybuilder. “I am a master sculptor, he said, referring to the way he designed his body.

Additionally, he said the art exhibit made him realize that he had always been an artist. “My medium is the human physique,” he said. Going further, he says his life is what he makes it, indicating that he is the creator of his destiny. Comparing life to art, he said: “My life is what I make of it, as is the art I have produced. He also added that he celebrates his artistic achievements as a form of expression.

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