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Monsignor Bradican News

The Unofficial Organ of the Monsignor Bradican Division

•January 2009•

Next Meeting, Thursday, January 15

St. Michaels, 7:30 PM

Shamrock Degree Do not miss it!

 


President's Message

Brother Hibernians,

I want to thank you for giving me the honor of electing me your next President. Also, many thanks to Gene for the great job he has done the last two years.

The greatest challenge I believe we face as an organization is to recruit new members. There are many Irish Catholics in this area and we should find ways to get them interested in their Irish heritage. We need to reach out to prospective members through our activities that encourage that interest. I would like to have suggestions from the membership of new activities and events that would accomplish this goal. There is nothing we can't accomplish if we all work together. Happy New Year to all.

 

            In Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity

 

Joe McGowan

President  

The Christmas Party was a huge success. Many thanks to Chuck Curran for setting things up with The Auld Shebeen. Forty lashes to your newsletter editor for putting the wrong time for the party in last month’s newsletter. I should have said the party starts at 6 PM and dinner will be served at 7 PM. Oh, well – nobody is perfect.

Dues notices have been mailed out – and the returns are slowly coming in. If you did not get a dues notice, please let your humble financial secretary know and he will happily send you another notice or bill or whatever.

·        Note we will be exemplifying the Shamrock Degree at the January Meeting. If you have not received the Shamrock Degree (Lesson of the Motto) or if it has been some time since you have seen the Degree, you will not want to miss the January meeting. And…what a wonderful way to get things going for your new President and his staff.

·        With a new administration coming on board in Washington, the Right to Life march on January 22 is a very important one. We must let everyone know of our total respect for life – from conception to natural death. Please make every attempt to attend the march – or to pray an extra Rosary on that day.

 

Congratulations to your newly elected slate of Officers. They were installed as part of our Christmas Party at the Auld Shebeen. Men in new positions include President Joe McGowan, VP Jim McLaughlin,and Inner Sentinel Bill McCabe. Gents, Thank you for stepping up to help our Division. I am told the transition teams are now in place to assure a smooth takeover!! J Special thanks to AOH State Vice President Rich Aleksy for an outstanding job in installing our officers. This was way more formal than Ed Kennedy’s “moving ceremony” in the parking lot at St. Michael’s several years ago.


 

Officers for 2009

President                                      Joe McGowan

                                                   (703) 451-4071

Vice President                          Jim McLaughlin

                                                   (703) 569-3866

Recording Secretary                     Fred Koester

                                                   (703) 941-5266

Financial Secretary                             J. J. Kelly

                                                   (703) 455-1507

Treasurer                                       Chuck Curran

                                                   (703) 866-9825

Standing Committee                   Tom Gallagher

                                                   (703) 979-5370

Marshall                                          Dan Rhoades

                                                   (703) 532-6358

Outer Sentinel                              Sanford Stone

                                                   (703) 751-5663

Inner Sentinel                          William McCabe

                                                   (703) 462-9215

Chaplain                                                    Vacant

                                                                              

Historian                                         Dan Rhoades

                                                   (703) 532-6385

Organizer                                  Jim McLaughlin

                                                   (703) 569-3866

Pro-Life                                                    Vacant

                                                                              

Past President                    Gene Bransfield, Sr.

                                                   (703) 820-2464

 

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6624 Green Ash Ct
Springfield, VA
22152

 

Phone
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Coming Events

·   Thursday, January 15, Division Meeting. The Shamrock Degree will be exemplified.

·   Thursday, January 22, March for Life, Washington, DC.

·   Saturday, January 24, AOH State Quarterly Meeting, 10 AM, Our Lady of Angels, Woodbridge.

 

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We have a lot coming up in the next couple of months. We have met with the pastor at St. Michael’s and he is supportive of us taking the Five Car Raffle to the entire parish. This can be a very lucrative venture for both us and the parish. We need your help.

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A Bit of Irish History

 

 

This statue of Annie Moore - the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island - stands on the dock in Cobh. Co. Cork. She looks back towards the home she is leaving while her brothers look out to sea and, beyond the horizon, the New World, three thousand miles away.
Annie set off for America from here aboard the S.S. Nevada, on December 20th, 1891. Imagine how excited and nervous she must have been when she and her brothers arrived in New York on January 1, 1892. As the very first of 700 immigrants to disembark from her ship and two other boats that day, she was given a wondrous welcome - and also a $10.00 gold coin!

 

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Disclaimer:  If it’s wrong – blame Joe, the new guy. I just type this thing. J