News, Events, Resources
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PORTAGE COUNTY DEANERY
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Bulletins
Parish Calendar
Chicken Dinner Festival
Last Weekend in June
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New Portage North Logo
The weekend of June 1/2, 2024, the new logo for the Catholic parishes in Portage North debuted.
In the new logo, each parish is represented in one of the four elements it contains, with a clear symbol and a color that reflect the patron saints:
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Marian blue) with the crown found on her icon
- Saint Ambrose (gold for his teaching) with the bee-hive
- Saint Joan of Arc (red for the witness of her life) with the fleur-de-lys
- Saint Joseph (green for his tunic) with the tools of a carpenter
When all four of these symbols appear together in the square logo, the cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ is implied in the white space between them, as the force that unites our four parishes and all members of the Church. These individual symbols can also appear separately to easily identify information and activities in each of the parishes. You may even see some variations of the logo for different liturgical seasons and specific occasions.
This logo highlights the collaboration of our four parishes and the individual identities that each community brings to the work of the Church in northern Portage County. It does not indicate that there are any plans for the four parishes to merge.
Please also have a look at the helpful visual explanation provided by the Aimee Crane, a parishioner at Our Lady in Aurora, who completed the graphic design work of the new logo. Click on the video for a further explanation from Aimee and Fr. Brian.
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alcoholics anonymous meetings
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Although St. Ambrose Church does not directly sponsor an A.A. Chapter, the parish provides a meeting place on Sunday evenings at 8 p.m. in the parish hall. Alcoholics Anonymous is a voluntary, worldwide fellowship of men and women from all walks of life who meet together to attain and maintain sobriety. This program of total abstinence helps members maintain sobriety through sharing experience, strength, and hope at group meetings and through the suggested Twelve Steps for recovery from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for A.A. membership. Anyone may attend open meetings.
For more information, contact the Office of St. Joseph & St. Ambrose Parishes (330-274-2253)
or visit the Alcoholics Anonymous site.
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Many are unaware of the role Catholics played in AA’s early years, or that one of the key figures was a nun from Ohio named Sister Ignatia Gavin, S.C. (1889-1966). At St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, she helped Dr. Robert H. Smith, AA’s co-founder, to dispel the notion that alcoholism was a moral defect, rather than a spiritual, mental and physical disease.
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