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Court St Pius X #1866

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a little history from Helen

Msgr. Gallant was our leader in those days to get CDA going, it was at his encouragement that we named our Court St. Pius x. Also we had like 20 officers, monitors at each door and officers galore! Have to try and remember how all that went!!! We had Natali Riendle for the good of the order, I think I learned more from her then any classes I took. I am encouraging her to come to our meeting. I would love to have her say something for the "good of the order"! Our new members always entered the room in the dark and then we gave them candles and had this long initiation that the Regent had to do. there's more!!!

*********************************************** A note about our court by Helen Vik and Linda Fleener.

The Catholic Daughters of the Americas is one of the oldest and largest organizations of Catholic women in the Americas Court St. Pius X #1866 was formed in 1961 at Holy Family Parish in Anchorage, Alaska. The Court was chartered on June 16, 1961 with 55 members. The membership grew by December of that same year with another group of women eager to join CDA. In the early years of membership, CDA was also a social escape for many young mothers. Great friendships have been formed all through those early years of living in remote Alaska. Young women away from their families in the “lower 48” formed friendships that have sustained all these 50 years. Anchorage has grown, and the addition of more parishes in the Archdiocese has made our court a combination of members from many parishes. In the early days of our court, funds were raised to furnish a mission priest with a snow machine so he could travel to visit villagers in the winter months. Many boxes of warm clothing were mailed to various Alaska Missions. The court donated the marble ambo for Church of the Nativity of Jesus in Magadan, Russia. Funds were donated for a beautiful original design tabernacle for the chapel at Providence Horizon House. We support the National Charity projects which are the Disaster Relief Fund, Apostleship of the Sea, Covenant House, Catholic Relief Services, Mother Teresa, SOAR (Support Our Aging Religious) Scholarships for Teachers of Exceptional Children, Habitat for Humanity, Smile Train and North American College On a local level, we support our Archdiocesan seminarians and religious, library books for Alaska Catholic Schools, Covenant House, Kid’s Kitchen, Beans café, Alaska Right to Life, Crisis Pregnancy Center, Mary Magdalene Home Alaska, Charlie Elder House, Clare House, McAuley Manor, Pregnancy Support Service St. Francis House and others We strive to serve in our archdiocese whether it is with financial support, food for receptions, Greeters for airport arrivals, or Gifts of Appreciation for our priests, Always a variety of service. Through all this, we enjoyed the social aspect of CDA bringing spiritually-minded Catholic women a chance to come together for prayer, activities, charitable endeavors and spend quality ‘women time” together.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

One of our members. by Eleanor Spernak.

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