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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 128
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 10:23 am: |    |
I'm not sure why I was entitled to this. It may have been that choir members were each given one. This is a piece of marble form the old alter after they renovated it and turned the priests around to face the congregation. Thought I'd share this. |
Campfire_girl
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Username: Campfire_girl
Post Number: 57
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 10:29 am: | |
What a precious keepsake!
Thanks for sharing, Z! I'm still amazed at how much St. Jude means to all of us and how we not only have wonderful memories, but also bits and pieces of our St. Jude past that we've all kept! |
Jcole
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Post Number: 288
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 7:48 pm: | |
That is something really nice to have. You're just a font of SJS relics.
Speaking of, do you all remember that churches had to have a relic of the saint they were named for embedded in the altar stone, or is that just something I dreamed up in my way to fertile imagination? |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 141
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 8:04 pm: | |
I seem to remember that but not at SJ. I used to have a few relics, but the chip of bone was always so small it made me wonder it's authenticity. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 292
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 8:11 pm: | |
The Catholic church had quite a lucrative business in relics from time immemorial, whether they were real or not remains to be seen. They also used to sell indulgences (you paid the priests to buy you into heaven)back in the middle ages and before, a practice that fell by the wayside as the common man became more educated. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 203
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 8:26 pm: | |
I think this means Z is part of an up to now secret order of marbleites.
I am starting the bidding on the marble chunk with my Jets hat, a PPK pin, and a half case of Uncle Ben's Rice purchased before they started rationing at Costcos. I'll have to settle for my annual trip to the Armada Fair for my taste of fresh albeit Michigan sweet corn.
(Message edited by 7andkelly on April 23, 2008) |
Zitro
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Post Number: 146
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 8:38 pm: | |
The Iowa sweet corn is not overrated. They can't keep it on the shelves around here when it's in season. It helps to know someone who grows it because just like anything else the costs of it is going through the roof. Thanks to the Ethanol farce. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 293
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 8:45 pm: | |
Maybe by Armada fair time, rice won't be rationed |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 205
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| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 8:53 pm: | |
They can ration rice till the cows come home. Just keep the sweet corn cobs on the shelves, and in that little booth next to the "Our Lady of the Rose" building and picnic table area at the fair. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 294
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 8:57 pm: | |
there's nothing wrong with Michigan sweet corn. It beats the heck out of the crap they sell from Fla.
Yeah, I don't care too much about the rice, either, unless it's in golobke.
Armada fair is one of the nicest ones around. It's clean (for a fair) and there's plenty of shade. I used to take my kids there instead of the Eastern Michigan State Fair in Imlay City. That one is fairly dumpy. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 207
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 9:08 pm: | |
When the IC EMSF comes in, let us know. Michigan sweet corn is great, but IOWA is to corn, what Cuba is to cigars. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 208
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 9:09 pm: | |
But we have better cherries! |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 153
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 9:13 pm: | |
Being a native Michiganian, I can enjoy both worlds without having to worry about bragging rights,, Nothing like cherries going up tp Traverse City for the Festival. That place has sure changed |
Kellyroad
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Username: Kellyroad
Post Number: 373
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 10:54 pm: | |
Zitro: Thanks again for the choir pic. Although I wasn't in the choir that picture sure does bring back a lot of memories especially with the altar with the tapestry, drapes, and the magnificent canopy. Do you recall a Jim Kayuk or a Nells Hickman in the choir with you? Nells appears to be standing between you and Fr. Ording, and Jim right behind Paul Avery's right shoulder. I'm not sure if they were in the choir but they look really familiar. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 165
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 9:04 am: | |
Yep, that's them. Also Nells who I seem to remember lived right across from the school used to hang around with Kurt Louwers who also is in there in the middle.
(Message edited by zitro on April 24, 2008) |
Slowosfs
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Post Number: 3
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 1:27 pm: | |
I created a Facebook page for St. Jude Parish. You can upload photos and videos and blog on the page's "wall."
You will need to sign up for Facebook to be able to write on the wall, upload photos, etc. You do not need an account to view the page. The link is:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ Detroit-MI/St-Jude-Roman-Catho lic-Parish/13026593213
This is no space in the link between the "o" and "l" in Catholic - this site inserts that to avoid spamming I assume...
Enjoy! |
Campfire_girl
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Username: Campfire_girl
Post Number: 58
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 2:48 pm: | |
Thank YOU! This will certainly help us post pictures and have a single spot to send all of our memories - AND - to provide a way to notify everyone of up-coming events. |
Kellyroad
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Post Number: 375
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 1:11 pm: | |
Since it's Friday today the memory of fish and Knight of Columbus surfaced. LaSalle post on the south side of 7 Mi just west of the Queen...wasn't a member nor anyone in the family but sure did remember fondly those dinners. It seemed St. Jude had many members that frequented that particular post. |
Campfire_girl
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Post Number: 59
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 3:24 pm: | |
My Dad was a member at Cardinal Mercier in Hamtramck, but we also spent a lot of time at the LaSalle post. We had his funeral breakfast there, and they couldn't have been nicer.
Then there was "Fantasy" bowling, on the corner. The wooden lanes were so worn in, that any attempt at a toss, could get you in a worn groove resulting in a strike no matter how long it took the ball to reach the pins! Didn't St. Jude have a bowling league there? |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 204
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 3:30 pm: | |
I believe the Usher's Club had a league. I bowled in that house for almost 20 years. Then mysteriously like almost all of the houses in Detroit it burned to the ground. Coincidence? |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 340
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 3:33 pm: | |
My mom bowled there as long as I can remember until we moved in 73. I recently came across pics of her and the other 'ladies who bowled' in their snazzy bowling shirts, and some of her pins and trophies. |
Campfire_girl
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Post Number: 60
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 3:35 pm: | |
I LOVED that Bowling Alley!! I worked across the street from it for many years - our company moved from 7 mile to Warren about 15 years ago. It had a great bar, always filled with a lot of fun! and was a good alternative to the quieter "Parakeet" bar next to Revco - across from Franks! |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 205
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 3:55 pm: | |
The original owners name was Walter (I don't remember his last name) the he sold it to the Maige family, then to ??? Damn, I can't remember the next and I believe the last owner. Help. A couple of guys that used to work there for a long time were Tim Littlefield and Frank Denryter. Also Steve Karas from SJ worked there for a little bit. |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 207
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 4:18 pm: | |
If I don't come up with that last owners name soon, my heads going to implode |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 208
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 4:35 pm: | |
Gene something I'm getting closer |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 209
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 4:36 pm: | |
Gene Mack. Ahhh, now I can snoozle |
Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 343
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 4:38 pm: | |
Now your week is complete and you can enjoy the weekend. |
Campfire_girl
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Post Number: 61
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 5:00 pm: | |
I don't know how you guys remember as much as you do! I am usually a font of misc trivia, but you all have me beat! |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 210
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 5:19 pm: | |
I hate to do this but since the topic is bowling I have to share. This little shit did just recently in 16 years what took me 40 to do.
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Jcole
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Username: Jcole
Post Number: 344
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 - 5:24 pm: | |
That is awesome, Jeff. You must be proud. Of yourself, too. My best ever was 212, and then I had foot surgery and can't bend up on my left foot. |