Fáilte to our new members:
Joan Maloney
Jennifer Maloney
Christine Henry
Lá breithe mhaith agat!
Happy Birthday to YOU...
Coreen Haggerty, July 26
Jennifer McGroary, July 27
Judy Mc Laughlin, July 11
GOOD & WELFARE
Please pray for
Eleanor Schopf's aunt
Terry Noga's brother-in-law
BOOK CLUB
Kathleen Dyer's house-Date and time to be determined.
Lies of Silence By: Brian Moore
From Publishers Weekly
Set in his native Belfast, this is Moore's ( The Color of Blood ) most powerful,
meaningful and timely novel, one that will generate strong emotions and diverse opinions. Michael Dillon's literary aspirations
vanished when he became the manager of a small hotel; he thinks of himself as "a failed poet in a business suit." Married
to a shrewish, dependent woman, he has just decided to leave her and move to London with his lover, a young Canadian woman,
when he is swept into Northern Ireland's daily violence. A group of IRA thugs invades his home and holds his wife hostage
while Michael is directed to plant a bomb that will kill a Protestant minister. Seamlessly turning what begins as a drama
of domestic unhappiness into a chilling thriller, Moore engages Michael in a moral dilemma: whether to risk his wife's safety
but save countless other lives by informing the police of the bomb ticking in his car. Once made, Michael's decision leads
to yet more excruciating choices, escalating the tension in a narrative that mirrors the conflict which neither camp can win.
As he depicts the passions on both sides of the civil war, Moore excoriates both "Protestant prejudice and Catholic cant,"
deploring the ceaseless conflict in "this British Province founded on inequality and sectarian hate." If the novel seems,
in retrospect, perhaps a little contrived, readers will remain riveted as it hurtles to an inevitable, cleverly plotted conclusion.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
SAVE THE DATE: ANNUAL FUND-RAISER
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2008
Sacred Heart Hall
Clifton Heights, PA
Music: OLD NEWS BAND