August 8, 2014 Meeting of the WPA Chesterton Society

Greetings Fellow WPA Chestertonians and Friends,

There WILL NOT be a regular meeting of the WPA Chesterton Society. Instead there will be a planning meeting for the events in early October when Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society will be in our area. If you attend the first planning committee meeting we held at the end of May, please do try to attend this Friday's meeting. If you did not attend in May, but are interested in helping, please feel free to come. If you are planning to come, please send me an email so I know how many to expect.

As usual...

This meeting will be held in the Village of Middle Lancaster, at the Lancaster Township Community Center located on Kings Alley and Community Center Drive, in Butler County PA. Kings Ally is off of Rt. 19 approx. 4.5 miles north of Zelienople, and just north of the Zion Lutheran Church and just south of East Lancaster Road. (The Community Center is a former one room school house, adjacent to the ball fields at Bauder Park.) The doors open at 7:00pm for pot luck refreshments, with the meeting beginning at 7:30.We will wrap up sometime around 9:30pm.

On a closing note, the American Chesterton Society conference in Mundelein, Illinois was a wonderful success. Our WPA Chesterton Society was represented by Grettelyn Nypaver, Walt Sarafin and me. The talks were excellent, the weather idyllic, and the fellowship sweet. One of the  talks that I find myself still reflecting on was the talk given by Fr. Udriss, the English priest assigned to investigate whether there should be a cause opened for Chesterton's sainthood. He outlined very clearly a profound connection between Gilbert and "The Little Flower", St. Therese of Lisieux. It was fascinating. Nancy Brown also gave a talk in which she made a compelling case for Frances Chesterton's sanctity to be considered alongside Gilbert's. 

Here is a link to a place where you can hear a couple of the talks (I think more are to come), and here is a link to a video of "Our Grettelyn" sharing some of her many talents at the ending banquet. If you use Facebook, check out the pictures and comments about the conference on the Facebook page for the American Chesterton Society and on our own group page. 

Please consider bringing something for the refreshment table, and as always, feel free to email me at wpachesterton@gmail.com if you have and questions or comments.