Circle of Love
Catholic Daughters are working through Jesus as His hands and feet in reaching out and helping our parish, our community, our state, and our nation.
It has often been said that education literally means “a drawing out” of a person’s talent as well as a “putting in” of knowledge or instruction. Education is a key ingredient which significantly impacts the long-term success of our organization. Education helps bring us to fulfillment and helps improve attitudes. Education should include programs or activities that assist members to learn about CDA, its history, its charitable projects and charities, as well as the programs on the spokes of the Circle of Love. This could include topics of a spiritual nature, safety concerns and medical issues. Education may lead to higher participation in a whole range of activities. The CDA scholarships and Education Contests are a part of the education spoke.
Below is
information on contests and scholarships:
National Education Contest
Father Leonard Bachmann Scholarship
For more information contact Education Chairman
Darlene Moritz at cda4dar@outlook.com.
Tomorrow’s promise lives in today’s youth. In responding to their needs today, we shape a better future for all. Every Catholic Daughters of the Americas court can fulfill the goals of the Youth Program by committing itself to sponsor, participate in, and/or support at least one youth activity. This can be accomplished by working collaboratively with existing community and parish youth groups such as the youth ministry, social action groups, local schools, or by sponsoring a Junior CDA Court. The selection and scope of the activity should be determined by the needs and/or interests of the youth in the community.
It is the mission of the Youth Program to nurture personal and spiritual growth; to promote service to others and to foster an awareness and appreciation of diversity through a variety of suggested activities and experiences.
Youth Scholarship
National Scholarship for 8th Grader Entering 9th Grade in
Catholic School
Estudiante de 9no grado estudiando en una Escuela
Católica para
Otoño 2022
For more information contact the Youth Chairmen: Ivone da Silveira, Ivone_ceip@yahoo.com ; or Carolyn Malik, cdacarol@sbcglobal.net
The Catholic Daughters of
the Americas is primarily a service organization; however, service for the sake
of service can become burdensome and more of an obligation than a joy. That is
why the Spiritual Enhancement component of the Circle of Love is so important.
Through the spiritual program in each local and state court, we help our
members to nourish and develop their relationships with God. Out of those
developing relationships comes the realization of God's love and everlasting
mercy, and because of that realization, the desire to serve Him by serving His
people grows. Our service, then, becomes the way we witness our faith and share
God's love with a hurting world. Because of His guidance and support, we can
serve with joy and faithfulness.
In the Spiritual Enhancement section of the Circle of Love, you will find ways
to provide opportunities for your members to spend time with God. You will find
ideas for enhancing personal sanctification as well as suggestions for
involving your members in the spiritual life of their parishes and communities.
It is important that your court's Spiritual Enhancement Program helps your
members to understand that they are truly a sisterhood and that they need to be
church to one another before they can be church to others.
Quality of Life (Social Awareness) - issues of our national program are the heart of our ministering to the needs of all peoples. We are called to reach out with compassion and support, to be helping hands where there is pain, poverty, sorrow and sickness.
For more information contact the Quality of Life Chairman: Emily Guilherme at Emthanga1@aol.com.
In today’s society, there are many different types of families, each of which is equally viable as a supportive caring unit. A family is two or more people, who consider themselves family and who assume obligations, functions and responsibilities generally essential to a healthy family life style.
A true family provides its members with emotional and spiritual kinship through: shared values, beliefs, traditions, common experiences, activities and unconditional love.
Courts should continue to strengthen family relations by interacting with one another in service and work of the family community. Families praying together, working together and playing together will fully encompass the Circle of Love Program.
A few years back, Bette Midler had a hit with a song called "You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings." This song is really about leadership because it is the leader who is the inspiration that allows others to "fly higher than an eagle." Dedicated and inspired leadership over the last 100 years in the Catholic Daughters has kept CDA the largest Catholic women's organization in the world. You, as a member of CDA, have the opportunity to learn the skills and techniques of leadership and implement your talents as a future leader. You will be the wind beneath the wings of others and "let (them) fly so high, they will almost touch the sky!" Consider becoming a leader in CDA!
Hopefully, this will give you the skills and confidence to step forward to become an officer in your local court. In so doing, you will become one of those leaders who have vision and get others to share that vision. You will be the inspiration for others to follow.
Our obligation is to become better informed on public issues, addressing the morals and human dimension, while supporting church teaching on human life, human rights, justice and peace.
The Catholic Daughters of the Americas DO NOT ENDORSE CANDIDATES NOR ANY POLITICAL PARTY!
Operation Morning Star is a program of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas to Our Lady under her title Morning Star, to encourage Catholic women to speak out in the legislative arena.