|
Start Your Day
with a Daily Gospel Meditation from Father Bert Buby SM
Father Bert has sent
his reflections via e-mail to a list of recipents for some time. We
now have a way to share this daily reflection with a broader group.
Below is a link to
the blog for his Scripture Reflections.
http://scripmed.blogspot.com
This may be used
to see last week's reflections and also has handy links to the right
for the Mary Page
and other Marianist Resources.
|
|
MASS & DINNER
INVITATION to all lay Marianists
- Mass and Dinner with the Provincial Chapter
Where: The Marianist Center, Philadelphia,
PA
When: TOMORROW
5 pm Saturday Sept 13th
Call : 215-634-4116 if you can join us!
|
|
THANK-YOU
For the
August/September donations to MLNNA mission from:
- Michael Gillespie
- John Eise
JOYFUL NEWS
Do you want to
share a big event in your life? New job, new baby, or recovery from
an illness. You can submit any information for the E-news Click
here
PRAYER REQUEST
Submit
a request for community prayers to the E-news here.
|
|
Congratulations
Angie Rosero
Our San
Antonio Regional Representative Angie Cortez was recently married
surrounded and supported by her community.
|
|
PLEASE
PRAY FOR:
The
success of the Family Retreat Program in Hawaii. We hope to find more
families who can get away from their busy lives and find the sacred in
quality family time together.
Please pray for the continued energies of the staff and all our volunteers
who support this program.
Barbara Belle
|
|
Please
Pray For:
Here in Haiti,
things are not doing so well since the hurricanes seem to be trying to
destroy us. In Port au Prince it rained so much that some parts of the city
are flooded, many families are striken, without any help and are left to
themselves, bringing still more misery to our small country.
Outside the capital, the damages are terrible, especially in the Gonaives region where
it is still worse than three years ago when hurricane Jeanne hit.
In the North and North-East the damages are so great that we can't describe
them. In St-Marc, where there is a very active MLC, some people are also
hit by the storms.
Please pray for the Haitian people and our Marianists
brothers and sisters.
Wesly
Etienne
Thank-you to
Richard Thibault for translating Wesley's message.
|
|
An Evening with
the Marianists
The Marianist Center in Philadelphia
is launching a new series on the last Thursday night of each month
"An Evening with The Marianists".
The program starts at 7pm.
Thursday Sept 25th - lay
Marianist affiliate Joanne McCracken, will facilitate an evening of sharing
for Women entitled Sara's Circle.
If anyone is in the
area and interested in joining us, call The Marianist Center at
215-634-4116.
|
|
Environmental
Tips from MEEC
Marianist Environmental
Education Center
RECYCLE
GLASS
Recycled glass reduces related air pollution by 20 percent and related
water pollution by 50 percent. If it isn't recycled it can take a million
years to decompose.
RECYCLE NEWSPAPER
There are 63 million newspapers printed each day in the U.S. Of these, 44 million, or
about 69%, of them will be thrown away. Recycling just the Sunday papers
would save more than half a million trees every week.
|
|
BOOK REVIEW
I'd like to hear
from you! What did you read over the summer that others might find
interesting? Send a short couple of paragraphs with your review and
I'll publish in the next E-news. MLNNA editor
Some
books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed
and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to
be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with
diligence and attention.
Sir Francis Bacon
|
|
|
I
Wish You Could Have Been There
 
 Front row: Jacqui Griswold (Communication),
Tony Garascia (Treasurer), Susan Vogt (Secretary), Mike Gillespie (MSJC
liasion), Paula Ziemski (Co-chair Development), Val Bergeron (Winnipeg
Area Representative),
Back Row:
Kay Stone (Area Development Coordinator), Mike Pera (Marianist Young
Adult Liasion), Isabella Moyer (International representative to
Organization of Marianist Lay Communities), AJ Wagner (President), Mike
Zeminski (Co-Chair Development), Anne Petratis (MidWest Area
Representative), Steve Hemphill (Texas/Florida Area Representative)
Unavailable: Ruth Pera (Marianist Volunteers), Brian Reavy
(LIFE), Pati Krasensky (Lay Formation Initative), Carol
Ramey (NACMS), Carol Weiss (East Area Rep.), Bob &
Mary Ann Valentine (Central Area Reps), Richard Thibault (Quebec
Area Rep), Etienne Wesley (Haiti Rep)
This is a photo of the MLNNA leaders who gathered in
Dayton to
determine how we can do a better job of serving our members. (Many others
gathered with us in prayer and Spirit.)
Kay
Stone brought her
flower child spirit of Hawaiian joy and reconfigured the duties of our
Area Reps to do a better job of communication.
Mike
Pera was the young
adult champion who will also lead us to a new and better web presence for
better contact with members.
Isabella
Moyer provided the
vision of a Church changed and charged with love by Lay Marianists the world over.
I'm the one with
the beard who listened in awe to the wisdom, faith and Grace that filled
the room and our hearts.
Mike
Zeimski gave guidance on
how to better assist communities in formation.
Anne
Petratis guided us
through the current hardships that made an Area Reps job more than
difficult and provided wisdom that will lead to solutions for those
hardships.
Steve
Hemphill reminded us that
to be Marianist is to be in community with one another.
Jacqui
Griswold offered
creativity to do the immense job of producing this page and Saying Yes
every month.
Tony
Garacia reminded us
that to be a Lay Marianist is to always be at the beginning point of
formation.
Susan
Vogt pushed for
roles that required action and not just talk.
Mike
Gillespie reminded us that
Christ is in the world and we can enhance his presence.
Paula
Zeimski put forth ideas
that will connect us better to one another.
Val
Bergeron expressed the
urgency of our work and the need for transparency.
We were also
joined by Ruth
Pera who told us of the wonderful work of
our Marianist Volunteers in Africa and St. Louis.
Brother
Tom Giardino reminded us of
the work that he is doing with the International Center
for Marianist Formation and offered us new tools to build lay
communities.
Richard
Drabik gave us insight
into the challenges of building a new web site.
Although every
one of these individuals has a title, this was a Marianist meeting of
equals guided by the Spirit of the Pentecost. Representatives from Lay
Communities, the Affiliates, the Retreat
Centers, LIFE, The Adele Social
Justice Project, Marianist Young Adults, the Marianist Social Justice
Collaborative, the Marianist Volunteers and more gathered in an Upper
Room in Dayton
with a mission to help you build Church in the world.
Please pray for
our collective success.
peace and love,
aj
|
|
GOODSEARCH.COM
www.GoodSearch.com
You can help us
generate $$ everytime you search the web. Click the link
above. Set Marianist Lay Network of North America as your
charity. And everytime you search for something (powered by Yahoo -
competitor for Google) our organization will receive 1 cent.
During August,
we earned $4.34 because of members who used this service. The MLNNA
has earned $25 since March when we first introduced this service. THANK-YOU.
The GoodSearch
website provide instructions for how to set this site up as your default
webbrowser.
A companion service is GoodShop which provides our MLNNA organization a
portion of the sale price if you enter a store's website (such as Amazon,
EBAY, Staples, Old Navy, Target, WalMart, the Gap and others) through the
GoodShop portal.
Spread the word about GoodSearch, it doesn't cost you anymore to help us
earn a little money.
GoodShop.com
|
|
Marie
Therese de Lamourous - September 14th
 A contemporary of Father
Chaminade and Sister Adele in the years of turmoil after the French
Revolution. Read more on our MLNNA website.
"In Bordeaux France, a
lay women, Marie Therese couragously worked with the Catholic underground
to sustain the faithful and continue the work of the Church. When she
was forced to move out of Bordeaux
into the countryside, she continued to serve the Church there by teaching
catechism to peasants and children, arranging clandestine sacraments, and
serving as a spirtual leader to the local population."
Abstract from "A Spiritual Crucible: The Life of Mlle de
Lamourous During the French Revolution" by Benjamin
Dougherty.
Consider reading more about this early Lay Marianist. The North American Center for
Marianist Studies has a number of books. I like the small one
titled Marie Therese de Lamaourous
Firm of Hand, Loving of Heart by Joseph Stefanelli, SM
Her motto: Seek first the
reign of God and its rightousness and all else will be given to you, over
and above.
|
|
|
 Marianist World Day of
Prayer is Sunday October 12
This is one of
the days that Marianist around the world unite in a common
celebration. See the link to the International Marianist Lay
Community website for how Brazil
is celebrating and maybe you will get an idea for your own local
community.
http://www.clm-mlc.org/Bulletins_eng.html
The link to the
Brazil PDF document of their celebration is below the Aparecida image in
the right column. Also note that the website provides much of the
content in the three languages of the organization; French, Spanish and
English.
|
|
Regional
Gathering of the Marianist Family
 Lay & Religious, Come one, come all
Whether you live nearby, used to live near by, or wish you lived nearby!
Where: St.
Joseph Catholic Community
915 Liberty Road, Eldersburg, MD
When: Friday October
3 7-10 pm
Saturday October 4 9am - 9pm
Tony Garascia
Keynote Speaker:
Tony Garascia, Lay Marianist from South
Bend IN
(President, International Organization of Marianist Lay Communities)
For more information call Marie at The Marianist Center
215-634-4116
RSVP
by MONDAY September 15th!
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Election Resource Materials
We're less than 2
months until the election, and there are some excellent resources available
that individuals or communities could use to help prepare for the elections
in the light of Christian principles. They include:
* Faithful Citizenship is the US
bishops program that focuses on their statement, Forming Consciences for
Faithful Citizenship. Visit www.faithfulcitizenship.org for
dozens of resources, most free, including clip art, ideas for worship and
teaching, family discussion guides, etc. Check out the Novena for Faithful Citizenship
(available in text or podcast format).
* Sojourners has published a voters issue guide titled "Principles and Policies for Christian Voters."
Click here to download a copy.
* The Platform for the Common Good
connects the country's founding principles with Catholic Social
Teaching - read it, promote it, sign it.
* The Maryknoll Office on Global Affairs has published "US Elections: Loving Our Neighbor in a
Shrinking World,"
that reflects particularly on the implications of the elections on the
developing world. Click here.
* NETWORK - offers several
workshops on the elections. Click here to read the workshop
descriptions.
* Network of Spiritual Progressives has a voter guide titled, "Vote to Change the Culture in
America- Replace a Culture of Materialism and
Selfishness with a Culture of Love and Generosity." Click here.
Jim Vogt, Director
859-291-6197
jimvogt2@yahoo.com; www.msjc.net
|
|
INVITATION
for FALL RETREAT
Dear
fellow lay Marianists,
The State
Community (short for "The State of Religious Living in the
World") and the Miryam Community are two vowed lay communities in the United States.
Each of these communities hold regular retreats for members but every third
year we hold a joint retreat at Bergamo in Dayton. This year the
theme of the retreat is "Marianist
Movements: Common Roots and Future."
We think this
theme will be of interest to the broader Marianist community and thus we
are happy to extend an invitation to other lay Marianists.
Because of our common Marianist commitments we've chosen a theme that we
think will help us deepen our Marianist connections and help us look
together toward how to nurture lay Marianist communities in the unknown
future.
We are, therefore,
also making a special effort to invite not only our own members but also
SM's, FMI's, other emerging lay communities that have members spreading out
across the US,
and anyone with an interest in the Marianist charism. We hope that by
relooking as the spirit of the foundation of Marianist communities and
using these insights to launch us into creative ways of forming and
sustaining communities of the future, we will start to see what parts of
our charism are enduring and what techniques and formats need to be adapted
for a new age. Thus, we invite you to be part of this grand experiment in
trying to understand the future of lay communities.
Here are the basic
details:
Theme: Marianist
Movements: Common Roots And Future
Date: October 24-26,
2008
Time: Friday
evening through Sunday lunch for whole retreat
Saturday
(9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.) for those who just want to attend the themed part of
the retreat
Saturday
(7:30 p.m. Mass - whenever)
Come and celebrate liturgy with the
Marianist Family in Dayton.
The State and Miryam communities will
renew their vows at the Mass.
A social will follow.
Place: Bergamo Retreat
Center, Dayton, Ohio
RSVP: to Susan Vogt
SusanVogt@fuse.net by Oct. 10
Resource People: Mike Lisbeth, SM, Nicole Trahan, FMI, AJ and Joan Wagner,
Tony Garascia (President, International Organization of Marianist Lay
Communities) Isabella Moyer (Responsible for North America, Asia,
Australia, and Ireland)
Cost: $130 for room and board
Peace,
Susan Vogt, Anne Petratis, and Laura Luehrmann
Joint Retreat Planning Committee
Susan Vogt
523 E. Southern Ave.
Covington, KY 41015
(859) 291-6197
SusanVogt@fuse.net
www.SusanVogt.net
|
|
Editor's Note
 We are in that transition time between summer and
fall. Kids are going back to school and all those activities and
commitments that we have in our lives are resuming or we have new
commitments being added to our schedules.
Consider taking time for yourself to come away and focus on your faith
life.
There are two opportunities listed in this newsletter. If you can't
get to Baltimore or Dayton this fall, look for an opportunity
in your area to connect with others to build community and reflect upon the
priorities of life.
"The spiritual life does not remove
us from the world but leads us deeper into it". Henri Nouwen
This is your
newsletter. I welcome, in fact, I am always looking for articles.
Submit an article
for the next newsletter and see your name in print. Think about
what you might share with your fellow Lay Marianists
Send article and pictures to MLNNA editor MLNNA
editor
Keep copy short
and describe who, what, why, when and how
If possible,
select 1 or 2 of digital images in JPEG format (100 - 900K) and attach to
the e-mail
Thanks for reading
to the end.
"Faith is like electricity.
You can't see it, but you can see the light". Anonymous
|
|
