New MLNNA President's Message
Marge
Cavanaugh, immediate past president of MLNNA, deserves much credit. For the last decade or so the leadership of MLNNA has worked hard
to define who we are and what we should be about. Check out our website at www.MLNNA.com and you will find the fruits of
past labors. This site lists MLNNA goals, resources for formation of lay
communities, study guides and so much more.
Thanks
to Marge and those who came before her we have a great foundation to build on.
But the question that results is, "Where do we go from here?"
The
MLNNA Board has some ideas and some of those ideas will be pursued, like a
better web presence with the other members of the Family of Mary, better
welcoming efforts and more formation resources. But this question is asked of
you. "Where do we go from here?"
Over
the next three-and-a-half years I hope to find the answer or answers. I will
not find these answers by asking this question of the MLNNA Board, I will find
the answer by asking you, "Where do we go from here?"
MLNNA
wants to be useful to you. We want to be meaningful to you. We want to help
you form community, sustain community and act in mission. So, "Where do we go
from here?"
Years
ago my wife, Joan McGuinness Wagner, and I were asked to attend a mass at a
Society of Mary community. After mass I asked the priest, Father Gene Contadino
S.M., why some men chose to be brothers while others became priests. He
informed me that in the Marianist world one becomes a priest only at the
request of the brothers for the purpose of serving the brothers.
My
name is A.J. Wagner. I am the new president of MLNNA. I am at your service. My
contact information includes a snail mail address of 7 Stonemill Road, Dayton,
Ohio 45409;
an e-mail address of aj@marianistfamily.org
and a phone number of 937-307-2261. Please tell me how I may serve you and, if
you can, please answer this important question, "Where do we go from here?"
Without
your answers, we cannot move forward.
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