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E-News (this document) and Saying Yes Archive
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PLEASE PRAY FOR:
Please pray for Christine Scanlon, sister of the late Bro Walter Oberster. Christine is battling lung cancer, and prayers are requested by her daughter (Bro Walter's Niece, Donna).
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Environmental Tips
Marianist Environmental Education Center
PLANT A TREE
It's good for the air, the land, can shade your house and save on cooling (plant on the west side of your home), and they can also improve the value of your property.
Make it meaningful for the whole family and plant a tree every year for each member.
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WILLIAM JOSEPH CHAMINADE
by James Metcalfe
Her great apostle on this earth he lived in much restraint
And in the patience of his soul he truly was a saint.
For Chaminade endured his cross and always in his heart
Our Lady of the Pillar was
the most important part.
To fire men with fervor
and to bend their humble knees
In recognition of Our Lord
and of His mysteries.
From Saragossa to Bordeaux
to our United States
And unto all the world he fought against religious hates.
That all might honor Mary
and receive their rich reward
In glory and salvation through the Mother of Our Lord.
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Start Your Day with a Daily Gospel Meditation from
Father Bert Buby SM 
Link to the blog for his Scripture Reflections.
http://scripmed.blogspot.com
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THANK-YOU to those who contributed in March to MLNNA
Those who generously contributed - THANK YOU
Deborah Durand
John Eise
Judy Gerwe
Michael Gillespie
Glen Miller
State Community
A J Wagner
Carol Weiss
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SUPPORT MLNNA
 We are working with Network for Good to collect financial contributions electronically.
Please remember that your contributions support this MLNNA E-news, the Saying Yes reflection, the Magnificat and Gifts and Tasks.
Your contribution also supports the Marianist Social Justice
Collaborative, the International Organization of Marianist Lay
Comunities and the Marianist Lay Formation Initiative.
We want
to do more for you and for our mission to others, but our budget is
very limited. Our only source of contributions is our members, so any
gift is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions or comments
about our fundraising or our spending or if you have any suggestions,
please let me know at aj@marianistfamily.org.
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OKAY, HE ROSE, NOW WHAT?
 Lent was supposed to change me. Mary Magdeline did not, at first, recognize Jesus at the tomb on Easter morning. He had changed. Nobody, however, seems to be mistaking me for someone else. Perhaps my Lent was not as good as I had hoped.
Now Easter has come and gone. So where do we go from here?
Over the coming weeks we will hear what comes next. The first reading at daily and Sunday masses will be from the Acts of the Apostles. We will learn from these readings what the apostles did as a result of their persecution. They scattered. They went to other countries. They formed communities.
Blessed William Joseph Chaminade also scattered under threat of death. In Saragossa he prayed before Our Lady of the Pillar knowing the Apostle's story. Then he returned to France to teach others to repeat it.
Many Marianist Lay Communities consist of scattered individuals who keep in touch through e-mails, phone calls and occasional retreats. Like the Apostles who still got back together when they could, they face the daunting task of remaining in community while building community. The second part is often harder than the first but, sometimes, it's the other way around.
We at the Marianist Lay Network with the help of our colleagues, Pati Krasensky at the Marianist Lay Formation Initiative and our partners at the North American Center for Marianist Study, stand by to help. Let us know if you need assistance with your community or with building a new community.
Easter has come and gone. Now the work begins in earnest. Now change will come.
peace and love,
aj
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MLNNA E-news - Editor's Message
Many of you may not be aware of the various Marianist communication vehicles that the Lay and Professed Religious produce. Through the links that are included in each of these E-news editions (see left column) we try and provide you access to these resources and highlight those we think have specific useful elements for lay groups.
The Lay Marianists have chosen Fridays to distribute their communications. They are:
- Friday Magnificat from International Organization of Lay Communities - first Friday of the month
- E-news - 2nd Friday (Changed this month due to Easter)
- Saying Yes reflection - 3rd Friday
- Gifts and Tasks newsletter from the International Lay Organization - 4th Friday
There is another mailing that many of you receive once a month, Justice Jottings, from the Marianist Social Justice Collaborative. This organization is a collaboration of the three branches of the Marianist Family (SM, FMI and Lay). We wanted to integrate Justice Jottings into our Friday mailings, but we were out of Friday's.
We realize that people may feel they are receiving too many e-mails and too much information to process, so we decided to make Saying Yes a part of the E-news beginning in May. Justice Jottings will then be sent to you on the third 3rd Friday of the month. By doing this we will be reducing the number of e-mails some of you receive each month while exposing others to the great social justice work being done by the Marianist Family.
The mailing list for the E-news and Justice Jottings has significant overlap but are not identical. We intend to merge these two lists. They will be sent from different servers so you can unsubscribe from one  and still receive the other. Our system has the option at the bottom for you to unsubscribe or opt-out. By clicking this button, your e-mail is automatically blocked from receiving any future mailings from that server. We can never add that same address back.
(NOTE: Friday Magnificat and MLNNA E-news share one server so unsubscribing from one of these will block the other.)
It is our intension to add value to your lives. Please let me know if you have comments about our changes. I and the leadership team are working for you. I hope you continue to gain benefit from this and the other communications as we work together to build and sustain communities of believers working to build the kingdom.
Jacqui Griswold, Communication Coordinator for MLNNA
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 Winnepeg Marianist Lay Community
The Circulo da Boa Nova MLC of Winnipeg is known for its generousity, warm hospitality and culinery talents! On Palm Sunday, April 5th, the community sponsored and hosted the soup kitchen at the Immaculate Conception Drop-In Center in downtown Winnipeg.
Dinner was shared with 25 0-300 people. Local Marianist Lay Communities helped to provide financial support.
It was a beautiful experience of solidarity and the faith of the heart (and hands)--we have been working on the "mission" of the community of Boa Nova for a while now and will explore some options for the future.
it was appropriate we did this social outreach today--in our discipleship as Marianists we were untied and untying the knots of that bound donkey--to free it for a journey!
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We Are Growing! 
Our Marianist Family continues to grow!! In this season of anticipation of new life there is good news to share. This past semester students have been meeting once a week to learn more about our Marianist Family and mission. Throughout that time they have carefully discerned if they are called to this Marianist life.
The Table Community and the Bridges Community will make their public promise in the context of liturgy is scheduled on
Saturday April 18th at 12:30 in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception on the University Dayton campus.
Please join us at that time to welcome these newest members to the Marianist Family.
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The Marianist Volunteer Program Announces:
Two to join Marianist Volunteer Community in Malawi!
The Marianist Volunteer Program would like to welcome Chris Tavares and Alyson Youngpeter to the ranks of MVP! Chris and Alyson have committed to serve with the Marianist Volunteer Program in Karonga, Malawi from August 2009 to August 2011.
They will be joining Matt Meyers, Molly Heineman and Kat Brumm, who have been serving in Karonga at Chaminade Secondary School and MIRACLE since August 2008. Chris and Alyson will fill openings in the community when UD grads Sarah Wdowiak and Emily Richardson finish their two-year term of service this coming August.
Thank you to all of our volunteers for the amazing work that you do. We are so proud of you and you are always in our prayers. And welcome Chris and Alyson! www.marianist.com/mvp.
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Preparations for the International Meeting of Lay Marianist - Nairobi Kenya August 1-7, 2009
Much effort has already gone into the planning for this every 3 year event - the coming together of representatives from Marianist Lay communities all over the world.
Here are excerpts from letter by the President of International Marianist Lay Communities, Anthony Garascia to all members of Marianist Lay communities: 
.."As part of that preparation the International Team invites you to participate in the survey of Marianist Lay Communities. The theme of our International gathering is "Marianist Lay Communities in the Church and in the World". The survey that accompanies this letter is the first step in the writing of a document that will address how we lay Marianists participate both in the Church and in the world.
You can download the survey and submit to your Regional representative or submit on-line after your Regional Rep has input your name. Please, feel free to print the survey and use it as a reflection material in your next community meeting, but remember that the answers have to be individual. Please, take into account that we need time to gather all the answers and to write the
document; we beg you please to send your reply before April 30
Full text of the President's letter
The delegates representing North America are:
Anthony Garascia - President
Susan Vogt- USA Delegate
Jacqui Griswold - USA Delegate
Lisa Vega - USA Delegate
Michael Pera - USA Delegate
Julie Nagasako - USA Delegate
Marie-Paule Gu�nette - Canada (Quebec) Delegate
Marg Van Herk - Paradis - Canada Delegate
Jack Ventura, SM - Advisor
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Discussion Resources for Marianist Communities/Groups
The Northwest Earth Institute offers some excellent discussion courses aimed at helping participants see how we can all be involved in creating a more sustainable future. The courses they offer include:
- Global Warming: Changing CO2urse - A four-session course exploring the history and science of global warming, personal values and habits as they relate to climate change, and personal actions to curb the effects of global warming.
- Choices for Sustainable Living - A seven-session course exploring the meaning of sustainable living and the ties between lifestyle choices and their impact on ecological systems.
- Menu for the Future - A six-session course exploring the connection between food and sustainability.
- Voluntary Simplicity - A five-session course addressing the distractions of modern society that keep us from caring for ourselves, our relationships, and the environment.
- Healthy Children, Healthy Planet - A seven-session course that discusses how the pervasive effects of advertising, media, and our consumer culture can influence a child's view of the world.
- Discovering a Sense of Place - A seven-session course focusing on knowing and protecting our place.
- Exploring Deep Ecology - An eight-session course addressing core values and how they affect the way we view and treat the earth.
Discussion guides are $20. For more information or to order click here
Jim Vogt, jimvogt2@yahoo.com. 859-291-6197 www.msjc.net
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NEW COMMUNITY!
The newly formed intergenerational lay community in Baltimore recently held a Seder meal at the home of Tina Bauman. The community was formed as a result of members participation in the Marianist Lay Formation Initiative last year. The community is In the process of choosing a name - and exploring Marianist Spirituality with "Things Marianist", available through www.NACMS.org
Pictured are community members and guests,
Alexis Stock, Tina Bauman, Bill Bauman, Fr. Rich Kuhn, Pati Krasensky, Beth Wood, Matt Richards, Anna Tusim
Tina's granddaughter, Teghan, helps in the washing of the hands.
Anyone in the Baltimore area, ages 22-82! who would like to join us for a meeting, please contact Beth Wood
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Mary: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Our vowed brothers and sisters conduct retreats every Summer to experience the love of God through the "flow of grace." This year they have generously offered to include interested Lay Marianists. The retreat theme is "Mary: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow." 
It will be offered at 5 different locations on five different weeks with different presenters at each location. It will be geared to the vowed members of our Family and will cost $500. Each retreat will begin Sunday evening and conclude the following Saturday at noon.
If you are interested contact Donna Tucker at dtucker@sm-usa.org or 314.533.1207.
Here is the schedule with locations:
* Tecaboca at Ingram, Texas May 31 to June 6.
* Bergamo Center at Dayton, Ohio June 21 to June 27.
* Saint Anthony retreat Center at Honolulu, Hawaii July 12 to July 18.
* Marianist Retreat Center at Eureka, Missouri July 19 to July 25.
* Oblate Renewal Center at San Antonio, Texas July 26 to August 1.
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 Letter to the Editor 3/13/09
(Michela Buccini is a volunteer with the Passionists in Jamaica.)
I just got done reading the MLNNA Newsletter that was sent out today. I saw the picture and read that the communities had their retreat this past weekend. The picture of them walking back from mass in the woods was beautiful. I started to think back to when the Embers were forming and how much we have grown since then.
Since March 6 we have had 11 women from Our Lady of the Elms College down here visiting and doing service with us. One of their leaders, Sister Maureen, and I got into talking. She mentioned that the group of the girls down there had really started to come together and she didn't expect many of them to go on the trip because of some of the things they were involved on campus with. Some of her strongest leaders in the group have never been involved with Campus Ministry. Those people reminded me of myself. It took until junior year for me to kick back into gear and really start growing in my faith again. Then the Embers came along and there is no turning back!
We got into talking about what being a Lay Marianist is. I told them about the charism and how the Embers has been my support system in making sure that I am trying to live out being a Marianist.
I am very excited for these next groups that are forming. They are in my thoughts and prayers as they continue their journey.
Sending my love and some sunshine!
Michela Buccini
Kingston 8
Jamaica, West Indies
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Editor's Note
 Submit your article for the next newsletter by May 10th.
Share your community or personnal experiences with your fellow Lay Marianists.
Send article and pictures to Jacqui Griswold, 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
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.
Thanks for reading to the end.
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