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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Quicklinks
MLNNA Website NEW, NEW, NEW
NOTE:The 2010 Continental Assembly Registration Form is available
E-News (this document) and Saying Yes Archive
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International President of Lay Marianists Communities
Isabella Moyers has a new blog
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 Add a Little Zest to Community Life
Life can be a struggle. With its mix of personalities, schedules, commitment levels and effort, community life can be even more so.
Sometimes the community struggle might be with an individual member - someone who talks too much, someone who is always late or never comes, or someone who won't stop talking about themselves.
Sometimes the struggle might be the community - no one makes meeting a priority, there is no connection between members, there is no direction, it's become a chore or it's become dull and boring.
The result is a lackluster community experience that makes community more and more difficult to sustain.
The Marianist Lay Formation Initiative (MLFI) and MLNNA can help your community when it comes to these struggles. MLFI is sponsored, in part, by your contributions to MLNNA. Through MLFI you can be put in contact with a mentor who is willing to work with your community, to help it revive or to help you address a specific problem or challenge. Your community may find comfort working with someone steeped in the Marianist spirit who wants to walk with your community.
If you are interested contact Pati Krasensky, Director of MLFI at patikras@Hotmail.com or at 215-634-4116. She would love to hear from you.
peace and love,
aj
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"We, being many, are one body in Christ.... Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them" Romans 12:5-6
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Adele Social Justice Project
Building Community for the Common Good
The Adele Social Justice Project
invites you to an evening
of food, friends & faith
Saturday, November 14, 2009
From 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Share a glass of wine and your thoughts with us
We invite all of those excited about social justice and young adult ministry to join us in Dayton on Saturday Nov. 14th to share your thoughts and insights or to just learn more about how the Adele Social Justice Project can encourage and support both. Drinks and munchies will be served throughout the evening. Feel free to bring a friend!
Join us at the FMI (Marianist sisters) house at 30 Sawmill Rd.
(corner of Sawmill and Rubicon Rd )
Phone (937) 224-5896 for directions
Questions or RSVP to Amy 216-548-6126
Join Our Mailing List!
MSJC
Jim Vogt, Director
Covington, Kentucky 451015
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Photos and music from Nairobi 2009
Enjoy.....and sing-a-long
the Swaheli and English words are below :-)
JAMBO, JAMBO BWANA!!! (Hello, Hello, Sir)
HABARI GANI? (Any news y'all?)
NZURI SANA (Very well)
WAGENI (visitors)
MWAKARIBISHWA (may you all be welcome)
KENYA YETU (to our Kenya)
HAKUNA MATATA (there's no problem)
Kwaheri (bye)
3 of the US delegates to the 5th International Lay Marianist Meeting in Nairobi: Lisa Vega, Julie Nagasako, Michael Pera
JD
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FINANCES
The once a year mailing to all our members is coming soon. Please consider our mission and your commitment to support its ministries.
If you would like to support MLNNA through on-line secure link - click below
 Donations to the Marianist Lay Network of North America can be sent electronically through this link to Network for Good.
Your contributions support projects to assist lay community development (MLFI), social justice (MSJC) and our administrative office support. We want to do more but our funds our limited.
THANK-YOU to those who Contributed to MLNNA in October
- John Eise
- Michael Gillespie
- Jim Pera
- Marilyn Schwieterman
- Cathy Embers
- Bud and Jean Nickelman
- Nazareth Community
- Marianist State (of Religious Living in the World) Community
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Northeast Lay Marianists Gather, Share Resources, and Plan for Future
On September 19, the Marianist Center in Philadelphia hosted a gathering for lay Marianists in the northeast to share updates and brainstorm for future programs, activities, and local faith community support. Pati Krasensky and Brian Reavey facilitated the event for the various lay groups.
Each lay community was asked to send at least one representative, and as it turned out, more than twenty people representing fifteen different communities attended. In addition, three Marianist priests seeking greater collaboration with lay people in the northeast also participated (Frs. Ted Cassidy, Rich Kuhn, and Paul Landolfi).
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A LESSON FROM THE GOOSE
When you see geese heading south for the winter flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% more flying range than possible if each bird flew on its own. People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going more quickly because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.
When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to go it alone, and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird in front. If we have as much sense as a goose, we will stay in formation with those who are headed the same way.
When the lead goose gets tired, it rotates back in the wing and another goose flies point. It is sensible to take turns doing demanding jobs when working with others.
Geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed. Encouragement is motivating.
Finally -- and this is very important -- when a goose gets sick or wounded by gunshot and falls out of formation, two other geese fall out with that goose and follow it down to lend help and protection. They stay with the fallen goose until it is able to fly or until it dies. Only then do they launch out on their own or with another formation to catch up with their group.
How wonderful it would be if we had the sense of a goose, and would stand by each other in like manner.
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1) Make use of your reusable shopping bags. With all the shopping you will be doing this season, put those reusable shopping bags in your car so you have them with you when you go into the store. 
2) Try and purchase locally grown foods. When possible buy organic and locally grown foods. Also, pay attention to packaging. The less packaging the better.
3) If you are traveling make sure your car is in good working order. At the minimum, make sure the tires are properly inflated. If flying, consider buying carbon credits to offset your portion of carbon dioxide emissions generated by your flight.
4) Cook less food. Typically, we prepare twice as much food as is needed, and much of this goes to waste. When making your menu, consider real portion size for our guests, and relook at the number of dishes and desserts on your list.
5) Say thank you for all those you are blessed to have in your life and a special prayer for the growers and preparers of the food on our table.
For more tips for a greener Thanksgiving go to link
Go to http://www.catholicsandclimatechange.org to be a part of the solution.
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ONLINE SHOPPING
Every time you shop online at your favorite stores you could be saving money and earning a donation for MLNNA.
The toolbar, developed by GoodSearch & GoodShop takes just a few seconds to download. More than 1,300 top stores including Apple, Best Buy, Gap, PetSmart, and Staples are pitching in and will donate a percentage of each sale to our organization. There's no extra cost to you and you may even save money as the merchants are providing us thousands of money-saving coupons!
The GoodSearch toolbar also includes a search box which is powered by Yahoo! Each time you search the web, about a penny is donated to us!
There's no easier way to help MLNNA. Please spread the word!
Here's a link to the new toolbar for more information: http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/
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Editor's Request
I'm working on the Prayer
BOOK resource that I mentioned a few months ago. I want to solicit
material from our members. Do you have a prayer or prayer service that
you have used in a community gathering? We want to collect these as a
resource for others to use. IDEA BOOK for Community Gatherings. The 5 Charism's of Marianist will be our chapters: Faith, Mission, Community, Inclusivity and Mary.
I'm sure you have a file drawer with those good prayers or prayer services your community used. Take a couple minutes and scan/copy or send electronically to me.
NEXT MONTH'S E-NEWS
What's happening with your community? Send me a summary of what you are doing that might be educational or inspirational for another community.
Submit an article about the news from your community. Keep copy short and describe who, what, why, when and how. Deadline for the next E-news is Dec. 7th.
If possible provide a digital picture (JPEG format 100 - 900K) with your news story. Send to Jacqui Griswold, MLNNA editor
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.
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