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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MAP of Marianist Lay Community locations
here is the link
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President of International Lay Marianist Communities
Here's the link to Isabella
Moyer's blog
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THANK-YOU
to those who contributed to MLNNA in MayAndrew & Jama Badinghaus Antoinette Becher John Burke Marcel Dion John Eise Brenda & Kevin Fitzpatrick Michael Gillespie Micah Community Miryam Marianist Lay Community Marceta Reilly Karen Seitz Mary Pat Sjostrom
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MLNNA Proceeds
year to date
GoodSearch $20.60 & GoodShop $35.87 for a total $56.47
Thanks for using online search engine GoodSearch & entering merchants' websites through Good Shop
Each time you search the web, about a penny is donated to us!
Here's a link to the new toolbar for more information: http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/
If you ENTER a business' website through the GOOD SHOP link - a percentage of each sale to our organization. There's no extra cost to you. More than 1,300 top stores participate.
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Adele Social Justice Project - Indianapolis
Save the Date
Indianapolis Social Justice Immersion
September 17-19, 2010
All young adults (22-40) in the Indy region are invited to participate.
Watch for more details in coming months.
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The Lay Marianist Daily Reflection
Our new Facebook
page, Lay Marianist, has attracted some followers. Everyday there is a
one or two sentence reflection posted on Lay Marianist but if you are
not a Facebook fan, you can join our daily reflections by e-mailing aj@marianistfamily.org
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PLEASE PRAY FOR
the following who were brought to our attention on the Facebook page 'Lay Marianist':
For the healing of Mel Lopez, Diane Wourms, Sherrie McKinney, Bishop Ray Roussin, Glen Bergeron, Kay Stone, Stephanie Alverez, Rich Czarney, Kristi Wuebben and the family of Karen Tays.
For Manuel Iceta, SM, for the Lord to welcome his soul.
For the Marianist Community in Ireland
For the oil disaster in the Gulf. For the workers trying to stop it, the fishermen and all those economically affected, and for the environment and animals impacted by the oil.
For the students and staff of Lake High School in Northwest Ohio. Most of the school was destroyed in a tornado.
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Quicklinks
MLNNA Website
includes Hawaii Continental Assembly PARTICIPANT Information
E-News (this document) and Saying Yes Archive
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"YOUR INPUT NEEDED"
Brother Steve Glodek, Provincial for the Society of Mary in the United States, calls the new strategic plan of the brothers "Apostolic Imagination and Daring." You may hear it referred to as Vision 20/20, but "Imagination and Daring" best captures the breadth and scope of change faced by our religious brothers over the next decade. They are, however, not alone. We are an important part of the Vision.
Brother Steve notes, "One of Blessed Chaminade's key charismatic
gifts to the Church is the Marianist Family. In his vision we are to
witness in community and mission to what we call today the Marian model of Church. We are to be an ecclesial movement that is inclusive, relational, dialogic and participative, to use the adjectives of Vision 20/20 . . . Our Apostolic Mission.
"The interdependence of the Society of Mary, the Marianist Sisters and the Marianist Lay Communities has always been the vision but has seldom been the reality. A key issue in Vision 20/20 is how t
o do the Marianist in solidarity and collaboration with the other two branches of our family."
Brother Steve further tells the brothers, "We commit ourselves to be partners in mission with the persons and communities of the Marianist Family.
'We have a wonderful history in the United States of creating, building and staffing schools, universities, retreat houses and parishes. We have understood ourselves as the leaders, and more recently, as the sponsors of these institutions. Now we commit ourselves to a large shift in self-understanding: we commit ourselves to be partners in mission.
This reinvigorated self-understanding will be a dramatic shift from authority and control over the mission and ministries to shared responsibility among all collaborators for sponsored apostolic works. This will require a recommitment and deeper appreciation of Chaminade's project and an openness and humility to learn from our partners in this great missionary project."
Brother Steve is challenging the brothers to a new self-understanding. At the same time he is challenging us to the same thing. We mu
st move from the passive position of being followers and participants, from being a community member, a retreatant, a student, an employee, a staff member, a faculty member or a parishioner to the very active position of being a collaborator in our common mission to bring Christ into our world.
So, a question, and I really want to hear from you on this: How do we best collaborate with our religious brothers and sisters?
Please write me a note at aj@marianistfamily.org and let me know your thoughts.
peace and love,
aj
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Metro Marianist Activity
By Jerry Miron Sr.
As a member of the Washington DC Metro Marianists, I share my time with a Maryland parish. To that end, I serve on an Adult
Faith Formation Committee whose objective for the coming
year will focus on the development of a six week introductory
course about forming friendships in and through the Spirit of God, Spirit of Christ. Using Scripture sources--from Paul onwards, the course would explore a God-Christ Centric foundation) to enable one to engage in such friendship that goes beyond the limits of members only or association. Any comments or help is appreciated by jpmiron@verizon.net
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BRIDGES COMMUNITY RECONNECTS
By Lauren Hackman
The Bridges Lay Community met in Chicago for their 1st Spring Retreat over the June 4-5 weekend. With half of the community in the Chicago area, it made sense to meet up at the Cristo Rey Volunteer House, where one of us is doing two years of service. We are all University of Dayton students/graduates who made our commitment in May 2009, and are now spread throughout the country. The retreat focused on what it means to be a Lay Marianist outside of UD and how we can focus our communal commitment into something concrete. Through blog updates, monthly conference calls, and semi-annual retreats, we hope to hold each other accountable & in prayer as we spread the Marianist Charism.
The members of the community pictured are
 Mike
McArtor, Maryjo Pirages, Patty Lehan, Gretchen Dyer, Lauren Hackman,
and Andrew Gerbetz.
Absent from the photo are Caitlin Jacob, Colleen
Douglass, Kathleen Henriksen, Katie Hill, and Michelle Wintering.
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Marianist LIFE - Celebrating 40 Years
There is a lot to celebrate this Easter season! We celebrate 200+ high school students and 100+ adults planning to attend Marianist LIFE this summer. We celebrate the 40th Anniversary Year of Marianist LIFE, starting in July 2010 and concluding in June 2011. We celebrate the Marianist family, especially the many Brothers, Priests, and Sisters whose powerful witness to Christ alive in our world has inspired our journey and formed our faith in powerful ways. Finally, we celebrate YOU!
40th Anniversary Celebrations
The following regional celebrations have been confirmed and are being planned across the country. We encourage you to contact other (former) LIFErs & Moderators, and come join us! Anyone is invited to attend any of the various celebrations -- they are not region specific to which LIFE program you might have attended. All Are Welcome!
July 17, 2010 - Bergamo Center - Dayton, OH (in conjunction w/ Moderator Days)
July 23, 2010 - Chaminade University - Honolulu, HI (in conjunction w/ Continental Lay Marianist Assembly)
July 24, 2010 - TECABOCA - Mountain Home, TX (in conjunction w/ Visitors' Nights)
January 29, 2011 - St. John Vianney High School - St. Louis, MO (in conjunction w/ Lay Marianist Foundation Day)
TBA - (winter 2011) - Hollywood, FL
Unable to Attend a Regional Celebration?
Celebrate with us in other ways! Consider the following:
email us a favorite LIFE snapshot.
Contact your high school or parish to see if they plan to host and/or organize a 40th Anniversary Mass, Prayer Service, or LIFE Reunion. Feel free to contact us in the National Office for more creative ways to celebrate LIFE during our 40th Anniversary year.
Please keep our upcoming summer LIFE programs and 40th Anniversary Celebrations in your prayers, as we will continue to keep you and your communities in prayer.
With unbounded Easter joy,
brian2
Brian F. Reavey
National Coordinator
Marianist LIFE (Living In Faith Experience)
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World Environment Day - June 5th
Sure, people can participate in this Day in whatever action or commitment they chose, a nice proposal of prayer for individuals, groups, schools, parishes, MLCs, Communities, and so on is provided. This prayer service is prepared for your use in multiple languages.
According to my thought, it might be good if some persons (a lot!) decide to change some habits in order to save the Environment!
Thank you for reading this!
With my best fraternal and "green" prayer and greetings,
Charli Henry Moulin
Commission for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation
USG/UISG Secretariat
Via Aurelia 476,
00165, RomE, Italy
Editor's Note: Charli provided Word documents of a beautiful prayer service in French, English and Spanish. It is not yet posted to a website for me to provide a link but if you are interested, let me know which language you want and I will send the document to you. It would be a great tool in planning a community gathering around ecology/environmental stewardship.
From the beginning paragraph:
"This prayer unfolds in three movements: celebration, lamentation, response. Adapt. Be creative in your use of music, drama and space. Choose from among the scripture offerings. Or you might choose to pray one movement each day."
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8th Marianist Continental Assembly
July 22-25, 2010
Six weeks and counting....
E Komo Mai! We are ready and excited to welcome you to Hawaii!!Back row John Minar, Cathy Agor, Lisa Vega, Bianca Fujita and Jeannie Pinpin Front row Barb Belle, Piikea Hardy-Kahaleoumi, Brother Dennis Schmitz, Kay Stone, Jayne Mondoy  |
All those who have registered for the Assembly - Please go to the MLNNA website for a wealth of information about the assembly schedule and important information to help you plan what to bring.
MLNNA Website
Assembly Workshop Registration Deadline is July 2, 2010. To account for the number of attendees at the workshops, please reserve your space at the workshops ahead of time. You can apply online at www.marianists.com/lay.
 NOTE: Chaminade University Residence Hall housing is FULL. If you still plan to attend, contact Pam Goodman at Oahu Travel for the best rates at a local hotel 808-945-9414. The Assembly registration fee for those not staying in University housing is $150 per person which includes all meals and conference expenses. Go
to the MLNNA website to find a registration form (download it and mail
to Marie Wyman) Payment can be made on-line via the Network for Good link.
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 Marianist resources for individual & community formation
The International Center for Marianist Formation (ICMF) is pleased to offer to all members of the Marianist Family two sets of resources for use in growing in one's understanding and apostolic commitment as a missionary of Mary in the 21st century.
The Stella Maris program and the Spirit of Saragossa Retreat were originally developed as resources for the preparation for perpetual vows in the SM and the FMI. Even as they were being developed, it was clear that these rich resources could be used in contexts other than the original one. While the content and the processes or methods of these programs have their own integrity, they may be creatively adapted to the needs of individuals and communities in any branch of the Marianist Family.
International Center for Marianist Formation - (ICMF) Resource to assist in Marianist formation
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SUPPORT
You can support your Network of Lay Marianists either through the on-line secure link to
Network for Good or via mail. Your contributions
support projects:
* to assist lay community development (MLFI), * social
justice through Marianist Social Justice Collaborative (MSJC) * our administrative office support which allowed us to print and distribute the new brochures on Characteristics of Lay Marianists. This infrastructure also allowed us to quickly collect and distribute funds to our brothers and sisters in Haiti following the earthquake. Link to Network for Good
or If you prefer to donate using the US Mail, please send
checks made payable to MLNNA.
Mailing address is:
Marianist Lay Network of North America
1341 N Delaware Ave, # 406
Philadelphia, PA 19125
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 Editor's Reflection
By Jacqui Griswold
During the past weeks I've been working in my yard, planting flowers and my broken leg bones have healed to the point where I am mowing my own grass.
My accident happened a couple weeks before the Haiti earthquake so I was laying in bed recovering when it happened. I feel a connection to Haiti having been there twice with my parish's Medical Team. But in January, I especially felt connected to all those who were injured but didn't have access to the type of help I did.
I read a reflection from Mercy Sister Karen Schneider, a pediatrician and instructor at Johns Hopkins, who worked in Haiti. This really touched my heart so I want to share with you.
By Jan. 18, six days post earthquake, the food we had been promised had not yet arrived and hunger was spreading. As a medical team we'd been advised to bring enough food and water for 3 days, but by this time I had exhausted the peanut butter and granola bars I had brought. I was attending to James, 17, who had a concrete wall fall on him. It crushed his pelvis, sending a metal bar through his upper leg, through his privates, and into the other leg. Bedridden, James wasn't going anywhere, so I asked him to guard my duffle bag that held all my expensive "doctor Instruments," worth thousands of dollars. He took the job very seriously and when he was sleeping, he would put his arm through the straps.
I had almost forgotten that I had a Ziploc bag of nuts, raisins, and chocolate chips in the duffle bag. When I remembered and retrieved the food, James was staring right at me. I hadn't eaten anything in 12 hours and I was hungry. This boy hadn't eaten anything in days. Still, this was the only food I had left and I had to keep working 20-22 hours a day. No one knew when the promised food would arrive. James was watching me. I took out a handful of nuts and handed them to him. He immediately turned to the person in the next cot and gave half his nuts away; that child turned to the person next to her and gave half her nuts away, and so this went on, down about 6 cots, until the last person got just a few nuts.
Haiti is a country that knows hunger. In fact, it is one of the hungriest countries on earth. James taught me how to share.
As we move into the Summer, let us not forget our brother's and sister's in Haiti and all those who struggle with hunger.
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What's happening with your community? Send me a summary of what you are doing that might be educational or inspirational. If you have any suggestions to make the E-news better, I'm open to hearing from you :>
Keep copy short and describe who, what, why, when and how. Deadline for the next E-news is July 5. If possible provide a digital picture (JPEG format 100 - 900K) with your news story. Send to Jacqui Griswold, MLNNA editor
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