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 to MLNNA in AUGUSTAndrew & Jama Badinghaus Mary Pat Sjostrom - Michael Gillespie
- John Burke
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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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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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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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Quicklinks
E-News (this document) and Saying Yes Archive
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For Whom Shall We Pray?
For Bishop Ray Roussin, Sherrie McKenney,
Barry Clark, Charlie, Brother Ray Fitz, Tim Beach, Brother Jerry Chinchar, Ritter Werner, Mary Reaman, Jim Schutte, Dan Huser,
Sister Audrey Buttner and Robert Bowen;
For the Clark family, the Winchester family, the Pohl family;
For the displaced teachers of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia that they find a new place for their ministry;
For the sister of Maria Gomez who is going through a difficult time. May she come out of this storm stronger;
In thanksgiving for the Marianist Family as we celebrate this wonderful feast of the Assumption of Mary;
For Claire Lyon - Mom of Len Lyon, lay marianist in NY. Full recovery;
For the job Interview of Joseph George Strankavage --and a personal intention;
For the souls and families of Mel Lopez, Kate Fitzgerald and Betty Young;
For all those in transition;
For our Novices - Brandon, Nhan, Norm, Andrew, and Hugo and hopefully Michael as well as our new aspirants - Alejo, Louie, and Mark;
For the staff and families of week 9 at Cape May;
For Brother Tom and Fr Tim at Cape May Point;
For Anna Tracy and all those dealing with chemo and its consequences;
For the unemployed, especially those interviewing this week;
For Clare and her family;
For all those starting back to school;
For all of us for greater awareness of our own goodness in the eyes of God and
For the mother of Christine Wysong.
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JUST FOR FUN
I work in an office. More and more we are using teleconferences to conduct our business. Here is a 'Dilbert' type interpretation of how some days go. I thought those who have been on calls with multiple people would enjoy.
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BONJOUR!!
AJ Wagner, President of MLNNA
 | It is called the Centre Marianiste d'�ducation de la Foi. It is located in Saint-Henri, Qu�bec, Canada, just a few miles from Qu�bec City. It is a special place, a holy place, where vowed and lay Marianists work together to bring Christ to the world. This past weekend the Centre celebrated its tenth year of developing and running formation programs in community, prayer, faith, evangelism, sacrament, healing and more.
Over the past ten years hundreds of volunteers have made the Centre viable while working in a pastoral atmosphere along the banks of the Etchemin River. Here is where the idea of a discipleship of equals comes alive thus making Blessed William Joseph Chaminade's dream of community into a success story.
In his book, Origins of the Marianist Family, Eduardo Benlloch, SM, writes of Chaminade's sodalities as "a mystery of grace, of struggle against evil and the total victory of good." He continues,
"The missionary project of Father Chaminade was to re-Christianize France as a Missionary Apostolic. The parish was the organization to develop Christianity. The sodality of Father Chaminade was composed of every class of persons and its purpose was to re-Christianize France through the influence of good, to re-weave the tapestry of Christianity in society."
The how and why of it, according to Benlloch:
"As we have said he thought of the ideal community as that which is presented in the Acts of the Apostles. Within that community the men and the women evangelized each other, slowly forming each other in faith while at the same time drawing others to be part of the community. It was the community itself through its lifestyle that brought about conversions."
The anniversary celebration of the Centre Marianiste consisted of workshops, food, Mass with the Bishop and a musical celebration led by the La Famille Roberge-Dion, the Marianist equivalent of the Trapp Family from the Sound of Music. "Alleluia" was sung more times than an Easter Week marathon.
And why not. The struggle against evil was being won by every class of persons in a place where "Missionnaire Apostolique" is well understood.
peace and love,
aj
P.S. Thank you for the input and well wishes regarding my decision about running for re-election as President of MLNNA. For many reasons I have decided not to run. I owe you many thanks for the honor, but that will come later. I will remain President until June 30, 2011. Please consider running for President or Communications Coordinator. Nominations will close September 20th.
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LEADERSHIP POSITIONS FOR OUR FUTURE
Nominations Due by September 20th
Please give prayerful consideration to nominating yourself or someone else for President and Communications Coordinator of MLNNA. If you have a question or if you decide to give it a go, contact Marge Cavanaugh at jcavana@verizon.net or Pati Krasensky at patikras@Hotmail.com who are Nominating Committee members and they will tell you more.
Job Descriptions:
President: Elected
*Officer of the Corporation
*Facilitate Leadership Team meetings & conference calls
*Set Agenda for all meetings & conference calls
*Represent MLNNA to other branches of the Marianist Family as requested
*Serve the Marianist Family Council of North America as official MLNNA representative
*Write a biannual report to be sent with brochure for fund raising
*Make state of the MLNNA report at each Continental Assembly
Communications: Elected
* Responsible for information for E News
* Leadership Team meetings highlights
* Community news from area representatives
* Marianist Family Council of North America information and area Councils
* News as appropriate from other branches of the Family
* Promote MLNNA
* Maintain MLNNA web page
* Work with the Chair of the Continental Assembly to advertise Assembly
Both the President and the Communications Director are a part of the Leadership Team.
Leadership Team:
*Attend face to face meetings two times per year
*Attend all conference calls
*Carry out duties of elected office
*Perform tasks per the minutes of meetings and conference calls
*Maintain frequent contact through e-mail
*Help other team members as necessary |
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Bridges at the Wedding
By Kathleen Henriksen
On July 24th Katie Hill (Bridges Community) & Alex Orlowski (Leaven Community) were married in Naperville, IL. Many family and friends, including several UD Grads & Fellow Lay Marianists were there to help them celebrate their special day.
Picture:
Bridges Michelle Wintering, Kathleen Henriksen, Caitlin Jacob, Mike
McArtor, MJ Pirages & Andrew Gerbetz helped celebrate with Mrs.
Katie Hill.
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Please respond to Survey - evaluation for
8th Lay Marianist Continental Assembly
Ke Aloha, Ka Pono, Ka Ohana
If you attended the Hawaii Assembly, please take a few minutes and fill out the evaluation form and mail it in so the leadership team will have your opinions to pass on to the next planning team? In my opinion
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Adele Social Justice Project Immersion is THIS Weekend-- September 17-19th
Join other young adults (ages 22-40) in downtown Indy for a weekend experience to learn and share about ways to make a difference in your community while reflecting on local social justice topics through the lens of the Marianist charism. Weekend highlights will include:
-service projects to Urban Mountain Farms,
Cathedral Soup Kitchen and the La Fiesta prep.
-guest speakers
-preparing and sharing meals with local ingredients
-interactive presentations based on social justice themes like "Joining Voices with the Voiceless" and "Passion for the Mission"
For details and registration go to: www.msjc.net/adelesocialjustice
*Not technically a young adult or can't make it the whole weekend? We'd still love for you to join us for 11:00 am Mass at
St. Bernadette's
4838 Fletcher Avenue
Indianapolis, IN 46203-1642
Sunday Sept. 19th followed by sharing of lunch with the immersion participants as well as other lay Marianists in the region.
If you can't make if for mass just come and share lunch at
Noon (note this is a change from previously posted time)
at St. Bernadette's retreat center.
Please RSVP to Sarah Luckhaupt at luckhasm@gmail.com if you'd like to come.
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NACMS On-Line Courses
 We invite you to take some time this fall and winter and reflect on what it means to be a member of the Marianist Family. The North American Center for Marianist Studies (NACMS) provides the following online virtual learning courses (vlc) Justice, Leadership, and Prayer to participation and reflection.
The goals of the vlc are twofold: 1) to explore Marianist concepts and 2) to build community through reflection and interaction on course content.
Winter Courses which will run from October 24-November 27
(Register NOW Sept 7 thru October 20)
Winter Course Descriptions
Leadership
There are over 58,000 books on leadership at Amazon.com. If you change your search to "servant leadership" the number dwindles to about 400. We narrow our focus even more in this course as we look to writings on Father Chaminade's teachings regarding leadership and integrate these thoughts with contemporary servant leadership skills.
Justice
How did you feel after reading the headlines this morning? Overwhelmed? Angry? Alone? Our course on Marianist Social Justice reminds us of the long journey Marianists have taken together to fight for Social Justice around the world. This might not be a term that was spoken in our Founders time, but standing for equality was witnessed in their actions. This course allows us to remember where the Marianist Family started as we share our hopes and dreams for the future.
Prayer
Father Chaminade writes that faith "is the most useful of all the virtues." . . . God's truth, for those who receive it with simplicity of heart, penetrates to the core, dispelling pretense and obscurity. It causes us to pass "from darkness into God's marvelous light." (1 Pet 2: 9) Let's gather to enrich and enliven our prayer lives together.
(All courses provided in continuing education format. Registration fee $40.)
How Do I Register?
To register, visit http://vlc.udayton.edu/register, and when asked for the Diocese/Partner to which you belong, select "North American Center for Marianist Studies (NACMS)" in the registration field. Class size will be limited to 12 participants. Basic computer skills are required, and it is important for participants to keep up with course content. |
SUPPORT (NOTE we have changed our online provider)
You can support your Network of Lay Marianists either through the on-line secure link to
JUST GIVE or via mail. Network for Good our previous provider increased their service fees and we felt that we needed to find an alternative service provider.
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 JUST GIVE
NOTE we have changed our online provider for secure donations due to increase in processing fees. In order to be good stewards of our funds, we have identified an alternative. Please note the Network for Good website is no longer active in case you bookmarked the previous link.
orIf 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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YOU ARE INVITED
Open House and Centennial Celebration on the
Mount St. John property (Dayton, Ohio)
When:
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Noon to 4:00 p.m.
Presentation at 2:00 p.m.
Where:
On the Mount St. John grounds
(Details to come in the formal invitation)
To receive your invitation, please call 937-429-2521,
or write to: MSJ Centennial, Mount St. John,
4435 East Patterson Road, Dayton, Ohio 45430-1083
or email: msjcentennial@yahoo.com
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Editor's Reflection
By Jacqui Griswold
Praying for Rain.
My yard is so dry and my flowers have no color due to the consecutive days of 90 degree temperatures and no rain. I remember in the Spring when it seemed that we were getting rain every other day - one of the wettest on record while the month of August was the driest in history.
For what do we pray? For the people in Pakistan who are suffering with severe flooding? Or the soldiers serving in the 100+ degree heat in Afghanistan. We are a global community where the needs of my family here in Indiana are known but also the problems and suffering of people all over the world come to me in news reports everyday. Our local Carmelite monastery had a ministry called "Pray the News". I think this is a good way to handle all the news that we now receive. It doesn't make the prayer for my immediate need any less but it helps me to keep perspective and bringing to prayer all those I hear about each day.
May you find a silent time each day to reflect and pray for our global community.
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You may notice that this month's newsletter is being sent a few days late.(Normally it is sent 2nd Friday of each month) I just returned from a wonderful vacation in northern Wisconsin and wasn't able to get it all together before I left. I hope you also may find time to get away from your everyday routine to gain a fresh perspective on life.
Like AJ, I have been praying about the coming MLNNA election and whether to put my name in for nomination for another term. Like many others, I push the limits of the time given to make a decision. Please pray for my discernment and peace with the decision.
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This is YOUR news. What's happening with your community? The purpose of this communication is to share happening that may inspire other lay Marianists about things which might be replicated and also just to help connect us across the miles.
Send me a summary of what you are doing. If you have any suggestions to make the E-news better, I'm open to hearing from you :>
Keep your text short and describe who, what, why, when and how. Deadline for the next E-news is Oct. 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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