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John Burke

 

Matt Dunn

 

Michael  Gillespie

 

Jacqui Griswold

 

Jill Hilgefort

 

Carole King

 

Micah Community (Dayton, OH)

 

Fr. Al McMenamy, SM


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Upcoming Dates

March 11

House Mass and Brunch sponsored

by Edgar and Nassau Communities in Dayton

 

also

 

Marianist Family in Dayton gathering to discuss efforts at better collaboration

March 19

Solemnity of St. Joseph

 

March 26
Feast of the Annunciation (observed)

 

Stay Here and Watch With Me

 Jesus in Garden

With Lent well under way we hope you have been inspired by our Lenten "Spring Training" series, sent each Wednesday in the form of an email letter/reflection from MLNNA President, Rudy Reyes, Jr. The series will continue until the Wednesday of Easter week.

 

This week's letter focused on prayer and Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.

 

In light of our on-going series I will keep this newsletter short! I offer a brief prayer and just a few things to follow!

 

May your Lenten journey result in many Easter blessings!

 

  

Take Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all that I have and possess. Thou hast given all to me. To Thee, O lord, I return it. All is Thine, dispose of it wholly according to Thy will. Give me Thy love and thy grace, for this is sufficient for me.

Ignatius Loyola

 

Peace and Love,

Matt Dunn
Editor

 
Featured Links

 

 

Most of thse are repeats from last month. There are also a couple new ones.Lent

 

American Catholic

 

Bread for the World (resources for prayer, fasting, almsgiving)

 

Busted Halo (has an annual Lenten calendar with daily reflections and suggestions)

 

Catholic Relief Services- Operation Rice Bowl

 

Susan Vogt's Blog (following her Lenten journey to do the Natoinal Food Stamp  Challenge to eat on $4.50 a day)

 

US Catholic

 

US Conference of Catholic Bishops

 

 

 

NEW!!

  

Our Marianist Family in Spain offers 40 days of reflections about 40 of the least countries around the world. Read a brief explanation by Isabella Moyer, President of the International Organization of Marianist Lay Communities and follow her links to see the 40-day calendar in English, Spanish, and French.

 

 

Humorous Thoughts on Fasting:

The Skinny On Fasting
The Skinny On Fasting

 

 

If you have your own suggestions please share them with us on our Facebook page!

Share Your Stories!

 

Don't be the proverbial lamp under the bushel basket! 

light under basket

 

 

We'd love to feature a new/different community or even an individual lay Marianist in each issue of the newsletter. As a community of communities we want to remember and celebrate that we are all companions on this journey inspired by Fr. Chaminade, Adele, and Marie Therese. If you have a prayer service to share, meeting topic suggestions, stories about social experiences or service projects please let us know!! If you know a lay Marianist doing great things let us know so we can give them a shout out! You can send stories and pictures to laymarianist@gmail.com to be included in our newsletter!

  

Thanks for reading to the end!