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Greetings!
Greetings from Maryknoll!
Can there ever be too much of a good thing? We have a lot of great things happening that we want to share with you this month, from movies to retreats to parish missions to the LA Congress to a trip to El Salvador to a Walk Against Genocide and more. So without further ado, here they are.
We hope to see you soon!
Peace,
Matt
Deacon Matt Dulka
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 Movie Night: Slumdog Millionaire
Monday, March 7th
6:30 pm
Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is just one question away from winning a fortune on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But how has this uneducated young man from the slums succeeded in providing correct responses to questions that have stumped countless scholars before him? And will he ultimately win it all or lose everything, including his true love?
This movie is offered in conjunction with the St. John the Baptist Parish Faith Formation Program. A discussion of the film will follow.
NOTE: The movie will be shown at the Maryknoll Center, not the Meeting Room by the Gym. |
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Eve of Holy Week Retreat: Living the Paschal Mystery
Friday, April 15 to
Sunday, April 17
Join us for a special retreat weekend to center ourselves in preparation for Holy Week, the Triduum and the great Easter season. Through silence, communal prayer, reflection on Scripture and faith sharing, we will meditate on Jesus' invitation to enter with him into the Paschal Mystery so that we can become an Easter People to carry on his mission.
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Visit our booth at the LA Religious Education Congress
March 18-20
Anaheim Convention Center
Join us at the LA Congress for a special celebration of our 100th Anniversary. Visit our booth for mission education resources and a chance to win a free netbook when you sign up for the Maryknoll Magazine or REVISTA.
Stop by our Hospitality Suite at the Marriott on Friday night.
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Bay Area Social Justice Forum
On Saturday, March 19, 2011, Holy Names University will host the Bay Area Social Justice Forum along with co-sponsors the Diocese of Oakland, Global Solidarity Team, JustFaith Ministries, Sisters of St. Francis of Penance and Christian Charity, Sisters of the Holy Family, Fremont, CA, St. Anne Catholic Church, Stop Slavery, and the Northern CA Coalition of Catholic Sisters.
The morning and afternoon keynote speakers will be Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, Executive Director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, (CLUE) and Joe Grant, Co-Founder and Chairperson of Crossroads Ministry, a justice-based retreat center in Louisville, KY.
The workshops will be held in the Valley Center for the Performing Arts, Holy Names University, 3500 Mountain Blvd, Oakland, CA 94619. To learn more and register for the forum please click here.
Visit Deacon Herb and Peggy Casey at our Maryknoll table for mission and social justice resources. Maryknoll is a proud member of the co-sponsoring Global Solidarity Team. |
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Lenten Parish Mission: From Blindness into the Light, Become the Light of the World
Saturday, April 2nd to
Wednesday, April 6
St. John the Baptist, San Lorenzo
Join us for a Lenten Parish Mission at St. John the Bapist in San Lorenzo. Like the blind man in John's Gospel, many of us live our lives with blinders on, not fully aware of the gift of God's love all around us. Jesus invites us to be healed of our blindness and to enter into the light of God's love. Bathed in that light, Jesus then send us out to continue his mission to be the Light of the World!
Our Maryknoll team will preach at all the weekend masses.
Saturday: Vigil 4:30 pm (English) 6:30pm (Hispanic)
Sunday: 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 am, 2:00 pm (Hispanic)
There will be an open House at the Maryknoll Regional Center after all the masses.
Mission Sessions on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday:
- Morning Sessons 9:15 am (following daily mass)
- Evening Sessions 7:00 pm
- Sessions in both English and Spanish
- Wednesday 7pm Session includes a Reconciliation Service with the opportunity for private confession
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Join Team Maryknoll to Walk Against Genocide
Sunday, April 10, 2011, 12 Noon
Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA
Around the world, Maryknoll missioners
minister to the victims of genocide.
Join TEAM MARYKNOLL and the interfaith community from across the Bay Area in raising the visibility and voices of survivors and descendants of past genocides, raising funds for ongoing services to conflict-affected civilians, and advocating to end and prevent genocide.
Join Team Maryknoll as walker or sponsor us with a donation to help support this cause. Click here for more information.
The Walk will benefit the work of American Jewish World Service and Catholic Relief Services in conflict zones and the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition, the walk's sponsor. For more information and to register for the Walk, please visit www.walkagainstgenocide.org. Call 510-286-7919 with questions. |
Maryknoll Mission Pilgrimage in El Salvador
For Religious, Deacons and Wives and Laity
May 31 - June 8, 2011
Casa Clementina - San Salvador.
The Maryknoll Mission Pilgrimage/Retreat to El Salvador is open to Religious and Laity. Participants will visit the sites of some of the martyrs of El Salvador, including the tomb of Bishop Oscar Romero, the Rose Garden where the Jesuit Martyrs are buried, the site of the massacre of the Four Churchwomen, the parish church where Padre Rutilio Grande is buried.
Retreatants will have the opportunity of meeting and engaging in conversation with missioners, as well as local church people living and working in El Salvador, oftentimes in very challenging circumstances.
A highlight of the Pilgrimage/Retreat will be a side-trip to the site of the Rio Sumpul massacre and overnight stay in the little town of Arcatao, where survivors of that massacre of over 600 people are struggling to create alternative economic opportunities for themselves and their children.
Cost: Program fee of $625.00 plus airfare fee. Program fee covers all costs, including meals, accommodations, covers extensive reading materials.
For more information click here. |
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Reflection on our recent Retreat Weekend
 Don Henely's song "The Heart of the Matter" talks about forgiveness, even if you don't love me anymore. We used that song as a meditation at our liturgy during our Forgiveness Retreat this weekend. As it played in the chapel, the fifteen of us on the retreat together hung homemade peace cranes on a bare branch.
The visual image as the branch came alive with the color of the birds was stunning. Perhaps what made it so impressive to us was the hard work and frustration that went into making the cranes. While I thought I was quite skilled at making paper airplanes and those little triangular "footballs" we used in school, the cranes were surprisingly difficult.
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Immersion Trip to East Africa
Join Deacon Matt Dulka and a small group to Kenya and Tanzania, June 22 to July 12 to visit the people and places where Maryknoll ministers. The trip will begin and end in Nairobi with travels to Arusha, Mwanza and Musoma. It will also include a visit to the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. Approximate cost is $1500-1800 plus airfare. Contact Deacon Matt for more details. |
Lunch with Jesus: Weekly Liturgy and Potluck
Wednesdays
12:15 pm Liturgy
12:45 pm Potluck Lunch
Maryknoll Center Chapel
One of the most significant ways in which Jesus did mission was around table, sharing a meal. Join us at our weekly liturgy (Mass if a priest is present, otherwise Liturgy of the Word with Communion) in our Chapel, followed by a potluck lunch in our Dining Room.
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Taize Prayer Gathering
Second
Wednesday of the Month
at 7 pm
Next :
Wednesday, Mar. 9th (Ash Wed.)
Taize is a meditative common prayer using song, chants, scripture, reflection and periods of contemplative silence, a prayer that does not end, but continues in the silence of the heart. Within this sacred space one is drawn into a deeper awareness of God's presence; it is a prayerful opportunity for self-reflection.
Contemplative prayer is seen as a critical path in mission. It is through prayer that we are connected with God and it is in the silence of our hearts that God communicates and shares with us God's mission of love for the world.
Taize will be held the second Wednesday of every month in the Chapel at the Maryknoll Center at 16642 Ashland Avenue, San Lorenzo. The hour long service will start at 7:00 p.m. with Ruth Picha. Ruth is a Spiritual Director, who trained at Mercy Center in Burlingame.
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Mission Education & Promotion
Western Region
Regional Center
16642 Ashland Ave.
San Lorenzo, California 94580
General Hours
Mon-Fri 9 am to 4 pm
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