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Submitted by a committee member:
Present: Marta Perez, Rafael Rondon, Betty and Leo Reiter, Mary and Paul Weisenburger Absent: Joyce Davis, Rebecca Mingo, Palma Zanghi We began by discussing the last two meetings: The group had concentrated on sharing about themselves and their parishes so that the group could better discern what each parish's gifts were that could be shared with the other parishes. We decided that each of us would share some unique spirituality events/programs that we would like to better publicize/have better publicized so that members of our sister parishes would feel welcome and encouraged to attend: - Mary Weisenburger mentioned that she would like to better publicize St. Lawrence's devotion to Our Lady of Pescaseroli. St. Lawrence was founded by the Italian community, and one of the parish's popular devotions comes from a town in Italy, Pescaseroli, where a vision of Mary was experienced. The Congrega Society - for both men and women - was founded to promote devotion to Our Lady of Pescaseroli, whose statue is in the Church. Twice a year they hold a special Mass open to the entire community across the WNY area and offer a lunch afterwards. Mary will ask Mary Pachla to make sure that the Masses are publicized for all our parishes. - Betty Reiter, a graduate of the Catholic Biblical School and the certificate program in the CKS Pastoral Ministry program, passed out a slinger for the Women's Retreat she will give: "Theme: Seeing God In All The Stages of our Lives." The retreat will take place on Saturday, October 14, from 8:30 - 2:00 pm at Sts. Columba-Brigid. Lunch will be provided. Cost: $15.00. Betty will get that information out to the parishes. - We discussed how wonderful it would be if a Men's Retreat would be offered at one of our parishes, so that they would be encouraged to witness and share. Betty volunteered to speak with Deacon Don and Deacon Jerry, who would make excellent retreat masters for a Men's Retreat, as they are both Deacons and family men. - Rafael Rondon mentioned that an older woman at Blessed Trinity has a Contemplative Prayer Group, and she is interested in having more members. She uses a book on Contemplative Prayer by Fr. Thomas Keating. We discussed how wonderfully unique this is - we are not aware of any other prayer group in our Family which teaches about contemplative prayer and has its participants pray in this manner together. Rafael was asked to ask this lady about her background and to have her write up a description of her group which could be shared with the rest of the Family. - Rafael mentioned a segment on the Spirituality Pillar on the Diocese of Buffalo app which he says is worth watching. We decided that we would all watch this before we come together again. - Our next meeting is scheduled for Wed. Sept. 27 at 6:30 pm at Blessed Trinity. Present: Marta Perez, Rafael Rondon, Betty and Leo Reiter, Mary and Paul Weisenburger Absent: Joyce Davis, Rebecca Mingo, Palma Zanghi We began by discussing the last two meetings, which Paul and I had missed due to illness. Marta stressed that during the opening meetings, the group had concentrated on sharing about themselves and their parishes so that the group could better discern what each parish's gifts were that could be shared with the other parishes. We decided that each of us would share some unique spirituality events/programs that we would like to better publicize/have better publicized so that members of our sister parishes would feel welcome and encouraged to attend: - Mary Weisenburger mentioned that she would like to better publicize St. Lawrence's devotion to Our Lady of Pescaseroli. St. Lawrence was founded by the Italian community, and one of the parish's popular devotions comes from a town in Italy, Pescaseroli, where a vision of Mary was experienced. The Congrega Society - for both men and women - was founded to promote devotion to Our Lady of Pescaseroli, whose statue is in the Church. Twice a year they hold a special Mass open to the entire community across the WNY area and offer a lunch afterwards. Mary will ask Mary Pachla to make sure that the Masses are publicized for all our parishes. - Betty Reiter, a graduate of the Catholic Biblical School and the certificate program in the CKS Pastoral Ministry program, passed out a slinger for the Women's Retreat she will give: "Theme: Seeing God In All The Stages of our Lives." The retreat will take place on Saturday, October 14, from 8:30 - 2:00 pm at Sts. Columba-Brigid. Lunch will be provided. Cost: $15.00. Betty will get that information out to the parishes. - We discussed how wonderful it would be if a Men's Retreat would be offered at one of our parishes, so that they would be encouraged to witness and share. Betty volunteered to speak with Deacon Don and Deacon Jerry, who would make excellent retreat masters for a Men's Retreat, as they are both Deacons and family men. - Rafael Rondon mentioned that an older woman at Blessed Trinity has a Contemplative Prayer Group, and she is interested in having more members. She uses a book on Contemplative Prayer by Fr. Thomas Keating. We discussed how wonderfully unique this is - we are not aware of any other prayer group in our Family which teaches about contemplative prayer and has its participants pray in this manner together. Rafael was asked to ask this lady about her background and to have her write up a description of her group which could be shared with the rest of the Family. - Rafael mentioned a segment on the Spirituality Pillar on the Diocese of Buffalo app which he says is worth watching. We decided that we would all watch this before we come together again. - Our next meeting is scheduled for Wed. Sept. 27 at 6:30 pm at Blessed Trinity. Present: Marta Perez, Rafael Rondon, Betty and Leo Reiter, Mary and Paul Weisenburger Absent: Joyce Davis, Rebecca Mingo, Palma Zanghi We began by discussing the last two meetings, which Paul and I had missed due to illness. Marta stressed that during the opening meetings, the group had concentrated on sharing about themselves and their parishes so that the group could better discern what each parish's gifts were that could be shared with the other parishes. We decided that each of us would share some unique spirituality events/programs that we would like to better publicize/have better publicized so that members of our sister parishes would feel welcome and encouraged to attend: - Mary Weisenburger mentioned that she would like to better publicize St. Lawrence's devotion to Our Lady of Pescaseroli. St. Lawrence was founded by the Italian community, and one of the parish's popular devotions comes from a town in Italy, Pescaseroli, where a vision of Mary was experienced. The Congrega Society - for both men and women - was founded to promote devotion to Our Lady of Pescaseroli, whose statue is in the Church. Twice a year they hold a special Mass open to the entire community across the WNY area and offer a lunch afterwards. Mary will ask Mary Pachla to make sure that the Masses are publicized for all our parishes. - Betty Reiter, a graduate of the Catholic Biblical School and the certificate program in the CKS Pastoral Ministry program, passed out a slinger for the Women's Retreat she will give: "Theme: Seeing God In All The Stages of our Lives." The retreat will take place on Saturday, October 14, from 8:30 - 2:00 pm at Sts. Columba-Brigid. Lunch will be provided. Cost: $15.00. Betty will get that information out to the parishes. - We discussed how wonderful it would be if a Men's Retreat would be offered at one of our parishes, so that they would be encouraged to witness and share. Betty volunteered to speak with Deacon Don and Deacon Jerry, who would make excellent retreat masters for a Men's Retreat, as they are both Deacons and family men. - Rafael Rondon mentioned that an older woman at Blessed Trinity has a Contemplative Prayer Group, and she is interested in having more members. She uses a book on Contemplative Prayer by Fr. Thomas Keating. We discussed how wonderfully unique this is - we are not aware of any other prayer group in our Family which teaches about contemplative prayer and has its participants pray in this manner together. Rafael was asked to ask this lady about her background and to have her write up a description of her group which could be shared with the rest of the Family. - Rafael mentioned a segment on the Spirituality Pillar on the Diocese of Buffalo app which he says is worth watching. We decided that we would all watch this before we come together again. - Our next meeting is scheduled for Wed. Sept. 27 at 6:30 pm at Blessed Trinity.
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