Day of Christian Zen Meditation
Presenter: Cuca Montecel
November 1, 2008
8:00 am till 4:00 pm
Holy Family Retreat Center
9920 North Major Drive
Beaumont, TX 77713
409-899-5617
retreatcenter@dioceseofbmt.org
This day is an introduction to silent Christian meditation utilizing insights gleaned from the practice of Zen adapted by Catholic missionaries from the orient. The day begins at 8:00 am with Continental Breakfast and concludes at 4:00 pm. Lunch is included.
Cuca Montecel has a doctorate in education and leads a nonprofit organization in San Antonio, Texas. She is a member of St. Matthew's Catholic Church and serves her parish as a Eucharistic Minister, lector, and sacristan. Cuca has been a Zen practitioner for the last ten years and is guided in her work by master Zen teacher Father Robert Kennedy, S.J.
Cost: $40.00
MARK YOUR CALENDERS NOW & PLAN TO ATTEND
L I F E C H A I N
‘Last’ Sunday in October
October 26, 2008
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Please join all those who care about the Pro-Life cause. Your commitment would be for one (1) hour. We will make our statement by standing together, holding our Pro-Life signs and praying for an end to abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide in our country.
Locations:
Beaumont - Dowlen Road – 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
(meet @ Calvary Baptist Church’s Parking Lot on Dowlen Road by 2:15 p.m.)
Contact: Victor Soares @ 409-866-8652 or Rusty Bertrand @ 409-296-4512
Nederland / Port Arthur - Hwy 365 – 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
(meet @ Central Mall - from Hwy 365 to 9th Avenue by 2:15 p.m.)
Contact: Derrick Drummond @ 409-722-3413
Orange – 16th Street – 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
(meet @16th Street @ Kroger’s by 2:15 p.m.)
Contact: Anna Hughes @ 409-886-7572
Jasper – Hwy 96 – 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
(meet @ the Lone Star Buffet Restaurant parking lot on Hwy 96 at 2:15 p.m.)
Line up on both sides of Highway 96
Contact: Ron Ducote @ 409-384-5653
Kirbyville – Hwy 96 - 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
(meet @ traffic light in downtown Kirbyville going North at 2:15 p.m.)
Contact: Terry & Frances Thierheimer @ 409-423-5839
Vidor – Main Street - 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
(meet by Market Basket on Main Street)
Contact: Connie Midkiff @ 409-769-4339
We kindly ask a $1.00 donation for each sign;
all donations will go to local Birthright and Hope Women’s Resource Clinic.
Come alone, come as a family, come as a youth group from your church… but please come!
…Consider giving one hour of your time to help stop abortion…
Y-O-U CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND SAVE THE LIVES OF OUR UNBORN CHILDREN…
Jesus exhorted his disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane, and by extension all
Christians who followed: “Could you not watch with Me one hour.” (Matthew 26:40)
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
Our Lady of Light, Anahuac, is organizing a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The pilgrimage will last 10 days, Nov. 11-20. Cost of the trip is $1,849 per person. The group will arrive in Israel and from there travel to Galilee and then Jerusalem. For more information please call Father Neil Arce at (409) 267-3158.
Always Our Children
Always Our Children is the title of a letter by the American Catholic bishops to parents of homosexual children. It expresses the Catholic teaching on the morality of homosexual acts, but also insists that such persons are indeed always children of their families, and always children of the Church.
In response to that letter, a support group of Catholic parents and grandparents of homosexual children meets each month at St. Charles Borromeo Church, Nederland. The confidentiality and anonymity of members is respected.
If you would like to attend this support group, call Father Dan Malain at (409) 722-3413 for meeting times.
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