Here is your “Marriage Moment” courtesy of your Office of Family Life Ministries:
"Our bodies change over the years. Consider a new way of being alive today. Perhaps you awoke with aches and pains; maybe it’s your heart that aches or your mind that worries. Trust and remember that your love does not depend upon a perfect body or mind.” By Susan Vogt.
Here is your “Parenting Perspective” courtesy of your Office of Family Life Ministries:
“Remember to depend on God’s Word for the extra love and energy needed when you’re tired and weary from parenting. Children can tire and frustrate us, but they can also teach us simplicity, awe, and loyal love. Remember Jesus’ words, “Truly I tell you unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Mt 18.3) Just for today, look at your child with the eyes of Jesus. What can you learn from your child today.” By Susan Vogt.
‘A weekend away for a LIFETIME of change’. The Beginning Experience is a weekend program meant for persons who have worked through the initial anger and despair which occurs in the first stages of grief after the death or separation or divorce of one’s spouse. One can turn the pain of loss to an experience of positive growth. Beginning Experience is a Christian based non-denominational program under the auspices of the Diocese of Rochester. The program takes place at Camp Stella Maris on Conesus Lake. Open to all. For more information, call the Beginning Experience Hotline 585 987-1750 or Stephen and Liz Wascak at 585 237-5155. The next weekend is October 15 - 17, 2010.
Calix is a gathering of individuals who want to improve their spiritual program because they are
afflicted or affected by the disease of alcoholism. Calix is for people who are putting together a spiritual program which uses the 12 step approach. A journey which brings Step 11 into a deeper and fuller meaning. The Buffalo Unit of Calix Society meets the last Sunday of the month at 3 pm in the undercroft of St. Michael’s church Rectory, 651 Washington St., Buffalo, NY 14203. For more information, contact Rev. Richard Hoar, SJ at 716 854-6726. International website is WWW.CALIXSOCIETY.ORG.
Since 1986 over 265 persons in our diocese have made a special retreat program known as the Spiritual Exercise of St. Ignatius of Loyola or the Spiritual Exercises in Daily Life. They can lead a Christian to spiritual freedom, especially in making life choices, be a time of deep personal conversion and assist in the growth of one’s interior life through the structure of the primary focus … one’s regular prayer. A prerequisite for the retreat program is a commitment to regular daily prayer over an extended period of time (30 weeks). If interested in more information or an application and brochure, contact one of the following persons: Father Dick Hoar SJ at 716 854-6726, Father Jim Roleke SJ at 716 854-6726, Mrs. Gini Schultz at 716 837-6020 or Sister Johnice Rzadkiewicz CSSF at 716 894-7030 ext. 102. Deadline for applications is Friday September 10, 2010.
For Your Marriage: The U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) provides information and resources about a healthy marriage in general and Catholic marriage in particular. Offerings include a Daily Marriage Tip, regularly changing features like the monthly Marriage Quiz, Book of the Month review and Marriage in the News. They continue to add to the content on a regular basis. Go to this user friendly website: www.foryourmarriage.org. click on Caring for Your Marriage, then Resources.
Buffalo Diocesan Marriage Preparation Schedule, 'Journey Into Love'
E-Mail the Family Life Department: familylife@buffalodiocese.org
Nancy E. Scherr, Director
Sharon Brady, Secretary
Office of Family Life Ministries
795 Main St.
Buffalo, NY 14203
(716) 847-2210