From the Director . . . . .
The third meeting of lay administrators of the Life In The Eucharist Seminar
teams from all over the United States was held at Corpus Christi Parish the
weekend of December 8-10, 2000. Because of the positive results from the Administrators’
Meetings of 1993 and 1997, it was decided to hold this meeting. Attending and
representing their teams were leaders from Albuquerque, New Mexico (Christine
Imislund and Eloisa Molina-Dodge); Atlanta, Georgia (Dottie O’Connor);
Grand Rapids, Michigan (Mary Lou Harig); Cleveland, Ohio (Louise Borgione, Rose
Saraniti, Helen Govern and Faith DiPippo); Salt Lake City, Utah (Maria George);
San Antonio, Texas (Shirley Linde and Joan Ketterer); and Houston, Texas (Nancy
MacRoberts, Noreen Wright, Dorothea Wedelich, and Tomas and Nereida Rodriguez).
The visitors were hosted in homes of various LITE team members from Corpus Christi
Parish. The purpose of the Administrators’ Meeting has been to give team
leaders an opportunity to share prayer time and to discuss experiences, needs
and difficulties. Fr. Thomas Wiese, sss, Director of the Center for Eucharistic
Evangelizing announced to the administrators present that he is now considering
this meeting, which he hopes will be a yearly event, as a Board of Directors
for the LITE movement in the United States. In explaining his position to the
administrators, he said that he felt that those who are actually involved in
the day to day operation of the LITE teams and offering the seminars, should
be the ones helping to determine the direction of the movement in the USA. Various
hopes and plans for the future of the LITE movement and its seminars in the
United States were discussed. The general feeling of the participants is that
things are going well.
Fr. Thomas A. Wiese, SSS, Director of the Center for Eucharistic Evangelizing
(CEE), and Nancy MacRoberts, Administrator, led the group through their three
day agenda. Friday evening was spent getting to know each other and being brought
up to date on the activities of the CEE. There was also a videotaped welcome
by Fr. Robert Rousseau, sss, the founder of the LITE movement. Saturday’s
focus was on discussions of positive and negative experiences of the individual
teams. Challenges as well as dreams were shared by all, each administrator making
a short report of the activity of their own team. Saturday evening, the group
shared a pot luck dinner hosted by the three Houston LITE teams at Mike and
Sally Switek’s home. We are most grateful to Mike and Sally for their hospitality
and welcome. It was a great opportunity for administrators and Houston LITE
people to mingle and get to know one another. Fr. John Thomas Lane, sss, pastor
and some Corpus Christi Parish staff members were also present. On Sunday, business
was wound up and the group reviewed an article entitled, “Characteristics
of Social Justice Spirituality” which furthered the dialogue among the
admin-istrators about the connection between Eucharist and Liber-ation. The
administrators cele-brated the Sunday Liturgy of the Eucharist at 11:30am with
the Corpus Christi Parish Com-munity before leaving Houston for their flights
home.
It was a busy weekend, and the time just flew by. One positive aspect of the
meeting was that the administrators who did not know each other had the opportunity
to meet others who were just as involved in LITE as themselves. Common problems
and strategies were shared. I think that it is fair to say that all of us left
the meeting re-energized and more enthusiastic than before about the work of
eucharistic evangelizing. We realize how vital it is to our church community
that Catholics recognize the central importance of the Eucharist in the life
of the Church and in their parish and personal lives. Each of us renewed our
efforts to be apostles of the Eucharist under the inspiration of St. Peter Julian
Eymard.
In this issue of HI LITE we are including a photo and a few words about each
of the administrators that attended the meeting. This way you, our readers,
can also share in the richness of the persons who are working to make Christ’s
presence in the Eucharist better known and loved.
Rev. Thomas A. Wiese, sss
Director of the C.E.E
Houston, Texas — U.S.A.
Meet the LITE Administrators . . . .
We want to introduce you to some very important
people for the LITE ministry – these people are our Life in the Eucharist
Administrators. For the most part, they are responsible for the coordination
and activity of the LITE team in their parish, diocese, region. Their dedicated
enthusiasm for the Eucharist insures that others will also hear the Good News.
We are most grateful to these people who are really filled with the spirit of
St. Peter Julian Eymard, and a love for the Eucharist.
Attending the Administrators’ Meeting from St. Paschal Baylon’s LITE
team in Highland Heights (Cleveland), Ohio was Louise Borgione. Louise has four
children and six grandchildren. Her involvement with the LITE program began
almost ten years ago. Louise is a true administrator — planning seminars
and pursuing and arranging hospitality when giving the seminar at outside parishes.
Louise has been most active in training other LITE teams and mentoring them
during their formation. She is currently involved in preparing the Lenten parish
mission with her LITE team and several priests. The mission will be in March
and will be based on four chapters from the Manna series. Louise is energetic
and determined, always looking for new and better ways to communicate the Good
News of the Eucharist to all.
Representing the LITE team from Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Macedonia, Ohio
was Faith DiPippo. Faith’s husband, Ken, is also a member of the team.
They have three children and six beautiful grandchildren. Faith was instrumental
in bringing the LITE. Seminar to their parish in 1996. Faith, as team administrator,
has worked tirelessly to assure the success of the seminar. Faith and her LITE
team at Our Lady of Guadalupe were trained by the St. Paschal Baylon LITE team.
Faith works together with Helen Govern in coordinating the LITE efforts at her
parish. Maria George, a native of Salt Lake City, Utah, represented the team
from St. Martin de Porres Church in Taylorsville (Salt Lake City), Utah at her
first LITE Administrators’ meeting. She is finishing nursing school and
will graduate in June, 2001 with a BSN, specializing in labor and delivery.
Maria is active in her parish. She co-teaches the Confirmation class as well
as actively participating on the LITE team for the past four years. Her experience
with the LITE program began in 1996 when, with the encouragement of her parents,
she attended a seminar. Maria holds the proud distinction of being the youngest
LITE Team member in the United States. She delighted everyone with her exuberance
and enthusiasm for the movement. She is very interested in bringing LITES to
the younger generation.
Helen Govern has been a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Macedonia,
Ohio since its founding in 1967. In addition to being active in her parish community,
Helen serves as a team administrator along with Faith DiPippo and participates
in the Reconciliation and Transformation mini-teams. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
is a diocesan parish is not administered by the Congregation of the Blessed
Sacrament. This means that she and Faith have had to work with their pastor
informing him about LITE and its programs. At the present time, Helen is consulting
with her new pastor to bring the LITE seminar to new life in their parish.
Mary Lou Harig, the coordinator of the LITE program in the Diocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is married to Mike Harig and they have six children. They are members of St. Isidore Parish in Grand Rapids. Mary Lou coordinates the perpetual adoration chapel at the parish. She was the one who was instrumental to have perpetual adoration in her parish and has been an active promoter of adoration as well as LITES Mary Lou is a substitute teacher and a registered nurse. Mary Lou first heard about LITES while she was on vacation in San Antonio, Texas and stopped in St. Joseph’s Church administered by the Blessed Sacrament Fathers. She spoke to Fr. Tom Fitzgerald who put her into contact with Fr. Bob Rousseau. Mary Lou’s team members come from a variety of parishes. The team, together with their local chaplain, Fr. Mark Mitchell, have presented two LITE seminars. In recent times the team has experienced many health problems and is currently discerning the direction that they will take in the future.
Christine Imislund has been a member of the St. Charles Borromeo Parish LITE team since its beginning. She and Eloisa Molina-Dodge have taken on the responsibilities of of co-administrators since the retirement of the previous administrator. Christine has been very active in the international scene as well having been a member of the International LITE Team that presented the seminar at the 46th International Eucharistic Congress in Wroclaw, Poland. After the LITE Congresses in Cleveland and Glasgow, Scotland, she joined the group taking the tours. Where are we going next, Christine? In addition to offering the normal LITE seminar, the team at St. Charles sponsored a one day Workshop on the Eucharist, and enlisted the services of Fr. Thomas Wiese as the main speaker. Christine was responsible for moderating the day long experience.Joan Ketterer, a member and assistant administrator at St. Matthew’s Parish in San Antonio, Texas, sees to it that St. Matthew’s Parish LITE team works very hard at becoming a cohesive group. Not only are they giving seminars but they get together on a regular basis to share prayer time. They are using the MANNA series as part of their spiritual development material. Joan first experienced a calling in 1949 during a retreat. She began as a lay minister in 1980 and did hospital ministry in 1988. A seminar given by Fr. Bob Rousseau in 1997 fueled her desire to be more involved in eucharistic evangelizing. Joan says the International LITE Congress in Glasgow, Scotland served to renew that desire. Since Shirley is often absent from San Antonio due to her job, Joan coordinates many of the activities of the team at St. Matthew’s. She works well with Monsignor Mike Yarbrough, her diocesan pastor.
Shirley Linde holds the distinction of having been a member of three LITE teams:
the first one at Corpus Christi in Houston, second at St. Joseph’s in San
Antonio, and currently at St. Mathew’s in San Antonio. Without her determination
and ability to work with diocesan pastor, Monsignor Mike Yarborough, there might
not be a team at St. Mathews or in San Antonio, Texas. This is said to be the
largest diocese and the largest parish in that diocese. In addition to traveling
all over the USA for her job, Shirley still finds time to coordinate the efforts
of her team with Joan Ketterer and also participate on an international level
with the LITE movement. Go, Shirley!
Nancy MacRoberts, administrator for the first LITE team at Corpus Christi Parish
in Houston, Texas has participated in the movement since 1990. Nancy and her
team mates have presented the seminar all across the Galveston-Houston Diocese,
other sites in Texas as well as in Wroclaw, Poland at the International Eucharistic
Congress. Nancy helped train the second team in her parish as well as the Spanish-speaking
team. She volunteers as administrator at the Center for Eucharistic Evangelizing.
Nancy and Noreen Wright co-chaired the very first International LITE Congress
in Houston in 1994. Nancy is known to most people involved with LITE since she
has been working so hard at this ministry for the past ten years. Although fully
involved in the CEE, Nancy still finds time to be of assistance to Fr. Bob Rousseau
in his international ministry. Her dedication and enthusiasm has inspired so
many others to become involved.
Eloisa Molina-Dodge serves as co-administrator with Christine Imislund of the
LITE team at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Eloisa,
happily married and the mother of two children, has been a teacher for 17_ years.
She is delighted that the Blessed Sacrament Congregation serves in her parish
where she has been a member since birth. Eloisa has been a member of the LITE
team for four years. She says her experience of being part of the team has been
very spiritually uplifting and fulfilling. The administrators truly enjoyed
Eloisa’s sharing of scripture and how she applies it to her daily life.
Being a younger member of the team, Eloisa is challenged to balance her duties
as mother and wife with being an active eucharistic evangelizer.
The Archdiocese of Atlanta was competently represented by Dottie O’Connor.
Dottie is married to Nick O’Connor and they have four children. She has
been actively involved in various liturgical ministries and the Catholic Charismatic
Renewal. Under the direction of Archbishop John Donoghue, she researched lay
ministries on the Eucharist and thus found LITE and Fr. Robert Rousseau. She
learned how to recruit and train team members. She is the coordinator of four
LITE teams in the Atlanta Archdiocese. She reports to the Eucharistic Renewal
Committee any updated information about the seminars and how effective they
are for Catholic Eucharistic Renewal. She is employed at the Cathedral of Christ
the King in Atlanta as the Coordinator of Adult Sacramental Formation. Among
her responsibilities, Dottie coordinates R.C.I.A., Confirmation for Adults and
a new program called, “Catholics Returning Home”.
Tomas and Nereida Rodriguez are the leaders of the Corpus Christi Spanish-speaking
team, the only one in the United States at the present moment. Both Tomas and
Nereida were born in Cuba, however they have made their home in Houston, Texas
for many years. They have five children and 6_ (one on the way) grandchildren.
The team is very attentive to the needs of the participants at their seminars
and design the seminar to suit their audience. Though the team is a small one,
they are a very closely knit group and work together very well. Nereida says
they have gained more than they have given through the LITE program. It is a
great experience of the love of God. The Spanish-speaking team has participated
also in bi-lingual seminars offered together with one of the English-speaking
teams of Corpus Christi Parish.
Rose Saraniti is a co-administrator of the St. Paschal Baylon LITE team in Highland
Heights (Cleveland), Ohio. In addition to her responsibilities for the leadership
of the team, Rose serves on the Nourishment mini-team. Rose’s other activities
at the parish include being a Eucharistic Minister and participating in adoration
before the Blessed Sacrament each week. For ten years Rose taught in the Sunday
pre-school program. She is currently employed as an executive’s administrative
assistant. Rose and Louise Borgione coordinate the efforts of the rather large
team, and have been active in giving seminars not only in their own parish,
but in traveling to other parishes in the Diocese of Cleveland, and even to
a parish in southern Ohio.
Dorothea Wedelich has spearheaded the second LITE team at Corpus Christi Church in Houston, Texas since that team began. With her charm, love, and expertise with people, she has helped the team develop into a special group of people. This team has given seminars in their home parish, at other parishes across the city and several in other parts of Texas, driving four and five hours and sacrificing precious weekends to proclaim the message of the Eucharist. Many of their seminars have been bi-lingual in conjunction with the Spanish speaking team. This takes a great deal of planning and practice. Dorothea and her husband, Henry, have 15 children. No wonder she is so good with people! When Dorothea asks for help, the response is immediate because she is always there for others. She is a great example of being “Eucharist” to others.
Serving as co-administrator for the Corpus Christi Church LITE team in Houston, Texas, Noreen Wright also presents the session on Abiding Presence during the LITE seminar. Having been involved since the team’s beginning in 1990, Noreen has a great deal of experience with the program. The current CEE’s newsletter, HI -LITE was Noreen’s brain child. She is currently employed at Rice University as Administrator of Student Affairs. Noreen is enthusiastic and full of life, even though when you first meet her you might think that she is on the shy side. Noreen and her husband David have two sons, one in college and one getting ready to embark on that road.
Founder’s Forum
The year 2000 was my first full year as the
director of the office of research and ongoing development for the LITE Movement
worldwide. I want to highlight and share with you several projects that were
completed through my office in collaboration with the Center for Eucharistic
Evangelizing in Houston, Texas.
New Written Materials — For a number of years, the LITE movement had been
in need of an introductory brochure that would explain to bishops, pastors,
and lay parochial leaders what LITES was all about. I am happy to tell you that
such a brochure now exists and can be obtained through the CEE in Houston. This
brochure gives an introduction to the LITE Movement, an overview of the content
and structure of the two LITE seminars, and information on how to get the seminar
going in parishes and dioceses. It also lists the national directors of LITE
throughout the world along with their residential addresses, phone and fax numbers,
and e-mail addresses. While I wrote the text, it was designed and formatted
by Fr. Thomas Wiese. It is a fine marketing tool for our ministry of Eucharistic
evangelizing and I hope that it will be of use to many.
In addition to the new brochure, I have written two one-day renewal programs
on the Eucharist. The first, entitled, Liturgy of the Word, Liturgy of the Eucharist,
and Liturgy of the Neighbor, is a reworking of the major presentation that I
gave in Glasgow during the 3rd International LITE Congress last year. During
the Liturgy of the Word, we come to the deep realization of just how much God
cares for us in Christ Jesus as we listen to our story of salvation and redemption.
During the liturgy of the Eucharist, we remember Christ’s passion, death,
and resurrection and learn to see in the Paschal Mystery the ultimate paradigm
for sharing life and love with one another. Finally, the Eucharist sends us
forth to live its meaning in the world. It dares us to proclaim the gospel values
of the Kingdom and to commit ourselves to building Eucharistic communities.
Eucharist understood in this manner demonstrates the intimate connection that
exists between the Liturgy of the Word, the Liturgy of the Eucharist, and the
Liturgy of the Neighbor. Put succinctly — Eucharist is about caring, sharing,
and daring.
The second one-day renewal program is entitled The Eucharist and the New Catechism.
This program intended as an ongoing formation piece for existing LITE teams
and seminar graduates focuses on the eucharistic theology and spirituality that
is put forth in the New Catechism of the Catholic Church. Its content is more
intellectually challenging than the first program as it seeks to configure the
Eucharistic Mystery within the parameters of the Church’s understanding
of ecclesiology, christology, pneumatology, missiology, and eschatology. It
then goes on to examine the Catechism’s eucharistic spirituality using
the five interpretative lenses of LITE-I, namely, as nourishment, reconciliation,
transformation, abiding presence, and liberation. The text for both these one-day
programs will be made available through the CEE in Houston.
Two more countries join the LITE family — It gives me great joy to share
with you that there are two new LITE teams from two additional countries that
have joined the constellation of LITE teams worldwide. They are Ho Chi Minh
City (Saigon), Vietnam and Montreal, Canada.
I spent four weeks in Vietnam in November of 2000. I gave two LITE-I seminars
and the team-training program. The receptivity of the participants was overwhelming.
There is a great hunger among Vietnamese Catholics to deepen their appreciation
and understanding of the Eucharist in the light of Vatican II. Our SSS religious,
the men, the sister servants, and the members of Servitium Christi, were outstanding
hosts and I will never forget the many kindnesses that were showered upon me
by them all. This was my second visit to Vietnam and I am most confident that
a solid foundation for the growth of the LITE movement in that wonderful country
has been well established.
Also in November, a LITE-I seminar was given in Montreal, Canada to 40 participants
by Frs. Gerard Busque, sss (Canada) and Charles Christophi, sss (Switzerland).
This collaborative effort was highly successful and 16 LITE graduates will be
receiving the Team Training Program the weekend of January 26-28, 2001. I will
assist Fr. Gerard in training our first Canadian LITE team.
Planning the IV International LITE Congress – Madrid, Spain — Another
of my responsibilities is the overall coordination of our international LITE
congresses. Our next congress will take place in Madrid, Spain on June 28-30,
2002. You might want to mark your calendars now for this wonderful event. A
ten-day tour of northern Spain including a side trip to the Marian shrine of
Lourdes will take place after the congress. I will be going to Spain in March
to continue working with the Congress committee and to offer LITE-II to our
Spanish team members. Since France is right next door, I will also be doing
some ongoing formation work with our French teams. Please keep all these projects
in your prayers.
LITES goes to Brazil — From mid-April until early June, I will be in San
Carlos, Brazil giving four LITE-I seminars and training four lay LITE teams.
The bishop of this diocese, Dom Joviano de Lima Junior is a Blessed Sacrament
religious and quite eager to introduce LITES to all the parishes of his diocese.
I have already begun studying Portuguese and I hope to be able to give the seminars
in this language. When these teams have been formed it will bring the number
of countries with active lay LITE teams to 15. God continues to bless this ministry
of Eucharistic evangelizing beyond my wildest expectations.
Once again, I pray that the coming year will bring you ever new experiences
of God’s love and a deepening appreciation of the extraordinary gift that
your are to our Congregation and to the Church.
Fr. Robert P. Rousseau, sss — Chicago, IL
Reflections on the 5 LITE Themes
Eucharistic Retreats of St. Peter Julian Eymard
NOURISHMENT
Our Lord said: “He who eats me will live because of me.” Therefore,
I, nourished by Jesus in the Holy Eucharist, must live for Him. It is only right
that the servant should work for the master who feeds him, the child for the
parent to whom he owes his life. Good health, even life itself ... have not
really any value ... except as they are for the greatest glory of the God of
the Eucharist.
Eucharistic Retreat Three, The Eucharistic Life
Around us we see the daily evidence of the starvation of the human race. Parents
starve for the respect of their children. Children starve for love and attention
from their parents. Spouses hunger for the renewal of the intimacy of the first
blush of their romance. World wide, people of oppressed nations crave justice
and freedom. All who are desperately alone waste away from lack of human contact.
But if they all could only know Jesus in the Eucharist, they might be fed, and
nourished by him as the ultimate food. If the soul can be full of the Lord,
then the body and spirit will want for nothing.
I pray, Lord Jesus, let your gift of the food of life fill me. Let me be nourishment
for others, until they can come to you themselves as I do, humbly asking for
what you can give, never being turned away.
RECONCILIATION
God has forgiven me with such kindness, and treated me with such honor.
Is it possible that God, in His goodness could have so completely forgotten
my faults and ingratitude that He has always treated me, and still treats me
as if I had never offended Him, as if I were one of those spouses of His heart
who have only lived by Him and for Him?
Eucharistic Retreat Two, The Mercy of God
For God, once is not enough. Over and over we fall, and every time he treats
us as the children we are, by picking us up and brushing away the dust of sinfulness
... kissing away the wounds, and with them, our pain. He can do nothing else,
but forgive us, and let us start anew, fresh in his love. And, we must do the
same. No one can harm us physically or emotionally so badly that we have the
right to withhold from them the same forgiveness and attitude of healing love
that God bestows on us.
I pray, Lord, let my heart be full of compassion, understanding and forgiveness.
Don’t let me ever consider the source of the pain, or attempt to place
responsibility. All I need is your grace to forgive, and accept forgiveness
from others.TRANSFORMATION
Think in Jesus, in His spirit, in His grace, in His virtues, in His love. Live
in Jesus, strive to make the thoughts of Him habitual, and His presence familiar
to you. Then, will all your thoughts be wise and holy, and fruitful. For the
Holy Spirit has said: “The man who unites himself to the Lord, becomes
one spirit with Him”.
Eucharistic Retreat One, The Life of Jesus in Me
You would think we have no chance at all. We come into this world tarnished
by the sin of Adam and Eve. We come as broken members of God’s creation.
Our lifetime goal is to overcome our immediate struggles, and return to our
Father whole, clean and shining with the light of His love. During His time
on earth, Our Lord showed everyone He came into contact with how to become renewed,
changed in their view of the rest of mankind; transformed in how they could
find eternal life and happiness. Indeed, our whole life should be dedicated
to transforming ourselves; to using the love of Jesus, the example of His life,
and the guidance of the Holy Spirit to become whole and holy.
I pray, Lord, give me the daily grace to see the way of change needed that will
allow me to grow closer to you. Allow me to transform myself into a creation
worthy to live with you in glory forever.
ABIDING PRESENCE
Eucharistic faith consists in believing, according to the teachings of
the Catholic Church, that Jesus Christ is truly, really and substantially present
under the sacramental species. This faith produces in us the life of Christ,
tempered — veiled — hidden beneath the Holy Species, like the sun
as seen through a mist. The soul’s Eucharistic contemplation is therefore
always new ... approaching ever nearer to Christ.
Eucharistic Retreat Six, Eucharistic Faith
We live in a world so congested that it is hard to be alone. Daily we are assaulted
by the presence of family, co-workers, friends, so that there is precious little
time to be present to ourselves — to spend time looking into our own souls.
And, what is more, we have become increasingly unaware of the presence of God
with us, every moment of every day of our lives. He is there. The presence of
Christ in the Eucharist we consume is just as real as the presence of the family
with whom we eat, vacation and watch TV. We must never forget this, because
without the Eucharistic presence, our faith is empty.
I pray, My Lord, present in the Blessed Sacrament, please be with me each day
in my heart. You are truly a God in touch with His people. May that touch, and
that presence preserve me, sustain me, and sanctify me until I return to you
in eternity.
LIBERATION
Others have preceded me in the service of Jesus Christ: they persevere
in it content and happy; they do not count the cost where Jesus is concerned,
but give themselves completely. And why should I not be able to do what they
do, since I have the same graces and helps. Besides, everything must be easy
in the service of the Eucharist, the center and source of all grace and virtue.
Eucharistic Retreat Three, The Grace of Vocation
We live in the generation of “I”, “Me”, and somewhat “We”.
Where we tend to fall short is being aware of the “You” and the “Other”.
We cannot live as true Christians without following Jesus in looking out for
those around us. We must be of service to those outside of ourselves who are
in need. There are so many ways to live the gospel of Jesus; in lay ministry
in the Church, volunteering to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, shelter the
homeless, or bring healing to the sick. We can pray for those who have no one
to remember them. We can pray for those who remain unable to see beyond themselves,
or understand the need of others.
I pray, Lord, keep my eyes open and clear that I may be aware of ways to serve
others in your name. Help me to alleviate their pain of body, spirit, heart
and soul. We are grateful to Marcia Edwards of the Metro Atlanta LITE Team for
sharing these five beautiful reflections on the five themes of LITE I. She has
found appropriate quotations from Saint Peter Julian Eymard’s writings,
and also written her own meditation and prayer on each theme. We are sure that
you will find a good use for this valuable reflection.
. . . . NEWS HIGHLIGHTS . . . .
New LITE Lapel Pin — The Center for
Eucharistic Evangelizing (CEE) has commissioned a new lapel pin for members
of the movement. It is a chalice and loaf of bread with a cross in the background.
The size of each pin is 3/4 by 3/4 inches. Team administrators received a pin
at the December meeting. They are now on sale from the CEE for only $4.00 each.
Cleveland Parish Mission — The St. Paschal Baylon Parish LITE team is
busily working at preparing their parish mission for Lent of this year. The
team has been divided into 4 mini-teams and they will use chapters from MANNA
and also the assistance of Fr. Anthony Schueller, sss, Fr. William Fickel, sss
and Fr. Thomas Wiese, sss.
Mailing List Trimmed — In October 2000, we sent out a letter to all who
receive this newsletter, HI LITE asking whether you wanted to continue to receive
it. So, if you know someone who no longer receives the newsletter, it is probably
because their name has been removed. We thank all of you who sent your response
and those who were so generous and donated to the C.E.E. If anyone would like
to begin receiving the newsletter HI LITE, just let us know here in Houston.
Workshop on Prayer before the Eucharist — The Congregation of the Blessed
Sacrament is sponsoring a 5 day workshop on Prayer before the Eucharist, September
17-21, 2001 in Houston, Texas. Topics will be history, theology and spirituality
of prayer before the Eucharist. Presenters are Sr. Anne Carville, Fr. Ed Foley,
OFM Cap and Fr. Kenan Osborne, OFM. A detailed brochure will be sent out soon.
The workshop is open to the members of the Congregation, the Servants of the
Blessed Sacrament, eucharistic lay associates and interested LITE team members.
Spaces will be limited, so once registration opens, don’t hesitate to respond.
Fresno, CA Seminar — A mini-team of three Corpus Christi parishioners
and Fr. Tom Wiese will present the LITE seminar for the Diocese of Fresno, CA,
January 11-13. Pray for its success!
Retreat on Eucharistic Spirituality — Fr. Norman Pelletier, sss, former
Superior General of the Congregation, will be giving a weekend retreat on “Eucharistic
Spirituality” for the LITE team members of our Texas teams. The retreat
will take place January 20-21, 2001.
Many thanks – Annual Appeal — We are very grateful for the generous
response to our Annual Appeal for donations to help subsidize the operation
of the Center for Eucharistic Evangelizing in Houston. To date we have received
a total of $2,731.00 from 26 individuals. We remind you that this is the only
appeal that we make to you throughout the year for the C.E.E. Other than these
donations, the C.E.E. receives funds from the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament
for its continued operational expenses. If you would like to help us, we are
always ready to be recipients of your generosity. Send your check to the Center
for Eucharistic Evangelizing in Houston. Remember, all donations are tax deductible,
and will help us to spread the Good News of the Eucharist.
WEBSITE for LITE — Just a couple of months ago, LITE got on the web.
So, now you can have information about Life in the Eucharist and the Center
for Eucharistic Evangelizing on the internet. We don’t exactly have our
own website, but are sharing space with the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament.
So, to access our information, go to <www.blessedsacrament.com> and then
click on
the title “Center for Eucharistic Evangelizing”.
One Day Programs on Eucharist — Two one-day programs on the Eucharist
are now available through the Center for Eucharistic Evangelizing. During this
year, Fr. Tom Wiese, sss, director, will be
offering these to LITE teams and other groups in the U.S.A. If you would like
to schedule something for your team, please contact Fr. Tom at the C.E.E. in
Houston.
International LITE Meeting in Dublin — CEE directors and representatives
from each country where LITE is present will meet in June, 2001 in Dublin, Ireland
with Fr. Hans van Schijndel, international LITE coordinator for the Congregation
of the Blessed Sacrament. More information on this important meeting later.
Pilgrimage to France — There are still places available for the pilgrimage to France “In the Footsteps of St. Peter Julian Eymard”, October 8-20, 2001 led by Fr. Thomas Wiese, sss and Fr. Norman Pelletier, sss. Call the CEE for the complete brochure. Cost of the tour is only $2,699.00. Seats are limited, so please contact the CEE as soon as possible.
SSS International | Eucharistic Theology | SSS USA | Saint Peter Julian Eymard
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Copyright 2001
Rev. Thomas A. Wiese, SSS, Director
Mrs. Nancy MacRoberts, Administrator
Center for Eucharistic Evangelizing
9900 Stella Link Road
Houston, TX 77025
Telephone: (713) 661-3958 + Fax: (713) 662-2014