Secretary's letter
Letter from Pat Darby
Provincial Secretary
October 2007
Provincial Secretary
October 2007
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Please remember to include in your daily prayers and also your Community's prayers the petition for more vocations to the priesthood in our Province. We have a dire need for friars in our (province. Quoting from Fr. John Michael’s Pastoral Letter in the Winter Flos Carmeli:
"The direst need in our province is personnel for our nuns and our friars. Our secular order has plenty of vocations. In fact, we have more than we can handle! The California Province has many students studying for the priesthood. We have only two... Please pray for vocations."
Please remember to send Martha Hanley your Memorials and items that you wish published.
Please remember to include in your daily prayers and also your Community's prayers the petition for more vocations to the priesthood in our Province. We have a dire need for friars in our (province. Quoting from Fr. John Michael’s Pastoral Letter in the Winter Flos Carmeli:
"The direst need in our province is personnel for our nuns and our friars. Our secular order has plenty of vocations. In fact, we have more than we can handle! The California Province has many students studying for the priesthood. We have only two... Please pray for vocations."
Please remember to send Martha Hanley your Memorials and items that you wish published.
Martha's email address is:
tnmhanley@yahoo.com
tnmhanley@yahoo.com
Send inquiries and requests for additions and/or corrections to the number of copies being received and all donations/dues to the
ANNUAL DUES
JANUARY 1, 2008
Members at the time of First Promise pay annual dues of $30
Isolates pay their annual dues of $30 to the Community to which they belong. That Community sends their names and addresses and dues to the Central Office for mailing of the Flos Carmeli and recording of their information.
Aspirants who wish to receive the Flos Carmeli pay $12.
Subscribers outside of our Province pay $18.00 per year. This has been increased
due to postage and printing expenses.
These dues may be pro-rated. Please identify all monies that you send to the Central Office by listing your Community Name and the city where you meet.
In closing, I would like to quote something from Community and Growth by Jean Vanier which I think is a beautiful definition of "Community."
"A Community is like an orchestra: each instrument is beautiful when it plays alone, but when they all play together, each given its own weight in turn, the result is even more beautiful. A community is like a garden full of flowers, shrubs and trees. Each helps to give life to the other. Together, they bear witness to the beauty of God creator and gardener-extraordinary."
Let us all pray together for more vocations and also for our coming Spring elections. May the Holy Spirit grant us the gift of many new and holy men to serve and new councils dedicated to the charisms of our treasured vocation.
Isolates pay their annual dues of $30 to the Community to which they belong. That Community sends their names and addresses and dues to the Central Office for mailing of the Flos Carmeli and recording of their information.
Aspirants who wish to receive the Flos Carmeli pay $12.
Subscribers outside of our Province pay $18.00 per year. This has been increased
due to postage and printing expenses.
These dues may be pro-rated. Please identify all monies that you send to the Central Office by listing your Community Name and the city where you meet.
In closing, I would like to quote something from Community and Growth by Jean Vanier which I think is a beautiful definition of "Community."
"A Community is like an orchestra: each instrument is beautiful when it plays alone, but when they all play together, each given its own weight in turn, the result is even more beautiful. A community is like a garden full of flowers, shrubs and trees. Each helps to give life to the other. Together, they bear witness to the beauty of God creator and gardener-extraordinary."
Let us all pray together for more vocations and also for our coming Spring elections. May the Holy Spirit grant us the gift of many new and holy men to serve and new councils dedicated to the charisms of our treasured vocation.
--Pat Darby, Provincial Secretary
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