MI News September 2010

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MI Youth

MI Teen Village at Marytown
Meets every 3rd Thursday of the month at Marytown. The next meeting will be
Thursday September 16 at 7:00 PM. Visit www.miyouth.org
Contact grrgul@yahoo.com or call 630-404-0138

Fr. Kolbe Missionaries Calendar for September

(Unless noted all activities are held at the FKM Center in West Covina, CA)

2        Eucharistic Adoration 6-10 pm
7        FKM, Core Team meeting, 7:00 pm
8        Our Bl. Mother’s Birthday, St Christopher Catechist Retreat,
          6:30-9 pm
10      Our Lady of Guadalupe, Irwindale Catechist Retreat at parish,
          6:30-8 pm
11      Migration Mass Los Angeles Cathedral,
          Presider, Archbishop Jose Gomez, 10 am
          Annual Planning Meeting of FKM and Fr. Kolbe Volunteers,
          2-6 pm
20      St Christopher Teacher’s Retreat, 8:30-3 pm
24-25 MI Young Adult Retreat (18-35 y.o.)
          Theme: Rooted in Christ. Firm in the Faith.   Cost: $30
           What: A semi-silent retreat (Mass, Adoration, Meditation,
           Social, Faith Sharing....)
          When: September 24   7:30-9:00pm
          September 25    9am -10pm – Fr. Sebastian Walshe, OPraem
          RSVP Jillian 626-917-0040 by Sept 20
           (overnight accommodations arranged if requested)
 

MI VILLAGE NEWS

MI Village Banner, 25”W x 40”H, full color on washable vinyl, can be ordered from the Fr. Kolbe Missionaries. Price is $75.
(includes shipping costs). Call or write to request order form.
Custom order with MI Village name, city and state.

ESCONDIDO, CA      
MI Family Village  3rd Sunday/month, Sept. 19, 2:00-6:00PM   Kit Carson City Park
We had a consecration class on Aug 14 for 4 adults and about 15 children. We taught about Mary in the Bible, and her 4 dogmas, and showed a video on Kolbe. A couple who took the consecration class last year  (the husband became Catholic this April) gave their testimony.
Our MI Village was started 23 years ago and has passed through many phases. We taught classes at night in our home to begin with and moved on to parish consecration classes throughout the San Diego diocese. In the last 10 years we have had 1-2 consecration programs per year and we opened our monthly MI Family Village at our local parish but had to move on to a park. We were using the county park until it became hard to convince the park rangers that 150 people showed up at the park by coincidence and we shouldn’t have to pay the $400 group fee. We fled to Kit Carson city park and have had no issues for the last 2 years.
Joe and Sue O’Donnell 760-745-0935

HESPERIA, CA
MI Adult Village         Last Friday/ month, Sept 24, 10-11:30 am
Joanne Panicko               760-244-7048

MODESTO, CA  modestomi@aol.com
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church,   1813 Oakdale Road    John Paul II Center

MI Prayer Village        1st Sat/mth, Sept 4
Suzanne Flint                   209-521-8299

MI Family Village       2nd Sunday/month, Sept 12  after 9:00 am Mass
John & Malissa Souza          209-531-8126

Our St Max feast day was celebrated by praying a private St Max novena and culminated in a celebration Mass with families praying St Max Chaplet after Mass. Artist, Mary Mullins, gave a wonderful and inspirational presentation on the signs and symbols that were contained in the stained glass window dedicated to St. Maximilian Kolbe. 

We are preparing for our Sept meeting. We will have a Book Study with “Upbringing,” on instilling virtues in your children. New parishioners are inquiring about our Village.  I just received a phone call from a grandparent who received custody of their grandchildren, who wants to be involved in learning more about instilling virtues in our children. We are going to have our first teen meeting also.

MI Mens Retreat  was led by Fr Felice, who was one of the founders of Priests for Life. At 88 he is going strong and very vibrant.   He was assisted by past MI National Vice Director,  John Galten. 14 men attended.

RIVERSIDE, CA
Holy Family MI Village, 2nd Friday of the month, Sept 10, 8:33 pm
Thomas & Mari Avalos         951-313-3980

SAN BERNARDINO, CA
Holy Cross MI Village
2nd Friday of the Month, Sept 10, The Coffee Bean, 7:03 pm, 3712 Mission Inn Ave. Riverside, CA 92501
Freddie Solorio                  sonofppio@yahoo.com

SANTA CLARITA, CA  Summer Break, MI Teens Village begins in October.
Janet Cooke                  661-296-5834

WALNUT, CA
MI Adult Village       1st Saturday of the month, Sept 4, 10-11:30 am
Carmen Denning         909-595-1366  We have a Pilgrim Virgin we bring into homes.

WEST COVINA, CA
MI Adult Village       2nd Thursday of the month, Sept 9, 10:30-12 pm
Alice O’Donnell                  626-338-1724   We have a Pilgrim Virgin that we bring into homes.

KANSAS CITY, KS
Ave Maria Village           1st Saturday of the month, Sept 4,
Aug 7 Ann O’Donnell, FKM, guest, spoke to some 50 people on The Mystery in Mary reveals the Mystery in Us, using the four dogmas of Mary as the basis for the teachings of the Church on the gift of our being and call to sanctity.

Christine Rossi                 
christinerossi@rocketmail.com

WEST HAVEN, UTAH
St Mary’s Catholic Church
MI Families of the Immaculata Village–1st Sunday,,  12:30-2:00 pm, No Sept meeting, resume in October.

The Masek Family          801-898-3821
twoimmaculatecrowns@gmail.com 
1) We openned our Diocesan Respect Life Commission meeting with a prayer specifically to St. Max, patron of the pro-life movement.
2) We offered a consecration preparation class based on Father Faccenda’s book entitled One More Gift .Our consecration ceremony was fabulous !... with 25 participants, many new. We purchased a cake @ the bakery which they decorated with an image of St. Max, prompting their questions as to his identity.
3) Our interim pastor allowed us to place the newly dedicated statue of Our Lady on the altar for August 14 & 15, which we decorated with 30 white and red long stem roses.

Fr. Kolbe Missionaries 531 E Merced Ave. W. Covina, CA 91790 626-917-0040 fkmissionaries@gmail.com
www.kolbemission.org/en

Other News

Dear MI Members,
Summer is already over and the new year is upon us. We wanted to introduce you to the new MI members who made their act of Total Consecration to the Immaculata on the feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe (Top photo). The Mass was concelebrated by Fr. Hildebrand, OPraem (pastor of St. John the Baptist in Costa Mesa), Msgr Nestor Rebong (pastor of St. Christopher in West Covina) and Fr. Ernest (visiting priest from Ghana). Maria Del Rosario celebrated 40 years of consecrated life by the renewal of her vows. It was a beautiful day and celebration.