MI News December 2010
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MI Monthly Formation
MI Youth
MI Teen Village at Marytown
Meets every 3rd Thursday of the month at Marytown. The next meeting will be
Thursday December 16 at 7:00 PM. Visit www.miyouth.org
Contact grrgul@yahoo.com or call 630-404-0138
Fr. Kolbe Missionaries Calendar for November
(Unless noted all activities are held at the FKM Center in West Covina, CA)
Fr. Kolbe Missionaries’ Calendar for December 2010
(Unless noted, all activities are held at the FKM Center in West Covina, CA)
1 MI Spanish Village 9-1:00 PM
Mass with solemn act of total consecration
2 Eucharistic Adoration 6-10 pm
3 MI Teen Girls, 4:30-6:30PM
MI Young Adults Advent Night 7-10 PM
Fr. Thomas Czek, OFMConv
4 Preparation for Total Consecration session
San Lorenzo Ruiz Parish, Walnut, CA 1:30-5PM
San Gabriel Regional Young Adult Advent
Evening of Prayer 7-10 PM
5 Tamale fundraiser at St Christopher’s
Advent Retreat for Adults 1:30-5PM
Fr. Thomas Czek, OFM Conv
8 Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
Holy Day / Major feast for all MI members
Mass with act of total consecration at San Lorenzo Ruiz
in Walnut, CA 7 PM
11 Annual Christmas Party 11-4PM
14 Aspirant Volunteers Formation 1-4:00 pm
29-Jan 4 International Fr. Kolbe Volunteer of the Immaculata
Congress, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Check out MIyouth.org for news of all MI Teen programs in the US
Silent Retreats Prince of Peace Abbey, Oceanside, CA
March 4-6
MI Women’s Retreat
Fr Stephanos Pedrano, OSB
April 15-17
Fr Kolbe Volunteers and MI Adults
Fr. Gregory Dick, OPraem
$195 per person $50 non-refundable deposit due now!
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.
GLENDALE, AZ
MI Women’s Village
Once a month/Thursday, rosary and sharing.
Mary Barr 623-842-3676
BALDWIN PARK, CA MI Family Village
St John the Baptist Church
4th Sunday/month, Dec attend Christmas Party at FKM on Dec 11, 11-4:00 PM
Rik & Judith Hernandez 626-967-0444 or
Joe & Edith Venegas 909-627-0327
ESCONDIDO, CA MI Family Village
3rd Sunday/month, 2:00-6:00PM, Kit Carson City Park
Novena to the Immaculate Conception. She has blessed us with our MI Family and we will dedicate our novena for all of your intentions. December 8th, evening Mass at St. Mary’s the intentions will be for all of you. We hope to renew our consecration during or immediately after Mass
MI Teens Village
3rd Friday/month, Dec no meeting, 7–9 PM
Joe and Sue O’Donnell 760-745-0935
HESPERIA, CA MI Adult Village
Last Friday/ month, Dec 31, 10-11:30 AM
Don & 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 Saturday/month, Dec 4
Suzanne Flint 209-521-8299
MI Family Village 2nd Sunday/month, Dec 12, after 9:00 AM Mass
We are continuing with the Parenting Book Discussion, “Upbringing”.
John & Malissa Souza 209-531-8126
RIVERSIDE, CA Holy Family MI Village
2nd Friday/month, Dec 10, 8:33 pm
Thomas & Mari Avalos 951-313-3980
SAN BERNARDINO, CA
Holy Cross MI Village
2nd Friday/month, Dec 10 , The Coffee Bean, 7:03 pm, 3712 Mission Inn Ave. Riverside, CA 92501
Freddie Solorio sonofppio@yahoo.com
SANTA CLARITA, CA
MI Teens 2nd Friday, Dec 10, 6:30 – 9PM, 13-17 y.o (Looking for leaders) Group is collecting Bibles for teens in juvenile prison.
Mother’s Rosary(mothers gather to pray the rosary for all their family’s needs) Dec 8, 7PM
MI Family Village 3 times/year, 2:00 PM
Janet Cooke 661-296-5834 adozencookes@sbc.global.net
MI Young Adults every Wednesday, Bl. Kateri Parish 7PM Mass followed by Village.
Alexis alexis.surratt@gmail.com
WALNUT, CA MI Adult Village
1st Saturday/month, Dec 4, We will host the preparation for total consecration from 1:30-5:00 PM at San Lorenzo Ruiz parish.
We have a Pilgrim Virgin we bring into homes.
Carmen Denning 909-595-1366
WEST COVINA, CA MI Adult Village
2nd Thursday/month, Dec 9 , 10:30-12 pm
Each month new women are going this vibrant Village, sharing their joys and sorrows in faith and prayer. We have a Pilgrim Virgin that we bring into homes.
Alice O’Donnell 626-338-1724
KANSAS CITY, KS Ave Maria Village
1st Saturday of the month, Dec 4, It’s our 6th anniversary celebration with Bishop Finn and a pot luck. The bishop will bless all holy articles as well as water, oil and salt.
Ave Maria Village Mound City will have 25 women making their Total Consecration to Mary on Dec. 8 in Mound City, Ks
No January meeting ...New Years Day
Christine Rossi christinerossi@rocketmail.com
WEST HAVEN, UTAH MI Families of the Immaculata Village1st Sunday, Dec 5, 12:30-3:00 pm, St Mary’s Catholic Church
We had a lovely gathering in November! After our prayer-time, we gathered to view the video, The Power of His Presence: Forming Disciples for Service through Eucharistic Adoration, much of which was filmed at Marytown. We will be going Advent caroling at a local assisted living residence. A reporter from the Intermountain Catholic Newspaper will cover our story.
The Masek Family 801-898-3821
twoimmaculatecrowns@gmail.com
MI FAMILY NEWS
MI Youth & Young Adults www.miyouth.org
-Annual New Year’s Retreat Marytown (Chicago) December 29-January 2, 2011 Interested in driving from California?
-Walk 4 Life, San Francisco, Jan 21-23, $119
Call Jillian at 626-917-0040
Babies: #8 child (boy) to Leo & Lorena Sandoval, Apple Valley, CA; Faustina to Nora & Peter Bulcher,
The Sick and the Suffering: Lorna Bernhoft, all with cancer, KFC members.
Souls of the departed: October 28, 2010 Pat Paxia passed away (MI Modesto). She was a prayer warrior who never missed an MI meeting, attended adoration after our meetings, was the ministry head of our Rosary Makers (made our MI chaplets), went to Divine Mercy every Friday and so much more. She was truly a child of Mary and Our Lord.
Fr. Kolbe Missionaries of the Immaculata
531 E Merced Ave
West Covina, CA 91790
FKMissionaries@gmail.com
www.kolbemission.org