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Economics for community ....


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Jesus - Save Me from your Followers

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An Upper Room Experience 
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The Chapter in Munnar, India, was an experience that will stay deep within my consciousness throughout my days.  Over 70 brothers and the wider ERN gathered in Kolkata, New Delhi and Mumbai to enter respectfully the mosques, temples and churches of some of the world’s great Religious Faiths.  In every case we found fellow pilgrims who were astonished that a group of Christian brothers and sisters from across the globe would desire and dare to come humbly to learn of an alternate way to seek the Mystery we name God.  Read on......

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New Leadership Team of the
Christian Brothers

Brother Philip Pinto was re-elected Congregation Leader at the
Christian Brothers’ six-yearly
General Chapter at
Kunnar, Kerala,
South India,
March 2008.


The membership of the new Team is as follows:

Br Philip Pinto, India: Congregation Leader

Br Jack Mostyn, USA: Deputy Leader

Br Francis Hall, England
Team Member

Br Victor Kamara, Africa:
Team Member

Br Peter Dowling, Australia:
Team Member

What is this precious love and laughter
Budding in our hearts?

It is the glorious sound

Of a soul waking up [Hafiz]

Some things in life cannot be accounted for by mere human reasoning. We can get caught up in events that are not of our choosing and which come upon us unexpectedly. If we truly believe that nothing happens by chance, all one can do is say yes when the invitation comes. And it is in such fashion that I have been recently blessed.

Out of the blue I received an invitation from Br. Liam O’Meara to visit Belarus and attend the opening of the Mary Rice Home in Cherven. I had vaguely heard of Cherven because of the work being done by Liam and the Burren Chernobyl Trust, but had no further knowledge of it. I looked at my calendar and discovered that I did have some time when no one would miss me. So I told him that I would be glad to go. God uses simple decisions like this to stretch one’s horizons and reveal a little more how God views the
world.

Read on