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Lector Coordinator: Suzanne Austin : Butch Alandy Brett Becker Joyce Benson Lauren Bogorad Rose Boog Cisse Cameron Brown Theresa Carter Eunha Cho Pat Chojnicki Sonny Chuidian Vicki Cravens Sylvia DeVillers Tyler Duffy Kristine Durand Howard Durand Dot Dumond Shari Edie (webmaster): Dave Flood : Roy Farmer Linda Ford-McCaffrey Grace Gabaldon Gary Galles Marg Hanlon Anne Hansen Arlene Harris Pamela Heron Kevin Kildee Hank Koval Maureen Lerman Marie Lichtenstein Linda Lowe Les Moore Cynthia Nalevanko Laurie Nichols Chris Niehus Clovis Peres Richard Regnier Paul Rockenstein Cindy Schlageter Betty WoodardLinks Section
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Lector Enrichment Sessions On Saturday, February 6, 2010, our Lector Coordinator, Suzanne Austin, conducted a very successful Lector Enrichment Session at Padre Serra Parish, in the Conference Room. In attendance were: Cisse Brown, Pat Chojnicki, Roy Farmer, Dave Flood, Linda Ford-McCaffrey, Gary Galles, Anne Hansen, Les Moore, Cynthia Nalevanko, Laurie Nichols and Betty Woodard. We all very much enjoyed Suzanne's insights into the spirit of lectoring and how we can make the Word more meaningful to the people. There was a lot of participation from all in attendance, and we learned not only from Suzanne but also from one another. We went from the Conference Room to the church for half the session, where all of us read from the same reading slated for that weekend. It was very instructional to us all to hear how each of us had our own way of making the reading reverent, explicit and meaningful. Suzanne added very insightful comments after each reading. All in all - a very rewarding experience. Thank you, Suzanne, for helping us in our continuing quest to be more perfect lectors. The other Lector Enrichment Sessions will be held at Padre Serra on Saturday, February 20 at 9:30 a.m. and Wednesday, March 3 at 7:00 p.m. If you haven't yet signed up, please call Suzanne ASAP at (805) 529-4523. Below are some excerpts from Andrew Greeley's books that Suzanne read at the Enrichment Session. We all thought them very apropos!
"Why do Catholics like being Catholics?
Religion is experience, image, and story before it is anything else and after it is everything else. Catholics like their heritage because it has great stories.
If one considers that for much of Christian history the population was illiterate and the clergy semiliterate and that authority was far away, one begins to understand that the heritage for most people most of the time was almost entirely story, ritual, ceremony, and, eventually, art. So it has been for most of human history. So it is, I suggest (and my data back me up), even today.
Catholicism has great stories because at the center of its heritage is 'sacramentalism,' the conviction that God discloses Himself in the objects and events and persons of ordinary life."
Andrew Greeley, "Furthermore"
Andrew Greeley, "The Mary Myth" |
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