January 6, 2025

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TASTE EVENTS

• LAST TALK — We welcomed back Mike Tenney for his 16th talk entitled "Never Hunger, Never Thirst." His talk focused on Eucharistic devotion and he began his talk by describing a typical morning in the Tenney household which can be simply summarized as insanely busy, frenetic, and filled with lots of “shoulds” and “gottas” and not enough time to get to the “wants.” And this typical busy day doesn't even begin to address all the additional things that are part of our lives – the hardships, real challenges and pains of life – physical difficulties, mental/emotional difficulties, relationship difficulties, the challenge of hard people to love, and sometimes the challenge of being the hard one to love!  ... MORE. 

• NEW TALK — Next week, we welcome Msgr. Charles Pope as he gives a talk entitled "Behold I Make All Things New."

• NEXT WEEK'S DISCUSSION — We will discuss Mike Tenney's talk entitled "Never Hunger, Never Thirst." The audio, video, reflection questions and other related material can be found HERE. The Zoom small group meets on the following Tuesday morning. Details on how to join can be found in a link at the bottom of this message.

OTHER EVENTS / INTEREST ITEMS

• 1/9 – TALK ON EUCHARIST — St. Louis Catholic Church in Clarksville is hosting an event called "A Viral Talk on the Eucharist" on January 9th at 7:00 pm.  The speaker (Fr. Meyer) has over 900K views on YouTube.  His talk will offer fresh insights on the significance of the Holy Eucharist.  See FLYER

• 1/11 – STUDY ON THE BOOK OF RUTH —  Father Larry Swink will be leading a Women's Morning of Reflection & Study on The Book of Ruth on Saturday, January 11, at St. John Neumann in Gaithersburg MD.  The morning begins with Mass at 9AM.  All are welcome and registration is not required.  See flyer on this LINK.

• 2/1 – MORNING OF RECOLLECTION — Annual Mother Teresa Vocation Society Morning of Recollection at Annunciation Parish, Washington DC.  Guest Speaker: Father Dan Leary. If interested, hold the date as more Information and ability to register coming soon.

PRAYER REQUESTS

• Please continue to pray for our TASTE program and our speakers. This week, please pray for:

• OUR SPEAKERS AND FRIENDS OF TASTE: 1) Sr. Mary Michael Fox for full recovery of her recent surgery, 2) Fr. Larry Swink for healing and full recovery from his spinal surgery, 3) the repose of Mike Frentz's soul (our founder Marian Frentz's husband), and 4) Mike Frentz's "transplant buddy" Greg, whose transplant did not take and his prognosis is poor.

• OUR TASTE MEMBERS AND FAMILIES: 1) Maryanna Rice's healing after a recent fall, 2) Kate Christianson for eradication of her cancer and overall health improvement and for her sister (MaryBeth), 3) Andrew, Larissa Cymerman's brother-in-law for healing from blood cancer, 4) God's complete physical and spiritual healing for Helen Griffith's brother-in-law Rod, and 5) Maureen Filiault's sister, Nancy's healing from anxiety.

• We also pray for peace and comfort to the families of each of the people mentioned above.   New prayer requests can be sent to Joy Parker at joyparker73@gmail.com.