January 13, 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 — This week, we welcome back  Msgr. Charles Pope as he gives a talk entitled "Behold I Make All Things New."

• THIS 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

• 1/17 – DEFEND LIFE TALK — Peter Kreeft, quite possibly the most prolific author of books of consequence in the world, will speak twice in our area. Here are details for his evening talk in Bethesda: LINK

• 2/1 – MORNING OF RECOLLECTION — Annual Mother Teresa Vocation Society Morning of Recollection at Annunciation Parish, Washington DC.  Guest Speaker: Father Dan Leary. Details on the event can be found HERE. Those interested are encouraged to register as soon as possible, to ensure the Society can order enough food for the free lunch that will be served as part of the event. Here is the LINK to register.

• INCLEMENT WEATHER POLICY - This is the time of year that we usually remind everyone of our inclement weather policy and all the more reason now since we have already seen our first snow.  See LINK

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) Helen Griffith for an upcoming medical procedure and her husband Geoff for complete healing, 2) the repose of the soul of David Schock, beloved brother of Dawn Zierdt, and for Dawn’s consolation in her grief, 3) Maryanna Rice's healing after a recent fall, 4) Kate Christianson for eradication of her cancer and overall health improvement and for her sister (MaryBeth), 5) Andrew, Larissa Cymerman's brother-in-law for healing from blood cancer, 6) God's complete physical and spiritual healing for Helen Griffith's brother-in-law Rod, and 7) 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.