December 2, 2024

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TASTE EVENTS

• LAST SESSION — 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! No matter what our stage in life, we have a lot on our plates, and we have sin. This is what it means to be sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, to live in a broken world and feel called to more. In this broken world, even the good things can drag us down, seem like a burden or just an obligation. How do we handle a world that can be so hard, that asks and demands so much of us? This is the human condition we find ourselves in, and that every human has struggled with going all the way back to creation. Adam and Eve were in this beautiful garden, living literally in paradise, living in the image and likeness of God, experiencing no separation from God, and yet even there, they experienced temptation. We all experience voices in our head that can distract us or drag us down. How do we know which voices are true? People had these same questions for Jesus.  ... MORE

• NEW TALK — This week, we welcome Mary Lenaburg as she gives a talk entitled "Love Transforms Everything: Coming to the Cradle with Open Hearts"

• 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

• ADVENT TALKS — Come and see Fr. David Gunter, MIC (from the Marian Fathers at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy) for "The Light of the Holy Spirit" parish mission.  Presentation talks will be held Dec 2nd, 3rd, and 4th at Our Lady of Christians Catholic Church in Waldorf, MD.  See FLYER

• ADVENT PREP — The Catholic News Agency had an article entitled "Advent 2024: 4 Catholic resources to help you grow in your faith."  As we prepare for the birth of Christ, they offer these four resources to help us get ready to enter into the deeper meaning of Christmas: 1) Hallow, 2) Ascension, 3) Word on Fire, and 4) EWTN Religious Catalogue.  See ARTICLE

• ADVENT EVENTS — Local Catholic Churches have a variety of events associated with Advent.  Here are two such listings – one from ST. LOUIS CHURCH in Clarksville and another from OLPH in Ellicott City.

• YOUTH JUBILEE 2025 — Young women ages 18-35 are invited to attend this Youth Jubilee from July 21-Aug 4, 2025.  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 her back and upcoming surgery on 12/10, 2) Fr. Larry Swink for healing and full recovery from his spinal surgery, 3) Mike Frentz (our founder Marian Frentz's husband) who we were praising God that his leukemia is gone, but now has GVHD (Graft versus host disease) which is causing him some debilitating side effects from the steroids needed to treat this disease, 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) who was just put on a respirator, 3) Andrew, Larissa Cymerman's brother-in-law for healing from blood cancer,  4) Julie Reynold's family for serious surgeries her adult children, 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.

• Blessings,

  Joy, Michele, Karen, and Helen

  Jesus, I trust in You!

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