S.E.E.D. III - Denver

Kính Thưa Cha Tuyên Úy và Anh Chị Đồng Hành Quý Mến

Xin Anh Chị Em hiệp lời cầu nguyện gởi các em SEED leaders sau đây lên đường cho sứ mệnh hướng dẫn và phục vụ khóa SEED retreat III sẽ diễn ra tại Denver, Tomahawk Ranch, Colorado sẽ bắt đầu từ chiều Thứ Sáu, August 14 đến Chiều Chúa Nhật, August 16, 2015.  Xin Anh Chị Em hiệp lời cầu nguyện cho các em SEED leaders, các anh chị nhóm Dấu Chân, và 36 khóa sinh sẽ tham dự khóa SEED này .  Khóa SEED Denver sẽ được các bạn trẻ SEED leaders sau đây hướng dẫn (Xin xem hình của các em kèm theo email này):

- Ngoc Anh Tran (Wichita Falls, TX-Đồng Hành Trung Tây
- Paula Hoang
- Minh Quan Nguyen (Dallas TX)
- Bethany Vu (Phoenix, AZ, Đồng Hành Tây Nam)
- Minh Vo
- Frank Vuong (Đồng Hành Tây Nam-Trưởng ban của DH national SEED leader team)
- Mike Pham
- Vincent Cao (Dallas TX, Điều Hợp Viên của ban SEED leader cho Trung Tây)

Khóa SEED Denver sẽ mang chủ đề: "Thắp Sáng Ngọn Nến" (Lighting the Candle).  Chủ đề này là lời mời gọi mà đến các khóa sinh hãy thắp sáng ngọn nến nơi các em để ánh nến sẽ soi sáng cho các em nhìn thấy Chúa Giêsu trong cuộc sống của các em và nơi những người chung quanh.

Nguyện xin Thiên Chúa ban Thần Khí tràn đầy trên các em leaders, để các em hướng dẫn các khóa sinh tìm và gặp Chúa theo thánh ý của Ngài .  Nguyện xin Thiên Chúa ban them sức cho các anh chị nhóm Dấu Chân để chu toàn việc tổ chức khóa một cách tốt đẹp .  Nguyện xin Chúa ban cho các khóa sinh nhiều hoa trái qua khóa SEED này .  Xin bình an của Chúa Kito gìn giữ các em leaders, các anh chị phụ huynh, và các khóa sinh được bình an .

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Chirst

Please join us in praying for and sending our the following leaders and the parent organizing team from Nhom Dau Chan on their mission to serve the 36 retreatants in the upcoming SEED retreat III to be taking place at Tomahawk Ranch, Colorado from Friday Aug 14 to Sunday Aug 16.  The following talented young adult leaders will serve in this retreat (Please see their photos enclosed with this email):

- Ngoc Anh Tran (Wichita Falls, TX-Đồng Hành Trung Tây)
- Paula Hoang
- Minh Quan Nguyen (Dallas TX)
- Bethany Vu (Phoenix, AZ, Đồng Hành Tây Nam)
- Minh Vo
- Frank Vuong (Đồng Hành Tây Nam-Chair of the DH National SEED Leader Team)
- Mike Pham
- Vincent Cao (Dallas TX, DHTT SEED leader coordinator)

The theme for the Denver SEED retreat will be "Lighting the Candle", an invitation to the retreatants to light their candles in order to see Christ in their daily life and in others. 

May the Lord, our God through the intercession of our Holy Mother, Mary, grant the leaders and the parent organizing team wisdom and love, so they can help the retreatants seek and encounter God in accordance with God's will.  May God fill the retreatants' heart with an eagerness to embrace with gratitude the gifts to be unfolded to them in this retreat.  May God keep all leaders, parents, and retreatants safe in their travel and from any distresses throughout the retreat.

Love in Christ
BPVDH

Mừng kính thánh I-Nhã Loyola

Kính thưa cha Tuyên Úy và anh chị em Đồng Hành-CLC,

Thứ Sáu này ngày 31 tháng Bảy, Giáo Hội mừng kính thánh I-Nhã Loyola, đấng sáng lập dòng Tên và cũng là thánh tổ của Linh Đạo I-Nhã.

Chúng ta vui mừng tạ ơn Thiên Chúa vì qua thánh I-Nhã và Dòng Tên Ngài đã ban cho chúng ta biết bao nhiêu ân sủng.   Đặc biệt Linh Đạo I-Nhã đã giúp chúng ta gia tăng lòng yêu mến Chúa Giêsu Kitô hơn. 

Các khóa Linh Thao cùng với việc Hồi  tâm, nhận định cá nhân, nhận định cộng đoàn, tìm kiếm Chúa trong mọi sự đã và đang gíúp phát triển đời sống tâm linh cúa từng anh chị em.

Sẽ mang nhiều ý nghiã khi các nhóm có thể cùng nhau dâng lễ hay quay quần trong buổi họp nhóm để tạ ơn Thiên Chúa và mừng kính Thánh quan thầy I-Nhã trong dịp nàỵ.   Vài sinh hoạt sẽ có trong cuối tuần 31 tháng Bảy:

• Anh chị em Toronto-Montreal sẽ có họp Mặt Vùng vào cuối tuần này
• Sáng Thứ Bảy, một số nhóm Tây Nam sẽ gặp nhau mừng lễ Thánh I-Nhã  
• Sáng thứ Bảy, một số nhóm Trung Tây sẽ gặp nhau qua Zoom để hoàn tất khóa học về cách họp nhóm Đồng Hành-CLC. 

Nguyện xin thánh I-Nhã cầu bầu cùng Ba Ngôi Thiên cho anh chị em chúng con biết học theo gương của Ngài có được tâm hồn luôn khao khát (discerning heart) tìm kiếm thánh ý Chúa trong mọi tình huống của cuộc sống mỗi ngày.  

Phạm Q. Trung

Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Young Adults

 

St Ignatius of Loyola

My Dear Dong Hanh Young Adults

This upcoming Friday, July 31st, 2015 is the date the Church dedicates to commemorate Saint Ignatius of Loyola who is the founder of the Society of Jesus and who is the author of a great spirituality that many Catholic religious orders as well as lay organizations and movements adopted for their spiritual formation. I would like to take this opportunity to share with you a brief reflection on St. Ignatius and his followers especially young adults.

For Christian Life Community (CLC), Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the Society of Jesus has a special position and relationship in the life and history of the CLC community.  CLC owes the Jesuit order for its birth and graced history when a young Belgian Jesuit, Jean Leunis, who met Ignatius in 1556, and was assigned to the Roman College, created the first Sodalities with students of this institution.  The Sodalities later was approved by Pope Gregory XIII and placed under the authority of the General of the Society of Jesus.  Over centuries, the Sodalities have been transformed through various challenges and finally became Christian Life Community in 1967 thanks to the inspiration from the Second Vatican Council that brought significant changes to various aspects of the Church.  Throughout the graced history of CLC, the Society of Jesus has been accompanying CLC in various aspects ranging from providing silent retreats, spiritual direction to assigning Jesuit priests to be ecclesiastical assistants for CLC communities worldwide.  In fact, the incumbent General of the Society of Jesus, Father Adolfo Nicolás is currently the ecclesiastical assistant for the World CLC.

My dear young fellow companions, as you can see from the brief history mentioned above, the great history of CLC began with a young adult, the young Belgian Jesuit, Jean Leunis and students at Roman College.  St. Ignatius and his first companions were also around your age when they responded to God’s calling for their priestly vocation.  As I reflected on the life of Saint Ignatius, I thought about you.  St. Ignatius prior to the age of 30 was very passionate and ambitious with a military career as a high-ranking knight serving under a noble household in Spain.  Yet, at the age of 30 after he was severely wounded in a battle with the French troops, he experienced a profound conversion while recovering from his wound.  He was able to turn his passion to fight for the kingdom of Spain to a passion to fight with Christ for building the kingdom of God by using his spiritual exercise to help gaining for God so many people from different walks of life.  Young people have several remarkable qualities that when placed at God’s disposal can bring significant changes to our world and our community.  Like St. Ignatius who possessed a soldier’s risk-taking spirit enabling him to embark on a long conversion journey (both physical and spiritual) tirelessly and fearlessly, your youthful vigor and your risk-taking spirit can help fueling your embarking on various missions for the Church.  Your creativity can turn around stagnant communities.  Like St. Ignatius who in his thirst for understanding and deepening his faith unceasingly sought to read and have spiritual conversations with various people in the towns where he stayed during his journey, your open-mind spirit, and your inquisitiveness can help us see and move above and beyond the boundaries of our own comfort zones into the frontiers where vast, great opportunities for collaboration with people of good will are awaiting us to serve God’s people.

I would like to encourage you, my dear young adults, to reflect on the life of Saint Ignatius of Loyola especially on July 31 that the Church dedicated in memory of a great Saint.  His life in his young adulthood in many ways was very similar to yours.  Had Saint Ignatius not tuned in with the different movements in his heart which marked the onset of his conversion while he was on his sick bed and had he not been willing to pursue this conversion journey, our Church and our CLC community would not have had a great spirituality which has been profoundly impacting so many people throughout many centuries.  Had Jean Leunis, the young Belgian Jesuit, not responded to the calling in his heart to gather young students at Roman College into the first Sodalities, we would not have had CLC vocation today.  Thus, I would like to invite you to come together with your Dong Hanh fellows on this special day for giving thanks to our God for giving us a great Saint.  I also would like to invite you to reflect on how you can let God use many wonderful qualities of a young adult in you to serve the Church like Saint Ignatius and especially to help rejuvenate the young adult ministry in our Dong Hanh community through project “Our Way of Finding God” that we committed to embark on as a whole community at our last national assembly in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

May you be greatly inspired with the example of Saint Ignatius’ life and learn from him on how to focus and channel your passions, exuberance, intelligence, and talents to serve God and his Church like Saint Ignatius.



Nam Phương

TÂY NAM - Họp Mặt Vùng 2015

Thứ Sáu 4 - cho đến Chúa Nhật 6 tháng 9,2015

tại Pali Mountain Retreat

Running Springs, CA

Như một truyền thống trong vùng Tây Nam trong nhiều năm qua, Họp Mặt Vùng Tây Nam 2015 sẽ được tổ chức vào cuối tuần Labor Day, từ thứ Sáu 4-Sept cho đến 6-Sept tại Pali Mountain Retreat, một địa điểm cao, đẹp và thoáng mát trên vùng núi Running Springs, CA.

Họp Mặt Vùng là cơ hội để các nhóm trong vùng quy tụ về và sống với nhau như một cộng đoàn, cùng nhắc cho nhau nghe những hồng ân Chúa đã ban, làm chứng nhân cho Chúa trong đời sống của mình và cùng nhau nhận định lời mời gọi của Chúa dành cho cộng đoàn qua chủ đề "Wisdom Sends Us Forth".

Quý Anh Chị và các bạn có thể ghi danh tại http://form.jotform.us/form/51946733372158

Ban Phục Vụ Vùng Tây Nam

S.E.E.D NorCal 1

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ

Please join us in prayers for, sending and supporting our SEED team on their mission to host and lead the SEED retreat I in Northern California about to happen at Camp Maymac in Felton California, this upcoming weekend from Friday afternoon, July 24 to Sunday afternoon, July 26, 2015.

On behalf of the entire DH-CLC National Community, Ban Phục Vụ Đồng Hành (BPVDH) would like to extend our sincere appreciation to our SEED leaders and their parents, the SEED parent organizing team headed by Chị Loan of the DH-CLC Southwest Region, and many others who have been silently helping out with the planning and organizing of this retreat. 

The theme of this retreat will be as follows: "Here I Am"  SEED is a ministry of the Dong Hanh community.  SEED is an abbreviation for Search, Embark, Experience, and Develop.  SEED is a retreat approach to help the minors encounter and experience God through activities appropriate with their ages and stage of their cognitive and spiritual developments.

Please keep them, the parent team, all retreatants and their parents in your prayers throughout this week.

Almighty and loving Father, please look with favor on Your servants who are the above Leaders and the Parent Organizing Team as we, the DH-CLC community send them forth on a mission to help bringing the 58 young retreatants closer to You, Lord.  Please guide them at every single step with Your mighty arm. Strengthen them with the power of Your graces, fill their hearts with a deep joy in serving You through these little ones, and keep them united in Your love.  Grant our 58 retreatants grace to remain open and embrace fully the gifts You are about to unfold to them in this retreat.  Please protect all leaders, parent team, retreatants and their parents from all distresses throughout their journey.  We ask for these graces in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.  Amen.

BPVDH
Trung Pham
Nam-Phuong Nguyen

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Dear BPV Tay Nam and Dong Hanh,

Frank and I are excited to share the news that for the first time in 5 years we are having a new SEED retreat in our region.  SEED Norcal I will be taking place July 24-26 at Camp Maymac in Felton California.  Chi Loan, whose family has been attending SEED in Southern California for many years, has been our main organizer and we are blessed to have a team of hard working organizers to help her support us.  We have a team of 12 leaders who include:

Minh Chi Doan, Anna Viet, Thien Son Pham, Dan Duong, Frank Vuong, Paulina Vu, Diane Hua, Dao Vu, John Tran, Kevin Tong, Bethany Vu, Peter Khoa Nguyen

Our leaders come from Southern and Northern California and have been working for the past few months to bring SEED to the families in Northern California.  We ask that you join us in prayer to send and support the leaders and organizers as they serve 58 retreatants ages 6-17 this weekend. We will be praying for the graces of courage to face new and unknown challenges, grace to do our best, and humility to put ourselves aside to be God's instruments.

SEED Tay Nam has been discerning and dreaming about having SEED Norcal for about 2 years now and it is a great blessing to see it come to life.  Seeing the team work with such passion and joy the past few months makes me excited to be part of God's plan for SEED Ministry throughout Dong Hanh.

Thank you all for your continued support and prayers, we are deeply grateful that you journey with us,

Frank, Thao Vy,
and SEED Norcal Team

NORTHEAST S.E.E.D LEADERS RETREAT

Thưa cả nhà,

 

Hôm nay có 11 anh chị em bước vào 4 ngày tĩnh tâm thinh lặng. Tất cả các anh chị em này là SEED retreat leaders đã và đang phục vụ trong mục vụ SEED cho vùng Đông Bắc trong nhiều năm qua. Vừa mới phục vụ trong khóa SEED VII cho vùng Đông Bắc xong, thì cả nhóm leaders lên núi tìm Chúa trong 4 ngày tĩnh tâm. Hôm nay có dịp ngồi ăn cơm chiều với các em leaders trẻ tuổi trước khi các em đi vào không gian thinh lặng với Chúa. Nhớ trong Kinh Thánh, sau khi các môn đệ ra đi rao giảng và làm xong những việc Thầy giao cho, các môn đệ trở về và kể lại cho Chúa Giesu nghe tất cả những gì họ đã làm. Tối hôm nay và trong 3 ngày kế tiếp, không biết các leaders này sẽ kể gì cho Chúa nghe, và sẽ nghe được gì ở nơi Chúa. Chỉ thấy hình ảnh này đẹp quá.

 

Xin cả nhà nhớ đến 11 leaders này trong lời cầu nguyện.

 

Trong nhóm 11 gồm có:
Anh Ân và chị Mai - nhóm Hy Vọng
Bửu - Con Cá
và các em leaders trẻ:
Virginia: Anh Thư, Annebella, Bryan, Bonnie, Justin, Danniel
Massachusetts: Alphonse
Pennsylvania: Emily (not a SEED leader).

 

Thân mến
Minh

 

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Hello DHVA family,

 

Please keep us in your prayers. The young adult group, Metanoia, Anh An, Buu, and I have been helping are attending a silent retreat this weekend starting on Thursday evening with Cha Chris Trung. We also have Emily, Anh Minh's daughter and Alphonse from GDTT joining us for the retreat. We feel blessed to journey with cac em and blessed to have Cha Trung lead them.

 

We are at Mariawald Center. The nuns have renovated the retreat house and it's really nice. God is good. :)

 

Peace,
Mai

SEED Dallas VI

Thưa Cộng Đoàn Đồng Hành,

Xin chúng ta cùng nhau hiệp ý cầu nguyện cho các cháu nhỏ tham dự khóa Seed Dallas VI, các Leaders, Organizers cùng các phụ huynh để tất cả nhận được nhiều ân sủng, tình thương và sự nâng đỡ trong khóa tĩnh tâm nàỵ.
   Thay mặt cộng đoàn Đồng Hành xin chân thành biết ơn các SEED Leaders và các Organizers vì những cống gắng, hy sinh và lòng nhiệt thành của các em và các anh chị đang mang thêm nhiều sức sống cho ĐH-Trung Tây cũng như toàn Đồng Hành-CLC.

Nguyễn Nam Phương
Phạm Q. Trung  

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SEED Dallas VI will be held in the Dallas area during the weekend of July 17–19.
6 SEED  leaders will serve 30 children along with the loving support of SEED Organizers as well as caring parents.

Below is the list of SEED Organizers
-Chau Tran
-Julie Pham
-Sophia Ngo
-Ngoc Anh Tran
-Lillian Vu
-Vincent Truong

We would like to ask the community for support in prayer and guidance as these young adults go forth to serve the Christ through His children in our Đồng Hành-CLC.  These leaders have been working so fervently and with such humility. It has been such a joy to witness their work so far.
Thank you so much for your support!

Peace,
Vincent Cao
Midwest SEED Coordinator

S.E.E.D. SoCal V

July 9th, 2015

Dear Đồng Hành-CLC family,

Please keep SEED program in Southern California (SEED SoCal V) in your prayer  that every ones from Seedlings, Leaders and Parents will experience God’s wonderful love through their presence as well as through their services toward each another.  

     On behalf of BPV of Đồng Hành-CLC, we would like to express our deep gratitude for your tremendous dedication in helping Dong Hanh Tay Nam children to experience God’s love in their life.  Your sacrifices and generous contributions are sustaining and nourishing entire Dong Hanh-CLC.

With gratefulness

Nam-Phương Nguyễn
Trung Phạm

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Dear BPV Dong Hanh and BPV Tay Nam,  

It gives me great joy to ask you to join me in prayer to send off the SEED Socal V team on mission this weekend.  The retreat will take place at Sanzang Retreat House in Running Springs, California and we are also happy to welcome Fr. Jim Borberly SJ to join us for the first time. SEED Socal V Alive With You, will begin happening from July 9-12 and will be one of the biggest SEED retreats in Tay Nam history. We will have 64 retreantants, 13 leaders, 4 observers, and many parents journeying together with Christ.  

 The young adult leaders come from communities throughout our region and include  

Angela Hoang	Sophia Ngo	Theresa Tran	Brian Bui
Minh Vo	Bethany Vu	Laura Khong	Claudia Nguyen
Joanne Do	Timothy Nguyen	Andrew Dinh	Phuong Tran
Christine Pham	Steven

I have a deep sense of peace and gratitude for the heart and happiness they have dedicated to the kids for retreat. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers this weekend   

For the greater glory of God, 

Thao Vy Bethany

SEED NE - Friday morning

Morning prayer in the courtyard



Gluing broken pots ...

... where their beauty can be seen ...

... only through the eyes of its creator

Vài hình ảnh từ Việt Nam

Buổi gặp gỡ giữa CLC-VN và đại diện Đồng Hành

 

Ban Điều Hành mới của CLC-VN

 

Đại diện Đồng Hành họp với Ban Điều Hành CLC-VN

 

SEED NORTH-EAST

June 30th, 2015

Dear Đồng Hành-CLC family,
   Please unite in prayer for the Đông Bắc SEED program this week that every ones from Seedlings, Leaders and Parents will experience God’s wonderful love through their presence as well as through their services toward each another. 
   On behalf of BPV of Đồng Hành-CLC, we would like to express our deep gratitude for your tremendous dedication in helping beautiful children of Đông Bắc so that they will grow up to be solid Christians. 
   Your sacrifices and generous contributions are bringing forth beautiful life to the entire Dong Hanh-CLC.

With gratefulness
Nam-Phương Nguyễn
Trung Phạm

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Hello cac anh chi,
   I would like to share with you that we will have SEED VII Northeast Retreat in Dong Bac this week from Thursday 2nd July - Sunday 5th July, and ask for you and the community to pray for us.
   We have around 39 kids and 18 teens signed up. Including the parents, we will have around 100 people at SEED this year. Our theme is Finding Beauty and is about seeing the beauty in our everyday lives and how this beauty leads us to Truth, Goodness and God.
   We've only had 4 weeks to prepare, but things are going wonderfully and we have a great team of leaders and organizers:

SEED Leaders
An Cao, Anh-Thu Mai, Annabelle Pham, Bonnie Trinh, Bryan Trinh, Buu Tran, Daniel Do, Frank Vuong, Linh Nguyen, Mai Le-Cao

Organizers
Anh Minh Hang, Anh Khánh Đào, Anh Thanh Le, Chị Châu-Hoàn Trần, Anh Hoàng Nguyễn

A number of our leaders were former retreatants who have attended SEED in the past and having gone through SEED Source training are now either core leaders or leaders in training, which is a real grace for us.
   We also have a non Dong Hanh member of CLC who has signed up for SEED. I believe will be the first time someone from CLC US will be attending SEED which is absolutely amazing!
   Thank you for all your continued support and prayers, may the Lord continue to use each of us and our community as instruments to build His Kingdom.

In Christ
Bửu Trần

SEED Leaders