Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 6/27 "Render to Caeser the things that are Caeser's and to God the things that are God's"

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is the information for this week's Bible study.
"Lord, by your spirit, allow us to see your strength and beauty in others. Remove anything that might hinder us from giving ourselves to you in purity and in love. Help us, Lord, to reflect your love more fully each day."

God Bless,
Maria

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 6/13 Fr. Deutsch birthday celebration

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

This week we have a very special event. We will have a dinner get together to celebrate Fr. Deutsch's 80th birthday. After the celebration, father will give us a talk on Pope John Paul II's Encyclical of the Eucharist. The details are as follows:
God Bless,
Maria

Friday, June 06, 2008

Cornerstone Bible Study - 6/6 - 2008 Review and Future Meeting

Cornerstone 2008 Review and Future Discussions
2008-06-06 Friday @ SJC School Art classroom

Summary:
  • Arthur
    • Arthur also talked about cornerstone origin and history. He deeply shared his vision of our Bible study group and what we should do in the beginning on the meeting.
    • Our group is doing very well because we are led by God.
    • We don’t need to worry too much, just let God to lead us.
  • Lucia
    • Cornerstone can choose a specific field to offer our help for SJCCC.
    • Also, if we can provide some our reach for kids. It will be even better.
  • Angela
    • The leader for each Bible study should control the time.
    • The time is the most concern for some people.
  • Bettina
    • Hope we can spend more time on Bible study (the contents)
  • Michelle
    • Hope we can participate in some outreach / community services with kids.
  • Wen-Ching
    • Cornerstone members can provide once a month Bible study with our kids.
    • Such as Rosary, 唸玫瑰經.
  • Thomas
    • This group is a very special group that everyone has lots of different experiences. The rewarding from the group is also a lot.
    • Children have a good relationship with church. There is a group for them here.
    • 團體 – 信仰要靠團體. 主內的伙伴.
    • 靈修 – 建立與上帝正確的關係, reading and reviewing Bible / Gospels, and sharing experiences are very good.
    • 使命 – schedule a fixed meeting time for sharing the experience of how God in our mind / life (天主在我們心的心中有多大).
    • For what people like to do, our group can support individual’s missions. And the missions will support everyone in the group.
  • Mike
    • 這是一個沒有是非的地方,是非常珍貴的.
    • Resource for spiritual improvement or study.
    • Make a clear relationship definition between Cornerstone and SJCCC.
  • Corinna
    • 讓孩子知道我們的信仰, 來自我們的態度. 在這裡看到了我們的心, 自己與別人的成長.
  • Maria
    • 信仰是成長上很重要的依部分, the core of our life. Cornerstone provides this opportunity.
    • Anyone who wants to have deeper understanding of the faith, Cornerstone 能提共其影響與產生作用.
    • Let more people to understand our group, at least let people aware of us.
    • Let SJC church weekly newsletter has an introduction of Cornerstone and list cornerstone in the group announcement constantly for reminding people.
    • For any decision or work we are doing should not create any block for others to join our group.
    • 很懷念在Tony家的敬拜與讚美, 音樂是非常重要的.
    • Children in the group are growing, what is our future direction for them? We need a plan.
  • 明淑
    • Cornerstone is a very good Bible study group that retains family oriented style, very easy to catch people’s attention.
    • For孩子們:
      • 這一陣子孩子們非常的鬧 (maybe it was because of summer vacation is coming). 給孩子們訓了話 telling them love and discipline.
      • 大孩子先不乖,而引起全體的搔動.
      • Children need to respect others (other parents and younger kids as well).
      • 每個孩子都很棒, 但孩子還是要教的.
      • Teach them or help them to learn to be quiet during prayers.
      • Our parents will corporate with 明淑 and 聖母軍 members. Whenever any child is out of order, parents should go ahead to help and remind child respect and discipline.
      • 與孩子一同唸玫瑰經Rosary, 學習安靜.
  • Vincent
    • Thank everyone’s sharing that from the bottom of each heart. It is really a good review and we also learned a lot from each other. Please keep this in mind, because it is our voice (yours and mine).
    • Please feel to let me know if I missed anything.