<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580</id><updated>2009-02-21T17:06:54.601+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Gailhac - Béziers 2004</title><subtitle type='html'>°This is an internet space for the international community gathering in Beziers in August 2004 to explore the nature of vocation in the spirit of the RSHM.&lt;br&gt;
°Este é um espaço de Internet dedicado à comunidade internacional que se reuniu em Béziers em Agosto de 2004 visando a exploraçäo da natureza das vocaçöes no espirito das RSCM.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>19</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109335084998851675</id><published>2004-08-24T14:34:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-09-04T16:49:36.326+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Envoi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=243839"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2px solid" alt="" src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/243839_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normalfont-size:90;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=243839"&gt;woven together&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/49503082192@N01/"&gt;Vocatus&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;A feature of the closing ceremony was the passing of thread between the particants, symbolising how our lives have been woven together over the past week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Oração final&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Terça feira foi o dia da despedida, tendo havido uma oração de encerramento organizada por um grupo com representantes de todas as nações participentes. A imagem mostra um dos momentos dessa oração, onde se passou um novelo de lã entre todos os elementos de modo a criar um efeito de rede, um oceano de comunhão do qual cada um era uma gota.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Antes disso, o dia começou com um momento de reflexão e partilha organizado pelas irmãs da Comunidade da Casa Mãe, tendo sido no final oferecido (por todos os visitantes) um Bonsai, com todo o seu simbolismo, a esta comunidade.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109335084998851675?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109335084998851675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109335084998851675' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109335084998851675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109335084998851675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/envoi.html' title='Envoi'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109334127562645424</id><published>2004-08-23T23:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-09-04T16:36:41.943+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Autignac group photo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=243233"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 2px solid" alt="" src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/243233_m.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normalfont-size:90;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=243233"&gt;Autignac group photo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/49503082192@N01/"&gt;Vocatus&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;On Monday we walked from Murviel, where Appollonie Pèlissier was born, to Autignac, 12 km away, where her husband Eugene Cure was born. Along the route we meditated on their story and the story of Naomi and Ruth from the bible, as recounted by Sr Marie Dominique.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peregrinação a Autignac&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Segunda feira o dia foi preenchido com uma visita às aldeias dos arredores de Béziers que se relacionam de alguma forma com a história do IRSCM. Começámos por Murviel, cidade natal de Appollonie Pèlissier: lá visitamos um igreja medieval, onde ficámos a saber a história de Rute, que deu um livro do Antigo Testamento, através da Ir. Marie Dominique. O exemplo de Rute e de Naomi (sua nora), enquanto mulheres de coragem que tiveram de deixar tudo para trás e recomeçar de novo, deixando os acontecimentos passaram com a paciência de quem espera em Deus, sem nunca deixarem de agir e lutar de acordo com a Sua vontade.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;De Murviel prosseguimos a pé para Autignac, terra natal de Eugene Cure, numa bem longa caminhada que nos permitiu reflectir sobre a história de Rute. No caminho tivemos duas paragens: uma para almoçar e outra para uma prova de vinhos da região. O almoço serviu para descansar e para conhecer melhor a história do casal Cure, em particular a de Appollonie Pèlissier (Mère St. Jean na vida religiosa e co-fundadora do IRSCM): numa perspectiva de coragem, perda e luta para prosseguir, fizémos o paralelo com o percurso de Rute. A segunda paragem serviu para um bem merecido repouso, aproveitando para conhecer o processo de fabrico de vinhos da região, tendo ainda havido uma prova de um rosé e de um tinto local (assim como muitas compras de garrafas). Finalmente, em Autignac, reunimo-nos numa igreja também medieval, mas reconstruída depois da 2ª guerra, onde se orou sob a direcção dos dois rapazes Polacos: Bartek e Jakob, que muito se aproximaram do grupo Português. A fotografia mostra o grupo internacional todo à porta dessa igreja (ver &lt;em&gt;comment &lt;/em&gt;para a legenda).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109334127562645424?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109334127562645424/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109334127562645424' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109334127562645424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109334127562645424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/autignac-group-photo.html' title='Autignac group photo'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109329638103279155</id><published>2004-08-23T22:59:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-23T23:26:21.033+02:00</updated><title type='text'>O brotar dos dons</title><content type='html'>O dia de Domingo, 22 de Agosto, teve a manhä preenchida com a anàlise e reflexäo sobre o tema dos dons e especifidade de cada um associados a uma riqueza que a todos nos une, formando-se assim "unidade na diversidade". O tema foi também tratado à luz da historia do Instituto RSCM, tendo sido sublinhado o espirito concilador de Mère St. Jean que permitiu a todas as irmäs, sob a mesma denominaçäo, encontrar o melhor de si para permitir "um so corpo na Internacionalidade". Seguiu-se um espaço de discussäo, onde se falou dos dons que cada um tinha descoberto neste percurso, em si e nos outros, assim como as dificuldade sentidas a nivel de abertura e exposiçäo da especificidade de cada um.&lt;br /&gt;A tarde foi livre, havendo contudo duas propostas de actividade (consiliàveis): visitar "La Mergelle", casa onde residem as irmäs mais idosas, algumas doentes, da comunidade; e visitar "Les Eclùses", no Canal do Midi. A primeira actividade consistiu na organizaçäo de uma pequena festa, com cançöes e danças tipicas de cada pais envolvido, para profundo deleite das irmäs que assistiram, nostàlgicas, às recordaçöes das suas origens. Como a irmä Lucinda, Portuguesa, disse: "Ainda fico com fome de Portugal". Foi bom, mas o tempo näo permitiu fazer mais pois seguiu-se a visita ao "Canal du Midi" (que liga o Atlântico ao Mediterrâneo), impressionante obra de engenharia do século XVII por um querido filho da cidade de Béziers: Paul Riquet. Em particular, fomos visitar "Les Eclùses",  sistema de diques que faz a elevaçäo dos barcos, permitindo às àguas do canal subirem um monte! Apos a visita, foi altura de sermos acolhidos pelos Irmäos das Escolas Cristäs, no seu retiro que fica mesmo na zona dos diques: ai tivemos momentos de reflexäo e oraçäo, assim como a oportunidade de ver um extraordinàrio Presépio animado, com promenores maravilhosos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109329638103279155?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109329638103279155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109329638103279155' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109329638103279155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109329638103279155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/o-brotar-dos-dons.html' title='O brotar dos dons'/><author><name>Joao Pereira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10788209535613383864</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14966679021793630021'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109324465120252460</id><published>2004-08-23T09:03:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-23T20:04:16.960+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Felicitações da Brasil</title><content type='html'>Queridas Bernadette, Marie France, Mary Jô e Isabel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meu coração está aí na casa mãe, muito unido a vocês e a todos os jovens que estão vivenciando esta maravilhosa experiência de buscar ouvir os apelos do Senhor, de atender ao Seu CHAMADO, para realizar a missão que Ele lhes quer confiar.&lt;br /&gt;A iniciativa da realização deste ENCONTRO me empolgou desde o início e com minhas orações estou participando dele, pedindo ao Espírito Santo que as ilumine e tudo conduza para que as sementes lançadas produzam abundantes frutos.&lt;br /&gt;Só a intenacionalidade já é uma riqueza e, com certeza, a troca de experiências vai ajudar bastante para que cada jovem tenha uma nova visão das necessidades do nosso mundo e queira responder, com generosidade, aos apelos do Senhor, colocando sua vida, seus dons, a serviço do REINO, para que haja mais Justiça, mais Paz e mais VIDA!&lt;br /&gt;Espero que tudo transcorra num clima de grande alegria e comunhão e todos nós, RSCM de Vitória, as acompanhamos com orações e grande interesse, certas de que o Padre Gailhac e Mère Saint Jean aí estão abençoando a todos. Saudades e um abraço carinhoso e amigo da Ir. Ilza de Lourdes RSCM, Vitoria, Brasil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109324465120252460?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109324465120252460/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109324465120252460' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109324465120252460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109324465120252460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/felicitaes-da-brasil.html' title='Felicitações da Brasil'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109324443172696473</id><published>2004-08-22T08:50:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-23T20:05:23.103+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Amitié, spiritualité, partage...</title><content type='html'>Sacré Cœur de Marie et les jeunes &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amitié, spiritualité, partage...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C’est une première : la congrégation des Sœurs du Sacré Cœur de Marie organise, ce jours-ci une rencontre pour les jeunes de différents pays dans sa Maison–mère. Une quarantaine, de jeunes sont venus du Portugal, d’Irlande, d’Écosse, du Pays des Galles, d’Angleterre, de Pologne et de France. Jeudi matin ils étaient réunis à la Maison d’Enfants Jean Gailhac pour le lancement de la rencontre mais aussi pour faire connaissance avec les objectifs du fondateur de la congrégation. Pourquoi ont-ils décidé de venir passer une semaine à Béziers ? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les Portugais constituent, de loin, le groupe le plus nombreux. Ils sont 15 jeunes, encadrés par Sœur Teresa et Sœur Cândida.  Ils viennent de Lisbonne, de Braga, de Fatima, de Porto, de Torres Novas. Il faut dire qu’au Portugal, la fondation du Père Gailhac a vraiment essaimé. Il y a dans ce pays, 43 communautés du Sacré Cœur de Marie avec 343 sœurs actives. Et on ne compte pas celles qui soutiennent d’autres communautés un peu partout dans le monde. Elles sont présentes dans plusieurs pays d’Amérique Latine (Brésil, Mexique, Colombie…), en Italie, en France, à Rome… Les motivations des jeunes Portugais ? « ...O n voulait se retrouver avec d’autres jeunes et avec des Sœurs du Sacré Cœur de Marie…, c’est une opportunité de connaître la Maison-Mère…, ...on consacre une semaine de nos vacances à la vie en commun de notre religion…, une semaine de partage et de spiritualité forte… »  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Invitées par la communauté des Sœurs du SCM de la Devèze, les trois jeunes biterroises du groupe, Joséphine, Virginie et Joyce sont là « ...pour accueillir les autres, leur faire connaître Béziers, pour vivre en amitié avec d’autres personnes… ». Joyce, qui est Rwandaise, réfugiée en France suite à la guerre dans son pays, fait ses études à Montpellier pour être aide-soignante. Elle espère trouver de nouveaux amis : « je suis très contente d’être ici, je ne pensais pas que cela puisse m’apporter autant de bien… »&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les deux Polonais, Bartek et Jacob, sont parmi les plus jeunes du groupe et encore lycéens. La congrégation de Sacré Cœur de Marie est-elle connue en Pologne ? « Non. Mais en fait, mon oncle qui est prêtre et travaille beaucoup avec des mouvements des jeunes va souvent à Londres. Là, il a eu l’occasion de connaître les Sœurs de la Congrégation …et il nous a envoyé en éclaireurs… », sourit Bartek. Comment sont les jeunes catholiques en Pologne ? « Il y a moins de pratiquants qu’avant. Souvent les gens se détournent de l’Église quand ils s’enrichissent… On nous a dit qu’en Occident il  y a des églises sans prêtre… En Pologne les prêtres ne manquent pas, en moyenne nous avons trois prêtres par église, » raconte Jacob. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que font-ils dans la vie ? La plupart des plus jeunes, entre 18-22 ans sont encore étudiants. D’autres travaillent où cherchent un emploi. Ils sont cuisinière, psychologue, ergothérapeute, professeur de physique-chimie…. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arrivés mardi et mercredi, les jeunes resteront dans notre ville une semaine, jusqu’à mardi soir. Quel est leur programme ? Après la journée du jeudi, consacrée au lancement de la rencontre et à la connaissance générale de la ville et de la région, le vendredi ils ont travaillé sur le thème Nos racines, notre baptême. Les thèmes des journées suivantes sont : Amitié, Nos dons, Étapes de la vie et enfin RSCM aujourd’hui.  Les jeunes découvrent leurs chemins, les traditions chrétiennes des différents pays, ils ont des temps de prière en groupe et personnelle, des temps de réflexion, de partage culturel… L’objectif est de leur faire vivre un esprit de communauté, mais aussi de leur faire connaître la Maison-mère et ses fondateurs, le père Gailhac et Mère Saint Jean. Ils visiteront Béziers sur les pas de Jean Gailhac, de sa maison natale, par différents points liés à son action et à sa fondation. Ils passeront une journée à la Devèze pour connaître le lieu de travail des sœurs Marie Bernard, Marie Paule et Marie Jean et les gens du quartier. Ils iront aussi au Bon Pasteur, un des premiers lieux de la congrégation à Béziers qui sert actuellement à l’accueil des sœurs âgées. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Texte par&lt;br /&gt;Marie Tuora&lt;br /&gt;pour Bulletin Paroisse Saints Apotres et Martyrs, Béziers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109324443172696473?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109324443172696473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109324443172696473' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109324443172696473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109324443172696473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/amiti-spiritualit-partage.html' title='Amitié, spiritualité, partage...'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109316151403336828</id><published>2004-08-21T23:59:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-23T22:58:22.593+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Os simbolos da caminhada e o tema da amizade</title><content type='html'>A manhä do dia 21 de Agosto começou com uma oraçäo animada pelo grupo irlandês versando o tema da amizade, indicador da temàtica do dia. No final da oraçäo procedeu-se à apresentaçäo dos simbolos, trabalhos artisticos, realizados pelos participantes desta comunidade aqui formada. Os três trabalhos apresentados foram realizados por diferentes grupos, tendo o grupo português tomado a seu cargo a realizaçäo de um deles, representando uma gota de àgua. O proposito desta simbologia pretendia resumir a caminhada feita no dia anterior, pela historia do Instituto, e representar o caminho de cada um no percurso deste encontro. Focando em particular a participaçäo portuguesa, a gota pretendia simbolizar a nossa participaçäo individual, e do grupo em geral, no grande oceano que é a vida Cristä e nos rios que o percorrem. Para representar os nossos guias nas tumultuosas correntes destes rios, temos as quatro palmas que sustentam a nossa gota, pelas quatro irmäs portuguesas que a seu cargo têm essa missäo de acompanhamento: Ir. Teresa Nogueira, Ir. Maria de Lourdes, Ir. Isabel Lima e Ir. Cândida Figueiredo.&lt;br /&gt;Seguiu-se um momento de discussäo, reflexäo e partilha sobre a amizade, sob a direcçäo de um casal irlandês que nos deu o seu exemplo de vida conjugal, fazendo o paralelo com os chamamentos, nunca solitàrios, de Pe. Jean Gailhac e de Abraäo. Tendo como base este tema de reflexäo, a tarde foi livre para que se pudesse meditar, havendo a possibilidade de cada um expressar o resultado da sua reflexäo de uma forma artistica, desenhando ou moldando. Em seguida ainda houve tempo para um breve passeio por Béziers, onde se formaram grupos de proveniências diversas de modo a incentivar a comunhäo e interacçäo entre os elementos que menos se conheciam. Finalmente, a tarde terminou com uma missa celebrada nos arredores de Béziers, tendo isso implicado uma looonga caminhada de ida e de volta. Diga-se que essa missa, unica disponivel por serem férias, foi muito participada pelo grupo internacional que contribuiu com cançöes e oraçöes animando a paroquia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109316151403336828?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109316151403336828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109316151403336828' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109316151403336828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109316151403336828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/os-simbolos-da-caminhada-e-o-tema-da.html' title='Os simbolos da caminhada e o tema da amizade'/><author><name>Joao Pereira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10788209535613383864</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='14966679021793630021'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109319840646798044</id><published>2004-08-21T23:59:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-23T08:49:16.783+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Artistic meditations on the sources</title><content type='html'> &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=231783" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/231783_t.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=231777" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/231777_t.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=231901" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/231901_t.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font: 90%; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=231783"&gt;Images of art work&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/49503082192@N01/"&gt;Vocatus&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;p style=""&gt; These images created by groups reflecting on the topic of our sources. They were presented in our opening prayer service on Saturday 21st.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109319840646798044?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109319840646798044/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109319840646798044' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109319840646798044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109319840646798044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/artistic-meditations-on-sources_21.html' title='Artistic meditations on the sources'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109308960683986993</id><published>2004-08-20T23:59:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-22T14:38:14.316+02:00</updated><title type='text'>In the footsteps of the Founders - Nas pegadas dos Fundadores</title><content type='html'> &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=223286" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/223286_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font: 90%; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=223286"&gt;Virginie, Bernie, Joyce and Bartek on Pont Vieux, with St. Nazaire Cathedral in the background&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/49503082192@N01/"&gt;Vocatus&lt;/a&gt;. Photo by Jakub. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;p style=""&gt; &lt;/p&gt;On Friday afternoon, we were led through the streets of Beziers by the Mother House Community to visit and meditate on the sites associated with Father Gailhac, Eugene and Appollonie Cure and the early RSHM community. The 12 steps have already been &lt;a href="http://www.marymount.k12.ny.us/marynet/TeacherResources/RSHM/html/rshm.htm"&gt;photodocumented by the group from Marymount school&lt;/a&gt; in the USA. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na tarde de Sexta-feira tivemos a oportunidade de visitar Béziers, numa perspectiva historica do Instituto, tendo sido guiados pela Comunidade residente na Casa Mäe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marymount.k12.ny.us/marynet/TeacherResources/RSHM/html/rshm.htm"&gt; Esta visita jà foi fotografada e documentada pelo grupo da escola de Marymount nos EUA.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'après-midi de Vendredi nous avons eu l'opportunité de visiter Béziers, dans la perspective historique de l'Institut, visite animée par la communauté de la Maison Mére.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marymount.k12.ny.us/marynet/TeacherResources/RSHM/html/rshm.htm"&gt; Cette visite a déjà étè photographiée et illustrée par le groupe de l'école de Marymount aux USA.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Portuguese text by Joao P.&lt;br /&gt;French text with the collaboration of Sr Lucienne.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109308960683986993?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109308960683986993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109308960683986993' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109308960683986993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109308960683986993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/in-footsteps-of-founders-nas-pegadas.html' title='In the footsteps of the Founders - Nas pegadas dos Fundadores'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109299657684786215</id><published>2004-08-19T23:59:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-21T20:36:43.366+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Danser devant Dieu</title><content type='html'> &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=217269" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/217269_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font: 90%; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=217269"&gt;Valras danse&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/49503082192@N01/"&gt;Vocatus&lt;/a&gt;. Phot by Sr Marie Dominique. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;p style=""&gt; After helping us launch our international community in the morning, the Béziers community led us by bus to the beach at &lt;a href="http://www.valras-plage.net/"&gt;Valras Plage&lt;/a&gt;, 25 minutes away. Here, thanks no doubt to the intercession of Pere Gailhac, the weather stayed fine for long enough for us to enjoy a swim annd lie on the beach, before moving to a local cafe to eat our supper during a shower of rain. After this we returned to the beach, which was now almost deserted by people but still full of the sound of the sea, for a beautiful session of prayer and meditation on the theme of water, animated by Sr Marie Pierre from the retirement community at La Margelle, in Beziers. We finished up by dancing a Portuguese circle dance on the beach before returning home for a supper of typical Portugese bread, cheese and sausage, washed down by Port wine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109299657684786215?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109299657684786215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109299657684786215' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109299657684786215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109299657684786215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/danser-devant-dieu.html' title='Danser devant Dieu'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109291760626714105</id><published>2004-08-18T23:59:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-22T17:27:57.726+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Opening ceremony - lighting the flame</title><content type='html'> &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=211003" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/211003_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font: 90%; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=211003"&gt;louise lights candle&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/49503082192@N01/"&gt;Vocatus&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;p style=""&gt; Louise (from Carrick on Shannon, Ireland) lights the 4th wick on the ceremonial candle during the opening ceremony for our week as a temporary international community. The 4th candle represents the English (and Irish !) speaking group. The other three represent Polish, French and Portuguese. We have also set up a multilingual communications team so in future you may expect to see other languages on this blog.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109291760626714105?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109291760626714105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109291760626714105' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109291760626714105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109291760626714105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/opening-ceremony-lighting-flame.html' title='Opening ceremony - lighting the flame'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109281614705645229</id><published>2004-08-18T10:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-18T14:01:32.573+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Father Gailhac and the Abbey of Fontfroide</title><content type='html'>&lt;a link="http://www.fontfroide.com"&gt;Fontfroide&lt;/a&gt;, near Narbonne, about 40 km from Béziers, is a former Cistercian abbey. Pere Gailhac used to visit the abbey and received counsel from Father Marie-Jean who was Abbot there. The monastic community was again dispersed in the early part of the 20th century. The building remains as a wonderful testament to the human search for God in its beautiful, rugged surroundings. The comment contains an extract from Fr. Maymard's biography dealing with this stage of Gailhac's life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109281614705645229?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109281614705645229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109281614705645229' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109281614705645229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109281614705645229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/father-gailhac-and-abbey-of-fontfroide.html' title='Father Gailhac and the Abbey of Fontfroide'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109281849986864884</id><published>2004-08-17T23:59:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-22T17:29:10.960+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Tuesday's arrivals</title><content type='html'> &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=203994" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/203994_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font: 90%; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=203994"&gt;Tuesday 17th arrivals&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/49503082192@N01/"&gt;Vocatus&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;p style=""&gt; Tuesday evening  saw the first main tranche of visitors arrive. (From left, rear) Sr Mary Jo, Bart , Sr Breda, Jakob,(front) Carol, Claire, Bernie. Mary Jo (Penmaenmawr), Breda (Preston) and Claire (Wigan), travelled together via flight from Liverpool and train from Paris. Carol flew to Carcassonne from Dublin via Stansted. Jakob and Bart travelled by bus from Gdansk, a journey of 40 hours!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109281849986864884?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109281849986864884/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109281849986864884' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109281849986864884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109281849986864884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/tuesdays-arrivals.html' title='Tuesday&apos;s arrivals'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109283038013113743</id><published>2004-08-17T23:59:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-22T17:28:26.086+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Motherhouse Community meets the Animation team</title><content type='html'> &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=204518" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/204518_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font: 90%; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=204518"&gt;Myriam, Lucienne, Marie de Lourdes, Maria Teresa, Isabel, Marie Andre&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/49503082192@N01/"&gt;Vocatus&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;p style=""&gt; Now that the event is getting truly underway it's time for the animation team (Mary Jo, Marie Dominique, Maria Teresa, Isobel, Irene &amp; Bryan)to meet with the Motherhouse community to make some last minute coordination and adjustments. And to share lunch together (Merci, Marie de Lourdes!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109283038013113743?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109283038013113743/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109283038013113743' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109283038013113743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109283038013113743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/motherhouse-community-meets-animation.html' title='The Motherhouse Community meets the Animation team'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109273731379990438</id><published>2004-08-16T23:59:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-22T17:30:12.116+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Motherhouse Community awaits its guests</title><content type='html'> &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=200174" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/200174_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font: 90%; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=200174"&gt;Lucienne, Marie Andre, Myriam, Marie de Lourdes , Bernadette&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/49503082192@N01/"&gt;Vocatus&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;p style=""&gt; The motherhouse community is pictured as they set out yesterday to finalise their preparations for the the coming event. As well as the numerous practical preparations to accommodate the visitors, the motherhouse community is also responsible for animating the activities of the first full day, Thursday, 19th. For those travelling to Beziers, please note the appearance of the sisters - one of them may be meeting your bus/train/plane!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Family Maguire meanwhile had an busy weekend of site-seeing (Carcassonne) and outdoor activities (swimming, canoeing, mountain biking). We also visited some shrines to pray for the success of the coming event. These included &lt;a href="http://www.fontfroide.com/"&gt;Fontfroide &lt;/a&gt; (which I will blog separately), &lt;a href="http://www.valmagne.com/"&gt;Valmagne&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.saint-guilhem-le-desert.com/"&gt;St Guilhem le Desert&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109273731379990438?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109273731379990438/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109273731379990438' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109273731379990438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109273731379990438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/motherhouse-community-awaits-its.html' title='The Motherhouse Community awaits its guests'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109223726173320533</id><published>2004-08-11T17:14:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-11T17:23:55.393+02:00</updated><title type='text'>James and Thomas sample the hospitality of the motherhouse</title><content type='html'> &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=176118" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/176118_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font: 90%; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=176118"&gt;James and THomas sample the hospitality of the motherhouse&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/49503082192@N01/"&gt;Vocatus&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;p style=""&gt; Bernadette, Miryam, Andre, and Francoise of the motherhouse community welcomed the Maguire family on Sunday 8th August. The gathering of our group to explore vocation has begun. This week, our hosts are busy finalising the arrangements for accommodating the rest of the visitors when they arrive next week. We will be housed in the motherhouse and the nearby Maison des Enfants. Meanwhile this is the &lt;a href="http://www.arenes-de-beziers.com/feria2004/index.cfm/"&gt; Feria in Béziers&lt;/a&gt;, until the &lt;a href="http://www.universalis.com/20040815/today.htm"&gt; Feast of the Assumption&lt;/a&gt; on Sunday. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109223726173320533?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109223726173320533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109223726173320533' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109223726173320533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109223726173320533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/james-and-thomas-sample-hospitality-of.html' title='James and Thomas sample the hospitality of the motherhouse'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109189695808770292</id><published>2004-08-07T18:42:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-07T20:22:35.563+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Bryan@42</title><content type='html'> &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=160626" title="photo sharing"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/160626_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span style="font: 90%; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=160626"&gt;Bryan@42&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; Originally uploaded by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/49503082192@N01/"&gt;Vocatus&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;p style=""&gt; As we prepare to set out for Beziers the Maguire family had a birthday to celebrate. It also gives me a picture to check out how to post photos to the blog before we go to France tomorrow. This Gailhac blog is my first blog, so please bear with any mistakes. Since you have seen Bryan, Huw (who turns 11 while we are in France), and Irene (not yet 42), - Thomas (14) took the photo and James (16) is out of shot - this might be a time to explain how we are involved in this adventure. Irene's aunt Phyllis (Sr. Teresina O'Byrne) is an RSHM and through her we got to know the community at Penmaenmawr, when we lived in North Wales. When the North European and the Portuguese provinces decided to organise a gathering of young adults to explore what it means to be called in the spirit of Pere Gailhac and his collaborators, they recalled that his original collaborators were a married couple. So they thought it would be a good idea to invite a couple (and their family) to share their experience of being called. So that is how the five of us are off to Beziers to join with 17 Portuguese, 16 from France, Poland, Britain and Ireland, and 5 RSHM the week after next.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109189695808770292?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109189695808770292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109189695808770292' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109189695808770292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109189695808770292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/bryan42.html' title='Bryan@42'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109189592889030710</id><published>2004-08-07T18:25:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-07T18:25:28.903+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Flickr</title><content type='html'>This is a test post from &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/r/testpost"&gt;&lt;img alt="flickr" src="http://www.flickr.com/images/flickr_logo_blog.gif" width="41" height="18" border="0" align="absmiddle" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a fancy photo sharing thing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109189592889030710?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109189592889030710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109189592889030710' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109189592889030710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109189592889030710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/flickr.html' title='Flickr'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109147277228577103</id><published>2004-08-02T20:51:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-03T09:32:32.956+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Outline programme for the week</title><content type='html'> Beziers  August 2004   International meeting of young people   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plan of week&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a very rough outline of the programme, based on an early draft. I hope to be able to post the final version soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1st day - 18th August - Arrival-Welcome (informal)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2nd day - Thursday 19th August (Preparation - France)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3rd day - Friday 20th August - Preparation - Portugal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Theme of day - Our roots and our Baptism &lt;br /&gt;- influences of family, friends / peer group, parish&lt;br /&gt;- choice in our lives ( choice says something about who we are)&lt;br /&gt;- important events&lt;br /&gt;- use of family tree or path of life (life as a journey)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4th day - Saturday 21st August   Preparation by Ireland / England &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Theme - Walking with others (the other as sacrament) - Friendship&lt;br /&gt;-     their experience of friendship&lt;br /&gt;-     relationship within marriage&lt;br /&gt;- relationship within community&lt;br /&gt;- relationship with Jesus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5th day - Sunday 22nd August - Portugal&lt;br /&gt;Theme: Our gifts - fulfilling our potential - accepting differences between people and nationalities (richness of experience and challenge) - Community&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6th Day - Monday 23rd August - France&lt;br /&gt;Theme: The stages of our life- growth (through difficulties) and letting go&lt;br /&gt;Witness: Mere St. Jean- different stages of her life, talking about her ability to let go &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7th day - Tuesday 24th August  - Preparation - Ireland and England&lt;br /&gt;Theme: Mission - What am I called to? Our call to Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Witnesses: RSHM today&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109147277228577103?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109147277228577103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109147277228577103' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109147277228577103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109147277228577103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/outline-programme-for-week.html' title='Outline programme for the week'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025580.post-109144997886385264</id><published>2004-08-02T14:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2004-08-09T14:00:41.830+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome - Bienvenue - Bemvinda - Fáilte</title><content type='html'>Welcome to this weblog.  It is intended for anyone interested in the event happening in Béziers in August 2004. Over 30 young people from Portugal, Ireland, France, Poland, England and Scotland are coming together to form a temporary community to explore the meaning of vocation in today's society. They are joined by members of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary and friends. We draw our inspiration from Pére Gailhac and his collaborators who founded the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary in Beziers over 150 years ago. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We hope to post regular updates on our activities during the event between August 17th and 25th. While we do not intend to translate the postings, we hope that some will be in English, some in French and some in Portuguese. We welcome comments on these blogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7025580-109144997886385264?l=gailhac.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/feeds/109144997886385264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7025580&amp;postID=109144997886385264' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109144997886385264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7025580/posts/default/109144997886385264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gailhac.blogspot.com/2004/08/welcome-bienvenue-bemvinda-filte.html' title='Welcome - Bienvenue - Bemvinda - Fáilte'/><author><name>carmanach</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00324369316966354188</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='17203454075813114300'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></entry></feed>