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eMatrimony News Flash - February 11, 2007

Jack & Karen Baker and Ralph & Jane Becker
Marco & Irma Saldaña and Benny & Vicky Castro

eMatrimony News Flash
February 11, 2007

Thank you to all who have been visiting eMatrimony.org. We are sending this email to you because either you, or someone who loves you, asked us to send you updates about eMatrimony. If you have not yet visited eMatrimony.org, please do so. If you are bilingual in Spanish, be sure to click on the link Versión en Español at the top of the home page to see the wonderful work the Spanish-speaking sections are doing with eMatrimony.org/Spanish.

Dear Lovers,

We offer our prayers for all of you red hot lovers this week of Valentines Day and for your celebration of World Marriage Day. We ask you this week to offer your prayers for the United States Secretariat as they gather February 17, 2007 to select the new National Coordinating Team. May the Holy Spirit guide our representatives as they prayerfully select our new leaders. As a suggestion for Lent, which begins February 21, 2007, we encourage you to use the Stations of the Cross for Couples located in the WWME Resource Library at erl.wwme.org/cp/Dialogue. Our Love Circle has committed to use the Stations for our reflections during our Lent gatherings.

Highlighted in this News Flash are the following articles:

Under News - International
Retired Bishop and WWME Supporter in the Solomon Islands Expires reports of the loss of another of WWME’s great leaders. National News from Canada gives us a brief, informative report of the World Council meeting held in Guatemala in January 2007.

Under News - Section/Local
A Tribute to Fr. Bob McDonald, S.M. is barely enough to express the gratitude many of us owe to this great priest and friend. WWME Great Community February 2007 tells how Section 11’s San Diego Community combines fun and support of WWME. Section 13’s Annual Enrichment – The Called & Gifted Workshop encourages us to discern and use our God given charism to serve Him and one another.

Under Family/World Marriage Day
Alaska WWME 3rd Annual World Marriage Day Dinner-Dance & Inviting Celebration will hopefully be the first of many articles we get from you, our readers, about how your Community celebrated World Marriage Day 2007.

Under Family/Weekend Effect
A couple reminds us that the Weekend does not create for us a perfect marriage and that each day we have a new opportunity to choose to love in A Letter From the Past… Our Personal WWME Story.

Under Resources - History
The long sought after source of the quote, “I place much of my hope for the future in Marriage Encounter.” is discovered in a 1979 issue of the Worldwide Marriage Encounter Family Spirit in Source of Pope John Paul II Quote Found.

When you visit eMatrimony, please remember to check our Prayer Intentions page. Our family relies on your prayers when they ask us to include their special intentions.

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In Christ's Love,

Managing Editors:
Jack & Karen Baker
Bellevue, WA

English Editors:
Jack & Karen Baker
Bellevue, WA

Español Editores:
Marco & Irma Saldaña
San Diego, CA

English Webmasters:
Ralph & Jane Becker
Milford, MA

Español Soporte:
Benny & Vicky Castro
Chandler, AZ

eMatrimony Mission Statement:
As an online publication of Worldwide Marriage Encounter, eMatrimony serves as a resource to support, encourage, and challenge couples, priests, and religious to live the values of the WWME experience and grow stronger in their efforts to renew the church and change the world.

This News Flash can be found at:
www.eMatrimony.org/news/ematrimonynewsflash_20070211.htm

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