ECHO Newsletter

Celebrate our new web page!!! Check it out! This month we added pictures from ECHO 222 and 223. (wonderful pics of Fr. Campbell being blessed by the team as they celebrated his 50 years of priesthood.) You need to click on the pictures if you want full size and then print them if you have a color printer.

We also added "An OLD TIMER'S PHOTO ALBUM". We need you help to really make this successful. If you have pictures from a long ago weekend, send them to Mary Fuller or bring them to the next closing. Jeanne will scan them, add them to the page and we will return the photos to you. We're still working on the ECHO TRIVIA section and will gladly accept recommendations. Remember you can print applications from the site so you'll never be without!

ECHO 224 will begin on Friday, Mar.1st and the closing will be held at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, on Sunday Mar.3rd at 7 p.m. Plan to support the team and candidates with your palanca. Once again we remind you that PALANCA means prayer and sacrifice, the lifting of our hearts and minds to Jesus to ask Him to touch the hearts of the candidates and fill them with His Spirit.

The Palanca room, located in the Centerville Recreation Building on Main St., will be open from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m Friday and from 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Saturday. The Palanca room will not be open on Sundays.

The theme of the weekend will be There Will Come A Day from the song by Faith Hill:

It's not easy trying to understand how the world can be so cold. Stealing the souls of a man.
Cloudy skies rain down on all your dreams. You wrestle with the fear and doubts
Sometimes it's hard, but you gotta believe.
CH. There's a better place, where Our Father waits and every tear He'll wipe away
The darkness will be gone, The weak shall be strong
Hold on to your faith, There will come a day, There will come a day.

Wars are raging, lives are scattered. Innocence is lost, and hopes are shattered
The old are forgotten, the children are forsaken, In this world we're living in, is there anything sacred

ECHO 224: Rectora: Deanna Barrows, Inside Assistant: Jenn Hupp, Outside Assistant: Darcie Pickering, Spiritual Director: Fr. Timothy Goldrick,, Spiritual Director: Marilyn Lariviere Ideals: Michele McKinnon, Paschal Mystery: Marilyn Lariviere, Witness to Paschal Mystery: Amanda Blanchette, Penance: Fr. Tim Goldrick, Witness to Penance: Kiley Jackson, Community of Love: Dawnmarie Guthrie Piety: Jule Fitzgibbons, Choosing a Christian Life: Anne Hepworth, Signs and Communications: Fr. Tim Goldrick, Marriage: Ginny & Lenny Dexter, Christ the Man - Christ in Man and Woman: Ruth Moore, People of God in the World: Carol Williamson, Confidence in Christ: Danielle Egan Christian in Action: Allison Whelan, Fourth Day: Deanna Barrows

YOUTH BOARD: will meet Sunday, Feb.24th at 3 p.m. at the Centerville Recreation Building to prepare for the Echo. All are invited to come and help.

Palanca Room: Hats off to Julie Faherty and Colleen Farrow for the great job they did running the Palanca room for the boys weekend!! Kerry Martin, Melissa Beck, and Ryan King will be coordinating the palanca for the girls ECHO. Please visit the Palanca Room and sign up to help with meal serving, and driving the candidates to the closing.

ECHO 223 -Many thanks to Scott LeBrun, team and candidates for your joyful sharing at the closing. The depth of your sharing helped us all to realize that Jesus can move mountains. We were all filled with the joy of your love for Jesus.

ECHO 225: Rector: David Ryan, Inside Assistant: Jim Buckman, Outside Assistant: Mike Dimestico Spiritual Directors: Fr. Mark Hession, Fr. Bill Penderghest, Fr. Ken Gumbert, Team members: Dave and Rosemary Akin, Peter Sullivan, Charlie Ferullo, Tim Acton, Matt Bolinder, Brian Bodio, Chris Bocelli, Andrew Caplice, Adam Hamblim, Paul Riley

SPECIAL THANKS: to Steve and Rita Goveia for the generous donation for the crosses for the ECHO weekends given in memory of Steve's mother Agnes Tasha.

PRAYERS are requested for Rita Goveia who is seriously ill, for the Goveia family, for Paula Sullivan's Mother who has returned to the Father, for Mike Alexander recovering from an accident, for the Victims of the Attack on America and their grieving families, for Deanna Barrows and David Ryan and their teams as they prepare for their weekends; for the sick, for those suffering from Aids, cancer, and addictions, for the homeless and lonely, for those in recovery programs, for the unemployed, and for all who have no one to pray for them, that they may feel the comforting Presence of Christ. Tuesday is ECHO prayer day!

ECHO SCHEDULE FOR 2001-02:
Mar. 1 - 3 Girls ECHO 224
April 5 - 7 Boys ECHO 225

WEEKLY REUNIONS:
Tuesday: Christ the King - 7:00 p.m.
Thursday: Our Lady of Victory - 7:30 p.m.

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