Mark your calendars for Tuesday, February 10, Noon to 1:30 PM to discuss energy conservation and climate justice. The Mon County Ministerial Association, An Interfaith Organization, will host a meeting to discuss the future of God’s creation on earth; the nature and durability of our economy; our public health and public lands; and the quality of life we bequeath our children and grandchildren. This interfaith discussion will be held in the Tait Room of Mon General Hospital’s
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
MCMA Open Meeting - February 10 - Climate Justice
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
MCMA Meeting December 9 Reminder
Ok, now everybody sing along:
You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Mon County Ministerial Association’s monthly meeting is coming to around…. Again.
December 9, 2008… 2nd Tuesday of the month… Noon at Mon General conference rooms… bring a lunch or grab one at the hospital cafeteria.
Many insightful and enlightening topics to be discussed… and if anyone has any outstanding holiday recipes to share… bring those too. Surely EVERYONE can get excited about food, can’t they?
Peace,
Brian
P.S.
Remember, the MCMA blog is at http://moncountyministerial.blogspot.com
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Brian O. Bennett - bbennett@blackngold.net
Lord, to those who hunger, give bread.
And to those who have bread,
give the hunger for justice.
--Latin American Prayer
Sunday, September 7, 2008
September 2008 Meeting!!!!
The Ministerial Association is meeting on Sep. 8 at noon in the Conference center at Mon General Hospital--most likely the Tait room.
Please join us. Bring a bag lunch or grab a meal at the cafeteria down the hall and come join us.
On the agenda:
Changing meeting days?
Community Emergency Preparedness Event
Peace,
Brian
Please join us. Bring a bag lunch or grab a meal at the cafeteria down the hall and come join us.
On the agenda:
Changing meeting days?
Community Emergency Preparedness Event
Peace,
Brian
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Community Conversation on Faith, Politics and the Presidential Election
Theologian Kenneth Vaux, professor at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, will be in Morgantown, Monday May 12, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. to talk about faith and politics in the midst of the presidential election.
He has spoken at churches and congregations across the country raising issues and conversing with people as the country finds itself in the middle of a vibrant presidential election as well as a “religio-political renaissance.”
Prof. Vaux will speak at St. Paul Lutheran Church at the intersection of Baldwin St. and Patteson Dr. This lecture is free and open to the public.
He has spoken at churches and congregations across the country raising issues and conversing with people as the country finds itself in the middle of a vibrant presidential election as well as a “religio-political renaissance.”
Prof. Vaux will speak at St. Paul Lutheran Church at the intersection of Baldwin St. and Patteson Dr. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Monday, May 5, 2008
May 12 -- Monthly Meeting!!!!
Hello all ! It's time once again for the monthly meeting of the minds...
May 12, noon! Mon General Conference Rooms... probably Tait, but it might be different. Bring a lunch or get one in the cafeteria.
Don't let the construction at the hospital scare you! It will be ok.
May 12, noon! Mon General Conference Rooms... probably Tait, but it might be different. Bring a lunch or get one in the cafeteria.
Don't let the construction at the hospital scare you! It will be ok.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Holocaust Remembrance Service -- May 1, 2008
You Are Invited to Join a
Community Inter-faith Service of
Holocaust Remembrance
Yom ha Shoah
7 P. M. Thursday May 1,2008
Hosted by St. Paul Lutheran Church
309 Baldwin Street
Sponsored by
Mon. County Ministerial Association
And
WV Commission on Holocaust Education
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Diversity Calendar -- April 2008
From Ed Horvat, chaplain at Mon General Hospital, and member of MCMA...
Anyone without a soul friend is a body without a head. –Old Celtic saying
In terms of our discussion, sin occurs when self-image and personal willfulness become so important that one forgets, represses, or denies one’s true nature, one’s absolute connectedness and grounding in the divine power that creates and sustains the cosmos.
–Gerald G. May in Will & Spirit, p233.
HINDUISM – April 6. New Year’s Day. Bikarami Samvat 2065 begins.
MORMON – April 6. Anniversary of the official organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1830 CE.
NATIVE AMERICAN (Local) – April 7. Public lecture and book-signing with reception for renowned Native author Leslie Marmon Silko. Gold Ballroom of the Mountainlair. The reception starts at 6:30 p.m., the lecture and book-signing will start at 7:30. Free and open to the public. Hosted by the WVU Native American Studies Program and co-sponsored by The Carolyn Reyer Endowment for Native American Studies, the Department of English, and the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. www.wvu.edu/~nas
BUDDHISM – April 13-14. The Saka calendar’s New Year’s Day is a religious and cultural celebration for Sinhalese, Indian, Burmese, Kampuchean, Laotian and Thai-Americans.
HINDUISM –April 13. Ramanavami celebrates the birthday of Rama, the seventh incarnation of the God Vishnu. Hindus read the Ramayana, a Hindu epic, which tells the story of Rama, during the previous eight days.
HINDUISM – April 13. Vaisakhi, first day of the solar year, is an agricultural festival celebrating the harvest.
JAINISM – April 18. Mahavira-jayanti celebrates the birthday of Lord Mahavira (Great Hero), the religious seer of the 6th century BCE, whose teachings of compassion and renunciation have formed the basis of the Jain Tradition.
CHRISTIANITY – April 20 - 26. Holy Week (Eastern Orthodox Churches following the Julian calendar) begins after Palm Sunday, which celebrates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Holy Thursday celebrates the institution of the Lord’s Supper by Jesus. Holy Friday commemorates the Passion of Jesus Christ and his submission to death by crucifixion.
JUDAISM – April 20 – 27. Pesah, or Passover, commemorates the departure of the Israelites from Egypt. Celebrated for eight days, the first two and the last two days are holidays (the first and the last days are holidays among Reform Jews). Pesah begins at dusk (before sundown) on the previous day, April 19.
BAHA’I FAITH – April 21 to May 2. Ridvan commemorates 12 days that Baha’u’llah spent in the garden of Ridvan during his exile in Baghdad and also when he proclaimed himself as the one announced by the Bab. The annual elections of the local spiritual assemblies in each Baha’i community also occur at this time. On the first, ninth and twelfth days of Ridvan, work is suspended.
NATIVE AMERICAN (Local) – April 24. Joint presentation and book-signing with two WVU Native American Studies faculty, Dr. Cari Carpenter, author of Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality and American Indians; and Dr. Carol Markstrom, author of Empowerment of North American Indian Girls: Ritual Expressions at Puberty. 5 PM in the Robinson Reading Room at the downtown WVU library www.wvu.edu/~nas.
CHRISTIANITY – April 27. Pascha [Easter] (Eastern Orthodox Churches following the Julian calendar) celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ as a message of hope and victory over death. The oldest and most important Christian festival, it initiates the fifty-day period culminating in Pentecost.
ZOROASTRIANISM – April 30 to May 4. Ghambar Maidyozarem celebrates the creation of sky and the harvesting of the winter crop.
NOTE The above is not a complete calendar and is intended only as an example of some of the kinds of festivals, holy days, and religious observances of America's many religious communities. It is composed from sites for interfaith calendars on the web and the Multifaith Calendar 2008, published by the Multifaith Action Society of Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada.
Anyone without a soul friend is a body without a head. –Old Celtic saying
In terms of our discussion, sin occurs when self-image and personal willfulness become so important that one forgets, represses, or denies one’s true nature, one’s absolute connectedness and grounding in the divine power that creates and sustains the cosmos.
–Gerald G. May in Will & Spirit, p233.
HINDUISM – April 6. New Year’s Day. Bikarami Samvat 2065 begins.
MORMON – April 6. Anniversary of the official organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1830 CE.
NATIVE AMERICAN (Local) – April 7. Public lecture and book-signing with reception for renowned Native author Leslie Marmon Silko. Gold Ballroom of the Mountainlair. The reception starts at 6:30 p.m., the lecture and book-signing will start at 7:30. Free and open to the public. Hosted by the WVU Native American Studies Program and co-sponsored by The Carolyn Reyer Endowment for Native American Studies, the Department of English, and the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. www.wvu.edu/~nas
BUDDHISM – April 13-14. The Saka calendar’s New Year’s Day is a religious and cultural celebration for Sinhalese, Indian, Burmese, Kampuchean, Laotian and Thai-Americans.
HINDUISM –April 13. Ramanavami celebrates the birthday of Rama, the seventh incarnation of the God Vishnu. Hindus read the Ramayana, a Hindu epic, which tells the story of Rama, during the previous eight days.
HINDUISM – April 13. Vaisakhi, first day of the solar year, is an agricultural festival celebrating the harvest.
JAINISM – April 18. Mahavira-jayanti celebrates the birthday of Lord Mahavira (Great Hero), the religious seer of the 6th century BCE, whose teachings of compassion and renunciation have formed the basis of the Jain Tradition.
CHRISTIANITY – April 20 - 26. Holy Week (Eastern Orthodox Churches following the Julian calendar) begins after Palm Sunday, which celebrates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Holy Thursday celebrates the institution of the Lord’s Supper by Jesus. Holy Friday commemorates the Passion of Jesus Christ and his submission to death by crucifixion.
JUDAISM – April 20 – 27. Pesah, or Passover, commemorates the departure of the Israelites from Egypt. Celebrated for eight days, the first two and the last two days are holidays (the first and the last days are holidays among Reform Jews). Pesah begins at dusk (before sundown) on the previous day, April 19.
BAHA’I FAITH – April 21 to May 2. Ridvan commemorates 12 days that Baha’u’llah spent in the garden of Ridvan during his exile in Baghdad and also when he proclaimed himself as the one announced by the Bab. The annual elections of the local spiritual assemblies in each Baha’i community also occur at this time. On the first, ninth and twelfth days of Ridvan, work is suspended.
NATIVE AMERICAN (Local) – April 24. Joint presentation and book-signing with two WVU Native American Studies faculty, Dr. Cari Carpenter, author of Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality and American Indians; and Dr. Carol Markstrom, author of Empowerment of North American Indian Girls: Ritual Expressions at Puberty. 5 PM in the Robinson Reading Room at the downtown WVU library www.wvu.edu/~nas.
CHRISTIANITY – April 27. Pascha [Easter] (Eastern Orthodox Churches following the Julian calendar) celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ as a message of hope and victory over death. The oldest and most important Christian festival, it initiates the fifty-day period culminating in Pentecost.
ZOROASTRIANISM – April 30 to May 4. Ghambar Maidyozarem celebrates the creation of sky and the harvesting of the winter crop.
NOTE The above is not a complete calendar and is intended only as an example of some of the kinds of festivals, holy days, and religious observances of America's many religious communities. It is composed from sites for interfaith calendars on the web and the Multifaith Calendar 2008, published by the Multifaith Action Society of Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
April Meeting!
In April, the Mon County Ministerial Association meets as per usual on the second Monday of the month, April 14, at noon. We meet in a conference room, usually the Tait room. Bring a bag lunch, or grab a lunch at the cafeteria. We meet for an hour or so with conversation and fellowship, occasionally even deciding to do something of substance.
Come and join us!
Come and join us!
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