Third Weekend in May

The Spring Regional Retreat occurred on the same weekend as our monthly meeting.  Even so, we had 8 members of our Fraternity participate up in Kennebunk, Maine, so we were well represented.  One of our own, Alice, who is also the Regional Spiritual Assistant, led us in prayer Friday evening.  Our Spiritual Assistant, Pam, was also there, so I guess technically, we had 8.5 members there.

Our 3 candidates, Paul, Donna, and Dotty joined Ray and Jane at dinner.  Elsewhere in the dining room were Alice and Ron. 

Steve took a walk down to the beach during some of the available free time.

The retreat theme was "This is What I Want" and it was let by Cricket Aull.  Her husband Jerry records Christian music.  Check out their website.

Saturday, there were about 130 Franciscans and guests in attendance.

Then Sunday, we had our regular monthly fraternity meeting.  Despite a few still making there way back from Maine, we had a nice turn out.

We started upstairs with a new devotion, Via Lucis ("The Paschal Way of Light"). 
It complements the traditional Way of the Cross that we did last month.

Our meeting ran a little long, but it's only because we were all having a good time.  Jan set up a formational video from Fr. Robert Barron's Catholocism study.  Since it's May we watched the segment on Mary. 
The video was excellent with fantastic international backdrops (Lourdes, Mexico City, etc).