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Contemplative Outreach Newsletter · Spring/Summer 2004 Newsletter
Navigation The Spanish Cornerby Ilse Reissner One month after her 65th birthday, Maria Teresa Torregrosa, one of our Spanish facilitators in Orlando, left us to go home to her Heavenly Father, whom she loved so much. She will be greatly missed by all. We celebrated our fourth International Meeting in San Diego last October, graciously hosted by David and Cherie Herrera and Cristina Romero. The attendees included coordinators from El Salvador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Miami and Orlando. Dr. Hugo Mejia of Miami was also there, presenting Fr. Thomas Keating’s follow-up videos that he has dubbed into Spanish. They are very professionally done and are now available for ordering. He is also dubbing Fr. Keating’s “United Day in Prayer”, and the “Spiritual Journey” Series videos. Thank you, Hugo! The Holy Spirit has taken our tiny mustard seed and grown it into a large plant throughout many Latin American countries. In El Salvador, Leila Membreño reports that Msgr. Romeo Tovar Astorga continues their work with seven trained facilitators and four prayer groups. In Mexico, Carmen Sanchez and I conducted a Formation for Service workshop in March, assisted by Leila, Judith, Fr. Luciano and Guadalupe Marquez. We had a full house including two from El Salvador and two from Fr. Martin’s community in southern Mexico. Judith, her husband Julio, and others have been to many different locations in Mexico offering Introductory workshops and retreats from February to May, with two more planned for July and August. In Nicaragua, 90 people attended a retreat in November, one month after our October Formation workshop. There are now five Centering Prayer groups in Nicaragua. Marilu and Raul Ason continue to bring workshops to different parts of Puerto Rico, despite Raul’s recent illness. There has also been an Introductory in Costa Rico, resulting in a prayer group. A big thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all. Last, but not least, we now have Centering Prayer inCuba! Fr. Gilberto Walker, an American who lived in Santo Domingo for a few years and learned Centering Prayer there, was assigned to Cuba a year ago. He offered his first Introductory Workshop in November. It was attended by five nuns and 25 lay people, who continue with the practice and hold weekly meetings. Fr. Thomas Keating will visit Central America at the end of August. His trip will include visits to Mexico, San Salvador, Managua and San Juan. I will be accompanying him as a translator.
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