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Behold Your Mother
Newsletter of the Brothers of the Beloved Disciple

Number 46: Easter 2010
Moderator: Fr. George T. Montague, S.M.
Assistant Moderator: Fr. Robert Hogan, B.B.D.
Rev. Joseph Mary Marshall, S.M. (Pastor). Rev. Will Combs, B.B.D., (Parochial Vicar)
1701 Alametos, San Antonio, TX 78201
(210) 734-6727 www.BrothersOfTheBelovedDisciple.org
E-mail: GMontague@StMaryTX.edu
Episcopal Advisor: Most Rev. Thomas J. Flanagan, D.D.

Dan and Kirk
begin Novitiate Year

The Brothers in blue: Fathers Will Combs, BBD (left), and Bob Hogan, BBD (right), flank new novices Dan Sealana and Kirk Vandeventer as they have just made their promises of the novitiate and received the habit.

'Fire & Ice Retreat
Heats up Faith

Youth at “Fire and Ice” retreat preparing for Confirmation at El Shaddai retreat center south of San Antonio. The retreat was conducted by the Life Teen team and preached and supported by the BBD. Part of the retreat was a fire kept burning during the cold night, watched by Novice Dan Sealana (in the black cap in the photo).

Quakes, Questions, and the Empty Tomb

Haiti. Chile. Cities instantly in rubble, crushing to death two hundred thousand men, women and children, maiming more, orphaning hundreds. The planet, for all its size, is fragile.

But the cost in human lives and the magni-tude of human suffering led many to ask if the message led some to say Haiti was God.s pun-ishment for Voodoo.
I don.t know God.s mind, but I saw God instead in the angels of mercy who rushed to the rescue and healing of the survivors.

Another kind of earthquake 2000 years ago

There was another kind of earthquake two thousand years ago that destroyed nothing but announced the end of death itself. “Mary Mag-dalene and the other Mary approached the tomb. And behold there was a great earth-quake; for an angel of the Lord…rolled back the stone.. „Do not be afraid! I know that you are seeking Jesus the crucified. He is not here, for he has been raised just as he said..” (Matthew 28:1-6).

May the joyful shock of the risen Lord give you a heartquake this Easter!

'Companion God' Book Reissued

Father Montague's book, Companion God: A Cross-Cultural Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, originally published in 1989 upon his return from Nepal and India, has just been reissued in a revised edition by Paulist Press.

The colorful pictures on the cover suggest some of the cultural practices that evoke biblical times and provide comparisons and contrasts with the Gospel.

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Chuck Hornsby inspires and challenges at Charismatic Conference

Chuck Hornsby of the Alleluia Community

Chuck Hornsby of the Alleluia Community in Augusta, Georgia, was one of the principal speakers at the Regional Catholic Charismatic Conference at St. Mary Magdalen parish March 5-6. Theme of the Conference: Pilgrims on a Journey: Strengthening Families and Building Communities.

Possible BBD Candidate

Daniel Dominguez

Daniel Dominguez of Austin, Texas, is seeking admission to the Brothers of the Beloved Disciple. Here he is in front of the painting of the Last Supper in our dining room.

St. mary's student plans to take BBD plunge

Sean Stilson, graduating from St. Mary's University in May, plans to join The Brothers of The Beloved Disciple in August. Please pray for Sean.s continued discernment of God.s will in his life.

Fr. Will Combs rocks Catholic radio, Spanish style

Fr. Will Combs was interviewed on the Spanish Catholic radio program “Escuela de la Fe” to promote the 2010 Regional Charismatic Conference at St. Mary Magdalen.

Blessed are you among women!

Father George (in Roman collar, middle of second row) and Melba Fisher (to right of Fr. George) gave a retreat to women in Dayton, Ohio, February 27-28, based on The Woman and the Way, Blessed Fr. Chaminade's “System of Virtues.”

Setting the fuse on youth 'explosion'

Delfie and Rudy Garcia (third and fourth from left)

The Brothers of the Beloved Disciple have worked with Delfie and Rudy Garcia (third and fourth from left) for many years in their ministry to youth in the Arch-diocese of San Antonio. Through their ministry, working with youth teams they have formed and collaborating with youth ministers, charismatic youth ministers and youth groups in nineteen parishes in the Archdiocese and beyond have been energized through their ministry. On March 20 over nine hundred youth packed (literally, oversold) St. Paul.s community center for a “Youth Explosion” confer-ence organized by Delfie and Rudy.s teams of young people.

Reconcilliation offered at Youth Conference

Father Bob Hogan, BBD, hears confessions of one of more than a thousand youth who packed St. Paul.s Community Center March 13 for the “Youth Explosion” Conference. The conference was organized by the Youth Ministry of the Center for Catholic Charismatic Renewal (see Rudy and Delfie Garcia pictured above this article.) Father Bob is Associate Director of the Charismatic Center for the Archdiocese of San Antonio. He has also given retreats and workshops these past months from Alaska to Florida.