<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large">Thanks, Dean, for all your missionary witness over the years!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large">I am blessed with your friendship and I relish the many (hilarious!) good times</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large">we've shared.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large">It's wonderful to see you at the Sunday Mass.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large">abrazos!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large">Ron<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 10:03 AM Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hello Mary Lou!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">“Who are you?” is often a tough question to respond to… I’ll be as brief as possible…</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I’m originally from Calgary Alberta… I’m a Social Worker (BSW; University of Calgary 1989)… I joined the Scarboro Foreign Mission Society as a lay missioner in 1990 and was missioned to Consuelo in the eastern part of the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 in the spring of 1991. Once here I developed a program for visiting Canadian Catholic high school students and their teacher / chaplain / adult co-participants. Most of our groups hail from southern Ontario. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">My association with Scarboro Missions came to an end in the fall of 2001 but I have continued here in the DR on my own with the support of the local Bishop and Diocese. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Our work with the visiting groups came to a sudden halt in February 2020 due to the pandemic. Now, more than 3 years later, a number of group coordiantors are exploring the possibility of bringing groups to Consuelo from their schools once again. 🙏🏼 </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span>These visiting groups, especially the adult co-participants, formed an important network of people that kept me linked to my Canadian reality. Not having this link over these past three years has been very difficult for me personally. I was able to connect with the Sunday Community a few weeks ago (via my friendship with Art Bloome) and now find the weekly liturgy (and the wonderful reflections shared in advance of each liturgy) are a good way for me to rebuild my connections with people at home once again - and being part of this faith community has been life giving for me personally. I thank the community for welcoming me so warmly!</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><span><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I hope this gives you an idea about “who I am”… Am I sufficiently “revealed”? 🤣</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I send fond regards and many blessings from this community called Consuelo (<i>Consolation</i>). </span></div><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_763396192242796497AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dean. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img alt="image1.jpeg" src="cid:1874eccea6943c689201"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">-::-::-::-</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 4, 2023, at 12:31 AM, Mary Lou Jorgensen-Bacher via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca" target="_blank">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div dir="ltr">Thank YOU Dean. Who are YOU? I don't know from our listings, WHO <b><font style="background-color:rgb(205,35,44)" color="#fdef2b">YOU</font></b> ARE???</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Please <b><font style="background-color:rgb(253,248,105)" color="#cd232c">reveal</font></b> your self!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Mary Lou Jorgensen-Bacher</div><div>Keeper of the Flame</div></div>
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On Monday, April 3, 2023 at 08:22:38 p.m. EDT, Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca" target="_blank">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:
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