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Hej allihopa,

Jag har varit borta, nämligen på Kap Verde, så tyvärr Fr. Johnny´s brev uteblev i ett par veckor.
Jag hoppas att ni har saknat det;). Vår äldste son var med oss på Kap Verde och vi hade väldig sköna, ljusa dagar, fast det är mörkt redan vid 18.30 på kvällen. Det är en annorlunda plats och inte utvecklat och vi uppskattade detta. Det var verkligen en gåva att kunna få så mycket ljus under den här årstiden. Nu känner jag mig utvilad.

Jag presumererar på "The Messenger" en tidskrift utgiven av Jesuiterna på Irland. Januaris utgåva väntade på mig när jag kom tillbaka och på baksidan stod följande:

Christ with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me,
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger

Kristus med mig, Kristus i mig,
Kristus bakom mig, Kristus framför mig,
Kristus bredvid mig, Kristus att vinna mig,
Kristus att trösta och hela mig.
Kristus under mig, Kristus över mig,
Kristus i lugn, Kristus i fara,
Kristus i allas hjärtan som älskar mig,
Kristus i av väns och främlings mun.

Fr. Johnny´s bifogade emails från par som har deltagit i förberedelsekurser för äktenskap är väldigt inspirerande och värda att läsa.

Jag hoppas att alla mår bra och har en fin solig vecka!

Varma hälsningar,
Colette
Här kommer Fr.Johnny´s brev igen.

Subject: Ordinary 4

Dear Friends,
I am sending you the Couple Prayer/Newsletter piece for next week and with it I send you my love and prayers. Please pray this weekend for the couples who will be in Esker for their Marriage Preparation course and for the team of Sean & Mary McDermott, Brendan & Siobhan McPhillips and Fr. Brendan Keane who will be with them. I attach some of the feedback that I have received from couples during the past year. This is a good indication of the value of our courses here. God bless you and all your loved ones.

Johnny

Kära vänner
Jag sänder er Bön för äktenskaps nyhetsbrev för nästa vecka och med det skickar jag er också min kärlek och böner. Var vänliga och be för de par som kommer att vara i Esker i helgen och för deras förberedande äktenskapskurs och för det team som består av Sean & Mary McDermott, Brendan & Siobhan McPhillips och Fr. Brendan Keane som skall vara med dem. Jag bifogar några av de kommentarer som jag fått från paren som deltagit under det gångna året. Detta är en god indikation på värdet av våra kurser här. Gud välsigne er och alla er nära och kära.

Johnny

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Dear Fr Johnny.
Thank you so much for your email. Hope you had a nice Christmas. Aine and I had a lovely time in esker at the pre marriage course. We had hoped to call up some Sunday for mass before our wedding but time just seemed to get the better of us. Hopefully we will call up in the new year sometime. Thank you again and we really appreciate your kind taughts and wishes.
Love
Thanks very much Johnny

You are very good for thinking of us before our big day. Both Marie-Therese and I are getting quite excited about things now at this stage with the final plans being sorted, although I will confess Marie-Therese is doing the lions share of planning.
I am just down home for a few days and will be joining yourselves in Esker tonight for midnight mass so I meet you then.
Thanking you again and wishing you a very happy Christmas

Dear Fr Johnny
Great to hear from you. Thank you most sincerely for your kind best wishes for our wedding day, and thanks again for the wonderful weekend we spent at Esker.
We have recommended Esker to many couples since. You gave us a wonderful insight, and helped us look deepe into our own relationship
Thank you so much for your good wishes Fr. Johnny.
We are looking forward to next week and beginning to get excited about Christmas and the wedding. Hopefully the weather will ease to allow us head off to Argentina on our honeymoon!!!
Happy Christmas and best wishes to you in 2011.

Dear Johnny,
It's lovely to hear from you. We hope all is well in Esker, we have been telling all our friends about our experience, it was incredible, we gained so much from it. We have agreed to take on the follow up programme, but have to find time to implement it, hoping to do so in the New Year, we will tell all then Our regards to Father Dermy too. Happy Christmas and all the best for 2011, thanks for everything

Hi Fr Johnny,
Thank you so much for your very kind email and for thinking of us. You are right about things being hectic at the moment but you will be happy to hear that we took out our books last night and read those lovely letters that we wrote to each other and it put everything back into perspective for us again. The centre of the circle was bursting until then!!
I hope you are keeping well and I wish you the best in your move to the North.
Thank you once again for your kindness and for helping us on our journey

Hi Johnny,
Thanks for that lovely email. We had a fantastic weekend in Esker, and the writing worked very well for us, as the spoken word can be sometimes difficult. We have been telling our friends about Esker since, and how we enjoyed so much what you imparted to us, especially as it was done with great wit and fun- making it all the more enjoyable. We plan on doing the homework!! Perhaps in the 12 weeks leading up to our wedding at the end of March. We will let you know how we find it.
The weekend was just what we needed, and I was looking forward to doing the course since we got engaged last Easter would you believe! It really brought home to us what marriage is all about and gave us great food for thought. We came away with an added closeness between us and were really inspired by your lovely vision of love and marriage. We are also planning on using our Prayer of the Faithful at our own wedding. It was about Esker, and we feel that in light of how we felt leaving Esker, it would be very fitting to include it in our wedding ceremony. Many thanks Johnny once again, and we would be grateful if you could pass on our thanks and good wishes to Trevor and Mali, Sean and Mary

Hi Johnny,
Great to hear from you! We had a really great weekend with you in Esker and will always remember it fondly. We'll also keep in mind what we've learned about how to communicate and no doubt that will help us in the future.

Dear Johnny,
Thank you for your kind wishes. If or when any of our friends decide
to marry we will point them in your direction. I think your course is
highly beneficial to couples preparing for marriage and I'm hopeful
that Colm and I will remember it's sentiments for our future together.
I hope you're having a lovely Autumn in Esker; the weather is
beautiful here in Kilkenny

Hi Johnny,
Thanks for your lovely email, we are all set and ready to go and really excited now! We kept the notebooks from Esker and it was lovely to have them to read today - I hope we'll be able to put all the advice to good use!
We really found the premarriage course so special - I've been recommending it to friends since. I loved the penetential service with all the candles lighting. Keep up the good work and we'll be in touch.

Dear Fr Doherty
On behalf of Aidan and I thank you for praying for us on our wedding day. We had a beautiful ceremony and the day was scorching hot. Thank you for your prayers we do appreciate your kind thoughts
Thank you for your kind message..we will let you know how it goes.
Rgs Catherine

Hi Father Doherty,

Thank you so much for your kind email. John and appreciate your best wishes & prayers. And congratulations to you on Saturday, as it is a day of celebration for you as well! I really hope our paths cross again in the near future. You might just see us again at Esker in the next few years! Take care.

Dear Fr. Johnny,
Thank you very much for your email, wishes and prayers. We had a fantastic day (despite the weather!!). We're coming back down to earth now after the honeymoon, but we believe the course in Esker has grounded us well and for that we also want to say thanks. We really took a lot from the course.

Dear Fr. Johnny,
Thanks for your lovely e-mail. Yes, it is a hectic few days but we are
both really looking forward to Friday and what follows. We really
enjoyed the course in Esker in February and are thinking about doing
another course there in the future as we got so much out of it.
Thanks to you and all at Esker and I hope ye are all keeping well

Dear Johnny,
Thank you so much for the good wishes. We are really excited about our wedding day and the years to come. The marraige course was excellent and we received a lot from it. We are looking forward to giving each other our letters the night before the wedding, if we had not written them that weekend we never would. Will be recommending your weekend to other couples.
Thanks again and God bless,

Thank you Fr.Johnny, we will be using our candle from esker in the ceremony, the weekend really benefited us and we will never forget it or you. We will have to come back to visit again soon,

Hello Father Johnny,
Thank you so much for you email and good wishes. We both really appreciate it. Esker was amazing, I thank God for sending us there, it really is a haven amidst this crazy/ wonderful world.
Any tiff, we've had since has been so much easier to resolve its actually incredible the difference in our relationship. Its Fantastic!! And any tiff where Bobby knows he is totally wrong, he quotes you....!!!!!!!!!
Thanks again, please do keep us in your prayers.

Dear Fr. Johnny
Thank you so much for your best wishes. We often think back on the weekend we spent in Esker and the benefit we got from it. We're looking forward to Friday and our married life ahead. We hope all is well with you.everything went brillant johnny.the day was fabulous thank you. hope all are well there. thanks again for a wonderful pre marriage course

Dear Johnny and all the staff in Esker,
Thank you for your lovely e-mail. We really enjoyed our weekend with you and we benefitted alot from it. Getting very excited now and really looking forward to the celebration
Thank you so much for your kind wishes and prayers. We had a great experience at Esker and meeting you. The next time we are in Athenry we will call out to see you for a coffee. We had a wonderful day on Friday and everything went well. God bless and thank you again for your help.

Dear Johnny,
thanks so much! We've just arrived in Italy today and very happy.
Thanks again for the nice weekend in Esker, we also enjoyed a good few tuesday evenings with the booklets you gave us to continue the course and writing each other letters...
We read the one we wrote at the end of the course just 2 nights ago and it was really moving.
Thank you again and we will be thinking of you too.

Dear Fr. Johnny,
Thank you very much for your email and good wishes. We are both looking forward to our big day tomorrow and our life ahead. We have very fond memories of our time in Esker and would hope to meet again in the future.
Take care and thank you for your prayers

Dear Johnny,
Thank you very much for your kind wishes and prayers. We are really looking
forward to Saturday. Keep the fingers crossed for promised good weather.
We really enjoyed our weekend in Esker and left with some happy memories
and great advice.
Thanks again

Dear Johnny
Thank you very much. All going well so far thank god.
Thank you again for a really wonderful weekend both Patrick and I really enjoyed it and got so much from the whole experience.

Hi Fr. Johnny,
Greetings from the airport in Singapore. We are briefly stopping off here to head to Sydney for 4 nights and then onto New Zealand for two weeks. I just want to thaks you for your emails and CHristmas and coming up to the Wedding. You're very good. Well everything went brilliantly. The ceremony was really beautiful-we were both very relaxed and enjoyed it alot. We gave the letters to each other the night before the wedding-both reading them in our home houses and it rally added a very special touch to the whole occassion.
Thanks again to everyone at Esker-we really really had a super weekend there

Dear Johnny,
Belated happy new year to you.
Tony and I would like to sincerely thank you, Sean, Mary, Trevor and Mali for our wonderful experience in Esker in November. We will truly treasure it forever and have been recommending it to all our friends. It is such a special place.We have been working our way through the programme since we left and are finding it very useful. It is a great way to take time out for one another.Thanks again for everything and hope our paths will cross again.
Best wishes for 2011,

www.loveisforlife.ie

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Herrens väg

30 Januari - 5 februari
"Saliga är de fattiga i anden, himmelriket tillhör dem." Den största hemligheten om lycka är att veta att ingenting vi har är vår eget, allt är en gåva från Gud, och att vi är helt beroende av Honom. Livet är fullt av så många gåvor och den största gåvan av alla är kärleken. Men kärlek är en Guds makt. Den kärlek du delar i ert äktenskap är en mycket speciell del av Guds gåva, inte bara för dig, men också för världen. Uppskatta det. Uppskatta varandra för vår skull. Denna vecka låter dig uppleva det underbara i denna kärlek som du delar och som du har lovat. Denna gåva av kärlek är också vad binder familjemedlemmar till varandra. Den behöver utvecklas eller så kommer den bli medelmåttig. Och vår uppmaning är att dela denna kärlekens gåva med alla dem som formar vår trosgemenskap med oss. Detta gör vi genom vår vänlighet, vår uppmärksamhet till de behövande, att vår vilja att ge tid att bygga upp vår gemenskap av tro.

Morgonbön när vi är tillsammans

Herren, vår Gud, hjälp oss att älska varandra mer fullständigt,
och att älska dig av hela vårt hjärta,
och älska alla människor såsom du älskar dem.
Detta ber vi om genom Kristus vår Herre.
Amen.

Under dagen när vi är ifrån varandra

Herre, vara nöjd med gåvan av vår kärlek.
Gör oss till ett frälsningens sakrament för oss själva
och för den värld vi lever i.
Vi berr vår bön genom Kristus vår Herre. Amen

Under kvällen och bön inför nattten när vi är tillsammans.

Herre, föröka du dina kärleksgåvor i oss varje dag.
Fylla oss med tro och låta den gåvan spridas
genom oss, till alla dem vi möter.
Vi ber vår bön genom Kristus vår Herre

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