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Happy 5th Anniversary
Liên đoàn Kateri Tekakwitha was officially established on July 14, 2019 at the Nghĩa-Hiệp Conference at Mount Mary Retreat Centre in Hamilton.
To celebrate 5th Anniversary, Lien Doan Kateri offers unique, custom keepsakes caps and mugs to commemorate this important milestone.
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Ban Chấp Hành Liên Đoàn 2023-2026
Liên Đoàn Trưởng:
Teresa Vũ Phương Trâm
Liên Đoàn Phó Quản Trị:
Giuse Lương Minh Lộc Danny
Liên Đoàn Phó Nghiên Huấn:
Maria Vũ Phương Thư
Thư Ký:
Alphonsô Lê Minh Triết
Thủ Quỹ:
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Ủy Viên Kỹ Thuật:
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Ủy Viên Phụng Vụ:
______________________
Ủy Viên Truyền Thông:
Theresa Phạm Ngọc Hồng Quyên
Ủy Viên Nhân Sự:
______________________
Ủy Viên Đại Hội:
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Ủy Viên Văn Nghệ:
Maria Trần Vân Quỳnh
Ủy Viên Xã Hội:
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* 2023/07/01 - 2026/06/30
Suscipe prayer
Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty,
my memory, my understanding,
and my entire will,
All I have and call my own.
You have given all to me.
To you, Lord, I return it.
Everything is yours; do with it what you will.
Give me only your love and your grace,
that is enough for me.
St. Ignatius Loyola
Prayer for Generosity
Lord Jesus, teach me to be generous;
teach me to serve you as you deserve,
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not to seek for rest,
to labor and not to seek reward,
except that of knowing that I do your will.
Amen.
St. Ignatius Loyola
Pray and live for the Pope’s intentions
The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network is a Pontifical Society, with the mission of mobilizing Catholics through prayer and action in response to the challenges facing humanity and the mission of the Church. These challenges are presented in the form of prayer intentions entrusted by the Pope to the entire Church. The foundation’s mission is inscribed in the dynamic of the Heart of Jesus, a mission of compassion for the world.
It was founded in 1844 as the Apostleship of Prayer. It is present in 89 countries and is made up of more than 22 million Catholics.
It includes a youth branch, the EYM: Eucharistic Youth Movement.
In December 2020, the Pope constituted this Pontifical Society as a Vatican Foundation and approved its new statutes.
Identify, Vision, Mission
Identity: The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network addresses the challenges facing humanity and assists the mission of the Church.
Vision: To pray and work to meet the challenges of the world identified by the Pope. His intentions are keys for our prayer and mission.
Mission: You are apostles in daily life, walking a spiritual path called “Way of the Heart,” working to serve Christ’s mission.
Đoàn News
Đoàn Teresa Hài Đồng
Cộng Đoàn Thánh Giuse tại St Rose of Lima Church
Address: 3216 Lawrence Ave E, Scarborough, ON M1H 1A4
647-697-2334
thd-info@veym.ca
Ban Thường Vụ Đoàn:
Đoàn Trưởng:
Đoàn Phó Quản Trị:
Đoàn Phó Nghiên Huấn:
Contact: Teresa Vũ Thị Phương Trâm
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Đoàn Tôma Thiện
Vietnamese Martyrs Parish – St. Cecilia’s Church
161 Annette Street, Toronto, Ontario M6P 1P5
TNTT TMT
Ban Thường Vụ Đoàn:
Đoàn Trưởng:
Giuse Lương Minh Lộc Danny
Đoàn Phó Quản Trị:
Giuse Nguyễn Đức Thịnh
Đoàn Phó Nghiên Huấn:
Giuse Trần Phi Hùng
Thư Ký:
Theresa Trần Phương Vy Helen
Thủ Quỹ:
Maria Goretti Nguyễn Ngọc Tú Thư
* 2023/09/30 - 2026/09/29
Đoàn Emmanuel
Cộng Đoàn Công Giáo Việt Nam tại St. Jane Frances Church
Address: 2747 Jane Street North York, ON M3L 2E8
TNTT EML
Ban Thường Vụ Đoàn
Đoàn Trưởng:
Maria Vũ Thị Phương Thư
Đoàn Phó Quản Trị:
Maria Đỗ Thị Ngoc Thanh
Đoàn Phó Nghiên Huấn:
Maria Phan Thanh Hiền
Thư Ký:
Phêrô Trần Minh Sơn
Thủ Quỹ:
Maria Bùi Thị Ái Trầm
* 2022/09/18 - 2024/09/15
Đoàn Phanxicô Xaviê Cần
Our Lady of Viet Nam Parish
Address: 1393 Cannon Street East Hamilton Ontario, L8W 1W2
TNTT PXC
Ban Thường Vụ Đoàn:
Đoàn Trưởng:
Đoàn Phó Quản Trị:
Thư Ký:
Contact: Phaolô Hoàng Đức Thịnh
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Đoàn Anê Thành
Saint Philiphe Minh & Saint Ane Thanh Parish
Address: 700 Campbell Windsor N9B 2H7
TNTT ANT
Ban Thường Vụ Đoàn
Đoàn Trưởng:
Maria Đinh Thị Thanh Nga
Đoàn Phó Quản Trị:
Gioan Baotixita Trần Thanh Sang
Đoàn Phó Nghiên Huấn:
Gioan Baotixita Đinh Quang Tuyến
Thư Ký:
Josephine Nguyễn Phạm Trân Châu
Thủ Quỹ:
Gioan Baotixita Vũ Quốc Thắng Thomas
* 2022/06/19 - 2025/06/21
A Brief History of Liên Đoàn Kateri Tekakwitha
Since 2013, TNTT chapters in Ontario have been working together to organize events and programs that helps bringing members of VEYM who wish to live like Jesus, to encounter Jesus, love Him and have a ‘heart to heart’ relationship with him. We aim “to offer members different ways of succeeding in this ideal – living in a team, meetings, songs, liturgies, retreats, camps, etc. These are opportunities to relax, talk about experiences, meditate and serve; always with the aim of helping members to grow, and of guiding them in their Christian vocational choices.”
Starting with the first Nghĩa sĩ Retreat in 2013 at the Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland, we began to have the annual retreat/formation Bethsaida for Hiệp Sĩ in Ontario and Québec, annual retreat for Huynh trưởng and Hiệp sĩ Trưởng Thành Tabor and two summer camps gathering Đoàn sinh all across Ontario. These events and programs were organized by the local Chapter Executive Committees (Ban Chấp hành Đoàn) with a group of Huynh trưởng who took on this extra coordination and planning responsibilities.
After five years observing the chapters in Ontario and Quebec working under a structure similar to Hội đồng Liên đoàn (League of Chapters Council) and Ban Chấp hành Liên đoàn (League of Chapters Executive Committee), the National Executive Committee had proposed the amendment to the Charter (Bản Nội quy) defining the ‘League of Chapters’ organizing structure and boundaries of four League of Chapters in TNTT Canada.
The amendment had been passed in 2019 and Liên đoàn Kateri Tekakwitha was officially established on July 14, 2019 at the Nghĩa-Hiệp Conference at Mount Mary Retreat Centre in Hamilton. An Interim Executive Committee was appointed to prepare for the first two resolutions to select the Patron Saint and to set the date for the election of the 2020-2023 League of Chapters Executive Committee on June 20, 2020.
As of 2022, Liên đoàn Kateri is consisted of six đoàn, located in three dioceses in Ontario:
- Archdiocese of Toronto
- Đoàn Tôma Thiện Toronto
- Đoàn Têrêsa Hài Đồng Scarborough
- Đoàn Emmanuel North York
- Diocese of Hamilton
- Đoàn Phanxicô Xaviê Cần Hamilton
- Đoàn Anrê Phú Yên Kitchener-Waterloo
- Diocese of London
- Đoàn Anê Thành Windsor
Our Patron Saint
Catherine (Kateri) Tekakwitha was born in 1656 in that part of the American Continent which is today the State of New York. Her parents were native Indians. Her father, an Iroquois, was pagan; her mother, an Algonquin, was a devout Christian. When she was four years old, Catherine lost her parents and her only brother to an epidemic of smallpox. She too contracted the disease and, although she survived, her face was left severely pockmarked.
Finding a home in the family of her uncle, a chief of the tribe of Agniers, more commonly known as the Mohawks, she was brought up in that tribe. While living among the Mohawks, she received instruction in the Faith and was baptized in 1676 by Father Jacques de Lamberville, one of the devoted Jesuit missionaries committed to the evangelization of the Indians. After becoming a Christian, Catherine soon became a model of youthful piety.
Unfortunately, she was a target of harassment and persecution at home because of her faith and her determination to live in virginity. On the advice of the missionaries, who thought she should move to friendlier surroundings, she came to live among the fervent Christian Indians of the settlement known as the Mission of St. Francis Xavier, near present-day Montreal. Here she made great progress in a short time along the road of holiness. And here she died on 17 April 1680, widely known and esteemed by all as a saint. Her last words were: “Jesus, I love you”.
This young Iroquois woman, whose life was sustained by her Christian faith and by an ardent love of Jesus present in the Eucharist, found in Jesus Christ the strength to withstand the hostile pressure of the non-Christian culture in which she lived and to keep with heroic fidelity the vow of virginity which she pronounced on 25 March 1679.
Adapted from biography for the Canonizations October 21, 2012
Born 1656
Baptized April 18, 1676
Died April 17, 1680
Beatified June 22, 1980
Canonized October 21, 2012
Feast Day July 14 (Canada April 17)
About the Eucharistic Youth Movement
The Eucharistic Youth Movement (EYM) is an international Church Movement for the Christian development of children and young people who wish to live like Jesus. It seeks to guide them into a loving, ‘heart to heart’ relationship with Jesus, based on a Eucharistic spirituality. Members are prepared for life as Christian adults, committed to serving their brothers and sisters in the challenges that face humanity.
The EYM is the youth branch of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (AP), an association entrusted to the Society of Jesus by the Church. Its ancestor was the Eucharistic Crusade, which had great success in many countries around the middle of the 20th Century. The name “Eucharistic Youth Movement” first appeared in France in 1962, where its process renewal began. As years went by, this renewal spread to other countries around the world.
Its method of organizing is based on the creation of Centers in: parishes, chapels, schools and colleges, among others. Members participate in different stages depending on their age. They are trained to have a clear sense of the Church, through the experience of Prayer, Eucharist, the Word of God and Discernment. Young people are prepared for a life of service, attentive to the needs of today’s world. The EYM offers members different ways of succeeding in this ideal – living in a team, meetings, songs, liturgies, retreats, camps, etc. These are opportunities to relax, talk about experiences, meditate and serve; always with the aim of helping the member to grow, and of guiding them in their Christian vocational choices.
Spirituality
The spirituality of the EYM has emanated from the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola to become essentially a Eucharistic spirituality. Thus, it has the following characteristics:
- It is grounded in the real life of children and young people, considering their stage of physical, psychological and spiritual development, offering them a formation that takes their limitations and their needs into consideration, while developing their skills and capacities.
- It encourages a personal friendship with Jesus, in union with His Heart, through:
- Prayer, teaching us to find God in all things.
- Listening to the Word of God.
- Celebrating the Eucharist.
- It summons us to be apostles, to experience our service as an offering:
- To the Church.
- To the world.
The EYM seeks to lead children and young people to an interior knowledge of Jesus and His Word, teaching them to be able to find the Lord in every dimension of daily life, through trustful prayer to the Father and through community celebration of the Eucharist. It is an essentially ecclesial movement, and lives in, through and for the Church. It remains always at the service of the local Church and in coordination with its structures. Therefore, the EYM forms people in communion with the pastoral structures of the diocese, parishes and schools.
This ecclesial affiliation and friendship with Jesus is represented in three axes or fundamental pillars experienced in community life to foment an apostolic life.
Gospel: Contemplate on how to live like Jesus.
Eucharist: Be nourished and moulded by Jesus’ life.
Mission: Collaborate in Christ’s mission serving the needs and challenges of humanity.
Herein we present the fundamental pillars that are common to everyone, whatever the particularities of their country. For example: Prayer/Communion/Sacrifice/Apostleship. “Sacrifica-te” (sacrifice yourself), in the theory of the Eucharistic Crusade, has a contemporary equivalent: the offering of the day in an all-encompassing Eucharistic dynamic.
Once the member has gone through the proposed stages, the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network will continue to offer them, after the age of 25, a spiritual path, to live their daily offering in service to the Kingdom of God. This spiritual path, called “the path of the heart”, delves into the three foundations of the EYM over nine stages. Various modes of participation are offered, for example the Communities of the Pope’s Prayer Network.
Methodology
We have a long tradition of pursuing the aim of helping children and young people to experience the love of God in their personal encounter with Jesus, so that they learn to discern in life. Therefore, the Movement’s teaching principles guide the child on a personal process of choice. In our vision of holistic formation, the children and young people are considered responsible for their own development (physical, psychological, social, affective and spiritual). This vision contributes to a better understanding of themselves and others.
Moreover, there are two attitudes, inspired by the teachings of Saint Ignatius, which are promoted in our formation:
- Live a personal relationship with God and with others, without separating them.
- Be open to the Holy Spirit and become ever more like Christ
The basis of our teaching method is the community experience in small groups, with weekly meetings, guided by a trained team leader. In these groups life is shared, and human and Christian themes are discussed. In this way one can learn to discover our world as a space of encounter with the Lord and to discover life with Him, so as to be thankful for it and offer it up.
Spiritual foundations underpinning our teaching principles
Even though the first Eucharist took place at a single moment, during the Last Supper, Christ’s entire life was always Eucharistic. His way of teaching his apostles sprung from His life, from His Heart, and this is what the apostles saw and followed.
1 – A personalized teaching:
Attentive to every disciple. Jesus summons Matthew, Zacchaeus, Simon, James and John to embark on a larger than life journey (Luke 5:1-11, Matthew 9:9-13, Luke 19:1-10). He gets to know Peter and accompanies him in his process (John 21:15-19); His plans are unique for each disciple (John 21: 20-24).
2 – A teaching of community:
Through walking together, in service of others (Matthew 20:20-28). Learning through community, in the journey (Luke, 24:13-35). Grace is received in community (John 20:19-22). A dynamic of community prayer and internal recollection (Mark 6:30-32).
3 – An apostolic teaching:
That sends and accompanies the apostles in their missionary experiences, helping them to reflect on the journey. Instructions on the way to go about their mission (Luke 10:1-12). The force of the mission springs from its inscription on the heart of the Father (Luke 10:17-20). Reflect with them on the journey (Luke 24:13-35). Go out into the world, the mission is universal (Matthew 28:18-19).
4 – A teaching of offering:
A formation which invites the disciples to surrender their lives for love. The Lord multiplies the gifts when we trust his hands (John 6:5-15). The Lord is an example of offering (John 13:13-17). Do your best (Mark 12:41-44). Surrender your life and invite others to surrender their lives for their friends (John 15:13-17). We are nourished forever (Luke 22:14-20).
This is what constitutes Eucharistic teaching principles.