"Đền Tạ là Phận Sự của Thiếu Nhi Fatima"
Every year, we encourage our kids ages sixteen and up to attend an annual spiritual retreat to better prepare themselves to become leaders who can live and spread the message of Fatima for the younger kids. This year, the theme was "Đền Tạ là Phận Sự của Thiếu Nhi Fatima", but what does it mean to "đền tạ"?
We can always brag about God's love for us. For God has been with us through all our hardships and blessed us with tremendous happiness that outweigh our sufferings.
We can always brag about God's love for us. For God has been with us through all our hardships and blessed us with tremendous happiness that outweigh our sufferings.
But we could never brag about our love for him because we fail him every time we forget to pray, accidentally say his name in vain, lie to our parents, or be unkind to our neighbors. We hurt him yet he is always stay by our side, ready to forgive us. Even though we mess up and cause a larger distance from him every time we sin, he closes the distance between us by repaying for our sins. He corrects our misdeeds and pays our debts by sacrificing his only son, Jesus, to die for our sins. But what can we do for God? We cause him so much pain and suffers to restore our relationship; how could we repay him?
Sacrifice all you can for God and pray with all your heart to comfort him out of love... that is the way of the youth of Fatima. Give God your time and serve his people by loving them just as he loves you. In Thiếu Nhi Fatima, our kids do this by sacrificing the time and choosing to devote to prayer, to share the good news of God, to care for one another, and to be good role models just like Jesus. If we could be more like Jesus, we repay him and share the burden by meeting him halfway and close the distance we create from him.
Sacrifice all you can for God and pray with all your heart to comfort him out of love... that is the way of the youth of Fatima. Give God your time and serve his people by loving them just as he loves you. In Thiếu Nhi Fatima, our kids do this by sacrificing the time and choosing to devote to prayer, to share the good news of God, to care for one another, and to be good role models just like Jesus. If we could be more like Jesus, we repay him and share the burden by meeting him halfway and close the distance we create from him.
This weekend, 21 of our members raced (literally) to the seminary, wanting to learn more about God and longing to fill the gap in their hearts with the graces of Mary and God. Together they helped, supported, and strengthened each other to inspire faith in each other and work towards the goal to pass on the blessings and love to others.
Congratulations to Diana Dang and Thuan Phan on accepting the calling to serve God as leaders of TNF!!
**Left to right **
(Top Row: Simon, Thuan, Bryan, Henry, Matt, Peter, Jonathan, Justin, Chris, Ryan, Anthony, Andy
Bottom Row: Pauline, Kathy, Britnee, Veronica, Lucy, Diana, Thuy, Nhu Lan, Brenda)
Chị Brenda Nguyễn
Nghĩa Trưởng
Đoàn Thiếu Nhi Fatima
Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance
Đức Mẹ Truyền Tin Torrance
