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Teams of Our Lady celebrate 50th anniversary

Hundreds of married couples from all over Britain came together in St Gregory's Catholic church in Cheltenham on Saturday, to mark the 50th anniversary of the British Teams of Our Lady (Equipes Notre Dame).

70 years of service to Love, Fatima, Portugal 22 November 2009

The Teams of Our Lady in Portugal have given 70 years of service to Love. Love to one another and to God.
A Movement of spirituality and training for couples, they want to follow Christ.
With the charter, the ‘Letter', the ‘Guide' and the Movement's method based on endeavours and sharing. With this method, they tried to pursue three ways of being: to know themselves, to make themselves known to others in truth, to try and discern God's will and to connect with others in communion.

Gathering of Responsible Couples and Spiritual Counsellors from the Teams of Our Lady France-Luxembourg-Switzerland Montreuil France 11 October 2009

The 10th and 11th of October 2009 saw the gathering of 2800 team members, Responsible Couples for the most part, from the Super Region made up of France, Luxembourg and Switzerland. They came together to pray and meditate the word of the Lord "The power of the Holy Spirit will come on you, and you will be my witnesses." (Acts 1, 8)

T.O.O.L. - Satellite Team "old teams and old team-members"

The satellite team "old teams and old team-members" met in London,May 23rd and 24th 2009 in the presence of To and Ze Moura Soares to give a progress report on its work. The team compiled a working paper with use for persons in charge of the Movement on the old team-members and the way of giving them all their place in the Movement.

MEETING OF BRAZILIAN TEAMS IN FLORIANOPOLIS

The 2^nd National Meeting of the teams of the Super Region of Brazil took place in Florianopolis from 16th to the 19th July.

There were 5,100 team members from all areas of Brazil taking part in the meeting. This included 2,390 couples, 11 archbishops and bishops, 248 spiritual counsellors, as well as other guests and volunteers.

On October 24th, 2009, an important delegation of the Syrian Teams of Our Lady (about seventy people in all) went to the suburbs of Beirut in order to meet about sixty Team members from Lebanon.

The project, based on an idea of Maria-Carla and Carlo Volpini at Lourdes 2006, was also the response to Jean-Paul II's call to the Syrian youth in Damascus in 2000 "Either you will be together, or you will not", inviting both Syrians and Lebanese to meet up and to unite in praying for peace.In order to emphasise the importance of this action, the whole International teams was present in the name of the whole Movement.

The newly appointed Papal Nuncio to the Lebanon, Monsignor Caccia, former Spiritual Counselor of a Team of Our Lady in Rome, added extra solemnity to the opening ceremony by his very presence. In his speech, he thanked the assembly for this sign of hope and expanded upon the theme of the day, "To know in order to love", by accentuating the fact that it was also necessary to love in order to know someone. He then invited the assembly to pray for peace.

After a time of prayer in common, led by Syrian and Lebanese couples, the Team members went off and held mixed Teams meetings in order to reflect on the following questions: "In my behaviour and in my words, how do I bring the peace of God to someone else? Are we able, by ourselves, to heal the wounds of the past and to build, with others, bridges amidst the walls?"

The Eucharistic celebration according to the Maronite rite was presided by Monsignor Paul Matar, archbishop of Beirut.

Syrians and Lebanese couples shared a meal and danced together in a festive way, before ending this historic day with the Magnificat, pronounced in several languages.

The International Leading Team (ERI) also participated in this Lebanese National Day for the Teams of Our Lady and while in Beirut also held its quarterly meeting. An audience with the Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir concluded the International Leading Team's visit to Lebanon.