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8 1 Non Profit Organization US Postage Paid Vol. IX, No. 1, 2012 Permit Number 227 Omaha, Nebraska The Institute for Priestly Formation The Institute for Priestly Formation Creighton University A Public Association of the Faithful in the Archdiocese of Omaha 2500 California Plaza Omaha, Nebraska 68178-0207 ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED Pope John Paul II Fund for Priests Is there a special priest in your life you would like to honor? The Institute for Priestly Formation the Institute’s new Center for Priestly invites you to support its mission Spirituality is constructed in Omaha Is there a Priest For more information Pope John Paul II of spiritual formationand to make a donationof diocesan please contact priests there will be a prominent place of who is a special part fund for priests and seminarians by becoming a part of remembrance of all the priests of your life? the Pope John Paul II Fund for Priests. being honored. This Fund was initiatedP. Thomas byPogge laity who A brief biography of the honored Executive Director want to Thehonor Institute priests for Priestly who Formation have beenFoundation priest and a list of all donors to his 2500 California Plaza instrumental in theirOmaha, lives.Nebraska 68178 account will be perpetually inscribed in a 402.280.3528 “For over 50 [email protected] Fr. Thomas J. Book of Remembrance. Every year a Mass www.priestlyformation.org The Pope John Paul II Fund for Priests is a wonderful Halley S.J. was an important part of my will be celebrated on the IPF campus in opportunity for you to honor a special priest in your g h life and at the same time support the mission of family, whether it was bringing commu- remembrance of all honored priests and The Institute for Priestly Formation. nion to my invalidThank grandmother,you for honoring our priests sitting listed donors. who have dedicated their lives to Christ for us. up all night in the hospital with my dying The Institute announced this Fund g h mother, co-officiating my marriage, or at its recent annual Celebration of Priest- Your generosity will help concelebratingThe my Institute father’s for Priestly funeral. Formation He hood Dinner, and the overwhelmingly as it assists Bishops in the spiritual formation prayed with us, oflistened diocesan priests to and us, seminarians shared meals positive response has been gratifying. with us, and wasin theour United friend. States and Ibeyond. will always The donors recognize that by honoring a treasure that he loved usg andh was always priest, they can, at the same, help The Institute for Priestly Formation Foundation there for us, justis like a 501 (c)Jesus” (3) tax-exempt (Lawrence entity. A. the Institute in the spiritual formation Dwyer, Omaha).All donations are tax deductible to extent permitted by law. of current and future priests. Individuals are beingg h invited, either Please contact Tom Pogge, Director of To learn more about IPF, check out the new The Institute for Priestly Formation solely or in collaborationTo learn more with about others, Mission Advancement, at 402.280.3528 The Institute for Priestly Formation “I will give you shepherds after my own heart.” website at www.priestlyformation.org. to fund an accountvisit our website: in www.priestlyformation.org honor of a priest, Jeremiah 3:15 or [email protected], to receive a living or deceased, diocesan or a member copy of the Pope John Paul II Fund for “Nothing is more practical than of a religious order. Each priest will have Priests brochure, or to make a donation. finding God, that is, than fall- an account within the Fund. lar priest, his name will be permanently Please continue to pray for the work and ing in love in a quite absolute, At the time five thousand dollars inscribed on a beautiful plaque on the the mission of the Institute.Thank you for final way. What you are in love ($5000) is donated in honor of a particu- Wall of Honor at the Institute. When the support. with, what seizes your imagina- tion, will affect everything. It Accounts in honor of the following priests have already will decide what will get you been opened within the Pope John Paul II Fund: out of bed in the morning, what Msgr. Charles F. Brodersen Msgr. Francis P. Kenny Fr. James F. Schwertley you do with your evenings, how Msgr. James C. Buckley Msgr. Eugene H. Kerwin Fr. Donald W. Shane you spend your weekends, what Msgr. James R. Cain Richard D. McGloin, S. J. Fr. Mark A. Toups you read, who you know, what Archbishop Elden Francis Curtiss Msgr. Andrew H. Meister Fr. Patrick Walsh breaks your heart, and what Thomas J. Halley, S. J. Fr. Mel J. Merwald Msgr. William S. Whelan amazes you with joy and grati- Fr. Paul C. Hoesing Msgr. Edward J. Schad tude. Fall in love, stay in love, If there is a priest in your life you would like to memorialize, and it will decide everything.” please prayerfully consider opening an account within the – Father Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Pope John Paul II Fund. Spring 2012 Newsletter.indd 1 6/7/12 11:15 AM 2 7 Bishops Advisory Council ber of individuals in the Omaha area. Memorials His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo Archbishop of Galveston-Houston We hope that many others from across Donations given in memory of a deceased friend or family member during 2011 His Eminence Francis Cardinal George, OMI the country who desire to honor a favor- Archbishop of Chicago His Eminence Sean Cardinal O’Malley, OFM Cap ite priest, living or deceased, diocesan or MR AND MRS REV MSGR Frederick and Marcia Backer Dr and Mrs Patrick Mahoney Mrs Betty Shrier Archbishop of Boston religious, will respond as well. GEORGE ALLEN EUGENE H KERWIN Anne and Madeleine Begley Mr Cornelius Maris Mr and Mrs Martin Sketch Most Reverend Samuel J. Aquila Mr and Mrs Kevin Amick Mrs Patricia Maggio Dr and Mrs Richard Belatti McAnay, Van Cleave & Phillips, P.A. Dr and Mrs Joseph Skradski In thanking all those whose names Archbishop-elect of Denver MR AND MRS F W AMICK LOUIS KINERK Mr and Mrs Marc S. Bendesky Dr and Mrs James McGill Mrs Timothy Slattery Most Reverend Gregory M. Aymond are recorded on these pages, we want to Mr and Mrs Kevin Amick Dr and Mrs Perry Williams Mr and Mrs Duane D. Blake Mr and Mrs Robert McKeon Dr and Mrs Louis Sojka Archbishop of New Orleans assure them of our continuing prayer MR AND MRS JOHNNY KOOMEN Margaret Blodig Mr and Mrs John Micek Mr and Mrs Denis Sullivan Richard Booth, MD Mr Michael Micek Dr and Mrs Paul Tamisiea Most Reverend Robert J. Carlson Rev. Richard Gabuzda for them and their intentions. We rely JOHN P AMICK Mireya Insua Diaz Archbishop of Saint Louis Mr and Mrs Kevin Amick Mr and Mrs Tom Burke Mr and Mrs Marvin Miller Mr and Mrs Roman Uhing Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, OFM, Cap Executive Director not only on the financial assistance CATHERINE LOWE Mr and Mrs Frederick Cady Dr Joby and Dr Tessy Varghese Archbishop of Philadelphia LIESBETH CHERKO Mr and Mrs Robert Lowe Mrs Catherine Caggiano Dr and Mrs Daniel Wagner Most Reverend Paul S. Coakley of individuals and groups, but most Mr and Mrs Stephen Mainelli WILFRED MACAULEY Mr and Mrs Jim Carroll Awakening Minnie Walsh MR FRANK DUFFY Mrs Rita Macaulay Archbishop of Oklahoma City Dear Friends, importantly we depend on the prayerful Rev Donald M Cleary and Fuller Dr and Mrs Perry Williams Most Reverend Felipe J. Estevez As this Report goes to print, we are intercession of everyone. Especially as the Corinne Dineen REV ALOYSIUS MCMAHON Mr and Mrs Thomas Connolly Mr and Mrs Bernard Wilson Bishop of Saint Augustine MR JOHN P DUFFY Mr and Dr Lawrence Dwyer Mrs Darlene Davis Prayer Life Margaret Woltman preparing to welcome 175 seminarians summer programs begin, please keep us Mrs Joann Doering Mr and Mrs Mark Woodruff Most Reverend José H. Gomez Mrs Joyce Duffy DONALD MUNCHRATH “This summer, IPF has Archbishop of Los Angeles to our ten week program of spiritual all in your daily prayers. MRS BETTY EGR Mrs Muriel Munchrath Patricia Duda MR ROBERT SOENER Mrs Jan Duffy opened my prayer life Most Reverend Joseph E. Kurtz Mr Donald Egr MRS MARIE O’NEILL Mr and Dr Lawrence Dwyer Archbishop of Louisville formation for diocesan seminarians. Ms Mary Ann Horkan Mrs Joyce Duffy relationally to the Trinity Mr and Mrs Richard Garrigan Mr and Dr Lawrence Dwyer Dr and Mrs James Dunlap Most Reverend George J. Lucas They will be joined here on the campus MR PAT FENNELL Mr and Mrs Richard P Garrigan through the Scriptures JOAN SWANTON Archbishop of Omaha Dr and Mrs Michael Dunn in ways I had only heard Rev Michael Swanton of Creighton University by 19 priests Rev James V Kramper Dr and Mrs Perry Williams Dr and Mrs Allen Dvorak Most Reverend Kevin C. Rhoades and read about, but never INEZ H THROENER Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend in the Spiritual Direction Seminar, 18 Mr and Mrs Dennis Dvorak Mr and Dr Lawrence Dwyer personally experienced. Mr and Mrs Dan Bopp Most Reverend David L. Ricken seminarians and priests who will be Mr and Mrs Ernest Bredar Bishop of Green Bay “...this report provides ample Mr and Mrs David H Eggleston I recommend IPF to attending the Spiritual Exercises of St. Mr and Mrs James Erixon anyone who is seeking Mr and Dr Lawrence Dwyer Most Reverend J. Peter Sartain Mr Thomas Dwyer Archbishop of Seattle reasons for us to raise prayers Dr and Mrs Paul Esposito an awakening and fuller Ignatius and a group of 12 faculty from Dr and Mrs Dennis Esterbrooks Mr and Mrs George Fenger Most Reverend Allen H.