News Notes Membership Newsletter Fall 2009  Volume 37, No. 3

NOCERCC CONVENTION TO EXPLORE In This Issue: MINISTRY OF SANCTIFICATION Rev. Richard Chiola, Ph.D. 2010 NOCERCC Convention Chair NOCERCC Convention to What should a convention dedicated to ongoing formation in the Explore Ministry of Sanctification...... 1 priestly office of sanctification look like? Don’t you expect a convention limited to best liturgical practices? Instead, the 2010 NOCERCC Convention is grounded in the Eastern Catholic theology of sanctification and its counterpart in Western NOCERCC Year for Priests Convocation & 37th Annual theology, the development of communio over the last four Convention...... 2&3 decades. The convention is designed to reflect on a definition of sanctification which includes the human body not simply as a

Blessed Pope John XXIII Award Rev. Richard Chiola vehicle for grace but as the very subject of sanctification in the to Rev. Thomas P. DiFolco image of the sacred humanity of Christ and on the communion of ...... 4&6 the Church as the locus of the sharing of the Trinitarian life among human persons. Grounded in this gift of God which transforms the entirety of our human nature and relationships, the participants will retrieve and reflect on their own experience of the President’s Distinguished Service sacraments and of priestly sacramental ministry in a richer and broader way. Award to -elect Robert C. Evans...... 5 The keynote presentations are designed to show how ongoing presbyteral formation is a lifelong mystagogy on the Sacrament of . As such these addresses will engage the participants in reflecting on the life and ministry of priests as centered in Word and Sacraments, revealing the Presbyteral Communio (with the Bishop and among Knights of Columbus Benefit for the priests), and enlivened by what the priest receives from the Faithful so as to be able NOCERCC ...... 6 to give the Faithful the gifts of Christ. The breakout sessions will cover best practices in liturgical presiding at Mass, pastoral care of the sick and dying, the rite of reconciliation, and preparation for and presiding at Trish Sullivan Vanni: New marriages. And the breakout sessions also will offer opportunity to examine best Director of Emerging Models practices in spiritual direction and retreats for priests, as well as experiences of Project...... 7 communion among priests and how to deal with the trauma priests experience in ministry and even before entering ministry.

Diana Macalintal on The outcome of this convention for those engaged in ongoing formation will be on the Mystagogical Formation...... 8 one hand a sense of the deeper connection between the three priestly munera and on the other a step by step understanding of how to design and facilitate similar experiences of mystagogical learning for their constituents. For every participant, the basic design of

Calendar...... 9 the convention promises new insight into the meaning of the ministry of sanctification and for priests in particular, a deeper appreciation of their sacramental ministry as a way of life. Page 2 of 9 NOCERCC News Notes NOCERCC YEAR FOR PRIESTS CONVOCATION & THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION

FEBRUARY 8 - 11, 2010 MARRIOTT SAN MATEO / SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA

CATHEDRAL OF SFCVB PHOTO: CHRIST THE LIGHT, LEWIS SOMMER OAKLAND, CA

NOCERCC invites— ♠!Ongoing presbyteral formation directors and committees in dioceses and religious communities; ♠! and major superiors; ♠!Faculty and administrators from seminaries and schools of theology; ♠!Other clergy vocations, formation, and personnel leaders; ♠!All priests who want to take a sustained look at their sacramental ministry; ♠!And anyone with an interest in our dialogue. Be Holy Because I Am Holy The ministry of sanctification in the ongoing formation of priests Celebrating the Year for Priests announced by Pope Benedict XVI, NOCERCC’s 2010 convention explores how ongoing formation can support priests in ever more faithfully and effectively carrying out the sanctifying office. In describing this ministry the U.S. bishops’ The Basic Plan for the Ongoing Formation of Priests notes that priests not only “celebrate and preside at the sacramental celebrations of the Church, preeminently the Eucharist,” but also “encourage the whole Church to live the sacraments” (p. 18). Inspired by the biblical injunction, “Be holy because I am holy” (1 Peter 1: 16), our gathering focuses on the presbyteral ministry of sanctification through the experience for priests and the whole Church of the sacrament of Holy Orders. Through prayer and song, mystagogical reflection and faith-sharing, six major addresses and nine seminar- sessions, this special formation event explores how priests’ experience of the sacraments shapes spirituality and pastoral practice. Speakers, session leaders, and homilists include—

Rev. Patrick Brennan Rev. Patrick LaBelle, OP Rev. Richard Chiola Rev. Lizette Larson-Miller Cardinal Daniel DiNardo Diana Macalintal Claire Fitzgerald & Pat Rice Rev. Michael Mulvey Rev. Richard Gabuzda V. Rev. David Petras Rev. Richard Hauser, SJ Rev. Ken Schmidt Sr. Gina Maria Iadanza, MSC Archbishop Basil Schott, OFM BELL FROM ORIGINAL ST. MATTHEW Rev. Msgr. Kevin Irwin Rev. Gladstone Stevens, SS CHURCH, SAN MATEO; OPENED 1863 NOCERCC News Notes Page 3 of 9

FOUR DAYS TOGETHER IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA The Archdiocese of San Francisco welcomes the NOCERCC community to the San Francisco Bay Area. San Mateo County and the Silicon Valley stretch across sixty miles of unique coastline just minutes away from downtown San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, and the Pacific Coast. Our convention hotel, the Marriott San Mateo/San Francisco Airport, is ten minutes from San Francisco International Airport and convenient to regional transportation and a free trolley to downtown Burlingame. The hotel offers in-room wireless or high speed internet access, state-of-the-art fitness center, heated outdoor pool with sundeck, and full-service business center.

Our convention also features community liturgy, common meals, information sessions and exhibits showcasing available resources, and many other opportunities for networking. This convention’s focus on the presbyteral ministry of sanctification is part of NOCERCC’s multi-year project to develop a conceptual framework for ongoing formation of priests and presbyterates based on what outcomes each of the three presbyteral offices of teaching, sanctifying, and governing requires from each of the four dimensions of human, intellectual, pastoral, and spiritual formation. Our 2009 convention focused on the presbyteral office of teaching and our 2011 convention will address the governing office. To Register or for More Information Online registration now available at www.nocercc.org NOCERCC Members: Will also receive a convention brochure and registration form for mail-in registration with payment by credit card or check as well as online registration and payment. Others Most Welcome: If you are not currently a NOCERCC member, visit www.nocercc.org to register online or to give us your contact information so we can send you a convention brochure and registration form. New Directors Workshop

Saturday, February 6, 7:00 pm- Sunday, February 7, 5:00 pm On the weekend before the convention, NOCERCC hosts our annual New Directors Workshop for directors, committees, and others responsible for ongoing formation of priests in dioceses and religious communities who are new to this ministry. At this workshop you can hear from veteran practitioners, compare notes with colleagues who are new to NOCERCC, and meet the leaders of our organization. New Directors Workshop faculty include— Dr. Mary Ann Boyarski Rev. Patrick Carrion Rev. Norbert Maduzia To pre-register for our 2010 New Directors Workshop, contact Andrea Stapleton Berger at the NOCERCC National Office by email at [email protected] or by telephone at 312-781-9450, ext. 216. Inviting Convention Sponsors, Exhibitors, and Advertisers If you or your organization would like to contribute a sponsorship to help underwrite this special Year for Priests convocation, reserve an exhibit table, or place an ad in the convention packet, we invite you to visit our website at www.nocercc.org or contact Andrea Stapleton Berger by email at [email protected] or by telephone at 312-781-9450, ext. 216 to give us your contact information so we can send you more information. If you sponsored, exhibited, or advertised at our 2009 convention, you can contact us now or wait for your invitation packet for 2010 to be sent to you. Page 4 of 9 NOCERCC News Notes BLESSED POPE JOHN XXIII AWARD TO REV. TOM DIFOLCO Established in 1983, the Blessed personnel, stewardship, leadership and the like, has Pope John XXIII Award is given introduced him to the talented pool of resources around the to a NOCERCC member in country. The breadth and depth of opportunities to serve memory of Blessed Pope John priests is what has kept him interested in this ministry. XXIII who convened the Second Fr. Difolco was also pleased to introduce the Good Leaders, Vatican Council, which called the Good Shepherds program in the archdiocese in December of Church to strengthen its 2009, and he is honored to be one of the staff presenters for the commitment to Institute of Priests and Presbyterates at St. Meinrad Archabbey. ongoing formation of priests. The award is presented to an ongoing Recently News Notes asked Fr. Difolco if there was a Rev. Tom Difolco formation director, committee significant highlight or turning point in his work in ongoing chair, or other diocesan or formation. He responded: religious institute member Perhaps one of the more formative experiences of my representative whose active participation in NOCERCC service in the Priestly Formation Office has been a direct exemplifies the mission and goals of the organization and whose result of my membership in NOCERCC. Around 1996, leadership supports the life and ministry of priests and then-President of NOCERCC, Father Francis Tebbe, presbyterates. NOCERCC will present its 2010 Blessed Pope OFM, asked me to become one of the facilitators of the John XXIII Award to Rev. Thomas P. DiFolco of the Archdiocese Renewing Priestly Identity program that NOCERCC was of Cincinnati in NOCERCC Region VI. offering dioceses at the time. A pair of facilitators would Fr. DiFolco, a native of Canton, Ohio, studied at St. Gregory go to a diocesan convocation or retreat for priests, with a Seminary and Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary of the West in Cincinnati, set of video tapes in which the late Fr. Eugene from 1964 to 1970, after which he took a leave of absence from LaVerdiere, SSS, offered a series of reflections on the seminary. In the intervening years, he worked as a medical priesthood in light of Scripture, Church History, and social worker in an inner city health center, as a marriage and more. Then we facilitators would help the participants family counselor for Catholic Charities, and as an organization discuss their own experience of priesthood in response to development consultant for the Packard Electric Division of those videotaped presentations that Gene made. General Motors. He resumed studies at the seminary in 1980 and Each diocese had its own history and identity; each was ordained for the presbyterate of the Archdiocese of presbyterate had its own character and personality. And Cincinnati in June of 1983. He earned Master of Arts degrees in yet the questions for conversation helped the men get to Philosophy and Biblical Studies at the Seminary, as well as a the core of their life and ministry as priests. I felt that I Master of Science degree in Social Work at the University of witnessed something very sacred and tender – men Louisville. listening and talking to each other about those privileged In the first three years of his priesthood, Fr. Difolco ministered in moments in their lives when they knew themselves to be two suburban parishes just north of Cincinnati. Then in 1986 he used by God for the sake of the People of God. Every became co-pastor of St. Joseph Parish in the West End of experience in every diocese reminded me of why I had Cincinnati, an African American parish where the late Fr. become a priest, and re-energized me to come back to Clarence Rivers had first introduced African American music into Cincinnati andcontinue to serve the priests of our the Catholic liturgy. After serving there until late 1991, he archdiocese. became pastor of St. Martin de Porres Parish, in Lincoln Heights, By the time the Renewing Priestly Identity program came hometown of poet Nikki Giovanni. In July of 1997, he also to an end, I had met with priests and their bishops from became pastor of St. Agnes Parish, the parish where composer over 12 dioceses, from Florida to Iowa, including every James E. Moore, Jr., had penned his well-known and well-loved diocese in the state of Missouri. The memories of those hymn Taste and See. diocesan gatherings around the country, of priests Fr. DiFolco became Director of the Office of Priestly Formation listening to and praying with each other, have sustained of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in March, 1992. He has me over the years, as I try to help each priest “grow….in discovered that finding retreat directors for the semi-annual and with his own presbyterate in union with his Bishop”. archdiocesan retreats who can speak to the hearts of priests is a (Pastores Dabo Vobis [I Will Give You Shepherds], Post regular and stimulating challenge, and that assisting priests as Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Pope John Paul II, 1992, they discern what kinds of sabbaticals will refresh and renew no. 74). them is truly rewarding. He has found that identifying speakers and developing programs for managing conflict, supervising NOCERCC News Notes Page 5 of 9

PRESIDENT’S DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD TO BISHOP-ELECT ROBERT EVANS Established in 1994, the President’s Distinguished Service Award is presented to an individual or organization that champions ongoing formation for priests and presbyterates, supports NOCERCC, contributes to its work, and promotes its mission and goals in the public square. NOCERCC will present its 2010 President’s Distinguised Service Award to Bishop-elect Robert C. Evans of the Diocese of Providence, . On October 15, 2009, as reported by the Rhode Island Catholic, Bishop Thomas J. Tobin announced at a press conference, “Today the Diocese of Providence rejoices in the appointment of Robert C. Evans as the new of Providence.” Bishop-elect Robert Evans was born September 2, 1947, in Moultrie, Georgia. He was Bishop-elect ordained to the priesthood in 1973 in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, and was named a Robert C. Evans of Honor by Pope John Paul II in 1993 with the title of Reverend Monsignor.

Between 1973 and 1979, Bishop-elect Evans served as an assistant pastor at several parishes: St. Pius X, Holy Angels Church, St. Lawrence Parish, and St. Mark’s Parish. During that time, he also served as an assistant chaplain at Roger Williams College, Rhode Island Hospital, and Roger Williams Hospital. Beginning his service in diocesan administration, Bishop-elect Evans was appointed secretary to Bishop Louis Gelineau in December 1983. Upon returning to the Diocese of Providence in 1989, he served as vice-chancellor with residence at St. Margaret’s Parish, Rumford. In June 1991 the Bishop-elect was appointed pastor of St. Anthony’s Parish in Woonsocket, chancellor of the Diocese of Providence, and director of the Office of Priests’ Personnel. In 2001 Bishop Robert Mulvee released him to serve as director of the Institute for Continuing Theological Education and faculty member at the North American College in Rome. From 2005 to 2007 Bishop-elect Evans served as secretary at the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, DC and since February 2007 has served as pastor of St. Philip Church in Greenville, and as adjunct faculty member of the Seminary of Our Lady of Providence. Upon his appointment, according to the Rhode Island Catholic, Bishop-elect Evans reflected: I have been blessed with more than 36 years of priesthood, which is both a gift and a mystery, as the late Pope John Paul II wrote about his own priestly ministry and life. I know that it was not so much I who chose this vocation but the Lord who, setting His Sacred Heart upon me, called me to priesthood, despite my inadequacy. To emphasize this truth, the Holy Father [Pope Benedict XVI] notes in regard to priests: “Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction.” Page 6 of 9 NOCERCC News Notes

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS BENEFIT FOR NOCERCC SPRING, TEXAS On August 11, 2009, to celebrate and honor the priests of Vasquez and Vocations Director Rev. Dat Hoang. Friend the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, St Ignatius Loyola also did extensive publicity, through announcements and Church in Spring, Texas hosted the one-man play Vianney. additional personal invitations, throughout the area. The performance was also given to commemorate the Year On the day of the benefit there were over one thousand for Priests and as a benefit for NOCERCC. At the in attendance, including thirty priests and twenty suggestion of Rev. Norbert Maduzia, pastor of St. Ignatius seminarians. Before the Vianney performance, Fr. and NOCERCC president, the parish Knights of Columbus Maduzia led the Prayer for Priests, and Friend read a Council 10861 hosted the event. Vianney is a performance letter from Daniel Cardinal DiNardo who was unable to of St. Luke Productions, performed by Leonardo Defilippis, attend because of out of town commitments. Right exploring the life and mission of the Curé of Ars. before Defilippis took the stage, the entire congregation In discussions leading up to the presentation, Greg Friend, recited A Prayer for Our Priests. the Knights of Columbus Council Chancellor and the main […] Fill your priests with the sure knowledge of your organizer of the event, said that Fr. Maduzia indicated that love. funds are donated for vocations and to seminarians on a Open their hearts to new depths of union with your Son. regular basis and funds are also donated to retired priests, […] but funds are not typically donated for the ongoing formation of our existing priests. So, Friend received The play commenced, and afterwards, Fr. Maduzia approval from the council to donate all net proceeds from announced that an offering would be taken for the event to NOCERCC. NOCERCC. Collection baskets were passed, and $3,627.43 was raised for the ongoing formation of Leading up to the event, Fr. Maduzia and Friend sent priests. Reflecting back on the event, personal invitations to all of the Greg Friend said that, for him, the priests on the north side of Houston, major insight he received from the along with personal invitations to experience was, “What would we do Daniel Cardinal DiNardo, without our priests?” Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Fiorenza, Auxilary Bishop Joe

NOCERCC receives donation from Knights of Columbus Council 10861: St. Ignatius Loyola (Left to right) Mike Rogers, Council Director, Rev. Norbert Maduzia Jr., Chaplain, Pastor of St. Ignatius and NOCERCC President, and Greg Friend, Council Chancellor NOCERCC News Notes Page 7 of 9

TRISH SULLIVAN VANNI: NEW DIRECTOR OF EMERGING MODELS PROJECT On behalf of NOCERCC, I congratulate my friend and colleague Trish Sullivan Vanni on her appointment as director of the Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership Project. Trish succeeds Marti Jewell as project director. Now completing her doctorate in theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, Trish is well known to the NOCERCC community. At our 2004 convention in Huntington Beach, California she led “A Time of Prayer and Witness,” a prayer service that began a day of recollection on the challenges of human formation. By popular demand we invited her back to close our 2008 convention in Clearwater, Florida with reflections from a layperson's perspective on "The Church’s Experience of Ongoing Presbyteral Formation." Just this year Trish has joined our Cultivating Unity faculty. The Emerging Models Project and its collaborating organizations are most fortunate to have Trish as project director. Trish Sullivan Vanni Five national ministry organizations are collaborating on sustaining the pastoral excellence of emerging models of pastoral leadership in the . The project's first phase culminated in an April 2008 National Ministry Summit in Orlando, which developed, prioritized and voted on recommendations for future development of pastoral leadership. The second phase intends over the next three years to develop a contemporary body of knowledge about parishes and parish leadership. The eleven phase-two initiatives include multiple parish ministry, development of leadership in and for a multicultural church, and parish staffing and compensation models. The Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership Project has been renewed thanks to the generosity of the Lilly Endowment, Inc., which established its “Sustaining Pastoral Excellence Grant Program” in 2002. Current collaborating organizations are the Conference for Pastoral Planning and Council Development (CPPCD), the National Association for Lay Ministry (NALM), the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators (NACPA), the National Catholic Young Adult Ministry Association (NCYAMA), and the National Federation of Priest Councils (NFPC). The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University, with which NOCERCC partners in our Cultivating Unity pastoral initiative, is a project associate.

Jim Alphen Executive Director, NOCERCC

APLANNED GIVING INVITATION Please remember in your will The National Organization for Continuing Education of Roman Catholic Clergy, Inc. For More Information: Contact Lisa Wagner-Carollo, Director of Stewardship and Communications Email: [email protected] Telephone: 312-781-9450 ext. 215 Page 8 of 9 NOCERCC News Notes

NOCERCC CONVENTION AS MYSTAGOGICAL FORMATION Diana Macalintal is the Director of Worship for the Diocese of San José and holds a Master of Arts in Theology from Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota. She has served as a liturgist and music director in campus, parish, and diocesan ministries for over 25 years and has published numerous articles on liturgy, music, and the catechumenate. She will be speaking on mystagogy at the NOCERCC’s 2010 convention.

How did you become interested in catechesis. Mystagogy challenges us to prepare the liturgy mystagogy? in such a way that the symbols speak clearly for I first discovered the process of themselves, for it is through these symbols that we praise mystagogy when I began learning the Father and proclaim the presence of Christ. about the catechumenate. In the Rite of Furthermore, mystagogy calls us to catechize from the Christian Initiation of Adults, liturgy rather than about the liturgy. It uses the liturgy to mystagogy is a period of post- show forth Christ, not only present when the Church baptismal formation for those initiated gathers to pray but also when the Church is sent out to at the Easter Vigil. If you read the glorify Christ by their lives. When the connection between section in the RCIA that describes this liturgy and catechesis is strengthened through mystagogy, period, it doesn’t seem like mystagogy we form people who yearn not only to learn more about Diana Macalintal is that interesting. Then I experienced a their faith but also to celebrate it in the sacraments and to mystagogical process during a training live it in their lives. institute on the RCIA. The facilitator led us through a guided reflection on the liturgy we celebrated the evening before. How would you describe ongoing formation of priests Through his pointed questions and our responses, he began to (or anyone else) using the mystagological approach? help us connect our liturgical experience with the teaching of Mystagogical catechesis is primarily post-sacramental. For the Church and the reality of our daily lives. The symbols of priests, a mystagogical approach to ongoing formation the liturgy came alive for me, and I began to see “beyond” the would use their ordination as the starting point by reflecting symbol into its meaning and the meaning of my faith. He on the primary symbols of the Rite of Ordination. This could have easily presented a lecture for us on the topic of deepens not only their understanding of the meaning of liturgical symbols and what they meant, and I probably would their priesthood but also their commitment to continually have come away with the same theological content and be formed more closely into the likeness of Christ. Just as understanding. But by starting with our particular communal mystagogy forms all Christians to see the world through a experience of the liturgy, by engaging us in this way in the Christian lens, using mystagogy in the ongoing formation learning of our faith, I didn’t just “get” the content; I saw how of priests helps them to see their entire life—who they are, I had to “live” the content through the liturgy and my daily what they do, and what they are about—through the unique life. From then on, it was clear to me that liturgy and lens of their priesthood. For example, what does their catechesis are intimately connected and that mystagogical experience of feeling the hands of the bishop and priests catechesis is a powerful key to authentic formation in the upon their heads teach them about the sacredness of what Christian way of life. they do with their own hands, in the liturgy and outside of it? Or, what does it mean for them today, perhaps after What are some of the benefits of using this approach? years of priestly ministry, to recall the moment of In a postmodern world most adults are seeking for more than prostration and being surrounded by the intercession of the just answers. It’s no longer enough to simply say, “This is saints through the prayer of the Church? Especially for what the Church teaches, and therefore it’s what you have to those priests who may be reflecting upon the effectiveness believe and do.” They’re looking for meaning and relevance to of their ministry as they grow older, how can the memory their daily lives. And if they choose to confess a particular of receiving the gifts of bread and wine that first time faith, that faith needs to connect in some way to what they encourage them to open their hands again to receive the experience, to engage their reasoning and critical thinking gifts they need now from their community and circle of skills, and to show how it can influence the way they live. friends? Using mystagogy in this way with priests—and Mystagogical catechesis uses these characteristics of adult anyone who has experienced the transformational love of learning to show how our Catholic faith, embodied in its God in the sacraments—helps us to reconnect to that divine liturgical life, is deeply connected to our daily life. Mystagogy mystery so that it can continue to form and nourish our forms us to see the world in a liturgical way and to live in the vocation and guide us for ministry in ways that honor and world as Christians imbued with the spirit of the liturgy. make sense of our present situation. This approach may not Because mystagogy’s aim is to form Christians, rather than change the substantial content of ongoing formation, but it inform them about Christianity, using mystagogy can does give us a clear starting point for formation that is not strengthen our faith by reinvigorating our liturgy and merely intellectual but personal, spiritual, and pastoral. CALENDAR NOCERCC The 48th Annual Southwest Liturgical Conference Study Week will take place Jan. 13-16, 2010 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX, Hilton of the Americas. The theme for the conference is: Many Cultures: One Church at Prayer. The 2010 study week is being hosted by the News Notes is a quarterly publication of Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and sponsored by Region X - Southwest Liturgical Conference. the National Organization for General Session speakers include, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston; Dr. Continuing Education of Roman Richard McCarron, Associate Professor of Liturgy, Catholic Theological Union; Bro. Rufino Zaragoza, Catholic Clergy (NOCERCC). Subscriptions free to members. OFM, Liturgical Music Consultant, Diocese of Oakland; Rev. Ed Foley, OFM Cap. Professor of Liturgy and Music, Catholic Theological Union; Sr. Catherine Vincie, RSHM, Associate Director of Sacramental NOCERCC NATIONAL OFFICE: and Liturgical Theology, Aquinas Institute of Theology; and Rev. Juan Sosa, President, Instituto Nacional 333 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1205 Chicago, IL 60601 Hispano de Liturgia and Consultant for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. A variety of workshops TEL: 312-781-9450 on pertinent liturgical topics are scheduled. Clergy track on Thursday (homiletics) and Friday (Roman FAX: 312-442-9709 Missal). For more information and registration see the conference website: www.swlc.org. EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.nocercc.org NOCERCC Region VI Regional Forum for Pastoral Leadership Belonging Leads to GOVERNING COUNCIL Rev. Norbert J. Maduzia, Jr., President Believing, January 4-7, 2010, Weber’s Inn, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Rev. James E. Deiters, Vice President “I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth.” (1 Cor. 3:6) Rev. Richard Bokinskie, Secretary-Treasurer The farmer or gardener must put in much work as well as have much hope, along with tools that are worthy of the Rev. James P. Adams task. So it is with one who cultivates the fertile fields we call our Catholic parishes. Rev. Andrew J. Beerman Dr. Mary Ann Boyarski Speakers include Msgr. Tom McSweeney, Executive Editor of Faith magazine, Frank Donaldson, Rev. Patrick M. Carrion President of the Institute of School and Parish Development (ISPD), and Ann Lambert Raush, Rev. Daniel E. Danielson Marketing Director of ISPD. For information contact: Rev. Stephen Popovich, 330-744-8451 Rev. Harry F. Dean, Jr. Rev. Thomas P. Haffey st Rev. Lawrence M. Nickels, OFM “Behold! I Am Creating Something New”: Religious Life in the 21 Century, June 6-11, 2010. As it Rev. Kerry R. Ninemire has done in other epochs, religious life is undergoing significant shifts in this century. Engaging the Rev. Mark D. O’Donnell compelling invitations to ‘the life’ today is essential. Recognizing both local and global contexts, what Rev. Stephen E. Popovich might reading the signs of the times in the world, earth, church, and religious life today offer us? Utilizing Rev. Jody J. Simoneaux Rev. John S. Sledziona, CM resources from our theological, spiritual and social traditions, we shall look at various dimensions of the Rev. Msgr. James E. Wall vowed life as we seek to hear how the Spirit is moving and to what we are invited. Resource person: James H. Alphen, Executive Director Maria Cimperman, OSU, STL, Ph.D., an Ursuline Sister of Cleveland and an Associate Professor of Moral

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Theology in San Antonio, TX. Maryknoll Mission Institute, Maryknoll, New York, phone: 914-941-7575, Rev. Norbert J. Maduzia, Jr., D.Min., President [email protected], www.maryknollsisters.org/mmi Rev. James E. Deiters, Vice President Rev. Richard Bokinskie, Secretary-Treasurer Support NOCERCC while providing an inspiring presentation for your parish, school, or Dr. Mary Ann Boyarski, Member-at-Large Rev. Patrick M. Carrion, Member-at-Large convocation! James H. Alphen, Executive Director Haunted by God: The Life of Dorothy Day is an uplifting one-woman show performed by Lisa Wagner- NATIONAL OFFICE STAFF Carollo of Chicago’s Still Point Theatre Collective. Along with acting as executive director of Still Point, Member Services: Lisa works part-time in NOCERCC’s National Office as the Director of Stewardship and Communications. EMAIL: [email protected] TEL: 312-781-9450, ext. 216 If a presentation is scheduled, forty percent of the performance fee will go to NOCERCC.

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