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Workshop Tries to Create 'Culture of Vocations' ISSN: 0029-7739 $ 1.00 per copy THE BSERVER OOfficial Newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Rockford Volume 82 | No. 44 http://observer.rockforddiocese.org FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 2017 Inside Geneva Catholic Parish, Lutheran Church to Mark 500th Anniversary of the Reformation A prayer service and a discussion session are planned. page 3 (Observer photo/Margarita Mendoza) Even adults can’t resist the chance to pose as sisters or priests. The outs to youth vocations events, brought them along to the Hun- diocesan Vocations Office, which usually takes the cardboard cut- dredfold Workshop at St. Rita Parish in Rockford, Oct. 21. Workshop Tries to Create Wellness Resource ‘Culture of Vocations’ Program a Lifeline For Boylan Students BY MARGARITA MENDOZA El Observador Editor When students miss lots of school or face trying times at ROCKFORD—Did you know that in home, the wellness program the U.S. there are 3,500 parishes without helps them cope and thrive. a priest and the combined number with pages 4-5 Canada is 5,200? If there is no priest, there is no Eucharist, sacraments, con- fession, and no Mass. Currently some priests work in more than one parish, and in some communi- ties, Mass is offered only once a week. Rhonda Gruenewald, who spoke to diocesan priests at Presbytery Day, Sept. 12, delivers This reality was explained during the her vocations building message to English speakers at the Hundredfold Workshop, Oct. Hundredfold Workshop. Oct. 21, at St. 21, at St. Rita Parish in Rockford. Rita Parish, here. More than 200 people from different 12, at the annual Presbytery Day. go and visit all the grade schools and Pharisees parishes of the diocese, registered for talk to the sixth-, seventh- and eighth- Question Jesus the event, designed to address this real- Adding to existing efforts graders, give them a vocation talk, that Jesus can’t be tricked by the ity and motivate participants to create a The workshop is part of the diocesan is always a lot of fun. Just last week we Pharisees. vocation ministry in their parishes. effort to create a culture of vocations, did our first vocation assembly where Such vocations ministries will not according to Father Keith Romke, di- myself and four priests that are assistant The Junior Observer, page 14 only help parishes raise awareness of ocesan vocations director. He explained vocation directors now, and four semi- the need for priests, but also help af- there are several activities during the narians, did an hour long assembly.” firm the priests, deacons and religious year for this purpose. Father Romke said the assembly, held This Issue already serving the diocese. “The summer camps are great,” he at St. Patrick School in St. Charles, Thirty people attended the work- said. “In March we always have what consisted of a volleyball game with the Bishop Malloy ............................. 2 shop in Spanish, addressed by Leticia we call ‘the nun run,’ where the secre- girls, a vocation talk and a basketball Headliners ..................................... 3 Ramirez and, the rest participated in the tary from my office, Dorothea Barger, game against the boys. (See page 6.) Diocesan .................................... 4-5 English version held in St. Rita’s Wahl gets a bunch of young ladies that are in- “It went very well, because the kids Vocation/Colleges ................. 6-9 Hall where Rhonda Gruenewald, author terested in learning about religious life enjoyed it, and we won,” he laughed. Nation/World ........................... 10 of the book “Hundredfold” spoke. and go on a road trip and they visit two, During Christmas break the vocation Around the Diocese ... 11, 15-19 Gruenewald and Ramirez provided three or four different convents to get an office sponsors a two-day discernment The Junior Observer .............. 14 training and ideas to help parishes rein- opportunity just to meet sisters, to actu- retreat for high school and college age Our Catholic View ..............20-21 force the vocation work on the diocesan ally stay at the convent, to really get to young men thinking about the priest- For the Record ......................... 22 level. Gruenewald also addressed this see how that life is like. hood. Media/Arts ................................ 23 topic with priests of the diocese, Sept. “During Lent,” he said, “I always Continued on page 9 2 | FRIDAY OCTOBER 27, 2017 | The Observer We Must ‘Be Not Afraid’ to Respect Life ach October, the Bishops This is a tragedy that is often the vigil of care or comfort with The Observer (ISSN 0029- 7739), is published weekly, of the United States ask driven by fear — fear of pain, one who is dying. except fi ve times a year by us to observe Respect of becoming a burden, of losing Another area in which we are the Diocese of Rockford, Life Month. control as we age or live with called to “be not afraid” is in our 555 Colman Center Dr., P.O. EWe know that human life is a illness. We must, however, never continued eff orts to defend the Box 7044, Rockford, IL 61125 gift. Each and every person is forget the dignity of the human life of the unborn. 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