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Thursday
Friday
Conference Opening,
Sadlier's Reception,
Annual Evening Concert
Saturday
Major Address,
Exhibitors' Raffle,
Conference Eucharist,
Evening Prayer
Sunday
Highlights
In addition to the conference presentations
and exhibits, here are some activities and events
you won’t want to miss.
7–8:45 pm
Pre-Conference Offerings
Exhibitors’ Showcase—
These 45 minute session feature the newest products and resources from publishers and service organizations that will bring you up-to-date with some the best support for your ministry.
9–10:30 pm
Concert -- Never Too Young to Sing God’s Praise
Join Mark Friedman and Janet Vogt, recipients of the 2005 Music Educators of the Year Award, along with artist Donna Anderle, and Tom Booth, celebrated Spirit and Song composer and artist, for an intergenerational prayer and worship experience that uses energetic music and lively storytelling to explore our Catholic faith. This session will feature an exclusive preview of music from Never Too Young: Spirit & Song for Young People, a new prayer and worship resource published by OCP.
10 am
Conference Opening and Keynote Address
Fr. John Hurley
With Christ-As-Companion: Forming Disciples for a New Age
Old truths, new forms, unexpected challenges! Yet one thing is constant for those who share in Christ’s mission, we are not alone. This keynote will invite formators of disciples to explore how they themselves are nurtured and explore opportunities to celebrate our companionship with Christ and those entrusted to us in His ministry.
Father John Hurley is a Paulist and has a Doctor of Ministry degree from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. In 1997, he was appointed to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, DC. where he served as Executive Director of the Secretariat for Evangelization. In this capacity, he oversaw ongoing implementation of Go and Make Disciples, A National Plan and Strategy for Catholic Evangelization in the United States. His vision of a multi-faceted approach to the essential mission of the Church brought about the establishment of the United States Commission on Catholic Evangelization by the Bishops’ Committee on Evangelization in November, 2000. His insights also brought about the North American Institute for Catholic Evangelization for diocesan and national leadership which was held in 2003 and 2006.
5pm
Sadlier's Reception
Begin your evening by enjoying wonderful refreshments and making new friends at this always popular gathering hosted by William H. Sadlier, Inc.
8:00 - 10:00 pm
Annual Evening Concert
Enjoy a celebration of music and song
with Tony Alonso, Cyprian Consiglio, Rory Cooney, Jaime Cortez, Gary Daigle, Theresa Donohoo,
Meredith Dean Joseph, Marty Haugen, Tom Kendzia, Val Limar-Jansen, Jorge Rivera,
Chris de Silva and renowned percussionist, John Pennington.
Major Address
Embracing
the Sacredness of Building Community
Until very recently most people lived in
relatively small, monolithic communities in which serious exposure to
different world views, opinions, perspectives and religions was rare.
The truth was the Truth, and there were clear authorities who had the
power to determine who was inside and was outside the community. Today,
we are living through an unprecedented historic, psychological and
social transformation, especially here in the
This permeability of boundaries affects our very definition of community, our loyalty to community, our capacity to build community, and perhaps, most importantly, the relationships between communities. In a word, our experience of community has never been messier. Can our yearning for community be realized in this new context? Can we embrace the sacred messiness of community?
Rabbi Irwin Kula
A renowned thinker, a provocative religious leader and a respected spiritual iconoclast, Rabbi Irwin Kula is the author of the new book, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life (Hyperion, September 2006), and was featured in a public television special in December 2006.
Kula has inspired thousands of people across the country using Jewish wisdom in ways that speak to modern life. A cutting edge scholar, teacher, and rabbi, he brings the insights of an ancient tradition to the challenges of the present to help people live more fully.
Named by both Fast Company magazine and "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly" (PBS) as one of the new leaders shaping the American spiritual landscape, Kula provides a broad vision of religious pluralism. "The freedom and openness of America invites us to bring our traditions to the marketplace of ideas. The challenge is in translating these wisdoms into American idioms that are accessible to inspire and improve our personal and public lives." See more about him at http://www.yearnings.irwinkula.com.
3 pm
Exhibitors' Raffle
See if you’re one of many people to win a gift
by participating in the Exhibitors’ Raffle.
5:30 pm
Our Conference Eucharist
This is always a highly-anticipated celebration! Fr. Cyprian Consiglio will be presiding.
10 pm
Evening Prayer in the Taizé Tradition
End the day in this meditative form of evening prayer with the “songs of Taizé”. It will be offered by GIA composer Tony Alonso.
9–11 am
Conference Closing with Tom Zanzig
No Longer I Who Live: Growing in Identification with Jesus
Where does
the path of Christian discipleship take us? St. Paul put it cryptically: "It
is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me" (Gal. 2:20). But what does
THAT mean? In our closing session, through presentation, process, and prayer
Tom Zanzig will help us explore that profound question.