NRVC collaborators sponsor events

Catholics on Call

Young Adult Summer Conference

Catholics on Call is sponsoring a Young Adult Summer Conference in Chicago August 4-8, 2015 for men and women ages 18-30 who feel called to a life of service in the church and are seeking direction. They may apply online. Or email catholicsoncall@ctu.edu.

Partner Conference

Catholics on Call invites vocation directors to attend its Partner Conference to be held September 24-25, 2015 in Chicago. The featured speaker will be Kathleen A. Cahalan, professor of theology at Saint John’s University School of Theology Seminary in Collegeville, Minnesota. She will discuss the call to discipleship, the vocation to ministry, and practices for accompanying young discerners.

Learn more here. Or email catholicsoncall@ctu.edu.

Conference of Major Superiors of Women Religious

Symposium “To Wake up the World”
The Council of Major Superiors of Women will host a fall symposium, “To Wake up the World,” November 13-14, 2015 at the Drury Plaza Hotel at the Arch in St. Louis. The symposium will be a national event where scholars and religious come together to discuss the beauty and prophetic witness of religious life. Keynote address by Archbishop Augustine DiNoia, OP, adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.  Open to all religious, priests, and laity! Register at cmswr.org.

Esposas de Cristo, Hijas de la Iglesia
A summer course in Spanish, “Spouses of Christ, Daughters of the Church,” from Monday, July 6 to Friday, July 17 at the Pax Christi Liturgical Retreat Center, Corpus Christi, Texas. The summer course invites Spanish-speaking women religious to celebrate the Year of Consecrated Life by exploring together the lives, times, and key texts of the early church.  Join us in taking up anew the call of the Second Vatican Council to religious “to strive during the whole course of [our] lives to perfect the culture [we] have received in matters spiritual and in arts and sciences (Perfectae Caritatis, sec. 18).” For details and to register, click here.

Religious Brothers Conference

RBC annual assembly

The Religious Brothers Conference 2015 assembly will take place July 16-19 at Bon Secours Retreat Center near Baltimore. Registration is open. See www.todaysbrother.com for more information.

St. Luke Institute

Celibacy Formation Conference
Registration is filling up for the “Practical Models for Celibacy Formation” conference scheduled for Dec. 6-9, 2015 at St. Meinrad Archabbey and Seminary. This program is co-sponsored by St. Meinrad and Saint Luke Institute. Details are online at www.sli.org/conferences/formation.
 
Upcoming webinars on SLI connect
Brother John Mark Falkenhain, O.S.B. will present a webinar on “Integrating the Psychological with the Spiritual” on May 21. Suzanne Hollman, Psy.D., will address “Intercultural Communication and Empathy” on June 18. Visit SLIconnect.org for details. The presenters will answer questions during their webinars, which may be watched live or as a recording after the live presentation.