News of our collaborators

RFC offers a variety of events, programs

Space is still available in the Life Commitment Program for religious approaching final profession at Marillac Center in Leavenworth, Kansas, July 5-13.

Registration is now open for the Religious Formation Conference biennial National Congress, "Grace in the Now: The Gospel of Encounter," November 16-18, in Milwaukee. Pre-congress workshops will be offered on the 16th and a new feature, a post-congress workshop, is scheduled for the 19th. Other new features include a seminar offered in Spanish and in English and a panel of newer, younger religious who will respond to keynote presentations.

Detailed information and registration materials for Congress 2017 and for the Life Commitment Program are available on the Conference website, relforcon.org. 

LCWR publishes reflection journal

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) presents a new reflective journal, The Intimate Nearness of God: A Reflective Journal Exploring Contemplation and Transformation. This collection of reflections written by 30 LCWR members explores how they are reclaiming and deepening the contemplative dimensions of their lives and how this focus is leading them to an even fuller embodiment of love. Copies may be ordered online for $6, plus shipping and handling. 

CMSWR offers course for Spanish-speaking sisters

The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious will offer its third summer course, “Spouses of Christ, Daughters of the Church” (Esposas de Cristo, Hijas de la Iglesia) July 17-28 in Hopewell Junction, New York. Registration for the course is now open to all Spanish-speaking women religious from across the country. The two-week summer class will be hosted by the Oblates to the Blessed Trinity. Learn more at cmswr.org

Job opening

The Office of Vocations for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston is searching for a new associate director. Candidates must be a religious sister in good standing in the church, have a bachelor’s degree in theology, pastoral ministry, or a related field, and have a minimum of five years of vocation ministry experience. For more information, please contact Father TJ Dolce, director of the Office of Vocations, at 713-652-8239 or vocations@archgh.org. The application deadline is May 15.

Calling all musical artists

The Daughters of Charity are seeking talented musicians and singers to create two music videos to be recorded Labor Day weekend in St. Louis. They need eight to ten people, including priests, brothers, and sisters from different religious communities or dioceses. Those selected would be responsible for travel and taping fees. For more information, please contact Sister Liz Sjoberg, D.C. at elizabethann.sjoberg@doc.org.

Communicators conference: Save the date

Communicators for Women Religious (CWR) will host its 23rd annual conference October 3-6 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada—its first outside the United States. The theme is “One Voice: Charged by the Current/Voix Unies: Courant Puissant.”

Presenters and topics include: Dr. Moira McQueen (Catholic social teaching and communications), Heather Mansfield (social media), Sister Nuala Kenny (ethics of communication), Blayne Haggart (copyright), and Sister Kateri Mitchell (spirituality of communications).

For more information, visit c4wr.org.