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Pastoral Week 2012 From Cardinal Sean's Blog

posted Nov 21, 2011 8:59 AM by Deaf Apostolate Shared Account   [ updated Jan 25, 2012 6:07 AM by Shawn Carey ]
 

This year the National Catholic Office for the Deaf held their Pastoral Week Conference in Boston, from Jan. 13 through Jan. 17.

As part of that conference, I celebrated Mass for them at Sacred Heart Church in Newton on Saturday evening.

It was a full church. There were people there from all over the country, including many priests involved in deaf ministry. It is always very inspiring to be with the deaf Catholic community, where there is a great spirit of camaraderie.

 

 

It was also wonderful to see some of the young people at the Mass, the servers and others, who had been with us in Madrid for World Youth Day.

 

We are very blessed to have Father Sean Carey, who is himself hearing-impaired, working in this ministry.

With Father Carey and Father John Connelly, the pastor at Sacred Heart

We are so grateful for all that Father Michael Medas and Father Jeremy St. Martin have done to advance that ministry. Father Jeremy has recently become pastor in Townsend and is giving up directorship of the office. We thank him for his service and wish him well on his new assignment.

They presented me with the gift of a painting called "The Blood of the Lamb," which shows the sign for the blood of the lamb in American Sign Language.

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Pastoral Week 2012

http://ncod.org/pastoralweek2012.php 
Boston, Massachusetts
January 13-17, 2012
Hilton Boston Back Bay


We had freezing rain in San Antonio.  There was snow on the ground in Atlanta.  This year we're trying something new.  We're going NORTH!   Join us in Boston, Mass for the 2012 NCOD Pastoral Week Conference.
 
Our presenters are beginning work on their presentations and we will have more details later but for now we have:
 
Presenters:

Maryann Barth--TBD
 
Fr. Michael Medas--Young Catholic Leaders
 
Fr. Christopher Klusman--The Roman Missal--Changes to the Lenten Prayers and the Triduum
 
 FBI-a representative of the FBI will school us on internet safety and internet scams to watch out for
 
We are setting up workshops on:


Family Ministry -- Lauri Pryzbys

'What to know about Archiving' -- what should I keep and how to preserve it

 and 'Icons in Art'-- How do they inspire us

 

Pastoral Week 2012 Registration
EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE DEC 1

Tentative Schedule

Hotel Registration Conference Rate

DEADLINE DECEMBER 22

 2012 Pastoral Worker of the Year Nomination Form
extended to December 15 
Program Book Ad and Booster Form
extended to December 15

How do I get to the hotel from Logan?

  http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/subway/

From hotel website:   The third option is the subway (or the “T” as it is called in Boston). The MBTA runs a complimentary shuttle bus service outside Baggage Claim at all terminals to the recently renovated airport subway station on the “Blue Line” in-bound. Change at “Government Center” to the “Green Line” Outbound. The easiest subway stop to go to is “Prudential” on the Green Line “E” train. Exit the station onto Huntington at the Prudential Center Shopping Mall and take a right onto Belvidere Street. You will spot the hotel one block down Belvidere at the corner of Dalton Street.