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B-31 |301| Our Lady of Fatima and other Marian Apparitions

Room 301

2017 is the 100th year anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima, where our Blessed Mother appeared to three children in Portugal in 1917. This workshop provides you with everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Our Lady’s appearance. It will also look at some of the other, lesser-known Marian apparitions.

Stephen Kokx previously worked for the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Peace and Justice. He is an adjunct instructor of political science at Grand Rapids Community College and works for LifeSiteNews.com.

Dimension: Professional Theology

C-22 | 134 | Restorative Justice: Catch Phrase or Call to Action?

Room 134

More than 95 percent of offenders will be released. Are we ready? Will they return restored in Hope or full of hate? Human dignity is not something we earn, it is something we are born with. As missionary disciples, how can we bring light to the darkness and help restore the brokenness that cannot be seen? This workshop will explore these questions and challenge you to rethink how Restorative Justice affects you. We are called to live in solidarity with all, even the imprisoned. This workshop is an invitation to listen and invite into the journey all members of the Body.

Tricia Worrell is the Program Director for Prison and Jail Ministry for the Diocese of Grand Rapids. Tricia holds a BA in Theology and Communications from Aquinas College and has served the Diocese of Grand Rapids in various capacities for 9 years.

Dimension: Evangelization

Also offered as B-27

C-23 |113| God’s Hope for Us is Jesus Christ

Room 113

God, through our Church, continuously calls us through signs, symbols and rituals to a deeper relationship with Jesus, to know Him as our Savior, our Lover, our Brother and our Friend. Advent is a time when she asks us to quietly listen, wait and be ready for His coming. Each year she gives us the great O’s, the mighty Tree, the Fabulous Four and the setting of the Scene to help us prepare. This workshop will explore the O antiphons, the Jesse Tree, the Advent Wreath and the Christmas Crèche, all the ways to help us meet Jesus.

Sister Mary Margaret Delaski is a Franciscan Sister of the Eucharist, whose Motherhouse is in Meriden, Connecticut, is Director of Music and Music Therapy at the Franciscan Life Process Center in Lowell, MI and is responsible for the communal liturgical prayer of the Sisters at the Center.

Dimension: Professional Theology

Also offered as A-13

Session 23 | 2:00 pm | How Money Works in the Church

Location: Regency VI

Moral principles govern the right to private property for the diocesan church, religious orders and private Catholic associations. How does the temporal material authority work within the church? What are its consequences? One thing is certain: when it comes to money everything is separate in the church. We will address the confusion of donors regarding their gifts: where their money goes and where it does not.

Speaker: Very Reverend Andrew Kemberling, V.F.
Pastor
St. Vincent de Paul Parish
Denver, Colorado

Moderator: Mila Glodava
Director of Communications and Stewardship
St. Vincent de Paul Parish
Denver, Colorado


Very Reverend Andrew Kemberling has been pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish, in Denver, Colorado since 2014. St. Vincent de Paul is significantly smaller in size with about 1,000 families, in comparison to his previous assignment of 14 years at St. Thomas More Parish in Centennial, Colorado, which had more than 4,600 families. During his time at St. Thomas More, the parish received numerous awards, including the Archbishop Murphy Award, for promoting stewardship as a way of life.A frequent speaker at stewardship conferences in the United States and in the Philippines, Father Kemberling, along with Mila Glodava, director of stewardship and administration, wrote a book, Making Stewardship a Way of Life: A Complete Guide for Catholic Parishes (Our Sunday Visitor, 2009). His audio series with the same title recently aired on KRCN 1060 AM in Colorado and nine other radio stations around the country. Father Kemberling currently serves as chairman of the board of directors of ICSC. He also serves as the Vicar Forane (V.F.) or dean of the Southeast Denver Deanery in the Archdiocese of Denver, on the board of other civic organizations such as the Colorado Family Foundation, Revive 1787, and the Colorado Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museum. One of ten children, Father Kemberling was born in Tucson, Arizona, joined the Benedictine order in 1985, and was ordained a priest in 1988. He is a distinguished alumnus of the University of Arizona, Holy Cross Abbey and St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota