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Grief in the Context of Christian Community: A Formation Process for Parish Bereavement Ministers
(1999)This Pastoral Project Report is an account of the planning, implementation and evaluation of a three-session series developed to further the spiritual formation and grief education of parishioners who feel called to ... -
A Guide for the Recruitment and Training of Volunteer Church Ministers
(1987)This project will address itself to the question of filling the gap left by decreased numbers of ordained priests. Techniques will be developed to serve as a guide for recruiting and training volunteers who will commit ... -
Handbook for Residential Retirement: Sisters of Providence Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Indiana
(1993)The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana held a General Chapter in July of 1991. At this Chapter, seven commitments were agreed upon and passed by the assembly. In January of 1992, the Leadership ... -
Hannah's Cry
(2004)The focus of this pastoral project started as outreach and ministry to parents who grieve the loss of an unborn child. The loss of a pregnancy, the death of a baby not yet born, is a tragic occurrence. When mourners of ... -
Healing the Grieving Heart
(2003)A number of years ago St. Anthony Hospital in Effingham implemented “Healing the Grieving Heart,” a support group for those experiencing the loss of loved ones. It is a time limited program sponsored by the Community ... -
Helping Children of Divorce: Mater Dei High School
(1989)It is my conjecture that we as campus ministers on the staff of Mater Dei High School are called to provide more growth opportunities for students struggling with problems related to the fact that they are no longer ... -
Helping Parents and Children Understand the Eucharist in Today’s Society
(2000)Part of my job as Director of Religious Education is the preparation of First Eucharist. Each year the children in second grade and the older children who have not received First Eucharist prepare for this sacrament. On ... -
Honoring Images, Painting Symbols The Integration of Art and Prayer
(2001)Humans, both individually and collectively, experience brokenness or disintegration and are seeking wholeness. There are multiple paths toward wholeness and multiple methods within paths. I propose to design a one-day ... -
How Are Women Empowered In the Church and as Church Today? A Retreat for Women
(2004)The idea of this retreat project for women was the result of much research and many discussions with a variety of women both from my parish of St. Madeleine Sophie in Guilderland, New York and from my workplace. The ... -
IM4REAL: Relationship, Environment, Action, Love
(2010)The IM4REAL program is based on four pillars developed by Fr. Carl Beavers, pastor at Holy Spirit Catholic Community in Rock Springs, WY. He has been a priest in the Diocese of Cheyenne for over 40 years, contributing ... -
Images of God: A Study/Prayer Experience for Women
(1993)In planning this seminar my goal was for participants to become aware of the importance of language/images in the development of our relationship with God, to identify their operative images of God, as well as expand ... -
Inclusion of the Mentally Disabled in the RCIA Process
(1995)To prepare catechists, sponsors, team members of the RCIA Process to include and educate persons with disabilities with their peers in regular RCIA format. -
Inclusion Sunday: Celebrating Parish Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities
(2008)In early 2007 the Parish Advocacy Network for the Diocese of Richmond was developed in response to the challenge articulated by the American Bishops. Moving beyond ‘sloganeering’, the diocese developed a recruitment ... -
Infant Baptism: Beginning and Becoming A Parent Preparation Process
(1998)The pastoral problem, therefore, was two-fold, consisting of the lack of adequate preparation for the parents of infants and young children who were to be baptized, and the lack of involvement by the gathered assembly ... -
Initial Level of Preparation to Build Understanding Among the Employees for Their Role in the Delivery of Spiritual Care in An Acute Care Catholic Hospital
(2006)My thesis is that the delivery of spiritual care is enhanced in the Catholic health care environment when the employee becomes knowledgeable of his/her natural (innate) means for delivery of spiritual care and understands ... -
Integrating Social Justice Teachings with Service In the Catholic Elementary School
(2009)As I have been a teacher or Coordinator of Faith Formation at St. Andrew and St. Rita Catholic Academy in Indianapolis for the last twelve years, I have had the opportunity to take part in many activities relating to the ... -
The Integration of Community Service Learning
(1994)The Community Service Learning (CSL) projects offered the students the opportunity to look at community situations or problems, talk about them, implement some form of action and then reflect on their experience. This ... -
Interconnectedness of Humans and Nature and Their Relationship with God
(2009)| have planted a garden for my pastoral project which is part of my masters’ program in pastoral theology. | planted it around the tall spruce tree in the traffic island at the east end of the driveway belonging to the ... -
Intergenerational Catechesis: Jubilee 2000 Opening Wide the Doors to Christ
(2001)We have all heard the saying, “It takes a village to raise a child”. I contend that it takes an entire faith community sharing their faith with a child in order for that child to truly know Jesus. Because of that conviction, ... -
An Introduction to Small Basic Christian Communities
(1994)Over the past twenty five years that | have been involved in my parish as a catechist, lector, eucharistic minister, DRE and Lay Pastoral Associate, the number one concern that | have heard expressed by parishioners is ...