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R.C.L.A. In The Small-Faith Community
(1993)As the Archdiocesan Consultant for Adult Faith Formation and Initiation, one of my primary responsibilities is to train parish leadership to form Precatechumenate, Catechumenate, and Mystagogical teams in order to provide ... -
Re-Capturing the Spirit: Renewal, Reunion, & Reflection A One-Day Retreat
(2004)Christ Renews His Parish is “A Parochial Spiritual Renewal Process.” It “is an effective spiritual renewal process which calls together the members of the parish — priests, religious, laity — in order to experience ... -
Recovering from Losses: One Parish's Challenge
(2009)For an adult, the central challenge of life is understanding and managing change (Whitehead xv). It "threatens one's past accomplishments", causing a person to feel insecure. If one considers the many changes that naturally ... -
Rediscovering our Intimacy: A Parish-Based Process of Theological Reflection for Married Couples
(2003)Marriage is a sacrament, a sign of God’s presence...of the unity between Christ and His Church and, for my own little take on things, between Christ and His Father. But no matter what a person’s faith belief or nonbelief ... -
Reevaluation of St. Patrick Catholic Church's R.C.L A. Process for the New Millennium
(2000)The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults was improved by the Vatican II Council to return to a method of initiation that mirrored the early church’s way of bringing new members into the faith community. I was a member ... -
Reflection Series on Social Justice
(2000)My initial idea for a pastoral project was to develop a program that would inform and reflect on issues of concern for low-income women. It became apparent in discussions with the director that the women do not sign ... -
Relationship and Boundary Training: For Effective Youth Ministers
(2009)This project surfaced out of the fact that we have too many youth turning out to have unhealthy relationships with youth ministers. Training on relationships and boundaries through theological reflection is needed to see ... -
The Renewal of Adult Faith Formation A Process of Parish Ministry
(2009)Superficially, the project can be seen simply as putting in place that which should exist as directed by the Church universal and local in its various documents (cf. General Directory for Catechesis; Our Hearts Were ... -
A Retreat for Deacons and Their Wives
(1995)In considering various options for a Pastoral Project, I at first thought of preparing a retreat-like experience that could benefit those who find it very difficult to set aside time for a weekend retreat because of ... -
Retreat Houses Enter the Third Millennium
(1997)The pastoral need I will identify is that of insuring this place of quiet and prayer, namely, Mary’s Solitude, will continue to be available to persons seeking spiritual development. Retreat centers go through a life ... -
Revitalizing Faith Formation in a Discouraged Parish
(2002)The Coordinator of Religious Education who worked at Saint Ann's for about ten years prior to my arrival worked on a part-time basis. Thus, largely due to her part-time status, the religious education curriculum available ... -
Rituals and Worship Services for Healthcare Institutions
(2002)The reunion of medicine and faith is gaining strength in today’s health care field. When a person is hospitalized not only are their physical needs being attended to but their emotional and spiritual needs are assessed ... -
Sabbath Stories: The Salvation History of the People of St. John the Evangelist Church in Davison, Michigan
(2008)St. John Parish is one of the largest parishes in Genesee County with just over 8,000 souls. The parish began 135 years ago as a small community and has attempted to retain that “country church” hospitality through its ... -
A Sacramental Preparation Program for Parents
(1992)The proposal for this project surfaced from experiencing past frustration in bringing adults together for any spiritual presentation and facing poor attendance as a result. This project proposes an on-going program for ... -
Saint Malachy Parish Ministry for Early Sacramental Marriages
(2009)My Pastoral concern is “how does one minister appropriately to those couples who are newly married and to those who are beginning their family”? From discussion and personal experience, as young babies require much time ... -
Seeds of Faith: Reflecting Upon the Possibilities of Nurturing the Seeds of our Catholic Faith in an After-school Latchkey Environment
(2006)An opportunity to cultivate such an environment is an after-school latchkey experience which holds at its core a strong Catholic identity. As an option for parents needing after-school care for their children, this program ... -
Seeking God In Our Stories
(1990)The sharing of human experience has the potential to function as an anchor in a dysfunctional world tossed about by change and at a time when humankind is confronted with a pluralism of values, spiritualities, and ... -
Self-Care in Pastoral Ministry: The Challenge of Personal Experience
(2012)My experiences in life have taught me that it is common practice that pastors and caregivers rarely take care of themselves in their bid to minister effectively to others. Therefore, 1 chose this area of my ministerial ... -
Self-care: An Ethic of Responsibility
(1998)Self-care is about understanding our needs and meeting them, it is one of the primary ways we love ourselves, as well as others. The current U.S. health care crisis, at its core, is truly a crisis in self-care--a lack ... -
Setting the Light on a Lampstand: A Process of Theological Reflection for Catechetical Ministers on the Catechetical Aspects of The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
(2005)In 1972, the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops called for the implementation of The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults as the ordinary means by which adults entered into full communion with the Catholic ...