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Jesus, Our Life and Our Salvation: A Confirmation Program for St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, Dallas Georgia
(2009)The pastoral concern this project intends to address is an inadequacy in passing the Catholic faith on to our youth in such a way as to foster a firm knowledge of the faith, a meaningful relationship with God that is ... -
A Journey with a Rural Parish and Its Mission Parish: The Beginnings of Spiritual and Liturgical Renewal Through Created Discipleship
(2004)Nearly a year and a half ago, in June 2003, I decided that whatever my pastoral project was to be, I wanted it to be located in a rural parish where I knew its pastor and its people only casually or not at all. Thus my ... -
Lay Presider Role and Formation
(2002)Lay ministry has been a part of the church from its beginning. Collectively we recognize that we all share in the one priesthood of Christ. We are a priestly people. Ministry is how we exercise that priesthood. Our ... -
A Leadership Training Program for Adult Religious Education Coordinators
(1989)I propose to create a training program for potential adult education coordinators to develop competencies in team formation and program planning. Moreover, since many rural parishes are too small to develop and maintain their ... -
Lectio Divina: 30 Days with Saint Paul’s Spirit
(2012)My work as Pastoral Associate at St. Rita Catholic Church inspired my interest in this topic. I studied St. Paul’s Letters and discovered that there are many good things to learn from St. Paul. These include his conversion ... -
Lectionary Catechesis in an Institution
(1991)Fr. Robert (Bob) Tywoniak, Director of the Catholic Home for Children in the Diocese of Miami, made a request for a volunteer lay minister to establish a religious education program and liturgical service for the children ... -
The Life Story: A Pastoral and Personal Means for Wholeness and Growth
(1991)To increase awareness of story, and particularly one's life as a story, is one of the principal objectives of this project. It is important for a person to express his or her life in the form of a story. One is then ... -
Light and Legacy": A Pastoral Response To Those Facing A Life-Threatening Condition
(1998)My project involved presenting persons who were facing a life-threatening condition with journal-writing skills in and through a series of workshops. So in the next section I analyze a number of factors that contributed ... -
A Light Which Shines in the Darkness: A Process of Theological Reflection For Pastoral and Mental Health Professionals
(2001)My purpose in this project is twofold. First, using a team of chaplains and mental health professionals, I will present an assessment of how well we address spiritual components of mental illness in our inpatient psychiatric ... -
The Liturgy of the Hours: A Two Session Ecumenical Experience of Learning, Reflection and Prayer
(2001)This pastoral project is about passing on the tradition of praying the Liturgy of the Hours. Passing on tradition is a basic human activity. In fact, not only we humans, but also all of creation pass on our traditions ... -
The Liturgy of the Hours: Prayer and Community
(2001)In trying to understand the purpose and function of the Divine office one can overlook an important but subtle double meaning. The Liturgy of the Hours is called the Prayer of the Church not only because it is traditional, ... -
Liturgy of the Word Adapted for Children
(1988)Liturgical celebrations at church, in order to be meaningful, must be adapted to the participants. One of the main liturgical celebrations people participate in is the Eucharistic Liturgy. The need for children’s liturgy ... -
A Living Sacrifice: Becoming What We Receive at Mass
(2004)I am designing my project for Holy Family Catholic Church in Rockford, Illinois for the purpose of deepening the understanding and strengthening the appreciation of the Eucharist at Mass. There 1s a growing awareness ... -
The Long Defeat: Meeting the Spiritual and Emotional Needs of Caregivers of Chronically Ill Children
(2005)My pastoral project is focused on caregivers for children with chronic and severe health conditions. The particular nature of the chronic health conditions of the children varies, but they all need virtually continuous ... -
Looking for a Balance in High School Religious Education
(1992)An early Christian mystic once responded to a question his disciples inquired of him as he was preparing to leave for an extended solitary retreat in the desert. “Whence shall we say you've gone if they ask for you in ... -
Made in God's Image: The Stations of the Cross for Inclusive and Affirming Communities
(2007)While the Eucharistic celebration is the main place where we meet as a Christian community, there are other communal devotions we can use to help us do some introspective growth so that when we actually do come to the ... -
Making the Decision to Refer: Spiritual Directors Look at the Potential Need for Counseling
(2001)During the course of a spiritual direction relationship it sometimes becomes necessary for a director to suggest to a directee that she or he seek assistance from a psychotherapist in addition to or, in extreme cases, ... -
Management of the Grief-Care Continuum for Those Dealing with Dying and Death Issues in a Pastoral Setting
(1995)Develop and implement a working resource center at St. Joseph Medical Center (an Ancilla system Catholic hospital) in Fort Wayne Indiana to support the ecumenical lay Bereavement Minister training program of the hospital’s ... -
Mary and the Rosary: Reflections on the Journey to Jesus with Mary
(2005)Promoting devotion to Mary is essential. So many people do not know her. Others misunderstand her and what it means to honor her. Still others have lost the connection they once had with her. Reflecting on Mary with ... -
Mary: An Ecumenical Bridge
(2006)The topic of my paper is ecumenical, as is my project. It takes piace within the First United Methodist Church in Beloit, Wisconsin. My paper talks about how I taught a group of fifteen elderly United Methodists what ...