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The Council of Women Religious for the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina |
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Council of Religious Meeting
Minutes
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Present: Sisters Mary Ann Czaja, Barbara Marie Cady, Marilyn Winters, Joanna Walsh, Margaret Gallagher, Mary Jean Korejwo Absent: Sisters Mary Therese Brown, Joan Jurski Opening prayer: Sr. Joanna Minutes: accepted as written Enrichment Day, Sr. Doris Klein, September 18th. a) Place: Fallon Center, Our Lady of Lourdes b) Food: provided by Mary Judas the caterer for the center c) Further publicity: Mary Ann will check to see if a newpaper ad is possible Joanna will contact the Resource Center for Women in the South Margaret will contact Vicars of Religious in Charlotte and Richmond Diocese d) Mary Jean will handle registration and get names from Diocesan Registrar e) Joanna will get name tags f) Barbara Marie will introduce and thank Sr. Doris g) Mary Ann will check with Doris to see if she or we will provide the opening and closing prayer. Jubilee Day: a) Date: Feb. 5, 2005 Sacred Heart Cathedral …. 11a.m. liturgy b) Jubilarians we know so far: Golden: Srs. Marilyn Winter, Mary Alice Mooney, Rita Perl, Ruth Perl; 40 years – Mary Margaret Weber c) Sisters Janet and Mary Margaret offered to help with the Jubilee d) Theme will be based on the theme for the World Day of Consecrated Life e) Mary Jean will design the invitations Vocation Committee: A woman from St. Michael's Cary, who is in charge of fostering vocations, had expressed an interest in meeting with Sr. Joanna regarding vocation promotion. Goals of the Council: a) Msgr. Shugrue has formed a new committee which appears to be an attempt to develop more collaboration between groups in the diocese and diocesan offices; to support each other; and no overlap b) This committee has not met yet; but in the report to Msgr. last month, Mary Ann and Barbara Marie mentioned that, even though our Enrichment Day has been on the Diocesan Calendar for 2 years, another group scheduled a major activity on the same day. c) Because the Council is only 8 members … we will spend the next meeting looking at - how do we structure the Council with fewer members? how can we best network and communicate? how can we be open to where we are? what do we see as our place in the diocese? how will be articulate this for the new bishop? Mary Jean will send a list of Council Members to Ruby for the “Blue Book.” Retirement Fund for Religious: a) Stats worthy of reflection … 692 Religious Communities send information to the National Office. On these …. 139 are able to fund less than 20% of their retirement needs 314 are able to fund between 20 and 80% 239 are able to fund over 80%. Of the 195 diocese in the US …. 175 do the appeal and 8 do local appeals b) The Collection will end after the 2007 collection. New Business: a) Barbara Marie will continue as co-chair for the next 6 months; and they evaluate this in light of her new position as a Community Counselor b) Mary Jean will take minutes as serve as treasurer c) Marilyn and Mary Jean will pen a letter from Council to Bishop Gossman in support of his “love stance” on the issue of communion to politicians who disagree with church teachings. Next meeting: Wednesday, Nov. 10th, 1 p.m. at the Catholic Center(Mary Ann will check on a place for the meeting) |
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