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RFC is a national Roman Catholic organization serving religious institutes of women and men with programs and services for those in the ministry of initial and lifelong formation, and general congregational membership.

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Congress 2017

Congress 2017 will meet in Milwaukee, WI, at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center (509 W. Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53203), November 16-18, 2017. Click here for more information.

Life Commitment Program

Registration is now open for the 2017 Life Commitment Program, offered for men and women religious approaching perpetual profession.

RFC Calendar of Events

July 5-13	Life Commitment Program, Leavenworth, KS
August 14	RFC Finance Committee: New Member Orientation, Chicago, IL
October	RFC Finance Committee Meeting, Chicago, IL
November 16-19	Biennial National Congress Grace in the Now: The Gospel of Encounter Milwaukee, WI
16	Pre-Congress Workshops
16-18	Congress
19	Post-Congress Workshop
19-20	RFC Board Meeting
January 6-13, 2018	ForMission Residential Session, San Antonio, TX

RFC webinars will resume in the fall; watch this site for information.

InFormation Bulletin

InFormation Summer 2017

In This Issue:

A Message from the Executive Director
Formation to Passion
Called to be Just a Brother
RFC Congress 2017
Resources for Lifelong Formation
Take Note
The Bright Field

RFC 2016 Annual Report

Some years ago at the end of Eucharist on the feast of Epiphany, children handed out pieces of chalk and rolled-up blessing prayers to everyone in the congregation. We were encouraged to “chalk our doors” using the symbols 20 + C + M + B + 15, with C, M, and B representing both the names of the Magi as well as the Latin phrase: Christus mansionem benedicat (May Christ bless the house). Each year on Epiphany the sisters with whom I was living at that time change the last two digits on the community room doorway blessing to correspond to the current year.

Remember...

The Mary Daniel Turner Scholarship

The Mary Daniel Turner, SNDdeN, Scholarship was established in 2011 to honor the memory of this long-time colleague, mentor, and friend of the Religious Formation Conference. The scholarship supports religious whose congregations are members of the Conference and need some financial assistance in order to participate in RFC programs.

News

Penet Award Recipient announced

The Board of Directors of the Religious Formation is pleased to announce that Mary Pat Garvin, RSM, Ph. D., will be the 2017 of its Mary Emil Penet, IHM, Award. The award, presented at the Conference’s biennial National Congress, honors persons who have made an outstanding contribution to the formation, initial and/or lifelong of vowed religious.

RFC Board welcomes new members

At its April 30-May 2 meeting the RFC Board of Directors welcomed three new Board Members: Richard Hall, OMI, from San Antonio, TX; Elyse Marie Ramirez, OP, from Springfield, IL; and Mary Walsh, CSJ, from Brooklyn, NY. Their terms will run through December 2019.

Planning for the future

Just who is planning for the RFC’s future? We all are! Planning activities flowing from the GHR grant which is funding the RFC’s strategic/emergent planning process have included not only the Steering Committee (pictured), but also the RFC Board and, most important, RFC members.

Visits and Visitors

While at the Mexican American College in San Antonio, TX, in March for an RFC workshop in the series Continuing the Conversations, Ellen Dauwer, SC and Connie Schoen, OP met with a group of women religious to reflect on the need to prepare formators from Spanish-speaking congregations for initial formation in the United States and on the possible collaboration of MACC and the RFC in this regard.