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Luisa Saffiotti, presenter, Philadelphia, May 2017 -
Relaxing at ForMission, January 2017 -
National Catholic Sisters Week at CTU, March 2017 -
For Mission input session, January 2017 -
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Continuing the Conversations, San Antonio, March 2017 -
Eucharist, For Mission, January 2017 -
Pio Estepa, SVD, presenter ForMission, January 2017
Associate Director Position Opening at RFC
The position of Associate Director of the Religious Formation Conference will be open after the conclusion of the RFC’s National Congress in November 2017. To ensure continuity in this significant role, the Conference is now beginning a search for a new Associate Director who will assume this position in January 2018. The job description and application process are available here.
InFormation Bulletin
In This Issue:
- A Message from the Executive Director
- Community: The Essence of Religious Life
- Book review
- RFC Congress 2017
- RFC Programs
- Formation Resources
- Take Note
- Excerpt from Mine the Harvest
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)...
Remember...
The Mary Daniel Turner ScholarshipThe 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
Did you catch the RFC’s new logo in the upper left corner of this page?
The Religious Formation Conference is delighted to launch its new logo. The fruit of months of reflection and conversation, the logo symbolizes the RFC’s commitment to engage in the unfolding of religious life, a process captured in the logo’s fluid, dynamic, open design.
We hope this eye-catching and inviting logo will draw viewers to celebrate the gift religious life is to our world and to our church and commit themselves to fostering its flourishing, through each one’s ongoing formation and through the ministry of religious formation, for generations to come. The logo will be formally presented to Conference members at the RFC’s national meeting during Congress 2017.
The Board of Directors of the Religious Formation Conference is pleased to announce that Mary Pat Garvin, RSM, Ph. D., will be the 2017 recipient 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.
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.
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.
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.
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