PRIEST CONVOCATIONS, STUDY DAYS AND RETREATS
SOME OF THE DIOCESES WHERE
I HAVE SCHEDULED PRESENTATIONS........
Dubuque, San Diego, San Francisco, Kansas City MO, Tulsa, Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Winona, Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Davenport, Indianapolis, Norwich, Youngstown, Louisville, Green Bay, Tulsa Evansville, Gary, Lexington, Buffalo, Owensboro, NFPC (USA) Convention, St. Augustine, Columbus, Toledo, Chicago, Saginaw, Kansas City KS, New York, Grand Rapids, Hartford, Belleville, Boston, Salt Lake City, Reno, Portland ME, Sacramento, Trenton. Fresno, Springfield ILL, Houston-Galveston, Richmond, Savannah, Knoxville, Lafayette IND, New Orleans, Tuam in Ireland, Cardiff in Wales, Winnipeg (Manitoba), Bridgeport, Trenton II, Nassau, Little Rock, Salina, Joliet, Baton Rouge, Ogdensburg, Metuchen, USCCB Bishops Spring Meeting (Florida), Baltimore, Atlanta, Dodge City, Priests in Their First Ten Years Conference (Province of Ontario, 2013) New Ulm, San Jose, San Bernardino, London (Ontario), Lansing, Des Moines, Boston II, Saskatoon-Prince Albert BC, NFPC (Canada) Convention, Monastic Retreat St. Meinrad Archabbey, Jefferson City, Bishops of Catholic Extension Society (Chicago), Pittsburgh, Toronto I and II, Oklahoma City, Hamilton (Ontario), Denver, Memphis I and II, Beaumont (Texas) I and II, Canon Law Society Convention (Pittsburgh), Monastic Retreat St. Benedict Abbey (Kansas) Kamloops BC, Kingston (Ontario), Victoria BC, Monterrey (California), Nelson BC, Regina (Saskatchewan), Scranton I and II (Pennsylvania), Corner Brook-Labrador (Newfoundland), Sault Ste. Marie (Ontario). Portland (Oregon), Pembroke (Ontario), Kingstown (St. Vincent and the Grenadines I,II and III), Ikot Ekpene (Nigeria) and Port Harcourt (Nigeria) (under consideration).
SOME PHOTOS - STARTING WITH THE MOST RECENT
Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania
GROUP I - September 2015
GROUP II - April 2016
The Priest Planning Committee - Msgr. David Bohr, Chairman, on the right.
SKYTOP LODGE
We met at Skytop Lodge in the Pocono Mountains. They have @100 priests. Half came this year and I will go back to give the same material to the other half. My topic, here and most places, is "The Powerful Spiritual Leadership of a Unified Presbyterate," a conference on priests working together as a team with the bishop to deliver high quality service to the members of the Church. Like most dioceses, they usually choose a restful get-away place. They certainly hit the mark here.
Skytop Lodge was completed in 1928 as a resort for the rich and famous.
Skytop Lobby of the Lodge
On the left, Bishop Joseph Bambera, Bishop of Scranton
A Typical Conference Room Set-up
Bishop Bambera celebrating Mass with his priests.
SOME FORMER CONVOCATIONS
Archdiocese of Toronto, Canada
There are 834 priests, three auxiliary bishops, 559 Sisters, 131 Deacons, 52 Brothers and 1,853,582 Catholics in the Archdiocese of Toronto. Cardinal Thomas Collins is the archbishop. I led their 2013 convocation in two one-week segments. Cardinal Collins invited me back to lead their 2014 convocation. I did two more one-week segments and, at his request, stayed another week to present the material from 2013 to his seminarians at St. Augustine Seminary. We were joined by the seminarians from the Neocatechmenal Way seminary, Redemptoris Mater Seminary, which is next door to St. Augustine Seminary. Before I agreed to coming back in 2014, I asked Cardinal Collins to come to St. Meinrad. To my surprise, he agreed. He gave the prayer day to open the 2014-2015 school year at Saint Meinrad Seminary last September.
Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky
Diocese of San Bernadino, California
Father Saba (from Iraq), Chaldean Catholic Church, Diocese of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
I was invited by Father Saba to join the parish in the rosary on Wednesday night. They prayed the rosary in Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke. Hearing them speak in the language of Jesus was moving indeed. At the end, they asked me to give them a blessing in English, of course!
Diocese of Evansville, Indiana
Diocese of Little Rock, Arkansas
Archdiocese of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Archdiocese of Tuam, Ireland
Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut
Diocese of London, Ontario, Canada
Archdiocese of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
(We met at this old castle, now the St. Pierre Marriott Hotel in Chepstow)
Diocese of Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, WEST INDIES
Archdiocese of Denver Priests met at the Hotel Stanley in
Estes Park, Colorado where the movie, "The Shining," was filmed.
Bishop David John James Monroe of the Diocese of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
