Advent Parish Staff Retreat
December 8th – St. Jerome’s, Phoenix* Map
(Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception will be available at 8:30am)
December 10th – St. Anne’s, Gilbert* Map
December 11th – Sacred Heart, Prescott Map
*English & Spanish offered at these locations.
Register your Parish Staff Download Flyer (Espanol)
Schedule of Day Meet the Speakers
Overview
The Department of Family Catechesis invites your parish staff to a day of inspiration and renewal that will bring new life to the ministry of each staff member.
For the entire Parish Staff: Pastors, Parochial Vicars, Clergy, Deacons, DRE’s, Youth Evangelization Leaders, Pastoral Care Workers, RCIA Coordinators, Liturgists, Music Directors, Receptionists, Office Managers, Maintenance & Facility workers and all who work in the parish.
Goals
The Advent Parish Staff Retreat seeks to offer Pastors an opportunity to support their staffs in faith formation and enrichment by:
1) Creating an opportunity for Parish Staffs to pray together.
2) Offering dynamic speakers who can help staff members grow in thier love of Christ and service to His Church.
3) Offering staff development time to reflect on how Parish staffs can more effectively evangelize and serve their parish community.
For Pastors
Your parish staff is an integral part of how people connect to the Church
and build a deep relationship with Christ. For this reason the formation and enrichment of Parish Staffs is a central aspect of parish evangelization and catechesis.
"For most Catholics, the parish is their primary experience of the Church...
The parish, then, provides the place, persons, and means to summon and sustain adults in lifelong conversion of heart, mind, and life. It is, "without doubt, the most important locus in which the Christian community is formed and expressed.”
- 116-117 Our Hearts Were Burning Within Us, USCCB 1999
Certfication
4 CEU's are offered for those who attend the entire Retreat.
Event Co-Sponsored by:
For more information, please contact Ryan Hanning
at 602-354-2321 or email him at rhanning@diocesephoenix.org.
Meet the Speakers
English Presenter:
Fr. William Parker is a Redemptorist priest, and is currently the director of the Redemptorists’ Desert House of Prayer in Tucson. Former editor and chief of Ligourian Magazine he is a well known author and frequent contributor to Liguorian and to Ligouri’s new Journey into the Bible Series. An accomplished Biblical Scholar Fr. Parker has degrees in Biblical Studies and Semitic Languages from The Catholic University of America. He has been both associate pastor and pastor and has conducted numerous parish Bible-study programs, as well as university courses. His unique talent of taking scripture and helping ordinary people understand it and apply it in their lives is demonstrated in his new books Scripture 101: An Intro to Reading the Bible.
Spanish Presenter:
Fr. Tom Enneking has been a Crosier priest
fro 25 years. Since his ordination on June 9, 1984, Fr. Tom has served as a parish pastor, including at Holy Cross Parish in Onamia, Minn. He was a vocations director for six years, immersed himself in Hispanic and prison ministry, which he continues today in Phoenix, Ariz., led formation programs for Crosiers in the United States and Brazil and is serving in a number of leadership positions, including on the Crosier Provincial Council. Well verse in Sacred Scripture Fr. Bill has taught several classes for KINO's Agua Viva.
Schedule
9:00am: Coffee, Doughnuts & Bagels
9:30am: Session 1: Scripture, Tradition & Prayer
10:30am: Session 2: Lectio Divina:
God’s Word in our Lives
12:00pm: Lunch & Staff Time
1:00pm: Staff Activity
1:30pm: Closing Presentations
