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Reports- Peterborough Diocese
| Report to
Convention Jul/09 |Annual
Report (2008)|
Report to Convention
July 2009
Diocesan President: Virginia Lynch
The Peterborough Diocesan Catholic
Women’s League members
have been living out the Provincial theme “Women of Peace and Hope:
Rooted in
Faith” and our Diocesan theme, “Women of Peace and Hope: Seek, and Ye
Shall
Find”, throughout 2009 in various ways. We came together as “Women of
Peace and
Hope: Rooted in Faith” at our February “Elections Workshop” where
Honorary Life
Member Lucille Cullen facilitated the workshop for us. Our day began
with a
brief Executive Meeting wherein we collectively planned the events and
budget
for the coming year.
Our 88th Annual Diocesan Convention on
May 3rd and 4th, at
the Evinrude Centre in Peterborough
was another outstanding opportunity for our members to get together for
a time
of “faith, fellowship and fulfillment”. Our Convention theme was “Women
of
Peace and Hope: Growing in Faith”. We introduced a wonderful new
“Adopt-a-Seminarian”
project at the Convention—fitting wonderfully with the current “Year of
the
Priest”. We were blessed to have over 200 members registered for the
Convention
and to have Bishop De Angelis attend, and far more Spiritual Advisors
and
priests in attendance than in recent memory.
Members also had an opportunity as
“Women of Peace and Hope:
Rooted in Faith” to participate in our Spiritual Development Day on
June 6th.
Our Diocesan Spiritual Development Chair, Paddy Fitzgerald-Nolan
coordinated
our program for the day on the teachings of St.
Paul.
Fellow officers and members from our diocese assisted throughout the
day by
sharing in the readings and their interpretations of bible passages.
Members will have another opportunity
to demonstrate how
they are “Women of Peace and Hope: Rooted in Faith” through the
opportunity to
participate in our “Project Outreach” event on “Bioethics and End of
Life Care”
taking place on September 26th in Bowmanville. Sr. Mary Rowell,
Bioethicist and
Stephen Kylie, a local Catholic lawyer, will be the facilitators for
this very
informative and pertinent day of learning for us. This day will provide
an
excellent opportunity to live out our Diocesan theme, “Women of Peace
and Hope:
Seek, and Ye Shall Find”, as we collectively strive to seek out answers
we have
on these very topical issues. This day of learning also fits
wonderfully as the
keynote event for our National initiative highlighting palliative care.
Our main goals for the next year—as
last year—are to
increase the spiritual opportunities for all of our Catholic Women’s
League
members, and to strive for better communication with all Catholic
Women’s
League members in our diocese.
The 2008 Peterborough Diocesan Report
is printed on page 44
of the 2008 Provincial Annual Report Book.
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Annual
Report 2008
Diocesan President: Virginia A. Lynch Spiritual
Advisor: Fr. Thomas Lynch
Members:
2,177
Life Members: 9
Councils: 31
“And I say unto you, Ask, and it
shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be
opened unto you.” (Luke 11:9)
• On January 9, the diocesan officers and one life
member attended a “voluntary” Spiritual Retreat at the Spirituality
Centre in Peterborough
• Bishop Nicola De Angelis appointed Rev. Thomas
Lynch as the 16th Peterborough Diocesan Catholic Women’s League
Spiritual Advisor on January 22nd
• President attended the winter provincial executive
meeting in Toronto in February
• President attended the 75th Anniversary of St. John
and Missions in Kirkfield on April 5th
• 148 were registered for the 87th Annual Diocesan
Convention hosted by Powassan parish council; held at the Clarion
Resort in North Bay on Sunday, and in Powassan on Monday
• 48 members attended our first Spiritual Development
Day on May 10 hosted by Otonabee/Keene parish council; our speakers
were Fr. Stan Chu Ilo speaking on “Christian Morality”, and Fr. Joseph
Devereaux speaking on “The Role of Women in the Church”
• Attended the 50th anniversary of Holy Angels parish
council in Brighton on May 25th
• Almost 30 members attended the Spiritual
Development Day on June 7 hosted by Lakefield parish council; our
Diocesan Spiritual Advisor, Fr. Tom Lynch spoke on the Pope’s
encyclicals
• President attended and represented the diocese at
the provincial convention in Arnprior in July hosted by Pembroke
diocese, other members of the diocese also attended
• President attended and represented the Diocese at
the WUCWO Conference and National Convention in Winnipeg in August, one
other member of the diocese also attended
• President attended SONfest in Lindsay and set up a
display on the Catholic Women’s League
• On September 9th, the officers attended a voluntary
spiritual retreat facilitated by Paddy Fitzgerald-Nolan, Diocesan
Spiritual Development Chair, on “Small Christian Communities”
• Two leadership training workshops were held in
September on the “Annual Report Forms”, hosting councils were
Bracebridge (Sept. 13th) and Hastings (Sept. 27th); 65 members attended
the workshops which were co-facilitated by Shari Guinta, Provincial
President-elect, and Virginia Lynch, Diocesan President
• Attended the 75th anniversary of St. Mary parish
council in Grafton on September 27th
• President participated in the fall provincial
executive meeting in Toronto, October 16-18th
• President attended the 30th anniversary of St.
Francis of Assisi, Newcastle on October 19th
• 88th Diocesan Convention theme, “Women of Peace and
Hope: Growing in Faith” selected by the diocesan officers in December
2008.
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