Convention News 2012 - Rockville Centre

Program Speakers and Topics:

Most Reverend William Murphy, Bishop of Rockville Centre –
Keynote Address: “A Bishop Reflects on His Experience with Permanent Deacons"

Dr. Peter Williamson – General Session #1: Preparing Men for the Ministry of Wordin Light of Verbum Domini”

Dr. Scott Hahn –General Session #2:“What is our message?
Lessons learned from Pope Benedict on the Bible and the Eucharist
for the New Evangelization”

Reverend W. Shawn McKnight, Executive Director of the Secretariat on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations– Report: “News from CCLV”

Deacon Gerald DuPont –Workshop: “Models of Assigning Deacons Beyond
the Presumptions – Practical Considerations”

Gerald Rauch –Workshop: “Diaconal Pastoral Counseling in Light of the Operation of the Virtues and the Power of the Word of God”

Reverend Monsignor Peter Vaccari –Workshop: “The Permanent Diaconate and the New Evangelization”

Deacon Joseph Michalak – Workshop:“Surely One Vocation Does Not Destroy the Other; The Prudential Integration of Marriage and Holy Orders”

Dr. Edward Hogan –Workshop: “Lectio Divina as Constitutive for Human, Spiritual, and Pastoral Formation"

Deacon Steve Swope –Workshop: “Implementing an Effective Mentoring Program for Candidates and the Newly Ordained”

Deacon Kevin McCormack – Workshop:“Dei Verbum: In light of the fact my
daughter has just pierced her nose, my plumbing is backed up, and I’m preaching
at the 8 o’clock Mass”

Sister Joy Castiglione, O.P. –Workshop: “Deepening Your Relationship with God”