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April 2017
Everywhere we look we hear and read about social media in its many forms: website, blog, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, etc. What are these applications all about? How might they be useful for vocation ministry? What are some novel ways that congregations are using social media today? Presenter Fr. Toby Collins, CR webmaster for vocationculture.ca Information 11 am Eastern Time Call in: 800-747-5150 Access Code: 5374264
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What is Camino? It is a team of young religious women and men who came together to guide and facilitate an inter-community group on vocational discernment. Who can be interested by the activities of this group? The activities are for anyone who has questions on consecrated life, whether it is about consecrated laity, religious life, diaconate or priesthood. The Camino group exists to accompany women and men who desire to deepen their vocational discernment. What does Camino proposes? 6 monthly…
Find out moreA Christian ecological event! The next Green Churches Forum will be held on May 11 at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. The theme of our Forum is "Celebrating the Spirit of Creation". We want to celebrate in conjunction with the celebrations taking place throughout the National Capital for Canada's 150th anniversary. As believers we see Creation manifested in abundance in our home and native land. This event will be like a thanksgiving for the beauty and greatness of God's work from…
Find out moreThe Catholic Press Association (CPA) invites you to join them on Thursday, May 18, at 2 pm ET, for a Catholic Academy - CPA webinar. The guest speaker will be Alex Goncalves, associate researcher at the MIT Center for Civic Media and a lecturer and doctoral student at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. This webinar will present helpful tools for analyzing news and the social media conversation. We will focus especially on capturing and studying data from Google, Twitter and…
Find out moreYou are warmly invited to participate in an interfaith conference on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to be held at Westmount High School on Saturday, May 20, 2017. The UN Indigenous Declaration, adopted in 2007 and affirmed by Canada in 2016, “is the most comprehensive international human rights instrument to specifically address their economic, social, cultural, political, civil, spiritual and environmental rights.” Canada’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission specifically called upon churches and governments to adopt…
Find out more“Communication for Religious: challenges and resources” Meeting with Nicholas Schafer, Executive Director of Communicators for Women Religious Meeting in PRESENCE Rome, 29 May 2017 From 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. (9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Eastern Time) The meeting will be at the UISG Headquarters. It will be in English and Italian. UISG Piazza di Ponte Sant'Angelo, 28 00186 Rome ITALY Tel.: +39 066840020 E-mail: comunicazione@uisg.org Website: www.internationalunionsuperiorsgeneral.org To register online, click here. Meeting in STREAMING For the STREAMING, click the following link: http://bit.ly/2r3pMZ7
Find out moreJune 2017
What is Camino? It is a team of young religious women and men who came together to guide and facilitate an inter-community group on vocational discernment. Who can be interested by the activities of this group? The activities are for anyone who has questions on consecrated life, whether it is about consecrated laity, religious life, diaconate or priesthood. The Camino group exists to accompany women and men who desire to deepen their vocational discernment. What does Camino proposes? 6 monthly…
Find out more“Even as the quality of available water is constantly diminishing, in some places there is a growing tendency, despite its scarcity, to privatize this resource, turning it into a commodity subject to the laws of the market. Yet access to safe drinkable water is a basic and universal human right, since it is essential to human survival and, as such, is a condition for the exercise of other human rights.” SPEAKERS ELDER JOSEPHINE MANDAMIN Ojibwe Grandmother and Water Walker MAUDE…
Find out moreLegal Education for leadership of religious institutes and their lay collaborators An updated program offering instruction in the contemporary context on the main aspects of canon law and certain aspects of civil law affecting consecrated life. It is meant for present and future leadership teams and lay persons working in the administration and management of institutes of religious life or societies of apostolic life. Accommodations are available on the Saint Paul University campus: Saint Paul Residence Participants may also take advantage…
Find out moreIt is fair to say that there is a multiplicity of worlds, when speaking of young people, not a single one. Presentation Online formation for UISG Members using gotomeeting platform: you just need a computer, an internet connection, a microphone and webcam (optional). This formation is a Web-based seminar. A webinar is an educational and informative presentation that is made available online in real-time. This formation is offered in English only. Objectives Test the online platform as a formation space…
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