EVENTS, Etc.
EAST
**** National Representative Council - the next
monthly meeting of the Council will be held on October
16th at Our Lady Help of Christians, Newton, MA.
**** VOTF Christmas Cards - Order your VOTF
Christmas Cards, sponsored by the Winchester, MA Area
VOTF! All proceeds will benefit the Lighthouse, a resource
center in Boston for survivors of clergy abuse. Please
place your order by October 31 if at all possible. The
four designs were produced by artists in our affiliate.
The back of each card will have a little information
about the Lighthouse and also invite people to learn
more about VOTF by visiting the national site. A PDF
version of our order form with pictures of each of the
cards is available on the first page of our local web-site
(www.votfwinchester.org).
****James Carroll will be speaking 10/21/03
at 7:30 PM at the Parish Center for the Arts, on the
corner of Lincoln St. and Boston Rd. (across from the
common) in Westford, MA. This is being sponsored by
the Westford-Chelmsford Area Parish Voice. All are welcome.
**** Lighthouse Movie Night Wednesday, October 22
to benefit Lighthouse, a safe house and resource
center for victims of clergy sexual abuse established
in East Boston by a Catholic lay couple. West Newton
Cinema.
****Saturday, October 25 - Paul Lakeland, lay
theologian from Fairfield University speaking on "Vatican
II: Back to the Future." Rivier College, Nashua NH
****Saturday, October 25 - Tri-State Conference
sponsored by NY, NJ, CT VOTF "Being
Catholic in the 21st Century." (http://www.votf.org/octconference/index.html)
****Monday, October 27 - Boston Priests Forum.
At St. Eulalia's Parish, 50 Ridge Street, Winchester,
MA, Frs. Robert Bullock, John McGinty, Austin Fleming
and John Mahoney of the Boston Priests' Forum will be
speaking to the Winchester Area VOTF. Svea Fraser of
VOTF will also be present.
**** October 26th - Jim Post, President of VOTF,
to speak at the first VOTF of Fall River Diocese Mass
for all members (& non-members). All members of VOTF,
particularly those in the Fall River Diocese (as well
as non-members), are invited to celebrate Mass together
and hear Jim Post, president of Voice of the Faithful,
speak on October 19th from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at
the Sandwich High School auditorium. This location (exit
3 of Route 6) was selected due to its availability as
well as its location, about equi-distant for the South
Coast PV affiliate and the Lower Cape PV in the Orleans/Brewster
area. This evening presents an excellent opportunity
for members from around the diocese to meet and speak
with each other, and join together at the Lord's table.
The cost of the auditorium will be approximately $500.
Those who attend, please consider contributing about
$5. JCBoydVOTF@hotmail.com,
**** VOTF of Fall River Diocese General Meeting
- meeting of Fall River Diocesan Leadership Council
- Please plan to attend the September 24th meeting at
7:15 p.m. meeting at the Upper Commons room at Cape
Cod Community College, which is the next meeting of
the VOTF Fall River Diocesan Leadership Council. This
meeting is open to all. Among matters planned to be
discussed will be the appointment of temporary officers
handling the duties of the Regional Coordinator as outlined
in previous emails (i.e., coordinator east, coordinator
west, press representative, member communications).
**** Wellesley Working Group Meetings begin
the SECOND Tuesday in October, the 14th. St. John the
Evangelist Church, Wellesley, MA. Our Open Forum (known
as our Plenary Meetings in the past) will be the 4th
Tuesday, October 28 at St. John's. For further information,
please contact jfmcconville@comcast.net.
**** Don't forget the Boston College "Church in
the 21st Century" Program. To learn more, call 617-552-0470
or visit www.bc.edu/church21/programs/ for a full list
of lectures and events.
SOUTH
****Paul Lakeland will speak on "The Crisis in the
Church: The Unhealed Wound," on Sunday, October
21, 7:30 pm at Cathedral of the Incarnation, Fleming
Hall, Nashville, TN. The talk is hosted by the VOTF
Nashville affiliate. The presenter will be Dr. Eugene
Kennedy, one of the nation's most respected authors
on religious topics and a frequent contributor to the
New York Times. A former priest and a confidant of Cardinal
Bernardin, Kennedy is a professor of psychology at Loyola
University of Chicago and an essayist, a novelist and
biographer. Seating limited. Admission is free.
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