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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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In the Vineyard
October '03
Volume 2, Issue 11

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Jim Post in Arizona

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