8:00 a.m. Doors Open – Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Welcome, Opening Prayer and Remarks by – Bishop Salvatore Cordileone

9:30 a.m. Presentation - Staying Connected... Being Nourished by My Faith and God, with questions from participants - Fr. Henry Rodriguez

10:15 a.m. Break with refreshments

10:30 a.m. Reflection Sessions (Choose one)

         1. Is the Spirit Alive in Me? Sr. Barbara Quinn, RSCJ
         2. The Sacrament of Reconciliation, is it for Me? - Fr. Bill Springer
         3. Está el Espíritu Vivo en Mí? – Fr. Alexis Foyo, OSB
         4. El Sacramento de Reconciliación, es para mí? – Fr. John Auther, SJ

11:30 a.m. Lunch with presentation by Mother Antonia, “God is Love”

1:00 p.m. Introduction to Healing Rooms and Confessional Spaces

1:15 p.m. Confessions Available (until 3:30 p.m.) and Healing Rooms Open

4:15 p.m. Closing session before Mass – Sr. Margaret Eilerman, CSJO

5:00 p.m. Mass in English

Healing Rooms will Include:
The Counseling Room
The Semi-Quiet Room
Eucharistic Adoration
Creative Outlet Room
Healing Touch Room
Total Quiet room
Health and Community Resource Room
Quiet Visitation Room (with refreshments)
 

Light for the Way, A Lenten Day of Renewal for
Men and Women Living with HIV or AIDS
Saturday, April 1, 2006
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church
4177 Marlborough Ave., San Diego

There is no charge for this event.  Seating will be limited to 60, so please register early.
 
To register online visit:  www.osmelink.org/registration
 
An event brochure is available online: www.osmelink.org/retreat.pdf

For more information, or to register by phone call: Joseph Horejs at the OSM: 858-490-8323
 
 

Number 3:  Second Notice: Catholic Lobby Day in Sacramento  -  Join the OSM staff (Linda, Jim, Joseph and Kent) and 30 other parishioners at the 8th annual Catholic Lobby Day at the Capitol in Sacramento on Tuesday, April 25, 2006


Special Notice:

Roundtrip fares from San Diego to Sacramento have dropped from $202 to $120.

 

We will join with more than 1,200 other Catholics from across the State in Sacramento to pray (entire group attends Mass), sing, march, have lunch, and then visit our State Assembly Members and State Senators.  It's been called "quite a day," making past participants very proud to be Catholic and willing to make their voices heard by those in power.

It's a long day but a very rewarding one.  Please check out the schedule below.

 Schedule for Catholic Lobby Day
Tuesday, April 25, 2006

2. Call the Office for Social Ministry at 858-490-8323 or email us at reportback@diocese-sdiego.org  to let us know that you have made your reservation and provide us with your address and e-mail address.

3.  Attend one planning meeting at the Pastoral Center where we will decide upon the issues to be taken to Sacramento and learn more about individual legislators and legislative visits.  The planning meetings will be scheduled for mid-April.  You will be able to choose between a 1:00 p.m. and a 7:00 p.m. meeting.

4. Meet at the San Diego Airport about 5:30 a.m. on April 25, 2006 at the Southwest gate area for flight SW 2300.

That's it!

Catholic Lobby Day will be a gathering of people of faith raising their voices in "sincere dialogue... and with anxious interest... seeking the common good." [Vatican II] 

For the eighth consecutive year, the California Catholic Conference (CCC) is hosting Catholics from all over California who are interested in exercising their "faithful citizenship" in their state's Capitol.  The OSM and the CCC welcomes all who are interested in meeting with elected officials to speak on behalf of those who are poor, vulnerable or voiceless.

Eighth Annual Catholic Lobby Day
Tuesday, April 2, 2006, 6:30 a.m. to 7:50 p.m.
San Diego to Sacramento and back SW #2300 and SW #1975
Depart from the San Diego Airport

For information or questions about Catholic Lobby Day, contact Kent Peters at 858-490-8323.

Number 4:   Downtown Walking Stations of the Cross...  The Ecumenical Council of San Diego will sponsor the 15th Annual Good Friday Walk with the Suffering/Stations of the Cross on Friday, April 14, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the County Health Building, 1700 Pacific Highway in Downtown San Diego.

Students from the Academy of Our Lady of Peace and St. Augustine High School will depict Jesus and the women and soldiers who followed Him to Calvary as the walk participants stop at several public institutions in the downtown area to reflect and pray for those who are suffering in our community today—those in need of affordable housing and a living wage, immigrants and refugees, domestic violence victims, prisoners and victims of crime, the environment, those at the beginning and the end of life, those afflicted with mental illness or substance abuse.

Among those organizations invited to participate are Kairos Prison Ministry, St. Augustine High School, St. Vincent de Paul Village , Center for Urban Ministry, Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, San Diego Organizing Project, Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Inter-Denominational Ministerial Alliance, Academy of Our Lady of Peace, Point Loma Nazarene University’s Center for Justice and Reconciliation and others.

Participants will stop at the County Administration Building, State Office Building, County Courthouse, Federal Building, Metropolitan Correction Center, Horton Plaza, and Broadway Pier , concluding at the Harbor Drive entrance to the County Administration Building.  Limited free parking will be available on the north side of the County Health Building adjacent to Grape St.

14th Annual Downtown Stations of the Cross
Friday, April 14, 2005, 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Meet at 1700 Pacific Highway
Downtown San Diego

For more information, phone (619)238-0649 or (619)384-6852.

Number 5:   Pro-life Stations of the Cross on April 14th,  from Noon to 1:00 p.m.  in front of the Federal Building and U.S. Courhouse on 940 Front Street (at Broadway) in Downtown San Diego.   Join the pro-life community as it remembers the nearly 44 million unborn children that have been aborted since 1973.

Please join us as we publicly plead for the lives of the innocent unborn while recalling the sufferings of the innocent Jesus.

Though innocent, Jesus is condemned by the power of the State.  In like manner, our innocent brothers and sisters in the womb have been condemned.  Their dignity and rights are neither recognized nor defended.  In this, they bear a special likeness to Jesus. 

"And there followed Him a great multitude of people, and of women, who bewailed and lamented Him.  But Jesus turning to them said: "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over Me; but weep for yourselves and your children.  For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have not born, and the breasts that have not given suck."   St. Luke 23:27-29

We will pray for the unborn, for their mothers and fathers, for our lawmakers, for our courts, for women who have been harmed by abortion, for our families, for the Church, and for a resurrection of moral truth in our country.

1st Annual Pro-Life Stations of the Cross
Friday, April 14, 2006, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
In front of the Federal Building
Front Street and Broadway, Downtown San Diego

Arrive early for metered parking in the area. Carpooling is recommended.

For more information contact Sue Lopez at: 619-276-7525.

Number 6:   Safe Place Faith Communities (SPFC), an interfaith association of six congregations offering domestic-violence assistance  to their own members, is holding two informational sessions on May 3, 2006, one morning - one evening.   Join the SPFC member congregations to explore establishing a relationship violence outreach in your own faith community

For the past 16 months, five congregations in San Diego County have been participating in an interfaith pilot project called Safe Place Faith Communities (SPFC).  In the SPFC program, small teams from each congregation were provided basic relationship-violence training, community domestic violence service agencies were brought on as partners, and these teams were publicized within their own congregations as being available to assist those who were experiencing relationship violence or who simply had questions about relationship violence. 

Those five congregations are: St. Pius X of San Diego, St. Matthew's Episcopal of National City, Chula Vista Congregational Church, Christ the King of San Diego, and St. Peters of Fallbrook.  A sixth congregation was added this month - First United Methodist Church of Chula Vista.

In 2005, within one SPFC congregation, 18 individuals or families were assisted in the areas of: elder abuse, spousal abuse, teen violence, and child abuse.  Members of this congregation: developed safety plans, were referred to community domestic violence agencies for services, began counseling, and initiated regular contacts with congregational service providers.  What have we learned?  Members of faith communities will turn to their own faith community for help, and that’s good news.

Attend one of two informational sessions on Wednesday, May 3, 2006, to learn more about SPFC as it assists congregations in this important work.  Identical information will be presented at each meeting.