Issue #264 – December 18, 2017
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1. Executive Director’s Reflection *
2. Blessings of Christmas and New Year to all of you from your NACC staff! *
3. Remembering our NACC member Sr. Tita Lapeyre, BCC-S, who recently died. *
4. A big THANK YOU to all who contributed to NACC 2017 Annual Campaign, and last opportunity to give in 2017! *
5. News of our USCCB Episcopal Liaison and our Episcopal Advisory Council *
6. In Vision: Ministering to families in the emergency department *
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
APC/NACC 2018 CONFERENCE, Thursday, July 12, to Sunday, July 15, 2018!
For more information about the Conference go to:
https://www.nacc.org/conference/
CHAPLAINCY NEWS, EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUPPORTS
7. Have you visited the new Transforming Chaplaincy website? *
8. In case you did not see these resources *
9. Healing Tree: a request for prayers *
10. Recent job postings *
1. Executive Director’s Reflection
So here we are, three weeks into Advent, and we just celebrated Gaudete Sunday, when we recognized the joy of this season! Of course, the response to the first reading from Isaiah was Mary’s Magnificat, my soul magnifies the Lord, (Lk 1:46-48, 49-50, 53-54) with this refrain, “rejoice heartily in the Lord, in my God is the joy of my soul…”
These readings had me reflect on what does “rejoice heartily in the Lord” mean? What does magnify look like? Something in me cries out to God to acknowledge God’s greatness, God the beyond who calls me beyond where I am, beyond my narrow view, limited focus, beyond my being absorbed in my immediate circumstances. What does rejoice heartily and magnify the Lord look like?
Our family recently attended a Christmas concert at which the Irish Christian group, We Are Messengers, performed. One of the songs they sang was entitled, Magnify. I was taken by the tune and lyrics, and the passion with which the song was sung. I appreciated the plaintive prayer to see beyond, to away all that consumes one so that one’s heart can be enlarged. Below are the lyrics. I really related to these words:
My sight is incomplete and I’ve made you look small
I’ve been staring at my problems for way too long
Re-align where my hope is set, until you’re all that’s left
But just a glimpse draws my heart to change
And one sight of you lays my sin to waste
I don’t need to see everything just more of you
Here are the song’s lyrics.
http://www.air1.com/music/artists/we-are-messengers/songs/magnify-lyrics.aspx
I’ve been trying to make sense of the sorrow that I feel
Holding on for life to the only thing that’s real
I’ve only scratched the surface, I’ve barely had a taste
But just a glimpse draws my heart to change
And one sight of you lays my sin to waste
I don’t need to see everything just more of you
(chorus)
Take it all, take it all away
Magnify no other name
Open up, open up my eyes
To you
Take it all, take it all away
Magnify no other name
Open up, open up my eyes
To you
My sight is incomplete and I’ve made you look small
I’ve been staring at my problems for way too long
Re-align where my hope is set, until you’re all that’s left
But just a glimpse draws my heart to change
And one sight of you lays my sin to waste
I don’t need to see everything just more of you
(chorus)
Take it all, take it all away
Magnify no other name
Open up, open up my eyes
To you
Take it all, take it all away
Magnify no other name
Open up, open up my eyes
To you
Oh God be greater, than the worries in my life
Be stronger, than the weakness in my mind
Be louder, let your Glory come alive
Be magnified
Oh God be greater, than the worries in my life
Be stronger, than the weakness in my mind
Be louder, let your Glory come alive
Be magnified
(chorus)
Take it all, take it all away
Magnify no other name
Open up, open up my eyes
To you, to you
Take it all, take it all away
Magnify no other name
Open up, open up my eyes
To you, to you
Publishing: © 2015 Dayspring Music, LLC (BMI) / So Essential Tunes, Not Just Another Song Publishing (SESAC) (All rights on behalf of So Essential Tunes and Not Just Another Song Publishing adm. by Essential Music Publishing LLC) Produced by Jonathan Smith & Casey Brown
Writer(s): Darren Mulligan/Casey Brown/Jonathan Smith
Here is a link to the YouTube recording of it. Does it at all reflect your experience of magnify the Lord? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q06Y9X4_DsI
Could I consider this a magnify the Lord song? Does it call me to the source of my deepest joy?
Can this be an expression of my Advent longing or Christmas wish?
Re-align where my hope is set, until you’re all that’s left
But just a glimpse draws my heart to change
And one sight of you lays my sin to waste
I don’t need to see everything just more of you
What do you think?
Blessings on your Advent and Christmas Season,
David Lichter, D.Min.
Executive Director
Blessings of Christmas and New Year to all of you from your NACC staff!
The NACC staff wishes all of you a blessed Christmas and New Year. Our NACC office will be closed Fridays, December 22 and 29, and Mondays, December 25, and January 1, for the holidays. Our next issue of NACC Now will be Monday, January 8, 2018.
3. Remembering our NACC member, Sr. Tita Lapeyre, BCC-S, who recently died.
One of NACC’s wonderful early and impactful leaders, Sr. Anita Louise (Tita) Lapeyre, RSCJ, BCC-S, died December 4, 2017, in Atherton, CA. Sr. Tita was a leader in CPE and NACC Certification. Many of our CPE Certified Educators and Board Certified Chaplains attribute to Tita their early love and commitment to the profession, and are deeply grateful for her persistent and passionate work to improve our certification process for the betterment of the profession and the improvement of our individual ministries. Here is a link to Sr. Tita’s reflection on NACC Certification she offered in the March-April 2015 Vision for our 50th Anniversary. https://www.nacc.org/vision/2015-Mar-Apr/Certification-in-the-NACC-From-two-week-workshop-to-full-professionalism-By-Sr-Anita-Lapeyre/. We were blessed by her presence at our 50th Anniversary Conference in Arlington, VA.
Thank you, Sr. Tita, for the gift of you, and for your gifts to NACC! May God grant you the fullness of peace. https://rscj.org/about/memoriam/sister-anita-louise-tita-lapeyre-rscj
4. A big THANK YOU to all who contributed to NACC 2017 Annual Campaign, and last opportunity to give in 2017!
In the Monday, December 4, 2017, issue of NACC Now we announced that we had received 417 gifts totaling $57,974.50, compared to 483 of gifts totaling $54,277 at this time last year. You might recall that last year we far exceeded ($66,747) our $54,000 goal.
However, when further checking these figures after this announcement, we discovered a couple of mistakes with 7’s. Our apologies to you for this mistake! It should have read “As of Monday, December 4, 2017 we had received 471 (not 417) gifts totaling $51,974.50 (not $57,974.50), compared to 483 of gifts totaling $54,277 at this time last year. You might recall that last year we far exceeded ($66,747) our $54,000 goal. That was exceptional. We are so grateful to all you have given this year, and to all of you, while you could not give, who continue to pray for the NACC’s mission.
As of last Monday, December 11, we had received 507 gifts at $59,069.50, compared to 498 gifts at that time last year. The total number of gifts we received last year were 526.
If you would still like to make one final end-of-year gift to the NACC 2017 Annual Campaign, please go to our NACC webpage (https://www.nacc.org/donate/) or just click here to donate https://nationalcatholicwiassoc.wliinc32.com/forms/donation.aspx. Blessings!
5. News of our USCCB Episcopal Liaison and our Episcopal Advisory Council
Our Episcopal Liaison, Bishop Donald Hying, has recently also been appointed as the National Episcopal Advisor of the U.S. Society of St. Vincent de Paul. We offer him our congratulations and prayer.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bishop-hying-named-national-episcopal-advisor-of-the-us-society-of-st-vincent-de-paul-300567556.html
https://www.stl.news/bishop-hying-named-national-episcopal-advisor-u-s-society-st-vincent-de-paul/48400/
Bishop Barry Knestout, an auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese of Washington who serves as the Region IV Representative on the NACC Episcopal Advisory Council, has recently been appointed as bishop of the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, which is also in Region IV. We extend to Bishop Knestout our prayer and support. He is a wonderful contributor to the NACC Council.
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2017/12/05/bishop-barry-knestout-tapped-lead-diocese-richmond/
6. In Vision: Ministering to families in the emergency department
Ministry to patients’ families is a particularly important component of spiritual care in the emergency department. In the current issue of Vision, Nicholas Perkins offers his thoughts on how to be a calm, supportive presence in a chaotic environment.
https://www.nacc.org/vision/november-december-2017/holy-movement-ministering-families-ed/
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
APC/NACC 2018 CONFERENCE, Thursday, July 12, to Sunday, July 15, 2018!
For more information about the Conference go to:
https://www.nacc.org/conference/
CHAPLAINCY NEWS, EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUPPORTS
7. Have you visited the new Transforming Chaplaincy website?
What a remarkable resource on research that continues to transform the chaplaincy profession!
As you know, NACC and its Strategic Partners in Spiritual Care, including ACPE, APC, and NAJC, supported the Transforming Chaplaincy project to promote research literacy among chaplains leading to improving patient outcomes, led by George Fitchett and Wendy Cadge. After much development, Transforming Chaplaincy has launched a very helpful and accessible new website www.transformchaplaincy.org. The site is designed specifically to serve a variety of constituencies, including chaplains, educators, administrators, and researchers, all of whom are invited to come explore the site’s offerings. Transforming Chaplaincy is active on Twitter and Facebook as well, engaging broadly with all interested in research-literate chaplaincy.
8. In case you did not see these resources
Have you ever checked out “Soulpancake”? http://soulpancake.com/?
This is a very fresh, creative, out-of-the-box website that offers a variety of brief, vibrant, and thoughtful videos on a variety of topics, with some relevant to our profession, including some insightful ones on empathy and individuals dealing with end of life and death. For instance:
- The story of Zach Sobiech, a seventeen-year-old who was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NjKgV65fpo
Listen to his song “Clouds.”
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/zachsobiech/clouds.html - That Moment You Realize You Could Die https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQSkYEyL0vs&list=PLzvRx_johoA_Zhuo_pRsWSbARe2IZ2XZJ&index=11
- The Secret To Increasing Your Empathy | The Science of Empathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSiRgyCwPhE&index=14&list=PLzvRx_johoA_Zhuo_pRsWSbARe2IZ2XZJ
- Or How to fight empathy burnout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1-XOMsjob8&index=9&list=PLzvRx_johoA_Zhuo_pRsWSbARe2IZ2XZJ
9. Healing Tree: a request for prayers
Please let us know if you would like our membership to pray for your health and healing. We will leave the person’s name on the Healing Tree list for three months, unless you ask us to remove your or the person’s name earlier. You can always request us to leave the name on longer.
We continue to pray for: Russ (husband of Linda Bronersky), Maggie Finley, Mary K. Pauluk BCC, Anne Murphy, Sr. Mary Clare Boland SP,
Fr. Jim Radde, SJ, Julie Bablin, Sheila Amrich (niece-in-law of NACC member Sr. Paracleta Amrich), Isabelita Boquiren, Susan Balling, Jim and Frances Castello.
10. Recent job postings
The following positions have been posted recently on our Positions Available page.
For more information go to www.nacc.org/resources/positions.
PALLIATIVE CARE CHAPLAIN
Elk Grove Village, IL – Alexian Brothers Medical Center
PER DIEM CHAPLAIN
Santa Rosa, CA – Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
SPIRITUAL CARE STAFF CHAPLAIN
Carroll, Iowa – St. Anthony Regional Hospital & Nursing Home
