Issue #319 – February 17, 2020

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1. Executive Director’s Reflection
2. Welcome to our new NACC members who joined us in January 2020!
3. 2020 World Day of the Sick Letter for our US Bishops
4. Bishop uses NACC WORLD DAY OF THE SICK Prayer
5. NACC LEADERSHIP: BOARD OF DIRECTORS
6. Also you can learn more about NACC leadership by participating in the FREE NACC and You: Bringing Your Gifts to Leadership. Register now!
7. In Vision: Dying veteran confronts moral injury as ALS worsens
8. ATTENTION CORRECTIONS CHAPLAINS!
9. NACC Networking Call for February-March 2020 – All are welcome to participate!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
2020 CONFERENCE, Monday, May 11 – Thursday, May 14 in Cleveland, Ohio!

10. Register today for Vision 20/20 The Future of Spiritual Care Conference!
11. Important things to know before you register
12. As you register, please consider a donation to the Scholarship Fund.
13. Opportunity for additional Continuing Education Hours.
14. Join us to honor our 2020 Annual Award Recipients.

CHAPLAINCY NEWS, EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUPPORTS

15. Request to participate in a survey on emotional intelligence and job satisfaction among health care chaplains.
16. Don’t miss our next webinar of our 2020 series! Thursday, February 27, 2020. Empowering Faith Communities through Palliative Care Education presented by Diane G. McCarthy, MA, BCC and Vincent Nguyen, DO, CMD.
17. You can still register for this special 3-part February NACC webinar series on “Her Smile Is Enough for Me: Critical Care Pediatric Chaplaincy”, presented by Jim Manzardo and Glenda Spearman.
18. You can still register now for the entire 2020 NACC webinar series!
19. Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition’s next webinar, February 27th!
20. See the next 6 months of webinar topics from the Catholic Prison Ministry Coalition!
21. Healing Tree: a request for prayers
22. Recent job postings

1. Executive Director’s Reflection
Well, yesterday’s reading made it pretty clear that “It’s on me!” Can’t look elsewhere or blame anyone else for my situation and circumstances. At the first reading from Sirach made it clear, “If you choose you can keep the commandments, they will save you; if you trust in God, you too shall live; he has set before you fire and water to whichever you choose, stretch forth your hand. Before man (sic) are life and death, good and evil, whichever he chooses shall be given him.” (Sirach 15:15-17). That’s pretty clear; it’s on me!

Yet, knowing what to do takes a little more spiritual work and discernment, and not knowing has serious consequences, as St. Paul instructs us in the second reading from 1 Corinthians (2:7-10),

So, how do I allow God’s Spirit to reveal to me what God’s Spirit desires and intends for me to know and choose? As Paul wrote, “For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God.” It’s really good to have that divine insider to the depths of God! How do I daily allow the Spirit to guide my choices and not simply and notoriously allow my whims, urgings, reflexes, musings, and inclinations, that are so many and so complex, to drive my decisions?

I appreciated again the “go beyond” message of that portion of Matthew’s version of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5: 17-37), where Jesus goes from not skipping “the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter” of the Law to going beyond the letter of law, such as from do not kill to “whoever is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment…” Ultimately, Jesus makes it clear that the primary drivers of action must be reconciliation (your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift), respectfulness/reverence of others (no lusting), and integrity (no false oaths/vows). “Let your ‘Yes’ mean ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ mean ‘No.’ Anything more is from the evil one.”

So, these are good signals for me as I embrace decision-making and realize it’s on me to make the right choices, guided by the wisdom of God’s Spirit, and letting my drivers be reconciliation, respect/reverence of others, and integrity. With these passages, I guess I am “in the know” and I can’t say, “I didn’t know better,” can I?

With Ash Wednesday now being only ten days away, I pray the season may bless each of us with the grace of a deeper knowledge and experience of God’s special love for each of us, and those God entrusts into our care.

David Lichter, D.Min.
Executive Director

2. Welcome to our new NACC members who joined us in January 2020!
Please join us in welcoming our new NACC members who joined us in January 2020!
Welcome to NACC, and blessings on your healing ministry!

Affiliate Members
Virgil Barker
Leslie Costlow

Full Members
Sylvia Artiles
Mario Blas
Bruce Clapham, BCC-VA
Kay Klackner
Francine Rich
Christopher Rodgers
Monice Tyler
Matthew Udobi

Student Members
Philomena Adah
Katherine Andre
Holly Bonner
RizzaBella Hohenstern
Carolyn Ondrey

3. 2020 World Day of the Sick Letter for our US Bishops
Last week we sent our annual World Day of the Sick letter to our US Archbishops and Bishops. To the Ordinaries we include a list of our NACC members who minister in their dioceses. To all bishops we include the letter and the accompanying document on what does endorsement mean. Both the letter and this document, as well as all the prior letters and materials we have sent since
2011 when we began can be found at: www.nacc.org/about-nacc/leadership/episcopal-advisory-council.

4. Bishop uses NACC WORLD DAY OF THE SICK Prayer
NACC’s beautiful prayer for the World Day of the Sick written by Isabelita Boquiren BCC was read during the Mass on the Air in the Toronto CANADA by Bishop Bergie, who is the Bishop of St. Catharine’s (near Niagara Falls). www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OLAenz7BfA

5. NACC LEADERSHIP: BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The NACC Board of Directors (BOD) needs to fill two elected-member seats by the end of 2020 when Jim Letourneau and Mary Heintzkill complete their Board Terms. In these coming weeks, the NACC Nominations Panel is seeking the names of potential candidates for election. If you would like to review the board member qualifications, please go to www.nacc.org/about-nacc/leadership/board-of-directors for a Board application form. Please also encourage other qualified members whom you think would be good candidates for the Board to complete an application. Please submit your application to be a candidate for the BOD by Friday, February 28, 2020 to: rfranitza@nacc.org.

6. Also you can learn more about NACC leadership by participating in the FREE NACC and You: Bringing Your Gifts to Leadership. Register now!
On Thursday, March 12, 2020 (12:00 noon – 1:30 p.m. Central Time), Beverly Beltramo DMin, BCC, Mary Lou O’Gorman BCC and David Lichter, DMin will present a free webinar on the topic of leadership of the NACC.
Program Summary
This webinar will provide the participants an overview of the NACC with its governance structure, and the diverse committees, commissions, and panels that require our NACC members’ leadership, as well as the certification opportunities of interviewers and Interview Team Educators (ITE). The intent of this workshop is to provide the participants both an understanding of the diverse opportunities for leadership to support and advance the NACC’s mission and vision. This interactive exchange will allow time for you to reflect upon and discern where and how you might be able to offer your gifts in service of your fellow members and the profession of chaplaincy.

This free webinar will provide 2 CEHs (90 minutes for the webinar plus 30 minutes preparation time).

Registration
Although this webinar is offered at no charge, you are requested to register so that we can send you the access information. You can register online at this LINK. Alternatively, inform the national office via e-mail: Pamela Jones: pjones@nacc.org.

7. In Vision: Dying veteran confronts moral injury as ALS worsens
Natalie O’Laughlin thinks about the parable of the lost sheep in her work with veterans, particularly those suffering from moral injury. In the current issue of Vision, she describes a case in which one Vietnam veteran was able to find peace at the end of his life.
www.nacc.org/vision/january-february-2020/dying-veteran-confronts-moral-injury-as-als-worsens/

8. ATTENTION CORRECTIONS CHAPLAINS!
Recent collaboration with the Catholic Prison Ministry Coalition has brought awareness to Spiritual Care to the incarcerated, their families and many of the issues around corrections ministry. Please join our networking group on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 10 a.m. CT to support and test the initiatives being proposed and piloted. Contact rfranitza@nacc.org with your interest.

9. NACC Networking Call for February-March 2020 – All are welcome to participate!

To sign up or for more information, questions, comments or concerns contact Ramune Franitza at rfranitza@nacc.org.

You must reply to participate and receive the ZOOM code for the call. If you reply, we will forward ZOOM passcodes for a video connection through internet or, if you prefer, you can still call in on a phone line. Registering for the call, even if you cannot participate, will allow you to receive notes of the conversation and resources shared. Calls with less than 5 participants may be postponed.

If you’ve had difficulty in joining calls using ZOOM please let Ramune Franitza (rfranitza@nacc.org) know so that we can address the difficulty. THANK YOU!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
2020 CONFERENCE, Monday, May 11 – Thursday, May 14 in Cleveland, Ohio!

10. Register today for Vision 20/20 The Future of Spiritual Care Conference!
While the Early Bird Registration has ended, you can still register for our 2020 Conference. Registration is an on-line process. Visit the 2020 website to learn all about the conference. www.nacc.org/2020-vision

The Early Bird special pricing was closed as of February 14, 2020!

11. Important things to know before you register

12. As you register, please consider a donation to the Scholarship Fund.
Please consider a donation to the Conference scholarship fund. All donations received will help members to attend the Conference. Every dollar counts: no amount is too big or small. Thank you for your support.

13. Opportunity for additional Continuing Education Hours.
A selection of 14 Professional Development Intensives (aka Pre-Conference workshops) provide the opportunity for in-depth study of a topic. These unique educational experiences are available prior to the conference on Sunday, May 10 and Monday, May 11; as well as in the afternoon on Thursday, May 14 (following the conclusion of the conference). Visit the website to find out more.

14. Join us to honor our 2020 Annual Award Recipients.
As part of the NACC membership luncheon on Tuesday, May 12, we will present the NACC Annual Awards. Join us to honor and celebrate the three deserving recipients: Denice Foose, Kate Piderman, Ruth Jandeska. Find out more about this years’ awardees on our website.

For more information about the Conference go to:
www.nacc.org/2020-vision

CHAPLAINCY NEWS, EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUPPORTS

15. Request to participate in a survey on emotional intelligence and job satisfaction among health care chaplains.
I am a doctoral learner. I am under the supervision of Dr. Warrick Stewart. Dr. Stewart is a member of College of doctoral studies at Grand Canyon University. My name is Paul S. Nomsule. I can be reached at 4127084041 (PNomsule@my.gcu.edu). I am conducting a research study to ascertain whether there is a relationship between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction among healthcare chaplains in the United States.

I am recruiting healthcare chaplains that meet these criteria:

• Over 18 years old;
• have at least one unit of clinical pastoral education (CPE); and
• have been in a healthcare chaplain for at least a year in a status of either a full-time or part-time.

You are not eligible to participate in this research if you:

• Are under 18 years old;
• are not a healthcare chaplain;
• do not have at least one unit of clinical pastoral education;
• are less than a year as either a full-time or part-time healthcare chaplain.

The activities for this research project will include:

• Responding to the Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0 survey (EQ-i 2.0). The EQ-i 2.0 has 133 short items. It takes a respondent between 10-15 minutes to respond to the 133 items. Attend to the survey items in a single sitting.
• Respond to Job Descriptive Inventor/Job in General (JDI/JIG) survey in a single sitting. The job satisfaction survey has 90 short items. It takes a respondent between 7-10 minutes to respond to the 90 items.

Those who wish to participate in the study will do so by filling out the two surveys (EQ-i 2.0 and JDI/JIG) through the links provided below.

Please copy and paste link 1 in the browser: SurveyMonkey link to consent’ and respond to Job satisfaction: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/B3LHZ56.
After you are done with Job satisfaction survey, copy and paste link 2 in the browser to take Emotional Intelligence survey: http://s.mhs.com/Ws27Fyn.

If you are interested in participating in this study, please respond. If you are not interested in participating, I appreciate your time and you must exit immediately.

Thank you!

16. Don’t miss our next webinar of our 2020 series! Thursday, February 27, 2020. Empowering Faith Communities through Palliative Care Education presented by Diane G. McCarthy, MA, BCC and Vincent Nguyen, DO, CMD.
Program Summary
The presenters of this workshop are members of the Supportive Care Coalition, “…a coalition of Catholic Health ministries…advancing excellence in palliative care.” Diane and Dr. Nguyen are collaborating to present this workshop about their experiences in providing palliative care education to their faith communities in the Archdiocese of Boston and the Diocese of Orange respectively. Palliative care is generally misunderstood. These education initiatives dispel misconceptions about what palliative care is and also demonstrate how Catholic Church teaching supports the provision of palliative care.

Program Objectives
As a result of this webinar, participants will:

1. Learn about well-established programs to educate faith communities about palliative care, with the goals that this education will lead to better outcomes for patients with serious illness and their families and also that these educated health care consumers could affect the more widespread provision and support of palliative care in the health care provider, payor and legislative sectors.
2. Learn how these programs provide education to refute the provision/legislation of Physician Assisted Suicide.
3. Acquire a model/template for palliative care education that can be replicated in the attendees’ faith communities.

Diane McCarthy is the Parish Education Coordinator for the Archdiocese of Boston Initiative for Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning. A board-certified chaplain, Diane previously worked in Catholic long-term care where she spent much time with residents and families at care plan meetings and at the bedsides of the seriously ill and dying. Those experiences prepared her well to instruct the faith community of the Archdiocese of Boston about palliative care, advance care planning and how Church teaching supports both.

Dr. Nguyen directs the HOAG CARES Program, providing clinical and administrative oversight of the inpatient and outpatient palliative services at HOAG. In partnership with the UCI School of Medicine, he co-founded a Palliative Medicine Fellowship to train physicians in the art of hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Nguyen is a Board-Certified Hospice and Palliative Care Specialist with Board Certifications in Geriatrics and Family Medicine. For the past six years, Dr. Nguyen served on the Board of Directors of the Orange Catholic Foundation, a 501c3 charitable corporation serving the Diocese of Orange. In collaboration with the Office of Pastoral Care for Families in All Stages, he serves on the Whole Person Care Leadership team, to implement best practices to improve care for the seriously ill and their families in the community.

To register online and pay by credit card for this webinar, or for any other NACC 2020 regular series webinar, please visit the registration page by clicking on this LINK. NACC Student members wishing to register online should use the following special link: STUDENTS. If you prefer to register using a paper registration form and pay by check, a downloadable registration form can be accessed at this LINK.

17. You can still register for this special 3-part February NACC webinar series on “Her Smile Is Enough for Me: Critical Care Pediatric Chaplaincy”, presented by Jim Manzardo and Glenda Spearman.
This case-based three-part webinar series builds on the presentation “Her Smile Is Enough for Me: Critical Care Pediatric Chaplaincy”, given at the 2019 NACC National Conference, and is a response to both positive feedback and requests for more specific interventions. The presenters will describe the pediatric patients’ world through the developmental spectrum, the parents/caregivers’ world, and the healthcare providers’ world and ways the chaplain assesses and responds to the breadth of situations and needs.

Jim Manzardo, BCC is a chaplain at the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago where he has worked for the past two years in the pediatric intensive care unit. Previously, he was the primary chaplain for the Hematology-Oncology-Stem Cell Transplant service for nineteen years. He also has been part of the Palliative Care and Ethics teams and is a facilitator of a nursing transitions program for new nurses during their first year of nursing. Jim also has been incorporating mindfulness meditation into the hospital environment.

Glenda R. Spearman, MDiv, BCC, is currently a Senior Staff Chaplain at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago (formerly Children’s Memorial Hospital) where she has served since 2000. Glenda was board certified by the National Association of Catholic Chaplains in 2008. Glenda coordinates the Minister of Care volunteers who bring Communion to the Catholic patient families at Lurie Children’s. Glenda has been Primary Chaplain for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for the past ten years. Glenda facilitates the hospital’s Schwartz Rounds, and is a member of the hospital-wide Bereavement Committee, and Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Glenda is part of the Spiritual Care Chaplain Team who provides Mindfulness Meditation to staff. Glenda coordinates the annual televised Christmas visit by the Cardinal to the hospital’s patient families. In October 2017, Glenda was awarded the Bishop Quarter Award by Chicago’s Blasé Cardinal Cupich for the many years of ministry as a pediatric hospital Chaplain, especially to the Catholic patient families.
Participant cost for these three sessions is $75 for NACC members, $90 for non-members, which includes all three sessions. A special rate of $30 is available to NACC retired and student members. This series will provide 4.5 CEH’s.

The three sessions will take place on the following dates:

• Wednesday, February 19 (12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. Central Time)
• Wednesday, February 26 (12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. Central Time)
• Wednesday, March 4 (12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. Central Time)

For further details, including information on how to register for this webinar series, please click on the following link: REGISTER.

18. You can still register now for the entire 2020 NACC webinar series!
Don’t forget to register for the 2020 NACC webinar series! The series comprises 11 webinars, plus free webinars on Certification with the NACC, Renewal of Certification, and Certification of Associate Chaplains with the NACC. Details of each of the webinars and information on how to register for them are available on our website: https://www.nacc.org/education-resources/nacc-webinars-and-audio-conferences/.

For NACC members the registration fee for each individual webinar is $40 per connection for the live sessions or $40 to purchase access to the recordings. There is a special rate of $20 per webinar for those who have NACC student membership. For non-members the registration fee is $55 per connection for the live sessions or $55 to purchase access to the recordings. We are offering a special package that includes all of our regular January – December 2020 webinars at a discounted rate of $340 for NACC members ($170 for NACC student members) and $450 for non-members.

To register online and pay by credit card, please visit the registration page by clicking on this LINK. NACC student members wishing to register online should use the following special link: STUDENTS. If you prefer to register using a paper registration form and pay by check, a downloadable registration form can be accessed at this LINK.

NOTE: All of the NACC webinars are recorded, and online access to the recordings is made available to all registrants. If you cannot participate live, you still have the opportunity to enhance your learning (and earn CEHs) by means of the recordings.

19. Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition’s next webinar, February 27th!
The next Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition webinar is also on Thursday, February 27 at 12:00 pm central time. “Critical Facts about Ministering to Sex Offenders, the Mentally Ill and the Addicted,”
Presenters: Elizabeth Hardy, LICSW and Fr. Dustin Feddon, PhD. Just a reminder – all these webinars are offered at no-cost to the participant. Register at usfca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t68BNWOBRyi0g4m2HSXtMQ

20. See the next 6 months of webinar topics from the Catholic Prison Ministry Coalition!
The Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition has now published its webinars through July 2020. You can click here to view the topics and dates. Mark your calendar.

21. 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: Bro. Kenney Gorman, Polly and Richard Valeriote (Parents of member Catherine Valeriote); Jennifer Luse, Rev. Paul F. Merry, Monica Ho (deceased mother of member Eugenia Lai), Russ (husband of member Linda Bronersky), Marybeth Harmon, Nolan (4-year-old grandson of member Dale Recinella), Fr. Jim Radde SJ, Isabelita Boquiren, Susan Balling, Jim and Frances Castello.

22. 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.

CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN
Williamstown, MA – Chaplains Office, Williams College

MANAGER SPIRITUAL CARE
Tampa Bay, FL – BayCare

SPIRITUAL CARE MANAGER
Muskegon, MI – Mercy Health

MANAGER-PASTORAL/SPIRITUAL CARE & ACPE CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
Fond du Lac, WI – St. Agnes Hospital

SPIRITUAL CARE MANAGER
Albany, NY – St. Peter’s Health Partners