Issue #368 – January 10, 2022

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1. Executive Director’s Reflection
2. Invitation to share reflections of your ministry
3. 2022 World Day of the Sick, invitation to share your prayer with membership.
4. Remembering our recently deceased members. May they rest in God’s peace
5. Welcome to our new NACC members who joined us in December 2021!
6. We are deeply grateful to those of you who were able to give to our 2021 Annual Member Campaign! Thank you!
7. Thank you to our NACC members who are now assuming in 2022 new volunteer leadership terms and appointments on our Board, Commissions, Committees, and Panels!
8. Answering the Call to Certification Interviewing Webinar, January 13, 2022, at 12:00 p.m. CT
9. In Vision: Goodbye and hello
10. NACC Networking Calls for January 2022 – All are welcome to participate!
11. The Member Listening Call for January will be Tuesday, January 18, 2022!
12. Listening Hearts are available
13. Healing Tree: a request for prayers
14. Follow us on Social Media! Please look at, like, and follow our NACC Social Media meme graphics and Instagram!
15. We need you to promote chaplaincy as a ministry and profession in the Church!!
16. Great resources for those who want to learn of Chaplaincy! Stories from Chaplaincy & Paths to Chaplaincy

MMARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW FOR OUR NACC 2022 NATIONAL CONFERENCE!
BUFFALO, NEW YORK ~ FRIDAY, MARCH 25 THROUGH MONDAY MARCH, 2022.

17. Save this date for our Buffalo National Conference! Friday, March 25 through Monday, March 28, 2022!

CHAPLAINCY NEWS, EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUPPORTS

18. Invitation to chaplains living or working in New Jersey
19. Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century
20. Special CPMC Educational Packet to explore the issue of mass incarceration for Lenten program for parishes and faith communities!
21. Other Resources from Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition (CPMC)
22. Recent job postings

 

1. Executive Director’s Reflection
As we say goodbye to David and thank him for his many years of service with NACC, we find ourselves in a place of liminality and transition. This is a common experience for many of us who have said goodbye to something wonderful and familiar, and look towards the future with uncertainty, curiosity, and hope. Liminality can provide us with a period of productive creativity, exploration, testing, and preparation. Living and working in a time of liminality and transition can foster innovation, discovery and learning.

For years, I had the opportunity to walk with pastors, pastoral leaders, staff and faith communities as they experienced pastoral leadership transitions in their parish(es). I find myself in a familiar, albeit peculiar, place as I become the person transitioning into a new role of leadership. Parish transitions allowed me to journey with leaders and community members as they processed feelings of joy, grief, trepidation, anxiety and all of the incredible emotions that come with change. I will always be grateful to each and every person who allowed me to walk with them during those sacred moments of transition. I pray I can bring this experience to my new role with NACC as we navigate the future together.

For now, I’d simply like to acknowledge the amazing legacy of our outgoing leader, David, who has inspired, supported, and mentored many of NACC’s membership. He will be remembered with respect, love, and affection. I, along with all of you, wish him a wonderful journey as he continues to share his gifts.

I share with you a prayer of transition:

Erica Cohen Moore
Executive Director

 

2. Invitation to share reflections of your ministry
NACC would like to offer the opportunity for our members to share thoughtful reflections on their ministry throughout the year. Please offer your thoughts that would inspire your colleagues by sending your reflection to Ramune Franitza at rfranitza@nacc.org. We may also post previous reflections from David Lichter.

 

3. 2022 World Day of the Sick, invitation to share your prayer with membership.
2021 has been a year that has stretched our ministry. Many of you have reached out with prayers of your own, from your heart and from your deepest thoughts.
Pope Francis offers his thoughts for the World Day of the Sick. This day is being remembered on February 11, 2022.
www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/sick/documents/20211210_30-giornata-malato.html.

Please consider sharing your personally composed prayer(s) with our membership by submitting a prayer for the Sick and/or a prayer for the Caregiver. Previous cards can be found here: www.nacc.org/resources/spirituality-and-prayer-resources/world-day-of-the-sick/archives

Your prayers may be sent to Ramune Franitza at rfranitza@nacc.org no later than January 28, 2022.

NACC Vision editors will choose a Prayer for the Sick and a Prayer for the Caregiver for translation and design. All prayers will be made a resource to our members.

 

4. Remembering our recently deceased members. May they rest in God’s peace

Tamara Durand, killed in the Waukesha Christmas Parade tragedy is remembered by NACC’s Strategic Partner NAJC: Neshama: Association of Jewish Chaplains.
“As one of the Strategic Partners in chaplaincy who works closely with NACC, we offer you our deepest condolences on the loss of your member and our colleague, Chaplain Tamara Durand.” (Read more…)

Please remember in prayer Rev. Ken Douglas, Retired Non-Certified Chaplain, who passed away on 3/28/2021. His obituary may be viewed at this link: obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/jackson/name/kendouglas-obituary?id=6874312
He was a member of the NACC since 2008.

 

5. Welcome to our new NACC members who joined us in December 2021!
Please join us in welcoming our new NACC members who joined us in December!

Chaplaincy Ministry
Ms. Mary E. Gibbons-Georgevich (Toledo, OH)
Fr. Eusebio Martinez (Brownsville, TX)
Rev. Paul CB Schenck (York, PA)
Mr. Gregory P. Tepe (Saint Louis, MO)

Professional Ministry
Ann K. Riggs (Gambrills, MD)

Student
Mr. Eric J. Berry (Gainesville, FL)
Melissa A. Bornschein (Ronkonkoma, NY)
Joy A. Gallagher (Bartlett, IL)
Sr. Hoa Nguyen (Evergreen Park, IL)
Daniel Schuler (Grand Rapids, MN)
Andrea Whinnery (Cleveland, OH)

Volunteer Ministry
Caterina Lucke (Burnt Hills, NY)

 

6. We are deeply grateful to those of you who were able to give to our 2021 Annual Member Campaign! Thank you!
Our 2021 Annual Campaign is complete! We are deeply grateful to all those who have been able to give to the Campaign this past year! We have exceeded our 2021 Goal of $57,000 with 502 gifts totaling $66,119. Thank you!

Please note: You can make a donation online by going to the Annual Campaign webpage (www.nacc.org/donate) or just click here to donate.

 

7. Thank you to our NACC members who are now assuming in 2022 new volunteer leadership terms and appointments on our Board, Commissions, Committees, and Panels!

Board of Directors	Dr. Ruth Jandeska EdD, MS, BCC Rev. Lawrence X. Chellaian BCC
Finance Committee	Ms. Beth McPherson Rev. Richard W. Bauer MM, BCC
Governance Committee	Ms. Mary T. Tracy BCC Ms. Nancy K. Cook BCC
Certification Committee	Dr. LuAnn M. Trutwin, DMin, EdD(c), MDiv, BCC Mr. Alex Chamtcheu BCC Mr. Leszek Baczkura BCC Ms. Elizabeth A. Meehan BCC Rev. Charles T. Barnes SJ, BCC-VA
Certification Appeals Panel	Mr. Sean K. Doll O’Mahoney MDiv, BCC
Competencies Commission	Rev. Alejandro De Jesus OSB, BCC-VA, HPC, MH Sr. Pamela J. Nosbusch OSF, BCC
Ethics Commission	Dr. Vicki J. Farley BCC Rev. John J. Raphael BCC Rev. Leonard T. Chuwa BCC, PhD
Ethics Appeals Panel	Mr. Leszek Baczkura BCC Ms. Kathryn Ault Mullane BCC
Editorial Advisory Panel	Mr. Martin E. Folan BCC Ms. Mary T. Tracy BCC
Marketing Communications Advisory Panel	Mr. Michael O’Neill Ms. Moira C. Reilly BCC
Nominations Panel	Ms. Bonnie J. McCulley BCC Rev. John O. Ekeocha BCC Rev. Lawrence X. Chellaian BCC
NACC State Liaison AL NACC State Liaison CO NACC State Liaison CT NACC State Liaison KY NACC State Liaison MN NACC State Liaison NY NACC State Liaison WI	Deacon Philip F. Boettcher BC Ms. Mary J. Greenwood MDiv, BCC Rev. Dominic U. Anaeto BCC Sr. Marian Judith Donohue SCN, BCC Mr. Martin E. Folan BCC Mr. Justin T.S. Rowan BCC Ms. Susan A. Leet BCC

NACC is grateful for all those called to leadership in our Association. Many prayerfully offered to serve a second term in their areas of interest and expertise. If you feel called to join our leadership team, please take a look at opportunities available here or contact Ramune Franitza (rfranitza@nacc.org).

 

8. Answering the Call to Certification Interviewing Webinar, January 13, 2022, at 12:00 p.m. CT
Interested in Serving as an Interviewer for Certification Interviews in 2022? If you are board certified and have never served as an Interviewer for our Initial Certification Interviews and are wondering what this service looks like, please join us for our free webinar on January 13, 2022, at 12:00 p.m. Central Time to learn about this role and discern if you would like to be part of a team for the spring interviews. Please register here to receive the link to join this webinar.

 

9. In Vision: Goodbye and hello
Both our outgoing and incoming executive directors have shared their thoughts on the transition in Vision in the past two weeks. Click the links below to read David Lichter’s parting words and Erica Cohen Moore’s reflection on the journey that has brought her to us:

A final column: 14 years of supporting the healing ministry of Jesus, by David Lichter

New executive director feels vocation to support others’ ministry, by Erica Cohen-Moore

 

10. NACC Networking Calls for January 2022 – All are welcome to participate!

Thursday, January 13; 12 p.m. CT NACC Palliative/Hospice Networking Call
Friday, January 14; 11 a.m. CT NACC Directors of Spiritual Care Networking Call
Tuesday, January 18; 3 p.m. CT NACC Member Listening Call
Thursday, January 20; 3:30 p.m. ET Kentucky State Networking Call

To sign up use the links above or for more information, questions, comments, concerns or to receive notes contact Ramune Franitza at rfranitza@nacc.org.

You must register to participate and receive the ZOOM code for the call. You will receive a ZOOM link in your Registration Confirmation.
Calls with less than 5 participants may be postponed. Due to ZOOM security requirements, you may be placed in a waiting room. Please be patient until the host joins the call and allows you access. THANK YOU!

 

11. The Member Listening Call for January will be Tuesday, January 18, 2022!
2022 is picking up where 2021 left off. It continues to be a strenuous time for health care staff and for you as chaplains. Weariness, fatigue, and uncertainty continue to be a part of your days and nights. Many are affected by increased patient loads and staff shortages. Often, it is helpful to spend an hour with those who understand, our colleagues. We continue to offer our listening sessions and remain grateful for the participation and sharing that is happening during these virtual communities. The NACC strives to support those who have found it helpful and healing to share their thoughts and experiences in these gatherings; to be there for one another.

Thank you for your participation in this safe space. NACC will offer a listening session on January 18. This is a general listening session for you to bring what is on your heart. Our topics vary to address what is important to you in the moment.

NACC will offer one listening session on Tuesday, January 18, 2022; 4pm ET, 3pm CT, 2pm MT, 1pm PT (11am HI)

Notes from previous sessions can be found here: www.nacc.org/resources/coronavirus-resources/#listen

ATTENTION: You will need to register HERE for this call. You will be sent the ZOOM information automatically to access this session. If you have trouble registering please let us know at info@nacc.org.

 

12. Listening Hearts are available
Listening Hearts are available for NACC members who may be experiencing and feeling the cumulative impact of frustration, grief, and anger. You are continually stretched in new ways and faced with challenging choices. Allowing an experienced retired chaplain to provide the support you provide for others may help in navigating the new normal. We invite you to share your burden by reaching out for the listening heart of an experienced and compassionate retired chaplain. Please contact Ramune Franitza (rfranitza@nacc.org) if you would like to speak with a Listening Heart. (Spanish speaking chaplain available)

 

13. Healing Tree: a request for prayers
The NACC holds the Healing Tree as a place for members to seek the supporting prayers of their colleagues. We prayerfully support and publish the names submitted by our membership for themselves or their family members. We also ask that you please include members and their families who have been affected by the COVID pandemic in your prayers

We continue to pray for our members: Rev. William Blum CSC, Sr. Madeline Cipriano, Susan DeLongis, Sr. Andre Dembowski RSM, Denice Foose, M. Elizabeth Heffernan, Fr. George Henninger LMHC, Sr. Ellen Moore, Fr. Jim Radde SJ, Martiza Ramos-Pratt, Sr. Paula M. Tinlin SND, Rev. Henry M. Williams, and Sr. Louise F. Zaplitny SC.

For the intentions of: Robert Legato (for wife Claudia Legato), and Nicholas Perkins (for mother Pearl Marie Perkins).

For loved ones: Autumn Vaughn (great-niece of Linda Bronersky), Eleanor Morgan (mother of M. Kelly Catone), Larry DuPlain (brother of Sr. Mary A. DuPlain SJSM), Kathi Peot and family (sister-in-law of Mary Heintzkill), and Natalie (cousin of Sue Walker).

For the families of: Bev Beltramo (on the death of her niece Jessica Grassmick, [her parents Carol & Jim Grassmick and her three young children]), Deborah Bradley (on the death of her father-in-law Jack Bradley), Bonnie Burnett (on the death of her brother Terence Burnett), the family of Tamara Durand on her death, Rev. John O. Ekeocha (on the death of his mother Catherine Ekeocha), and Marga A. Halala on her death.

There are members for whom their needs are personal, so please remember our members whose journey needs the support of your prayer.

If you would like our membership to pray for your health and healing, email Ramune Franitza (rfranitza@nacc.org). We will leave the person’s name on the Healing Tree list for three months unless you ask us to remove the name earlier. You can always request us to leave the name on longer.

 

14. Follow us on Social Media! Please look at, like, and follow our NACC Social Media meme graphics and Instagram!
We continue our new series of popular social media meme graphics. The themes for this campaign are Chaplain Wisdom and Join NACC. They will post each Tuesday morning, and we would love for you to share them on your own personal social media channels, as you feel moved. Please make sure to like and follow us on Facebook (@choosechaplaincy), LinkedIn (@National Association of Catholic Chaplains) and on our new Instagram (@NACC_Chaplains). If you would like to be a part of NACC’s Instagram story, please contact Ramune Franitza (rfranitza@nacc.org) to speak with someone from the NACC Marketing Panel.

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A post shared by Catholic Chaplains (@nacc_chaplains)

 

15. We need you to promote chaplaincy as a ministry and profession in the Church!!
NEW BROCHURES!
With church activity returning, remember that you can represent NACC and chaplaincy with materials for the narthex, Youth Groups, or other organizations within and outside of your church community. Check out our Choose Chaplaincy videos, Q & A, and materials on our website: www.nacc.org/about-nacc/choose-chaplaincy and www.nacc.org/about-nacc/choose-chaplaincy/materials or email Ramune Franitza rfranitza@nacc.org.

 

16. Great resources for those who want to learn of Chaplaincy! Stories from Chaplaincy & Paths to Chaplaincy
NACC’s most recent marketing effort is promoting chaplaincy videos on Facebook. Please view and like and share to make others aware of the gifts and talents chaplains share and their stories of how their journey happened. www.facebook.com/choosechaplaincy.

 

 

MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW FOR
OUR NACC 2022 NATIONAL CONFERENCE!

BUFFALO, NEW YORK
FRIDAY, MARCH 25 THROUGH MONDAY MARCH, 2022

17. Save this date for our Buffalo National Conference! Friday, March 25 through Monday, March 28, 2022!

Health & Safety Requirements to Attend the Conference
For the protection of all attending the 2022 Conference, the Conference Planning Task Force with the support of the NACC Board of Directors has established specific requirements in order to attend the conference. We recognize that the requirements may exclude some members of the NACC from attending the conference in-person. Even considering this, we have determined that the only way that we feel safe to proceed with an in-person Conference would be to minimize the health risks in these ways.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! How to Register for the Conference.
Conference registration opens today, December 20, 2021. In the spirit of serving the members of the NACC, the Board of Directors has thoughtfully considered to offer all NACC members a reduced rate to attend the March conference. The past eighteen months have been difficult to say the least both emotionally and for many financially. It is the hope of the board members that offering the reduced rates will help members afford the cost of the conference.

Please note that a “conference flyer” will not be mailed. Instead, we invite our members to browse the conference website pages to learn all about the conference. Check out the schedule, plenary speakers, workshops, and the liturgical experiences we will be offering. We hope you will consider joining us in Buffalo.

The NACC provides three (3) options to register for the NACC Conference:

1. Register online and pay with Visa, MasterCard, America Express, or Discover.
2. Register online and indicate you will send a check or money order.
3. Print a registration form, complete, and mail to the NACC National Office with your check or money order.

NACC Members – To receive the discounted Member rate for registration, you must log into the registration portal with your NACC username and password. The username is your NACC member number OR your primary email address (as noted in our membership database). If you do not remember your password, you can simply reset it.

 

CHAPLAINCY NEWS, EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUPPORTS

18. Invitation to chaplains living or working in New Jersey
The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab invites all chaplains working or living in New Jersey, including your members, to a half day conference to close our project with Drew University and the Russell Berrie Foundation. The conference will be January 28 and is currently planned with both in-person and virtual options, although we may resort to all-virtual pending COVID developments.

We are excited to welcome Dr. Betsy Stone of Hebrew Union College as our keynote speaker. We will also have breakout / networking groups.

Please forward this on to members of your organizations and colleagues living or working in the state of New Jersey.
We look forward to being with you!
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Michael Skaggs, PhD, Director of Programs, mskaggs@brandeis.edu; Chaplaincy Innovation Lab // Visiting Scholar, Brandeis University

 

19. Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century
Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care in the Twenty-First Century offers both an overview of contemporary chaplaincy as well as a framework for what chaplains in training need to know in order to serve others.

As part of the Lab’s project Educating Effective Chaplains, Wendy Cadge (NACC 2021 Distinguished Colleague Award recipient) and Shelly Rambo have convened national leaders in spiritual care practice and education to present a landmark textbook for chaplaincy educators.

To preorder: chaplaincyinnovation.org/resources/chaplaincy-spiritual-care-twenty-first-century

 

20. Special CPMC Educational Packet to explore the issue of mass incarceration for Lenten program for parishes and faith communities!
On behalf of the Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition, we would like to provide your faith community with Who Do You Say That I Am?, a Lenten educational packet that can be used to explore the issue of mass incarceration in America through the lens of our Catholic faith.

We are delighted to provide you with the convenience of a downloadable packet and facilitator’s PowerPoint, which includes an outline for facilitating three group sessions and other related materials. We invite you to use these materials to journey with your community this Lent, such that people’s hearts may be softened, and outreach efforts might increase. CPMC is available to help you implement these important reflections. In fact, our January 12th webinar is devoted to walking facilitators through the implementation of this series. Register here. Please join us!

We wish you many blessings as you discern participation in this meaningful and fruitful process. We would also like to invite you to share this resource with colleagues and community members. Please do not hesitate to let us know if you have any questions or needs. (info@catholicprisonministries.org)

In Christ, The CPMC Education Committee

 

21. Other Resources from Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition (CPMC)

• Holding Still, Centering Prayer and the Spiritual Journey, is a riveting, candid and insightful documentary film about practicing centering prayer while incarcerated in Folsom Prison. You can view the film and download a reflection guide at www.catholicprisonministries.org/holding-still-2
• The PBS series, Searching for Justice explores criminal justice reform unfolding across the country, as leaders from both sides of the political aisle attempt to end mass incarceration by rethinking laws that some say have become barriers to work, housing, and economic stability. www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/searching-for-justice
• CPMC continues to host town halls and offer webinars monthly on topics vital to prison ministry, but many pertain to all chaplaincy ministry. These are all available without cost. Browse the titles at: www.catholicprisonministries.org/webinars

 

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

CHAPLAIN – PASTORAL CARE
Everett, Washington – Providence Regional Medical Center

MANAGER of SPIRITUAL CARE
Baltimore, Maryland – Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital

ACPE CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
Eau Claire, WI – Mayo Clinic

MANAGER of MISSION SERVICES and SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Riverside, CT – St. Catherine of Siena Parish

DIOCESAN PRIEST
Hastings, MN – Benedictine Living Community of Regina

WOMEN & INFANTS STAFF CHAPLAIN
Milwaukee, WI — Ascension Wisconsin Spiritual Care

STAFF CHAPLAIN
Jacksonville, FL – Mayo Clinic

CHAPLAIN
Quincy, IL – Blessing Health System

DIRECTOR – PASTORAL CARE
Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati Children’s

HOSPITAL STAFF CHAPLAIN
Rochester, MN – Mayo Clinic

CERTIFIED CHAPLAIN II – Full-Time
Texarkana, TX – CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System

CERTIFIED CHAPLAIN – Full-time, salaried position
Lima, Ohio – Mercy Health

CHAPLAIN INTERN – Paid Intern Position
Lima, Ohio – Mercy Health