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Special Message from ACCCA President 01/06/08


Summer conference theme: COMPASSION WITH PASSION

2008 Conference pictures available here.
2008 Conference information available here.

New: Constitution and Bylaws, both revised 2008

Position Statement of ACCCA from Summer Conference, May 2006

 

 

 

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SUMMER CONFERENCE   AUG. 6 - 10, 2008
NEW ORLEANS, LA

THEME: COMPASSION WITH PASSION

 Program:

 Wednesday, August 6, 2008
1:00pm - 4:30 pm       Registration
5:00pm - 6:30 pm       Social followed by dinner
6:45pm - 7:00 pm       Words of Welcome
7:00pm - 8:30 pm       Keynote Speaker:   Mother Antonia Brenner, “Prison Angel”
                                    (Ministering for 29 years, Mother Antonia lived 80% of the time in a Tijuana jail)

Thursday, August 7. 2008
7:30am - 8:30 am       Breakfast/Registration
8:45 am - 9:00 am      Morning Prayer
9:00 am - 10:15 am    Fr. Michael Kennedy, SJ, pastor, author, retreat master,spiritual director.
                                     “Effective Spiritual Exercises for Use with Prisoners
10:15 am - 10:30 am  Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am  Round Table Discussion
11:15 am - Noon        Mass
12:15pm - 1:00 pm     Lunch
1:15pm - 2:30 pm       Fr. M. Kennedy, “Spiritual Exercises”
2:30pm - 3:00 pm       Break
3:00pm - 4:00 pm       Jesus, Compassion, & Ministry,   Fr. Mark Schmieder, ACCCA President

 

DINNER ON OUR OWN, EVENING FREE

 

Friday, August 8, 2008
7:30 am - 8:30 am     Breakfast
8:45 am - 9:00 am     Morning Prayer
9:00 am - Noon         Tour and Experience of New Orleans Culture & Cemeteries
12:15pm - 1:15pm     Lunch (Holiday Inn)
1:30pm - 4:00 pm      ACCCA Business Meeting
5:00 pm                    Mass
6:30 pm                    Banquet and Kolbe Award Presentation

Saturday, August 9, 2008
7:30am - 8:30 am      Breakfast
8:45am - 9:00 am      Morning Prayer/ Dismissal
9:15am - 10:15 am    Executive Committee Meeting