USCCB Subcommittee Approves Updated Certification Competencies for Catholic Chaplains
In my role as Director of Certification for Ecclesial Ministry at the USCCB, I consulted with colleagues from the National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC) in their efforts to ensure that previously existing competencies in these areas were properly updated and new competencies developed to address the need for well-prepared lay ministry leaders and clergy in these important areas of ministerial care provided by the Catholic Church.
Reflections on the Word: Memorial of St. Augustine – August 28, 2021
For St. Augustine, being aware of God’s plan and God’s purpose for our lives brought great peace to his own heart after years of seeking happiness and peace in everything other than God! Seeing with the eye of the heart is, for him, what faith in God is all about.
Reflections on the Word: Memorial of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe – August 14, 2021
Fr. Kolbe served Christ faithfully, in perfect imitation of him, even in his suffering and death. Like Joshua of old, he proclaimed with his life that he would serve God alone and follow God’s ways – and not the ways of the false gods of Nazism, racism, and racial violence.
Reflections on the Word: Saturday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time – August 7, 2021
When we are able to make faith and trust in God a daily habit – a daily way of thinking – we will be amazed when unexpected newness comes to us.
Reflections on the Word: Saturday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time – June 26, 2021
In his book “Let Us Dream,” Pope Francis reminds us that what allows us to experience the newness which faith can bring is to be present to people in their lives and to respond to their needs in the same way Christ has responded – in abundant care and love, just as he shared in the love poured out from the Father.
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