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LCWR ASSEMBLY 2019
“Imagining Leadership in a Global Community"
August 13-16 in Scottsdale, Arizona
  

(And more LCWR Assemblies:  2018  -  2017  -  2016  -  Assembly addresses 2012 to 2019)

Summaries, highlights, and videos of the Assembly: 
  • Assembly intro and overview from LCWR
  • 4-minute video of Assembly highlights from LCWR
  • For the first time, public sessions were live-streamed.
  • View or purchase recordings of sessions: 
    • Purchase audio and video recordings of the assembly or
    • Watch free with links below (Tuesday - Assembly opening; Wednesday morning - keynote address; Wednesday afternoon - emergent planning process; Thursday - presidential address; Friday - Outstanding Leadership Award ceremony and address)
  • Media coverage: 
    • Reflection in Global Sisters Report by a Solidarity with Sisters member on what the LCWR way of "Assembling" can mean to the People of God
    • Overall conference plans and context: “LCWR to examine:  What does it mean to be a leader at this point in time?" by Dan Stockman at Global Sisters Report

Tuesday, 8/13/19 evening:  Assembly Opening
  • Video:  Gorgeous opening at 6:00-23:00  (Let's re-use this!).  Speakers begin at 23:00.
  • Main speakers:  LCWR presidents Sisters Sharlet Wagner, Jayne Helmlinger, andTeresa Maya, Assembly facilitator Sister Catherine Bertrand, Emergent Religious Life facilitator Donna Fyffe
  • Media coverage:  It's included in the longer report, "UISG director to LCWR Assembly: No need to fear doing the 'small things'" by Dan Stockman in Global Sisters Report.

Wednesday, 8/14/19 morning – Keynote Address by Sister Pat Murray, head of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG), followed by small-group dialogue
  • Full text:  "Imagining Leadership in a Global Community" - video (opening song 18:30, address 20:40)
  • The poem TRASNA (Crossing) by Sister Raphael Considine that is part of Sister Pat Murray's address
  • Media coverage:  "UISG director to LCWR Assembly: No need to fear doing the 'small things'" by Dan Stockman in Global Sisters Report

LCWR Assembly letter to President Trump
  • LCWR letter - full text:  More than 600 LCWR members call on President Trump to "Stop all divisive and polarizing rhetoric."
  • Media coverage: 
    • "LCWR calls on Trump to stop 'divisive and polarizing rhetoric'" by Catholic News Service
    • "US religious sisters urge president to stop divisive rhetoric," by Independent Catholic News (ICN)
  • Follow-up:  Letter to the Editor by the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary of the Woods, Indiana, in the Terre Haute Tribune Star

Wednesday, 8/14/19 afternoon - LCWR Emergent Planning Session
  • Video:  Introduction to the Assembly's Emergent Planning process 
    • Screen shots of slides
 
Thursday, 8/15/19 morning – Presidential address by Sister Sharlet Wagner
  • Full text:  "Divinest Sense at the Heart of Religious Life" - video:  opening ritual 11:30 ("Si yo no tengo amor, yo nada soy, Senor" means "If I do not have love, I am nothing, Lord."), address 19:40
  • Media coverage:
    • "Face facts, says LCWR president: Sisters have been part of Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal" by Dan Stockman at Global Sisters Report
    • "Sr. Sharlet Wagner speaks to LCWR assembly about call 'to model hope' amid despair" by Dan Stockman at Global Sisters Report

Thursday, 8/15/19 afternoon - continued reflection on Emergent Religious LIfe

Session on actively fighting capital punishment, led by  Catholic Mobilizing Network Executive Director Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy
  • Media coverage:  "Ending capital punishment is important work for sisters" by Dan Stockman in Global Sisters Report

Friday morning, 8/16/19 - continued reflection on emergent religious life

Friday afternoon, 8/16/19 – "Creating  communion at the intersection of racism, migration, and the climate crisis"
  • Panel video (begins at 1:43):  Sr. Patricia Chappelle, Sr. Joan Brown, and Maria Elena Perales, moderated by Sr Susan Francois (powerful summary starting about 40:00 to end)
  • Background: Summer 2019 LCWR Resolution to Action:  "US Policy at the Intersection of Immigration and Racism"
  • LCWR 2019 Assembly Resolution and Statement of Commitment
  •  Media coverage:  "LCWR commits to combat racism, serve immigrants, and address climate change" by Dan Stockman of Global Sisters Report
 
Friday, 8/16/19 -- Blessing of new LCWR officers 2019-20
  • LCWR Officers:  In the three-person presidency, Sister Sharlet Ann Wagner, CSC is now past president (older interview: “Incoming LCWR president Sharlet Wagner sees herself as a ‘citizen of the world’”), Sister Jayne Helmlinger is now president (new  interview, older interview, and youtube), and Sr. Elise García was elected as president-elect.   (Sister Teresa Maya now is a former LCWR president.)
  • Media coverage:  "LCWR commits to combat racism, serve immigrants, and address climate change" by Dan Stockman of Global Sisters Report (bottom of report)

Friday, 8/16/19 evening -- LCWR Outstanding Leadership Award: Tribute to recipient Sister Norma Pimentel, for her tireless, creative, pastoral, and systemic work with and for migrants in the Rio Grande Valley
  • Text of acceptance address by Sr. Norma Pimentel
  • About Sister Norma Pimentel's work
  • Media coverage: 
    • "Sr. Norma Pimentel, LCWR award recipient, embraces 'holy chaos' of her ministry to migrants" by Soli Salgado and Dan Stockman of Global Sisters Report
    • 2015 Q&A  with Sr. Norma after her live-TV encounter with Pope Francis connecting the Vatican and the Rio Grande Valley, followed by a private meeting with him at the UN, by Nuri Ballbona of Global Sisters Report

Other LCWR Assemblies:  2018  -  2017  -  2016  -  Assembly addresses 2012 to 2019
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    • LCWR >
      • LCWR Books and More
      • LCWR Assembly Speeches Etc.
      • LCWR 2019 Assembly
  • Spirituality
    • An Active, Contemplative Life
    • Nonviolence
    • Prayers in Challenging Times >
      • Communal Contemplative Prayer options
    • Solidarity with Sisters Zoom prayer
    • Contemplation
    • Towards Spiritual Maturity
  • Community
  • Action
    • Active Love
    • Catholic Social Teaching
    • What Is Solidarity?
    • Ways to Act >
      • Spiritual Leadership
      • Dialogue That Transforms
      • Eco-Justice
      • Human Trafficking
      • Immigration
      • Racial Justice
    • LCWR Social Mission news
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Solidarity with Sisters Actions
    • Spiritual Leadership Conference
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