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The Catholic Parishes in Waterloo
Adult Faith Formation Report
February 2010
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A. Initiation and Evangelization
1. Rites of Christian Initiation and Reception
a. The retreat for RCIA catechumens will be held on Palm
Sunday, March 28, at
St. Stephen Center.
b. The current Rite of Christian
Reception concludes on March 4. An information
meeting for the spring RCRA process will be held March 23 at
St. Edward. The
spring series will meet on Tuesday evenings at St. Ed's.
c. There are 8 people who are interested in joining
the Rite of Christian
Initiation next fall. In the meantime, the DREs are
recruiting sponsors for these
individuals and we are planning to meet with them as a group
in April, May and
June.
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www.waterloocatholics.org/adultfaith/beingcatholic.htm
2. Inactive and Alienated Catholics (Strategic Plan
E.4.d)
a. The next Listening Session for inactive and alienated
Catholics is scheduled for
March 10 at Kimball Ridge.
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www.waterloocatholics.org/adultfaith/inactive.htm
3. Single Adults
a. About 25 people attended the singles' Super Bowl Party
Feb. 7 at the Knights of
Columbus. The next Single Mingle is March 13 at Junie's
Restaurant.
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www.waterloocatholics.org/singles.htm
B. Adult Formation, Education and Spiritual Growth
1. Adult Formation/Education
a. 18 people attended the Winter at the Cellar session Jan. 27;
20 people attended
the session on Feb. 3.
b. 30 people are enrolled in Fr. Jaeger's study of
Catholic Sacraments
which began Feb. 3.
c. The parishes and Wheaton Franciscan Health Care will co-host
a Final Wishes
Workshop March 11 at St. Edward's.
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www.waterloocatholics.org/adultfaith/wishes.htm
d. The Iowa Faith Formation
Conference with Dr. Edward Hahnenberg will be held
March 14-15 in Ames.
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www.iowafaithformation.org
2. Spiritual Growth (Strategic Plan E.2.a, E.2.b)
a. There were 10 people at the Feb. 21 mini-retreat with Fr. Ardel Barta.
The next
mini-retreat is April 11 with Connie May.
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www.waterloocatholics.org/adultfaith/miniretreats.htm
b. 40 people attended the first session of our Lenten Enrichment
series Feb. 22.
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www.waterloocatholics.org/adultfaith/lentjourney10.htm
c. Sacred Heart Parish Liturgy Committee will host a Lenten
Taize Prayer Service
March 3 in Sacred Heart Church.
d. The Busy World Lenten Retreat will be offered online the week
of March 21-28.
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www.waterloocatholics.org/adultfaith/busylent.htm
e. "Stewardship of the Earth" bible study series
will begin March 11 and meet for
six weeks on Wednesday evenings at Sacred Heart.
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www.waterloocatholics.org/adultfaith/earth.htm
f. "The Infrequent Catholic's Guide to Lent" will meet on
Sunday, Feb. 28, at
Sacred Heart.
g. "The Infrequent Catholic's Guide to Reconciliation" will
meet on Sunday, March
21, at Sacred Heart.
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www.waterloocatholics.org/adultfaith/confessionguide.htm
h. Local CEW weekends will be held
March 5-7 for women and March 19-21 for
men at Don Bosco High School in Gilbertville.
C. Young Adults
(Strategic Plan E.3.e)
1. St. Pat's and the Waterloo parishes will sponsor an
evening of live music for young adults (age 21 and older) Feb. 6
at The HuB in Cedar Falls. Music will be provided by "Elev8."
The parishes will provide reduced admission tickets and door
prizes.
D. Social Concerns
(Strategic Plan L.3)
1. Social Concerns and Social Justice
a. About 40 people participated in the Hunger Banquet
sponsored by adult
formation and Waterloo Catholic Youth Ministry Jan. 31 at Queen of Peace.
b. The "Living with Less" workshop scheduled for Feb.
22 was cancelled due to the
low number of registrations.
c. Brian Terrell of the Des Moines Catholic Worker community
will be the
presenter for the Social Justice Lenten Retreat March
6 at Sacred Heart.
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www.waterloocatholics.org/adultfaith/sjlentenretreat10.htm
d. Dr. Erick Camayd-Freixas will address the
relationship between "Immigrant
Rights and American Values" in a
lecture March 9 at St. Stephen Student
Center.
2. Interfaith Relations
a. The parishes and St. Stephen Student Center will co-host a
lecture on Tibetan
Buddhist culture and religion by Geshe
Thupten Dorjee April 14 at St.
Stephens.
E. AFF Outreach, Administration and Communication (Strategic
Plan L.1.c)
1. Resources for Lenten prayer and study are available on the
website at
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www.waterloocatholics.org/adultfaith/lentresources.htm.
F. Attachments
1. March Calendar
2. March AFF Facilitators
Respectfully submitted,
Dave Cushing
Posted
02.23.10
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