Dear Friends,
At this time of joy and gratitude for the coming of our Savior, we have indeed good cause to be Pilgrims of Hope on the Path to Peace which is the theme of the upcoming World Jubilee for Consecrated life in 2025.
Looking back we rejoice for the pilgrimages to Indianapolis last summer for the Eucharistic Congress to reignite belief in and strengthen our love for the Eucharist as the central mystery and miracle of Christian life.
This coming January will see the initiation of a series of virtual sessions for 48 of those in formation across our conference. Spearheaded by Father Scott Jones from Priests of the Institute of the Heart of Jesus, these pilgrims on the way to profession will be together to bear witness to each other and learn about secular institutes. The first presenter is Father John O’Neill of Voluntas Dei.
Also in January 2025, a new effort begins for the first ever SEEK conference on the east coast in Washington D.C. There will be 6-8 members of secular institutes working for vocation promotion here and at the conference in Utah.
And on February 2nd 2025 our conference will participate in the National Virtual Meeting for Consecrated Life in the United State virtual prayer service with four other conferences. Joan Patton (Apostolic Ob-lates), Maritina Paniagua (Missionaries of the Kingship of Christ), and Fr Scott Jones will be our pray-ers. Please use link this to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/
We look forward to giving glory to God and praising His Mother as we begin this year as pilgrims of hope on the path to peace.
Sue Larkin
