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Program
schedule
Theme:
“Our Carmelite Saints and their Families:
Inspiration for Us Today”
Here
is our list of impressive speakers, with the topic of their conference,
and a
biography:
title to be announced
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Fr.
Aloysius Deeney, OCD was born in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
and was ordained to the priesthood in 1974.
He is a member of the Oklahoma Province of Discalced Carmelite Friars.
After much experience with the Secular Order and after serving as
Provincial of his Province from 1990-1998, he was appointed OCDS General
Delegate, based in Rome.
He has recently been re-appointed for a third term.
It was under the guidance of Fr. Aloysius that the OCDS Constitutions
were written and ultimately approved by the Holy See in 2003.
Fr. Aloysius travels extensively in his ministry to the Secular Order.
We are honored and grateful that he is coming to
Bakersfield to attend our Congress. |
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Rev. Mother Regina Marie, OCD
“A Shower of Roses (and Thorns!) in Community Life and Family Life”
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Mother
Regina Marie, OCD was born in Detroit
and raised in
Los Angeles.
For the past thirty-seven years she has been a member of the Carmelite
Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles, whose charism is to foster the
spiritual life among those whom they serve.
Mother has fulfilled this charism as a junior-high teacher, as Directress
of Novices and Postulants, and as the Vocation Directress of the Carmelite
Sisters.
For the past nine years,
she has served her Congregation as Superior General.
Mother is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Council of Major
Superiors of Women Religious in the United States.
Her professional training includes a Masters degree in Theology and
Christian Ministry from the
Franciscan
University in
Steubenville,
Ohio.
Mother Regina Marie has extensive speaking experience and uses this gift,
along with her sense of humor and experience, to encourage others to draw ever
closer to God. |
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Fr. Christopher La Rocca, OCD
“Called to
Carmel, Called to
Communion”
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Fr.
Christopher La Rocca, OCD is a native of San Francisco and a graduate of the
University of
San Francisco.
After a teaching career, he entered the California-Arizona Province of
Discalced Carmelites.
He studied
philosophy and theology at the Teresianum, the Carmelites’ Pontifical Faculty in
Rome.
He was ordained to the priesthood in 1997.
Fr. Christopher is now Rector and Master of Students at the Carmelite
House of Studies in Mt. Angel,
Oregon.
He is Vicar Provincial of the California-Arizona Province.
He is much in demand as a retreat master and speaker. |
“The Discalced Carmelites: A Family Called to Joy”
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Fr. Ramiro
Casale, OCD was born and raised in Zacatecas,
Mexico.
He is the tenth of eleven children.
While discerning his vocation to Carmel, he came to the
Discalced
Carmelite
Province
in the Western United States.
After his novitiate in San Jose, he studied philosophy and literature
at Mount Angel Seminary.
He
continued his theology studies at the Teresianum, the Carmelites’ Pontifical
Faculty in
Rome.
During this time, Fr. Ramiro was elected president of the student body at
the Teresianum.
Then he was elected student representative of all the pontifical universities in
Rome.
Fr.
Ramiro was ordained a priest on June 20, 2009 at St. Therese Parish in
Alhambra.
At
present, he is Director of the Carmelite Institute of Spirituality in
Stanwood,
Washington. |
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Dr. Rosemarie Ludwig, OCDS
“From
Trial to Triumph: Léonie Martin, Patron of Youth”
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Dr.
Rosemarie B. Ludwig, Ph.D., OCDS was born in Munich,
Germany.
She has been a Licensed Professional Counselor for over thirty years,
working with children and adults.
Rosemarie is a Byzantine Catholic, a wife, mother, professor, counselor, writer,
and former Catholic nun.
She loves
to pray, read, hike, travel, and sing.
She is now the President of the St. Joseph OCDS Community in
Phoenix,
Arizona. |
“The Family Three Ring Circus: Tension, Dissension, and
Reconciliation”
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Cindy
Sliger, OCDS was born and raised in Ogden,
Utah.
Her loving parents and two sisters are all life-long, faithful members of
the LDS church (Mormons).
Cindy
converted to the Catholic Church in 1984.
She is a happily married homemaker with four daughters and one
grandchild.
She lives in
Sammamish,
Washington, near
Seattle.
She
is currently President of the St. Joseph OCDS Community.
Cindy has served on the OCDS National Council and was a member of our
Province’s OCDS Formation Task Force.
She is presently the secretary for the OCDS Provincial Council. |
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Presentation by Fr. Matthew Williams, OCD (Provincial)
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Presentation by the OCDS Provincial Council
Chris
Hart, OCDS (Eugene Community)
Thomas Moore, OCDS (Coeur
d’Alene Community)
Doreen Glynn Pawski, OCDS (San
Franciso Cristo Rey Community)
Ann Seargeant, OCDS (Albuquerque
Community)
Cindy Sliger, OCDS (Seattle St.
Joseph’s Community)
Fr. Donald Kinney, OCD (OCDS
Provincial Delegate)
Liturgies
Thursday, June 24
Mass and Divine Office of the Solemnity of the Birth of St.
John the Baptist
Fr. Donald Kinney, OCD
OCDS Provincial Delegate
principal celebrant and homilist at the Eucharist
Friday, June 25
Votive Mass and Divine Office of Bl. Louis and Zélie Martin,
(with the recently-approved Mass prayers and readings for their feast)
Most Reverend John Steinbock
Bishop of the Diocese of
Fresno
principal celebrant
at the Eucharist
Rev. Msgr. Stephen Frost, OCDS
homilist
(Msgr. Frost is the Spiritual Assistant of the Bakersfield OCDS Community.)
Saturday, June 26
Votive Mass and Divine Office of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Very Reverend Matthew Williams, OCD
Provincial, California-Arizona Province
principal celebrant and homilist
at the Eucharist
Sunday, June 27
Very Reverend Aloysius Deeney, OCD
OCDS General Delegate
principal celebrant and homilist
at the Eucharist
(These activities may be subject to change.)
St. Edith
Stein wrote, “When we enter the Order, we again become members of a family.”
Since
“family” is the theme of this Congress, we look forward to meeting and getting
to know our Carmelite priests and brothers in the Western Province,
other Carmelite priests and Secular Order members from around the country, and
Spiritual Assistants who will attend.
May this
Congress help us to strengthen the bonds with our great Carmelite family and to
reach out to strengthen family life in our world today!
Come join us!
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