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Mission Statement
The mission of the
Pastoral Care and Life Initiatives Office is to enhance and
enrich family life by supporting parishes in their ministry to families
within the Archdiocese.
| DIRECTOR: |
John MacDonald |
ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSISTANT:
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Gloria Pigat
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| ADDRESS: |
Catholic Pastoral Centre,
8421 - 101
Avenue,
Edmonton, AB T6A 0L1 |
| PHONE: |
John (780)469-1010 ext.249;
Gloria
(780)469-1010 ext. 247
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| FAX: |
(780) 465-3003 |
| E-Mail: |
pastoralcareandlife@edmontoncatholic-church.com |
We are here as a resource to support, nurture, encourage and serve
family life in all its diversity primarily through parishes but also at
an archdiocesan level. We offer programs, referrals and information
that are focused on families living healthy, joy filled and meaningful
lives.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Check back again.
The following is a partial list of the services we
either provide or connect to through referrals:
NEW RESOURCES
The Office of
Pastoral Care and Life Initiatives has a number of recent
additions to our resource and lending library. Books, CDs and DVDs are
available on pro-life issues such as bioethics, pornography, abortion
and euthanasia and on pastoral care concerns such as bereavement,
suffering and same-sex attraction. Please call the office to have look
at the materials and/or arrange to borrow them. Click here
for a list of new resources.
FAMILY LIFE PROGRAMS
- Grief: A Healing Journey - healing from the
loss of a
loved one.
- Courage - a confidential Christian support
ministry for men and women struggling with same-sex-attraction. If you
are struggling with your sexual identity and would like to talk to
someone, in safety and confidentiality, to see if Courage might help
you in your struggle, then give us a call. In addition to safety, the
ministry also offers acceptance, understanding, support, spiritual
direction, sincere friendship and a Christian alternative to the usual
same-sex lifestyle. For more information please phone John in complete
confidence (NO call display) at 780-469-1010 ext. 249 or email: courage@edmontoncatholic-church.com
and check the international website at www.CourageRC.net
- Encourage - a confidential Christian support
ministry for the friends
and loved ones of men and women struggling with same-sex-attraction.
This ministry, through prayer and dialogue, works at understanding the
same-sex-attraction issue and at coming to peace with its impact on
their lives. The Encourage ministry, in addition to confidentiality and
safety, offers understanding, education, support and friendship as
people find new ways to love and accept the person caught up in a
same-sex lifestyle. If you think the Encourage ministry might help,
please call, in confidence (NO call display), John at 780-469-1010
ext.249 and/or check the international website at www.CourageRC.net .
- Spiritual Direction.
HEALTH AND PASTORAL MINISTRIES
- Pastoral Care Visitor's Certificate Program -
Watch this space for details of upcoming training workshops.
- Parish Nursing Initiative and Promotion
- Promotion of parish chapters (by St. Vincent de
Paul).
- Grief and Bereavement Certificate Program -
Watch this space for details of upcoming training workshops.
CATHOLIC LIFE ISSUES
- Choose Life Workshop.
- Project Rachel and Rachel’s Vineyard ~ healing
the
wound of abortion (Edmonton 424-4538) (Lloydminster 871-3584) www.rachelsvineyard.com
- Education and awareness initiatives on the
sanctity
of Human Life Issues
- Human Life Matters -ecumenical advocacy for
disabled
and life issues
SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS
- Annual Sanctity of Human Life Celebration
Sunday
(first Sunday in October).
- Annual Celebration of Life Mass, December 12,
the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
- Annual celebration of World Day of the
Sick, celebrated on Febraury 11, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
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