Rural Ministry

rural minnistryOur Rural Parishes and Towns:

A Portrait of Who We Are and What We Can Be

November 15, 2008

8:30am-3:00pm

A New Commitment to Powerful Lay Ministry & Service

A Visit by Paul Wilkes

Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel

16 North Franklin Street

Watkins Glen, NY 14891

www.watkinsglenharborhotel.com

For more info:  call (585) 328-3228, ext 1328

dhousel@dor.org

Registration:   $15.00/person

Includes Lunch

Deadline:  November 1, 2008

Make checks payable

Diocese of Rochester:

c/o Parish Support Ministries

1150 Buffalo Road

Rochester NY  14624

 

Paul Wilkes

Author, Speaker & Documentary Film Producer

pual wilkesThe author of eighteen non-fiction books, a novel, and the host, writer, director or producer of seven PBS documentaries.  Paul has written and lectured extensively about the role of religious belief in public life.  As a commentator on religious belief and Catholic issues, he has appeared many times on all major televisions networks.  Paul was host, writer, and associate producer of the acclaimed television series, SIX AMERICAN FAMILIES.  Among its many citations, SIX AMERICAN FAMILIES won a duPont-Columbia award for documentary excellence.

He has written for numerous national magazines, such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine, and is a former reporter for the Baltimore Sun and the Boulder (Colorado) Daily Camera.

Mr. Wilkes has been honored for his body of work with a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he received his advanced degree, and with a By-Line Award from Marquette University where he graduated.

Please save the date, more information to come.

St Isidore

St. Isidore, the Farmer & St. Mary de la Cabeza

Feast Day: May 15

St. Isidore (1070-1130), patron of rural communities, and the patron of the United States National Rural Life Conference.

Isidore worked all his life as a farm laborer on an estate owned by a wealthy landowner outside Madrid. A simple man, Isidore prayed as he plowed the fields and was sometimes late because he went to morning Mass - but according to legend, angels helped him to make up his share of the work and even overtake the other farm workers in productivity. Isidore and his wife, Maria, were known for their love for the poor.

After her husband's death, Maria lived on until about 1175 as a hermit, visionary and miracle worker. Her relics are carried in processions and pilgrimages around Torrelaguna, Spain, where her head, preserved in a reliquary, is said to have often brought down rain from heaven for the parched countryside. Saint Mary de la Cabeza shares a feast day with her husband on May 15 and also her own on September 9.


For More Information:

Deborah Housel, Pastoral Planning Liaison

328-3228, ext. 1270

dhousel@dor.org

Karen Rinefierd, Pastoral Planning Liaison

328-3228, ext 1255

krinefierd@dor.org

Bernard Grizard, Diocesan Director

328-3228, ext. 1337

bgrizard@dor.org