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Our 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
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
The 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.
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
Karen Rinefierd, Pastoral Planning Liaison
328-3228, ext 1255
Bernard Grizard, Diocesan Director
328-3228, ext. 1337
