Dominican Life
& Mission:
• Columbus
Table Responses
• New
Orleans Table Responses
Dreams for Reconfiguration:
• Columbus
Table Responses
• New
Orleans Table Responses
Meeting Docs:
• Schedule
• Opening
Ritual
• Sat.
Morning Prayer
• Eucharist
Worship Aid
• Sun.
Morning Prayer
• Final
Prayer
• Subcommittee
Reports
Photo Shows:
• Opening
Ritual
• Sat.
Morning Prayer
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In
September 2004, members of the seven Cluster congregations met together
for the first time as part of the second
discernment cycle. These two Cluster Inter-Congregational Gatherings
took place in Columbus (Sept 10-12) and New Orleans (Sept 24-26). The
program
included:
 Friday
Night: an opening
prayer ritual introducing the theme "A Journey in Faith"
(click here
to see a photo show)- Saturday Morning: A morning
prayer (click here
to see a photo show) followed by a video depicting the sacred stories/congregational
histories of the Cluster congregations, and a table project where
sisters creative a symbol to celebrate the sacred stories
- Saturday Early Afternoon: Tables discussed their
lived experiences of Dominican Life and Mission and
as a group submitted their responses for the Documents
and Structures Task Force to review (click to see compilations
of all the responses from the Columbus
and New
Orleans gatherings)
- Saturday Later Afternoon: Sisters read reports
from each of the Cluster Coordinating Committee Subcommittees/Task
Force and formulate table responses as input to them
- Saturday Evening: After celebrating the Eucharist,
the Sisters enjoyed social time with one another
- Sunday Morning: After morning
prayer, the Sisters first viewed a compilation of responses from
the discussion on Dominican Life and Mission from the previous day.
Afterward, the Sisters discussed their individual dreams of what a
reconfiguration might look like, and wrote them down as table responses.
(Click to see compilations of all the dreams and ideas from the Columbus
and New
Orleans gatherings.) Finally, a prayer
of sending forth closed the weekend before a noon-time lunch.
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