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Friday, May 18--
  9:00 – 5:00   Chapter Leaders Meeting - (Conference Room)
  3:00 pm        Registration opens
  5:00-7:00      Dinner on your own (several restaurants within                                                                             walking distance)
7:00 pm         Welcoming Ceremony (Cascade Ballroom)
7:30 pm         Opening General Session: (Cascade Ballroom)
                                Roy Bourgeois –
                                                       The Struggle for Gender Equality in the Catholic Church
8:30 pm          Hospitality Suite open

Saturday, May 19--
(Exhibits open - 8:00 am – 9:00 pm)
7:00 – 7:30 am       Morning Prayer Service
7:00-8:30 am           Breakfast
8:45 –9:45 am       General Session II: (Cascade Ballroom)
                                              Miriam Therese Winter –
                                                               In and Through the Spirit: the Gift of Vatican II

10:45-12:00 am      Breakout Sessions:
#1: Kathleen Nissila – Forgiveness: A Key to Healing and Authentic                                                                         Relationship
#2: Miriam Therese Winter – Discerning the Spirit in a Quantum Universe
#3: MaryAnn Dickey, Jackie Rossini, Sue-Rae Bell – Working for Justice for all Women in the
                               Catholic Chruch presented by  One Spirit One Call –                                                   #4: Brian Brandt – Creationtide:Care for Creation in an Ecology of Grace

12:15-1:30 pm          Lunch

1:45-3:00 pm           Breakout Sessions:
#1: Joy Wallace and Gene Hornof – Creating a Parish Where Gay People Are                                                  Welcome
#2: Toni Tortorilla and Sandi DeMaster – Primacy of Conscience: Bedrock of                                                                                Vatican II
#3:  Fran Ferder and John Heagle – No Greater Love: the Path to True                                                                        Intimacy
#4: Otto Schlumpf and Denis Dennehy – Intentional Eucharistic Communities

3:30-4:45 pm            Breakout Sessions:
#1: Suzanne Thiel and Diane Whalen – film: Pink Smoke Over the Vatican
#2: Cecilia Ranger – One River, Many Streams: Flow of Vatican II Document                                                     on Ecumenism                                                               
#3: Susan Francois - Joys, Hopes and Infamies in the 21st Century:                                                                     Immigration and Human Trafficking
#4: Roy Bourgeois–The Struggle for Justice in Latin America

4:45-6:00 pm           Exhibits/Author signings
                                                 Choir practice/liturgy rehearsal
6:00-7:30 pm           Dinner
7:30-8:30 pm          Entertainment: "Femina Satirica: Laugh in Translation"
                                                            with Melinda Pittman and Adam Brock
                                                 followed by sing-along

Sunday, May 20--
7:00-8:30 am            Breakfast
9:00-10:00 am        General Session III: (Cascade Ballroom)
                                                 Fran Ferder and John Heagle –
                                                      Living the Vision of Vatican II
10:30 am                    Closing Liturgy (Cascade Ballroom)


Throughout Saturday at the Conference there will be vendor tables for both "for profit" and non-profit organizations.
Free non-profit tables available at Conference
Your non-profit organization is welcome to set up a table at the conference. There is NO charge for this "table only" and you need not be there during the conference. For more information, contact Dianna at 503.281.5405.