Mark your calendar now for NOCERCC’s

Thirty-Sixth Annual NOCERCC National Convention

February 16- 19, 2009

Embassy Suites Hotel Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

 Join the NOCERCC community in reflecting on the ministry of the Word.  In keeping with the Church's tradition that the teaching office is the "first task and responsibility of priests" (US bishops' The Basic Plan for the Ongoing Formation of Priests, p. 17) and following up on the 2008 Synod of Bishops on the Word of God in the life and mission of the Church, NOCERCC’s 2009 convention explores how ongoing formation can support priests in ever more faithfully and effectively carrying out the teaching office.

The Archdiocese of Santa Fe welcomes the NOCERCC community to Albuquerque.  With its diverse Southwest heritage, Albuquerque offers a rich opportunity for our convention to consider how ongoing formation in the ministry of the Word encounters contemporary culture and equips priests to preach the Word of God “as leaven in a pluralistic and secularized world” (2008 Synod of Bishops, preparatory document, no. 31).

Watch for more information about our exciting 2009 convention.

For Directors and Others New to This Ministry

New Directors Workshop

Weekend before convention: February 14, 7:00 pm- February 15, 5:00 pm

Also at Embassy Suites Hotel Albuquerque

News Notes

Current Issue

Click here to view the current issue of NOCERCC’s membership newsletter.  News Notes connects the NOCERCC community and offers:

·         Information on NOCERCC conventions, programs, publications, and other services;

·         A forum for sharing resources and ideas, including Tool Box—featuring diocesan and religious community directors of ongoing formation and resources that have proved helpful and fruitful for their presbyterate or community;

·         Interviews with distinguished practitioners;

·         Listings of events of interest to the ongoing formation community;

·         Spiritual and pastoral reflections;

·    Updates from NOCERCC’s elected leaders and National   

      Office.

Cultivating Unity

Cultivating Unity is a pastoral initiative of  NOCERCC, in partnership with CARA, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, to foster the unity of priests and bishops, in response to The Basic Plan for the Ongoing Formation of Priests, promulgated by the Catholic bishops of the United States in 2000.  Cultivating Unity is intended to be a transformational process engaging the entire diocesan presbyterate with its bishop in frank and faith-centered dialogue leading to a common rededication to priestly ministry.

Click here for more information.

2007 NOCERCC

Election

for Religious Councilors

Basic Plan for the Ongoing Formation of Priests

Summer Preaching Institute 

Aquinas Institute of Theology invites applicants for its Summer Preaching Institute, a three-year cycle of intensive two-week courses held at Aquinas in St. Louis, Missouri.  Click here for more information. 

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Mission
Statement

The National Organization for Continuing Education of Roman Catholic Clergy (NOCERCC) is a membership association of dioceses, religious communities, and other interested organizations and individuals committed to the Church’s mission to promote and support ongoing formation for priests and presbyterates.

By engaging in dialogue about contemporary pastoral needs and realities, by sponsoring research on issues of presbyteral formation, and by offering educational opportunities, NOCERCC collaborates with others to foster a culture of formation within the Church for bishops, priests, deacons, and all the Church’s ministers.

In this way NOCERCC promotes ongoing formation and assists and encourages faithful, healthy, holy and effective ministry in the Church.

Adopted by Board of Directors, June 23, 2005

Approved by NOCERCC Membership, February 22, 2006

NOCERCC National Office

333 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1205

Chicago, IL 60601 USA

Telephone: 312-781-9450

Fax: 312-442-9709

Email: nocercc@nocercc.org

Website: www.nocercc.org

National Office Coordinator 

  Patricia Bonilla Ext. 216 Email: pbonilla@nocercc.org

Director of Stewardship and Communications
  Lisa M. Wagner Ext. 215 Email: lwagner@nocercc.org

Executive Director               

  James H. Alphen  Ext. 214  Email: jalphen@nocercc.org