DIOCESE OF SIOUX CITY WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 FROM THE OFFICES OF: DATES TO REMEMBER Jubilee

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1 GENERAL MAIL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 FROM THE OFFICES OF: TRIBUNAL: Marriage Nullity Workshop VOCATIONS: First Communion Congratulations Cards from Bishop Nickless CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY Ignatian Retreat Opportunity NFPCC: Forging a Future with Pope Francis WORSHIP: Building Project Moratorium Facilitator Reimbursement Policy Fall 2017 Confirmation Dates Welcome to the Associate Director of Worship FEBRUARY, 10, :30 AM Presbyteral Council Meeting Sacred Heart Parish, Early CANCELLED MARCH 05, 2017 Rite of Election St. Mary, Storm Lake 2:00 PM Cathedral, Sioux City 6:00 PM DATES TO REMEMBER MARCH 14, 2017 The Light is ON for You Diocesan wide APRIL 6, :00 PM Chrism Mass Cathedral of the Epiphany Sioux City Clergy Meetings Thursday, March 9, 2017 Lenten Day of Prayer St. Joseph, Milford 9:30 am Thursday, April 27, 2017 Presbyterate Day Meeting Location: TBA 2017 Jubilee Priests & Deacons Monday, May 1, 2017 St. Mary, Storm Lake 4:00 pm Click here to apply for the 2017 Bishop s Scholarship Application Deadline - January 30, 2017

2 The Tribunal To: All Pastors From: Rev. Michael J. Erpelding, Office of Tribunal Date: January 25, 2017 Re: Marriage Nullity Workshops Please advertise these workshops in your church bulletins as appropriate to location: Marriage Nullity Workshops Anyone who would like to learn more about the marriage nullity process in the Catholic Church is invited to attend any of the following workshops. Father Michael Erpelding of the Tribunal of the Diocese of Sioux City will lead these sessions. If planning to attend, please contact Terri at the Tribunal, , or so that adequate supplies are available the evening of the workshop. If you reach the Tribunal voic , please leave your name, phone number, the session you plan to attend and how many are coming. Spencer Monday, April 24, 2017, at 6:00 pm Sacred Heart, th Ave. W. [Fireside Room; park behind the church (North side), go in the East door. The room is on your left.] Denison Monday, May 8, 2017, at 6:00 pm St. Rose of Lima, nd Ave. S. [Family Room in the church; Enter the West end door (the church faces South) and turn right.] Sioux City Monday, May 22, 2017, at 6:00 pm Nativity, 4243 Natalia Way. [Mater Dei Library; enter the school office door.] 1825 Jackson Street P. O. Box 3379 Sioux City, Iowa Phone: (712) Fax: (712)

3 To: From: DIOCESE OF SIOUX CITY Office of Vocations and Seminarians Memo All Pastors Fr. Shane Deman Director, Office of Vocations Subject: First Communion Congratulations Cards from Bishop Nickless Greetings! As our winter weather makes way for springtime, so too are we looking forward to the sacramental celebrations that will be taking place in your parishes in the coming months. Every year Bishop Nickless gives a congratulatory card to the second-graders of the Diocese as they receive their First Holy Communion. To facilitate this, we are asking each parish to send to the Vocations Office the count of their second-graders (Catholic School and Religious Ed.) who will be receiving their First Holy Communion this spring. Pastors, please include all parishes if you oversee a cluster. Taking care of this at this time enables us to order and prepare the cards for you. We will then provide you with that number of cards so they can be included with the child s First Communion certificate. The cards are available in English or in Spanish. Please indicate how many you will need of each. Subject: A Practical Guide to Confession If you ll remember last fall, the Vocation Office made available to you a new Confession Guide for Teenagers. We have replenished our supply and more guides are available as we near the Lenten Season. They are printed in English and Spanish. Let us know the amount you would like and we ll get them packaged up for you. Both the Confession Guides and First Communion cards can be delivered for you to pick up during our Lenten Day of Reflection (March 9, 2017). If you need your guides or cards prior to that time please let me know. Thank you for your cooperation and prompt response (the deadline is Feb 23, 2017). You may contact the Vocations office with your count by calling my assistant Michelle Steinbach at (712) or ing her at michelles@scdiocese.org Again, thank you for this and all your assistance in promoting vocations in your parish!

4 Office of Worship Memo To: All Priests From: Fr. Lingle Date: 1/23/2017 Re: Building Project Moratorium In September of 2015 we asked for a moratorium on building projects as the pastoral planning process unfolded in order to not offer people a false sense of hope in regards to the status of their parishes. Since the plan and process has proceeded forward and we now enter into the cluster phase of planning we have lifted the moratorium on building projects and you may proceed accordingly. Please be mindful that we will not approve any projects at this time for those places that are proposed for oratory while the pastoral planning process moves forward. Please remember it is diocesan policy that any building projects that meet the threshold of a resolution be ran through the Diocesan Building Commission. This would include initial consultation before a project is started and a resolution is submitted. This allows us to assist you with the various steps involved as well as to give the Bishop an opportunity for input. Any work done on the structure of the Church itself, inside or out, no matter what the total amount is, must be processed through the commission Jackson Street P. O. Box 3379 Sioux City, Iowa Phone: Fax:

5 Office of Pastoral Planning Memo To: Pastors From: Fr. Lingle Date: 1/23/2017 Re: Ministry 2025 Policy regarding Facilitators On January 12, 2017, the presbyteral council unanimously approved a policy regarding the reimbursement of facilitators for the cluster phase of pastoral planning for Ministry Facilitators will be reimbursed for mileage at the current IRS mileage rate (53.5 cents per mile) for travel to the training day on March 4, 2017 at Saint Mary s, Storm Lake from the parish to which they belong. Facilitators will be offered a standard stipend of $75/meeting plus mileage, for each meeting they facilitate, by the parish(es) comprising that new parish/cluster unit. We will inform the facilitators of these policies at the training day. As pastors please make sure that the facilitators are properly reimbursed for their work Jackson Street P. O. Box 3379 Sioux City, Iowa Phone: Fax:

6 Office of Worship Memo To: Pastors From: Fr. Lingle Date: 1/23/2017 Re: Fall 2017 Confirmation Dates Many of you have inquired about scheduling dates with Bishop Nickless for Confirmation in the fall of With the pastoral planning process taking place over the next several months we are holding off on setting any dates for the fall. We want to encourage the clusters to discuss Confirmation as part of the planning process and encourage cooperation and sharing across parish boundaries, combining celebrations of Confirmation with other parishes and clusters when possible. We will notify you when the Bishop s office begins to take requests for fall Confirmation dates Jackson Street P. O. Box 3379 Sioux City, Iowa Phone: Fax:

7 Office of Worship Memo To: All Priests From: Fr. Lingle Date: 1/24/2017 Re: Welcome to the Associate Director of Worship It is with great joy the Office of Worship announces the addition of Sister Esther Mary Nickel, R.S.M. as our Associate Director of Worship. Sister Esther officially begins her duties in the chancery office on January 26, She will be working on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays before returning to the convent in Jackson, Minnesota to be with her community. Sister Esther will be helping with various projects in the office as well as assisting in other areas of ministry in the chancery and throughout the diocese. Please join me in extending a warm welcome to Sister! We look forward to her giving our clergy day on April 27, She has provided a brief bio below. Sister Esther Mary Nickel, RSM, Ph.D., S.L.D. is a member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan. She has a Doctorate in Sacred Liturgy from the Pontifical Institute for the Liturgy at Saint Anselm s in Rome. Her studies fostered a deep appreciation for the liturgical life of the Church. From she served the Church as a Professor of Sacred Liturgy and Sacramental Theology at Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, Colorado. In addition, she has a Ph.D. in Agronomy from the University of Minnesota. Before her theological studies in Rome she was responsible for her community farm in Southwest Minnesota and conducted research in sustainable agriculture. Sister Esther Mary has returned to Jackson Minnesota where she resides at the Convent of her Religious Community and has an office at Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center in Jackson. This is a Catholic Medical Clinic owned and staffed by the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma since Jackson Street P. O. Box 3379 Sioux City, Iowa Phone: Fax:

8 Creighton UNIVERSITY Christian Spirituality Pro gram fanuary 19,2Ot7 Ignatian Retreat Opportunity Each summer, the Christian Spirituality Program at Creighton University holds an eight day, silent, directed lgnatian Retreat at the Creighton Uníversity Retreat Center near Griswold, lowa. This year, we are holdingthree, separate retreats! Please share the information below. Creighton University's Christian Spirituality Program invites you to contemplate, relax, revel, and enjoy God's working in your life and to participate in a silent, eight day, individually directed, lgnatian Retreat at a lovely quiet setting in western lowa on the banks of the East Nishnabotna River at the Creighton University Retreat Center. We have three retreats to fit your schedule. March 6 - L5,2Ot7 June L - 10,20L7 July 3L - August 9,2017 Contact Colleen Hastings by at csp@creighton.edu or call for more information and to register. 4 A?-'--4+ Colleen Hastings Ad min istrative Assista nt Christian Spirituality Program 2500 CaliforniaPlaza. Omaha, NE phone 402,280,2424.flax ,2+23. toll free csp@creighton,edu

9 Creighton University s Christian Spirituality Program Invites You to contemplate, relax, revel, and enjoy God s working in your life... to participate in a silent, eight day, directed retreat The nature of this retreat is such that there is minimal scheduled time together for the retreatants. There are no group presentations or conferences. Our daily rhythm will consist of three meals taken together in the silent atmosphere of the retreat as well as daily liturgy, the Mass, in which persons of all faith traditions are invited to participate. Each retreatant will be matched with a spiritual director based on the information provided in the application process. The focus of the daily spiritual direction sessions will be the retreatant s prayer experience, their experience of God in the stuff of their daily life, what they are noticing about how God is present and so forth. Basically, the retreat is a time of being (rather that doing), a time of entering more deeply into one s relationship with God. The spiritual director might suggest some particular Scripture passages to assist retreatants in staying grounded in their own experience of life, what they might sense that God is calling them to focus on at this point in their lives. You may wonder why Ignatian is in the title. Briefly, this implies a kind of underlying theme of the Spiritual Exercises, namely, that because we are loved by God unconditionally, we are invited to enter more fully - with our whole selves - into a relationship with Christ that results in our coming to view ourselves more consciously as participating in Christ s mission, in the Kingdom of God where the tire hits the road in our lives. Sr. Janice Bachman, O.P., Director of Practica,Graduate Program in Christian Spirituality, Creighton University Directors will be Christian Spirituality students supervised by faculty members and trained in the evocative and contemplative approach of spiritual direction. Space is limited and registrations are made in the order received. Please complete the registration form below to enroll for the retreat. A $100 non-refundable deposit is required to hold your registration. Payments of checks (payable to Creighton University) and credit cards are accepted. The completed form can be electronically transmitted to us as an attachment via to csp@creighton.edu; or faxed to (402) ; or can be mailed to: Colleen Hastings Creighton University 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE Please contact Colleen Hastings at (402) for more information. NAME: ADDRESS: R E G I S T R A T I O N I N F O R M A T I O N CITY: STATE: ZIP: PHONE 1: Three Retreat Dates in 2017 to fit Your Schedule Creighton University Retreat Center, Griswold, Iowa $650 includes room, meals, and daily spiritual direction RETREAT: March 6-15, 2017 June 1-10, 2017 July 31-August 9, 2017 P A Y M E N T I N F O R M A T I O N TYPE: Check (enclosed) Credit Card Other AMOUNT: $100 deposit $650 full cost Other For CREDIT CARD payment, please complete the following information: CC BRAND: EXPIRATION MO. /YR.: CC NUMBER:

10 Please Join Us! National Federation of Priests Councils 49th Annual Convocation ALL PRIESTS WELCOME! April 24 th 27 th Anaheim, CA Formerly, National Federation of Priests Councils Delegate Convention, now Annual Convocation for all Catholic Priests Serving in the United States A time to truly celebrate the intimate sacramental brotherhood. Prayer, presentations, discussion, fellowship and great food, plus time for relaxation and sight-seeing. Our goal is to nourish your body, mind and soul, and return you to your ministry rejuvenated and encouraged, with a network of contacts to keep you connected and supported. By becoming better priests, brothers with one another in Christ, we can better model for our people the Kingdom of God in our midst, in communion, brotherhood, and solidarity.

11 Speaker Lineup: Bishop Robert McElroy The Pastoral Theology of Pope Francis Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego Kevin Appleby, Immigration Former USCCB Director of Migration Policy and Public Affairs, Current Senior Director of International Migration Policy for the Center for Migration Studies and the Scalabrini International Migration Network Fr. Ken Simpson, Millennials Archdiocese of Chicago Former chaplain at Northwestern University for 15 years current pastor St. Clement, 4,200 family parish in Lincoln Park Fr. Luke Ballman, USCCB Report on Clergy, Consecrated Life & Vocations Associate Executive Director, USCCB CCLV Bishop Arturo Cepeda, Main Celebrant & Homilist of Tuesday Convocation Liturgy to be held at Christ Cathedral Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit, Episcopal Liaison to NFPC PLUS Tour of Orange Diocese s Christ Cathedral! REGISTRATION: Convocation Preliminary Schedule To Register for the Convocation To Reserve your room at the Majestic Garden Hotel VENDORS/SPONSORSHIP: To Exhibit at the NFPC Convocation To be a Sponsor of the NFPC Convocation Please help us spread the word...feel free to forward this info to anyone you know would benefit. Contact us with any questions, or for assistance in registration: The National Federation of Priests Councils 333 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1114 Chicago, IL Toll free: NFPC (6372) Phone: nfpc@nfpc.org