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Thursday
6:30 am – 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am-Noon
Registration and Housing Check-In
(St. Joseph’s Center – Seminar Room)
8:30 am – Noon
MORNING SESSION
Gathering Music – WAL
Holy Mass Sacrifice of the Mass
Celebrant/Homilist: Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archdiocese of Chicago
“Pope Francis’ Understanding of Vocations” – Cardinal Blase Cupich
Moderated Panel Discussion:
- Fr. Joseph Espaillat
Archdiocese of New York - Dr. Tracey Lamont
Loyola University New Orleans
(Loyola Institute for Ministry) - Katie Prejean McGrady
Mother, Author, and Educator
Pre-Synod Delegate - Barbara McCrabb
USCCB Catholic Education
Higher Education - Brian Rhude
Catholic University of America Student, Post-Synod Delegate - Darius Villalobos
NFCYM Multicultural Ministry Coordinator,
National Dialogue Core Team
Noon – 1:30 pm
Lunch
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Academic Lunch Gathering (Antonian Hall)
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
AFTERNOON SESSION
Praise and Worship – WAL
Moderated Panel Discussion:
- Nicole Perone Grosso, Archdiocese of Hartford; Pre-Synod Delegate
- Danielle Brown, USCCB Ad Hoc Committee on Racism
- Jason Evert, Chastity Educator and Motivational Speaker
- John Grosso, Diocese of Bridgeport Digital Director
- Kristin Witte, Catholic Relief Services
- Dr. Theresa Farnan, Author, Educator, and Advocate for Disabilities
3:20 pm – 5:00 pm
Breakout Conversations:
(Finnegan Fieldhouse & Finnegan Fieldhouse Aerobics Room, 2nd floor)
- Junior High Ministry
- Confirmation Preparation
- High School Youth Ministry
- Catholic High Schools
- College Campus Ministry
- Pastoral Juvenil Hispana
- Intercultural Competencies
- Urban Ministry
- Young Adult Ministry
- Religious Discernment
- Marriage Discernment
- Youth on the Margins
- Academics
- Evangelization/Adult Faith
Parents/Families
5:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Dinner
6:45 pm – 9:15 pm
EVENING SESSION
Praise and Worship – WAL
“Roots, Love, and Mission: On the Road Together” – Dr. Timone Davis, Loyola University Chicago
Holy Hour
- Presider: Fr. Dave Pivonka, TOR, Franciscan University
9:15 pm – 10:45 pm
Social
(Outside Fieldhouse & JC Williams Center)
Everyone is welcome to attend – Please come fellowship and meet new friends! Cash bar and food available for purchase.
Wednesday
8:00 am – 8:00 pm
Registration & Housing Check-In
St. Joseph’s Center – Seminar Room
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Praise and Worship – WAL
3:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Opening and Welcome – Dr. Bob Rice, Franciscan University, and Paul Jarzembowski, USCCB Youth and Young Adult Ministries
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
- Celebrant: Bishop Frank Caggiano, Diocese of Bridgeport
- Homilist: Fr. Dave Pivonka, TOR,Franciscan University
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Dinner
6:45 pm – 9:00 pm
EVENING SESSION
Praise and Worship – WAL
“What is the Spirit Saying?” – Bishop Arturo Cepeda, Archdiocese of Detroit
Moderated Panel Discussion:
- Bishop Frank Caggiano, Diocese of Bridgeport; National Dialogue
- Diana Hancharenko, Chair, NATYAM
- Christina Lamas, Executive Director, NFCYM
- Fr. Alejandro Lopez-Cardinale, President, LaRED
- Mike St. Pierre, Executive Director, CCMA
9:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Social
Outside Fieldhouse & JC Williams Center
Everyone is welcome to attend – Please come fellowship & meet new friends!
Cash bar and food available for purchase.
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo
Most Reverend Daniel Cardinal DiNardo
Archbishop of Galveston-Houston
His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo is the metropolitan archbishop of Galveston-Houston and pastor to its 1.7 million-plus Catholics (and the 6.2 million people within the Archdiocese) and 435 priests in 146 parishes and 59 schools spread over 8,880 square miles. His seats are St. Mary Cathedral Basilica in Galveston and the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston.
Born in Steubenville, Ohio, and raised with three siblings in Castle Shannon near Pittsburgh, Cardinal DiNardo attended St. Anne grade school and the Jesuit-run Bishop’s Latin school before enrolling in St. Paul Seminary and Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He received his master’s degree in philosophy from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and degrees of Sacred Theology from both the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome.
He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Pittsburgh on July 16, 1977 and served as parish pastor, seminary professor, spiritual director and in the chancery. From 1984 to 1991, he worked in Rome as a staff member for the Congregation for Bishops, as director of Villa Stritch (the house for American clergy), and as adjunct professor at the Pontifical North American College. In 1991 he returned to Pittsburgh, serving as pastor to several parishes and again in the chancery.
He was appointed coadjutor bishop of Sioux City, Iowa and ordained there as a bishop in October 1997. As his Episcopal motto he adopted: Ave Crux Spes Unica, meaning “Hail the Cross, Our Only Hope.” He succeeded retiring Bishop Lawrence Donald Soens of Sioux City in November of 1998.
He was named coadjutor bishop (later coadjutor archbishop) of Galveston-Houston in January 2004 and succeeded Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza on February 28, 2006. On June 29, 2006, he received the pallium from Pope Benedict XVI. He was elevated to the College of Cardinals in November of 2007 at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. He was designated the titular Church of Sant’Eusebio in Rome.
As a member of the Sacred College, he served as a Cardinal-Elector in the Papal Conclave of 2013, which saw the election of Pope Francis to the See of Peter.
In November of the same year, he was elected by his brother bishops as the Vice-President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for a three-year term. Cardinal DiNardo currently serves as President of the USCCB, having been elected on November 15, 2016.
He is a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture, the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, the Pontifical Council for the Economy, and is on the Board of Trustees of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Fr. Anthony Giambrone, OP
