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Deacons to gather Sept. 20–22 at Eagle Eyrie Center

The second annual Diaconate Convocation will take place Thursday to Saturday, Sept. 20–22, 2007 at the Eagle Eyrie Conference Center near Lynchburg. “The Convocation promises to be an exciting event,” said Deacon Bob Ewan, Associate Director of the Office of the Vicar for Clergy. “We will have an opportunity to reunite with fellow deacons and their wives in a relaxing setting.

“We will share in prayer and fellowship and will have an opportunity to become engaged in presentations and workshops that are relevant to our lives as deacons and to several important and timely programs affecting our diocese.”

Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo is expected to speak to the deacons on Saturday morning.

The main speakers will be Father Anthony Ciorra, currently Dean of the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education at Fordham University, and Deacon Tom Schultz of the Diocese of Buffalo, and his wife, Gini.

Father Ciorra, ordained a priest in 1973, is the weekend associate at St. Vincent Martyr parish in Madison, N.J. He is actively involved in creating programs for inter-religious dialogue among Christians, Jews and Muslims.

Deacon Schultz and his wife, Gini, have been married 46 years and are parents of three adult children and have nine grandchildren. Gini is a spiritual director and has been part of a team of spiritual directors for the 19th Annotation — the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola for the past 19 years.

Formal events will begin with evening prayer on Thursday evening.

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