VIEW PEACEMAKER ROLE IN PASTORAL CARE

 

            The 21st annual Pastoral Care Week (Oct. 24-30) will be noted by more than 70 clergy, Religious and laity who minister at 40 hospitals, nursing homes, hospices and mental health facilities in the Diocese of Brooklyn.

 

            Michael Guglielmo. director of the Pastoral Care of the Sick Office of Catholic Charities, said the primary focus of the week is "to pray for peace and to be peacemakers in our healing ministry to the needy."

 

            The week's theme, "Pastoral Care: Imagining Peace," will be addressed by Father Anthony M. Stanganelli, pastor of Holy Spirit Church, New Hyde Park, L.I., and a pastoral care chaplain at Long Island Jewish Hospital, at a luncheon to be held at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, Thursday, Nov. 4.

           

Chaplains and pastoral ministers will attend the luncheon, which Catholic Charities has sponsered for eight years. Also attending will be 13 interns from the Clinical Pastoral Education program directed by Josephite Sister Julie Houser.

 

            Mr. Guglielmo said the services provided "by these competent caregivers speak to the deep spiritual concerns of every person." He added that "nothing distinguishes institutions as much as the quality of their pastoral care."

 

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10/19/04

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