Is God Calling You To Be

A Chaplain?

To provide you with

sufficient information

to make an

informed decision about

entering this rewarding ministry

Caring, compassionate spirit?

‘Servant heart’ – strong desire to serve?

Deep ‘presence’ to people in crisis?

Comfort with the sick, elderly, dying, lonely, forgotten, stressed?

Delight in hearing others’ stories?

Desire to minister in hospitals, hospices,

long-term care

facilities, the

military, prisons

or corporations?

Please seriously consider becoming

a professional

Catholic Chaplain

Person called by God

Professionally trained

and certified

To minister to people’s

spiritual needs

Within context of

empowering people

to be fully human

Loving presence to those in crisis, ones facing death

Spiritual support consistent with religious traditions

Lead rituals, healing

and memorial services

Serve on multi-discipline team

Represent presence of Sacred

Infuse aura of peace in crisis &

chaos

Resource in ethical &

end-of life issues

Provide expert clinical

pastoral skills for spiritual care

planning

Live in center of God’s will.

God’s plan for your life?

Make a real difference

in people’s lives.

Desire to serve sick,

suffering, in crisis.

Reality of financial stress on institutionsToday – depends on part of countryOngoing demand -- need for trained

professionals in spiritual careWide array of venues –

hospitals, senior care facilities, hospices,

prisons, corporations

Number of Chaplains retiring in next 5 years is significant

Demand for Catholic chaplains will increase -next 3-5 years

Will take time to become professional

chaplain

Take first step today

Prepare for NACC board certification:

Bachelor’s degree (accredited school)

Master’s degree (accredited school) --

theology, divinity, religious studies, pastoral ministry or spirituality.

Completion of 4 CPE units

Ecclesiastical endorsement from Ordinary or religious community head (priests, religious)

For Catholic lay person: recommendation letter from pastor/priest, and endorsement from Bishop/Ordinary as as lay ecclesial health care minister

1. Talk to CPE supervisor in your area2. Complete basic CPE unit3. Apply for Residency program -- 3 more CPE

units4. CPE interns are often hired by institution as

early as second CPE unit5. Check local CPE program requirements for

Master’s degree6. Continue completion of theological

preparation

Being called into the most powerful moments in people’s lives:

Confronting a life-changing diagnosisSaying good-bye to a tiny baby too young

to surviveKeeping vigil with the

dying and familySharing in the joy of good news

Witnessing daily miracles

Knowing that your presence makes a difference in a time of need

Certified chaplains – uniquely qualified to provide professional, in-depth spiritual care to people in crisis

Contact:National Association of Catholic Chaplains

4915 S. Howell Avenue, Suite 501 Milwaukee, WI 53207-5939

dlichter@nacc.org

He will be happy to answer your questionsAnd put you in touch with experienced NACC

board certified chaplain

Thank you!

For your professions, your

ministries

Just some thoughts for

consideration…

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Pastoral

• Motive – Judeo-Christian

• Perspective on person (dignity/destiny)

• Whole person care

• Community of compassion

Spiritual

• The needs we meet

• The spirituality context

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May-June 2018

Volume 99, Number 3

Special Section

A Nurse Finds Pilgrimage to Be Pathway to Renewal

BY CAMILLA M. JAEKEL, MSN, PH.D., RN

Spiritual Distress Is Not Confined by Walls

BY JENNIFER COBB, MDIV, MBA, BCC AND REV. CATHY CHANG, MDIV, BCC

Chaplains, Pope Francis and the Healing Encounter

BY PHILIP ANDERSON, MDIV, BCC AND STEVEN J. SQUIRES, MA, M.ED., PH.D.

Chaplaincy: Identity, Focus and Trends

BY DAVID LICHTER, DMIN

A Reflection on Staying the Course with God

BY SR. MARY THOMAS, PBVM

Creating Spaces for All to Be Well

BY FR. JOSEPH DRISCOLL, D.MIN.

Research Points to Spirituality's Role

BY TRACY A. BALBONI MD, MPH, FAAHPM AND ALEXANDRA NICHIPOR MTS

Opportunity for Catholic Health Care: The Evidence-Based Spiritual Care Paradigm

BY ALLISON DELANEY, MA, BCC, PT AND GEORGE FITCHETT, DMIN, PH.D.

Measuring Pastoral Care Performance

BY CYNTHIA L. CONLEY, PHD, MSW, BEN MILLER, BSSW, AND RABBI DR. NADIA

SIRITSKY, MSSW, BCC

Would Software Have Soothed Fr. Mulcahy?

BY D.W. DONOVAN, D.BIOETHICS, MA, MS, BCC

Is Catholic Health Care Assessing Spirituality?

BY BILL BRINKMANN

The Creative Tensions in Spiritual Care, circa 2018

BY ZAC M. WILLETTE, MDIV, BCC

Chaplains Work to Update Meaning of Spiritual Care

BY DAVID LEWELLEN

Spiritual Care Comes Home

BY LUANN TRUTWIN, MDIV, BCC……

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The system of those

sequential relations that

any event

has to any other,

as past, present, or future;

the passage of time:

College – organization

Rahner

o Theology of Death

o Death in every now.

Personal Conversion

MD’s

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“Spirituality is the aspect of humanity that refers to

the way individuals seek and express

o meaning and purpose and

the way they experience their connectedness

o to the moment,

o to self,

o to others,

o to nature, and

o to the significant or sacred”

(Puchalski et al. 2009).

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4th Edition Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care

“Spirituality is recognized as a

fundamental aspect of

compassionate, patient and

family-centered palliative care.

It is a dynamic and intrinsic aspect of humanity

through which individuals seek meaning,

purpose, and transcendence and

experience relationship to self, family, others,

community, society, and the significant or sacred.

Spirituality is expressed through beliefs, values,

traditions, and practices.”(#)

Meaning

• savoring the world around us

• “It touched me deeply.”

• “It moved me.”

• “It did something to me.”

• more passive than active

David Steindl-Rast

Purpose

• active and in control

• “Take the reins.”

• “Take things in hand.”

• “Keep matters under

control.”

• goal-oriented

• useful activity

http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=2173

Cultivate and nurture time

Connotes “time” as a something – and that it

requires special attention….

How much time do I have?

How much is needed?

How function within time?

How impacted by time?

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Cosmic (gods) and earthly (recurring/

predictable)

Kala means both time and death.

Personified as the god of death, Yama

Illusory, cyclical

Soul - no death -no time

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All permeated by God’s presence – hospitality is

act of worship.

In temple, God only guest – hospitality rituals -

mind on God with love, devotion, and faith

Karma yoga - selfless service to others,

manifestations of God. Namaste

Helping others is transformed into service of God

in everyone and in everything.

Sattvika gift with no expectation of return

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Experience of past to present to future -illusion.

Nirvana -liberation from time and space.

Dzogchen - four dimensions of time (past,

present, future, and timeless time).

Empty of self-nature, disappears

Do not grasp onto time as truly existent

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Atithi devo bhvah – the atithi (guest) is God

Good deed to “unplanned” “unexpected”

Good intention over value of what is given

Plant new roots of virtue

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Reframe meaning of events

Importance of counting days and

years - greater significance than any

particular day itself.

Intense - possibility of living out our deepest

values.

Purposeful - “There is a season for every

purpose under heaven: A time to be born a time

to die… a time for peace and a time for war….

A time to speak and a time for silence.”

(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)

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“greater than welcoming the Divine Presence

[Sh’khinah].”

Passover seder, “Let all who are hard-pressed

come and eat. Let all who are in need come and

share the Passover sacrifice.”

3rd C Babylonian sage Rav Huna every meal: “Let

all who are in need come and eat!”

Host initiates, goes out, asks no question, satisfies

need

Guest blest host

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Valuable resource a blessing

from God to use wiselyo “By Al-’Asr (the time). Verily, man is in loss. Except

those who believe and do righteous good deeds, and

recommend one another to the truth and recommend

one another to patience.” (Quran 103)

o Humankind will remain standing on the Day

of Resurrection until he is asked about four things: his

life and how he spent it, his youth and how he used it

up, his property and how he acquired and managed it

and his knowledge and how he utilized it.

o “Do not curse time (al-dahr), for God is the one who

crafted time. (#)

Muhammad "Whoever believes in God and the

Last Day, let him honor his neighbor; whoever

believes in God and the Last Day, let him honor

his guest as he is entitled."

2 most important beliefs -belief in God and

belief in the Day of Judgment.

Triangular; it consists of host, guest, and God.

Right rather than gift

Duty to host is a duty to God.

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Shared meaning of Kronos

o Kronos – created time- "Teach us to

number our days aright, that we may

gain a heart of wisdom" (Psalm 90:12).

o And Jesus asked: "Are there not twelve

hours of daylight?" (John 11:9).

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Kairos – God’s time, fulfilling God’s purpose,

“God, who does not lie, promised before the

beginning of time [Greek chronon from

"chronos"] and at his appointed season [kairos]

he brought his word to light"

(Titus 1:2-3).

Kairos uses, breaks into chronos.

Mark 1:14-15, “This is ‘the time’

of fulfillment.” CONVERSION

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Luke 12:54-56 Why do you not know how to

interpret “the present time”? EXTRAORDINARY

Luke 19:44 Because you did not recognize “the

time” of your visitation (from God) CRITICAL

TO RECOGNIZE IT

Romans 13:11-13 And do this because you

know “the time”; it is the hour now to awake

from your sleep. NOW

2 Corinthians 6:1-2 In an acceptable “time” I

heard you, on the day of salvation I helped you

GRACED

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By which we will be judged [Mt. 25:35ff].

Jesus depends on it [Mk. 1:29ff.; 2:15ff., etc.]

In the parables [Lk. 10:34-35; 11:5ff, etc.].

God's hospitality core to message [cf. the divine

generosity in Lk. 14:16ff; 12:37; 13:29, etc.]. J

Jesus was frequent guest [Lk. 7:36ff; 9:51ff;

10:389ff; 14:1ff;].

Bethany [Lk 10:38-42], not active/passive, but

receptive, open, present, foot of master - disciple

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Helpful insights

T.S. Eliot – Dry Salvages

Dr. Naomi Remen

What one insight is staying with you?

How does it influence your exploration

of this theme?

How might it affect your practice?

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Illusionary – real, but…

Not independent but interdependent

Human construct, in service of

humankind

Blessing for our service

Responsibility/accountability

Intersection of time/timeless

Kairos encounters

Cultivate wonder

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Which type of time to prepare?

Not fighting time, a waste of energy

Gratitude

Aware of being an

allowing person

Culivate wonder

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What are we doing? (Teresa of Avila)

Being aware of who we are

In whose presence we are

Gaze on other

who is gazing

on us

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Conversation starter

“Vulnerable listener/observer” Ruth Behar,

The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology

That Breaks Your Heart (Boston, Mass:

Beacon Press, 1996).

Knower of where person’s culture/beliefs

and hospital’s culture (beliefs/

expectations) will intersect (collide)

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Enabler of relationships

Respecter of patient/family as “guide” who

leads one to understand their perspective

on being sick/dying

Advisor in way people discover their

deepest longings and values, and, if for

them, a deeper awareness of the

presence of God.

Indebted to James W. Green, “Cultural Diversity, Spirituality,

and End-of-Life Care,” Reflective Practice, Vol. 29, Forming

Religious Leaders in and for a Diverse World, 2009, 74-90.

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Every moment and every event of every man’s (sic)

life on earth plants something in his soul. For just

as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so

each moment brings with it germs of spiritual

vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds

and wills of men (sic). Most of these unnumbered

sees perish and are lost, because men (sic) are not

prepared to receive them: for such seeds as these

cannot spring up anywhere except in the good soil

of freedom, spontaneity and love. (Thomas Merton)

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At night, as I lay in the camp on my plank bed, surrounded by

women and girls gently snoring, dreaming aloud, quietly

sobbing and tossing and turning, women and girls who often

told me during the day, ‘We don’t want to think, we don’t want

to feel, otherwise we are sure to go out of our minds,’ I was

sometimes filled with an infinite tenderness, and lay awake for

hours letting all the many, too many impressions of a much too

long day wash over me, and I prayed, ‘Let me be the thinking

heart of these barracks.’ And that is what I want to be again.

The thinking heart of a whole concentration camp. I lie here so

patiently and now so calmly again, that I feel quite a bit better

already. I feel my strength returning to me; I have stopped

making plans and worrying about risks. Happen what may, it is

bound to be for the good. Ettie Hillesum, An Interrupted Life, 253.

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Thank you!