9:00 AM (until 5:00 PM) - Registration: Leach Center for Student Life
Snacks served here all afternoon.
1:00 PM - Information Technology Mini-workshop (No charge):
"Computer Networking in Small Communities"
3:30 PM - Section Meetings
5:00 PM - Vespers
6:00 PM - Dinner - University Hall
7:30 PM - Session 1: Mark McGinnis
- "Elders of the Benedictines
Project"
Social follows in Leach Center for Student Life
7:00 AM - Breakfast - University Hall
8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
9:00 AM - Session 2: Sister Laura Swan, OSB
- "Obsculta!
Wise Elders and the Desert Tradition"
11:00 AM - Eucharist
12:00 NOON - Lunch - University Hall
2:45 PM - Session 3: Sister Jacquelyn Ernster, OSB; Abbot Vincent
Bataille, OSB
- "Mentoring among Monastics Today: Two Reflections from
the Heart"
5:00 PM - Vespers - Our Lady of the Annunciation Chapel
6:00 PM - Picnic Supper at Annunciation Monastery / Tours available
7:00 AM - Breakfast - University Hall
8:30 AM - Morning Prayer
9:00 AM - Session 4: Dr. Carney Strange
- "Transforming the
Journey: Mentoring Lives Through Magic and Myth"
11:00 AM - Eucharist
12:00 Noon - Lunch - University Hall
1:45 PM - Session 5: "Mentoring and Modeling Benedictine Values"
Panel: - Ms. Anita Falkenberg; Fr. Edwin Leahy, OSB; Fr. Jonathan Zingales,
OSB
3:15 PM - ABA Membership Meeting: Elections, Reports
5:00 PM - Vespers
6:00 PM - Convention Banquet -- Leach Center for Student Life
7:00 AM - Breakfast - University Hall
8:15 AM - Morning Prayer
8:45 AM - Session 6: Sister Rose Mary Rexing, OSB
- "Mutual
Mentoring: A New Paradigm of an Old Tradition"
10:00 AM - Presidential Address: Sister Rosemary Rader, OSB
11:00 AM - Closing Liturgy and Commissioning of New ABA Board
12:15 PM - Lunch in Benedictine Center Dining Rooms and Departures
1:30 PM - Meeting of New ABA Board
Pre-Convention MINI-WORKSHOP:
"Computer Networking in Small Communities"
Open to convention participants at no extra charge.
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