ACOF Convocation: Designing Relationships for Mission: Affirming Leadership, Claiming our Future

St. Louis associates at the Motherhouse for
 “The Lace Is Not Finished” workshop, May 2017

Submitted by Andrea Pearson Tande, Consociate, St Paul

Associates, Consociates, Ohana, and Familia de San Jose (ACOF, or lay associates) from all Provinces of the Carondelet Congregation are looking forward to our upcoming convocation, where we will come together to celebrate our common heritage and support leadership for our future. ACOF members from St. Louis, Los Angeles, Albany, St. Paul, Hawaii and Chile will be in attendance at this convocation, which is to be our first in more than two decades.

We will gather from June 22-25, 2017, at Fontbonne University in St. Louis MO, with a special welcome event at the CSJ mother house.

Keynote speakers include Shawn Madigan,CSJ, and Carrie Arnold, St. Louis Associate.

Associates prepare for a reception hosted during 

the 2017 Los Angeles Province Assembly.

  names: back to front left: Denise Ginty, Janne Shirley, 

Dianne Nelson; right: Sr. Irma Araneta, Linda Stapleton.

Theme: Grounding ourselves in CSJ Spirituality and History and preparing ourselves for the future.

Please keep convocation participants in your prayers as we prepare for this historic event. 

St Louis Associates at the annual meeting October 2016