NOVEMBER 2021
VOL. XXVII, NO. 2
Plans underway for Associates Day on 6-25-22 By Dan Heckel, OSUA
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tart making your plans now to join us on June 25, 2022, for Associates and Sisters Day in Maple Mount. The Associate Advisory Board reviewed the evaluations from the 2021 Associates and Sisters Day to determine what to continue and what to change for the coming year. The evaluations were all positive and offered constructive advice to improve the experience for everyone. The Advisory Board includes Sister Pam Mueller, Sister Betsy Moyer and Associates Joanne Mason, Suzanne Reiss, Joanne Thompson and Pauline Goebel. Associates Doreen Abbott and Dan Heckel, of the Mount Saint Joseph Mission Advancement office, serve as ex officio Many 2021 members. Many of the 2021 participants on June participants said 26 said that the most important aspect of that the most the day was simply being able to come together. Uniting Sisters and Associates is important aspect of always a joyful time, but it was especially the day was simply fulfilling after such a long delay due to being together. Covid-19. We’re hopeful that 2022 will be free of any restrictions on gathering. There was overwhelming support among the plan to have an optional social time following the attendees to keep the schedule shorter. Typically, the end of Associates and Sisters Day, where anyone who event lasted from 9 a.m. until Mass at 4 p.m. Since chooses can stay to visit or perhaps play some games. having an in-person event this year wasn’t a certainty Staying to visit with the Sisters and other Associates is until a few weeks before the day was scheduled, always welcome. Associates and Sisters Day was designed to meet the The day will once again be held in the Mount needs of people watching online. We expected it would Auditorium. Many participants commented that they be difficult for people to watch a daylong event online, preferred keeping all of the activities in one place. so the day was scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lunch will be served in the auditorium and the We were surprised by how many people told us commitment ceremony will take place there as well. they preferred the shorter day – about 90 percent of An effort will be made to create a sacred space in the the respondents. Several people wanted lunch to begin auditorium for the commitment ceremony. later – it was scheduled for 11:30, but actually began We have a few people beginning formation to sooner than that – so in 2022, lunch will be at noon and become Associates, but it would be great to have a the day will last from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m., so there large group of people making their commitments in is plenty of time for all the activities after lunch. 2022. Please pray about whether there is someone you We know those who have to travel a great distance can invite to consider becoming an Associate. Share would prefer for a more substantial day. In 2022, we
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