Presented by

Via LucisThe Samaritan Ministry for Catholic Patients and Families

in collaboration with The Dioceses of Camden and Trenton

5 Eves Drive, Suite 300Marlton, NJ 08053

Saturday, October 19, 20138:45 AM to 1:15 PM

(Registration begins at 8:00 AM)

St. John of GodCommunity Services Campus

1145 Delsea DriveWestville, NJ 08093

FORGIVENESS & RECONCILIATIONAT THE END OF LIFE

Who Should Attend:

Priests & Religious

Healthcare Practitioners

Caregivers

Deacons & Wives

Lay Ecclesial Ministers

Parish Volunteers

Lay Ministers

Parishioners

Veterans

7th Annual Pastoral Care WorkshopFellowship and thought-provoking discussion on

end-of-life issues from a Catholic perspective.

About Via Lucis The Samaritan Ministry for Catholic Patients and Families provides a special kind of care for people living with any serious illness when cure is not possible. Our mission is to offer a Via Lucis – a way to Christ’s Light – for the Catholic families we serve and to provide them comfort, dignity and quality of life during their journey through progressive illness.

The Samaritan Ministry for Catholic Patients and Families is shepherded by a team of clergy, religious and lay members of area parishes and the Dioceses of Camden and Trenton. Via Lucis offers a team approach to end-of-life care with an emphasis on respect and sensitivity for Catholic sacraments, traditions and moral teachings.

About Samaritan

Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice is the regional leader for hospice and palliative (comfort) care, grief support and counseling, end-of-life education, research and advocacy. In addition to hospice services covered by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers, Samaritan’s Family of Services also provides more than $1 million each year in essential, yet non-reimbursed, services through generous community support of The Samaritan Fund.

Samaritan is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian organization serving people in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer counties who are coping with issues of aging, serious illness and grief. For more information:

(800) 229-8183SamaritanHealthcareNJ.org

FORGIVENESS & RECONCILIATIONAT THE END OF LIFE

Now and at The Hourof Our Death

2013 Workshop

Funding for this conference generously provided by the George Link Charitable Trust, The Diocese of Trenton, Brandywine Senior Living and The Theresa & Edward O’Toole Foundation.

Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice is an approved provider by New Jersey State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s COA P242-10/11-14, P243-10/11-14.

Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice will award contact hours for these continuing nursing education activities. To complete an activity, the participant must attend for the length of the activity and complete and hand-in the evaluation form.

DISCLAIMER: Accredited status does not imply endorsement by NJSNA, Samaritan Health-care & Hospice or ANCC of any commercial products or services.

DISCLOSURE: All speakers have declared that they have nothing to disclose.

COMMERCIAL SUPPORT: There is no commercial support for this activity.

REGISTRATION FORMNow and at the hour of our death 2013

FORGIVENESS & RECONCILIATION AT THE END OF LIFE

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CONTACT HOURS:Nursing contact hours as indicated.Chaplain continuing education hours pending.

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Saturday, October 19, 2013

SESSION 1

Presented by Dr. Catherine Nerney, SSJ, Ph.DDirector, The Institute for Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Chestnut Hill College

THE TRANSFORMING LIGHT OF FORGIVENESS: A POWER THAT OVERCOMES DARKNESSP242-10/11-14 • 1.0 Contact Hour

Objectives• To accept positive and negative feelings while listening authentically to another’s story• To identify one situation in one’s own life where forgiveness was/is a challenge• To learn theories of forgiveness and apply them to situations where giving or receiving forgiveness is a choice• To reflect on experiences in which the invitation to mediate forgiveness is available• To propose one spiritual practice to strengthen one’s capacity to forgive self and others

SESSION 2

Presented by Deborah Grassman, MS, RN, NPCEO/Co-founder, Opus Peace: Healing Center

FORGIVENESS: RESTORING WHOLENESSPromoting Healing Among Veterans and Others at End of LifeP243-10/11-14 • 1.0 Contact Hour

Course DescriptionThis presentation outlines the steps of forgiveness in a new and refreshing way. You will learn essential steps to facilitate the forgiveness process as well as common mistakes that in-terfere with forgiveness. The unique forgiveness issues that veterans face will be addressed as well as tools to promote healing including therapeutic letter writing and rituals to in-tegrate the brokenness. This presentation will challenge your concepts about this essential process.

Objectives• To define forgiveness, its value, and effects of non-forgiveness• To identify specific forgiveness issues that surface for veterans as they face the end of life• To contrast guilt from shame• To identify processes that facilitate forgiveness• To articulate common mistakes to be avoided

Catherine T. Nerney, SSJ, Ph.D. is a Sister of St. Joseph (SSJ). She serves as associate professor of Religious Stud-ies at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia and director of the College’s Institute for Forgiveness and Reconcili-ation. She teaches in and was former chair of Religious Studies and the Graduate Program in Holistic Spirituality.

During a research sabbatical in Rwanda in 2006 (12 years after the 100-day civil war in 1994), Dr. Nerney explored how healing and forgiveness can occur in areas ravaged by war and violence. In the sharing of their stories, survi-vors she worked with helped to heal themselves.

Dr. Nerney received her Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from The Catholic University of America. Since 1982, she has worked with small communities at the parish, di-ocesan and national levels. As co-founder of the North American Forum on Small Communities, she has been closely affiliated with all three national organizations serving the small Christian community movement in the US. From 2006-2009, she served as board president of Small Christian Communities Connection, a national as-sociation. Among her publications are Re-imagining Life Together in America: A New Gospel of Community and From Thinking to Practicing Reconciliation: Telling Sto-ries of Rwanda.

Registration Continental Breakfast 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

Welcome 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

Session 1 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Session 2 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Lunch 11:45 AM - 12:15 AM

Facilitated Meditation 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM

Closing Ritual 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Catherine T. Nerney, SSJ, Ph.D.

Deborah Grassman is CEO and co-founder of Opus Peace: Healing Center, a non-profit organization help-ing people re-own and re-home scattered pieces of bro-ken self lost through heartache, neglect, abuse, trauma, death, and war. She holds a Master’s degree in Psych-Mental Health Nursing and a B.S.N., both from the Uni-versity of South Florida, and is a Nurse Practitioner who personally took care of 10,000 dying veterans during a 30-year career as a Hospice Program Director with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization has written: “Deborah’s work has dramatically and almost singlehandedly increased awareness of Veterans and their unique end-of-life issues. Additionally, her insights into the family’s experience offer perspectives for un-derstanding how these experiences can impact on, and often complicate, grief and bereavement.”Her books include Peace at Last: Stories of Hope and Healing for Veterans, used by multiple agencies to learn about the effects of past trauma on the quality of a person’s dying process, and The Hero Within: Redeeming the Destiny We were Born to Fulfill.

Deborah Grassman, MS, BSN, AS

Course DescriptionThis workshop invites par-ticipants to open them-selves to the light of grace that God longs to give each of us, caregivers and those for whom we care. This presentation will focus on stories, many from post-genocide Rwanda, as invi-tations to help us recognize the face of the Living God, shining on us and calling us today to receive the gift and share in the great work of love that is forgiveness and reconciliation.

FACILITATED MEDITATION

By Dr. Catherine Nerney, SSJ, Ph.D

By means of poetry, music, silence and sharing, this circle meditation will lead participants in expressing “a gesture of love” to draw us into Oneness, where God longs to meet us all both “now and at the hour of our death.”