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"Building Bridges - Growing Hope"
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9th Consultation - Lisbon Portugal 17-21 May 2006 Theme: “Building Bridges – Growing Hope” There were 52 representatives present from 26 countries, representing 38 churches, associations and organisations, together with 2 guests and 2 observers from other organisations. The consultation took place at the the Mother House of a Portugese Order of Sisters: the Congregação das Franciscanas Hospitaleiras da Imaculada Conceição at Linda-a-Pastora, near Lisbon and was organised by Fr J Nuno Ferreira da Silva.
THURSDAY 18 MAY
The Opening Ceremony had been prepared by Fr J Nuno Ferreira da Silva (Portugal) and Kathleen O’Connor (Ireland) and took place in the garden of the house, with representatives moving from place to place.
Those present were invited
to exchange a rose with someone else. At the climax of the ceremony a
white dove was released by Fr Stavros Kofinas, the Coordinator of the
Network.
Fr Nuno welcomed and introduced the Deputy Secretary of
State to the those present. Dra Pignatelli then gave an address,
welcoming the representatives to Portugal and wishing them well for the
consultation. Fr Stavros replied.
10.15 am Session 1 Welcome and IntroductionsFr Nuno (Portugal) welcomed the representatives to Lisbon and to the consultation. Fred Coutts (Scotland) then chaired a session when the representatives briefly introduced themselves.
Information about chaplaincy in different European Countries and about the representatives themselves can be found in the Country section of the website. Click on the flag of the country to find the information. Coordinator’s Report
Coordinator's Report 186KB
2.30 pm Session 2 Organisation of Prayer Services Fr Stavros explained the decision of the Network Committee about the
organisation of prayer services at the consultation, trying to respect the position
of different churches, as was the practice at European and World ecumenical
meetings. Prayer rooms had been set aside for Roman Catholic,
Protestant and Orthodox prayer. The Muslim representative would use
his own room. Representatives could attend whichever
prayer time they wished. At the beginning of the first session of each day there would
be an opening prayer which would be acceptable to all groups.
Building bridges with the European Union (EU)
Fr Stavros and Anne Vandenhoeck (Belgium) reported on meetings held in June 2005 in Brussels with Officials of the EU:
Full Report of the meetings in Brussels
As a result of these meetings ENHCC is now a "Partner in Dialogue" with Dr Weniger and Anne Vandenhoeck receives regular briefings. ENHCC was invited to comment on an EU document under preparation on Palliative Care and it was suggested that the Network should issue a statement on palliative care and encourage the Commissioner to hold a joint meeting with other organisations on this subject. This matter would be discussed later after the present by David Mitchell (Scotland) It was agreed that Anne Vandenhoeck should be the representative of ENHCC in Brussels and that ENHCC should continue to hold meetings with EU. Kirsti Aalto (Finland) reported that CEC (Conference
of European Churches) had a Commission on Church and Society. Kirsti is a
member of the group on Bioethics which is working currently on ageing issues
which links to palliative care. 4.30 pm Session 3 Building bridges between theology and pastoral care
Short presentations were made by: Dana Kalnina-Zake Father Adamantios Avgoustidis Imam Yunus Dudhwala Marlène Inauen
9.00 am Session 4 Anne Miller-Lauprete (France) made a presentation and led a discussion on the topic: Building bridges across cultures and faiths.
11.00 am Session 5 Building bridges with the Medical Community David Mitchell made a presentation on the development of Palliative Care Standards in the UK.
After a discussion a statement by the European Network of Health Care
Chaplaincy Statement on Palliative Care was agreed, to be used as a tool by
the representatives.
Letter from EU Commissioner with responsibility for Health
Archpriest Sergiy Filimonov, Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Theology Chairman of Saint-Petersburg Society of Orthodox Doctors gave a presentation on Organizational forms of medical-social institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church and Orthodox public organizations.
SATURDAY 20 MAY Ms Jo Schrader, Executive Director of the Association of Professional Chaplains (USA), gave a presentation describing the work of APC and drawing parallels with ENHCC.
11.00 am Session 7 Building bridges amongst ourselvesFurther networking between countries, associations, churches in the area of spiritual health care ICPCC Dr Ursula Pfäfflin spoke about the forthcoming international conference
of the International Council for Pastoral Care and Counselling in
Poland in 2007. The theme is “Treasure in Earthen Vessels: Care
of Souls facing Fragility and Destruction
ECPCC Fr Adamantios Avgoustidis (Greece) spoke about The European Council for Pastoral Care and Counselling 10 European Conferences had been held, the most recent being in Sweden when the president of organisation as Kirsti Aalto. The next conference will be in at the University of Leuven in Belgium in 2009. Anne Vanderhoeck is the Secretary of ECPCC Information will be on the website www.ecpcc.info
Greetings Library Anne Vanderhoeck (Belgium) spoke about the ENHCC electronic library on the website. Only 20 articles had been received. She encouraged people to send in articles in any language, together with a short summary (4-5 sentences is enough). [Go to the Library] Knowledge of ENHCC Fr Stavros said he had become aware how little many chaplains knew about the Network. He encouraged representatives to go back to their associations and churches and tell people about the work of ENHCC. A full discussion followed with representatives making helpful suggestions about how to spread the word about the Network. 2.30 pm Session 8 OPEN SESSION Finance Fr Stavros gave a statement of the financial position of the Network. He reminded representatives that the Committee had decided (as stated in the Constitution) that the participation fee would be 100 Euros a year for each organisation. Thanks were given for those who had given extra money (particularly France and Portugal) to sponsor representatives from some of the Eastern countries. Legal Issues Fr Stavros explained how the Network now has legal status under the Laws of Greece. This was necessary to allow a bank account to be opened. To complete this process a legal document will be sent out to all the representatives for signature to define the "membership" of the Network. (See Coordinator's Report) Language Fr Maxime suggested that French should be the second language of the Network. The representatives from the French Catholic Chaplaincy organisation spoke little English which limited their participation in the discussion. Fr Nuno explained that he had investigated simultaneous translation for the consultation but the costs would have been far too great. Fr Stavros reminded representatives that the Constitution of the Network states that English will be the language of operation. However this subject of language would be considered by the committee before the next consultation. General Discussion General discussion followed with various representatives making comments and suggestions for future consideration.
Consideration was given as to where the next Consultation (10th) should be held in 2008. Various places were considered: Germany, Wales, Belgium. After discussion it was decided by a large majority that the 10th Consultation would take place in Estonia 28 May - 1 June 2008, organised by Rev Naatan Haamer (Estonia)
Elections to the ENHCC Committee Fr Stavros thanked the present committee
for all their work. There had been much open contact through e-mail and in
Istanbul at the Committee Meeting in October. Elections then followed and the following were elected to the Committee in terms of the Constitution: The Committee:
Webmaster: Rev Fred Coutts (Scotland) Pictures and more information about the Committee are on the Committee Page. Close The session closed with each representative giving a blessing in his or her own language.
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Fr J Nuno Ferreira da
Silva
Fred
Coutts
Fr Stavros
Kofinas
Prayer time in the chapel.
Anne Vandenhoeck
Rev David Mitchell
Dr Ursula Pfäfflin
Fr Adamantios Avgoustidis
Naatan Haamer