European Network of Health Care Chaplaincy

 

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We will be meeting at the Mother House of a Portuguese Congregation of Sisters who is all over the world offering health care to the poor: the Congregação das Franciscanas Hospitaleiras da Imaculada Conceição. From their house, we see the sea. There are beautiful gardens, a cascade, a hermitage and an angel. [Pictures]  All this calls us to build bridges and to grow hope. Together we will try to find ways to meet this challenge. The house is near Lisbon (25 minutes from the airport). It’s not far. [House Website: www.confhic.com/EN/index.html]

With this letter you receive the registration form. Please return this by the end of February with the payment. We have a small amount of money available to sponsor participants who need financial help. If you really need it, please tell us and when we know all the needs, we’ll be in touch with you.

We ask you too, to send the description of health care chaplaincy in your country. Even if you have written it before, please update it. So we can learn about one another and build bridges amongst ourselves. For the same reason, can you also introduce yourself and your work? It well be nice.
If it is difficult for you to write it in English, don’t worry, we can help. We also may be able to translate from Español, Français and Deutch. With this information, we plan to print a booklet to give to all representatives. If it’s possible, send your text by e-mail to Lisbon@eurochaplains.org. This information, if you agree, well also appears on the Network Website. There, you can find more information about Lisbon Consultation.

If we can help you, or if you have any questions, please get in touch. With the special support of Comissão Nacional de Pastoral da Saúde (National Pastoral Health Care Commission of Portugal) we will try to answer you.

We will meet at Lisbon and we will hear Fado, the typical song of the Capital of Portugal. You will also have the pleasure of tasting real and old Port Wine, produced on the banks of Douro, the river that flows from Spain to the sea, at Porto.

In centuries gone by, Portugal brought new worlds to the world. It’s from Portugal I have the pleasure to invite you to come to build bridges and grow hope, bringing new worlds to your world, discovering new ways to travel together as the European Network of Health and Care Chaplaincy.

 

• Evening meal
• Informal social gathering

THURSDAY 18 MAY

8.00 am
Breakfast

9.00 – 9.30 am  Opening Ceremony

Conducted by Fr.J. Nuno Ferreira da Silva (Portugal) and Chaplain Kathleen O’Conner (Ireland) .

9.30 am  Official visit of Secretary of State for Health

10.15 – 10.45 am   Session 1

• Welcome from Fr Nuno Ferreira da Silva (Portugal)
• Who are we? (Introduction of participants)
  Moderated by Rev. Fred Coutts (Scotland)

10.45 am
Coffee

11.15 –12.30 pm   Session 1 (Continues)

• Introductions Continue
• Coordinator’s Report
  Fr. Stavros Kofinas (Ecumenical Patriarchate)
   

1.00 pm

Lunch

2.30 – 4.00 pm Session 2

• Building bridges with the European Union (EU)
  Fr Stavros Kofinas (Ecumenical Patriarchate)
  Chaplain Anne Vandenhoeck (Belgium)
   

4.00 pm
Tea/Coffee

4.30 – 6.00 pm Session 3

• Building bridges across cultures and faiths
  Contributions from participants on the theme
  Open discussion – dialogue;
  Coordinated by Rev Anne Miller-Lauprete (France)

7.00 pm
Dinner


FRIDAY 19 MAY

7.30 am Opportunities for prayer

8.00 am Breakfast

9.00 – 10.30 am Session 4

• Building bridges between theology and pastoral care
  Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant short contributions about theology and pastoral health care
  Coordinated by Anne Vandenhoeck (Belgium)

10.30 am Coffee

11.00 –12.30 pm Session 5

• Building bridges with the Medical Community
  Palliative Care in Europe and the spiritual health care giver
  Coordinated by Rev. David Mitchell (Scotland)
   

1.00 pm Lunch

Visit to Lisbon
Traditional Restaurant/Fado Night


SATURDAY 20 MAY

7.30 am Opportunities for prayer

8.00 am Breakfast

9.00 – 10.30 am Session 6

• Building bridges across the Atlantic
  Coordinated by Ms. Josephine Schrader, Executive Director of the Association of Professional Chaplains (USA)
   

10.30 am Coffee

11.00 – 12.30 pm Session 7

• Building bridges amongst ourselves
  Further networking between countries, associations, churches in the area of spiritual health care

1.00 pm Lunch

2.30 – 4.00 pm Session 8

• Open Forum
• Designation of Next Consultation
   

4.00 pm Tea/Coffee

4.30 pm Session 9

• Elections of Network Committee Members

7.00 pm Reception

7.30 pm Formal Dinner

Festa!!!!


SUNDAY 21 MAY

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  Registration Form (Acrobat PDF)

Print Letter in Acrobat PDF Format

The European Network of Health Care Chaplaincy
9th Consultation, Lisbon 2006

June 28, 2005

OLÁ!

With this word, the Portuguese way of greeting friends, I want to invite you all to participate in the 9th Consultation of ENHCC, in Lisbon, from 17th to 21st May 2006.

After our meeting at Dublin, in the Emerald Isle, we will meet again at Lisbon, in the Land of Sun. New and significant steps are approaching in our journey towards the enhancement of the existential, spiritual and religious dimensions in health care.

It was from Lisbon, that Europeans departed, giving new worlds to the world, as we say in our language. I invite you to Lisbon, so that we can discover together new ways for the next step of our journeys in health care.

Here, in Portugal, we will do all we can to help you come and participate. If you have any questions, the best way to contact the Organisers of the
ENHCC 9th Consultation is to use this e-mail address: lisbon@eurochaplains.org

Postal address:

ENHCC Lisbon Consultation
Comissão Nacional da Pastoral da Saúde
R. da Beneficência nº 7 - 1º
1050 - 034 LISBOA
PORTUGAL

Telephones: +351 217 931 435 / +351 217 961 303
Fax: + 351 217 954 212

You can find more information in www.eurochaplains.org

Hope to hear from you soon!
Best regards,

Fr. J. Nuno
Portugal
ENHCC 9th Consultation organiser

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