NOCERCC, in serving and facilitating the mission of continuing education/formation in our Membership, has partnered with Liturgy Training Publications to bring you opportunities for ongoing formation.

In February 2018 at the Forty-Fifth Annual National Convention held in Orange County, CA we announced our partnership with Liturgy Training Publications (LTP), a premier publisher of liturgical and pastoral materials.

LTP has developed a series of Virtual Workshops™ that are specifically designed for the ongoing formation of priests. A Virtual Workshop is an engaging form of online training in which the participant can see, hear, and interact with the presenter and others in the virtual classroom.

This series of Virtual Workshops™ will address the role of the priest in Christian Initiation. Each workshop will explore a different facet of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults and provide opportunity to reflect on strategies for successfully living up to the vision put forth in the Rite. Click here to watch a short video.

Dioceses will work directly with LTP to schedule workshops on the dates and times of your choosing. Click here for an overview document or e-mail VirtualWorkshops@ltp.org for more information.

Save-the-Date: Experience a Virtual Workshop on September 11, 2018 (2:00-3:30pm ET). The topic will be The Priest as Shepherd of Christian Initiation and the presenter will explore the pastoral responsibilities of the priest as shepherd to those coming to faith in Christ through his Church. Free for NOCERCC members and other diocesan colleagues.

Click here to read more about our partnership.

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The Senior Moment:
The Fulfillment of a Priestly Life

February 25 - 27, 2019
Austin, TX

As an aid to the ongoing formation of presbyterates, NOCERCC offers Cultivating Unity, jointly with CARA (Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate).  Cultivating Unity is a convocation conducted by NOCERCC on the basis of research CARA develops from inquiries and interviews with the diocesan bishop and his priests.

The Cultivating Unity convocation engages a presbyterate to strengthen those things that unite priests among themselves and with their bishop, as well as identify those intrinsic things which inhibit such unity.  “Too few priests,” “Too much work,” “Different Generational Ecclesiologies,” are three of the top five causes, according to the responses of priests, which inhibit the unity of presbyterates.  These comments come from priests in nearly twenty dioceses that have engaged in the Cultivating Unity process.  Through a CARA survey and facilitated listening sessions, data is compiled to be presented at the convocation.  During the convocation the presbyterate together reviews the findings.  Then, aware of the challenges, the presbyterate, along with the Ordinary, address how best to develop a united Presbyterate.

Click here for more information.  You can also call NOCERCC at 410-978-3676.

The Basic Plan for the Ongoing Formation of Priests was unanimously approved in June 2000 by the U.S. Catholic bishops.  The Bishops asked NOCERCC to "carry the principles outlined here forward to implementation."

Click here for The Basic Plan.