FLORIDA
Catholic News Service
By Laura Dodson
Catholic News Service
ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) — The president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious said organizers of this year’s assembly hope attendees would find it to be a contemplative experience because “it is imperative to view religious life within the context of our faith and in an evolving world.”
“We have included an hour and a half of contemplative prayer at all meetings to determine what the signs of today are calling us to and we hope that the entire experience of this assembly will be an act of contemplation,” said Franciscan Sister Florence Deacon.
A sense of quiet and expectation seemed to permeate the assembly as 825 women religious gathered at the Caribe Royal Hotel and Convention Center in Orlando Aug. 12-16.
Representing the majority of 57,000 religious sisters in the U.S., the attendees undertook an agenda that included: discussions on the doctrinal assessment of LCWR by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as well as a focus on immigration issues; a resolution on nonviolence; presentation of the 2013 Outstanding Leadership Award; and the election of a new president-elect and secretary.
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