Council Report
OCDS Legislation Books are ready!!!
After some delay, the Provincial Council is delighted to announce that we have published a book containing the OCDS Legislation for the Oklahoma Province. This book contains the Rule of St Albert, OCDS Constitutions, Oklahoma OCDS Provincial Statutes, and the OCDS Ritual.
The book is available in two formats.
The softcover, coil bound version which also contains the provincial forms and costs $ 9.15 plus shipping and handing.
The hardcover version (does not contain the forms) is available for $18.75 plus shipping and handling.
Both books can be ordered online from www.lulu.com. Do a search for "OCDS" and it'll pull up both books. A search using "Carmelites" (use the plural version) should pull up both books as well.
Please pass this news along to the members of your community. You might find you can save money on the shipping if you place one order for the full community. And we ask that those with internet access please help order for our members who do not have internet access. We also recommend that each community have a copy (or even a copy of each version) for their library.
We hope all the members of our province will find it useful to have all our legislation available together in one book and we appreciate everyone's patience with the delay we had in actually getting it published.
The Provincial Council
Pascal Alfano, Gerald Alford, Elizabeth M Korves, Nancy Thompson, Amelia Wilken
P.S. Note our clothing ritual requires us to present each candidate with a copy of the Constitutions. So your Director of Formation will need to have copies of this together with a scapular for each candidate as they are admitted into formation by this rite. [Fr. John Michael]
After some delay, the Provincial Council is delighted to announce that we have published a book containing the OCDS Legislation for the Oklahoma Province. This book contains the Rule of St Albert, OCDS Constitutions, Oklahoma OCDS Provincial Statutes, and the OCDS Ritual.
The book is available in two formats.
The softcover, coil bound version which also contains the provincial forms and costs $ 9.15 plus shipping and handing.
The hardcover version (does not contain the forms) is available for $18.75 plus shipping and handling.
Both books can be ordered online from www.lulu.com. Do a search for "OCDS" and it'll pull up both books. A search using "Carmelites" (use the plural version) should pull up both books as well.
Please pass this news along to the members of your community. You might find you can save money on the shipping if you place one order for the full community. And we ask that those with internet access please help order for our members who do not have internet access. We also recommend that each community have a copy (or even a copy of each version) for their library.
We hope all the members of our province will find it useful to have all our legislation available together in one book and we appreciate everyone's patience with the delay we had in actually getting it published.
The Provincial Council
Pascal Alfano, Gerald Alford, Elizabeth M Korves, Nancy Thompson, Amelia Wilken
P.S. Note our clothing ritual requires us to present each candidate with a copy of the Constitutions. So your Director of Formation will need to have copies of this together with a scapular for each candidate as they are admitted into formation by this rite. [Fr. John Michael]
REPORT FROM THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL
- July 2006
We had to wait a few months for approval for a small change we made in the Provincial Statutes (Sec. 2d), but as soon as we got word on that, we were then able to move forward with publishing a book of the legislation for our province. That took a few more weeks while waiting for the samples to be sure they look OK and now the books are ready for purchase. They've been a hot selling item with over 100 copies sold in less than a week. See the notice elsewhere in this issue of the Flos for how to order the books (emails were also sent out to all community/study group presidents).
Aside from that, we have mostly been making visitations. Gerald visited the Houston study group at St Therese's parish and the New Caney community in May. Upon returning home, he began planning a trip with his lovely wife, Betty, to Rome later this year. Elizabeth visited our study groups in Amarillo and then Lubbock, also in May. In Amarillo, she played a bit of golf for the first time (although needs lots more practice before going pro).
This visitation photo shows the Amarillo members from left to right: Rita Hardesty, Director of Formation Margie Drummond, Deacon Jim Ambs seated, founding member Carol Gonzalez, and president Irene Robel.
June found Nancy visiting Georgetown and then Waco. In between, Nancy stayed with Elizabeth who treated her the one night to views of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and other nocturnal wonders through the telescope where Elizabeth works.
Pascal is making good progress on rebuilding his life after Katrina. The new house is well underway and recently he passed along that he and his wife, Myra, will be able to move into the new house probably within the next month.
And Amelia?? She's been busy working out in her yard while the weather in Iowa is nice. When not out digging up plants, she continues to try to make heads or tails of who is an isolate and who is not. At the end of June, she'll also be hitting the road to make visitation to the Jackson and then Covington study groups.
Plans are under way for our annual meeting in October. We're very happy that we'll be together for the feast of St Teresa. We'll be meeting at the Mount Carmel Center in Dallas and will have the opportunity to meet with the Father General as he completes his visit with the friars of our province. The Dallas OCDS are planning to host a pot luck for us while we're there as well. We've also received an invitation for a meeting in early November at Holy Hill of the three Provincial Councils within the US as well as our National Council.
Provincial Council:
Pascal Alfano, Gerald Alford, Elizabeth Korves, Nancy Thompson, and Amelia Wilken
We had to wait a few months for approval for a small change we made in the Provincial Statutes (Sec. 2d), but as soon as we got word on that, we were then able to move forward with publishing a book of the legislation for our province. That took a few more weeks while waiting for the samples to be sure they look OK and now the books are ready for purchase. They've been a hot selling item with over 100 copies sold in less than a week. See the notice elsewhere in this issue of the Flos for how to order the books (emails were also sent out to all community/study group presidents).
Aside from that, we have mostly been making visitations. Gerald visited the Houston study group at St Therese's parish and the New Caney community in May. Upon returning home, he began planning a trip with his lovely wife, Betty, to Rome later this year. Elizabeth visited our study groups in Amarillo and then Lubbock, also in May. In Amarillo, she played a bit of golf for the first time (although needs lots more practice before going pro).
This visitation photo shows the Amarillo members from left to right: Rita Hardesty, Director of Formation Margie Drummond, Deacon Jim Ambs seated, founding member Carol Gonzalez, and president Irene Robel. June found Nancy visiting Georgetown and then Waco. In between, Nancy stayed with Elizabeth who treated her the one night to views of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and other nocturnal wonders through the telescope where Elizabeth works.
Pascal is making good progress on rebuilding his life after Katrina. The new house is well underway and recently he passed along that he and his wife, Myra, will be able to move into the new house probably within the next month.
And Amelia?? She's been busy working out in her yard while the weather in Iowa is nice. When not out digging up plants, she continues to try to make heads or tails of who is an isolate and who is not. At the end of June, she'll also be hitting the road to make visitation to the Jackson and then Covington study groups.
Plans are under way for our annual meeting in October. We're very happy that we'll be together for the feast of St Teresa. We'll be meeting at the Mount Carmel Center in Dallas and will have the opportunity to meet with the Father General as he completes his visit with the friars of our province. The Dallas OCDS are planning to host a pot luck for us while we're there as well. We've also received an invitation for a meeting in early November at Holy Hill of the three Provincial Councils within the US as well as our National Council.
Provincial Council:
Pascal Alfano, Gerald Alford, Elizabeth Korves, Nancy Thompson, and Amelia Wilken
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