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attend this past Congress, be sure to order your Congress
2009 Registration
Guidebook here
Congress 2009
Feb. 26
(Youth Day) &
Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2009
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It's only 5
months until RECongress 2009! Are you ready?!
Pass along this emailing or our link --
archive.recongress.org -- to share with friends and
encourage them to sign up for our Congress Emailing for
updates. If you do not care to receive future updates, you
can find removal information at the bottom of this message.
The Religious Education
Congress, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Office
of Religious Education, is the nation's largest annual
gathering of Roman Catholics! Our last RECongress, held in
February/March 2008, brought together over 40,000 people
during the four-day weekend! We had registrants from across
the country and as far away as Ireland and Singapore. (See
our
2008 Congress statistics.)
DATES The 2009 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress dates
are: • February 26, 2009 (Youth Day)
• February 27 - March 1, 2009 (Congress
days) LOCATION Congress is held at the Anaheim Convention Center,
located at 800 West Katella Ave. in Anaheim, Calif.
(just across from Disneyland and Disney’s California
Adventure).
See a Yahoo Map
FEE
The registration fee for Congress is $60 ($70 after
January 5, 2009 deadline).
Our theme for Congress 2009 is:
"Love
Unfolding ... Igniting Our Yes!"
"Amor Revelador ... Encendiendo nuestro ¡Sí!"
Love
unfolding is the way of Jesus, calling his disciples
to "come and see" and now calling us into deeper
friendship and interconnection with Him and with all
of life. This bond of oneness, this fastening of the
spirit to God sustains us on the path, generates and
ignites a fresh energy and propels us to give voice
to our “yes” anew.
-- Sr. Edith
Prendergast
You can read the Director's full reflection on the
RECongress 2009 theme – as well as past themes – at
archive.recongress.org/retheme.htm.
Find our listing of Congress themes at
archive.recongress.org/themes.htm
The Congress weekend officially gets underway on
Thursday, February 26, 2009 with Youth Day, which is
specifically for those in the 9th-12th grades. High
school students from many different backgrounds from
throughout the Los Angeles Archdiocese – and beyond! –
come together to participate in morning and afternoon
workshops, share in liturgy and end the day with a Youth
Rally.
Registration for Youth Day is a separate from Congress
registration and has its own fees. Youth Day
registration is $15 per person. Watch for the Youth Day
theme announcement and registration information online
at
archive.recongress.org/YD
Most of our Congress delegates stay in the surrounding area
hotels. We have contracted with 31 hotels for Congress 2009
that will offer special rates for attendees. We suggest
making hotel reservations as soon as possible. A few hotels
have already sold out of their special rates (though they
might have rooms available at higher rates). When making
reservations, be sure to ask for the Religious Education
Congress rate.
You can find updated information about contracted hotels at
archive.recongress.org/hotels
Congress once again offers a wide variety of
speakers (182 of them this year) presenting sessions
from personal growth to music to dealing with your
child -- in English, Spanish Vietnamese, and two in
Korean. Returning speakers lined up for RECongress
2009 include John Allen Jr., Richard Cheri, Rev.
Virgilio Elizondo, Sr. Fran Ferder, Sr. Barbara
Fiand, José-Román Flecha Andres, Fr. Richard
Fragomeni, and many more ... in addition to some new
names: Jack Jezreel, Roland Kim, Gen Rosso and
still more!
You can find a complete and updated listing of
speakers for RECongress 2009 online at
archive.recongress.org/2009/speakers.htm
You can find all Congress information and updates online
at
archive.recongress.org. We will soon be adding Congress
Spotlights and updating speaker and hotel information.
In two weeks we will be posting our Congress
Registration Guidebook and opening our online
registration.
Watch for exciting announcements on
archive.recongress.org.
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