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Office of Parish Outreach Ministries/Health Care Ministry

Pastoral Visitor Project

A collaborative effort to support parish pastoral visitation programs to the sick and homebound and to residents of nursing care facilities.

Ministry to the sick and homebound makes God's love and the Church's care present to those who suffer the effects of illness, disability, or the aging process through prayer, sacrament and pastoral presence.

PDF format flyer


Newsletter

The Pastoral Visitor

  • free bimonthly publication
  • four pages of information
  • designed for parish Coordinators of Pastoral Visitation (staff members or volunteer coordinators)

Resource Packet

"In Support of Visitation Ministry"

 Materials developed to assist new and established parish visitation programs include:

  • Steps to Start and Maintain a Visitation Program
  • Role Descriptions for the Parish Visitor to the Sick and the Coordinator
  • Suggested Ways to Identify the Sick and Homebound and to Inform the Parish Community
  • Ways to Recruit Volunteers
  • Volunteer Application and Interview Guide
  • Visitor Evaluation
  • Ways to Support Volunteers
  • CORI Check Information
  • Record-Keeping Suggestions

 Packet is also available in Spanish.


Pastoral Care Training Workshops

 A basic 12 hour, six week workshop, "Pastoral Care to the Sick and Homebound"  is offered several times each year in various locations in the diocese.  It will also be scheduled for any cluster or group of parishes upon request.  Topics presented in the workshop include:

  • the art of pastoral visitation
  • communication skills
  • illness issues
  • spiritual assessment
  • grief and loss
  • suffering and faith
  • death and dying
  • ritual and pastoral ministry
  • theology of pastoral care
  • care-giving issues

Days of Prayer

The Office of Worship and Spiritual Life offers regional Mornings or Afternoons of Prayer for Pastoral Visitors and Eucharistic Ministers to the Sick.  For information on themes and dates of these Days, refer to the latest edition of The Pastoral Visitor or e-mail
inquiries to: joanne_gaffney@rcab.org


Can we help:·

Schedule a phone or personal consultation?·  

Provide a speaker for a parish information night?· 

Locate a nearby Parish Visitation Coordinator to mentor a developing program?·       

Meet another need?

Contact: 617-746-5843


The Pastoral Visitor Project is a Collaborative Effort by:

  • Deacon James F. Greer, Co-Director, Office of Parish Outreach Ministries, RCAB, 617-789-2457 
  • Sr. Dorothea Masuret, CSJ, Director, Office of Lay Ecclesial Ministries, RCAB,617-746-5870  
  • TBA, Catholic Charities, 508-647-5638
  • Ann Lally, Director, Office of Volunteer Resources, RCAB, 617-746-5840
  • Mary Ann McLaughlin, Co-Director, Office of Worship and Spiritual Life , RCAB    617-779-3640
  • Sr. Mary Corripio, SND de Namur, Coordinator of Ethnic Ministries Apostolates, RCAB 617-746-5805
  • Joanne Curry, Director, Office of Life and Family Ministries
  • Karen Murray, Coordinator of Ministry to Persons with Disabilities
 

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