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St. Raphael’s Schedule for 2018-2019

Here is the speaker schedule for the coming year!!

November 18, 2018: Strategic Planning Meeting
January 20, 2019: Prof. Kevin Vaughan
March 31, 2019: Deacon Tim Egan
May 19, 2019: Georgiann Kuberra
November 18, 2018: Strategic Planning Meeting

5:00 pm: Rosary in the Cathedral

5:30 ish pm: Dinner (as usual, $15 a dinner) Burger Bar from the Duluth Grill

6:00 pm Meeting - open discusssion...

Agenda for the Saint Raphael‘s guild CMA strategic planning meeting:

1. Ask for input regarding the change in format to the White Mass

How should we proceed in the future?

2. Discuss our Strategic Mission and some of the following possible questions:

a. Are we called to continue to support the faith development of our core group.

b.Are we called to reach out to others such as more students, nurses, pharmacist, etc. ?

c. Are we called to reach out to other healthcare workers who we know to be Catholic

d. Are we called to be strategically linked to the Minnesota Catholic Conference to address health/ethical issues at the state level?

e. Should we be more closely aligned with the Christian Medical Dental Association to provide a more unified voice/strength in numbers?

f. Are we called to be strategically positioned on committees within our own healthcare systems?

3. How should we go about working towards our goals?
White Mass 2018!!!

White Mass
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Bishop Sirba blessed the area health care providers during the annual
White Mass.
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