Greetings fellow workers in the Vineyard,

By now several of you will have heard of my new role at the diocese. Bishop Ricken has asked me to lead a new office that is focused on working with apostolates, facilitating spiritual renewal (especially through promoting healing and devotion to the Holy Spirit) and ecumenical outreach.

My new official title as of Monday March 20th, 2023, is Officer to Apostolates, Spiritual Renewal and Ecumenical Outreach. As many of you know already, I have a deep devotion to the Holy Spirit and have been involved in healing ministry and ecumenical outreach for several years.

While on the one hand this job is an exciting new opportunity for which I am quite grateful, on the other hand I shall deeply miss my work in religious education and youth ministry. It has been an honor and a great pleasure to serve each and everyone of you and I will truly miss working with you in this capacity. However, I am greatly looking forward to how the Holy Spirit will connect our paths again in the days ahead as I embark on this new role.

Soon my former position will be posted and the search for my replacement will begin. Please pray for the right person for this season. But until that person is hired, please be assured that I am still here to assist you with your religious education questions and needs. It has been a pleasure to serve you all and I look forward to new ways of being of service to you.

Thank you for all that you do and for the many ways that you have been a blessing to me.

May God bless you all,

Maximus

Maximus Cabey

John 3:8

Officer to Apostolates, Spiritual Renewal and Ecumenical Outreach

mcabey@gbdioc.org

Phone: 920-272-8288

Greetings form the Office of Safe Environment (Spring 2023)

As a friendly reminder, all employees/volunteers that support your RE and Youth Ministry Programs, as teachers, chaperones, prayer leaders, aides, hall monitors, etc., must meet the diocesan Safe Environment Requirements.  All employees (paid personal regardless of position/job title) and all adult volunteers who have contact with minors as part of their volunteer duties are required to

:

1.  Have a Diocese of Green Bay approved background check,
2.  Complete a VIRTUS "Protecting God's Children" Adult Online Awareness session,
3.  Review and sign either the Our Promise to Protect (employees) or the Diocesan Code of Pastoral Conduct for Volunteers (volunteers). 

    Not only does the Charter require that adults must receive safe environment training but the diocese is also required to provide safe environment training for the children. In the parish setting each child must receive one hour per grade level each year of safe environment training. The diocese purchased the VIRTUS Lesson Plans for children and they can be found on the diocese website at:

 Safe Environment Lesson Plans and Resources for Children | Protecting Our Children | Protecting Our Children (gbdioc.org)

    The VIRTUS lesson plans are meant to be used as the primary safe environment training material. A parish may always supplemental the lesson plans, but the basis of the training needs to be the VIRTUS lesson plans.



    Parents need to be aware of when the safe environment training will be presented, that they can request the materials to review and that they have the option to opt their child out of the safe environment training. Our hope would be to see no child opted out of the safe environment training. It’s important the communication explaining the safe environment training focuses on teaching what is and is not appropriate boundaries, what to do when someone makes a child feel uncomfortable, and who they can talk to about what they are feeling.

                    Thank you for all you do, especially in keeping our children safe!   

Eucharistic Healing Service

With Bishop Ricken

& Maximus Cabey

Tuesday, April 18; 6:30pm

St. Norbert College Parish, De Pere

Just announced . . .

Confession available beginning at 5:30PM, before the healing service starts.

Questions? Please call 920-272-8288

Hebrews 10:25 on April 20th!

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Approx. 8:30am - 3pm

St. Mary's Parish, Ledgeview

$17/person (fee waived for clergy)

Join your peers for an inspirational day of fellowship, formation and retreat as we explore and practice the Five Alive Practices to Live the Mass; you're going to love this day!

"We should not stay away from our assembly, as is the custom of some, but encourage one another, and this all the more as you see the day drawing near." Hebrews 10:25

2-day Course:

Traumatic Event Crisis Intervention Plan (TECIP): Roadmaps for a Proactive

Building Response

April 24, 25, 2023

Chancery, Diocesan Campus, Green Bay

Tragic events within the school or parish community, such as an unexpected death, or a catastrophic disaster, have significant potential to inflict pain, turmoil, confusion, and heartache on both students and staff.

With this recognition, the primary purpose of this two-day course is to introduce a flexible proactive Traumatic Event Crisis Intervention Plan (TECIP)® that can be readily implemented following exposure, either directly or indirectly, to a traumatic event.

This course will provide participants with knowledge, protocols and materials designed to facilitate (1) competent, thorough, and proactive pre-incident (traumatic event) preparation, (2) subsequent day (after students and staff have returned) deployment of crisis response team members and management of the building response, and (3) familiarity with a variety of intervention strategies and documents specifically designed to strengthen building response following a traumatic event.