Resolutions Communique #5

Submitted by: Sandra Stajduhar

Many blessings on all of you in this Lenten season. This will be a very brief note to update a few items.

GOVERNMENT MEETINGS

We met with both the Liberal and NDP MLA’s on Mar. 25th. It was a very successful meeting and a full report will follow at the convention and be posted on our website.

The national delegation will be meeting with the federal government on March 30th. Continued prayers, please.

2009 PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS

There is a new communique from our national chairperson, Barb, posted on the national website. Please take a look as it lists proposed resolutions from across Canada.

The proposed resolution on the hazards of energy drinks will not be presented this year, as more documentation is needed.

Resolutions become very important to their creators, and there is sometimes hard feelings when a resolution is not accepted. Please emphasize to your members that the work on a resolution is never a waste of time – no matter what level it reaches, the work done and information collected has educated many during the process and may still encourage members to undertake action of some kind.

CONVENTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS REVIEW COMMITTEES

I hope that your committees are in place and that you are giving them ample time to study and critique the resolutions. Please review the resolutions appendix on the proper way to present resolutions. If a resolution is accepted, please adhere to the deadlines – the resolution, back-up material, check list and cover letter sent to me within one week. I would very much appreciate the resolution itself (with brief and bibliography) sent by e-mail even sooner. Note that parenthetical referencing is still asked for (instead of footnotes) even though the P&P has not been updated to this effect. We will work together on this as we are still very much in a learning situation!

Members of the provincial executive will be presenting a resolutions workshop at your diocesan conventions. I hope that members will learn from it, and that it will give them the confidence to work on a resolution for next year. The best way to learn is in the “doing”.

 May you have fun filled, educational and spiritually enriching conventions.

In closing, I would like to share a question from my Lenten reflections – it seems very appropriate as we live our mission statement ” calling its members to holiness through service to the people of God”.

Is our highest reach for God the person within arm’s reach? (Daybreaks – Daily reflections for Lent and Easter Week: John F. Kavanaugh, SJ)