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NASPA 2022 Annual Convention
Tue, Sep 20
|Washington Retreat House
This year the Convention returns to Washington DC in person. This year's Theme is "What Shrines Do Best" Attendees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 per the Washington Retreat House's Covid policy.
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Time & Location
Sep 20, 2022, 7:00 PM EDT – Sep 22, 2022, 2:00 PM EDT
Washington Retreat House, 4000 Harewood Rd NE, Washington, DC 20017, USA
About the Event
NASPA Annual Convention 2022
“What Shrines Do Best”
Tentative Schedule
Tuesday, September 20
- 3:00 p.m. - Check in for lodgers (Retreat House)
- 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Dinner (Retreat House)
- 7:00 p.m. - Opening Keynote Address, Fr. Justin Cinnante, O.Carm, with dinner (Retreat House)
- 9:00 p.m. - Holy Hour of Adoration and veneration of relics of Blessed Carlos Acutis and St. Manuel González García - “Bishop of the Abandoned Tabernacle”
Wednesday, September 21
- 7 a.m. - Mass
- 7:45 a.m. - Breakfast
- 8:30-10 a.m. - Session #1 (Retreat House)
- Robert Yates and Deacon Bernie - Security in Sacred Spaces
- 10-10:30 a.m. - Break
- 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. - Session #2 (Retreat House)
- Brother Gregg Durham, O.Carm - "Appreciating Beauty and Aesthetics as a Path to Prayer"
- 12 p.m. - Break for lunch
- Afternoon - pilgrimage experience (Shrine TBD) / Dinner on own
Thursday, September 22
- 7 a.m. - Mass
- 7:45 a.m. - Breakfast
- 8:30-10 a.m. - Session #3 (Retreat House)
- Fr. Gomez - Shrine Hospitality
- 10-10:30 a.m. - Break
- 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. - Session #4 (Retreat House)
- Dr. Jem Sullivan - Sacred Art and Architecture - How shrines can evangelize and catechize through their sacred spaces
- 12-12:30 p.m. - Break
- 12:30-2 p.m. - NASPA Business Meeting, with lunch
- 2 p.m. - Conclude
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