CREDO Connection

A Resource for Wellness in the Episcopal Church

In This Issue

CREDO Bloggers explore Holy Week

CREDO II introduces new curriculum

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A new weekly digest of
CREDO resources
on Wednesdays

April 2012

Greetings!

CREDO introduces new Wellness Bloggers this week

Jackie Cameron and Jesús Reyes

Follow CREDO's bloggers during Holy Week as they reflect on the Easter story and the Wellness themes of your CREDO Conference.

CREDO introduces two fabulous new bloggers this week. You can read about and subscribe to any or all of the CREDO blogs HERE.

CREDO Faculty Member Jackie Cameron is the new blogger in the area of Health. She asks, "How exactly do we cherish and care for our own bodies and those of others? How do our physical lives affect the mission of the Church and the ministries to which we are all called? What might our muscles or brain cells or bones have to teach us about our spiritual journey?"

Subscribe today to Vitality--CREDO's blog on physical and emotional health. In Friday's release, Jackie will look at an appropriate Good Friday theme: Pain. "What does pain--and the practice of wholeness--offer to our spiritual journeys?"

Jesús Reyes, líder de conferencia de CREDO para las conferencias en idioma español que reasumen en 2012, introducen su nuevo blog, Gaudium (que significa a Joy). Inscríbase hoy y reciba blogs españoles de idioma de CREDO tan pronto como ellos son publicados.

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Holy Week as a time to reflect on CREDO wellness

Palm Sunday:
CREDO Faculty Member Michael Battle's final reflection in the audio series Seeking First the Kingdom of God: Encountering Others as Ourselves.

Monday:
Celeste Ventura, CREDO financial blog author, suggests during Holy Week we examine our financial wellness, and "Tap the Mary within you and be the lavish, impulsive sweet aroma of Christ this day" (2 Corinthians 2:15). Her new blog entry" The Anointing of Jesus" in Next Step$ is featured on Monday.

Tuesday:
In the CREDO vocational blog Transforming Work, Brad Agry reflects on finding the Face of Christ in the Workplace.

"Behind all these eyes are humans who have pieces of Christ that will amaze you, if you are only willing to take some time to look deeper," he says. Check out Transforming Work on Tuesday.

Wednesday:
Sam Portaro considers during Holy Week the questions of vocation and of being called. He writes the CREDO blog VENI.

"Wednesday in Holy Week is a good day to ponder the vocational path that brought Jesus to that place. Surely he knew before he even considered going back to Jerusalem, before he ever sent for that donkey and set out for the city gates, that to do so was to invite all manner of mischief and insert himself into systems that had already made it perfectly clear that he was not welcome."

Thursday:
Matthew Stockard, vocational faculty member who also contributes to the Transforming Work blog, reflects on the importance of Focus. "'What if the washing of feet had become the central act of liturgical Christianity instead of the Eucharist?' What would that shift in focus mean?" In all issues and discernment of core values and how they play out in vocation, focus is essential.

Friday:
Jackie Cameron looks at an appropriate Good Friday theme: Pain. "What does pain--and the practice of wholeness--offer to our spiritual journeys?" (This blog will not be released until Friday; subscribe today.)

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That's right CREDO-squared ... CREDO to the second power ... For participants in five clergy conferences in 2012 and one bishops' conference in November 2012, a second CREDO conference is more than a refresher of their CREDO I experience.

CREDO2 focuses on "Living with Integrity"--particularly in the understanding of completeness and soundness.

CREDO2 embarks on a search for "the undivided life," living in ways so the exterior life and the interior life find congruence.

Participants will explore the sacred and secular understandings of integrity, and will explore how integrity is a gift from God and response to God.

A second overarching addition to the CREDO2 conferences--and all CREDO conferences in 2012--is the introduction of a new CREDO Core Values study called "Becoming Ourselves Again: Reclaiming our Core Values." Written by CREDO Conference Leader Brian Taylor, the study explores from a faith perspective what core values are and how they influence who we truly are and how we live our lives. The new reflection on core values becomes part of the curriculum of all CREDO conferences.

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