AGENDA
November 3
Sun
MORNING
9:15am – 10:00am
Coffee / tea & Refreshments
Relax after your journey and meet other attendees before the start of our conference.
10:00am – 10:05am
Conference Opening
Gerard Bennett, Secretary, IALH
10:05am – 10:20am
Address by the President of IALH
Dr Jerry O'Flynn
10:20am – 10:30am
Travel
- New protocol
- Flight scheduling
- Information needed by HNDL
Gerard Bennett, President, Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Hospitalité & HNDL
10:30am – 10:45am
Lay Directors; planning for the future?
Siobhan Rothwell, President, Irish Association of Lourdes Volunteers (IALV)
10:45am – 11:00am
When someone becomes seriously ill in Lourdes
A case study
Dr Matt Lynch, (incoming) Chief Medical Officer, Pilgrimage of the Archiocese of Dublin
11:00am – 11:20am
BREAK (Coffee / tea & refreshments)
11:20am – 11:35am
Update from JWT
- Brief summary of 2024
- Travel Protocol – how it can help
- Scheduling late arrivals into Lourdes and Ireland
- Dublin Airport and the passenger cap
David Walsh, CEO, JWT
11:35am – 12:15pm
Breakout Groups
- Logistics & Travel
- Accueil Notre Dame
- Medical & Nursing
- General (all other areas)
Each group will have a moderator appointed on the day.
12:15pm – 1:00pm
Celebration of Sunday Mass
Fr Tony O'Connor, Director, Ossory Diocese Pilgrimage
1:00pm – 1:50pm
LUNCH
A two-course lunch will be served.
November 3
Sun
AFTERNOON
2:00pm – 2:20pm
Update from the Rector of the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes
Rector of the Sanctuary of Lourdes, since September 1 2022. Ordained a priest on June 24 2001, he was vicar general in the diocese of Evreux.
Fr Michel Daubanes
2:20pm – 2:35pm
Update from the Reception Department
Matthias Terrier, Director of the Reception Department
2:35pm – 2:50pm
Update from Accueil Notre Dame
Philippe Lafaille, Co-Director, Accueil Notre Dame
2:50pm – 3:15pm
Questions to the Lourdes delegation
This is an open forum format, during which time the members of IALH will have the opportunity to put questions to any or all of the Lourdes delegation.
3:15pm – 3:45pm
BREAK (Coffee / tea & refreshments)
3:45pm – 4:00pm
Feedback from the Breakout Groups
Each group will make a short (5-minute) report on the discussions that took place in each of the four breakout groups.
4:00pm – 4;15PM
Safeguarding & Pilgrimages
Suzanne Phelan, Designated Liaison Person for the Oblates of Mary Immaculate & a leading expert in child protection and safeguarding
4:15pm – 4:35pm
Updates from Lourdes Councillors
Irish Councillors in Lourdes
- Helena Foy, Vice-President, Hospitalité Notre Dame de Lourdes and Responsable Service Notre Dame
- Bríd Clancy, Service Notre Dame
- Austin Sammon, Service St Joseph
- Deirdre O’Sullivan, Service St Jean Baptiste (unable to be at the Conference)
4:35pm – 5:00pm
OPEN FORUM – Questions & Answers / Feedback
This open forum is the opportunity for all members to raise any topic of their choosing, whether related to an issue that has been already discussed or presented at the Conference or an entirely separate matters. The question(s) can be directed to any of the speaker’s on today’s agenda.