invites you to the
CONFERENCE:
“FAITH, ALZHEIMER, AND PARISHES ”
at the Rectory of Saint Thomas More Church,
65 E. 89th St. New York, 10128
on Thursday, March 22nd, 2018
Check-in 4.45 pm. The program starts at 5 p.m.
RSVP: By Wednesday, March 21st, 2018
info@caregivercare.org
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This event is free of charge and open to the public.
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Our panel will explore questions like:
– How to keep Faith in God when Alzheimer disease hits hardly your family?
– Where is God in those moments?
– How can even a priest risk losing his Faith?
– What could be the role of a Parish to support family caregivers?
Rev. James Sheehan, Author of the book “The Father who didn’t know my name”
Gianni Perilli, Sociologist, and President CareGiverCare New York
Faith, Alzheimer, and Parishes: the discussion of the book “The Father Who Did Not Know My Name” turns into an opportunity to think through some very important topics such as the Faith in God, taking care of a loved one at home with Alzheimer’s, and the positive role of parishes.
The author, a New Yorker priest who grew up in the Bronx, tells his true story about taking care of his father suffering from Alzheimer.
The book unfolds on three fundamental themes that continuously chase and intertwine each other:
1) The love of the writer for his father suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
2) The tough experiences suffered by family members, taking care of a loved one with Alzheimer.
3) All doubts about the Faith in God brought out to the heart on this journey.
This true story tells about a real concrete “cross-section” of an inner struggle of faith that Father James lived, a struggle finishing with a happy ending. In this way, the book gives to all, who daily take care of a loved one with Alzheimer, or other diseases, the certainty that their own faith can resist and, that what Fr. James called the “God of Alzheimer’s”, can triumph as Love.
The book is also an opportunity to think over the role, which could be played by parishes in the care of people suffering from these diseases.
