Lost child Pilgrimage
Embracing the Divine: A Day of Reflection and Renewal
Saturday, October 25, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.
The Lost Child Pilgrimage is a sacred gathering for parents who have experienced the profound loss of a child. Through prayer, music, conversation and community, the day offers a safe and supportive space to honor your child’s memory, connect with others who understand, and find strength in faith and fellowship.
Program Presenters:
Fr. Richard Fragomeni, PhD, Rector
Father Fragomeni recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of his August 15, 1975 ordination.
He served as associate pastor for three years at Corpus Christi Church, a suburban parish in Saratoga, New York. In 1978 he was appointed full-time Director of the Office of Liturgy and Music for the Diocese of Albany, a position he held until September, 1984. Richard completed a Ph.D. in Sacramental Theology at The Catholic University of America in 1989. His dissertation topic concerned the role of cosmological symbolism in the Christian understanding of the dynamics of conversion. In September 1990, Richard received an appointment to the faculty of The Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, where he is now Associate Professor of Liturgy and Homiletics and Chairperson of the Department of Word and Worship. He completed an M.M. in vocal performance at The Benjamin T. Rome School of Music of The Catholic University of America in June 1993.
Fr. Fragomeni also serves as Spiritual Director and Rector at The Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, an Italian-American spiritual center in Chicago’s Little Italy.
Rev. Dr. Damien Davis, DMin, CPE
Chaplain, Lurie Children’s Hospital and Franciscan Health
Rev. Dr. Damien W. D. Davis, MDiv, DMin, is a chaplain, pastor, professor, author, and speaker whose calling has carried him from the South Side of Chicago into prisons, hospitals, churches, and classrooms. With more than 15 years of chaplaincy experience, he has dedicated his life to walking alongside people in their most vulnerable and sacred moments. A graduate of Wilberforce University and McCormick Theological Seminary, and recipient of the John Randall Hunt Prize for Outstanding Doctor of Ministry Thesis, his academic path has always been intertwined with a deep commitment to service, faith, and justice. Over the course of his career, Dr. Davis has ministered in correctional facilities, supported families in hospice care, guided congregations in Chicago, and now serves as a staff chaplain at Franciscan Health and Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He is the author of Prison Life and the Aftermath of Thug Living and his forthcoming book, Sacred Rage: Love That Didn’t Die with Them, continues his exploration of grief, resilience, and the sacred work of moving forward after loss.
Jim Manzardo
Member of the Spiritual Care Team at Lurie Children’s Hospital
Jim Manzardo has been a part of the Spiritual Care team at Lurie Children’s hospital for the past 30 years, accompanying, listening to, and supporting patients, families and staff through the many challenges and joys of illness, treatment, hospitalization and recovery. He also is a counselor at the Center for Grief Recovery in Chicago. Jim integrates engaged listening, compassion, mindfulness, encouragement, appreciation of all spiritual paths, and sometimes music, into his work. Jim is married, deeply respects Mother Earth, is a runner and cyclist. (Or I could also substitute this last sentence with “Jim’s life and work have been formed and sustained by his marriage, by his biological family, by colleagues, friendships and his spiritual community, by regular mentoring and counseling relationships, by mindfulness practice, by being a lifelong learner, by exercise (running and cycling) and conscious nutrition, by musical expression, and by his awe and respect of Nature (especially through gardening, simple living and camping).”)
Linnea Winquist, MDiv, BCC
Manager of Spiritual Care, Lurie Children’s Hospital
Hospital chaplain, pastor, professor, speaker, author, mother, friend, grandmother, spouse, gardener are all words that could appropriately be used to describe Linnea Winquist, MDiv, BCC. Her keen interest in religion and spirituality began as a young child and continued through her undergraduate (Bethel University, St. Paul, MN) and graduate studies (Gordon Conwell Seminary, South Hamilton, MA). Earning a Masters of Divinity degree opened many doors for her to share her passion for the healing of the world through ministries of companionship, education, inspiration and kindness both in the US as well as internationally. Linnea currently works as Manager of Spiritual Care and Heartlight Bereavement program at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago alongside a team of 20 dedicated and talented professionals who serve patients, loved ones and staff by providing spiritual and bereavement support during some of life’s most beautiful as well as heartbreaking moments. She hopes that in some small way her professional and personal life’s journey has contributed to the expansion of kindness, peace and justice in the world.
Sarah Cullen Fuller, BFA, University of Illinois
Sarah Cullen Fuller began her formal training at the Academy of Movement and Music in Oak Park, Illinois, under the direction of Stephanie Clemens. She continued her studies at the Boston and Joffrey Ballet schools before graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a BFA in Dance Performance. The recipient of the Lisa Carducci award for excellence in dance performance and the U of I Women’s Club scholarship for academic excellence, Fuller continued her post- graduate work as a Ford Foundation Fellow in Madrid, Spain. Upon graduation, Ms. Fuller studied with the Paul Taylor dance company before returning to dance with the Chicago-based company, the 58 Group, under Ginger Farley. In 2001, Sarah joined Hubbard Street 2 under Julie Nakagawa, and was promoted to HSDC’s main company soon after. Ms. Fuller has originated roles and performed the works of such leading choreographers as Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Aszure Barton, Robert Battle, Lar Lubovitch, Susan Marshall, Marguerite Donlon, and Alex Ketley, among others. After her retirement from HSDC in 2008, Ms. Fuller returned to teaching at the Academy of Movement and Music, the Lou Conte Dance Studio, and Loyola University Chicago.
Sarah is the founding teaching artist of the “Parkinson’s Project,” part of the Adaptive Dance Program at HSDC, where she teaches contemporary and modern dance techniques to those living with Parkinson’s disease. Ms. Fuller has served on the ad hoc committee for the Adaptive Dance Program at HSDC, was a co-teacher of EveryBody Can Dance, and was a speaker at the National Dance Education Foundation seminar in 2014. In addition to her work with alternative dance populations, Sarah has had the great pleasure of teaching and choreographing for many professional dance companies including Visceral Dance Chicago, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Momenta, Cerqua Rivera Dance Company, DanceWorks Chicago, and Of Moving Colors Baton Rouge.
Sarah continues to work with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in their youth, secondary, scholarship, and summer programs re-staging HSDC repertoire and teaching ballet and contemporary dance techniques. Ms. Fuller has choreographed and danced in numerous works for both the Momenta Repertory Ensemble and for the Momenta dance company since her retirement from HSDC. She is the recipient of the Orrin Kayan award for excellence in teaching, and is currently a full-time instructor at Loyola University Chicago where she teaches classical ballet, pointe, jazz, and contemporary techniques.